If  I  love  Ireland  better  than  I  did,  it  is  because  we  are
nearer  related,  for  I  am  deeply  allied  to  its  poverty.  My
little  revenue  is  sunk  two  parts  in  three,  and  the  third  in
arrear.  Therefore  if  I  come  to  Moor  Park  it  must  be  on
foot ;  but  then  comes  another  difficulty,  that  I  carry  double
the  flesh  that  you  saw  about  me  at  London,  to  which  I
have  no  manner  of  title,  having  neither  purchased  it  by
luxury  nor  good  humor.  I  did  not  think  Mr.  Perceval"
and  I  had  agreed  so  well  in  our  opinion  of  Ireland.  I  be-
lieve it  is  the  only  public  opinion  we  agree  in ;  else  I
should  have  had  more  of  his  company  here;  for  I  always
loved  him  very  well  as  a  man  of  very  good  understanding
and  humor.  But  whig  and  tory  have  spoiled  all  that  was
tolerable  here,  by  mixing  with  private  friendship  and  con-
versation, and  mining  both ;  though  it  seems  to  me  full  as
pertinent  to  quarrel  about  Copernicus  and  Ptolomee  as
about  my  lord  treasurer  and  Lord  Rochester;  at  least
for  any  private  man,  and  especially  in  our  remote  scene.
