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Bushy House. Novr: 28th: 1823.

Dear Mayo,

In answer to Your Lordship's letter of 21st instant I wish underline every Peer of Ireland /underline could put his hand on his heart and say like Your Lordship the country was quiet and that he was as good an Irishman as yourself: we should not then have absentees and increase good magistrates and the improvement of every thing would ensue. You do me but justice in stating me the real underline friend of Ireland /underline and however Your Lordship and myself may differ in some points respecting