In saying this
he must have meant, that he would not ask money out of the Consolidated
Fund; for he could not but have seen that in carrying it out by a tax of
any kind, he would be doing so by the aid of the Government. The effect
of Mr. Fagan's plan would have been, to create, to a certain extent, a
peasant proprietary.
Mr. Poulett Scrope, then representing the borough of Stroud in
Parliament, took much interest in Irish questions, more especially
during the Famine; at which time he, in a series of letters addressed to
Lord John Russell, put forward his views on the legislation which he
considered necessary under the existing circumstances of this country.
Three Bills in his opinion, should have been at once proceeded with in
Parliament; one to facilitate the sale of encumbered estates; one to
improve the relations between landlord and tenant; and the third for
commencing without delay the reclamation of the waste lands. This last
he considered as of the most pressing urgency. Strange enough, that
since Mr. Scrope wrote, laws have been passed on the two former
subjects, whilst the one considered by him the most necessary, still
remains unlegislated on.
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