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Notice it hereby given, that threcrtor,s hare been martial
from 14,41 both Lamenkst....: a of tb. Admt..aity, w tt..it eke
saw ..f the v114,41)41 hound lu the bAltic. Live, told Mieter,
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Copy of a Lener keen lii.-Eweeitenct Loui L'estizaant
Ireland; a. Kati-No.4"w
glib Fabritary, :806.
MY LORD-iellaving fe t it in, dru, in Cmiut.ii•nte of
the Report of the o' iuquay, ap;minted by au
Act of the 1,4 Sc.'s..., and of the authority seited by that Act
ire the Lord Licatenant, or other iliveracit or Mid tio.
verleis rut Ireland, ro, the time being, to suso:nd the Corona.
Iron of ui.cio .airdColo.iii,stuncni for purl ig, c earning, aml
lighttrig the city of publi ; I' think it eight to xis., your
Otte, the earl ea informatio i arise comae I are taken, in re-
d.o riat n. wind mac b, &rte. the Report h been
oil, in culling the attention torrartianseut to the suhjeca
The state of the Dublin pavement, and the great inconveni-
ence which has be -n felt in conimple ice of ti.e delays wuicit
took place, from causes wine', it I- tionecemiary to enri.netale,
in obtainsg from Parliament the tree wage, powers to irvesti•
c.itir the proceeiltilp of the Paving Moan!, which, under the Act
0 the Parliament of Irelind, by whisk it was constituted, um
not amenable to any existing authority in this country,
rerrrlcr
it very desire:Cc that some permanent and effectual immure
remold be adoptsd in the course of the present Scssiou.
The Report of the Commission"' of Enquiry, which re-
flects great credit on their diligence amlaireistion, as it will Mm
doubteilly show the iteceouty of 4111 sa ly reined), will aft ml
much %neinl information, as to the nature of the measure
w hi :hit may he proper to recuiumerd.
I was at first inAined to believe, that the mode :uhrided in
Loud-rn and Westminster, of Mailaigiitir the priog and light•
log, by pariah., and ditsriAt, Commisderiers chosen
from the rend Trit householders is...a:ming a certain property,
could hays brrii applicable to thus Cite, and sight have been
equally effedual fold satisfactory. But as there are some dr
tncis in this city where such a system cranial not be chore:n-
ewly adopted, ins Comnii.onme:s of Enquiry, whose opinion
I conoder perfectly disinterested, and entitled to hate great
weight, are disposed to recommend the t•stablishinent of a
Bond, "insisting of not more than three persons, seleCled
with reference only to their fitness for the appointment, and
assisted by a practical superintend-mit, to duet( the different
works.

At the s3ftlC tim,, that I suspended. the Corporation for Pav-
ing, etc. lam...listed, under the- puwers vo-ted in we by the
Act, five perinas, being resident hoeschold,n, of this city, to
exercise the powers of the former Board, and to direct cod su-
perintend the expenditure of the coin of twenty-MI.I.mA
pounds, which the Act mesh's. f.r, and which w.ll be twee.-
tardy applied to the inireed.ate ropait of the pavement of the
streets, 01m11 an improved sy.teiti.
I rennet ronclurlo, without adverting to the 16th clause of
the Act (4 Geo. sd, ch ip. 11) wii.•h inAces the Conon.,
etoness who are now aehog, liable to all (041,114 .:gsinst toe late
Paving Coil...ration; aid which induces me to hope that the
attention of Parliament may h: celled to this subiect sist:i-
eient time to myna the persons who have graturtou.fy taken
upon theitrelves a labu•toui duty fos the advantage of the
public, can being exposed ht the anxiety or dAng..r of lit tea.
toot I I.ave the hmtoor to be, &c. HArtI3WICKE.
To the Earl Spencer, K G. Ste.

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POPULJTION OF DUBLIN.

Upon Us, subjeas his a greater diversity of
opinion prevailed, than upon the interesting one re-
speZling the population of the city of Dublin, which,
upon the louse data that existed, whereon t r form
an opinion of its extent, has been represented to
render the capital of Ireland the fifth city in the
world. The whit& however, has just been sa-
tislaaorily illustrated, and put to rea, through the
publication of an Essay by the Rev. James White-
law,
M.R.I.A. being the result cf an adlual sur-
vey, taken in 170, with great care and precision,
and arranged in a manner entirely new."
The author of this interesting work states, that
being struck with the contrariety of opinions which
prevailed, and anxious to ascertain the truth, he
availed himself of the favourable opportunity oTered
by the unhappy situation of that city, at the com-
mencement of the late rebellion (when each house-
holder was respired by the Lord Mayor, to affix to
his outer door, a list of the inmates within) to begin,
with the saniftion of Government, but at his own
expense and toil, an accurate ce,uut of tire inhabit-
ants of the city of Dublin.
In order," says the writer, ,‘ effeaually to ob-
viate this difficulty, my assistants and 1, undeterred
by the dread of infefious diseases, undismayed by
the degrees of filth, stench, and darkness, incon-
ceivable by those who have not experienced them,
explored, in the burning months of the summer of
I 799. every room of these wretched habitations, from
the cellar to the garret, and on the spat, ascer-
tained their population. In this business, I ex.
pelted opposition, bat experienced none. So uni-
versal, at this period, was the dread of being sus-
peeled of disaffenion, and so powerful was the
Secretary's seal and signature, that every person
seemed anxious to assist ; and, when this tenor
gradually subsided, a ruraoer circulated, that I
was employed by Government, to take an account
of the poor inhabitants, preparatory to the adop-
tion of some system for the relief of their neces.ities ;
which produced a similar effect, from a far more
pleasing motive.
4' Two or more of my assistants frequently sur-
veyed the same street, in succession, without any
communication with each other ; and, if any ma-
terial variation occurred, I investigated it myself on
the spot. Hence it happens, that, in the poorer
parts of the city (where confusion and error were
most likely to arise), there ars few streets that
have not been twice. and some even three dress

surveyed.
"• Toe materials thus colletted, with the incessant
toil of at least ten hours each day, daring five suc-
cessive months, were next to be arranged. The
plan I have adopted, I trust, is such, that the work
may be considered as a correilt and faithful picture
of the adual state of Dublin, in the year 1798 ; and
may, at any future peri9d, be compared as such,
with its then existing state, in order to diseuvei, at
a single glance, the changes, whether for better or
worse, which have taken place in the lapse of
time. For this purpose, not only the position of
every house is given, with the population, and the
proprietor's name and occupation ; but its eleva-
tion or number of mu; ies, whether it is modern
built or old, and its state of repair, dm."
The total population of Linhlin. according to
this work, may he estimated at 182.370.
But to ascertain the population of the Irish capi-
tel, Mr. Whitelaw says, was but a part of the ob-

jet% he wished to obtain by the shrvey he made in
Inn : to remedy the exaggeration of national va-
nity, delighting in an overgrown capital rand which
all travellers have admitted has rendered the amount
of the population of twist of the cities in Europe,
■nd the remote pitrts of the world, very extrava-
gant and contrituictor) he acted on a principle.
fro n which he roped to declo:e write tsta that
would assist hilt) w :t.rnt:tli calculations ad./taint
other cities.