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London, England, 1819-02-13 00:00:00

IRELAND..

PUILIII, VERIWART 9. !
On Thnrotl3Y. R. T. kratiog. F.w). worm cl
to ugwis from Coltir. where I e Iwd h rig Httr,,d
the iggiserml Iwo fi wild the Earl of Ciremill 0
111111"reloill.. moat 4,11:w Nobility and I ;weary of the
triglilsourhiinii, and the riliire body 44 the
follinwed Ihr ~-moire of the lasitented Nolitennen to
the grave, awl evinced I.s anierre awl teriisig terms
tile high a-lise they ent.riatised of hi* worth, and
the Erect Ir.* the ruuntrr vivo lord by lin untimely
it. iiih. fie sprsit his life f Out', among them,
iu I,lolitinit and executing us. ful improveuwisi-; lie
gar rogroggigt employment In the iiirlo-trogor
liiissorr, sort cultivated and plantell
'timid lion in a matiiirr and to an itteitt ishoinat
nowiamplrel Iwr.re his time. This det,crinlaist of
vie 'mow of Collis,, mill nt..o mach
I.y ll.r !Marilee of ;genuine liorpinsliiy, r 'muse
inolv dear to the Irish people.
The ALtene of Dublin lan, in littratiatice of
the ittgniaition to take iniu conaillerst-
t lhr proloi-ty of petitioning the Irgialisture
iu
room of the Catholic Claims. oppointed iite 11th
joatant ha that purpose. The list 4.r persons who
signed I'IP is lialUerOUS. IS die
logivoig,hrgi by rank, follow., 'mil character. At
its heat+ ior the indite stain's of I.risitter. Down.
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Clowarrry. rod Crrno

A MILK/RATION or
TflE CONI)ITIfiN OF TILE POI►R
CO‘SIDERFD, AS RRSULTING FROM Tun MEASVRF.
OF POOR PLIDIONS 011 VrYlNti SMALL Si.sPi OF
LAND. • --

TO*THE EDITOR.
Sea—lt is become the wish of a very considerable
portents of the reflecting In .14teirty, and may it not
be oddest, should he confadired the ditty of every
permit who professes to he goofed by 11w dictates
of him wbo practically taught the &virtue 411
let dine the hungry and clothing the naked,
err
eau-borate the condition of the lower class of
our rouuirymen ; mitre particularly since it is un-
derstood that an Institutiosi, noticed by Journal.,
is now funning. I shoal beg to offer a ',amok
ol too on au devisable an object. Pefliiips,
Sir, from the patronage which the Association at
the King's Head Tavern. Poultry, shove ref-r-
-red to, is receiving. lynch rod nosy be to be re-
fleeted on, but hints from indivillusls impressed
with its essential interest. may nevertheless tend, if
sincerity of intention be discoverable. to told some-
what, however little, to the toacceve or PO important
cotter. Certainly as it resptcts the eventual accom-
plishment of whatever an enlightened public, when
excited In diseussionostay suggest, there catmint lie
a foundation of douhi, and little more is compara-
tively required than to invite attention to 11w un-
happy, most miserable condition of some millions
of OUT fellow-sohiects, whose industrious disposi-
tion is noqiies.iostable, but whose deterioration gives
a Molar of dist rens and debaweinent to our
mollify. as well to effect se to elicit the remedy.
Institutions have nobly been distinguishing them-
selves among us, and the Plulsrithropie. Hibernian,
and oilier more recent efeablishosents, m the Men.
&city, and Committee for Seamen, stand before
our eyriff not as glowing example, merely, but
stimulants to exertion. Presuming that it has be.
come even tlw universal sentiment, that on these ions.
postant points something is essentially requisite to
hr lute, and alms that a Imitable use of our native
still serials pretty generally to be meditated on, on
these views I shall proceed.
• The compliants made that small farms have been
subverting, and 1 rger ones substituting in their •
stead, nod which here been obtaining ever since the
days of Goldsmith, and the loss of the services to his
rummy of the istonwtal Lord Chatham, cannot
but he deemed as must justly founded. No doubt
but that a large quantity of nutrimental and wholes
sonic food has been thus kept from our markets;
nor 41111 we, without much inconsistency, conceive
but that lend-owners are beginning to appreciate
that notch more will br obtainable in rent from
judicious sulsalivisions of estates, than other sys-
tems are produritig. But as it is desired, Sir,
to give an exclus.ve attention to the improvement
of the cowslip of the part of our population which
once held small portions of land for the occupstion
of their otherwise unemployed time, and through
the medium of which their comfortable subsistence
ems fissured, to this last I shall cotifitte myself.
It is well known, awl remaining happy examples
might yet Ire inflow(' out, that the supplies drawn
by themselves and their families from such slips of
laud, generally coutignons to their cottage, were
most valuable on many recounts. It furnished them
with litany articles of the first necessity, as potatoes,
and other vegetables, herbs, &c. the meansof feeding
their pig. in many instatices of a cow (and let it he
recollected, that scow may be kept on the produce
of a very limited piece of land, thus realisiog the
moat healthy aliment to the children, end contri-
buting largely to their resources). It is obvious
to those who have reflected on statistics mo-t
rationally, that the provision of suitable and ade-
quate sestessanee for the sinews of an Empire, and
such the large mass of s population unquestionably
is, has ever appeared a most essential part of the
slaty of a politician.
But, Sir, another good effect thus produced must
ever lie, that the employment thus afforded consi-
derably' lessens die commiseioa of offence, the temp-
holm' to mispend nine at au ale-house (and to
which last may we not. with an appearance of rea-
son on our side, attribute evil, of a most .moue
deveription ?) is materially lessened, much Omit-
water from petty theft effected, and a return to a
habit of public worship on the Sabbath eminently
promoted.
Other and decisive results might he mentioned.
A supply of permanent labourers ensured to the
hoof occupiers Is not among the least. Ittit who
but must relater in the again witnessing au harmony
reviving in our society, now sit much &winded,
every milk pleased with each other. while the effect
it would have on this manufacturing and trading
community world be to reverie artisans from the
'sang of relifiquishisig • lend the most beloved, the
abode, of their ancestry, once again the residence
of rooter', security. and content.
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