The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-01-14 00:00:00

Ireland, both is religion sod populatioo. risme the
year 1664!
la the year 1619, Large.. in the cousty of
Armagh. contained 42 Wiese., all inhabited by
English Protestant' settlers.: In the year 3614 that
elegant little town contained 379 bow**, mbetrite4
by 0.407 persons. of whom 996 were males, and
I.YII female-4 Many of t Iwo/ profess the Roman
Catholic religion—though the settlement formed bir
William Brownlow. E.q. at Dowcoran end Halle.
nemoney was exclusively Protestant. ia.sentech.
that of the 57 families whir it be located ou his
estate, not a single one was Irish.
In 1731 the esitire population of 'relent.) amount-
ed to 2.010,221 persons. of wham 700,453 were
Protestants, and 1,309,768 Ilastami Cartiolice,
It appears. therefore. that to the whole Isiogdons.
the excess of the Litter above the former, ensansiiteil
only t 0609.315. At this period. Maier cu. tanied
360,63 e Poolrooms, awl 138,0i8 Rowan Cathm.
lice 11. In the year 1754, the whole population
had increased to 1,317,581.• • We are confident
that at present there are above six millions of in.•
Whiteout its this island. The Protestants, how-
ever, have not increased in the seine ratio with
the Roman Catholics, whose numbers are msg•
omitted, not merely by hundreds of thousand', but
by million..
To what causes are we to attribute this dispa-
rity in the respective increase of number% is these
two religious communities, which flourish in the
same country. and under the same govermseut 1--
Are the Routs Catholic clergy more active and
iirreevering in the performance of their duty, then
those of the differ, sit Protestant COMIIIOOIOIIII. in
Ireland ? Or do the Catholic laity fortis matrimo-
nial engsgements with less hesitation or more early
in life--trusting that albeiteficent Deity will rand
them the means of providing fur their issue ? Or
have the emigrants to America been chiefly
Protestants? Or have the penal laws operated as
a bond of union, amongst the people against whom
they carte enacted ? 'lave they trot (laniard through
the whole body a spirit of unanimity. and induced
them to adhere
which they have suffered so much, and to the coun-
try which his so long witneoted their elidurence ?
It cannot surely be presumed that the Roman Ca-
tholice pay more respect than the Protestairwto the
primary commandment. " Increase and multiply."
These are curious questions, which we would tent'
to see discussed by some writer more able than we
are to do justice to so Intricate a subject.
Notwithstanding the vast increase In the impala.
lion of this kingdom during the last two rentugir..
some of our towns have fallen into decay, and of
others no traces can now be fossil baruoy
of Magliermtephan, in the county or Fermanagh,
their oar a populous town or village. called Girls,
or Gola, onward near the eastern aisle of Lough
Ellie. litre also was a monastery of Domineers
Friars. of no small extent, founded by the ancient
and princely Sept of Mee Manta.,or Mr Ms/PH"ttsa
a branch of the regal family of the Msgaiires. At
present we fear it would be almost as difficult to
find the site of this ancient town, as to dircover
the tomb of Priam, or the bed-clout:llKr of Scum.

I Nee Mouses Survey.
This appears Gum a census made A.D. 11114, pursuant
to Act of PArfianiiesit.
H Hib Dam p.lB.
•s Hib. Don. p. 15.
$t Tide Allvntand, p. 223-o'Heyee, p. 4—Erhard, tours•
2, p. 13—Hib. Dew. p. 331.

MR. WALTAK LOX.

(Frost Carrick's (Dublin) Morning Pvail

A correspondent has sent us the follow nig curial's
extracts ot letters from Mr. Walter Cox. It ap-
pears by the latter. that lie is about to return to
Ireland !

s' Qatlwe, Lower Canada, October 12, 1819.
" MY DR*& CLAKE—I arrived in this city a
few days ,nice, 1111•114/ Aid Irons the yellow ley,.
which rages in New York ; half of the tillittlmaros
bad deserted that ill.fated town, berme my pecu-
niary circumstances enabled are to sheet 10 my
friend• it was not temerity so mach sleets try,
that made me SO Oloparrtalif 0.1111V...it% se lip defy
ass enemy who pays tto repro' to courage our to
cownrd.ce, to age. pooh, or to sex.
I have, amok God ! ripritired the urisinning and
remorseless yellow fever, hut at so heavy OW tit.
'tense, toy condition is something similar to at
provident man, wins on an alarm of tire. Ilung
valuable looking-glass on the loavetiteitt, to cave it
from the "Limes; the curt. of toy extt,•totta, of toy
fear., will amount to 200 dollars, as the eli.hatice
is at knit 510 miles, and the jour .y
in steam-boats, cm the Hidden, Luke Ci.wmplain.
and the majestic St. Lawrence. •
`6 l actually write this nu the celebrated plains of
Abraham, and to give adequate importance t.s.
my moat important communication, on the very spot
where Wolfe expired. You again perceive, though
pressed down by want of means. MA sugry to be
separated from my dear country, and social so.
ciety, so peculiar to Ireland, that notions of
grandeur prevail over my sense of adversity, sharp
and gloomy as it is.
Quebec is farther illustrated by the deaths of
Monteulwo, of Montgomery, and the Duke of
Itichmood, a recent circumstance, s.f which you
must have heard before this can reach Ireland.—
His Grace was greatly admired in this provii.ct, and
is very seriously lamented, for, to the credit id
England, she is kind sod indulgent, mid under.
stood to be so in her Colonies, of whico DO stronger
proof can be exhibited, than from the attachment
this Catholic people evinced, by rejecting the to-
troduction of that blasphemous philosophy ninth
their couutryasen Denton sod Wilmot used in dealt.
biting France, and levelling its altars; fur no pen.
le are more religious. more induttnnes or motehospitable than the Canadians, being strict iu tint;
notions of moral and atertmetite pnuciplo, the vets