The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-11 00:00:00

SCOTLAND INVADED AI THE IRISH'
Since it bat beer. pretty wall settled that the French
meant° invade Spain, the Morning Chronicle seems to
have imbibed a terrible hour of iavarions. Little.
however, did we imagine, th►t its a'arm would how
taken the turn which it finally has. The following arti-
cle, which we take from that paper of Saturday last,
exceeds in wildness any thing that we ever read in our
lives.—We will insert it, not for the amusement, but
for the surprise, the wonder, the astooi•hineut of our
readers. _ .

"One of the most unhappy results of the degraded
and hopeless condition of that interesting race, the satire
population of Ireland, is the extraordinarvmultiplication
of their nymphets. In little more this a single century
they have increased from one to Hens millions, while
their emigrations to the United States of America have
been during that period nearly equal to those from 'all
the other con nines of P.nrope, and the whole of the
Western side of this Island has long been inundated by
them. Every Irish peasant marries almost before the
tetutinatios of boyhood, and the marriages of a people
Am completely strangers to the luxuries, and even eon-
/girls of life, are necessarily extremely prolific.—
Nothing has been better established than that labour,
like every other commodity, exclaim:Tee for more or less,
according to the proportion between the demand and
supply. Every diminution of the number of labourers
white the means for affording employment to them re-
stain the same, adds to the rem/o(mA°a for labour,
while every augmentation takes from it in the same pro-
portion. Su long, therefore. as the prolific powers of
the Irish peasantry are exercised in their utmost ex-
tent, and they remain strangers to that prudence,
which in a better constituted state of society, in-
daces the labouring population to remain in a state of
celibacy till they have made some provision to meet the
increased charges of marriage (from which later mar-
riages too the average of children to a pair is greatly re-
duced), misery and occasional famines most be the log
of Ireland. But it is not merely the native Irish who
suffer from the misgovernment of which they have been
the victims. They are driving fast out the Presbyterian
population of the North 1.1 Ireland. England, amidst
all the evils which it suffers from its poor later, is pee-
dby them from the reiluetiou of itairnstie popula-
tion to the condition of the Irish. But Scotland is Kith-
vet this saftgooord, and it appears the. the whole of its
Western counties are becoming rapidly Irish, and that
the Irish cabin is almost es freircoot as the Scotsman's
cottage. The Scots peasant, palest and am/460es,
withdraws himself from the ruinous competition with
men, whose necessities compel them to put up with what-
ever they ea• get, and betakes himself to other coun-
tries."
Here is Scotland actually invaded, and about to be
eaten up by the Irish, Here is a nation increasing is
numbers, because the people have not the means of filling
their bellies. Here is a people, who, merely on account
of their miserable have acquired the power of driv-
ing out the preabyterians who are not miserable. Here
is a people enabled, purely by their wretchedness, to
invade Scotland and to drive away the Scotch peasant
who is not miserable, but who is prudent and ambitionel
Such a mass of incongruous ideas certainly never foetid
their way spots paper, and in so short a compass, before-
-It is Miury, we are told, that makes the Irish increase
in number; but the Chronicle will hardly say, that it is
misery that causes a still greater im in the United
States of America. It is asserted here that the increase of
the population in Irelasd has been as seven to one
it a century or a little more. Why not say,
• thee:and go one ? This would have been full at
liitdy to‘be true, and at any rate, would have rested on
is good authority. Since we can remember ; aye, since
Libe year MON the population was, by the Government
writers, stated at less than three millions. They now
choose to state it at seven millions. We say choose,
because they have no proof, and do not pretend to have
any proof. The population of Great Britain, with good
puffing up, was made to amount to about ten
millions
In ISO/ ; but now they have puffed it up to fourteen
millions!—Oh, monstrous! Never was a nation so
hatefacedly humbugged as this ! The parish of Wiley
was, in ISOI, represented t• contain six tundra and
thirty Jour people. The Paesost and Mr. Coustai
tirade an exact (numeration of diem in the year 180.1 or
6, and found them to befber hundred and ureter four.
lint, in ISt I, the return made them increase again, to
six hundred and upwards ! And stow mark, Mr. Con-
SETT,iIII ISIS, seven years after the last return, giving
an account of the small congregations in the church at
Holley, said, that out of upwards of six hundred of
people, only a certain small number usually attended
the Church. The Parson, in an answer to this state-
ment, which answer he published in the Timm news-
paper, said that Mr. COBISTT had been guilty of a
falsehood ; for, that the parish coutained only four
hundred persons, and that Mr. Colmarr knew it was
SO did know it ; and lie did not say that it con-
tained six hundred ; but said it contained six hundred
according to the last return. Now, after this, after
these undeniable facts, what are we to say about the
population of the country ?—The fourteen millions is a
perfectly Mouschansen-like story. It was proved in a
ktter to MaLrous, pohlislied in the winter of ISM
that the return of 16111, or that of lAA I, must be Jab
But if you take this increase of three millions in ten
years, you will sec what a monstrous thing it sill
amount to before the present century be out. In short it
is a fable,from the beginning to the end. The population
of the n hole country has probably diminished instead
of increased within the last twenty years ; and
certainly has considerably decreased within the last
three Or four hundred years.—To bear MALTUt and
his „crew talk', one would imagine that England
was in a wild state, instil about the time of the in-
fernal paper money. What was it, then, that raised
shunt eleven thousand churches, some of them anioneat
the most magnificent in the world? In those parts
where the land is good, there is a church iu every wile
or two, and large enough, in many instances. to contain
twenty-limes the inhabitants of the parishes. It is
against reason to believe that these Churches were built
without a commensurate population.—Then, again,
there is hardly an acre of common or of down i• the
kingdom, where the plough has nut been. The earth
presents the most faitlitul aud most durable of all re-
cords. let any one go into the extensive woods in the
north of Hampshire. Ile will fool, though there are
trees a hundred years old, and stems of others that bate
been many years perishing, he will find that the plough
has been in emery inch of that toad m'sv. —lf Mamies
would account for this, we would then listen to Mu% a
little.—Once more, we say, that the whole of these