The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-20 00:00:00

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TO THIS NAIMOSSO Of LANIVORPIR. •
My Lord—Our lut letter contained a cursory sustinat
of the state of Munster. or rather a collection of a few
fads descriptive of the State of the Counties in the
Aeolis of Ireland. Those were thrown together without
say particular design to regular arrangement t—
hat indeed arrangement was not necessary. Your Lord-
ship knows for what purpose the facts were stated. and
Mere is no man who can deduce more accurately or
nwert readily the g I inference to which they

polar. .
We have one other fact to mention with regard to
tide part of the Country, which merits 6 statement in
This place. Your Lordship will have learned from the
hislf Papers, that the Nobility and Gentry of the county
04 Tipperary have been actively employed in petting up
a Itespibition, with a view to convene the vent ty on the
MOW of tither. The Requisition, which has slime
published, tantalise certainly the names .of
5:.n
. the of the landed proprietors of that con
* ble county, and, as we are informed. of all
Illte surviving Parmers who bad an oppoittinity to
silk their signatures. Au interest in the- county, and
we believe a nobleman who is called a Whig, exerted
himself to prevent this meeting. if possible. His Lord
ship frbt up a' rrquisition, signed by some doffin nv mein
of indlrideals, only three Of whom, we enderstand, were.
woo assay upasisleentiow' 'spraying the Sheriff not it
call the comity. Tire Sberiff complied with the testilttl,
quisition, fat MOWN with which we dowse feel it elk;
eeseavy to trouble your Lordship, but which it is stilt''
difficolt to pies*. It is remarkable. 'however., that
though great influence was need, the planaers of the
counter.requisition conld riot keep out of that sloce inent
the decided feelings of the country on the subject.
They ale. hired their hostility to the present mode of
collecting tithe, even while they dissent, or appear to •
dissent, from the test of the county 011 the subject of
the snertlog.
We state this, my Lord, because It le the dual'gli
if trling I. Ireland on this subject. There is not
one loan in *lreland, from the peer to .the peasant
—not tote mac, unconnected aid% the Church or
with the Taxes, who would not be anxious-4nd,
if the • unfortunate eirremstances of the country
permitted—who would not he active in every effort by
ws,ieb he could hope to relieve himself from the burden.
But, my Lard, the country wants a rallying point. We
do not wish to speak with onbecoming harshneis of our'
reeident nobility anal gentry. Whatever be their. eint-
tire for remaining at home—ehether it be neennity or
inelinetioo, we sheetd be thankful for their pregeoce.—
Het among the representative nobility, though it con-
foie many*sietitnahle men, there is nose either of that.
commanding talent, -which might be our stay, or or
that devotion to Irish Interests which might be oar.
refuge, on *horn it would be judicious to rely or to'
yew:, effective services we could look. Three fUorths
• ef our repreeentalives in the House of Commons vote
with the Minister for the time being, and although
we might get a vote from some of them for a. Com.
tnitation of Tithes, it would be a barren vote. We
could sot rely upon any of them to work. With re-
spat to the remainder, the youth of some, aid the
sangof other% forbid us fur the present to calculate
uieely on our exertiooe, however well mast, or
. herromm Moly performed. We want is etas, not only
of oommantling talent. hit of personal iellseace
of weight, in abort, of elearacter sad of authority who,
if there were a 'Asap in administration to-morrow,
- muss, oeoessarilys become a minister of the Crowe. In
Out word, my Lewd, we wish that you should patron-
ize Ireland in the Imperial Parliament, andadvocate her
cause. lettere!, ambition, ditty, would be the motives
whieh we shoold press open yen Lordship. Stand
forth, then. among your Peers, steadily, and, above all.
constantly. Se assured. that if you do not set about the
work in earnest, before it Ile too late, a task will be
- forced upnn you, with which, even your Lordship's
abilities wilt find it next to impossible to cope. Ireland
wants each a man as your Lordship—exactly such a man.
We know well enough. that the next Session of Path'.
• meat promises to be a most huportaut one in an imperial
point of view. Your Lordship must necessarily engage in
the debates which will arise. Do so—but do not treat of
• Ireland is a parenthesis; do not rontent yourself with sir
sintitig a day for the dist union of Irish atfaira. If posei-
lale, they should be every duty present to your mind. And
though we know how difficult it is to procure a willing
audience, yet if any man can command attention to our
deplorable situatioa. your Lordship is that man. • See,
with powers not surpassing wediocrity,.wbat &character
Mr. DOOMS has relied for himself. Your powers of mind,
we al rays heard, were of the first order—apply them tu
the maw of Ireland. and sane us.
We repeat the two, I—eave us, if you can. We shall
now ps.s in rapid review before you,' the State of
Cannoight. Your Lordship knows that Connaught
is the poorest .part. of Ireland, in point of soil and
product. Yet a moiety of it is better than the general.
run of had in Ragland. My Lord, Connaught is
bank:apt. Bat this is. nut the word—the Gentry eipf
Farmers are ruined. •No rents whatever have beel
collected is the county_ of Galway—not twenty pet
cent. in the county of Mayo, and scarcely any in Ros-
common We do assure .goer Lordship this se no ran-
dom lion. We Lave been constant in our ill'
geiries, ani we here the beast means of. asceetainiag the
truth. Leitrim and Sligo are small counties,-and they
are. we know, in the sense condition. The Feirrin Ciin-
naught have universally fallen off—not in prices wifely,
hat in the wisher of attendants. They were placei:of
Riot and Traffic. There is very little Itiot new, and no
traffic. Steel' is sometimes eiteeed for sale, but there
are no purchasers. When a bargain is made, the poor
Sheep of this District Ming 'frlini 7.. to 10s., anti, lb/
Milch Cows, onthe average, about 40s. or V. IN. *ln
bort, three is no cireolation—no money. Seven or
eight years ago, there were settee or eight Banks, or
tonsideralde Honey Lenders in Counaught,-now there
is not one—nor has there been these three years. What
ran he done in finch a state of things? The 'Landed
Proprietors are all in debt. Yollt Lordship will' ask,
why, then, are not their lands told? My Goril,, they
etc all tenants for liter. The lands are so strictly and so
t uriousl v entailed, that there is scarcely any coming at
them. It is true, that old judgment debts, and hies
eilecting the estates, are ceiling pretty qeickly ; but.
toy Lord, if the Lands of three-fourths of the Gentry al
a horn ai.e are speaking, mere put up to sale to-morrow, it
would he next to impossible to find a Purchaser. People
will not purchase non', and although every one dreads
some crash in the Funds. yet those who have money,
at least in Ireland, will not throw it away upos Lands.
Resides, as your Lordship mast know, it iepecnliarly
difficult in Ireland to make out a clear title. It Is, In
short, the unsafest thing in the world to risk It. in what
is really a kind of lottery. In every county in Ireland,
particularly in Connaught, the Sheriffs may be said to
have all the Landlords in their poetess.. Still we hear
of a few executions. The ! tieriff constantly returns
walls bona, and who bet a foolishly vindictive man *W.,'
incarcerate the person of his Debtor, when be knowsi
that nothing can be made of him? Accerditigly,:hough
there are I coated tpen, as we call them, in gaol-
for debt, the amber bean no proportion to those who
vervain at large. It is, indiud. the general understand-
leg of Debtor and Creditoryte Niue'. They ate wait•
Dog for a favorable turn Ip Fortune's 'Wheel.. Indeed
they are standing on the river's bank until lee . Mews
passes by.
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