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must naturally be productive, to this kingdom, of the most serious inconveniencies, and of the greatest dangers in short, I endeavoured to convince your Majesty, that (all our burdens and abuses remaining undiminished) the very next war must see us stripped of our maritime superiority; must see us reduced to a state of littleness, which this kingdom has never known for eight hundred years.

I had the honour to represent to

In my former Letter, I laid before your Majesty the state of your Majesty, that our situation your Kingdom, compared with the with regard to Foreign Powers state of Foreign Powers, particu- was wholly new; that this country larly relating to the capacity of had no longer the power of hiring each to the making of war. I en- Germans and other foreign soldeavoured to give your Majesty a diers to assist her in her wars; faithful account of the state of that her Ministers were now deFrance, our nearest neighbour prived of the means of subsidising and most formidable rival in point seven hundred thousand bayonets of power. I showed that a war to assist them in the "conquering with this country would not be of France;" that if they entered likely to be productive of any upon war again, they must rely harm or serious inconvenience in solely upon their own battalions France; while that same war (we and their own ships; that there remaining in our present einbar-were no longer French and Dutch rassed and encumbered state) patriots to surrender fleets into

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their hands without the firing of a the absolute necessity of giving

peace and content to Ireland, as the great means of preparing for

shot; that in short, there would be nothing to purchase aid with, if another war were to arise; that war; and I shall now, with all there were many other circum- humility, point out the means stances in our position entirely which I regard necessary to effect new; but, that the most fearful that object. In order to do this, circumstance of all was that which I must first be permitted to enwas presented in our situation deavour to describe the state of with regard to IRELAND: unhappy Ireland. That state is such as to be altogether without a parallel in the annals of human

'I endeavoured to describe to your Majesty the extreme peril that your European dominions misery. For authorities upon this would be placed in, if Ireland subject, I shall not go beyond the were to continue in its present reports made to the Parliament, situation until the breaking out of made to itself by its own Comanother war. I showed your mittees. The powers of language Majesty, that the authors of the fail us, in endeavouring to exEdinburgh Review had very press even a tenth part or a thoucoolly observed, that they feared, sandth part of the sufferings of that the "Navies of America and that people. "France would settle the Catholic

Before going into any particulars on the subject, I would,

"question" in a way not very agreeable to your Ministers. I addressing myself to the Parliaassured your Majesty that these ment and the Ministry, ask them gentlemen were not singular in how they can answer to your their opinions as to this matter. Majesty, for having suffered this I observed, the opinion was ge- large part of your Majesty's doneral amongst well-informed men. minions to be reduced to such a I observed on the melancholy state. Ireland yields to no part prospect for the kingdom; and, of your Majesty's territories in Sir, what can be more melancholy point of soil and of climate. It than to reflect, that six millions of our fellow-subjects are looking for redress to the fleets of your Majesty's enemies?

has been established by the evi

dence of numerous witnesses before the Committees of the Parliament, that, generally speaking,

I endeavoured, then, to show the land is more fertile in Ireland

than in England. It is a well-fincessantly represent as a set of known fact, that the provisions for semi-barbarians. They do this in your Majesty's Navy come almost a very artful manner; but still they exclusively from Ireland; that do it. Sometimes they employ Ireland supplies with food a con- sarcasm: at other times, affected siderable part of our Colonies; compassion. Thus for great numand, that England herself draws bers of years, has the Irish nation no small portion of her meat and been calumniated to the people of her bread from that same of England. Then comes a still country, a large part of the people greater misfortune to this abused of which are half naked and half people. It has been the interest starved. of almost all the Irish writers and As to the character of the speakers, from the reign of Queen people of Ireland, your Majesty Elizabeth to the present day, to yourself has witnessed their ardour calumniate their own country and and their gratitude. Their quick-its people. All the profits and ness of conception certainly sur-power of Ireland have been in passes that of any people of whom the hands of a handful of men I have any knowledge. They are called Protestants. They could not remarkable for the sly and not disguise the fact of the misery selfish quality of prudence; but of the people. Changed, as they their generosity, their frankness, naturally were, either expressly and, above all things, their cheer or tacitly, they have defended ful readiness to labour, amply themselves by representing the compensate for the want of that people as being unfit to enjoy sniveling virtue, which may be the liberty and comfortable existence: companion to all the blackest They have sometimes represented vices known to the heart of man. them as prefering rags and pig's For the last fifty or sixty years, meat, to decent dress and food the public mind in England has fit for human beings; and they been, in a great measure, under have never failed to represent the guidance of Scotch writers. them as slothful in their very The people of Scotland (I speak nature.

only of the place-hunting part of Never was there a fouler cathem) have an obvious and direct lumny uttered by the falsest of interest in decrying every thing lips. The proofs of the falsehood that belongs to the Irish, whom they of this charge are innumerable

and incontestible, and, as a dis- large tracts of marsh land, by ex

cluding the sea-water, that, in the executing of the great labour necessary to effect his purpose, he tried Germans, Switzers, English, Yankees, and Irish; but, that he found, at last, that when real hard labour had to be performed; when wet and cold had to be faced, none would stick by him but the Irish. As long as the weather was pretty fine, and the toils not great, he found the others goodhumoured enough; but, when his works gave way, and he wanted men to go up to their middle in water, he could get none to assist him but the Irish. He told me, that a good word bestowed upon

position cheerfully to labour is a prime quality in any people, I shall beseech the attention of your Majesty to a few of these proofs. One would think that there needed no other proof to silence the calumniators than the facts which I have stated of the immense produce of food in Ireland, and of the supplying of that food to so many foreign parts. But, let me speak of the proofs afforded in the United States of America, where some of the finest settlements of the country have been made by Irish people alone, who have gone with scarcely a penny in their pockets, swept away the forests before them, and actually an Irishman, did more than a created farm upon farm and town-handful of dollars bestowed upon ship upon township, a thing sel- anybody else. As we stood lookdom to be said of the English, and ing at his meadows and immense never to be said of the Scotch. embankments, he assured me in the most solemn manner, that they never would have existed had it not been for Irishmen.

In the city of New York, there are, perhaps, thousands of cars, and of car-horses, a vast proportion of which are owned by Irishmen. Irishmen load and unload the ships; they have churches in that city, to which there were,

But, there is the city of New York. 1 state it as a fact that no man who knows America will contradict, that four-fifths of all the immense labours performed in that city, which is the third, if not the second, commercial city in the whole world; I state it as undeniable fact, that four-fifths of the whole of the hard labour in that city, are performed by Irishmen. when I came from that country, I was told by General Swart-fifteen thousand communicants beWOUT of that city, who had taken in longing; a fact which I had from