cannot procure employment, and who have little more of the comforts
of life than food. The Irish are light-minded--want of employment
has made them idle; they are irritable and brave, have a keen
remembrance of the past wrongs they have suffered, and the present
wrongs they are suffering from England. The consequence of all this
is, eternal riot and insurrection, a whole army of soldiers in time
of profound peace, and general rebellion whenever England is busy
with her other enemies or off her guard! And thus it will be, while
the same causes continue to operate, for ages to come, and worse and
worse as the rapidly increasing population of the Catholics becomes
more and more numerous.

The remedies are time and justice, and that justice consists in
repealing all laws which make any distinction between the two
religions; in placing over the government of Ireland, not the
stupid, amiable, and insignificant noblemen who have too often been
sent there, but men who feel deeply the wrongs of Ireland, and who
have an ardent wish to heal them; who will take care that Catholics,
when eligible, shall be elected; who will share the patronage of
Ireland proportionally among the two parties, and give to just and
liberal laws the same vigour of execution which has hitherto been
reserved only for decrees of tyranny, and the enactments of
oppression. The injustice and hardship of supporting two Churches
must be put out of sight, if it cannot or ought not to be cured.
The political economist, the moralist, and the satirist, must
combine to teach moderation and superintendence to the great Irish
proprietors. Public talk and clamour may do something for the poor
Irish, as it did for the slaves in the West Indies. Ireland will
become more quiet under such treatment, and then more rich, more
comfortable, and more civilised; and the horrid spectacle of folly