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cure the wounds they have made. The fears it is to be feared will 

 long remain. 



Non tamen omnc maJom mlferis, nee funditus omnes, 

 Corpoiea; excedunt pedes : penitufque neceffe eft, 

 Muka diu concreta modis inolefcere miris. 



Yet, we (hould not difpair of the republic, or yield to a fuperci- 

 lious defpondency, which treats with contempt, as wild and chimerical, 

 every fcheme of reformation and improvement. Ireland includes in her- 

 felf the means of great profperity. By an uncommon innate force, and 

 vigour, flae has furvived the deadly wounds aimed at her noble parts ; 

 and the confuming maladies, that preyed on her vitals. She now re- 

 quires only wholefome regimen to eftablifli her in perfect health. She 

 requires only, to have her energies awakened, by proper motives ; to 

 have a jufl: direction imprefl: on her indullry, by a falutary mixture 

 -of encouragement and reftraint. 



"While the population of England is decreafing, (which, it appears, 

 from calculations founded on the returns of the collectors of the win- 

 dow-tax, and other documents, to have rapidly done, fincc the end of 

 the laft, or the beginning of this century ; ) the population of this coun- 

 try, on a retrofpeft through the fame period, appears to have encreafed, 

 in a furprifing proportion. The late Mr. Bujhe has inveftigated the 

 fubjeft of the population of Ireland, as it flood in the year 1788, by 

 <alculations founded on the returns of houfes, made by the colleftors 

 of .hearth-money, and finds the amount for that date to be confide- 



■rably 



