268 
Population of Ireland in 1821. 
Counties. Pop. in 1821.\Counties. Pop. m 1821. 
LEINSTER. Waterford Co. 127,679 
Carlow 81,287| Waterford City 26,787 
Drogheda Town = 18,118 Tag RE 
Dublin County — 160,274 2,005,363 
Dublin City 186,276 
Kildare 101,715 ULSTER. 
Kilkenny County 157,096) Antrim 261,601 
Kilkenny City 23,239) Armagh 196,977 
King’s County —-132,319|Carrickfergus T. 8,240 
Longford 107,702|Cavan 194,330 
Louth 101,070) Donegal 249,483 
Meath 174,716] Down 329,348 
Queen’s County 129,391) Fermanagh 130,399 
Westmeath 128,042|Londonderry 194,099 
Wexford 169,304] Monagan 178,183 
Wicklow 115,162) Tyrone 209,691 
1,785,702 2,001,966 
CONNAUGHT. 
MUNSTER. Galway County 286,921 
Clare 209,695|Galway Town 7,827 
_ Cork County 702,000] Leitrim 105,976 
~ Cork City 100,535|Mayo 297,538 
Kerry 205,037|Roscommon 207,777 
Limerick County 214,286/Sligo 127,879 
Limerick City 66,042 E= 
Tipperary 353,402 1,053,918 
SUMMARY. Inhabitants. 
Leinster - - 1,785,702 
Munster - - 2,005,363 
Ulster - - 2,001,966 
Connaught - - 1,053,918 
Total 6,846,949 
N.B. When the deficiencies in this Table 
shall have been supplied by the final Re- 
turns of the Enumerators, as certified by 
the Magistrates, the total number of the 
Inhabitants will, it is thought, amount to 
upwards of Seven Millions. 
The following is a copy of the peti- 
tion adopted at the late Westminster 
Meeting, and presented to the Com- 
mons of the United Kingdom of this 
13th day of February, 1822. 
SHEWETH, 
That your Petitioners have, on various oc- 
casions of public importance, petitioned the 
House of Commons for a redress of grievances. 
That during the last forty years they have 
many times petitioned the House of Commons 
for a redress of what they have always con- 
sidered the greatest of all grievances, the 
want of an adequate representation of the peo- 
ple in the Commons House of Parliament. 
That on some occasions the Petitions of 
your Petitioners have been rejected— on other 
occasions treated with contempt—but on no 
occasion have their prayers been attended to, 
or any relief afforded. 
That your Petitioners, in consequence of 
the treatment of which they complain, had 
almost determined to refrain altogether from 
Petitioning. But, however hopeless your 
Petitioners may in this respect be, their duty 
to their suffering fellow-countrymen induces 
them once more most respectfully, yet in 
plain and unadorned language, to lay before 
your Honourable House the heads of their 
numerous and well-grounded complaints ; and 
Political Affairs in March. 
{April I, 
to pray for that redress which it is easy for 
your Hon. House to afford them. 
Your Petitioners assure your Honourable 
House that it is with great pain they come 
before your Honourable House withnumerous 
allegations of misconduct, from which no Ad- 
ministration, and no House of Commons, dur- 
ing the last six years, can be exempted. 
Your Petitioners allege— : 
1. That the members of your Honourable 
House are returned by a very small minority 
of the housebolders of these realms. 
2. That a majority of the members of your 
Honourable House are returned by less than 
the one-thousandth part of the male adult 
population of these realms. 
3. That the means by which a majority of 
the members of your Honourable House are 
returned, are—the undue influence of Peers 
—the undue influence of some very few 
wealthy persons—the undue influence of the 
Treasury—the influence of terror, as it is in 
various ways exercised over electors, and by 
other modes and practices, all of which. are 
inimica] to free election and good govern~ 
ment; all of them calculated to make your 
Honourable House én AristocraticalOligarchy, 
instead of making it, as it should be, a De- 
mocratical Representation. 
Your Petitioners allege, that to the defec- 
tive state of the Representation of ihe people 
in your Honourable House, is to be attributed 
most, if not the whole, of the evils with 
which the country has been and is afflicted. 
Your Petitioners allege— 
1. That the lamentable and fatal war 
which severed the American colonies from 
this country—-a war against human freedom 
in support of taxation without representation 
—would not have taken place had the House 
of Commons at that time fully represented 
the people. 
2. That the loss of lives, the immense loss 
and waste of property, the vast expense and 
enormous increase of the public debt and 
taxes which that war occasioned, would not 
have taken place had the: people been duly 
represented in the Commons House of Par- 
ment. 
3. That the war against our American 
brethren— besides the loss of the colonies, and 
the heavy burdens it caused to be laid upon 
the people, was also productive of an in- 
crease of patronage, influence, and corrup- 
tion, highly injurious to these realms; and 
tbat those evils had their source in the want 
of a due representation of the people in the 
Commons House of Parliament. 
Your Petitioners allege— 
1. That the war commenced in 1793 
against the people of France, was to prevent 
that people from ridding themselves of a hate- 
ful, oppressive, and destructive government ; 
and for the purpose of preventing a reform 
in the Commons House of Parliament in this 
country. : 
2. That the evils to humanity caused by 
that 
