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itds our own, and quite as likely, quite as willingly, and quite as promptly, 
unofiicial as,itis,\,to be.adopted by the parishes. HO NALD asvi 
»<This,capital, project—the Committee’s, we mean—is, however , unsus- 
ceptiblesit'seems, of general application. It is indeed applicable only, 
to those parts of the ‘United Kingdom’ where the poor, laws are, esta- 
blished: It ,rests, entirely for its basis on the credit of the provision 
made, forthe}, poor bythe poor-laws, For our own parts we do not.see; 
why .this.plan) of emigration for England will not do quite as well for 
Treland, nor,,why..it should not be made obligatory on the Irish land- 
owners, aswell as,on the English parishes—seeing, that this plan is, in 
the, long-run,. to,.co3t. little, or. nothing at all. To the Committee, 
however,, it,.seems otherwise. What then is to be. done. with 
Ireland, where no legal provision exists, and where the redundancy is 
still more appalling than in England? It baffles even. the fertility of 
resource for which the.Committee must for ever be renowned. But 
still, have they too. much bottom to despair. The main difficulty is of 
course in. raising the money. at first; now this onus—as the Ivish land- 
lord..is. not subject. tothe poor-laws—cannot be wholly imposed upon 
him. ..For his. own good, and the good of the nation, however, a little, 
a very little force must. be applied. £150 is the sum necessary for each 
family ; therefore he shall be taxed an annual sum of £2. 12s., in the 
nature of a county charge, forty-five years, which annuity will sell for 
£50; and the. other £100 shall be raised by a loan, secured by. Par- 
liament, .and to be repaid by the emigrant’s colony-rent of £10 per 
annum, commencing at the end of the third year of his settlement ; which. 
repayment willbe accomplished in fifteen years and a quarter. For 
every emigrant family these Irish estates will thus be charged with £2. 12s. 
for forty-five years,—and more too, we warrant. The Irish landlords, 
if they.act upon the common principles of common-sense, will prefer 
the poor-laws, and their securities. The Committee, however, as if. 
themselves. were distrustful of the palatability of their plan, particularly 
that part.of it. which regards the parliamentary security, have contem- 
plated. the matter in another view. The Irish proprietors, it. seems, ‘are 
legally entitled to eject a redundant pauper population, which. has. sw 
reptitiously intruded into their property, Nowthese proprietors, looking 
to the interests of their families, are of course exceedingly desirous of 
exercising this undoubted right, but shrink from the exercise of this 
right, legal as it is, because they are apprehensive of disastrous conse- 
quences.’ Will not these landlords then jump at any opportunity;) 
which is calculated at once to relieve themselves of these apprehensions, 
and their estates from swarms of unwelcome guests, that burrow like 
rabbits, and riddle them through and though? _ Will they not gladly em- 
brace any plan, that will disburden them of such pests, at almost any 
sacrifice? Not they indeed: for what security have they, that, the 
place of those, who are thus transported to the colonies from their estates, - 
mainly. at their own cost, will not. be forthwith as speedily occupied by 
others? . What security have they, or can they have, that one-half. 6f 
them will. not, by hook or by crook, return; and. that at the end of any 
term of years,,they willmot have.as many miserable occupants’on their. 
estates as when they,began?.. The condition of the-Irish landlord, whose . 
estate is split into very minute divisions, is, in some respects to. be sure, 
dl eeable enough ; but, Jet it. be remembered, it has. its compen+ 
sations,—that land so divided is often let at ten guineas an acre,—though 
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