41(5 Proteslant Colonies of Ireland. QOct. 



and a religious people (and all this has been confirmed to Holland) ; and if 

 the Grand Lodge can effect it in Ireland, they will feel the proud satisfaction 

 that they have not abused the trust committed to their charge. 



Average Extimate for Two Families. 



Buildings on each farm X25 



House furniture and implements of husbandry 14 



Clothes 12 



One cow .' 6 10 



Seed for first year, and the cultivation of each farm.... 24 



Advances in provisions, first year 7 10 



Other advances 6 



' Flax and wool for manufacturing 15 



Ten acres of waste ground 10 



i'120 



In the report of the annual produce and expenditure of the Colonies, the 

 return of annual surplus for each family of produce over the expenses is calcu- 

 lated 8/. In conclusion, we suggest that copies of this our Report be forthwith 

 forwarded to each Lodge, and to the Protestant Nobility and Gentry. 



(Signed) N. DE CROMMELIN, 



Grand Master, County Down, Chairman. 

 Approved, ENNISKILLEN,) Deputy Grand Masters 

 ALDBOROUGH, / of Ireland. 



All Communications to be addressed to the Deputy Grand Secretary, 



JOHN PATTERSON, Esq. 



118, Grafton Street. 



With the establishment of the principles of Protestantism in districts 

 ■where they will be neither disturbed by the hostility nor corrupted by 

 the contact of the popular superstition, the natural consequences of 

 industry, civilization, and suborchnation will foUow. And among these 

 will be prominent a system of closer connexion of interests and feelings 

 between the landlord and tenant, and an improved system of poor laws. 

 High rents are at this hour the great palpable evil. The immediate 

 causes that induce apathy, disease, idleness, and crime in Ireland, 

 are the exorbitant rents. As there are some persons who still persist 

 in denying this palpable truth, we may refer them to the follow- 

 ing high authorities, in proof that this is, and has been the case since the 

 reign of Queen Elizabeth. Edmund Spencer says, " The landlords 

 there (in Ireland) most shamefully rack their tenants." — State of Ireland, 

 Works, vol. 6, p. 33. 



Dean Swift says, " The rents are squeezed out of the very blood and 

 vitals, and bowels of the people, who live worse than English beggars." — 

 View of the State of Ireland, Works, vol. 6, p. 159. 



Archbishop Boulter says — " Here the tenant has for his share too 

 often but a fourth or a fifth." 



The Right Hon. J. Fitz Gibbon, Attorney-general, says, " That the 

 peasantry are ground down to powder by enormous rents." — Speech, 1737- 



" Exorbitant rents," says Newenham. — Inquiry, &c. p. 15. 



" Exorbitant rents," says Dr. Woodward. — Argument in Support of 

 the Poor, p. 15. 



" Exorbitant rents," says Curwen, vol. 2, p. 32. 



" Exorbitant rents," says the Report on the State of Ireland, 1 p. 50, 

 2 p. 414, 4 p. r)38. 



