58 MAKING BREAD. [No. 



part : men so degraded have no protection ; and it is 

 a disgrace to form part of a community to which 

 they belong. This degradation has been occasioned 

 by a silent change in the value of the money of the 

 country. This has purloined the wages of the la- 

 bourer; it has reduced him by degrees to housel with 

 the spider and the hat. and to feed with the pig. It 

 has changed the habits, and, in a great measure, the 

 character of the peo{>! n>cfthi- sysfc 



enormous and undescribable; but, thank God! they 

 seem to be approaching to their end! Money is re- 

 suming its value, labour is recovering its price: let 

 us hope that the wretched potatoe is disappearing, 

 and that we .shall, once more, see the knife in the 

 labourer's hand and the loaf upon his board. 



[Thi- was written m IvM. Now(\823) we have 

 had the experience of IS'J-J. when, for the first time, 



orld saw a considerable part of a people, 

 plunged into all the horrors of :t a moment 



when the government of that nation declared food 

 to be abnnduht ! Yes, the year 1822 saw Ireland in 

 the people of whole parishes receiv- 

 ing: th- i-reparatory to yielding up 

 their breath lor want of food ; and this while large 

 exports of meat and flour were taking place in that 

 country ! But horrible as this v : aceful as it 

 was to the name of Ireland, it was attended with 



>od effect : it brought out, from many members 

 of Parliament (in their places,) and from the public 

 in general, the acknowledgment, that the misery and 



df ion of the Irish were chiefly owing to the 

 use of the potutoe as the almost sole food of the 

 people.'] 



100. In mv next number I shall treat of the fa- 

 of ro?rx. 1 have said that I will teach the cottager 

 how to keep a cow all the year round upon the pro- 

 duce of a quarter of an acre, or, in other words. 

 rw/.s\ of land ; and, in my next, I will make good 

 my promise. 



