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health of the hody, and temperance alias morality. If the 

 truth be disguised, the preacher or the philosopher cannot 

 howl vice from behind the cloak of falsehood, and show 

 to man its debasing, exterminating effects. Therefore, 

 without prejudice, for truth's sake, let us consider this 

 matter. 



The English Commissioners' Report represent only 

 2,371,600 emigrants as having left Great Britain and 

 Ireland during twenty- five years for America, and 

 251,017 for all other parts of the world, making together, 

 emigrants to all parts from Great Britain and Ireland, 

 2,622,617. 



Now, as stated, we know England grumbled like a 

 bear with a sore head, to use a common phrase, at the 

 vast increase of the Irish. 



The population of Ireland was, in 1811, computed at 

 5,637,856.* During ten years, from 1811 to 1821, the 

 increase was 20| per cent. England increased in that 

 time 19s per cent. Therefore the Irish must increase 

 more than 20^ per cent. Religious intolerance, poverty 

 and enterprise drove many from Ireland to all parts of 

 the world. Say her increase was 25 per cent. ; England 

 that ten years increased largely beyond her usual rate 

 prior to that date as well as subsequently, viz : to 

 19J per cent, which could only be owing to immigration 

 from Ireland and during that time the emigrants from 

 Ireland must be as follows : Calculating the increase of 

 Irish at only 25 per cent., (instead of 35 per cent.,)f 



* In 1812 it was by census 5,937,856. 



f London journals make it 35 per cent. See Merchants' Maga- 

 zine of New York. 





