62 THE IRISH PEOPLE. 



remarkably hospitable and good-natured when the 

 leaven of Popery does not sour their natural dispo- 

 sition. In a word, both as to their morals and 

 bodies, they are as fit for and as well deserving of 

 cultivation, and, if due care be taken of them, as 

 capable of being good husbandmen, soldiers, sailors, 

 artizans, merchants, and scholars as most nations in 

 Europe." 



46. About 1750, General Woulfe, the future con- 

 queror of Quebec, visited Dublin, and described it as 

 a " city crowded with large-limbed people and hand- 

 some women." 



47. About 1765, Lord Macartney wrote: "The 

 Irish are a strong, hardy people, active in body and 

 of a bold and daring spirit ; patient of cold, hunger, 

 and labour ; dauntless in danger, and regardless of 

 life when glory is in view ; generous and hospitable 

 beyond all bounds of prudence." 



48. In 1765, Francis I., Emperor of Germany, 

 wrote : " The more Irish officers in the Austrian 

 service the better ; our troops will always be better 

 disciplined. An Irish coward is an uncommon char- 

 acter ; and that which the natives of Ireland dislike 

 from principle they generally perform through a 

 desire for glory." 



49. In 1776, according to Adam Smith: "The 

 common people in Scotland, who are fed with oat- 



