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prejudiced traveller who visits them will be as much 

 pleased with their cheerfulness as obliged by their 

 hospitality ; and will find them a brave, polite, and 

 liberal people." 



52. In 1793, S. Crumpe, M.D., in Essay on Pro- 

 viding Employment for the Irish People, p. 188, 

 wrote : " Innumerable good qualities might be 

 adduced to counterbalance the defects we have 

 stated ; but they partake more of the energy of 

 courage, the warmth of patriotism, and generosity 

 of hospitality, than of the cool, considerate, and 

 prudent perseverance of industry." (He attributes 

 their defects to their rulers and persecutors.) 



53. In 1805, Foster, speaking against Emancipa- 

 tion in the House of Commons, said : " The Irish 

 (Catholics) composed a principal and honourable 

 part of the army under Lord Hutchinson, by which 

 Egypt was vanquished. Is it not also proclaimed to 

 the glory of that people, that gallant Nelson was 

 greatly indebted to their valour in the hour of 

 danger for the conquest he obtained over the fleet 

 of the enemy on the coast of that country] Is not 

 the British army supplied with some of its most 

 courageous recruits from the same source! Have 

 not the militia behaved well 1 " 



54. The Hon. George Ponsonby, replying to 

 Foster, said " The hon. gentleman has told us of 



