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eome, who keep a scowling front to hostility that is 

 not to be softened while war spreads its absolute 

 cruelties over that unhappy people. They are a 

 people who will do homage to the omnipotence of 

 charity, and when the mighty armour of Christian 

 kindness will be brought to bear on them, it will be 

 found to be irresistible." 



71. In 1820, Sydney Smith wrote in the Edin- 

 burgh Review : " We admire the Irish feel the 

 most sincere pity for the state of Ireland and think 

 the conduct of the English to that country to have 

 been a system of atrocious cruelty and contemptible 

 meanness. With such a climate, such a soil, and 

 such a people, the inferiority of Ireland to the rest 

 of Europe is directly traceable to the long wickedness 

 of the English Government.'" 



72. In 1820, Thomas Kitson Cromwell, in his 

 Tours in Ireland, vol. i., p. 19: "The females in 

 general derive from nature no small share of their 

 appropriate loveliness ; the smoke and filth of cabins 

 and their rude manual labours contribute early in 

 Hfe to deface this fair distinction ; too frequently 

 they are observed to look old before their prime. 

 ' Beauty in the fair sex,' says Mr. Curwen, very 

 justly, ' is as much prized and as little taken care of 

 in Ireland as in any country in the civilized world.' " 



73. In 1821, George Petrie, the archaeologist, the 



