conduct of the Irish Society in the county of Derry, and the 

 benefits they have conferred on their tenantry, by their 

 generous and disinterested management of the great estates 

 committed to their care, are well known in Ulster; and I deem 

 it my duty, as an advocate for the preservation of the salmon 

 fisheries of this part of Ireland, to lay before the public the 

 information which I have collected from authentic sources as 

 to the aggressions on the Lough Foyle fisheries belonging 

 to the Irish Society, and the conduct of the Marquis of 

 Donegal, the Rev. J. Molesworth Staples, and others of the 

 Donegal magistracy in reference thereto ; and which, with other 

 matters concerning the salmon fishery question, will, I hope, 

 render this pamphlet not undeserving of attention. 



J. B. S. 



BALLY SHANNON, DONEGAL, 

 December, 1841. 



