SECT. XIV.] RESULTS OF THE INQUIRY. 



England during hay-time, in France in the corn- 

 season, and in other countries during the vintage , 

 but as soon as the harvest is over they return to 

 their homes. 



The inhabitants of the heights of the Alps and 

 Pyrenees, leaving their wives and children at home, 

 as soon as the snow comes, descend into the 

 plains, where they follow the pursuits of school- 

 masters, pedlars, and tinkers. In the spring they 

 return to their homes on the mountains. 



These changes among workmen have never been 

 the subject of any complaint. But it is not so 

 with the Irish ; they are driven by misery to the 

 seaports. There the magistrates, in order to get rid 

 of them, defray their passage to England, where 

 these unhappy men arrive with their wives and 

 children, destitute of the means of subsistence, 

 without talents or industry, covered with rags and 

 diseases, and throw themselves upon the public 

 charity. 



The farmers in England live in isolated habita- 

 tions. Their barns and crops are thus exposed 

 to the depredations of those who are reduced by 

 despair to robbery. They have no other alter- 

 native, but to give shelter and food to these new 

 comers. They endeavour therefore to obtain some 

 compensation, by giving them the employment 

 which belongs of right to the labourers of the soil. 



