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have they been founded ? Charitable landowners 

 have granted to charitable ecclesiastics bog-lands 

 and heaths, and the order of St. Jean de Dieu was 

 instituted. This order still exists in one part of 

 Europe, and there also still exist bog-lands and 

 heaths. Let only three of these monks be called, 

 and every proprietor would come forward to lend 

 his horses and his agricultural implements, and 

 every labourer his assistance, in order to restore 

 that admirable social structure which the confis- 

 cators have annihilated. 



SECTION XXI. 



WE have mentioned emigration as one of the purposes to 

 which the national rate should contribute, but as the 

 United Kingdom must be benefited in a very great de- 

 gree, and particularly in point of revenue, by the improve- 

 ment which extensive emigration coming in aid of a gene- 

 ral course of amelioration cannot fail to produce in Ireland, 

 we submit that one half of the expense should be borne 

 by the general funds of the empire. And, considering the 

 particular benefit which Ireland will derive from it, and 

 especially those landlords whose estates may thus be re- 

 lieved from a starving population, we propose that the 

 other half be defrayed partly by the national rate, and 

 partly by the owners of the lands from which the emi- 

 grants remove, or from which they may have been ejected 



