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A company of this kind, termed, if you will, the 

 Irish National Planting Company, would be worthy 

 a British King to be at the head of it — of the 

 Prince, the noblemen, the gentlemen, every lover 

 of his country, and every lover of gain to be members 

 thereof. 



No. XLIX. 



Improving Pasture Lands. 



Another or second means of improving the waste 

 lands, and bettering the condition of the poor in Ire- 

 land, besides that by planting, together with a third 

 means of reclaiming the bog and mosses, &c. shortly 

 to be noticed, which put together, would not leave 

 any of the waste lands of that country unproductive. 

 It is a well-known fact, that among the many grie- 

 vances complained of by the poor inhabitants of Ire- 

 land at the present time, there is none more glaring 

 than that of the want of clothing,* this is evident to 

 the most superficial observer, on landing in that 

 country, whether in the city, the village, or any part 

 of the country. Nor is it in their body clothes only 

 that the poor, or rather what may be termed gener-* 

 ally speaking the working class in that kingdom, seem 

 so miserable, but also in their bed-clothes, and in 

 their uncomfortable cottages ; every person that has 

 travelled in Ireland, and has taken particular notice 

 of the state of the poor within, as well as without doors, 

 will assert the fact, that the want of clothing is of it- 

 self the cause of great distress among the lower or- 

 ders of the people in that country. To remedy this 



• It is a well authenticated fact, that it is no uncommon thing to see a 

 poor person in Ireland exchanging clothes with a field scare-crow, that is, 

 a thing dressed up with old clothes in the fields, to fright the birds from 

 the crop. 



