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inftance) that a proteitant difcoverer gets a 

 Jeafe by proving the lands let under two-thirds 

 of their value to a papift. There are fevere 

 penalties on carrying arms or reading mafs ; 

 but the firft is never executed, for poaching 

 (which I have heard;, and as to the other, 

 mafs-houfes are to be feen every where : there 

 is one in his own tow r n. His Lordfhip did 

 jufticeto the merits of the Roman Catholics, by 

 obferving that they were in general a very fo- 

 ber, honeft, and induilrious people. This ac- 

 count of the laws againft them brought to my 

 mind an admirable expreffion of Mr. Burke's 

 in the Englifh houfe of commons, Conni- 

 vance IS THE RELAXATION OF SLAVERY, 

 NOT THE DEFINITION OF LIBERTY. 



The kingdom more improved in the laft 20 

 years than in a century before. The great 

 fpirit began in 174.9 and 1750. 



He was allured that the emigrations, which 

 made fo much noife in the north of Ireland, 

 were principally idle people, who, far from 

 being miffed, left the country the better by 

 their abfence. They were generally diffenters, 

 yery few churchmen or catholics. 



It is found in that manufacture, that it never 

 flourishes when oatmeal is cheap — the greateft 

 exports of linen are when it is deareft 



July 2 1 ft, took my leave of this prince of 

 improvers, who gave me a letter to Mr. Forr- 



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