Few unmarried Servants employed. 1 5S 



little produce. Supposing that in England 

 tlivrc be required two and an half persons fur 

 the cultivation of every hundred acres that 

 ,:t\ millions are there under tillage, and 

 that four-fifths of the servants are unmarried 

 persons of both sexes ; it would follow that 

 there are two millions of situations open to the 

 rising population. Ireland, containing eighteen 

 millions of acres, with probably ten in cultiva- 

 tion, does not employ, of unmarried servants, 

 more than two to five hundred acres, or about 

 four thousand single persons. This is a most 

 serious evil, and has its origin in the subdivision 

 of the land. The minute distribution of pro- 

 perty among tenants without capital, cannot 

 contribute either to general prosperity or hap- 

 piness. To be enabled to pay the enormous 

 rents, which competition in the laborious orders 

 from time to time occasions, they are perpetually 

 struggling with difficulties, and submitting to 

 privations, far greater than are endured by the 

 working classes in any other part of the empire, 

 and to which, as rational beings, they ought 

 not to be subjected. 



Adverting to the few sources of employment, 

 and the little excitement in the catholics to in- 

 dustry, it must be recollected, that the nobility, 

 clergy, army, and all official persons, com* 



6 



