Condition of the People should be ameliorated. 353 



means for the employment of the overflowing 

 population. 



The introduction of manufactories and 

 fisheries, of trade and commerce, could not 

 but produce a prodigious increase of manual 

 labor, which, on being rewarded according to 

 exertion, would soon produce industry and 

 emulation ; these would speedily create artifi- 

 cial wants, the indulgence in which, after a time, 

 would disincline the people, if not to impro- 

 vident, to early marriages ; and thus the pre- 

 sent increasing population might receive a 

 check, and to a certain extent be restrained 

 within the limits prescribed by the needed em- 

 ployraent of the country. 



Although the manner in which the Irish pea- 

 santry exists is revolting to the feelings of those 

 unaccustomed to the inspection of their wretch- 

 edness and poverty, yet are they rich in the 

 contentment which springs from a patient sub- 

 mission to their lot, from their conjugal attach- 

 ment and af faction to their offspring, and from 

 a natural buoyancy of spirits, that makes the 

 heaviest evils sit lightly on their hearts, with 

 the exception of their being unable to earn a 

 sufficiency to ensure the continuance of the 



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