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*^ who would rise en masse, and overwhelm an invading 

 enemy. Party, too, can make the same threat, and 

 tell us of the millions that are ready to rise in support 

 of their demands." 



" Let us avail ourselves of the same instrument, and 

 rouse the population of ihe County of Derry, to the 

 " encounter of these scenes of desolation." I then pro- 

 ceed to show with what facility these respected landlords 

 could carry this important point, and rouse the population 

 of the county, to sweep these disgraceful morasses from 

 the face of their county, in a few weeks ; — and now, after 

 four years, in the hour of distress, I call upon the same 

 landlords to employ the industrious and unoccupied part 

 of the same population on the same work. 



The task I shall put upon them, provided I can get 

 access to them, the usual channel being obstructed, will be 

 very light. Several of their great leases having made a 

 near approach to their termination, and one of the 

 largest, The Drapers', having fallen, and in their own 

 actual possession, their attention is brought more imme- 

 diately to the spot ; and the offensive morasses I complain 

 of, cannot escape their observation in the midst of a fine 

 country. 



At this moment the Board of Agriculture speculate 

 upon raising an army, to invade the unimproved parts of 

 the empire — and where can we put them on actual service 

 so effectually, as on the estate of the Drapers' propoi*tion, 

 now in their own hands I 



Let me not be charged with partiality to my own country 

 for endeavouring to concentrate general efforts, and 

 bringing them to bear upon one favourite spot. The mea- 

 sures I shall recommend are equally applicable to all 

 countries ; and when I address myself to the Corporation 



