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Eo Fav, Cobwett. °
‘FROM THE DUBLIN EVENING POST.
(Sine have bees for several months, writing letters, fall of
and m , to Lords and Parliament: -men, about the state
y Ireland, which! letters, we assure you, with desty pecu
Tiarly our own, have made a vast impression in Ireland, though
snfortunately they have produced no effect whatever upon the
* aforesaid eminent persons. There are more ways than one to
account for our ill success. These peisons may have imagined |!
that we had exaggerated thedangecs and difficulties of the coun-
try—or that the remedies we prop:
“perhaps, they felt a fastionable indierene regarding at opie
89 thorousifly vulgar as Ireland—or, (but our vanity forbids the
» presumption,) perhaps, they aid not condescend to glance thei
aristocratic eyes over our humble lucubrations, +
y Well, Sir, let them take the consequences.’ There is an old
" proverb; but as it is somewhat musty, we shall not quote it; it
may be elegantly rendered into English thus:—The Devil will
haze his own at last. And though we should very devoutly de-
Precate this Cousuanination as Christians, yet we confess our re-
get will be greatly enhanced by the consideration that the coun-
try will be reduced to great distress, and must pass, we appre-
bend, through a frightful ordeal before these gentleman can be
made to feel, orto sufier, They are now receiving their rack-
Yeuts; many of them their arrears; they are now trumpeting
NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1825. 0
if some event, such as the contraction of the currency, or the re-
peal of the Corn Laws do not occar before next April, the year
1826 wil be as terrible i in Ireland, as that of 1822; when, while
you are receiving, with every tide, the produce of our teeming
fields, you were buying up the oats which were sending to you,
converting them into meal, and returaing iv back to save the
wretched Irish from famine.
But the landlords will still receive their rents, and the far-
mers their profits, and we shall be referred, with triumph, to
he Ggures inthe Custom-House books—and this state of things
will be called prosperity: No doubt of it—and the old plan of
fempornry relief, will be adopted. . A sum of money will be vet-
Pi will be made, but not to the
fa wraer amount, by. the benev pleat. people of Engiand, for the
rel lief of [rish distress. We shall have an Irish bishop, preach-
ing a Charity Sermon at Fulham, for the relief of the perishing
Irish—and no doubt soine absentee landlord, from the banks of
the Seine, or the city of Florence, wil! magnanimously desire
his agent to expend 1002. upon his tenantry. “And this is pros-
perity, and this ts patriotism—and it is this state ofthings which
is recommended by political ecostomists.
We know not whether the person you designate as Peter Doe-
tor M’Cuiloch, be John Ramsey M" ‘Culloch, Esq. who was ex-
amined in June last, before the Select Committee of the House
of Commons, onthe state of freland. We suspect, from retain
philosophical vagaries in the Scotmnan newspaper, and in t
evidence, that ohn Ramsay and Peter Doctor is one and the
forth the rosperity of Ireland, of which {hey make their income
the measu they ir friends with battalions of
Egares, sail id to indicate the increasing trade of Ireland, meanin
thereby our exports, In short, though some of the wiser sort
have misgivings as to the result, even these, we have some re
son to know, recommend the Policy of silence.) +
Asa disciple of your's, “e’en from our. boyish days,” we re-
Ject this policy... But, indeed, if we were so incined, we should
find it impossible any longer to remain silent.
« On the Catholic Question, and the position which it Gocuipies
at pe sent, we shall say little, No one doubts that it is the chief
clement in Trish polities. This is admitted by the: Orangemen
Uhewselves ; wor willit be doubted even by Lord Eldon, = It is
admitted on all hands, that the Catholics are deeply, ‘perhaps
stegerously discontented ~ It is acknowledged that this feeling
to all classes of Catholic Society—and, to du the Es-
eblished ¢ Church, the Corporations, the Gran ngemen, and their
“indefatigable and exasperating press common justice, they spare
20 pains to lash this discontent into madness, Nothing would
\
dehghtthem more, than that the Catholics would give ethem an | Whena landlord becomes an absentee, his rent mast be remit-
ted to him one wa:
in money or in commodities, I suppose it will be couceded, that
it cannot continue to be remitted to him trom [re
there being no money to
oprertunity of burning the cottages of the poor, and confiscat-.|
a wie he da althy. But alas! ardent as their wishes
Nene fn are destined to meet with disappointment. ‘There will
tauek ht, Mr, Cobbett, you mi end upon it, You have
AUgHL thet an’ we, at an humble dist:
ane
a
sere iat events are working for them—and for events they
sal
810 us, that events are coming on very rapidly |
‘h will inevitably produce that erisis which you] ¥
io Ted se
Perceive that our
ic
havelong geo predicted. By the Barliamentary papers, you will | ¢st@te in Ireland, and goes to live in London or Paris
mo:
exports have continued to increase to a
enormou:
same individual, | Be
startled at some of his paradoxes.
ing gravely before the Committee, such doctrines as these :
turn and reside upon their estates, is it
would be productive of any decided advantage. to the lower or-
ders of the people 1—No, | ani
ductive of any ad
general and average rate
be productive ofa great
mains in it.
planation:
e, have reiterated the | of two or three estates were remitted in money, it ‘would make
a scarcity of money and raise its value, so that its remitiance
would inevitably cease ; itis clear then, that the reats of absen-
And this, I think,
‘ould be'the nature of the operation: when a landlord has an
his sgent
tees can only be remitted in comm
Pet
he Peter, or be he John, be he Squire or
we think that evea you, “Mr. Cobbett, will be rather
You will find him: maintain-
ctor,
“Supposing the Abseriee LanWords of Ireland were to re-
your opinion that that
n not aware that it would be pro-
vantage | to them, in the way of increasing the
of wages all over the country.
wuld not the expenditire “of thvir incomes amongst them,’
eal of good !—The income of a land
logd when he is an abs mentee, is 4 really. as much expended in 1
jand, as if he were living
Th at isto sayy the income which is sent ont of the country Te-
» But let us hear John Ramsay Peter Doctor’ ‘S$ OX.
“Wor
“ Will you have the goodness to explain that a Hit ttle forther ?
or another t it must be remitted to him either
ad i in money
he rents
iutance ; for,
ities,
st
of Ss degree—but you will remark, that with the exception
Linew anda fow
hand printed cottons, ‘these exports are altoge-
WILL PREVAIL.
country where his estate lies, will certainly be proportionably
advantageous to some other part of the country, inasmu uch a
the income mast all be Jaid out, in the first instance, on lish
commodities,
Trish commodities being butter, bacon, beef, mutton,
wheat, barley, and oats... The proportional advantages to other
parts of thevountry being, a rise oft these articles to the buik
of the commimity generally, without giving them, in return,
those means of obtaining food and raiment, “which an expendi-
ture of 10,0002. 4 year enable them to acquire. Ob! says Pe-
ter Doctor Ramsey, that makes no odds; Pray, maik him Sir;
“The empioyment of the people is a great ohjcet; would not
the residence of the gentry contribute to 2 the employment of the
ont your revenue in labour, you caunot
ies ; if you get 10,0001, and Jay out 5,
“Would it not he much better for’ the peasantry of Ireland
that a larger proportion of revenue should be eid 1 out in em-
‘h, perhaps, may have been of foreign
produce ?—If it is laid out on commodities, it will give empley-
ment to the persons engaged in thé produciion them.
“i, however, a large proportion of the commodities wh
yon consider as the means of producing rent. or of produc!
that which is to enable a remittance to be inade for the payment
tion to that extent, are not the peop! pie prejudiced by the wantof
employment ?—Yes, if that description of commodities that are
alluded to can exist. ‘This, however, Ton ot believe, can ever
be the case to any extent worth mentioning ; because the value
ofalmost all con:modities, whatever they may be, is determined
by thé quantity of labor siploy ed in thei Production; so that
whatever may be the species of commodi ies, whether they be
velvet clouks or potatoes—(the witty rogue !)—there will be the
same quantity of labour employed to produce equivalent values
of them.
M Supposing that the largest export of Ir cland was neither in
vely et cloaks nor potatoes, in live eattie, aud that a const-
derable portion of rent, to use your own phrase, has been remit-
ted in that manner, does not such a mode’ of producing the
means of paying rent contrilnte less to the improvement of the
poor than any extensive employ meut of labour would produce ?
‘Fo answer this question, L must know in what, had the absentee
landlords cemained in freland, would their rents have been paid
to them, or what would te famners have raised to obtain the
means of paying tho means of paying rent are
changed when the Tandlord. goes home, his resideuce can have
no effect whatever,
© Would not the population of the country be benefitted by the |
expenditare among them of a certain portion of the rent which
s been remitted ‘T—No, Ido notsee now it could be henefitted
in nthe least. Hf you have a certain va aid out against Lrish
commodities in the one case, you will have a certain value laid
out against them in the other. The cattle are either exported to
England, or they stay at home; if they are exported, the land-
lord will obtain an equivalent for them in Irish commodities; so
tat in both cases the landlord lives da the cattle, or on the va+
Tue of the cattle; and whether he lives in Ireland or Eng gland,
it
Jaborr, you can of course only lay out 5,000. in’ commodities. -
of rent are not of a nature that employ the poor in their produc. ~
mat
‘asin, nese de alae» We are now ia the second week ©
* tune (6 15 bi bas been neatly aaved, but potatoes are ri
ae 1.) ae «hava, Dubtin t Cork, by the weight
u
“and Sheen foe jons,-—W heat, Barley, and Oats—Bullocks
“Ws sii P Pigs, Bacon and Butter.’ The consequences we arc
ir a aleenly to feel—Dublin is at this moment, notwith-
© removal of the assessed Taxes, as dear a place as
nd we believe, as Loudon itself.» Beef and Mutton
at bd her pound. The quartern loaf is a shilling. | }
vane! to the Bee to be very reascnable m price, is now ad- | %
would e wt uglish standard. The rise in other provisions
mie an cient to explain this advance—but there is an im.
% €, with which, perhaps, ydu are nuaequainted,
te & tense export of all kinds of fowl from. the east-
vast quant ¢ this island to England, Eggs are also exported in
Weatis ex Nay, perhaps, it will’s suprise you, that fresh
Mes of Live perted from Dablin. and exposed for sale in the shan-
and the fa pool. Now, these are five times for the landlord
wer —thatis to say, for what the Scotch call Capital-
‘ey {or the journeyman Tacchene and the day labourer in
'Y Are times of scarcity and privation—for while the
means ig ating to his ii income, the man n whose iy ent rood
222.
Ze!
a a rn tom Santions white the few erecnjoyingt ret TOs- absent and ever)
ant, ik of the nation is sinking rapzlly into absolute
the trish saster to complete the misety of
bras nat g ‘amely, that the potatoe crop should fail. Lkere | But as theor;
tua, whet ane entire
erage, “We cateulate the deficit a of the atinual
fea y ow that ther
CE SU fot ed t there are
ill, however, decide the question your-
at Bet Co. Me tenth and at Rawry Co. Down, |'¢
wan ia st Bd. at-Arhiow, Co, Wicklow, Bd, st
WHat y
enoy, 1d. Whitt
utatoes vil be by Chrtst- |}
enture to prjectare, ite .
cs
i 10,000/., or any’ other sum from the agent of an abs
landlord,
amount of commodities as the landlord would havt bought, bad
Dublin, or in his honse $9 freland.”
to
other words, “can Ireland have no foreign trade unlesé the land
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nowledges itin his answer to the next question.
will be the corr espoatent export of Irish commodities 1)
the for liad of reland would be diminished to that amount ”
tet Doe or Rains
should Ike to know wha
failure, but we think we are within the | apptication, it Yate also, that if ail the nobility and gentry of
England were in h Tapan, the foreign trade of Logtand would be
ho We the deficien- neressarily in
of Trish gentry now absent, that.would be very bene: sii
the question be confined to particular spots, the expenditure of
five of sqne advantage to their inhabitants; bat when # lund
But of this Wearesure, probaly productive of. adxantage Yo that patticilor put “or the
e than an order to receive an equivalent amourtin commo-
which must be sent from fretand.' The merchants who get!
ntce
© same
go into the Irish market and buy exactly the
ne been at home; the only difierence betng, that the fandtora
would rat them and wear them in London or Patis, and not in
Granting the premises, merely for argument sake, is i* meces-
sary that the landlord should reside ont of the country, i in order
at Peter Ramsay Doctor cals a foreigu trade? In
voprictors live in a foreign coantry t . Just so. Peter ack-
“ Therefore, i in preportion to the amount of rent remitted,
Pre.
ift he remittances to absentee landlords amount to three
‘ar. were the absentee landlords to return to Freland,
ell then, suppose every landed proprietor in Ireland were
bishop, and every parson, it follows from Pe-
theory, ut the foreign trade ofTreland dGwe
would be increas: amount.
thing, uiust be generat h in its
he gous for # en.
let us hear the learned Theban a tit le more :—
“ Would not there be a local eflect created by the
isiderable sums of taaney in them. may perhaps
ind goes abraxd, the" expenditure of his Income, though net
there is obviously just the very same amount af commodities for
the people of Ireland to subsist upon; far by the supposition
which is made, the raising of cattle is the most advant tageous
mode i in which the Farmers can pay their rents,
ave run ourselves ont of breath and out of room. Yet,
without, for the present, entering into a serious refutation of
what we consider a series 0: ful sophisms, we cant but las
ment, that the Bish | cami i ould think it wecessiry to
sult such a Doctor , for remedies to cure the Slecp-roatel
diseases otlrelacd. We have had enorgh of folly—enough of
violence, but we should prefer, to-morrow, the rule of a fool or
madman to that of a solemn and presuming Scotch Quack.—
Do, Myr, Cobbeit, strip this fellow as bare as & whipping-post,
We shall endeavour to do onr part in the course of next week.
Tistory of Music.
ssriqers OF NUSIO—THE NUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF
THR EoypTiass, IsRAFTITES, Ke, :
Thre is a charm, a power, thit eways the breast
Bids every. puosion Fr nel or F be ati
Tespires w xl] our cures dissolves;
‘ion, and almos 8 despair.
5 at power is out SECs
Masic was one of the first of the rotished arts known to mane
kind, and which cum be traced biek at least three thousand
years. That voce al was prior to jnstrumental music, cannot bev
oubted, because it Tr da knowledge of the mechanical arts
before the jaer could be introduced.
“Anci uthars relate that all the laws, whether human er
divine, exhortations to virtue, exlogies on gous and heroes, and
the narvative of the actions of Hlustrions men, were written in
verse, and sung pthli¢ly to the soveds of instruments; aud it
appe-grs from the Seriptures, that such wags the custow among
Armstrong.
the {Sruclites fom the earliest times.
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