can free her. One is reforming her millions, another is uniting them, and we look for a third who shall lead them on, we trust to a bloodless victory. In concluding this chapter, we would say to every Irishman who reads it-cast away your party prejudices. Let England no longer rejoice over your division, because it secures her victim. Patriots forget their personal and party feuds when their country is invaded by a common foe. Range yourselves under the noble denomination of IRISHMEN. Let the clamour of faction be heard no more, watch each opportunity, and bide your time. Unite till the tread of your millions on the march to freedom shall be like the tread of a single man. Let no second object come between you and your country. Let our glorious motto be yours-"United we stand, divided we fall;" and the bright promise now dawning on your horizon, shall ere long be fulfilled. We trust the spacious bays and harbours that indent your land, and the rivers that fertilize it, will yet be white with the sails of commerce-that the dilapidated huts that now disfigure the surface of the country, shall rise into smiling villages; that a starving squalid peasantry shall be changed into industrious happy owners of the vital soil, and the sweetest isle that ever decked the ocean, be blessed with peace, confidence and freedom. BOOK THE EIGHTH. THE FEELINGS AND DETERMINATION OF THE PEOPLE. It is the feeling of Injustice that is insupportable to all men— no man can bear it, or ought to bear it.—Carlyle. The British Statesman who thinks to give quiet to the country -lasting quiet-by anything short of a great diminution of taxation, deceives himself the topic of agitation may vary, but the discontent will continue.-N. American Rev. Jan. 1832. Let us not deceive ourselves! Governments are safe in proportion as the great body of the people are contented, and men cannot be contented when they work with the prospect of want and pauperism before their eyes as what must be their destiny at last.-Quarterly Rev. April. 1816. BOOK THE EIGHTH. THE FEELINGS AND DETERMINATION OF THE PEOPLE. EMIGRATION.-The Duke of Wellington may declare there is no distress in the land for want of food, and no need of reform; yet no one who has looked on England with open eyes will believe him. If the catalogue of the burdens and sufferings I have made out be a correct one, discontent, deep and bitter, must follow. Men's hearts are not made of steel, that no amount of suffering can move them. All men are not martyrs in resignation, and hence, so long as England carries on her extensive scheme of oppression, there must be the reaction of discontented, indignant men. There must be feelings when the iron enters the soul which will result, sooner or later, in determinations and actions. Crushed between the Church and State, the working classes are reduced to want, the small farmers are slowly consuming away, and general distress is spreading through the entire population, so that, however ministers may strive to urge on the |