"be heard. Mr. O'Connor says the Irish harp was in"troduced hither by the Celto-Phoenician colony of "Milesius, which arrived before the Christian æra." I need not bring to the recollection of an Irishman the effect of our sprightly airs; what youthful foot, or even old one, remains quiet when " Patrick's day" is lilted up by the bagpipes? Our women are all self-taught dancers; and it is remarkable that an instance can scarcely ever be perceived of the feet, even of the youngest, not keeping time to the music. I have often tried this, by frequently changing the time, but the motion of the feet uniformly changed with me. Probably I cannot conclude better than by an extract from my favourite author, Arthur Young's Irish Tour, to which, on a former occasion, I had to acknowlege my obligations. "That portion of national wealth which is "employed in the improvement of the land of a state 66 are the best employed for the general welfare of a "country; whilst trade and manufactures, national "funds, banking, &c. swallow up prodigious sums in 66 England, but yield a profit of not above 5 to 10 per "cent: the lands of Ireland are unimproved, upon "which money would pay 15 or 20 per cent., exclusive "of a variety of advantages which must strike the most "superficial reader. Hence the vast importance to "England of the improvement of her Irish territory. "It is an old observation that the wealth of Ireland "will always centre in England; and the fact is true, "though not in the way commonly asserted: no em"ployment of an hundred millions, not upon the actual "soil of Britain, can ever pay her a tenth of the ad"vantages which would result from Ireland being in "the above respects upon that par, which I have de"scribed, with England. The more attentively this "matter is considered, I am apt to think the more "clearly this will appear, and that when old illiberal "jealousies are worn out, which, thanks to the good "sense of the age, are daily disappearing, we shall be "fully convinced that the benefit of Ireland is so intimately connected with the good of England, that we "shall be as forward to give to that hitherto unhappy "country as she can be to receive, from the firm con"viction that whatever we there sow will yield to us a "most abundant harvest." 66 One would be apt to imagine this idea is not so well founded as the author seems to hope; for the celebrated Mr. Malthus permits himself to be so far influenced by those illiberal prejudices, as to call Ireland “ a remote and inconsiderable country." But I leave him to Mr. Say. APPENDIX. TRIBES AND NON-TRIBES. THE following papers have been put into my hands for publication. I merely state both sides of the question, leaving this weighty matter to the decision of those more immediately concerned. I did not intend to have published these documents, for I considered the affair of about as much consequence to the public as the fate of the battle between Homer's frogs and mice, but I was given to understand that it was expected I should publish the state of the case as follows:-" The Galway "tribes allege that they purchased their Bull for the "sum of fifteen hundred pounds (an enormous sum in "those days) from Donatus the then Archbishop of "Tuam; for which sum he was induced to solicit the "Court of Rome for the said Bull; and as the said "Donatus is said to have purchased a large tract of country for said money, which at this day comprises "the best revenue of the See of Tuam, as an equivalent "for the loss of Galway; by which act he conceived "himself absolved or saved from his oath on his induc"tion into the See, which was to support and uphold, "&c. and not to dispose or alienate any of the tempo"ralities of his See; consequently the Roman Catholic "tribes conceive that they alone have the exclusive |