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.tnf the last century twice the theatre of civil wars, tnd now more parliully governed (if l.muit speak ,bf the«c things), more close and narrow in her J>olititAl system : as corrupl, yea, and more so. In HM far «k (MtUlical iiiAuencc can go ; Iwr nobility in a great maniu-^r non-resident; her middle claaa formed, zs^ every middle cbss mui^t be. by the in- dostry, skill, and ^ood conduct of tiie poor; her aoil more scanty, her climate more rude: and yet none of those demoralized conditions have been revealed in her, and she hath oTeicome those par- tial eviU by thai steady course of iinfKovement which a p^-oplcwell instructed, when left to them- t904 ibsla-^d's evil coximiov, [l>v. srives, and eren agunst oppofitioD, oever fail co pursue. But at onco to cjcpose'the exaggenuboQ of this political cauae, to which every thinjf is tnuxd, wc have tlic cJTXrimattum crudi, the de- c\me evid^ice turitiAhed by Irelftnd ittelf, which the nnrthrrn pmvrnce in c-ODft<s«edly mor« like to Scoilaod in character and cooditHin than to the three sister provinces of Ireland; where rarious branehee of iudustry have taken root, which in the south have died out; and where^ thougli there be a ^reatt^r diversity of religiotti faith, the cruelties and enormities of the south ar« seldom heard of: and yet ihi* province Uboiin nnder the same want of noble re^tdcQts^ under ih* same ty the- system, and in all other respects ii under the same conditions of govcmmcat with the restp Which things concerning the political caiiHe 1 state hiOf«cly and generally, in order i9 shcrw that this is not all nor the chief source of I the evil, without intending to say that it bath bo< had JtB ihare alonir with others in producing tba flA»ary of this miscrablu land. Tbeie instaocea, which have bocn adduced tn order to remove this bngbear of a political cause^ to which all CTJls arc wont to he ascribed, wiilj serve the higher purpocte of introducing us to tha^ true cause of the eviK The northern provinea Ireland differs from the rest in no natural advan- tage or outward condition ; and in respect to aoo- twident proprietors^ it hath the diiadva>tive» forasmuch as the best parts of Antrim and Deny are posseswxl by the rorpora1ioii> of l^ndon ; batj in this it dilfers, that it has. in addition to church establishment » a larf^e body of Presby- tevian Difsenlers, followinn: generally the doc- VllO IK«LAtfl>'» £V11. CO.SDJTtOM- thuCA and discipline of the Ctiurch of Scotland, vlio have uniformly mahiUttnei] ourorthudox doc*- tfiiw till laldy. when ihc Aritui heresy a Iht