The country requires great exertion to bring it into a state of order and submission to law.

The whole population--high and low, rich and poor, Catholic and Protestant--must all be brought to obedience to law; all must be taught to look up to the law for protection.

The gentry are ready enough to attend grand juries, to obtain presentments for their own benefit, but they desert the quarter-sessions of the peace.

The first act of a constable in arresting must not be to knock down the prisoner; and many, many reforms must be made, which only can be effected by a judicious and able Government _on the spot_.

Ireland, in its present state, cannot be governed in England.