Dr.
Cokkigan, in his able and very sensible pamphlet on "Fever and Famine as Cause and Effect in Ireland"-- a pamphlet, by the way, which has been the means of conveying most important truths to statesmen, and which ought to be looked on as a great public benefit--has confirmed the accuracy of the gloomy pictures I was forced to draw.

Here follow an extract or two: "It is scarcely necessary to call to recollection the summer of 1810, cold and wet--corn uncut in November, or rotting in the sheaves on the ground--potatoes not ripened (and when unripe there cannot be worse food), containing more water than nutriment--straw at such an extravagant price as to render the obtaining of it for bedding almost impossible, and when procured, retaining from its half-fermented state, so much moisture, that the use was, perhaps, worse than the want of it.

The same agent that destroyed the harvest spoiled the turf.
Seldom had such a multiplication of evils come together.

In some of the former years, although food and bedding were deficient, the portion saved was of good quality, and fuel was not wanting: but in 1815 every comfort that might have compensated for partial want was absent.

This description applies to the two years of 1816 and 1817.