one score spades in the bed of 320 perches, that is, in an acre, the whole quantity of potatoes is valued at 1100, or 122 Kerry pecks, which averages at twenty-pence the peck, that is 20s. the acre for tithe of potatoes. "In a parish in the county of Cork, I understand, the following demand was made, and paid: "Wheat 8s. the English acre-barley the same--meadow 4s.oats 48.--potatoes 128.proctor's fees 2s. 2d. in the pound, and this not for one year, but a succession. This, when valued by the Irish acre, is, for wheat 138.-barley 13s. meadow 68. 6d.-oats 6s. 6d.-potatoes 198. "This will better appear, by stating to you some of the proctor's bills for a series of years, which I understand will be proved at your bar. "You will observe, that these are all the English acre, and make the acreable ratages about what I have stated, in round numbers. I have also to produce several affidavits of different people, (peasants I suppose they are) from the County of Cork. The brief of which affidavits I will now state to you ;-they depose, that a charge was made of ten shillings (English acre I am informed) for wheat, and ten for potatoes, of the worst kind. "That a charge was made of twenty shillings for an acre and half of barley, and that the crop was a bad one. That a charge was made and exacted, of fif teen shillings for half an English acre of wheat, and half an acre of oats, "They prove that the Tithe has increased of late, in some parts, from 5 to 8 or 10 shillings, the English acre for potatoes; from 4 to 8 or 10 shillings for wheat; and for barley, oats, and hay, in a similar proportion.. "They prove that the charges in the Ecclesiastical Courts have swelled to ten times the original sum. "They prove that the Tithe demanded in 1786, in some instances, exceeded the rack-rent of the land; they prove that it is a practice to charge for more acres than the peasant has in tillage-and they produce the charge of the proctor, and the return of the surveyor; they prove that the prices charged, in some instances, in 1786, exceeded the value of the Tithe, 1 "They prove an unchristian and uncharitable exaction. What credit is to be given to these affidavits, you will be the best judge when you go into the committee; but this I think, even on the statement, you can decide that these peasants have been oppressed by Tithe, and however fondly and partially these men may state their own case, yet it appears that they have a case which you ought to consider, and that there has 1 not been that moderation on the part of parson and proctor, as by the former is so confidently alleged. I understand, in the course of your inquiry it will appear, that a living has been lately and rapidly raised from 60l. to 300l. by the new incumbent that a farm, from 121. a year Tithe, has been raised to 60%.-that a living, in these disturbed parts, from 1301. has been, in the same manner and expedition, raised to 3401.that another living, in these disturbed parts, in the same manner, has been raised from 300l. to 10007. I understand, it will appear to you, that 141. have been demanded and paid for 11 acres, the rent of which was only 117. 118. ; that flax has been in some of those disturbed parts rated exor. bitantly that rape has been rated at one guinea an acre; nay, one return goes so far as to say, 161. were demanded for four acres of rape. These particulars you will judge of, when you open your committee, how far they may be exaggera. tions, how far they may be grievances, after every allowance for sanguine statement on the part of the husbandman. But there are some returns which cannot be exaggerations, and which are exorbitant-they are the returns of the proper officer appointed by |