Excerpt from A Reply to Mr. Montgomery Martin's "Ireland Before and After the Union With Great Britain": Being a Series of Articles Taken From the Dublin Weekly RegisterWhy don't Mr. Pitt and Mr. Dundas rely on the increased population of Scotland, as well as on its trade -it was one million at the Union, and Mr. Pitt says it is a million and a half now. If a population be a desirable object, if it be riches to a state, and the means of increasing the empire's strength, Ireland has increased three-fold without a Union, and Scotland only one-half with in.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.