To The Editor Of The Time...
Your observations on a Bible Club having printed 5,000 copies ofthe Biblein the Irish language,inducesme to send you acopyof theopinios of Jonathan Swift,Deanof St.Patrick's, as toabolishingthit dialect. No man ever stood a firmner fiiend to Ireland than Dean Swift, and his opinion is entitled to attention: it is a question of pelicy that ought to be taken up by my superiorS, whether thest narrow-minded priests and politicians are to be permitted to extend thc Irish lan. guage, and prevent the extension of the English, and have two lan- guages in thesame country. 1 agrec with Dean Swift nothing more tends to prevent the civilization of the inhabitants. AMl persona ihould be able to read the English language, IV. " It would be a noble achievement to abolish the Irish languige in this kingdom, so far at least as to oblige all the natives to speak only Englislh on every occs'ion of business, in shops, markere, faire, ant other places of dealing : yet 1 am wholly deceived if this might not be effectually done in less than half an age, and at a rery trifling expense; for sueh 1 look upon a tax to be of only 6.0001. a year, to accomplish so great a work. This would, in a great m.easure, civi- lize the most barbarous among them, reconcile thein to our customs and *nannef of living, and reduce great numbers to the national zc- ligion, whatever kind mar then lhappen to be establishcd. This me- thod is plain and simpie, and, although I am too desponding to, produce it, yet I could heartily wish some public thoughts %sare em- plOyedI to reduce this uncultivated people frem that idle, savage, beastly, thievish manner of life, in which ther continue sunk to a degree that it is almost imrpossible for a country gentleman to find a servant of human capacity, or the Iast tinctare ot natural heneatv, or who does not live among his own tenants in continual fear of leav- ing his plantations destroyed, his cattle stolen, and his goods pilfer- cd."7-A,swerto Lettersfiroot ukitowa hamnds ritt int 17-9. TO THE EDITO? OF THE TIMEfS.