text:  Mr Pitt in 1799 (23d January ) pointed out what may still be regarded as their true source:--"I say that Ireland is subject to great and deplorable evils which have a deep root: for they lie in the nature of the country itself in the present character manners and habits of its people; in their want of intelligence or in other words in their ignorance; in the unavoidable separation of certain classes; in the state of property; in its religious distinctions; in the rancour which bigotry engenders and superstition rears and cherishes