Genuine Edition, corrected by the Authoz. A FAIR REPRESENTATION OF THE PRESENT POLITICAL STATE OF IRELAND: IN A COURSE OF STRICTURES ON TWO PAMPHLETS, ONE ENTITLED THE CASE OF IRELAND 'RE-CONSIDERED ;' THE OTHER ENTITLED . CONSIDERATIONS ON THE STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN THE YEAR 1799,-IRELAND;' WITH Obfervations on other modern Publications on the Subject of AN INCORPORATING UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Particularly on a Pamphlet entitled THE SPEECH OF LORD MINTO IN THE HOUSE BY PATRICK DUIGENAN, L. L. D. ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CITY OF ARMAGH IN PARLIAMENT. CONTENT S. STRICTURES on a Pamphlet entitled The Cafe of Obfervations on a Pamphlet entitled Arguments for Continuation of the Strictures on the Cafe of Ireland 9 94 103 Strictures on a Pamphlet entitled Confiderations on the 207 - 211 APPENDIX. Calculation of the Number of Inhabitants in Ireland 235 Relative Numbers of Proteftants and Romanifts in Ireland 240 Comparative Property of Irish Proteftants and Romanists 242 A FAIR AN N Incorporating Union of Great Britain and Ireland is a measure, the magnitude and importance of which have not only engaged the moft ferious confideration of the fubjects of the British Empire, but have attracted the attention of many of the other ftates of Europe, as well friends as enemies. Although I have been for many years the avowed friend of the meafure, and in the year 1793 declared in the Irish Houfe of Commons my fettled opinion on the fubject, and was then the only man who did fo, ftating at the fame time fome of the reafons on which my opinion was founded; and although I have, by the occurrences of every day fince, been more and more confirmed in my fentiments upon it, and convinced not only of the expediency, but of the neceffity of the measure; yet I do not mean to trouble my readers with any arguments on the fubject: my |