out of the Rebellion, fo gallantly volunteered for the affiftance of their brethren the Proteftants of Ireland, as well against their foreign as domeftic enemies, were paid, after they arrived in Ireland, out of the Irish Treasury and Irish Funds. Are the Irish Proteftants then fo weak, as to be the objects of derision and contempt to this Romish Writer and his affociates? And is Ireland only a diverfion of the power and force, an arsenal of attack and injury, and a devouring gulf of the blood and refources of England in the prefent war, as this Romish Writer afferts? The revenues of Pruffia, one of the most potent European States, do not amount yearly to fix millions fterling. Ireland, by the efforts of her Proteftant Parliament and population, has contributed seven millions in the last year, and in the preceding year, five millions, to the fupport of the war, and has not coft Great Britain a fixpence for her defence. It is true the British Fleet and British Militia have flown to her support, when threatened with invafion by the common enemy: but Ireland has paid the British Militia for their affistance. And has not Great Britain employed her fleets and armies for the fupport of her allies in the prefent war, and even paid the troops of her allies for fighting in their own defence? And is the not bound to give greater affiftance to Ireland, a part of the British Empire, to defend her against the common enemy, than to foreign nations her allies? This Writer fays, it would be better for Great Britain, that Ireland were blotted from the lift of nations, and funk in the fea, than that he should remain a diverfion of her arms in the prefent war. May not the fame be faid with equal justice of any part of Great Britain itself, if threatened with an attack by the enemy; of Yorkshire, of Scotland, for

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inftance? Ireland is in fact as much a part of the British European Empire, as either of the countries mentioned, and her fubjugation by the enemy would be as injurious to that Empire, and fo would her lofs, by immerfion in the ocean.

The complaints of this Libeller, of a criminal neglect of the natives of Ireland by the English nation, and that the barbarity of thefe natives is justly to be attributed to this neglect, are utterly unfounded: ever fince the commencement of the reign of James the First, as long as the diftin&tion of Native and Colonist, or rather New Settler, remained among the inhabitants of Ireland, the attention of the English Monarchs, and their Minifters in Ireland, was uniformly directed to the encouragement and civilization of the 'natives; and to the abolition of all diftinctions between the inhabitants of the country. Their benevolent intentions have been counteracted only, by the intolerant fpirit of Popery, inceffantly operating as an effectual barrier against harmony and union, as I have already proved.

This Author's praises of the Romish titular Bishops in Ireland, of their learning, humanity, and piety; of all which accomplishments, I prefume he means to offer Huffey, the titular Bishop of Waterford, as a fhining example; his advice to them, to unfurl their Sacred Banners; his fuggeftion of the doctrine of Imprefcriptibility, of which he hints a feeble difapprobation only, according to which Irish Romanifts, or, as he calls them, Natives, have a right to the poffeffion of all the lands of the nation, which no time, no length of poffeffion can alienate; and his frequent introduction of the eternal principles

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of revenge of the Irish Romanists against Irish Proteftants; all, all proclaim him an inveterate Irish Romanift; and his folly as well as impudence in attempting to affume the mafk of an Englishman.

I fhall now close my obfervations on this anonymous flanderer and his libel, with the fum of his arguments, to induce the inhabitants of Ireland to consent to an Union with Great Britain; from which it will clearly appear, that his real defign was directly contrary to his profeffed one; and was to promote the feparation of Ireland from Great Britain, by ftimulating the Irish Romanis to a Rebellion; and by fowing the feeds of diffention between the English and Irish Proteftants; and thereby depriving, the latter of all afiftance from Great Britain, if not ensuring its hoftility against them.

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His argument to the Irish Proteftants to induce them to confent to an Union, is as follows: You, the Irish Proteftants, are the basest, most tyrannical, most cowardly, moft cruel race of mortals on the earth; you are as weak as you are cowardly: we, the English Proteftants, confider you in this light; we deteft your crimes; you are murderers and robbers, you cannot exist but by our favour and protection.

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felves up directly into our hands without referve; if you do not, the defcendants of those you have murdered and robbed will quickly destroy you; notwithflanding you are fo infamous a race, and that we have fo thorough a contempt for you, we will confer on you a perfect equality with ourfelves; and we, the braveft, the richeft, and the most honourable people

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of equality. Robbers, Robbers, murderers, murderers, and daftardly ' wretches as you are, you shall become our companions and our friends; we will treat you exactly as brethren ; you shall share all our advantages and all our fortunes.' In short, the means by which he propofes to reconcile Irish Proteftants to an Union with Great Britain, are, in the character of an Englishman, to load them with every fpecies of abufe, flander, and calumny, and brand them with every crime which can debase humanity. Very conciliating means truly!

His arguments to induce Irish Romanists to agree to an Union with Great Britain are: You, the natives of • Ireland, have been bafely and wickedly tyrannized over by the English nation for fix centuries paft, as your confidential agent Mr. Tone has already told you. The English have robbed you of your lands, they have reduced you to a ftate of barbarous flavery: they govern you at prefent by a gang of corrupt fub-tyrants, whom they style a Parliament, elected by Englishmen, and compofed of Englifhmen, to the exclufion of you the ancient occupants of the foil : thefe fub-tyrants are the Representatives of a handful only of Englishmen, their fellow-tyrants in your counof Ireland you are fully able to deftroy them, for they are weak and timid. You are justly entitled to all the lands now poffeffed by them, for no length of time can ' warrant their retention of them. You have endured fix centuries of calamity, of fruitlefs ftruggles and

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acious oppreffion. Great Britain, employed fully in the present war with France, is unable to protect her colony of murderers and robbers. Now is your time for shaking off the English yoke. You have revenge to gratify, and the recovery of your property will be your reward; the de• ftruction

ftruction of the English invaders will be the certain con'fequence of your attempt to shake off your chains. I lately heard a propofal made in the British Parliament utterly to extirpate you! not to leave a Rohilla (that is, a ‹ Tribe) of you living! The English are Heretics, with whom it would be impious for you by the principles of your holy Religion, to affociate, or fraternize. Your Bishops are men of the greatest piety, humanity, and learning, particularly the Right Reverend Father Huffey, your Bishop of Waterford: you have all read his pious • Pastoral Letter, fully ftating your oppression by a handful of Heretics, not a tenth, nay not an hundredth part of you in number. Unfurl your facred banners, as your brethren the late fuppreffed Irish martyrs did; they ' marched under facred green banners, with a white crofs • and reverfed crown floating in the midft: you ought to have all joined in that holy war, though you did not, 'from an ill-grounded timidity; confequently the Heretics were victorious. Yet I advise you to forget your revenge, to abandon all thoughts of recovering your lands, and to give yourselves up into the hands of the English Heretics by agreeing to an Incorporating Union with. Great Britain !'

How far fuch arguments are likely to fucceed with Irish Romanists in promoting an Union; and how far the Author intended they should fucceed, I leave to the judgment of the reader.

I fhall now proceed, pursuant to my original purpose, to make a few short remarks on fome pamphlets which have been published in England, on the subject of an Incorporating Union, as the substance of Speeches made

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