our fellow fubje&s in Ireland be wife, and ftand to this meafure of an Union one and all-Proteftants and Catholics, it is the great charter of your political salvation—you are bound to it by the love which you owe your country, your religion, and yourselves: you are bound to it by the laws of God and nature, and by ALL your DUTIES as men. The ftaunch and approved friends of Irish liberty, such as Molyneux was, have been friends of this measure. The majority of the moft WISE and VIRTUOUS men of past ages and the present day, and the well-known friends of the poor of Ireland, have been and are the advisers of this Union. Those alfo, who have the greatest interest at ftake in the welfare of Ireland, and those who have the greatest property in land, are decidedly the fupporters of it. The great majority of the peers, and nearly an equality of the commons, except about half a dozen, may well be called the majority of the property and of the parliament of Ireland: and these, together with his GRACIOUS MAJESTY, the FATHER of his PEOPLE, are the friends and advisers of this Union. With fuch authority and support as this, and with all the proofs which we have brought forward upon this question, we caution you that your farmers may not be forced to beg, reb, or leave the country; that your manufacturers may not perish; that your merchants may not become bankrupts ; that your shopkeepers may not break and flarve-we caution you as you love your religion and your country, and as your wives and children are dear to you, to beware of being made tools by such men against an Union, as would for their own purposes dupe and deceive you into ruin. We caution alfo the cabinet of Great Britain, as they value the fate of Ireland, not to be deceived by the clamours and complaints of those men. APPENDIX. APPE N D I X. TABLE A. Eftimate of the loffes fuftained by Europe through the means of the French Republic. [The loffes of men and the expenfes of the war are not included here ; as England alone has spent many million pounds fierling.] 16,666,566,666 666,666,667 25,000,000, 1,000,000 100,000,000 4,000,000 - 42,293,934,347 1,691,757,374 *ROME, Oct. 8, 1798.—A new forced Loan of 600,000 Piastres was levied by the new government: which is about three millions of Livres, or 125,000 1. sterling. Should any one find this calculation over-rated, he will pleafe to confider that all the countries conquered by the French nation were the most rich, populous, industrious, and fruitful parts of the Continent, and that this turbulent Republic has at prefent nearly a third part of Europe under her command. She has fo rounded and fortified herself, that she is ena bled to keep all nations in a state of perpetual agitation. Thus then stands the account of the last memorable year: Whereas now the fingle town of Paisley, fends to Leipfic fair, about nearly eight times that amount; and the trade of Scotland, as before ftated, produced in 1796, above fifty times that amount. Such is Union! But let men examine alfo, whereto is the trade of Ireland; is it not almost solely to Great Bri tain? And whereto is the trade of Scotland, at this moment? To all the universe. Union has presented her with the key of British Commerce, and opened for her the harbours of the globe. So will union of interefts, capital, and fkill, operate in favour of Ireland. An |