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ifting or that can by poffibility exist, together with the full value all the real and perfonal property of Great-Britain ?"

I know this objection to an Union has had great weight with thofe perfons who have not depth to fathom things to the bottom. But this is merely the reafoning of comparison-s people having in their eye the fituation of an individual, fancy the country is loft! because its debts are far beyond its property-but the cafe! is altogether inappofite; for the individual fuf-» fers only because he can be imprisoned, or his credit ruined by the operation of the ftatute of Bankruptcy-here the comparifon is abfurd, for what power could imprifon a Nation, or what Lord Chancellor would dare to make it a Bankrupt?

But the general cry is "Dublin with all the neighbouring Counties will be inevitably ruined if an Union is fuffered."-It is not at prefent convenient to argue against fuch old-fashioned fears; but admitting the truth of this popular prediction, does it follow that the country will be injured becaufe its capital will be defolated? the fartheft from it poffible. I fhall here beg leave to afk thofe doleful prophets what they mean by ruin? they will probably answer,

"The deftruction of Trade and Houses and other improvements." But I fay this is not in any degree ruin-but ruin is the deterioration of the morals of a People, and if the deftruction of any great City will tend to reform the minds of thofe whom its crafts and luxuries have debauched, fuch deftruction must prove a national

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national gain. 'Tis true the living generation will feverely fuffer indeed! but what is the living generation to the millions of pofterity! our reafon is always duped by affections within grafp, but wifdom dives into the depths of futurity, and I will pledge my cr dit on this, that more national wisdom will be derived from looking at the grass with which your Streets will be covered, in the event of an Union, and the Ivy that will then unite the fragments of your now boafted Parliament Houfe than ever has been heard in your public walks; or been uttered in that fenate house, the magnificence and elegance of which is defervedly the pride of your Nation.

Another cry is raised, "that "that your two great Canals will be rendered ufelefs, and the funds, properly enough, faid to be funk in these national undertakings, will be loft to the proprietors when the market of Dublin is vanished in confequence of an Union; but shall the palpable good of Ireland be retarded by confidering the proprietors of Canal Stock? These men fhould have well weighed the matter before they had, as it were, thrown their money into the River. But fuch kind of projectors are a fpecies of gamefters who run their idea of extraordinary gain against all chances, and are therefore unworthy of national concern. 'Tis true they will lofe by the dereliction of their toll emoluments, but then, is it not poffible that another kind of gain may fucceed that of Navigation? Might not thefe immenfe ponds of unruffled waters be converted into repofitories of Fih? a most profitable trade! while navigation continues, this end cannot be effected on account of C

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the furf made by the paffing veffels. But if the waters, in confequence of an Union, become ftagnant as they will be, their produce of eels muft prove invaluable; as this fifh is one of the very best correctives of vicious humours in the human habits, and as thefe canals run through diftricts of your Country where it is faid there is yet MUCH BAD BLOOD, the new purpose to which they may be applied, will more than ballance even in the pockets of their proprietors, what they shall lofe by their entire lofs of tolls.

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cine by the above remark, I feel it my duty to addrefs a line or two to the gentlemen practifing phyfic in the capital of your Nation. This defcription of Men, I understand, toil under great uneafinefs left the Union by the annihilation of the luxury of your great City, may ftrike a more terrible blow than even death itfelf at the profeffion of the healing art. But let not the good Doctors defpair, but rather let them animate their hearts by the greater gains that will fucceed the abolition of luxury: for who is a Phyfician and does not know that poverty is a more fatal enemy to the human frame than excefs? I acknowledge the Union may abridge their lift of gouty patients to infignificance indeed! but how will the fcroll be lengthened by the difeafes of inanition!!! Then let the profits of the profeffion fink! How can the doctor complain when he has no lofs of practice? I feel it neceffary by this comfortable argument to quiet the minds of this ufeful order of men; for I have long obferved that the gentlemen of the faculty, from their fuperior learning

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learning and reflection, have no fmall influence over the public mind.

As I feel happy at being able in this manner to rectify any erroneous opinion that those refpectable gentlemen may unguardedly fall into, from an hafty confideration of an Union, I congratulate alfo the well withers of this measure on the difperfion and final oblivion of a hugely numerous difcontented and idle clafs of people, who croud all your public places, and are called Politicians. Thofe anxious loungers, affecting, forfooth, an uneafinefs for the public intereft, infect many otherwife fenfible and worthy people with their own reftlefs madness, but the day is coming, and with it the Union, that will muzzle thefe Coffee-Houfe bablers for the Union will caft the irrevocable dice, and then ends all difcuffion on political chances,

But the greatest of all advantages that will poffibly attend an Union, must be the complete extinguifhment of Popery in your Country.-Here is a benefit that can ballance, and more than ballance every poffible inconvenience that may arife from this meafure. I know there are many perfons, even Proteftants, who pretend to believe that thofe dangerous People are a goodnatured, and for the most part a charitable clafs of Men, who only with to be free to make the Country at large happy! These perfons affect to laugh at the childish apprehenfions of the established Church, at a moment when the religion of Rome is almoft flatly re nounced by 47 millions of its former devotees, and the Pope's temporal power fo miferably contracted

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contracted that the poor old man has fcarcely wherewithal to lay his head. But what reafoning is this? Does not every one know that the dominion of Religion is never fo formidable as when it is most perfecuted, and that danger is never fo much to be apprehended as when it can be least seen? The Pope therefore is now more terribly dreadful to the Proteftants of Ireland than when 7 eights of all Europe were at his devotion; and who knows but at this moment, when infidelity has not only robbed him of his Tiara, but prophaned the very Vatican, that this forlorn fallen perfon is on his way to take proud poffeffion of the Island of Saints. Now, therefore is the time to unite against Popery. But even this great majority of your People, whom Afcendency, contrary to all the charities of Religion, and the unalienable rights of mankind has fhut out of all political communion, are not deftitute of comfort, for that Afcendency which has fo long and fo grievously oppreffed them, and with them, the Nation, will, by fupporting an Union, all at once take vengeance on themselves for the wounds they have inflicted on Liberty; and thofe people their countrymen, who have fo long been defpifed by them, will feel no common gratification (for a gratification, though a difmal one it will be) at seeing every Irishman without exception, treated with equal contempt by their military mafters of a foreign, but an United Nation. To add ftill more to this comfort the Roman Catholics of Ireland, are informed by the highest authority, that that grievance fo palpable to every one, and fo diftrefling to those poor people who endure it, the supporting the Clergy of their own and the established church

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