circumftances of character of rank and power to fupport him, and he fuggefted Lord Cornwallis, and at the express defire of his Sovereign Lord Cornwallis undertook the task, invefted with the rank of Captain general of the kingdom, and encouraged by the volunteer fupport of £ 30,000 troops, the flower of Great Britain.

As the genial dawn of the fun's infpiring beam, fpreads joy and harmony over the face of the creation, while lightnings and while thunder ferve only to blaft and to defolate, fo the moment of this nobleman's arrival, diffused peace and contentment through the land-The pike fell harmless from the hands of the deluded peafant, happy, too happy in an opportunity of changing it for a protection! -But the pike fo dropped by the peafant, was caught up by the faction to array themselves against the tranquilizing fyftem of a determined Viceroy.

The foul and body grieves not more at parting,
Than greatnefs going off.

And therefore one more effort was to be made by the creft fallen faction-Flushed with the recollection of their fuccefs, in turning-away Lord Fitz-William, Sir Ralph Abercrombie,

crombie, and Lord Camden, they thought, (and indeed they were right) that if they could discharge Lord Cornwallis, no other man could be found hardy enough to undertake the government of the country ; and they would then have it all to themfelves One effort therefore they made, but repulfed as they were,. they did not venture a fecond, and now they centre every hope, upon refifting the Union.

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For the prefent, though their power is fufpended, the fyftem continues, and Lord Cornwallis cannot flay for ever-If he were to depart without extinguishing that fyftem, all the fires of Etna would blaze again, and even the obfcure writer of this puny pamphlet, may not be thought unworthy a portion of the general vengeance-That fyftem is yet in being, the fource of everlast, ing feeds and diffentions, that broke out in Whiteboys in the fouth, in hearts of Oak, and hearts of Steel in the north, that hallooed the Orangemen at the Catholicks, and the Catholicks at the Orangemen ;-that invited the French to Bantry Bay, that organized the country for their reception, that hoifted the Rebel ftandard in Kildare, in Wexford, and

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in Wicklow, and replenished their ranks with foldiers, that brought our enemies three times, this year into our harbours, that made widows and orphans without number-defolated counties-that has shaken all the fecurity, and poiso ned all the fweets of focial intercourfe-that has left us dependant upon Great Britain for refources, revenues, and for troops, and finally, that fyftem, which required the depreffion of a numerous people, to fecure the power of a few individuals.

And now the hour is arrived when Great Britain imagines that the eyes of this country may be open to the neceffity of an Union; certainly' they must be open to that or to the neceffity of reform-That reform which by deftroying the corrupt part of the reprefentation, would give the people their due weight in the conftitution; but in the violence of this age the axe, not the pruning knife is the inftrument of reform-And even in this country there is yet such a mass of democracy afloat, that open any of the barriers and it will rufh in with irrefiftable violence-not that I fear a feparation from Great Gritain, even in that cafe-The marine of Great Britain is the most stupendous

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dous power not only this day in the known world, but that ever was in the world. Her power by land is alfo for her fize prodigious,after fending 30,000 troops to this country, and troops to every other quarter of the globe, fhe has now 220,000 armed troops ready to march at a moment's notice; and fhall Ireland without a fhip, or a guinea to pay a foldier, except what the derives from the bounty of Britain, and which, to be protected from a little mob of its own, is obliged to depend upon the troops of that fame Britain, effect a feparation as long as Britain pleases to refift it, which will be for ever? It is abfurd to argue it, but the effect of any effort would be, that Britain would have to conquer Ireland again, and Ireland would have to pass through another century of defolation. That prospect is horrible-what then is the alternative? Union -But we fhall lofe our parliament,-I have fhewn how that parliament is conftituted and what it was; and I have fhewn that detected and affailed as it is, it cannot exist in its present ftate; but what fhall we lofe, and what fhall we gain? We fhall lofe our own mifery, and we fhall gain the profperity of Britain.-We

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fhall lofe our mifery by lofing our distracti ons. The struggle for local power, the

great fource of our calamity will ceafe with the power itself, take that away, and your religious differences will follow ;-It was the civil pre-eminence attributed to one religion, not any difference of spiritual theory that poisoned, both against each other, the certainty of who was uppermoft in this world, not the probability of who would be uppermoft in the nex;-Prejudice acquired an elaftick power here, from the narrowness of the fphere in which it was compreffed; but it will lofe its fpring and its energy in the relative greatnefs of the imperial circle.

As to any commercial profperity to be derived from the Union, except what neceffarily muft flow from tranquillity, I do not mean to confider the queftion in that view-a pamphlet has been publifhed, faid to be by Mr. Cook, which takes a most comprehensive and mafterly view of the fubject-With fomewhat more of firmness than of prudence, he anticipated a battle with the most enlightened fociety of men in this country, and accordingly there have been four and twenty fpeeches from

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