ENGLISH UNION,

IS

IRELAND'S RUIN!

OR AN

ADDRESS.

TO THE

IRISH NATIQ N.

"Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes."

BY HIBERNICUS.

DUBLIN:

PRINTED FOR JAMES MOORE, 45, COLLEGEGREEN.

PREFACE.

FOR delivering the following fentiments to the public, the Author deems any apology unneceffary.-At a period like the prefent, when the very existence of Ireland as a Nation, is about to be annihilated; it is criminal in Irishmen to remain' filent or indifferent.-His fole object in the present publication, is to exhort his countrymen to be unanimous, to roufe them to a sense of their common danger, and of that facred duty they owe to God, to their Country, themselves and posterity. As an individual he conceives he has fo far fulfilled his obligations to fociety; he is yet willing to go farther if neceffary. It now remains with Irishmen to determine whether they will, like men, affert their Independence, or bafely proftrate themselves at the feet of the British Minifter, and the British Merchant.

A 2

AN

ADDRESS

IRISH

TO THE

NATION.

THERE cannot be a subject, my fellow-country

men, fo well worthy your attention, and fo highly deferving your moft ferious confideration, as that of a legislative Union betwixt this Country and Great Britain.

We can now no longer doubt the intention of the Ministry in refpect to this measure.-We cannot any longer doubt what their wishes and fentiments are with regard to it, they have given you fomething more than prefumptive evidence of this their defign; the rumours they are daily circulating amongst you, the Pamphlets they are fending amongst you, and the converfation of the Castle, which is but the echo of the Bri