quences will inevitably happen to all his Majesty's loyal Subjects of Ireland if an Union take place.

16th. And fince it appears from hiftory and tradition, that fuch conduct as hereabove mentioned, has been invariably pursued on the part of the English Legiflature, and the English Merchant towards Ireland.

We do hereby declare in the prefence of God and all mankind, that we do verily and truly be lieve, fuch Union will be pregnant with many and very various and complicated Evils and misfortunes to Ireland.

And, we likewise do declare, it to be our real opinion, that if fuch measure should be carried contrary to the wishes and inclinations of his faid Majefty's loyal Subjects of Ireland, the confequences will be, civil war, anarchy and confufion amongst his faid Majefty's loyal Subjects of Ireland, and finally a fchifm betwixt the two Countries:

Before I quit this

fubject, my Countrymen, permit me once more to warn you against the baits which England may hold out to you.--Let no pretences however plaufible-let no arguments

however fpecious, induce you to facrifice your Country and yourselves. You will never accept like the ignorant African, of bawbles in barter for your dearest and most precious interests; let me conjure you then in the facred name of your God and your Country to be unanimous, and unremitting in your oppofition to this detestable project.-The Scottish Parliament bafely fold the liberty and independence of their Country :-the Scots have smarted for it ;-the Scots yet smart for it. Be watchful then, my Countrymen, you are on the very brink of ruin-you and your pofterity are about to be fwallowed up in perpetual oblivion; a steady, determined and refolute conduct can alone fave you. Call your meetings.-Inftruct your Representatives, and deliver your fentiments in manly and firm language:-You will, you must be heard :-the voice of God and Nature calls aloud on you to exert yourselves at this awful Crifis. And, by oppofing fo infamous and monftrous a measure by every' means which God and Nature have put into your hands; you act confonant to the Laws of God, of Nature and of Reason.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following Letter stands in need of indulgence; and is perhaps, in fome degree entitled to it. It was begun on Tuesday last, (the publication which it purports to answer, having appeared only the day before) and has been written fo expeditiously, that the whole of the work (or indeed one-fourth of it) has never been at once under the Writer's eye,-nor had he even time for reading over his own manufcript; but was obliged to confine his corrections to those which he could make in revifing proofs.

The confequence, perhaps, may be many faults of ftyle, and fome repetitions; owing to the Writer's not having been able to ascertain, with fufficient exactness, what he had already treated,-from his fending the sheets to prefs nearly as fast as they were written.

He does not, however, expect that this hurry fhould excufe him for faults, of argument or statement into which he may have fallen. He fhould not have ventured to fubmit his thoughts fo haftily to the Publick, but that he had already reflected fufficiently upon his fubject, to make him hope that expedition could do little more than affect the ftyle; a confideration which he conceived to be so subordinate, as that it might be well to facrifice it to the defire of an early publication.

But it may be asked, Why the Writer has chofen this mode of replying to a Speech, which, as a Member of Parliament, he had the privilege of anfwering in his place?-

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