Genuine Edition, corrected by the Authoz.

A

FAIR REPRESENTATION

OF THE

PRESENT POLITICAL STATE

OF

IRELAND:

IN A COURSE OF STRICTURES ON TWO

PAMPHLETS,

ONE ENTITLED

THE CASE OF IRELAND 'RE-CONSIDERED ;'

THE OTHER ENTITLED

. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN THE YEAR 1799,-IRELAND;'

WITH

Obfervations on other modern Publications on the Subject of

AN INCORPORATING UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND

IRELAND,

Particularly on a Pamphlet entitled

THE SPEECH OF LORD MINTO IN THE HOUSE
OF PEERS, APRIL 11, 1799.'

BY PATRICK DUIGENAN, L. L. D.

ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CITY OF ARMAGH IN PARLIAMENT.

CONTENT S.

STRICTURES on a Pamphlet entitled The Cafe of
Ireland Re-considered'

Obfervations on a Pamphlet entitled Arguments for
and against an Union confidered

Continuation of the Strictures on the Cafe of Ireland
Re-confidered'

9

94

103

Strictures on a Pamphlet entitled Confiderations on the
State of Public Affairs in the Year 1799.-Ireland' 138
Obfervations on a Pamphlet entitled The Speech of
Lord Minto in the Houfe of Lords, April 11, 1799' 174
Obfervations on a Pamphlet entitled Subftance of the
Speech of Lord Sheffield, April 22, 1799'
Obfervations on a Pamphlet entitled The Speech of the
Right Honourable William Pitt'

207

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APPENDIX.

Calculation of the Number of Inhabitants in Ireland 235 Relative Numbers of Proteftants and Romanifts in Ireland

240

Comparative Property of Irish Proteftants and Romanists 242

A FAIR

AN

N Incorporating Union of Great Britain and Ireland is a measure, the magnitude and importance of which have not only engaged the moft ferious confideration of the fubjects of the British Empire, but have attracted the attention of many of the other ftates of Europe, as well friends as enemies.

Although I have been for many years the avowed friend of the meafure, and in the year 1793 declared in the Irish Houfe of Commons my fettled opinion on the fubject, and was then the only man who did fo, ftating at the fame time fome of the reafons on which my opinion was founded; and although I have, by the occurrences of every day fince, been more and more confirmed in my fentiments upon it, and convinced not only of the expediency, but of the neceffity of the measure; yet I do not mean to trouble my readers with any arguments on the fubject:

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