Thomas Kenelly.

Joseph Lamb. John Lyons.

Henry Lynch. Patrick M‘Dermot.

Patrick Lynch, John M'Glen.

Thomas M Glead. Michael Manix.

Denis M'Carthy, Mathew Newport.

James Joseph M'Donnell. Michael Walsh.

Patrick M'Donough,
Watertown.

Bryan M'Kenna.
Martin Furlong.

James M‘Mullery. Bernard Magee.

James Macneven, M. D. Samuel Murray.

William James Macneven, New York.

Timothy Madden. Joseph & K. Benson.

James Magher. Josiah Blake.

Rev. Mr. Malone. George Bowen.

John Martin. Michael Bowser.

James Mathews. Edward Brennan.

Charles Mooney. Edward Brinan.

Miles Moran. John Byrne.

Patrick Moran. Patrick Byrne.

Peter Kearns Moran, P. Byrne.

Andrew Morris. D. M. Byrne.

M. Muldan. Mathew Carrol.

John Murray, Patrick Cassidy.

William Nagle. De Witt Clinton.

Samuel Neilson. Simon Clanon.

Hugh O'Hare. Barnabas Coffee.

George Pardow. Right Rev. Dr. Connolly, bishop of Rev. John Power. New York.

William Phelan. James Connolly.

Lawrence Power. Michael Conroy.

James Rooney. Edward Cook.

John Russel. Francis Cooper.

John Toomey. Joseph Coppinger.

M. Scanlon. James Costigan.

Michael Sullivan. Michael Cowley.

Robert Swanton. Edward Dalton.

John David Walsh. Peter Darg.

Daniel Ward. Peter Davy.

Mathew Ward. John David, jun.

Campbell White. John Dowling.

Louis Willcocks. James Deroy.

M. W. Wright. John Dillon.

T. W. Wright. Denis Doran.

John W. Wright. Luke Doyle.

John J. Wymbs. Dennis H. Doyle.

Washington. Denis Doyle.

C. H. Wharton. Ross Duffy.

J. Sweeney. Thomas Egan.

Lansingburg. Thomas Addis Emmet.

Alexander Walsh. Thomas Addis Emmet, jun.

Baltimore. R. Emmet.

Luke Tiernan, four copies. John Flack.

Petersburg. Doctor J. W. Frances.

Francis Lynch. Thadey Gaffney.

Patrick Holey. William Gamble.

Patrick Ryan. Rev. Mr. Gorman.

Richmond. William Geary.

John Macdonough.
Thomas Ginley, Brooklyn.

Samuel Parker.
Thomas Gough.
Cornelius Heeney.

Colonel O'Maddin, Chili. Mathew Hunt.

Eugene Cassidy, Patterson. Owen Ivers.

John Nowlan, do. Thomas Joy.

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TO most readers it will probably appear a work of supererogation, in a country and an age so remote from the scene and the era of the events which are discussed in this Vindication, to investigate the subjects it embraces. The reasons, however, are powerful, and fully justify the undertaking,

The history of Ireland is almost one solid mass of falsehood and imposture, erected, particularly during the seventeenth century, on the basis of fraud and perjury ;-—fraud and perjury so obvious, so stupid, and so flagitious, that, to the most superficial observer, it must be a subject of inexpressible astonishment how it ever gained currency:

Nevertheless, from such foul and polluted sources alone, the knowledge of that history is derived by nine-tenths of those who have condescended to study it: and, however extravagant it may appear, it is nevertheless a serious truth, that a large portion even of those who pride themselves on their literary acquirements, are almost as ignorant of the affairs of Ireland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century, as of those of Arabia or Japan. They are, in fact, in a worse state. With respect to the details of the history of the latter nations, they are barely ignorant: but, with respect to Ireland, almost all they know is wholly untrue. They give full faith and confidence to some of the most extravagant and spurious stories that ever were ushered on the world, to delude and deceive mankind, under the prostituted name of histories.

The terrific tales that are recorded of the events of the civil war of 1641, have sowed, and still continue to sow, a copious seed of the most vulgar and rancorous prejudices in the mind of man against his fellow man, which have sprouted forth with most pernicious luxuriance, and soured in the breasts of

many the sweet milk of human kirdress towards those with whom they are in daily, habits of asscciation. These prejudices are too generally prevalent in the British domi

In Ireland, they have produced the most baleful consequences, and still afford some sort of countenance to the continuance of the remnant of the laws “to prevent the growth of popery”—an odious code, by which rapice, cruelty, and demoralization have been legally systematížed, and every principle of honour, honesty, good faith, justice, and sound. policy, violated.

Many of these prejudices have been transplanted from their

nions.

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