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WITH the beginning of the new year it may be neceffary for me, and I conceive it my duty to offer my thanks to the Public for the fupport which the Irish Magazine has receiv. ed fince its eftablishment to the prefent day. From the pureft of all principles, a wish to do good to my native country, unsupported by the purfe and unflattered by the fmiles of power, I began a publication, in which, I will be bold to fay, the canfe of the poor Irish has been, if not mere ably, at least more honeftly adyocated than in any print which has for many years iffued from the Irish JAN. 1809.

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Prefs. Bold in 1 good caufe, in the affertion of the fairet and firft principles of the British Constitution, I have never fhrunk from my duty either from the hope of reward or the fear of punishment: Punishment I could not fear, for; have never with ed to go beyond that boundary where tre fon, or the deftrution of focial order begins. Well knowing

that the very life-blood of public fpirit is nourished by an acquaintance with the hiftory of our fufferings, 1 have endeavoured to lay before the people (as for the ignorant and vule gar great, I care nothing, they are