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PITT, attempted to subdue the popular temper for reformation by foreign war and an iron handed domestic government, unbending, fierce and severe.

CONSPIRACIES and general detestation were the fruits of this system, and of a war, which had no definite object, or which if avowed, was wrapped up in such caballistical and mys terious terms, as to be incomprehensible to the sober enquirer.

THE people of Ireland had been dragged: without any nous and unmeaning contest, judgment. Taxat their will, and against their with a rapidity ill adapted grown on them, verished by absentees, by the people impo.. manufactures, which, unrestraine of English proper limits, overwhelmed their indusby any nected with that dismal train of consequ.conwhich follow an unpopular and unsuccesces

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THE English malecontents under Mr. Pitt administration were numerous. Possessins wealth, talents, and erudition, they divided the energies of England, and with great force of reason, they displayed to the public reflection," the inglorious and almost mock representation of the people in Parliament. Mr. Pitt had originally made the reform in Parliament, the instrument of his own advancement. Having reached the point of elevation sought after, h

flung the ladder, of his greatness from him. Mr. Hardy, Horn Tooke, and others, were prosecuted as traitors, and put in jeopardy of life, for acts but little transgressing the limits of zeal in the very field of reformation in which Mr. Pitt had indulged with the most ample

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SUCH being the state of the public mind in England, Irish discontent had auxiliary causes of inflammation, arising from a sense of painful subjection and a clear perception of the insidious policy to retain them in their degraded state by internal division and religious dissensions. This machievalian system, may preserve an unlimited dominion to the British amongst the slaves in the east, but Irishmen had discernment to see and sensibility to writhe under the baneful yoke.

THE Parliament of Ireland, in its then corrupt state, may be considered as having formed a body of civil janizaries, to support the British domination in Ireland, uniformly purchased by the English ministry by wealth drawn from the purses of those whom they were the instrument to oppress, and it was never permitted, except on one great occasion, to act for a moment against the real or imaginary interest of Britain.

WE have thus before us the actual state of the two countries at the time of the insurrection. It will be seen in the course of the revolt how many chances existed to overthrow the English government.

Ir the Irish directory, guided more by real sonable policy, than distrust, had made French aid without restriction of force indispensable, and this to the extent of 10,000 men had been attained, the British empire over Ireland had then terminated.

2d. Ir the insurrection had been general as it originally had been planned, the English force divided, might have been easily overthrown, Dublin taken possession of, and the moment the public revenue could have been seized by any species of organized government, success would have been compleat.

3d., IF in the moment of consternation, the Wexford force flushed by victory, instead of idle encampments on Vinegar-Hill and elsewhere, had concentered its force and marched to Dublin, which being only about 60 miles distant, could have been rapidly accomplished by the robust, hardy and daring men, who were then embodied, the capital would most probably have fallen, and the revolution effected.

AFTER the waste of blood, and the entire overthrow of the Insurgents in June 1798, no rational hope could have been indulged of success by the fresh insurrection in September, on the arrival of the French. The force sent was inadequate to rouse a people to a fresh effort, whose wounds were yet bleeding, who yet had not time to breathe after their fatal struggle. Their exertion under these cala

mitous circumstances, is much beyond what could have been conjectured.

ALTHOUGH the French finally surrendered in some measure to the van-guard of the English army, we cannot therefore, with any reason conclude, that such a force would have conquered. It is more just to General Humbert, to consider his last engagement with the English force, as a necessary sacrifice to a point of honor. General Lake himself says, "it was not until the heads of the remaining columns were discovered by the French, that they threw down their arms." The superiority of the French infantry was conspicuous at the battle of Castlebar, when about 900 French defeated between 5 and 6000 English troops.

IF Granard had fallen at that period, if we can credit the statement of Jones, the counties of Monaghan and Cavan, were organized and ready for action. Their numbers, from the same author, were immense, armed, and about to form a junction with the Longford and Cavan Insurgents. The force from the county of Monaghan alone, equipped and prepared for action, he estimates at 23,000 men.

SUCH a combination, even against the great military talents of a Cornwallis, might probably have been successful.

THE disastrous fate of all these enterprizes, has been such however, as to justify the opinion that for the sake of humanity, a regular government ought possibly to be endured until the oppression being extreme, and trampling

down all right, and nearly reaching the liminer or border of human patience, it becomes brave, men rather to turn their despair on their op- → pressors and try greatly to die, or manfully to avenge such accumulated wrongs.

IRELAND, since the Union, furnishes us with a new view of her situation, more to be deplored than any of those scenes of bitter ser vitude through which she has passed.

WHILST she had a parliament, corrupt as it was, it necessarily retained the expenditure of an immense revenue within the kingdom. Parliament, attentive to its own interests, which would be connected in some degree with the common good, was well adapted to promote a variety of local improvements, which English policy might not deign to interdict. Irish trade had rapidly increased after the extension of the commercial rights obtained by the Donnegall Convention. Dublin › began to be adorned with magnificence. Inspired by the national taste and spirit, its improvement kept pace with its growing opulence, and its grandeur began to attract from the splendor of its public and private edifices, the attention of Europe. The darkening cloud of national misfortune however, soon engloomed the ca pital.

THE Irish Parliament House had been the great theatre where Irish talents figured-where genius was disclosed-where an Irishman beheld some resemblance though deceptious, of the independence of his country. Its doors