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HISTORICAL LETTER
то
THE REV. CHARLES O'CONOR, D. D.
HERETOFORE STYLING HIMSELF
COLUMBANUS:
UPON HIS
FIVE ADDRESSES OR LETTERS
HIS COUNTRYMEN:
FROM
FRANCIS PLOWDEN, ESQ.
Hunc tu Romane Caveto.-HOR.
Irishmen beware.-2 Col. p. 5. Englishmen beware.-5 Col. p. 123.
Not yet Published,
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
München
OF
CONTENTS.
REFACE.-Cause of the Publication, I.-Doctor O'Co
por's Charges against the Author, II to VII.--The Author
lays claim to honor and honesty, VIII.-His views and motives
in printing this Letter, VIII.-Duties of the Historian and Li
berty of the Press, X.-
Effects of a Free Press, 1.-The field of history common to all,'
3.-Historians cannot always go into full evidence, 3.-Every
Author opens à correspondence with all mankind, 5.-Pompous
and irrelevant arrogation of truth by Columbanus, Note from
5 to 8.-Circumstances, under which the Author undertook
the Historical Review, 9-First Letter from Doctor M'Der-
mott to the Author, and who he is, Note 10 to 12.-Doctor
M'Dermott's opinion of the Historical Review, 13.-The Au-
thor's Postliminous Preface, and Grattan's opinion of the His.
torical Review, Note, 14, 15.-Doctor O'Conor's suppressed
Volume of Irish History, and at whose instigation, 15, 16.-
Lord Buckingham's back stairs manoeuvre at Saint James's, 16.
Grattan's Portrait of the Marquis of Buckingham, 17.-Letter
from Doctor M'Dermott giving an account of his Grandfather's
Works, 28, 29.-Author's First Letter to Columbanus, 21.-
Doctor Chas. O'Conor's First Letter to the Author, 21 to 25:
The Author not discouraged by menace or refusal, 25.—The
Author's Second Letter to Doctor O'Conor, 26 to 28.-Doc-
tor O'Conor's reply and last Letter to the Author, 28 to 32.
-Doctor M'Dermott's Letter to the Author upon his Corres.
pondence with Doctor O'Conor, 33 to 35-Two further inter