: • STATE OF IRELAND.
Joists- Betts—Is there a Government in Ireland. or is there not? is there a Coustitution in the British Empire, or is there not? If the Administration are contented. to fancy themselves in power, while a sham Parliament levies taxes, a sham Chapter dispenses orders and decorations,, and a Papist ousts a Protestant front his Seat in the real Parliament; and declares his intention of taking his plece.and part in tie deliberations of that Parliament, from which she Constitution excludes him—why then. indeed. are men pleased With shadotvs., if we are unable to coteraul the Irish, give up the country at (Mee; Ind; if we mean to maintain our sovemiguty there, every moment we
delay in asserting our prerogative, we incur a new responsibility, and add to the dreadful consequences which, in a short time, must be the result of ate attempt to return to subordination.
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