LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
COLERIDGE ON THE IRISH QUESTION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE '• SPECTATOR.••3
SIR,—Your readers may be interested in the following extract from Coleridge's " Table Talk." It bears date February 5th, 1833, and is headed "Union with Ireland :"— "If any modification of the Union takes place, I trust ft will be a total divorce a lineal° matrimonii. I am sure we have lived a cat- and-dog life of it. Let us have no silly saving of one Crown and two Legislatures; that would be preserving all the mischiefs without any of the goods, if there are any, of the Union. I am deliberately of opinion that England, in all its institutions, has received injury from its union with Ireland. My only difficulty is as to the Pro- testants, to whom we owe protection. But I cannot forget that the Protestants themselves have greatly aided in accelerating the present horrible state of things, by using that as a remedy and a reward which should have been to them an opportunity."
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