tion to the King and Constitution under which we live. I shall here endeavour to reduce to certain heads the questions proposed in your Letter, and will offer such remarks on each of them as will, I trust, put you in possession of my sentiments, as well as of the grounds upon which I have formed or adopted them. CONTENTS. THE Character of the Irish Government, and the effect of its measures upon the country; in- cluding remarks on the Peace-preservation Act, or Constabulary Bill, the Burial Service The Increase of Population; its causes and effects; prevailing errors on this subject, VII. The Bible Societies: their opposition to the inte- rests of Religion and Peace in Ireland, VIII. On Catholic Emancipation; on the Papal Power, and the nature of Allegiance; and on the On a legal Provision for the Poor, its practicabi- lity and advantages to all classes in Ireland, LETTER I. ON THE IRISH GOVERNMENT, ITS CHARACTER AND MEASURES, THE CONSTABULARY ACT, THE BURIAL-SERVICE ACT, AND TITHE COMPOSITION ACT. MY DEAR SIR, TACITUS says, that after the battle of Actium and the establishment in Rome of a despotic power, one of the effects which followed was, that truth became generally disregarded; some departed from it through ignorance of what really happened, others became indifferent to it through a blind passion of approving whatever was done by the government, whilst a hatred of those in power so filled the breasts of another class, as to render them inca B |