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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.

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

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