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"Good Heaven! for what peculiar crime?,
Beyond the guilt of former times,
Is Ireland ever doom'd by fate

To groan beneath Oppression's weight;
To nourish with her best increase-

The fell destroyers of her peace?
Domestic traitors to her cause,

Who sell her rights and spurn her laws:

An alien vermin who devour

Her ripened fruit and opening flower."-Baratariana.

"If your vessel is frequently in danger of foundering in the midst of a calm, if by the smallest addition of sail she is near oversetting, let the gale be ever so steady, you would neither reproach the crew nor accuse the pilot or the master; you would look to the construction of the vessel and see how she had been originally framed and whether any new works had been added to her that retard or endanger her course."-Commercial Restraints.

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THE Publishers desire to express their best thanks to the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College for their kindness in lending the Library copy of the "Commercial Restraints," and the portrait of Provost Hely Hutchinson, by Sir Joshua Reynolds; also for the extracts from the College Register, and for free access to the Matriculation and Judgment Books.

The Publishers have, likewise, to acknowledge their obligation to Sir Samuel Ferguson for the courteous favour of the fac-simile of Provost Hutchinson's autograph which underlines the frontispiece.

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(E) Lists of the Secretaries of State, Chancellors of the Exche-

quer, Speakers of the Irish House of Commons, and Chief