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the history of English affairs are equally 
unimportant. 
In proportion as the narrative ap- 
roaches our own times, it becomes 
iable to the suspicion of a partiality 
not resulting merely from a cast of opi- 
nion, which it is always the right of am 
historian to acknowledge. In the cam- 
paign of 1794, which the Duke of York 
waged, theve are symptoms of this 
kind. 
At the beginning of the sixth and last 
volume it 13 said, that the Jacobins 
triumphed over the Girondists We 
have always understood that the Gi- 
rondists trrumphed by the means of 
the Jacobins; and that the Cordeliers 
triumphed over the Facobins, and brought 
the Grrondists to the block. The Cor- 
deliers were the regicide portion of the 
Jacobins. 
In detailing the progress of rebellion 
im Ireland, it is said that the professed 
objects were reform in Parliament and 
Catholic emancipation ; but that the real 
objects (p. 203} was separation, and 
independence. 
* To promote the changes which they 
flesired, certain persons formed a society to 
which they gave the name of United Irish- 
men. This institution, projected and orga- 
nized) by Wolfe Tone, proposed to connect 
- the whole Irish nation together, with the 
professed purpose of a general melioration of 
their condition, by a reform of parliament, 
and an equalization of catholic with protes- 
tant Se ieeen without any exceptions civil 
or political. The plan of anion was formed 
on unity of object, connection of instruments, 
and a co-eperation of means, that combined 
secrecy of proceeding with efficacy of counsel 
and conduct. No meeting was to consist of 
more than twelve persons; five of these 
meetings were sepresented by tive members in 
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a committee, vested with the m 
of all their affairs : from each of these com- 
mittees, which were styled ** baronial,” a 
deputy attended in a superior committee, that 
presided over ail those of the basony or dis- 
trict. One or two deputies from each of 
these superior committees, composed one of 
the whole county, and twe os three from 
every county committee composed a previn= 
cial committee. The provincial commitices 
chose in their tuzm five persons to superin- 
tend the whole business of the union: they 
were elected by ballot, and only known to 
the secretaries of the provincial committees, 
who are officially the scrutineers. Thus, 
though their power was gueat, their agency 
was invisible, and they were obeyed without 
being seen or knowa- Whether the designs 
of these associates were originally to effect a 
complete separation of Iseland from Britain 
has not been ascertained asa fact; but there 
is no doubt that, in the progress of their con- 
cert, they had formed such a project ; and 
that parliamentary change, and catholic 
emancipation, were only pretexts with the 
heads and principal agents of this confedera- 
cy, in order te unite the greater numbers in 
the execution of their designs.” 
Surely these objects grew out of the 
difficulty, and but for the obstinate hos- 
tility of Great Britain to just ends, would 
never have been entertained. The re- 
call of Earl Fitzwilliam is hurried over : 
we should have been glad to know on 
what grounds the Burkites, who profess 
hostility to an interior or double cabmet, 
and who willingly talk of ministerial 
responsibility, can justify their continu- 
ing in office after that recall. By Mr. 
Burke’s letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe, 
they were pledged to promote a redress 
of the Cathohe grievance: but their 
anxiety about it only revived, when they 
had ceased te be employed in withhold- 
me it. 
Agr VIL Fiistory of the Insurrection of the County of Wexford in 1798, including an 
Account of Trunsactions preceding that Event : with an Appentix. By Enwarv Hay, 
Esq. MRT A. 
iT may be dowbted whether religious 
toleration will ever be practically rea- 
hived in a community, of which the 
majority is agreed in religious opinion. 
All ecclesiastical history is a record of 
some one sect tyrannizing over some 
other sect: but if a community were 
subdivided into so many different sects, 
that the coalition of the rest would 
always be more powerful than any one, 
even the most popular ; then, and only 
then, toleration would be always the 
common interest of them all... Perhaps, 
therefore, men of authority, who de- 
sire to patronize a pure and uninterrupted 
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religious liberty, and to perpetuate the 
pohtical equality of religious sects, ought 
always to secede from the religion of 
the majority; and thus reduce within 
the expedient degree of weakness, the 
dangerous ascendancy of the most po- 
pular sect. Some grounds of objection 
or variation will always present them- 
selves to an inquisittve mind; and these 
should be exalted into importance against 
the domincering persuasion. 
The catholics of Ireland form, in our 
apprehension, too numerous a party for 
the interests of tolerance ; if the nation 
was to become autonomous, and to ap- 
