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against the Irish rebels. Upon which Crom- 
well once more assured him, that the condi- 
tions he had made with him should be 
tually observed ; and then ordered him to 
yepair immediately to Bristol, towhich place 
forces should be sent him, with a sufficient 
number of ships to transport them into Ire- 
and. He added, that he himself would 
soon follow him; and was as good as his 
word in every particular.” 
The displacements of Irish proprie- 
tors, in order to make room for officers 
of Cromwell’s army, too glaringly re- 
semble those seizures of royalist and 
ecclesiastical property lately made in 
France, not to be viewed with a similar 
emotion. In poor countries, or poor 
times, when the revenues of a state are 
imsuficient to recompense the efforts 
of armies, such measures have always 
been resorted to. ‘There is, however, 
ene other plan of provision, by which 
successful force may be bribed into tran- 
quil alliance with the laws of property ; 
namely, to grant according to his rank, 
tenth, or twentieth, or hundredth part 
of the rental of a given parish, district, 
or hundred, to the individual officer who 
is to be recompensed. It is more equi- 
table to assess all the proprietors, than 
to plunder some. In civil wars every 
one has a right to choose his side: after 
the battle, the winner must be provided 
for; but the less of vindictive retro- 
spect to the unfortunate opinions, the 
better. Why should a passion for here- 
ditary institutions, which originates in 
x love of order, or a passion for re- 
publican institutions, which originates in 
a love of liberty, be visited as crimes 
upon the principled enthusiast ? Almost 
all counter-revolutions have originated 
in the persevering animosity of banish- , 
ed and plundered starvelings. 
Neither from royalists nor republicans 
had the Ivish protection, or justice. By 
the navigation-act passed under Charles 
Hi. their commercial privileges were re- 
stricted, under the absurd notion, that if 
one part of the empire thrives, that hap- 
pens at the expence of every other. Un- 
der James II. the Irish made great efforts 
to defend their hereditary king against 
the intrusion of the house of Orange. 
‘This again occasioned confiscations with- 
outend. Surely the court of admiralty 
decided on opposite and juster principles 
than parliament ; if the crews of priva- 
teers were not considered as pirates, 
which -acted under letters of marque 
issued by James, while he lingered in 
Treland. 
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HISTORY, POLITICS, AND STATISTICS. 
In the year 1719, a private law-suit in 
Treland, between Sherlock and Annesley, 
ave rise to a controversy whether there 
ay an appeal from the Irish tribunals to. 
the house of lords in Great-Britain. This 
was followed by an act of parliament: 
the sixth of George I. asserting in div 
rect terms the right of the English par- 
liament to make statutes to bind the 
people mage, a of Ireland. Laws, 
however, avail little, unless ratified by 
the approbation of the wise, and sanc- 
tioned by the consent of the people. In 
1768, the Irish rejected a money-bill 
altered in England; and obtained the 
abridgement of their parliamentary sit- 
tings, which formerly lasted the king’s . 
life, to the period of eight years. Short 
parliaments are not desirable ; for in less 
than six years a demagogue can hardly 
attach the public to himself, or to his 
plan of measures. But it is very desir- 
able to obtain freguent infusions of popular 
inclination, that the bent of the nation 
may be observed and attended to: so 
that if one-third of the members were 
dismissed every two years, instead of 
having cotemporary elections of the 
whole, the public business would be con- 
ducted more naturally, and a perpetual 
appeal to the people would be going on 
concerning the management of the pub- 
lic affairs. 
During the war with the North Ame- 
rican colonies, volunteers were embodied 
throughout Ireland. By degrees the 
questions of liberty and independence 
became topics of military curiosity. A 
free trade was obtained in 1778;: and 
in 1782, the Rockingham administration 
removed those offensive regulations, 
which rendered the Irish government 
subordinate to the British. 
From the beginning of the reign of 
George III. the narrative of Mr. Plow- 
den becomes exceedingly detailed, and 
exceedingly interesting. It will, we 
doubt not, be read with lasting, if not 
general approbation. There are few 
countries, which in every period of its 
history, and under all the’ variations of 
its opinions, have so.uniformly met with 
ungenerous treatment as Ireland. Far 
from wondering at its insurrections, one 
wonders at its patience: far from re- 
proving its barbarism, one admires the 
degree of culture which it has known how 
to retain in spite of the trampling hoofs of 
anarchy, and the tearing harrows of 
military despotism. .'The usage of Cor 
sica by Genoa is the most anamgous, 
instance; the same system of feudal 
