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recently expressed by ministers, in 
the peaceable disposition, and at- 
tachment to the government, of the 
bulk of the people in Iveland; was 
either not believed by themselves, 
or that they acted under the in- 
fluence of the grossest deception, 
To all thinking minds, this aban- 
donment, both in letter and spirit, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803, 
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of the law, by which this consti 
tutional force had hitherto been 
raised, and the substitution of an 
army of mercenaries, (from the 
impossibility of enforcing the origi- 
nal actin Ireland) was a source of 
the most serious and well founded 
alarm. 
CHAP, 
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