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ring purfelves, every perfon of fenfe, ^ho hears us ap- 

 plying fuch complimeiitory epithets to ourfelves, muil 

 lee that we are a parcel of idle chatterers, who deferve 

 to be pitied for our ignorance, and defpifed for our 

 vanity. 



I, as an individual, would attempt to enquire into the 

 caufe of this great evil ; but what encouragement has 

 an individual to exert himfelf, when he fees others dif- 

 pofed to difregard what he fays ? — The caufes are alfu- 

 redly not extremely difficult to be ailigned ; nor does the 

 cure exceed the bounds of poflibility — But fo long as 

 every man is difpofed to fit ilill, and inllead of lending 

 his aid to forward the work, fhall be contented with 

 fiiying, ^e ye warmed, and. Be ye cloathed, thuigs mud 

 be fullered to go on from bad to worfe. — Till, tl^re- 

 fore, I Ihall fee fome appearance that the public at 

 large are likely to be interefted in this difcuffion I fhall 

 leave it ; — regretting only that I fhould have lived at a 

 time when heaven and earth was moved, and the whole 

 Hate thrown into the mofl violent convulfions to re- 

 move a faj'xied evil, which had no real exiltcnce -, and 

 which, when removed, as Paddy would fay, was not 

 removed at all ; — while this mcfl furious of all evils 

 dill not attract the fmalleft fhare of the public attention. 

 , I am. Sir, 

 A lover of Philanthropy, an admirer of Political 

 Wifdom, an encouragcr of Manufaftures, a 

 friend to Commerce, and, coufequently, a de- 

 cided opponent of 

 Ifland of Lifmore, emigrations, 



Sept. 12,1791. 



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ClayaHcr cf Peter the Hirmit by Mr Gibbons. 



ITe was born of a gentleman's family, (for we muft 

 now adopt a modern idiom,) and his military fervice 

 war; under the neighbouring counts of Boulogne, the 

 heroes of the firft crufade. But he foon rellnquilhed 

 the fword and the world 5 and if it be true, that his wife, 

 however noble, was aged and ugly, he might withdraw, 



