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both are entitled to their most serious atten- 

 tion. 



The transitory view I was enabled to take 

 can only be regarded as furnishing a hasty 

 sketch of either, and is liable to the correction 

 of the better informed : yet., I trust, it may 

 be sufficient to produce on the minds of others 

 the important conviction established in my 

 own, that nothing can so effectually promote 

 the moral and political improvement of Ireland, 

 and so essentially serve the first and best in- 

 terests of both contries, as a cordial co-operation 

 and union of sentiment. 



In venturing to offer my cursory observations 

 to public view, I have been actuated by no 

 motive save that of an earnest desire to awaken 

 the consideration of England to the beneficial 

 effects, which, on an improved state of its 

 internal policy, would result to both countries, 

 and on a conviction that a principal part of the 

 existing prejudices against Ireland have their 



