1 2 Unalienable Interests of bath Countries 



I could not suppress the indignation I felt 

 as an Englishman, at the triumphant air with 

 which some of the daily prints of the city sought 

 to extol an advantage supposed to have been 

 gained over the allies by Buonaparte. I can 

 truly: feel, and dispassionately allow, great lati- 

 tude to the Irish for their past sufferings and 

 present complaints ; but insanity alone can jus- 

 tify the conduct of any one in looking to France 

 for a redress of wrongs. Fatal indeed has proved 

 her alliance to every state which has sought to 

 better its condition through her influence or 

 mediation. 



The interests of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 however misapprehended, have been are 

 and, under honest administrations, must always 

 be the same. Their contiguity renders their 

 union as necessary as a mutual friendship is 

 requisite for their protection and prosperity. 

 Every wound which false policy has inflicted on 

 Ireland has proved a gangrene in the side of 

 Great Britain. On reference to Leland's His- 

 tory of Ireland, the manner in which the minis- 

 ters of Queen Elizabeth thought proper to ex- 

 press themselves, with respect to this devoted 

 country, is not less entitled to the contempt 

 than the execration of minds governed, in the 



