very capable of being preserved. 1 S 



present day, by a sound and liberal policy. 

 " Should we exert ourselves in reducing Ireland 

 to order and civility, it soon must acquire power, 

 consequence, and riches the inhabitants will 

 thus be alienated from England they will cast 

 themselves into the arms of some foreign power, 

 or perhaps erect themselves into a separate and 

 independent state. Let us rather connive at 

 their disorders ; for a weak and disordered 

 people never can detach themselves from the 

 crown of England." 



Happy am I to perceive a more correct esti- 

 mate is now formed of our relative and mutual 

 interests, and thence to indulge in the hope 

 that nothing can operate to defeat a redress of 

 all national vexations but that which is so ca- 

 pable of being corrected a want of temper and 

 prudence on the part of the political leaders. 



Much as I wish success to every measure of 

 liberal concession and toleration, I should be 

 most hostile to the disjunction of the two coun- 

 tries. A combination of minds and interests on 

 the homely principle of" fair dealing" is indis- 

 pensable for the peace, happiness, and pros- 

 perity of both ; and I have no hesitation to pro- 

 nounce, that those who would deny to Ireland 

 a complete redress of her grievances, and a 



