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lifhed many replies: Mr. Rupp’s is de- 
fultory, and at prefent incomplete; Mr. 
JEBB’s is particularly worth attention ; 
his arguments are ftrong, and _ he reafons 
with great temperance. The good effcéts 
of the Scotch union are triumphantly 
rung in the ears of the Irifh. Mr. Jebb 
affirms that his country is, af frefent, ina 
more flourifhing commercial ftate without 
the union, than the Scotch are with it, 
who, by the bye, reaped no advantage 
from that meafure till after the rebellion 
of 1745. But after all, ‘“ What,” afks 
Mr. Jebb, “has the Scotch union done ? 
‘s Are not the fixteen peers generally con- 
** fidered to be nominated by the minifter? 
‘* And are the forty-five commoners ever 
“¢ found in a minority >” 
Sir Joun Jervis, in his Letter to the 
Gentlemen of England and Ireland, on the 
Expediency of a Federal Union between the 
two Kingdoms, warmly oppofes the mea- 
fure, but does not urge any arguments 
which are new or uncommon againft it. 
The author of a pamphler, entitled, 
Neceffity of an incorporate Union between 
Great Britain and Ireland, proved from the 
Situation of boih Kingdoms, is a very able 
advocate for the caufe which he has 
e{poufed : he has taken a very comprehen- 
five view of the fubjeét, and his argu- 
ments merit attention, 
We cannot fay fo much of thofe which 
the fame author has adduced in favour of 
the Competency of the Parliaments of Great 
Britain and Ireland to incorporate their Le- 
giflaturs. It appears to us that nothing 
fhort of a national affembly, delegated by 
the people for the exprefs purpofe of con- 
folidating the two legiflatures, can have a 
right to adopt fo important a meafure. We 
have the authority of Mr. Locke on our 
fide ; and we muft be of opinion that the 
author of this pamphlet, when he invefts 
the legiflature with the attribute of abfo- 
lute and uncontrolled fupremacy, utters a 
libel againft the majefty of the people. 
The Right Honourable CoaR és Vif- 
count FALKLAND has publifhed fome 
Confiderations on tae Competence of the 
Parliament of Ireland to accede to an Union 
with Great Britain, in which the fame fide 
of the queftion is taken, though not in fo 
peremptory and imperious a manner. 
_A nobleman has publifhed Three Letters 
toa Noble Lord on the prycéted Legiflative 
Union, Sc. wherein he fhows himfelf to 
be very ill qualified for the difcuffion: it 
is curious enough that he fays the prefent 
Jegiflature can never have the national 
confidence ; arguing, doubtlefs, on the fu- 
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which they will derive from enlifting un- 
der the banners of our Englifh premier : 
this noble writer has the ignorance (it 
can be nothing elfe) to charge the humbled. 
catholics of the prefent day witha fpirit 
of intolerance and perfecution ! 
A member of Lincoln’s Inn has pub- 
lithed fome Legal Arguments occasioned by 
the Projedt of an Union, &c. on the Exclu. 
ion of the Roman Catholic Nobility and Gen- 
try in both Kingdoms from Parliament. 
This is a very able performance. The 
author recommends the repeal of thofe 
laws by which Roman Catholics are ex. 
cluded from feats in the legiflature of 
Great Britain and Ireland ; and the acts 
of parliament are ingenioufly difcuffed 
which bear any relation to the fubjeét. 
Ceafe your Funning is a lively fquib, 
wherein the author attacks Mr. Cookr’s 
Arguments for and againft a Union, confi 
dered, 1n a ftrain of fevere irony. 
To Mr. BINGLEY’s Evamination into 
the Difcontents im Ireland, &c. the author 
has added a plan for the tranquillifation of 
that kingdom. Mr. Bingley, who, from 
a refidence of fourteen years in the coun- 
try, had certainly very good opportunity 
of forming a judgment of its political fi- 
tuation, is decidedly of opinion that the 
Roman Catholics, particularly the pea- 
fantry, never can nor will bear patiently 
the tithes with which they are now borne 
down. He thinks that the remoyal of 
this galling and oppreffive burden would 
{peedily produce tranquillity and fatisfac- 
tion. Mr. B’s pamplet contains much in- 
formation, and evinces him to be a man of 
judgment and obfervation. 
Dr. DurGENaAN’s Anfwer to the Ad- 
drefs of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan, &c. 
is, perhaps, as coarfe and {currilous a publi- 
cation as can difgrace the prefs: Mr. 
GRATTAN is grolsly infulted: he is ac- 
cufed of inviting to rebellion, and motives 
of aétion are imputed to him, which if 
the doétor could prove ina court of juf- 
tice to have exifted in his mind, might be 
attended with very fatal confequences to 
the culprit. If Mr, Grattan fhould con- 
defcend to take any notice of this pam- 
phlet, he would probably think it right to 
ufe the argumentum baculinum in reply. 
Dr. M‘NeyIn is the reputed author of 
a pamphlet, entitled, 4 Demonfiration of 
the Neceffity of a Legiflative Union of Great 
Britain and Ireland, &c. The objeét of 
this pamphlet is to excite the utmoft pof- 
fible indignation againft the meafure and 
the authors of it. 
The Report is publifhed of the debate 
of the Irith bar, which took place on’ 
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