Retro/peB of Domeftic eects x. Potitre 
indeed which it contains, mutt, of necefli- 
ty, be very confined. Mr. Tweedie, howe- 
ver, with animmaturity of judgment, shows 
himfelf to poffets confiderable abilities. 
“ Confiderations on the impolicy of treat- 
ing for Peace with the prefent Repicide 
Government of France,” isa pamphlet 
written in the moment of fuccets by a fhal- 
low and intemperate politician, who, pro- 
bably, has long ere now feen the empti- 
nefs of his {peculations, and lamented the 
foolifhnefs of his advice. 
The Rev. Francis. WotvrastTown has 
publithed, in the charaéter ofa country par- 
fon, an ‘¢ Addrefs to his Flock, to caution 
them againft being mifled by the Wolf in 
Sheep’s Cloathing, or receiving Jacobin 
"Feachers.of Sedition, who intrude them- 
felves under the fpecious Pretence of in- 
ftruécting Youth and preaching Chriftiani- 
ty!” This zealous churchman, on hearing 
that the Union Society of Greenwich intend- | 
ed opening a funday {chool at Chiflehurft 
(the parifh of which Mr. Wollafton is rec- 
_ tor), where the children were to be * taught 
reading and fpelling, to reverence God, 
and to obey their parents,” inftantly took 
the alarm, and *** declared moft decidedly 
his difapprobation of the thing (to ufe his 
own polifhed phrafeology), together with 
his reafons for fo doing, both in the 
church porch before divine fervice, and 
in aveftry after it.’” What led Mr. Wol- 
lafton to fufpeét that this Union Society 
was a junto of Jacobin emiffaries we 
Know not: this we know, that the fufpi- 
cion was highly injurious, and that 
Mr. Wollafton has by no means made a 
proper apology for his rath and intempe- 
rate conduét on the occafion. In at ex- 
tract from his addrefs, entitled, ‘‘ The 
Origin and infidious Arts of Jacobinifm, 
&c.”” a cold, ungracious, and fullen 
apology (if apology it may be called), 
as been wrung from the reverend au- 
thor with no {mall difficulty : we fha!l co. 
py the paffage in juftice to the calumni- 
ated fociety ; but we cannot confider fo 
reluétant an acknowledgment of errcr as 
an inftance of candidnefs or contrition 
in the offender; ‘‘ Having many times 
been defired to make the following ex 
tract, I now feel inclined to comply. Ww ith 
that requett : becaufe, afrer feveral 
weeks obfervation of ‘the conduét of the 
Union Society of Greenwich, 
whom I thought tt behoved me to cau- 
tion the flock committed to my care, it 
feems but doing juftice to that fociety to 
take this, opportunity of declaring, thus 
publicly, that I acguit them of all charge 
of (edition. Their bebaviour at- Chifle- 
hurft has not, as far as I hear and be- 
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lieve, had any tendency that way 3 nei- 
ther‘do I underftand that any thing of 
the kind has been proved againft them in 
any place.” 
Some few political pamphlets of infignifi- 
cant importance, which are not mention- 
ed, may have appeared in the courfe of 
the laft half year; but we are not aware 
of having omitted any which are enti- 
tled to enumeration: from ENGLISH Po- 
Lirics, therefore, properly fo called, we 
proceed to the - 
Porirics oF IRELAND. 
. Since the difaffection of fo large a pro- 
portion of the people: of Ireland to the 
connexion with England has become 
too glaringly manifeft to be any longer 
concealed, and fince the attempt of the 
Englith minifter to effect an Union, an 
attempt not to be baffled by the majority 
of the Irith Houfe of Commons declaring 
againft it, the fubjeét of Irith politics has 
become more than ufually important: 
hence the vaft number of productions on 
this fubjeét, under which the prefs has 
lately groaned. Notwithftanding the 
multitude of pamphlets which we noticed 
in our lat retrofpect, we have {till more 
to attend to in the prefent; but as, in 
fact, thefe numerous publications contain 
only the fame arguments repeated in dif 
ferent language, and the fame faéts dif- 
torted into yarious fhapes, we fhall content 
ourfelves with a very flight notice of them. 
‘¢ The Speeclt of the Right Honourable 
JouN Fosreér, delivered in the Commit- 
tee of the Irifh Houfe of Commons,”’ is the 
moft able of the publications in favour of 
the independence of Treland. In ‘his ce- 
leorated fpeech, Mr. ° Pitt’s ae 
are clofely combated, and many farcaftic 
obferyations made on that gentleman. 
Allowing Mr. Fofter the ground which 
he has taken to make his ftand upon, it is 
impoffible to deny his carrying every one 
of his points triumphantly; but we think 
that he affumes what ought not to be 
granted to him, viz. that the fettlement 
of 1782 wasa fimalone. We have no 
conception how fiza/ fettlements can be 
made bétween ftates:which for payt of 
an ever-changing worid. It would be 
the extreme of arrogance in any genera- 
tion to pronounce their own work per- 
. fe&t, and to forbid pofterity to make any 
change init. If the two parliaments be the 
reprefentatives of their ‘refpetive e-people, 
who will deny that. they have a right to 
do in 1800 what their predeceffors might 
not think right in 1782? Thereal point ta 
be agitated is, whether an Union be ufeful 
and agreeable to the people of the twa 
countries ? if this be granted, the terms 
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