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‘Vigorous towards the Catholics—if he 
thinks them fo reprobate a race.as to juf- 
tify the infliction of whipping, for the 
purpofe of procuring evidence—if he 
thinks that public order fhould be fup- 
ported by free quarter, and that the laws 
fhould be invigorated, by kidnapping 
men, and fending them on board tenders 
yet are his tender mercies fhed abun- 
dantly on the injured unoffending Pro- 
teftunis, who are reprefented to have been 
all meeknefs, all forbearance ; and when 
one cheek was fmitten, almoft to have 
prefented the other! Several pamphlets 
of high authority have expofed the many 
mifreprefentations in Sir Richard Muf- 
graves work: the two following are par- 
ticularly worthy of attention, as coming 
from men of the higheft refpetability and 
eminence. ‘ Part of a Letter to a Noble 
Earl; containing a very fhort Comment 
on the Do&rines and Faéts of Sir Richard 
Maflgrave’s Quarto; and vindicatory of 
the Yeomanry end Catholics of the City 
of Cork. By Thomas Townfhend, E:q. 
Barrifter at Law, and Member of the 
Irifh Parliament.”— The,Reply of the 
Right Rev. DoStor Caulfield, Roman Ca- 
tholic Bifhop, and of the Roman Catho- 
lic Clergy of Wexford, to the Mifrepre- 
feitations of Sir Richard Mufgrave, Bart. 
with a Preface and Appendix.” 
But the moft cutting cenfure which 
perhaps was ever paffed on this or any 
other woik, comes from the pen of that 
venerable and illuftrious character, the 
Marquis Cormwallis. Sir Richard Muf- 
grave, it feems, obtained permiffion to 
dedicate his labours to the Viceroy of 
Treland: that Noble Perfonage, when he 
read the volume, fhuddered at its con- 
tents, and anticipating the deep difg. ace 
which they might poffibly throw on him- 
felf, whofe name was attached to the pub- 
Jication, and conferred upon it an honour 
of which it was utterly unworthy, fent an 
official letter to the author, by his own 
private Secretary Colonel Littlehales, of 
which the following is a copy :— 
Dublin Cafile, March24, 1801. 
Sf si), A 
*< T am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to 
exprefs to you his concern at its appearing 
that your late publication of the Hiftory of 
the Rebellions in Ireland has been dedicated 
to him by permiffion. Had his Excellency 
been apprized of the contents and nature of 
the work, he would never have lent the 
fan&tion of his name to a book which tends 
fo ftrongly to revive the dreadful animofities 
which have fo long diftracted this country, and 
which it is the duty of every good fubjcét to 
~to be depended upon. 
endeavour to compofe. His Excellency, 
therefore, defires me to requeft that, in any 
future edition of the book, the permiffion ta 
dedicate it to him may be omitted. 
Ihave, &c. &c. 
’ E. B. LirtTLrEWALES.” 
Sir R. MusGRrave, Bart. 
The Rev. James Gorpon, Rector of 
Killezuy, who was twenty-five years an 
inhabitant of the county of Wexford, has 
publifhed “ A Hiftory of the Rebellion 
in Ireland, in the Year 1798, &c. con- 
taining an impartial Account of the Pro- 
ceedings of the Irith Revolutionifts, from 
the Year 1782 till the Suppreflion of the 
Rebellion. With an Appendix to illu 
trate fome Faéts..’ The author of this 
work has entitled himfelf to the high ap- 
plaufe of {trict tmpartiality, an excellence 
not to be attained on fuch an occafion 
without confiant circum{peétion and felf- 
vigilance. Mr. Gordon’s views are ex- 
tenfive, and his reflections are profound: 
he is jiberal and candid: he delights not 
in cenfure, but feems ever defirous to 
throw a veil over the ferocity of his fellow- 
creatures. Where he fees merit, and he 
is ever on the watch tor it, he acknow- 
ledges and applauds it, on which ever 
fide it appears: he endeavours to heal the 
wounds which his country has received, 
and feels not any demon-delight in fret- 
ting and inflaming them. Mr. Gordon 
was himfelf a witnefs to many of the 
heart-rending feenes which he is com- 
pelled to relate: his narrative is therefore 
We ftrongly re- 
commend his hiftory, and conceive we 
cannot do it more effectually than by fay- 
ing, that it is conducted in a manner 
diametrically different from the rival vo- 
lume of Sir Richard Mufgrave. 
«¢ Hiftory’of the principal Events of the 
Reign of Frederic William IT. King of 
Pruifia; and a political Picture of Europe, 
from 1786 to 1797. Containi.y a Sum- 
mary of the Revolutions of Brabant, 
Holland, Poland, and France. By L.'F. 
SecuR, the Elder, formerly Ambaflador 
of Louis XVI. at St. Peterfburg, Berlin, 
and Vienna. Tranflated from the Frencb.”’ 
The Comte de Ségur was ever confidered 
as a man of the moit piercing penetration, 
folid judgment, and political circumf{pec- 
tion: thefe talents were always in action: 
M. de Ségur was at different times Mi- 
nifter at St. Peterfburg, Berlin, and Vi- 
enna, and confequently initiated into the 
mytteries of mott part of the European 
Cabinets. He has performed the part of 
an hillorian precifely as one would expeé 
frem the union of {uch talents and oppor- 
tunities 
