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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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aad mkivard thqugji it fell , I beg leave to pjead guilty . ; I wish to appear what I really feel , both an Eng-Qi and an Irish patriot : j only let It be recollected that I ana not so now , merely 6 > r the exigency of the
moment Let it be recollected , that if , in defending the liberties of Ireland and discovering a jealousy for her constitution , I deserve the name of an Irish patriot , to that honour I am efttitled ever since the . first day of the session * when I coulcj not foresee the
efente-of-the present day , and long before I knew that any commercial treaty with Ireland Jiad been talked ot 1 embraced the first opportunity afforded by the meeting of the House , to declare my execration ! of the conduct of the King ' s ministry in their proceedings in Ireland , where I saw
the fundamental and most sacred principles of the constitution daringly overturned , and doctrines advanced and measures adopted ,, in my judgment , utterly subversive of every trace of civil liberty j and all this in the zeal of the right honourable gentleman to suppress the reform of Parliament in Ireland .
Upon the opening of the proposed arrangements in this House , 1 repeated ftw same arguments , and was convinced that Ireland never called for this system * nor ever . thought of it , but was seriously occupied with other objects . ' 1 added , that . I considered " .-the whole plan as a lure to divert the Irish from
constitutional points , by throwing the trade « of Ireland at their feet % and to reconcile them to the violation of the tow of the land and of the constitution , by the enchanting prospect of the commercial , benefits held out by ™ system . In this opinion I am
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# « ay on the Apocryphal Book styled the Wisdom of Solomon . ^_ June < 24 th , 1815 . I 7 HE genuineness and authenticity ¦* - of writings purporting to be an-Cle nt , must , in the first instance , be
pertained , if possible , by external tlK ? * On -this evidence we receive le books which compose the Jewish J ^ jtures : and it is principally Ovring : ^ wan t of it that we reject oth er Portions which find a place in the
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strengthened ? every day , and the eager part acted by those who surround the right honourable gentleman , would confirm to me my fears for the constitution of Ireland . If this conduct , Sir , constitute an Irish patriot , A en am I one 5 and if to struggle to save the trade of England from annihilation , gives any claim to the appellation of an English patriot , I possess that claim . I did not invite the merchants and manufacturers to an opposition to this scheme . If I were capable of making them instruments in this business ^ they were incapable of becoming my instruments ; they did not follow me 9 I followed them . To the
right honourable gentleman ' s ( Mr . Pitt ' s ) government they were exceedingly partial j and not quite recovered from the insanity of the times , they were absolutely prejudiced against roe
and my friends . They are as discerning and respectable a body of men as any in Europe , and merited , I think , better treatment than they experienced from the right honourable gentleman . No man was ever more indebted to the
protection of the people than that right honourable gentleman ; and no people I believe ever so soon began to repent of their predilection . Every act of h is government has tended to open their eyes j they are , I believe , completely cured of the popular infection , but I fear their conviction corne 3 a little : too
late I . shall now relinquish this subject , perhaps forever , with repeating a sentiment that I have before throyvn out during the discussions upon this business : I will not barter English commerce for Irish slavery ; that is not the price I would pay , nor is this the thing I would purchase *
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larger copies of our Bibles , and are there distinguished as apocryphal . The word denotes uncertainty and doubt ; and it implies not only that we have no exact acquaintance with the authors
and the dates of the works so denominated , but that for these , and perhaps additional reasons , we do not admit them to the same important rank with the books deemed canonical . A literacy performance may possess great intrinsic merit—if . a poem ,
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Esmy on the Apocryplial Book of Wisdom . 473
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 473, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/9/
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