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to be of none . " Supposing the thing possible ( which it seems not , to any possessed of feeling and reflection ) , how supreme must be the state of ignorance or indifference which would warrant such an assertion ! As neither of these moods of mind can be for a moment attributed to the intelligent , eloquent , and animated author of the " Tales of Woman ' s Trials , &c . ; " it is only fair to ascribe her declaration to one of those inadvertent lapses of expression to which ail , at times , may be subject .
I remember reading of a country clown , who , accidentally overhearing * some conversation on constitutional health , declared his belief that he had " no system . " Very similar to this appears to me Mrs . Hall ' s assertion , in her letter to " The Times , that she is of " no party , " and that " a woman ought
It is with no view to level a shaft at one who is an ornament to her sex that I touch this subject . Having said thus much , I have done with all further allusion to Mrs . Hall ; but I shall not forsake the point , because it involves a very common and a very mischievous mistake—a notion that politics are to be regarded as distinct from , and disconnected with the other
• FROM THE TIMES OF JAN . 5 th .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES . Sir , —I feel called upon , however unwillingly , to trespass on . your columns in reply to a letter signed an Impartial Observer , " the -writer of which accuses mo of " misleading my readeis as to the real state of Ireland , " in having asserted that " I slept more than a week at the house of a Conservative gentleman , in the midst
of a Catholic community , whose doors and windows were never disfigured \> y bar , bolt , or lock , though the house was known to contain much plate and some fire arms . " The writer somewhat ungenerously concludes by stating , that " the assertion is made for party purposes . " I am of no party ¦ I have always considered that a woman ought to be of none ; but the principles which are upheld b y all my nearest and dearest connexions are Conservative . I have written much about
Ireland , but I have always studiously avoided politics . The observation "which your correspondent condemns refers distinctly and alone to the county of W ex ford ; and th © best comment I can offer upon his letter is , to give the name of the gentleman , not only a Conservative but an Orangeman , whose doora and windows were " never disfigured by bar or bolt . " I allude to John Allen , Esq ., of Ballystraw , Autbur ' s Town , county of Wexford , with whom , of course , the " Impartial Observer " can communicate . I Know qnite enough of Ireland to feel satisfied that many parts of the country are in the wretched state described by your correspondent , and T am
disposed to believe that recent event * have contributed to increase rather than to lessen the evil , but the good should be recorded as well as the bed . Happily , the country with which I am best acquainted is for the most part tranquil \ perhaps because its landlords are chiefly residents on their own estates . I would add , that the passage to which your correspondent objects , occurs in a tale published in th « ] New Monthly Magazine for December , in no way bearing upon the political state ot the country , and that I have not seen the evening newspaper to which your reference is made .
I am your obedient servant , ANNE MAK 1 A HALL . Tan . 4 th . 1836 .
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ON WOMEN OF NO PARTY . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/14/
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