trayed, I trust I have not been found deficient in integrity. But who or what I am is of no consequence; the interest of the nation is at stake, and to that I hasten.

All investigation of public measures in Parliament is, for the present, over, and the people without doors are to judge whether they have been good or evil. Government has called on the nation to censure or approve, and will not the nation arouse at the great appeal? The facts lie before them. This is not the close of an ordinary session. It is a return of the legislative body into the mass of the people. It is such an opportunity as will not occur for eight years, an alarming deduction from the life of a man! The people may now show their approbation or abhorrence of public measures, by their choice of public men. If they return the veteran offenders, who, in so many instances, have basely deserted their rights, they forfeit the last sad consolation of the wretched, the right to complain; venal and prostitute themselves, shall they dare to arraign venality and prostitution in their representative? But I will not dwell on so discouraging a prospect. I turn with a fond, and, I hope, a founded confidence, to what will be the great and glorious line which my country will pursue on the impending election.

Let every county, city, and free corporation in the kingdom. come forward and speak their sentiments on the late proceedings; let them not attach themselves to this or that set of men. but adhere to great principles, not liable to fluctuation or change. If they would not have an armed ruffian stand sentinel at every man's door in the land, let them reprobate the police. If they would annihilate corruption, let them condemn the pension list. If they would keep the House of Commons. uninfluenced, let them approve the place bill. If they would guard the treasure of the public, from the rapacious prodigality of an English viceroy, let them demand responsibility. If they would preserve the purity of the legislature from the insidiousseduction of an English Secretary, let them cry aloud at the prostitution of the Peerage, by making it saleable. If, however, constitutional liberty be no longer an object worthy of exertion, let men consult their senses; if they will preserve even the miserable consolation of the political stave, personal immunity, if they are not enamoured of bolts and of shackles, let

them, without the idle dread of an attachment, fulminate their indignation and abhorrence of the late atrocious invasion of the liberty of the subject, by the doctrine of excessive bail.

Such, my countrymen, are the objects I would propose to you. I do not confine this address to Electors only; they have, it is true, a more active mode to testify their resentments, by withholding their votes from the sordid betrayer of their rights; but they are not more interested in the freedom of Ireland than the great body of the people who have no suffrage. Let every county, I again repeat it, let every city, borough, parish club, in the Kingdom, come forward, and speak their determination. If you do this, where is the Minister that prizes his head, who will dare to oppose four millions of people, fresh from the recovery of their rights from a foreign usurpation, and unknowing to surrender them to a domestic Tyrant?-If you do not But I will not form a supposition so degrading to your spirit and understanding, at the very instant when I subscribe myself AN INDEPENDENT IRISH WHIG.

MANY of the ideas in the following pages may doubtless appear extraordinary, and some of them, to cautious men, too hardy. To the first, it may be answered, that, until the present, no occasion has happened where such a question could arise, as I venture to investigate. Since the lately acknowledged independence of Ireland, this is the first time when our assistance to Britain has become necessary, and the question of right had better be settled in the outset. To the last, I shall only submit, that it is not whether the ideas are hardy, but whether they are true, that is of importance to this Kingdom. If the reason of my countrymen be convinced, I have no doubt of their spirit.