AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE STATE OF IRELAND, FROM THE. INVASION OF THAT COUNTRY UNDER HENRY II. TO ITS UNION WITH GREAT BRITAIN ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY 1801. IN FIVE VOLUMES. BY FRANCIS PLOWDEN, Esq. VOL. IV. Pauci prudentiâ honesta ab deterioribus, utilia ab noxiis discernunt : plures Few are qualified by their own reflection to mark the boundaries between PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM F. M'LAUGHLIN, NO. 28 1806. قر CONTENTS An address to the society at Bourdeaux-The answer to the aforesaid address sent from the society of Bourdeaux to that of Belfast-Names of the Belfast addressers, Appendix About 64 Catholic gentlemen secede from the committee on ac- count of their intimacy with some of the leaders of these north- ern societies-They petition the lord lieutenant-The Dublin United Irishmen hold a meeting-Declare their political sen- The new societies differ in principles from the Whig Club-Re- solution of the grand jury of the county of Armagh against the The spirit for toleration pervades the country at large The Protestants and Catholics played off against each other- Expectations of the Catholics of being relieved from the penal The parties in Ireland are in extremes-Mr. Burke's son cho- sen secretary of the Catholic committee-Mr, Burke's letter to 10 Lord Clare's false statement of the transactions of that day |