BUT as I am convinced the Cafe is otherwife, and England acts a very imprudent Part in oppreffing this Country, I boldly venture to give my Thoughts upon their prefent Condition; and I do it with greater Confi'dence, because my Stake is not only very small here, but ⚫ likewise of such a Nature, that it would not be prejudiced by any Misfortune that can probably happen to us: What ' principally engaged me in this Affair, was that which has as great an Influence upon your Grace as upon any Man living, a tender Compaffion for the Miseries of our Fellow-Creatures.'

THUS this zealous Patriot, in the Year 1731, laid the very Poison for the People of Ireland, which being taken in larger Quantities by the Dublin Apothecary, than by most others, gave Occafion to the political Surgeon of Cork to adminifter his Antidotes in the Year 1749. And by proving (like common Quacks,) his Skil in cu. ing the Distemper, he himself had introduced, or propagated, got into Favour with the Power he once oppofed, and was made prefumptive Collector, first of Dublin, then of Cork.- Thus, thrive the firm Patriots of this virtuous Age!. Poor Sir Knight! what would have become of thee, were there not fuch a Being as this crazy Apothecary?. Old Seventy-five, for whom you fo often fleep and watch, and make Room in the moft facred Part of yourHoufe, could no longer fupport you: His Appetite fated, you could hope for no more unpayable Loans! Whither then must you have flown? -There remained but one Refource: Being a valourous Knight, it was but going upon the Pad, and becoming a Collector inftantly; and fo, you might have done as much Honour to Chivalry, as your worthy Predeceffor Falstaff Perhaps, having ever had a delicate Senfe of Danger, you thought you might run the Rifque of being exalted to an higher, and long deferved Honour by this Means. That furely was eafily avoided: For, why should not the Privilege of P t be made

to extend to the protecting one Kind of Robbery as another; fince there can be no effential Difference to the Public, between ro bing on the Highway with Impunity, and keeping Men out of just Debts, without a Komedy?

HERE, let us leave Sir R- d's Obfervations, to take a curfory View of the political Principles of fome of his other inimitable Writings; only defiring those, who have ventured to read the cenfured Charles Lucas's Papers, to

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fee which is moft loyal, most respectful to the fupreme and fubordinate Magiftrates of Great-Britain and Ireland, moft happy in the Enjoyment of a felf acquitting and felf-approving Confcience, this boafted firm Patriot, this great. chirurgical Collector of Cork, or his Mafter, or the poor, crazy, exiled Apothecary of Dublin? The one abuses, mifreprefents and vilifies the Governments and political Principles of both Kingdoms, as corrupt, tyrannical and iniquitous; the other fets forth their Beauty, Strength and Excellency, and only blames fome particular evil Adminiftrations for the Diftreffes of either Nation. The former is a Man of Fortune, Dignity and Station, yet has

Beauty that frocks and Pride that licks the Duft.

The latter a poor, low, mean Tradefman. &Invidia major

Who bravely strives with Fortune to be just.

And of whom it may be faid,

POPE.

Titulis

PLEA IMAG.

For more true Joy, Marcellus exil'd feels,
Than Cælar with a Senate at his Heels.

РОРЕ.

I AM very well informed, that as far as Truth might be collected from the Countenance, or Words of our chirurgical Chevalier, few Men ftood better in his Eftimation than Charles Lucas, from the Time he firft gave Oppofition to the confeffed Ufurpation and Tyranny of the Aldermen of the poor, undone City of Dublin. But it was not poffible this fhould hold long, with a more firm Patriot, than good Sir Rd: For, Mr. Lucas having laid himself out to expose the Maladminiftration of Government, which had long proved the fole Obftacle to the reclaiming and im proving the whole Country, muft of Neceffity glance Reflections on fome Friends of the noble Baronet.

THE Spirit of Reformation became more univerfal in Ireland, in Summer 1749, than it had been ever known before in that unhappy Kingdom In the Month of June, a weekly Paper was published by different anonymousHands, called, The CENSOR. In this Paper, the old crying Evil

of the Judges, felling, delaying, denying Law and Juftice to the cujects, (the Source of Mr. Lucas's Diftreffes) was loudly complained of, and fome recent Inftances of thefe Crimes revived føme of the past, which were enumerated in a spirited Paper of June 24. Among other Abuses of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, there recited, one of the late Sir Rd Cx's committing is fpecified, which galled our tender Patrict a little; fo that he, in his ufual Manner, took up a dark Lantern, put on a Mask, and threw Stones at his Neighbour, upon bare and groundlefs Sufpicion of his being the Author. He wrote a Letter, under the affumed Name of Anthony Litten, Surgeon of Cork, in which, by pofitive, but unproved and improbable Affertions, like thofe in his modeft Examination, he attempts to vindicate the Character or his most worthy Grandfather, or Father, and to asperse and vilify that of Mr. Lucas. And thus commenced the Quarrel, which ended so happily, so honourably, so profitably for Sir R—————d, so unhappily, so unfortunately for Mr. Lucas. Indeed, every Man that has any fair Reputation to lose, must be in Danger, when he encounters fuch Men, as have wrecked their Confciences and their Characters: Those that have any Regard to Truth or Decency, if they engage with fuch, as have none, and for them, fubftitute Falfhood and foul Language, muft expect to fully their Hands. Wherefore Mr. Lucas has been observed to keep pretty clear of this most worshipful Man; but the CENSOR of September the 9th, and the Author of A MIRROR for a Mock Patriot, have fo fairly characterifed the Gentleman, that little or no Room has been left to any Body elfe to attack the Hero. But, what served to confirm this doughty Knight's Averfion to Mr. Lucas, befides their being, in all Refpects, the diametrical Reverse of each other, the oppofite Extremes in Nature, was Mr. Lucas's expofing the Corruption and Iniquity of the late Queen's Council and Judges, and other wicked Tools; particularly, the late Sir SI C————kɛ, Kut. Alderman and Lord Mayor of Dublin, Father of the prefent most worthy Lord Mayor and Member of Parliament for that City, and the late Sir Rd C———————x, Knt. the worthy Ancestor of the prefent Sir R -d, upon whom the Commons, in the Year 1716. pass'd the following well deferved Compliment, as recited in Lucas's xviith Address.

RESOLVED, that it is the Opinion of this Committee, that Sir R—————d C———x, Knight, lute Lord Chief Justice

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C and Sir R

of Ireland, being a Member of the late Privy-Council, and prefent when the Rolls and Evidences of the City were pro duced at the Council-Board, and having the Perufal of those Rolls, wherein the Falfity of the Inftances mentioned in the rft Report of the late Judges did appear; that the faid Sir R- Cacted partially and corruptly in making the faid Report, and thereby intended to impofe upon her late Majefty, and is guilty of HIGH CRIMES and MISDEMEANORS, WHOEVER reads this, and confiders the clofe Connection between the late Sir S. C, between these two worthy Baronets, their worthy Offspring Sir S II, and Sir Rd II, will not be furprized at the boundlefs Fury and Indignation, the latter have, in their several Stations and Capacities, fhewn against Mr. Lucas; the one in bringing the undeferved, illegal, and unjust Censure of a Faction in the Commons upon him, as well perhaps, to bring such Cenfure into Contempt, by letting the Wicked and the Just fall alike under its Weight, as to undo the Object of his Spleen, and the better to intitle bimfelf to the Wages of Iniquity; the other, in getting Mr. Lucas disfranchifed, without the Authority, without the bare Form or Colour of Law, as the Public fhall foon be better informed.

THUS, Of fputt'ring Mortals 'tis the fatal Curfe,
By mending Blunders ftill to make them worse.

ART POLITICS.

THESE Confidered, no Man can be furprized that the worthy Sons or Grandfons of thefe moft obnoxious, and moft justly ftigmatized Criminals, not unreasonably, prefumed to be tainted with paternal Principles, fhould combine to pull down a FREE ASSERTOR of the true political Conftitution of the City and Nation, a BOLD ADVOCATE for the Legality, Expediency and Neceffity of the REVOLUTION, and for the prefent happy Establishment of the great and illuftrious Family of HANOVER on the Thrones of thefe Realms; all which thefe Gentlemen artfully, under the much-abused Mask of Whiggifm, decry and labour to difgrace by fuppreffing the Spirit of Liberty univerfally, which alone can support the prefent Establishment, and by vilifying and decrying the Revolution, as the Foundation of the principal Calamities of Great Britain and Ireland, as appears throughout the Cork Surgeon's Antidotes, to take

a flight View of which, I beg leave to conduct the Reader, not offending his Humanity with the immenfe Heaps of Falfehood, Filth, and Scurrility raked together, and attempted to be thrown on Mr. Lucas, nor with the fulfome Flattery, he uses as a Cloak, under which he hopes to poifon the Ear of the fupreme Magiftrate, or to blind his Miniftry, but merely to fhew the wicked and deftructive Tenor of his political Principles.

THIS fage Surgeon fays, that it is flat Nonfenfe and Impertinence to look into antient Charters or Records for Arguments to prove the respective Conftitutions of thefe Kingdoms, as neither of them had any real Conftitution before the Revolution; (of 1688 I fuppofe he means) and further; that Sovereignty is not to be determined by Rules of Common Law. Let any confiderate Man judge to what this deftructive Doctrine directly tends.

AFTER this he endeavours to convince the People of Ireland in general, that they are abject, irreclaimable Slaves, under the moft inconfiderate and oppreffive Tyrants, the English. For tho' that moft illuftrious Ornament to his Country, the GREAT LORD MOLESWORTH* fays, that all we pretended to by the Revolution, was to be as we were, and that every one should have his own again; yet mighty C-, like thofe glanced at by the fame noble Author, mumbles at the Subject as tenderly as the Afs did the Thistle, and fays, in Effect, That before the Revolution indeed, they were a free People; but, that fince, and by that, they have been reduced to a State unknown to the remoteft Subject of our Crown, under the Power and Authority of two diftinct Mafters, the two different Legiflatures of Great-Britain and Ireland, the feveral Acts of each of which, however incoherent or oppofite, they must passively and implicitly obferve and obey.-Happy Picture of the great and glorious REVOLUTION, which at once freed thefe Nations from hereditary Tyranny, Jure divixo, from the Errors and Bondage of Rome, and which, for these Causes, the Subjects of Ireland commemorate with the jufteft Senfe of Gratitude and Loyalty, as at once reftoring the civil and religious LIBERTIES of both Nations, without Diftinction.—Curfe on thofe that are Slaves thro' Choice! it is too much to be fuch thro' NeceffityCICERO.

Preface to his Account of Denmark.

THUS