REMARKS, &c.

Fit be not juftifiable to answer a Fool according to his Folly, how much more culpable muft it be, in the Eyes of the judicious and generous, to answer a Knave according to his Knavery, or a Railler according to his Raillery? - From this Confideration, I hope, fteering in these Remarks, a different Course from the Author of the Examination of the Critical Review, will be not only excufable, but laudable.

I MIGHT with equal Truth and Juftice with the Author, use the two firft Paragraphs of his Pamphlet in a Parody: All that happens to be confiftent with Senfe, or Decency in them, holds equally juft for my Purpose: It is not the Author's obeying his Mafter's Commands in attempting to make an Examination of the Critical Review, and publifhing it in Dublin, where each has loft all Appearance of Credit and Reputation, as well as of juft Authority, that can call upon me to take any Notice of either; No; it is the publishing his Mifreprefentations, (I will not fay Lies) of Men and Matters in general, in London, where the Maladministration and Mifconduct of Mafter and Man, in Ireland, are not yet fully known, and where confequently, they may make fome bad Impreffions on the unwary, that prompts me to expofe the learned Author and his Works in a true Light.

HOWEVER, high and illuftrious as this great Man by his Title, Station, promised Place and celebrated Writings may appear, there are but few Inftances, in which I can' allow myself to follow his noble Example. In this one, I hope it is allowable: The Gentleman is pleafed, from the Abundance of his Penetration and Sagacity, to make out, as he does moft of his other Affertions, that Charles Lucas is the Author of the Critical Review: Therefore, on this fame Charles Lucas, he lets loofe his whole Magazine of

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Malice, Hatred and Envy, grofs Scurrility, Abuse and Slander, which are to ferve inftead of Arguments and Convictions.- He that foweth in Iniquity, fhall reap in Vanity. Had he fuch as himself to deal with, his foul Language might be retorted with double Force upon his Worship's Head; but, We chufe a more juft and rational Course, and fhall only fhew, before We proceed any further, that this ingenious Tract was wrote by Sir R

C Bart. Author of fome Obfervations on the prefent State of Ireland, particularly with Relation to the Woollen Manufacture; in a Letter to his Excellency the Duke of DORSET, in the Year 1731, with this remarkable Motto, Timeo Danaos, & Dona ferentes. In English, I dread an Englishman, even when he does me a Kindness; and of the Cork Surgeon's LETTER, and ANTIDOTE, against the Dublin pothecary's Poyfon, of a LETTER from a Member of the Houfe of Commons, to a chief Magiftrate of a Borough: Relative to the Votes of the House of Commons, of the 16th of October, 1749, Sc. &c.

IT may feem hard to father thefe Productions upon the Baronet, as he has not put his Name to any of them, and when he has often abfolutely and peremptorily denied being the Author of them, as in the Examination, p. 16, he decases, by the like Authority, that He was not the Author of the firft.But, there is nothing better known in Ireland, than that this mighty Baronet has often owned or fathered the firft, nay, boafted of the bold, patriot Performance; except, that he wrote the other Papers under the Mafk of the Cork Surgeon, or the Member of the House of Commons, &c. which he has occafionally difavowed to fome, while he applied for, and obtained a Place, or a Promife or a Place, or a Penfion, from another, as a Gratuity for his hard Labours -in th Caufe of Corruption; of which his Worship is to corscious, that tho' it be exprefly charged upon him in the Critical Review, p. 49, 50, he dare not in his Examination deny, or fo much as glance at it.. O! wife and upright Statefman! Skilful Surgeon! Fim Patriot! had'ft thou been a better Politician, thou would'ft have obferved this Maxim,

Leave Room for Change, turn with a Grace about,
And fwear you left them when you found them out.
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To form a juft Idea of this matchlefs Man, and to fhew how confiftently with himself he always fpeaks, writes and acts, it is neceffary to give the Reader fome few Abstracts of his Works.

I SHALL begin with his Obfervations, many of which are fo juft, that no honeft Man, no firm Patriot would be afhamed to acknowledge them; tho' fome of his Threats are fo violent, fo audacious and fo feditious, that no true Loyalift could utter them, and it is aftonishing he has fo long escaped with Impunity.

A NEW Edition of thefe Obfervations was publifhed in Dublin laft Year, and dedicated to the Cork Surgeon. In the firft Paragraph, p. 11, the Author complains of the extreme Diftrefs, and miferable Uneafiness, under which the People of Ireland at prefent labour; and urges, as Motives for Redrefs, his Grace's Reputation, the Honour of his Majefty, and the Intereft of England.

IN the next, he fets forth the lamentable Decay of Trade and Want of Money. And, in p. 12, has this moft remarkable Paragraph.

"It is impoffible for you to comprehend, at the Distance you are at, the Miseries of this People. It would be difficult for you to come at a true Senfe of them, though you 6 were here. You would fee no other Part of the Kingdom, but that which, by its being the Capital, and the Place of your Refidence, engroffes the whole Wealth of the Country: And you would be furrounded by a Crowd • of hungry Courtiers, whose interest it is to represent their People as flourishing as they can, that the more Taxes may be raised upon them, because they imagine the more will fall to their Share. You would likewife meet with • Men of Quality and Fortune, whofe Vanity would make them endeavour to deceive you, and who are asham'd to confefs their Country's Poverty, left it fhould be a Reproach to them for their own Extravagance.'

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AFTER this, he very juftly fhews the exuberant Evil of raifing the Rents of Land all over the Kingdom; the draining away all the little cu rent Cash by numberless incorrigible Abfent es, p. 13; the inevitable bad Confequences to England and Ireland, p. 14; d.mands a free Trade to the British Plantations, and fome confide able Ecouragement to the Woollen Manufacture; fets torth the Jealousy of England, and hopes it wil not be carried as far as it formerly was, to lead them to study more how to do Mischief to their Neighbours,

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Neighbours, (of Ireland) than to do Good to themfelves, p. 15. He fhews how the Declenfion of the Woolien Trade in Ireland is owing to this Jealousy, and the Unreafonableness and Impolicy of excluding the Irish the joint Ben fit of that Trade, by precipitately paffing the Act of Prohibition, from the Fable of the Hen and the Golden Egg. The evil Confequence of which Prohibition, to both Kingdoms, he fairly demonftrates. Then fets forth the Effects of this Injustice, p. 16. He fays, it is impossible to prevent the running of Wool; that it was in vain to punish the clandeftine Exportation with Death, fince it is as well to be hanged as ftarved.Then after fome further Expoftulations and Animadverfions upon the Reftraint of this Trade; he hopes the English will make a better Use of the Reformation, and of the Liberty of reading the Scriptures, than to copy after Pharaoh, and expect us to make Brick without Straw, p. 17.

THEN, he treats the Scheme for a Registry of the Wool of England and Ireland, with great Freedom, and seems to glance, that it can only be done by an Act of the Irish Parliament, as the People of Ireland do not think an English Act of equal Force. But, afterwards, he fhews the Scheme inconfiftent with the Interest and Liberties of England, p. 18, and abfolutely impracticable in Ireland, p. 19, 20. He demonftrates it to be the Intereft of England to encourage the Irish to manufacture their Wool. And adds, As for England, 'tis fo loaded with Debt and oppressed with Taxes, that no Manufacture can hereafter flourish there. Upon this, he demands a Liberty to Ireland to manufacture some few Articles in Wool to be exported only to England, p. 21. If this be not done, he says, Ireland must call home her fupid, profligate, and abandoned Sons, the Abfentees, who, as he expreffes it, can live in a foreign Country, diAreffed, abhorred, and defpifed, &c. p. 22.

THE Remainder is fo remarkable, that it would fuffer in the Abftract; therefore, We tranfcribe it fairly.

BUT my Refentments have carried me too far, and made me fpeak with a Warmth, which nothing but my Country's Diftrefs could juftify; however, I fhall make this Ufe of it, to let you know, that a much greater Spirit boils in the Heart of every Irishman at this Juncture: A Spirit which has united all Parties, Whig and Tory, Proteftant and Papist, and which may be very troublesome Grace the next Seffion of Parliament, if fomething ' effectual

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'effectual is not done to relieve us. I fpeak it not by way of Threat, for it would be as much below you to regard 'fuch a Behaviour, as it would be above us, to be guilty of 'it. I speak it not with Haughtiness or Pride, but with the 'greatest Dread and Horror, that I am convinced if we 'continue long in fo wretched a Condition, we shall be 'plunged into a Scene of the utmoft Confufion. Poverty and Defpair, the Confequences of it, may drive us terri'ble Lengths: They will take away our Reason, and we 'fhall then have very little Regard for our own Prefervation. As it is at present, we very little care what becomes 'of us, and wish ourselves as heartily at the Bottom of the 'Sea, as England ever did. All that may follow from 'hence I dare not fuggeft. One Confequence, which is 6 the leaft terrible that can happen, will be, that all the "Proteftants in the Kingdom, in a few Years more, will leave it for New-England, a Country much more likely at present to shake off its Dependance on the Crown of 'England than ever we were. The Papifts will then be left Mafters of Ireland, and, if unaffifted, may perhaps employ the English another 400 Years before they are fubdued; if fupported by a foreign Power, as it is probable they will be, it will be improbable they would be re'fubdued at all.

THESE Confiderations fhould induce the English to use us with all Indulgence inftead of Reftraint. The very Argument they use against it, is a strong one on that Side 'the Queftion. If they are afraid we fhould rebel, which 'I am fure is a barbarous and an unjust Suspicion, they 'fhould ufe us fo as to make us run fome Rifque in doing it, they should allow us fomething that we might fear to 'lofe; instead of that they leave us in a State, which we run no Rifque in changing, because there cannot be a • worse. We are deftitute of the Neceffaries of Life, and have loft thofe Liberties which are deareft to Mankind. 'There remains nothing but Life, which in fo calamitous a Condition is worse than Death. Examine ancient Hifto'ry; obferve whether the most frequent Causes of Revolu'tions have been Opulence and Plenty, or Poverty and Op'preffion. Reflect on the laft Revolution of these latter 'Ages, and fee whether it was Power and Riches that enabled the Low-Countries to shake off the Spanish Yoke. 'If this fhould appear, then I fhall never trouble your 'Grace more, nor defire your Affiftance. • BUT

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