of the Aldermen; my fole Defire and Intention has been no more, than to make them legal and ufeful Magiftrates, agreeable to the wife, popular Inftitution: And, that fo far have I been from ufing, or offering any Degree of lajuftice, Violence, or Incivility to any of them, that I have readily fubmitted to all their legal, though unjuft Ordinances, for Peace-fake, and paid them all indif'criminately, all common Civilities in their private Capa' cities.

I BEG Leave to take this Opportunity of recommending, with the utmoft Earneftnefs, to all my FELLOWCITIZENS and FELLOW-SUBJECTS, that they do not by any inordinate Zeal, give an Handle to our Enemies to charge us with thefe hateful Crimes: TRUE LIBERTY and TRUE LOYALTY are infeperable; they are one and the fame Effence. Our Liberty is bounded and fecured by Low; and whenever the Mears of Liberty are invaded or broken down by Fraud, or Force, the Law alone reftore and re-establish the Barrier. Contend then, for your Liberty, civil and religious, bravely, boldly, ⚫ refolutely But, let your Weapon and your Sheild be the LAW alone.

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FOR my own Part, I make this public and folemn Declaration, that if I difcover any Man committing • Riots, Tumults, or other Breaches of the Peace, or Disturbances, let him ufe the Sanction of what Name or Party he will, I fhall look upon him, not only, as an Enemy to me, but, as an Enemy to the Caufe, I endeavour to espouse, an Enemy to LIBERTY, an Enemy to his KING, to his COUNTRY, and to Mankind in general: The Caufe I would fupport is only to be obtained and fupported by PEACE and LAW. Hear then all Men, 'peaceably, quietly; try all Men by the Rules of Justice and Law; then judge for your felves freely, difpaffionately, juftly; and hold fast that, which your honeft, unbiaff. ed Hearts approve.

BUT, I fhall trouble the Reader with no further Proofs of this Part of the Examiner's Condemnation of Mr. Lucas, in this Place, except one taken from this Letter to the Citizens, p. gg, and this will be confeffed a Clincher. This crack-brained Crimnial afks those whom He addreffes, what would they think of a Man, who fhould take upon him to obftruct the Courfe of Law, to prevent legal Trials, or Parliamentary Enquiries and Redrefes of Grievance

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Would they not deem him a Tyrant, a common Enemy, a Traitor? Then, fays he, look about you and fee who among You are fuch.. Every Man, who opposes the Progrefs of Law and Justice is an Enemy and a Traitor to his King and Country: Every Man, who obtains an • Office by Fraud or Force, and exercises Dominion or Authority, without a juft Warrant from Law, is an Ufurper: Every Man, who in any Meafure with-holds the Benefits of the common established Laws, or who imposes, or exercises Laws made without the general Confent of the People duly obtained in a FREE PARLIAMENT, is a Tyrant And every Man, who tamely or contentedly fubmits to fuch an Enemy, Ufurper, or Tyrant, is a Slave, a Parricide! A Wretch, for whom our Language has not framed an expreffive Appellation!'. Sure this makes out the Examiner's Charge fully: His Worship' wifely judged, the Will of the Commons or their Votes was fuperior to all Laws, if not the Supreme Law, which Lucas of courfe detefted, as often prostituted and running counter to Common and Statute Laws. And, as the Consciences of the Collector and his Collegues or Compeers, as well as of their Mafter, full well informed them who were by his Difinition proved Enemies, Ufurpers, Tyrants and Slaves, it is hardly to be wondered at, that they combined to prevent his Election, and made him fly his Country, as the Cork Surgeon foretold, and then declared him an Enemy to his Country, that is, to themselves, and have fince used Diligence to make him a real Enemy to the Conftitution, or to appear fuch to the Public. Hence, every impartial Eye, may fee, why the Author of Addreffes containing thefe juft Sentiments of Loyalty was condemned, profcribed, proclaimed and perfecuted! And why his prime Perfecutors,

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Whom Penfioners can incite;

To vote a Patriot black, a Courtier white;
Explain their Country's dear-bought Rights away,
And plead for Pirates in the Face of Day:
With flavish Tenets, taint our poison'd Youth,
And lend a Lie the Confidence of Truth.

JOHNSON'S London.

FROM this Article, the Credit of the Examiner cannot be much advanced. Let us then fee what a Figure he kes in the next.

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In this, he is very follicitous, that the degenerate State of Ireland fhould not be known in England. Ay! that is the Point: He and his Mafter must be undone if it be. To conceal it, obferve the Countenance his Worship wears! In his Obfervations, before recited, the Mifery, Poverty Wretchedness and Defpondency of the Irish are strongly painted, all owing to the Want of Trade and Employment. Eighteen Years, it is true, may make, and perhaps has made, fome Difference; and it is very probable there are more Hands now employed in Ireland than ever. But are the People fo well, fo fully employed as Sir Rd boldly advances, p. 5, where he afferts, that an Increase of People is the thing now principally to be fought for, to make the Kingdom happy and flourishing as may be wished. While he knows, the Face of the whole Country is rendered horrible to Humanity with immenfe Crowds of wretched Beggars, who, for above three-fourths of the Year can get no fort of Work or Employment whereby to earn a Livelihood; fo that in Summer, fuch of them as have been able to furvive the Winter and to beg or fleal enough to pay for their Paffage, come in Swarms to England to work at the Harveft? Yet, according to the Examiner, an Increase of People, not Trade to employ them, is the principal Want of happy, Ireland! Who lives in Great Britain or Ireland, that can read this modeft Affer tion of Sir R and treat it as cooly as I do, without giving his Worship the Lie? In your next, great Collector forget not this ne ceffary Rule for a hackney Orator, who,

In Falsehood, Probability empleys,
Nor his old Lies, with newer Lies deftroys.

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WELL; this learned and ingenuous Knight's next Care is to fhew, that illegal Power is not so much stronger than the Law, as the Irish Incendiary has declared it to be. Obferve he tacitly confefles lawless Force predominate in Ireland, but not fo much stronger than the Law, as fet forth.An excellent Advocate, for a most excellent Mafter ! For this then he lays himfelf out; but, he unfortunately meets with fome fmall Difcouragements, a few unlucky Difficulties, Arguments. - Ay, ay; Arguments are a plaguy ftiff, ftubborn Sort of Stuff, quite unfit for his Purpose; therefore, he wifely declares, he will not meddle with Argu

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mints. Then, tho' he fets out as a Critical Examiner, he immediately becomes a State Tumbler, and moft dexterously exhibits his Skippings, and Boundings, his Back-springs, and Fore fprings, his Flipflaps and Summer-feats. The firft Spring he makes is to the 8th. p. of the Review, in his 6th. p. Whether he pitched upon his Hands or Feet here, or fell upon his Head or Backfide, is not eafily judged; for he did not ftay long; but, from what he left behind him, the latter is moft probable. If any body be fo induftrious a Gold-finder as to incline to fee his Orders, they may find Plenty of it on p. 6, of his clean and accurate Examination; but, they are not to expect much Gold, as he has not yet got his Place. I confefs, I think it a Pity, Lucas's Papers fhould be put to fuch dirty Work; but, I know no others, that can fo effectually remove this and the reft of the attendant Filth of this Suple, but unclean Timber.

FROM the 8th Page of the Review, this examining Tumbler, or tumbling Examiner, fprings to the 34th Page. Here, it must be confeffed, he makes the beft Figure, and deferver an higher Title: Nothing can equal his Agility, but a High-German Doctor, who leaps thro' many Hoops, but touches none. He honeftly declares at fetting out, he will not meddle with Arguments. No, no; he knew there were fuch, as would trip up his nimble Heels, break his Shins, or hold him by the Neck. For, here the Want of public Spirit is complained of; the Principles of the Liberty, Laws, and general Conftitution of Britain are laid down, by which the happy Security of the Lives, Liberties and Properties of British Subjects is demonftrated, and the Privileges, that even Criminals enjoy under our Laws, which, in fuch Cafes, are the Laws of Ireland. Could not the Doctor have exploded thefe Pofitions, he had no Business to meddle with them; therefore, as Mr. Lucas was not allowed a single Benefit of these Laws and Privileges, it was but prudent to pass them over in Silence, when the Gentleman was not hired, I fhould have faid feed, to explain, but to obfcure or fupprefs Truth.

BUT, there remains fomething, that sticks ftill worse in the Doctor's Stomach: That is, the Confutation of the Motives and Caufes affigned for the late Rebellion, and of the Arguments ufed for keeping up the Spirit of Difcontent and Difaffection, which are ftill induftriously fomented by different Means in divers Parts of thefe united Kingdoms. In which it is evidently fhewn, that Luxury, and confequent

quent Corruption and Venality are the Source and fole efficient Caufe of all the Evils or Diftreffes complain'd of by these Malecontents and their public and private Abettors, and that by Virtue alone, particularly in restoring and preferving the Freedom of Elections, all present and future Grievances muft be redreffed or obviated.

THESE were Points on which the Doctor dared not touch; because if he had, he muft neceffarily have ferved Lucas's Caufe, or have hurt that of himself and his Patron and Party. Therefore, all that is faid to this Purpose, as well as to fhew, that the Subje&s of Ireland are intitled to the fame Rights, Liberties, Privileges and Immunities with those of Great-Britain, the one of which cannot be injured with Safety to the other, this curious Examiner wifely paffes by, as quite foreign to the Intention and Purposes of him and his Mafter and hardly stops in his Career till he ftands before you on Page 34.

IN the 7th Page of his Examination, the Doctor gives a curious Hiftory of the Manner, in which, he says, Mr. Lucas obtained the Freedom and Applaufe of twenty-one out of twenty-four Corporations. Take it in the tumbling Patriot's own Words: The Manner of obtaining the Freedom of thefe Corporations, (if he had fo many) was in itfelf highly criminal, and one of the heavieft Charges upon the late Election. For the Truth was, that where he happened to have a Master of a Corporation his Friend, C an Affembly was packed for the Purpofe; and his Defi e eafily gratified. At other Halls a Day of Bufinefs was watched for, and the Candidates upon Principles of • Liberty, attended by a tremendous Mob of loose diforderly Perfons, many of them Papifts, forced themfelves into the Halls, interrupted the ordinary Bufinefs, fell to their feditious Difcourfes, pulled out their Pocket-Refolutions of Freedom and Thanks, roared, down and threatened all Oppofition, over awed the Corporations, and fo carried their boafted Franchises.'

If it were not fomewhat indecent and improper for Reafons before offered, to give a Man of this diftinguished Character the Lie, in plain English, we fhould certainly give it him, begging the Reader's Pardon: But, let him imagine it, and take it in Effect.

IN the firft Place then, it is notorious, that no Corporation in Dublin can admit any Man to Freedom, in any other than the stated Quarterly Affemblies, to which all the Free

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