This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 edition. Excerpt: ... MR. O'CONNOR'S EXAMINATION, The Examination of Arevh 0'Connor lefore tic Secret Commiitct of tie Houfe of Commons, l6th of Augujl, 1798. Committee. Explain the firft formation of the alliance between the Irifh Union and the French? O'connor. If you have ften the report I figned and delivered in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 edition. Excerpt: ... MR. O'CONNOR'S EXAMINATION, The Examination of Arevh 0'Connor lefore tic Secret Commiitct of tie Houfe of Commons, l6th of Augujl, 1798. Committee. Explain the firft formation of the alliance between the Irifh Union and the French? O'connor. If you have ften the report I figned and delivered in conjunction with Emmett and M'Nevin, it will not be ncceffary I fhould go very fully into that important tranfadlion; but if you have not feen it, I will explain, it more fully. Com. We have not feen the report you allude to, O'connor. Sometime in 1795, or the beginning of 1796, a letter was received by the Executive of the Union from France, from fome individuals of the Union, who had fled from perfecution; in which they mentioned, that they had made fuch a reprefentation of the ftate of Ireland, that they believed the French would be induced to treat with the Union, to free us from the tyranny under which we groaned. This This letter was not a&ed upon by the Executive at the time it was received, from their unwillingnefs to have recourfe to foreign aid, except in the laft refort, and in the hope, that the effefls on the popular mind from the tyrannical meafures which Government had purfued, would induce them to abandon their meafures of coercion, and to adopt meafures congenial to the wifhes of the people. But when the Executive faw the year 1796 open with the InfurrecUon Bill--that 4000 unoffending inhabitants of the county Armagh had been driven from their homes, on account of their religious opinions, by a lawlefs banditti, who were not only not reftrained by Government, but aided and inftigated by its Magiftracy, and that an aft was pafled to indemnify the moft grofs violation of the moft facred laws by the Agents and Magiftrates of...
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