Strictures Upon an Historical Review of the State of Ireland, by Francis Plowden, Esq., Or, a Justification of the Conduct of the English Governments in That Country, from the Reign of Henry the Second to the Union of Great-Britain and Ireland
Strictures Upon an Historical Review of the State of Ireland, by Francis Plowden, Esq., Or, a Justification of the Conduct of the English Governments in That Country, from the Reign of Henry the Second to the Union of Great-Britain and Ireland
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. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...of Secret Committee of the lrish House, 1798, p. 5.. stronger traitor to the King and Constitution in Ireland. I follow this writer ' " Some individuals who can only measure their own loyalty by the acrimony with which they calumniate their country, have upon. characters with them; and accordingly they ...
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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. 1804 edition. Excerpt: ...of Secret Committee of the lrish House, 1798, p. 5.. stronger traitor to the King and Constitution in Ireland. I follow this writer ' " Some individuals who can only measure their own loyalty by the acrimony with which they calumniate their country, have upon. characters with them; and accordingly they had the audacity in an. + I can easily explain this transnction to my readers: When General Humbert landed with his troops in Ireland, and made the extraordinary progress he did; O'Conn0r and his compa who, to save rheirrrcreant lives, had made a full disclosure of their treasons, and by so doing had become obnoxious to their party, determined at this particular juncture to make an effort to retrieve their advertisement in a public print, to deny their evidence as rt was printed in the Report of the Lords: they were accordingly summoned before the Committee os the Lords again; and General Humbert being now a prisoner, these men made no hesitation in again signing their evidence, and acknowledging to the house, that it contained ' the whole truth and nothing but the truth;" and since they have been sent to France, and put out os the reach of justice, they have published their report of the evidence given by them, which any reader of common interlect will perceive to be a feeble and impudent attempt to justify themselves, and to invalidate that Report of the Lords, which wiil remain a perpetual memorial of their rreason and infamy. They then (upon their second examination) declared to the House of Lords, that is was of the misreprescntat on: given m the ntwspapers of their evidence, that they e: omplaen: d._..$ce.the Lords' Rcport. dispersed a tholic Committee, organited the Irish rebellion of 1798, and if, to give it as my decided...
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