" This I quote from a pamphlet as perfectly
contemptible in point of writing as it is false in its facts and wicked
in its design: but as it is written under the authority of ministers, by
one of their principal literary pensioners, and was circulated with
great diligence, and, as I am credibly informed, at a considerable
expense to the public, I use the words of that book to let you see in
what manner the friends and patrons of Ireland, the heroes of your
Parliament, represented all efforts for your relief here, what means
they took to dispose the minds of the people towards that great object,
and what encouragement they gave to all who should choose to exert
themselves in your favor. Their unwearied endeavors were not wholly
without success, and the unthinking people in many places became
ill-affected towards us on this account. For the ministers proceeded in
your affairs just as they did with regard to those of America. They
always represented you as a parcel of blockheads, without sense, or even
feeling; that all your words were only the echo of faction here; and (as
you have seen above) that you had not understanding enough to know that
your trade was cramped by restrictive acts of the British Parliament,
unless we had, for factious purposes, given you the information.
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