OBSERVATIONS ON THE LATE AND PRESENT STATE OF IRELAND; IN CONSIDERATIONS ON THE CORRESPONDENCE OF LORDS REDESDALE AND FINGAL: AND ON THE REMONSTRANCE OF THE REVEREND PETER O'NEIL, PARISH PRIEST OF BALLYMACODA. RESPECTFULLY ADDRESSED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, DUBLIN: Printed by Graisberry & Campbell, 10, Back Lane, 1805. OBSERVATIONS, &c. The Reader is requested to make the following Corrections with a Pen: Page 2, line 13, for the tenets, read dangerous tenets. 15, for parlia- read parliament. 13, 22, 20, for Killyglafs read Killglass. 41, 29, for Boalies read boolies. 62,33, for Carolus read Charles. 67, 20, for representation read reputation. doctrines of the Romith church tend to produce, difaffection and infubordination, under a Protestant state, which have difgraced and agitated that kingdom for more than 200 years. He touches upon this point with peculiar delicacy, and his expreffions towards Lord Fingal are not B .only OBSERVATIONS, &c. ANY Englishman, endued with fagacity and moral fentiment, on arriving in Ireland, muft feel great horror, at seeing the woefully depraved state of the mafs of its inhabitants. The eminent judicial fituation which Lord Redefdale fills, with great credit to himself, and advantage to the public, afforded his Lordship an ample opportunity of seeing this much to be lamented ftate of fociety in Ireland. It cannot be a matter of surprise then, that he fhould mention it to Lord Fingal, when he sent him the commiffion of the peace, that he fhould point out to him the important duties of that office, and at the fame time represent to his Lordship, that a stric and spirited discharge of them, by a person of his elevated rank, would do infinite good, by fetting an example to magistrates of an inferior class, whose fupine and criminal neglect was too obvious to escape notice. In his firft letter Lord Redefdale gives it as his opinion, what is well known, and of what Ireland affords recent and melancholy proofs, that the doctrines of the Romish church tend to produce that difaffection and infubordination, under a Protestant state, which have difgraced and agitated that kingdom for more than 200 years. He touches upon this point with peculiar delicacy, and his expreffions towards Lord Fingal are not |