* Be it known to all who are under the dominion of bereticks that they are fet free from every tie of fidelity and duty to them; all oaths or foteran agreements to the contrary notwith- ANTI-JACOBIN Review and Magazine, &c. &c. &c. For SEPTEMBER, 1805. Is demum profectò vitam æqué lance penfitabit, qui femper fragilitatis humanæ memor fuerit.-PLIN. ORIGINAL CRITICISM. Strictures upon an Hiftorical Review of the State of Ireland, by Francis Plowden, Efq. or a Juftification of the Conduct of the English Government in that Country, from the Reign of Henry II. to the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. London. Rivingtons. Svo. PP. 233. 7s. 6d. 1804. B EFORE we proceed to review this very excellent work, it will be neceffary to make a few preliminary obfervations on the state of Ireland, and to point cut to the reader the nature and origin of the work which is the fubject of its animadverfions, and the motives of its author. For nearly two centuries and a half, the Irish Roman Catholics have endeavoured to feparate their native country from England, and to banish or extirpate fuch of the English as had fettled in it, except during the short period that they laboured under penal restrictions. As Spain was the most powerful ftate in Europe, in the fixteenth century, and bore the most invenomed hoftility to England, they folicited her affistance to accomplish these purposes, and, in the reign of Elizabeth, they introduced five Spanish armies into Ireland, which reduced it to a moft woeful ftate of defolation. Ever fince France has become formidable to Europe, under the au fpices of Richlieu, Mazarine and Colbert, they have fought her alliance and protection to make their native country independent of England; and at no period have they manifefted fo much zeal to do fo, as fince, by the repeal of the penal laws, they have been ad NO. LXXXVII. VOL. XXII. B mitted |
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