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EW Of the State ofIR ELAND, by F. PLOWDEN,
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11. to the UNION of Great Britain and•lreland.
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• THE vital .eonnexion :hetween this Country an 4,
Ireland, 'renders it essfmti.djy: necessary th,fr rtlj
attempts t 9 distUrb the lartm.ny between theta •
should be resolutely repelled, anti all misreprest-o,
tationa on a subjea spa interesting, be properly ex..
,posed and stigmatized. Jhe work, before, us has,
we find, appeared in separate po'rtinns in.Trtt BRI,
.TISH CRITIC. The. Author has very properly cal-
ieded them into one body, and,given'an appendix to
each division of his work. He hasillusTrated his
,
reasonings with ample references and copious notes,
and h4s a,Upgether produced a book, which, we dbubt
notr, will
,long survive- that which it is the aim of
the Author to refute, and his refutation seems to be
'Candid and convincing, This :pridu:Aiun
does not welLadrrilt of extracts, but we shall take
the introductory part, as it affords a good specimen
of the liberal notions with which he enters upon
his undertaking ; and we can assure our Readt•rs§
that the writer . never suffers the zeal. of the Con,
trovertist 'to embitter his temper, though he obvi-
ously feels an honest irßlignation in the catise of
truth and parrioti,m. The whole ab:;unds in his.
torical facts and solid arguments, and is well en.
titled to the attention of every man who has a doe
regard to the welfare and security of the United
Kingdom.

" Mr. Plowden's ponderous publication is so
evidently written to serve the interests of a Party,
so calculated to mislead the people of k.',llland, anri
to give them erroneous ideas of the various English
Administrations, which during six centuries have
goserned Ireland, and of the, causes of the constant
d;visiMisand distradions of that kingdom, that to
suffer it to remsinwiificut notice or animadversion,
were in some measure to sarntion its tnis.statements,
and to give implied authority to a Work replete
with historical misreiqesentations, crowded with
undeserved panegyrics upon one sett of individuals,
and with the most unfounded calumnies aiVrinst the
living and the dead of another.

" Mr. Pinwden• has thought proper to dignify
his boA with -tile title of ' an Historical Review
of the State of while it is it, fact nothing
more than an intemperate and highly impolitic
Party.pamphlet, differing only in bulk and price
froM those casual publications which attrad notice
for a sh'ort time,' and then sink into eternal üblt.
vion.

Arduous indeed are the labours, and difficult
is the task of a faithful and impartial historian I
The writer who undertakes to give an history of
any particular kingdom, ought previously to exa..
mine, with a cool anti deliberate research, all the
former annalists and historians. of different parties,.
as well as the publications of the day. He ought
to possess a discriminating mind, eager in its in..
quiiy after truth. -He khould be candid, cauti•us,
and temperate. It is his duty to inve,tiga•te fads
d
minutely, to hazard conjeures with diffidence,
and to receive the recriminations of treated Parties
with distrust.- He should be accurate in his state.
ments, candid in his narratiln of events, and some.;
what impartial in his reasanings upon them. Bur,'
above all, he. should not suffer himself to be guided
by prejudice, and influenced by the zeal of religious
bigotry. Such is the faint outline of the du: y, such
a.few of the indispensable 'qualifications of an his-
torian.

" What claim, therefore, can that writer have,
even to the chatatier of an accurate compiler, much
less of a faithful historian, who,. in hia account of
the early transaaions of Irish history, quote,, anti
almost sßlely relics upon a few obscure* writers of
one Pail), ; -and who, in order fo establish their
authenticity, makes the novel and ridiculous at.
tempt, to .discredit all those former + historiaiii of
Ireland whose works are in the most repute, atn
whose accounts of the transanions of the times have
been always most relied upon ?
" What opinion are We to form of the prudeilce
of this Gentleman, who hai thought proper to re,
present the conduft of the English Governments to
that country as one uniform and continued system of
oppression and cruelty ; who loads with unqualjil,:Nl
censure and abuse every Administration which 11:S
ever governed Ireland ; and who describes .all•thc
former Lords,. Justices, and Viceroys (with the ex.
ception only of the Marquis Cornwallis), as knave;
or fools, tyrants or hypocrites?

What, shall we think of the candour of Linn
who critninates, as unjustiftAble, wanton;. and cruet,
those measures which one party in Ireland wits
iiged to adopt forits safety, whilst he olliates, it
not justifies; the insurreaions and atrocities (it
other party, and even goes such lengths, as to sty ir.
the most horrid of their rebellions a corascientioal

* O'Fiaberty, O'Halloran, Keating, Mr. Josiah
a very learned person, according to r. Plowdeti, %vhotti
nobody ever heard of, Mr Pinkerton, Earl of Castiehaven,
who writes u the teetli.of some oti Mr. _Plowden's
see note to p.-13. of his Work, •and iistt Appendix,
second part of these Striaures.. Saints- Jerome, Atnr,ro.t,
.Augustine, &c. &e.- Father Taylor, Abbe C;engnepti-, ai.trt
the" Irish Annalists," are his greatest authorities to r:,‘
statements of the early part of Irish history; where he
nor conclescgad to transcribe from Dr. Leland.

e. Cambrensis, Camden, Sir juim Davis, Temple,
Spenser, Borlase, Carte, Lord ClNretlon, Leland, &c.
the other authentic historians. Where it suits Mr. •P lb -
den's purpose he relies upon Dr. Leland W here it clues not. :;.;
diseredits,_ or does pot quote 'lint ha is evally 14.41-clit4 with
Sit johnaitvis, Aid cs:huti.

adherence to their allegiance, and an unanswerable
proof of their loyalty t ?

" What pretensions can that man have to mo.
aeration or discretion, who vilifies, almost indiscri-
minately, the characters of so many illustrious men
of former times, and who casts the most unfounded
aspersions upon some of the most respeaable and
exalted individuals of the present what claim can
the author have to our confidence, who, through
the whole course of his early history, so studi-
ously conceals, and boldly denies the savage ex-
cesses of the rebellious natives of Ireland, that
lie may pathetically describe and lament their suf.
ferings ; at the same time that he depias, in
such false colours, the necessary exertions of
power, the indispensable measures of self-preserva.
lion

" What reliance can we place upon the accuracy
of the historian, who, in his account of a * recent
and memorable event, gives the exaggerated accusa-
tions and statements of subjeds in rebellion against
the State, as correEt, whilst he confidently denies the
truth of official documents, and the accuracy of par-
liamentary reports t ? And, lastly, can we without
a smile demand, what pretensions Mr. Plowden can
have to impartiality, who, throughout every line of
his work, evidently appears the advocate and apo.
logist of the Catholic, and the enemy and accuser of
the Protestant party in Irdand ; who has not only
magnified the severities and excesses committed by
the loyalists and their ancestors during violent and
atrocious rebellions (:xcesses, perhaps, inseparable
from all civil wars), hut has charged the present ge-
neration with enormities of which they are inca-
pable, and the foul imputation of which they repel
with sco,.n : enormities which were committed by
the insurgents, and which are unexampled in the
history of any country, except " Catholic Ireland"
and Republican France

" Though Mr. Plowden, therefore, may be
esteemed (as no doubt he is) by one class of
viduals, a very daring and zealous partizin, I trust
he will never be considered by the public in either
country, as a faithful or impartial historian of Ire.
land.

Very general is the ignorance which even at
this day prevails in England, of the true state of
that country. Ireland is scarcely known .but by
its fa&ions and rebellions. A6tive have been the
exertions, and not altogether unsuccessful the in-
dustry of the rebel party, their abettors, and palli-
ators, to deceive the people of England, by repre-
senting as unnecessary and unjust, those measures
which the machinations of treason rendered indis:
pensable, in order thus to fix the stigma of provoca-
tion upon the Government and the Protestant gentry
of Ireland.

" The British nation, ignora It of the spirit of
bigotry, the hostile prejudices, and the political
treachery of the lower, and unfortunately not alone
of the lower, orders of Irish Catholics, perplexed
and alarmed by the constant discontents and distur-
bances in Ireland, and unacquainted with the pecu-
liar difficulties with which the Irish Governments
have always to struggle, are but too apt in conse.
quence to be persuaded, that the uniform resistance
to the laws, and the rebellions of that country, are
produced by mal-administration, or provoked by the
oppression of the higher orders of society. Hence
it is, that various communications, written by the
disaffeded party in Ireland, and containing the
most glaring falsehoods, have received a ready in.
aertion in the periodical, and particularly in the
provincial, prints in England. These publications,
though despised in one country, as the ebullitions
of disappointed treason, have been received in the
other as truths, and have greatly influenced pub-
lic opinion in Great Britain ; which was indeed
the very object for which they were fabricated and
published.

l" Sir Richard Musgrave's History of the Irish.
Rebellion of 1798, at length, in some measure open.
ed the eyes of the British Nation. His minute de-
tail of the enormities committed before, .as well as
during its progress, fortified as it is by such an ir-
resistible body of evidence upon oath, and authen.
ticated by the testimony of those Officers and Gen_
.
tlemen who were eye-witnesses of many of the
horrid transaaions, has at last given the people of
England more just conceptions of the designs and
condua of the Irish Rebels ; and the vain but 1114.
licicus efforts which have been made by the dis-
affetted party to discredit Sir Richard Musgrave's.
Work, have more. fully established its authenticity
in the opinion ()Nile more estimable part of the Irish
community.

• " The Loyalists of Ireland, as generous as they
are brave, upon the peace with France, sheathed
their swords ; and though they could not forger,
had forgiven the injuries which they had received
from their Catholic brethren ; and harmony and
confidence were in a great measure restored to that
unfortunate Country. At such an unpropitious mo.
went, another Catholic champion imprudently
Stands forth, and throws down the gauntlet of re-
ligious and political controversy.

" Iu my Strictures upon this Publication, which
is considered by a great part of the Irish as a libel
upon the loyalty of Ireland, I shall avoid casting
any personal retie Lions upon the writer, however
authorized I might feel myself, by his example, to
pursue a Jiff rent line of condua. His objet in
publishing such a work, at such a time, is best
known to himself. Whatever may have been the
Motives, I feel it my duty to endeavour to counter_
act the mischief that may arise from the publication,
should its statements remain uncontradided. I do
not therefore attack Mr. Powden, but his Book,
Which he has confidently subMitted to the Yoblie,
with his name and his portrait affixed to it. He
has sent it into the world, ' with all its imperfec-
tions on. its head,' and before the tribunal of
public opinion I shall very freely and boldly ar-
idign it."

t See, Bass!'!, his 4ccount of the Rebellion and Irish
th.ssacre of 1641.

* The. Rebellion of 1.798.
+ Arthur O'Connor's Letter to Lord Castlereagh is relied
upon 'by- Mr. Plowdert, while the " Report of the Secret
Committee of Parliament" is discredited by him. The 0
Cial Bulletins, ece, &e. arc milted with equal respea.