Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-08-13
THE GAZETTE.
From the Dublin Chronicle Of May
2, receiusd at the Columbian Office.
Counsellor Phillips

" Ho, then who are you--a man Or
Certainly of the lower order
of men for slaves even are not with
out a name. Yet these would be &C.
counted kings men in degree above
their fellows --NIuToN.
To the Editor Of the Quarterly Rerico.
SIR
An absence from Dublin on profess
siouml business prevented my seeing i
until very lately. the Reric1c in which
YOU have honoped me with such par
ticular attention. 4 his circumstance
alone has occasioned my silence, be-
cause, tho your criticism is beneath
the notice of either scholar or gen
sleman, still, ] would NOT avoid a con
troversy with one who is the best pa
tronized, lpcausc worst priacipleti
amongst the retaiuers OF corruption.
1T is Ivy the tolerated fundamentally
If such i:;screants, that individual
reputation is sure to be harnessed t.
the hearse of national liberty. Your
attack upon me commences as usual
with sarcasm upon my country. IN
the liberal distribution of which your
enlightened coniederacy Is now com
rletely practised. do not complain
If the association-'ro have been horn
in a country so liarbarously oppressed
NAV be a nistnrtpne 30 he snehlisiel
with her un.ler every disadvantage.
shallbe to me apri,le. The degradation
OF Ireland is disgrareful only to those
who have orcasiuued it, and the name
of lrishman, but dIshonorabse to the
Wretch who could stoop to enrich him
self On the ruin ofhis eountry.--PIun-
rered Of every thing except that genius
which nature seems TO have given as
some compensation for her political
injuries. ] cndeavorcd to hold the most
honorable of its possessors up to pub
lie imitation in "a poem composed
while | was at the Temple. III a
production has not merits OF its own.
il can Cad but precarious refuge in
the partially Of its author. The E.
merald Isle, imperfect as it is. has,
however, gone through four editions,
during as many years in England, and
q reprint uf it has been extensively
circulated 10 America, / place this
fact against your solitary and most
impotent depreciation. Against the
charge OF lhe dedication q admit il
as 4 charge my> defence is as unan
swerahlc. IL was Inscribed to the
kegent---not OF tSt7, but of, A3fi---
the restricted Regent--as | Then
thought the pupil of Fox. the patron
of Moore, the friend of Slieridal--Elt
had promised much and he owed
much to Ireland. NY dedication was
the result rather of my coudtry's ha.
bituai ,il,. lion Tow ards him, AN after.
tim most arlcnt and mos. prac. ra
when he NEST wanted il. than Of an
personal expectation TO myself.
never WAS such fool as " indulge il
anv s,I b expectation ana HOPE. sIiai
never i.a snc'i y slave as to act On il.
II in,h'4d, | had the nDnbined servl.i
t. ami s'ntiday Of my areuser,
might perhaps have done So hut a.
itwas. | had no idea of creating Al,
anotialy.at court, or n!' erecting my
sclI,n,u SOLITARY Instance al his r0vii
hishsess' Literary munficracr. Lct.
trrs having heen Demonstrated Rr.
gi6lx;. perhaps, as III the instance OF
my Catholie countryinrn, sone srrnple
OF cMst icnve may have arpayed the
toronat Oh oath against their prefer.
ment. Equally untrue is it that ]
rc"anted at liverpool what had re
commended in Dublin, or deserted
the cause oil my r0untry's emancipa-
ton, because ! advised her To petition
no more to a parliament SO constituted
as the prcsent.--SoiSteen years of pc.
tiiion bad only produced sixteen years
oil r"palse. and as every argument
weaneHed, every obstacle strengthen
ell, until at length we appeared but
as 50 macy plidelcss mendicants
c0pF'!n, tie humiliation Of pre,le
terAiurd refusal Lnacr these cir
eumstanees, with the most ardent
desire for tie emancipation Of ~,
coantrymen, did aud do advise a ces.
, sion from petetions until the parlia
ment of England shall be what the
constitution Of England intended il
snould. Is it fit for any thing bur
storhs and stonrs 10 petition tic re-
preventative OF /" O1d Sarnm p
FIu'.iiy uutrne isit that ever liiei-
led the objects o @yprtvious pepegy.
rie with all the aiifidence wl,it |.
Le.anif. YnuLll nerIlaus also wild,