Excerpt from A Letter to the Right Honorable William Pitt The idea of an incorporate Union be: tween Britain and Ireland feems purely an Englifh meafure, framed in the Englifh cabinet (probably forced upon an Iriih one) for Englilh purpofes, and from an Englifh {late necefiity, brought on by exifiing cir cumfiances, of which in words and works you, fir, are the chief, or at leafi ofienfible author; for a high and mighty monofyl lable as you feel yourfelf to be, you are, as your great father was before you - but (and nothing but) the convenient tool of a regulated faelion. In the uniform habit of curling and mimicking the French revolu tion, your inverted order ends where it be-fl 'gan, by decreeing the unity and indivifiur bility of the empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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