ject-Behold them taking off all taxes that fall upon upon the poor, and placing them where they ought to be, on the luxuries of life-Behold all neceffary places, filled by men of ability, knowledge and integrity; and fervility and corruption no longer the road to preferrment-and then behold inhabitants from every quarter, crouding to your happy Ile-courting the bleffings of fuch a government-receiving happiness from you; and you return, receiving from them arts and industry, and all that crowns a nation with peace, honor and prosperity.

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I have thus laid before you the honeft fentiments of my heart---If you conceive I ever bartered principle for gold, you wrong me: As a citizen, I have a right to take any employment, that I am equal to: I have, at leaft for the prefent, left the Bar, and have taken a Lieutenant Colonelcy in the Provincials: I have already publicly declared, if called on,

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by even a majority of one of those glorious delegates whom I met at Dungannon, on the 21st of June, I will resign it: Glorious in my eyes for reafons I have already affigned ;---but I will not resign my principles to any man; and as the Provincials have my warmest approbation, fo fhall they ever have, my warmest fupport.

I have only to add, that the first wish of my heart, is profperity to Ireland,

FINI S.