country is called upon to give her fober judgment on a Union with Great Britain, (from whofe loins the Proteftants of Ireland fprung,) who protects her in war, who nurses her commercial ability in peace, and without whofe powerful aid, Ireland would probably at this moment have constituted a Province of the French Republid, experiencing all the bleffings of unprincipled tyranny, and expiring under the gratifying weight of perpetual requifition. To give the poor man his bread in peace to give the artift the price of his ingenuity to give the manufacturer occupation to give the merchant opportunityto give the rich fecurity-and to give all content, fome measure productive of fettled tranquillity must be adopted.-Great Britain pro pofes a LEGISLATIVE UNION, to confolidate and render one your strength, your your refources, and your exiflence.-Look at the ruinous divifions of your country;look at the infanity of your political reformifts;-look at their bias and tendency to separation ;-look how abfolutely neceffary the power and commercial ability of Great Britain is to your profperity;-look at the propofal fhe makes, and remember your decifion will involve not alone your happinefs, but the happiness of your lateft pofterity. March, AN AN EXPOSITION, &c. &c. THAT a propofal of fuch magnitude as a Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland fhould occafion agitation in the public mind, is not aftonishing; but upon this, as upon all subjects of political importance, when reafon returns, and inveftigates coolly and deliberately the point propofed, difficulties seem to vanish, and what before appeared infurmountable, is clearly feen, as we advance in the enquiry, not only to be easily accomplished, but that its accomplishment offers new scenes for induftrious exertion and profitable establishment.-Every man who B has has travelled knows that when his road lies over a mountain he regards it at a distance as almoft inacceffible; but as he approaches the difficulties feem to fink before him; he is furprised at finding the afcent so easy, and the labour of the journey is amply repaid by the rich and extended prospect before him. THE queftion of Union, as was naturally to be expected, created infinite clamour; the lowest can reprobate without reason; and as the paffions had fo fine a field for display, they were not allowed to lie dormant ;-the public mind has indeed been fuccessfully roufed, and the queftion has had this good effect, that it has called forth the reflective talents of the land:-the fubject has been canvaffed with the very spirit of freedom, and no one inftance has occurred in which the government of the country has stepped forward to fupprefs (as at another period it would have been bound to do) the dangerous floods of licence and of faction which have been poured from the prefs. GOVERNMENT were right-fuch a measure could not be too freely difcuffed; the more it is truly known, the more its neceffity will be admitted, for if a strong meafure had not been compelled by the ftrong efforts of faction and defperate democracy to separate Ireland from England, a Legislative Union would not |