Page LETTER to Lord Townsend, and Remarks on his Government Letter to the Earl of Harcourt Character of Mr. Pitt (Lord Chatham) Observations on the Irish Perpetual Mutiny Bill, with Stric- tures on Lord Buckinghamshire's Administration in Ireland Address to the Citizens of Dublin, containing Remarks on the Conduct of the Irish Government Declaration and Petition to the King from his Irish Subjects Letter to the Editor of the Courier Newspaper, on the Con- 11 40 65 91 95 Return of the effective Volunteer Army in Ireland, in 1782. - 129 Freedom of the Guilds voted to Mr. Grattan Addresses from the Volunteers and other Public Bodies to Addresses from the Volunteers to Mr. Grattan, and his ...... Addresses from the Roman Catholics, the University of Address to Mr. Grattan from the Roman Catholics of Ire- Address of the Roman Catholics of Liverpool, on Mr. Grat- ...... Mr. Gratians' Speeches are published in four volumes 8vo. THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, &c. &c. THE two following letters composed part of a celebrated series of papers which appeared in Ireland during the Viceroyship of Lord Townshend. They were first published in the Freeman's Journal, and afterwards collected in a single volume, entitled, "Baratariana,” from the history of Barataria, which, under that name, professes to give an account of Lord Townshend's ministry. They took their rise from the conduct of that governor proroguing the Irish Parliament, and forcing on the journals of the House of Lords his protest against the proceedings of the Commons in rejecting a money-bill, because it had been altered by the privy council. The principal authors of the work were, Sir Hercules Langrishe, Mr. Flood, Mr. Gervaise Parker Bushe, and Mr. Grattan. "The celebrated Ballad on the Rejection of the altered Money-bill," the characters in the history of Barataria, and the description of Miss Monroe, by Sir Hercules Langrishe, will long remain evidences of the exquisite taste and talent of their author. Lord Townshend, Mr. Tisdall (Attorney-general), Mr. Hutchinson (Prime Serjeant), Anthony Malone, Provost Andrews, Lord Annaly, Lord Loftus, and Sir George Macartney, are the principal personages in the supposed history. The spirit and humour, the point and taste which characterize the work, have rendered it not less interesting as a proAuction of genius than instructive as a matter connected with the politics of Ireland. The letters by Mr. Grattan are introduced merely with a view to show his early attention to the public affairs of his country. B DEDICATION OF BARATARIANA. To the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Townshend. MY LORD, THE following papers should be dedicated to you, for you are the subject of them; had they been barren of literary merit, they had not been much attended to; had they possessed literary merit alone, they had not been attended to long. No, my Lord, they had something more, they had truth, and appealed to a nation, who in these essays recognized its own idea, reflected with additional lustre. They spoke with a warmth expressive of great feelings, greatly agitated, upon great occasion. If they descended to your train, it was because your train were your ministers. If they glanced at your private life, it was because the levity of your private life entered into your public conduct, and became the character of your government. They spoke with moderation in the fervour of the times; and now, that the war, which your administration waged with the public, is at an end, and every thing respecting your person buried in compassion and contempt; these papers, upon constitutional principles, make a sober appeal to the judgment of the people; and are presented, not as satire, but history. The liberty of the press (it were vain to deny it) has advanced to great maturity under the present reign. Its progress is easily accounted for, during the life of the late monarch the press spoke the language of insinuation. His Majesty, a plain, honest gentleman, of the house of Hanover, was not likely to deserve, or to punish, or indeed to understand, libels. There was no mysterious attachment in his family, an allusion to which could never be forgiven. His Court was not always without some claim to principle, and did not advance extravagant pretensions to devotion; pretensions, suspicious to the simplicity of the English, not yet accustomed to the novelty of a puritanical piety, selecting, for its support, men of the most dissolute morals. The When his present Majesty ascended the throne, the first acts of his reign generated libellers. His measures gave matter, and persecution gave boldness, to composition. hand of power touched the press, and, like the porcupine, it started into a thousand shafts; a person, not in himself, perhaps, the most respectable, attacked the favourite with vigour; |