ciously, and feditiously, to difturb the Peace and Tranquility of the Realm, and to bring the King, and his Government, and Adminiftration of Justice, into Hatred, Scandal and Contempt, with bis liege Subjects, and to raise Jealoufes and Fears, and to ftir up and excite Sedition, Difcord and Infurrection, in the fayed Subjects. As a pretended Foundation for thefe Charges, feveral broken Paragraphs of these Addreffes are recited; fuch as a Fragment of Addrefs I. Paragraph 4, of Page 1; Par. 2, of Page 2, of Address II. Par. 3, of Page 7, of Address IV. Par. 2, of Page 20, of Address X. Par. 2, of Page 123, of Address XI. Par. 5, 6, of Page 131, Par. 2, of Page 137, Par. 2, of Page 142, Par. 3, of Page 148, which are all charged to have been made, compofed and written, by Force and Arms, &c.

THUS the strongest Articles of these feveral Accufations, are collected and fhewn in the strongest Point of View, in which the Enemies of the Author thought fit to place them. And yet, We shall make no further Defence for him, than to defire the Reader to examine the following Papers, and fee whether or no these several Charges be properly founded; if they be found juft, the Author is undoubtedly guilty; if otherwise, his Perfecutors are guilty of worfe Crimes, than those they impute to him, and he, of Course, is innocent. But, if any Man be inclined to know the whole Hiftory of this matchlefs Perfecution, and to fee a full Vindication of the Author, he is refered to two Pamphlets, one intituled, A critical Review of the Liberties of British Subjects, with a comparative View of the Procedings of the H. of C. of Ireland, against an unfortunate Exile of that Country, &c. the other, Remarks on the Examiner and Examination of the Critical Review, &c. the fecond Edition of each; the Truth of the Allegations of which, no Man prefumes to contradict, that dares fhew his Face.

Now, let the difpaffionate Reader determine, upon this Enquiry, whether the Author can be justly fayed to have fled from Justice, in withdrawing him felf for

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an unhappy Country, where Oppreffion has been authorised by Parlement; where the Judges are dependent Creatures of the Government, that gave Orders for his Perfecution; where the Benefit of the Writ of Habeas Corpus is daily denied the Subject with Impunity; and other Writs of Right and Proceffes of Law, delayed, denied, or fold, at Pleasure; where the Author can be tried onely by Juries impaneled by the Creatures of the Aldermen of Dublin, his avowed Enemies, under the Approbation of a Government, from which, he could not have hoped for. Juftice or Mercy, and by Judges, who have already proved, that they wanted no Sanction for Oppreffion; fince, their open Denial of Law, layed the great Foundation for the Troubles, in which the Author has been for fome Time involved. It furely could never have been intended by our wife Law, that the worst of Criminals fhould be constrained to stand his Trial by Juries or Judges, that were even prejudiced against him, and much lefs, by fuch as were his declared Enemies; efpecially, when Culprit is allowed none other Council or Advocate, than the Judges. What Sort of Council, the Author might then expect upon his Trial in the King's-Bench, in Ireland, may be eafily collected from the above-recited Circumftances, and by reading this wife Lord Chief Justice's fair and impartial Charge to the Grand Juries of the County and City of Dublin.

BUT, though it was judged fufficient for a Defence of the Author, to refer the Chief Justice's chief Accufation to this Iffue, it is hoped, it may not be amifs to take his Lordship afide, in order to take a View of the remarkable Loyalty and the refined political Principles of a Man, in fuch an exalted Station, that all Perfons concerned, may fee how worthy he is of the great and important Truft.

It is not fit to take up the Reader's Time in this Place, with a profeffed Answer to, or Criticism upon, this learned and elaborate Charge; which, indeed, does not require fuch a Trial: For, the Falfehood, Malice, and Abfurdity of it, muft ftrike every Reader at firft

Sight. I fhall therefore overlook his affected, pompous Parade, about Juries and the Conftitutions, both of which he fets at nought every Day; nor fhall I ftoop to animadvert on his many palpable Blunders, or on his pretty litigated Pun upon Independency. I fhall onely give a fmall Specimen of the Loyalty and Gratitude of this monarchial Judge, and lay open his political Principles from his own Words.

SPEAKING of the Laws, p. 4, his Lordship fays, they were made and amended by the Representatives of the People, with the Confent of their Kings, many of whom bave been the beft, as well as the greateft, Princes in Europe, and like our prefent Sovereign, have never refused or omitted to do every Thing for the Good of their People.

This may, for aught I know, be intended as a Compliment; but fure, it is fuch a Compliment, as would be deemed criminal and made penal in any Man, below the Rank of a Chief Juftice, or a Privy Counsellor.

We have no Evidence of Laws made by the Confent or Affent of our King's, but our Statutes. In our Courts, no Statutes are acknowleged before thofe of Henry III. his Lordship will be hard fet to make many out of twenty-five, the Number of Kings fince Henry III. or even out of the whole Number fince the Nor man Invafion, which does not excede thirty-two. How few of these, his Lordship's many, were good Princes, or were follicitous to promote the Good of their People, let any Man, ever fo flightly converfant in Hiftory, determine. But We muft not follow his Lordship's Example in his Treatment of the Author; let Us keep close to his Words, and without wrefting them, We may find his Meaning, where he condescends to have any.It must be confeffed, his Lordship has kept close enough to the Truth, in Part of his Allertion, whatever he might have done, in his Comparison: For, he onely fays, that many of the Kings have never refufed or omitted to do every Thing for the Good of their People.It were to be wifhed, his Lordship had, in all Points, kept as much b

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within the Bounds of Truth and Confiftency, as in this. What he afferts here, can admit of no Contradiction: For, I will venture to challenge any Man, that dare be an Antagonist to this great Judge, to point out one King of England, antient or modern, that refused or omitted to do every Thing for the public Good.The worst Charge against the moft flagitious Tyrant, that ever difgraced the Throne, is not his refufing or omitting to do every Thing for the public Good; but his having done many Things, which he fhould not have done; and having left undone many Things, not every Thing, which he should have done.

Why then this bafe and scandalous Comparison? Why is a King, who has, by the Confeffion of his most declared Enemies, done every Thing, that King could do, and has never refufed or omitted doing any one Thing proposed, for the Good of his People, placed in a bad, or even in a doubtful, Light? Who then will wonder at finding the poor Author abused, flandered and vilified, in every Page, in every fubfequent Sentence of this Charge, when the best of Princes and of Men, is treated no better, by those, who live by his Favor?If You would know more of this worthy Judge's Regard to his King, do not take it from his aukward Attempts to fawn and flatter; but fee how he fulfills and keeps his Majefty's Oath to his People of Ireland, committed to his Lordship's Care and Custody; a remarkable Inftance of which, will appear in the COMPLAINTS of Dublin, delivered to the Lord Harrington, the 25th of December, 1747, and afterwards published in London and Dublin.

BUT, these are not the onely Inftances of Ingratitude, that have been offered the best of Patrons and Princes, by fome of his Creatures, which, it is the Duty of every loyal and well-affected Subject to expofe. Who does not remember the moft fhocking Combination of fome of the Creatures of the Crown, and that at a moft critical Conjuncture, to thwart and embarass the Sovereign's Administration, even in the Appointment of his Minifters and Servants? Yet,

this, by a furprising Lenity and Clemency, was fuffered to pass unpunished! The Part, which the Author of the prefent deepest Diftreffes of Dublin and Ireland, bore in this fhameful Confpiracy, though raised by his Prince, from Poverty and Contempt, to Opulence, Rank and Grandeur, will remane, on the Records of Memory, one of the most lafting Monuments of the complicated Infamy of that perfidious and ungrateful Servant.- -But, to return to our good Chief Juftice, to fee his political Principles, and his pliant Notions of our Government.

His Lordship's Intention and Defire to revive and reftore that defpotic and arbitrary Power, which was lately found fo hateful and intollerable, and, at length, fuppreffed, not without an immenfe Expence of Blood and Treasure, in these Kingdoms, shine forth moft ftrongly throughout this Charge, as fhall, in an Instance or two, be made to appear from his Lordfbip's own Words.

IN p. 6, our Chief of Irish Juftices affigns, as the principal Motive of our Regard to the Perfon of the King, that as the Subject bath his Protection from the King and his Laws, fo is be bound, by his Allegiance, to be true and faithful to his Sovereign.-Whether this differs in any Thing, but Impropriety or Inelegance of Expreffion, from the Pofitions of the, until now, matchless Judges of the weakest or wickedeft Princes of these Realms, even from thofe, who lately declard the Kings of England, were abfolute and uncontrolable in their Power, above all Laws, that the Laws were the Kings, at his Disposal, and subject to his Construction, Difpenfation, &c. I fubmit to the Judgement of the Impartial. But, to crown thofe latelyrevived Doctrines of his Lordship, he tells Us, in the 7th p. that the Perfons of Kings are in all Monarchies held inviolable.- Who could imagine, that any Slave fhould prefume to flatter, in thefe Terms, that any Man fhould dare to revive these exploded Doctrines, which, had they fome Time fince prevailed, muft have abfolutely prevented the late Revolution, and marred

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