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LETTER I.

Treason-Carlisle Gaol-Bridewell.

AT length my friend, I take up my pen to comply with your desire, and to give you the history of my extraordinary persecution. From it you may form a judgment of that system of government which drove the unhappy people of Ireland to revolt. But, to judge rightly, you should also be aware, that of many thousand such cases, mine is one of the most mild.

Before any open violence was attempted against me, I had been often distantly threatened, and indirectly insulted: And particularly on the 12th of February, 1798, I was charged with high treason, by an alderman of Dublin, then colonel of a volunteer corps, without any other pretext than my having gone to confer with the high sheriff on behalf of a

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