thor with Temerity, Madness, Folly, Enthusiasm, Uncharitablenefs, Cruelty, general Immorality, Licentioufnefs and Sedition; and juftifies and applauds the Conduct of the House against

him.

The next Accufation of any Weight, and that with which it may be proper to clofe, comes from no less a Man than the great Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. A Man, who has the Modefty, or Servility, to decline the Titule of his Office, while he exercises Powers utterly incompatible with it.

To fet the Means, this worthy Gentleman has taken to traduce and ruin the Author, in a proper Light, would require a Volume. But, it fhall be confined to the nearest Compass, by touching onely on the most material Points.

It is neceffary to obferve, that this is the Chief Justice, against whose open and peremptory Denial of Law and Justice, the Author has complained, firft to the Lord Lieutenant, and then to the King. And though this high Justice, upon many Occafions, manifefted the Malice and Rancor, he bore the Author; and though the laft cenfured Paper was wrote and publifhed in March, 1748; yet, did not his Lordship give vent to his perfecuting Fury, until he found, that he had not onely the Concurrence of the Commons, the powerful Precedent of the Judgement of a fuperior Court, but also, the Commands of the Lord Lieutenant to profecute him a-new, in this inferior Court, for the fame Crimes, for which, the utmost Punishment of a free Subject, that of being voted an Enemy to his Country, was already inflicted, in a fuperior.

This great fuftice found he could not now make his Court more effectually, than by using every indirect, as well as direct Means, to ruin the Author in his Fortune and Reputation. And judging, an Ipfe dixit, or a bare Infinuation, from a Man of his Authority, enough for this Purpose, he prepared a pompous Speech, or Charge, for the first Grand Juries, that were to be impaneled before him, after the Lord Lieutenant and Commons had committed the further Perfecution of the Author, to his Lordship's Care. Of which Charge, in order to give his Employers the moft manifeft Proof of his Zeal, for the Liberty of the Prefs efpecially, he licenced the Publication.

It must be confoffed, that his Highness made no more Mention of the Author's Name, in his Charge from the Bench, *See the COMPLAINTS of Dublin, 1747, and the DEDICATION of the City Charter to the KING, 1749.

Bench, than his late Mafter did, in his Speech from the Throne. But, both took Care to inftruct their feveral Minions privately, and by affixing the Name, though clandeftinely, to their respective unmeaning and unintelligible Pourtraits, left no Room to their Tools to doubt whom they refpectively intended to have represented by their dirty Daubings.

Our great fuflice's pofitive Charge against this honored Object of his Malice, is no lefs, than daring to menace the King, and to calumniate and traduce both Houses of Parlement, the King's Ministers, and all Ranks and Degrees of Magiflrates; daring to attempt the general Subverfion of the Conftitutions, and to induce Anarchy and Confufion; publickly declaming against the Laws and the Power of the Legislature; endeavoring to overturn the established Religion, and to plant, in it's Stead, that of the Independents; then by Infinuations, his procuring an Army to lead on any Emergency he shall think fit, in order to put to Death the Collectors of the Duties of Cuftoms, Excife and Hearth-Money, whom he declares Pirates and Robbers; and the Acts of Parlement they are empowered by, made in Ireland, in the Reign of Charles II. to be anti-conftitutional and void; or to prevail upon Us to renounce our Connection with Great-Britain. And upon his Lordship's bare Affertion or Infinuation of thofe Charges against a Perfon, whom he names no further, than in calling him, several Times, a most infamous, inconfiderable, and impudent Scribbler, this Impoftor, this Seducer, this Garret Scribbler, Mountebank Politician, Political Preacher, &c. and comparing him to Lambert Symnel, to Perkin Warbeck, to the pretended Prince of Palau, to Jack Straw, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, and the like, he procured || several Prefentments to be made, as may be feen in the Notes on the Addreffes, particularly, Address XII.

But, the better to complete the Schemes of his Perfecutors, an Information was filed against the Author, in the King's-Bench, under the Direction of this high and mighty Juftice. Here the Charge is more copious, ftronger fhaded, and more deeply colored, though but upon the fame Plan and Drawing. In this, the Author is fet forth, as a pernicious, malicious, and feditious Man, of a depraved Mind and wicked Difpofition; charged with intending unlawfully, falsely, maliciously, and feditiously, to disturb the Peace and Tranquility of the Realm, and to bring the King, and his Government, and Administration of Justice, into Hatred, Scandal and Contempt,

By prefcribing the Panel, as fhal! be hereafter fet forth.

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with his liege Subjects, and to raise Jealousies 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 thefe Addreffes are recited; fuch as a Fragment of Addrefs I. Paragraph 4, of Page 1 ; Par. 2, of Page 2, of Addrefs II. Par. 3, of Page 7, of Addrefs IV. Par. 2, of Page 20, of Addrefs 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 ftrongest 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 fhall 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 otherwife, his Perfecutors are Guilty of worfe Crimes, than thofe they impute to him, and he, of Courfe, 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, that dares fhew his Face, prefumes to contradict.

Now, let the difpaffionate Reader determine, upon this Enquiry, whether the Author can be justly fayed to have fled from Justice, in withdrawing himself from an unhappy Country, where Oppreffion has been authorifed, yea, enforced by Parlement; where the Judges are dependent Creatures of the Government, that gave Orders for his Perfecution; where

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*To the Honor of the Bar in Ireland, the then AttorneyGeneral, gave it as his Opinion, that there was nothing contrary to Law, in the Author's Papers delivered to him by the then Lord Lieutenant, and therefore declined the Profecution; and the onely Tool, that could be found bafe enough, to embarque in fo infamous a Caufe, under a dictating, overbearing Judge, was one Robinson; who for fuch like eminent Services has been added to the Number of the King's Council in Ireland.

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 Pleafure; 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 should be conftrained to ftand his Trial by Juries or Judges, that were even prejudiced against him, and much lefs, by fuch as were his declared Enemies; especially, 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 such an exalted Station, that all Perfons concerned, may fee how worthy he is of the great, the 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,

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+ Since the Publication of these Papers, it has been proved, that this fame Lord Chief Juftice directed the Panel of the feveral Grand-Juries, that presented the Author. And upon the SubSheriff's being called to fome Account for it; he fayed, he had had the pofitive Orders of the Court for it, and that he never impaneled any Jury, that was to determine a Matter before his Lordship, without his previous Approbation, if not Direction. -Oh! wretched Ireland! Heaven keep the spreading In

fection from Britain!

ders, for which he might, and probably would plead Prefcription, or on his pretty litigated Pun upon Independency. I. fhall onely give a fmall Specimen of the Loyalty and Gratitude of this monarchical Judge, and lay open his political Principles from his own Words.

Speaking of the Laws, p. 4, his Lordfhip fays, they were made and amended by the Reprefentatives of the People, with the Confent of their Kings, many of whom have been the best, as well as the greateft, Princes in Europe, and like our present Sovereign, have never refufed 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 Justice, or a Privy Counsellor ;-any where but in Ireland.

We have no Evidence of Laws made by the Confent or Affent of our Kings, but our Statutes. In our Courts, no Statutes are acknowleged before thofe of Henry III. his Lordfhip 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 Norman Invafion, which does not excede thirty-two. How few of thefe, his Lordship's many, were good Princes, or were follicitous to promote the Good of their People, let any Man, ever fo flightly conversant in Hiftory, determine. But, We must not follow his Lordfhip's Example in his Treatment of the Author; let Us keep clofe to his Words, and without wrefting them, We may find his Meaning, where he condefcends to have any.

It must be confeffed, his Lordship has kept close enough to the Truth, in Part of his Affertion, 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 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 worft 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 should not have done; and having left undone many Things, not every Thing, which he fhould have done. Why then this bafe and scandalous Comparison? Why is a King, who has, by the Confeffion

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