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conduct they fhould follow, I would not anfwer your Letter, if I did not alfo offer you fome advice.

As foon as poffible, Sir, fet about expiating your dangerous, diabolical exertions, by fincere contrition and repentance; and, inftead of goading on the ignorant to Rebellion, by persuading them they are oppreffed and bent down by tyranny, point out to them, that their Sovereign feels his happiness infeparable from theirs; and that none, the meanest individual, can be oppreffed or maltreated with impunity ;-the laws protecting the humble cot, as fecurely as the princely dome. But this, Sir, I much fear, you will indignantly fpurn at-for I am aware" the Ethiopian cannot change "his colour, nor the leopard his fpots;" nor you your deep-rooted determination to persist in exciting Commotion, Sedition and Rebellion.

Nov. 19, 1798.

JUNIUS.

A NS WER

TO THE

PAMPHLET,

ENTITLED

ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST AN UNION, &c. &c.

IN A

LETTER

ADDRESSED TO

EDWARD COOKE, Esq.

SECRETARY AT WAR.

BY

PEMBERTON RUDD, Esq.

BARRISTER AT LAW.

-DUBLIN:

PRINTED FOR J. MILLIKEN, 32, GRAFTON-STREET.

1799.

226. i. 168. (13)

AN

ANSWER, &c. &c.

ΤΟ

EDWARD COOKE, Esq. &c. &c.

SIR,

WHEN

HEN I addrefs you, or ANY man, (to whom I have not the honour to be perfonally known), my first care is not to be misunderstood;-my first hope-not to offend.

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The question (Union or no Union) is become no novelty to the minds of the Citizens of Dublin, and I should be excufeable, perhaps, in difcuffing it without preface. Yet, as I make your name the usher of My fentiments to the public, I hold myself bound to account to you, Sir, why I prefume to do fo.

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I have read a pamphlet, (read it, in MANY places with admiration, and I hope, in ALL with respect and temper) I have read a pamphlet, entitled "Arguments for and against an Union, between Great Britain and Ireland," and I have heard, (univerfally heard), that you are its author.

If you are NOT the author of the pamphlet in question, I beg you to confider the few following sheets, merely as a dedication, (nothing more), to a gentleman, who happens, in these times of wars and rumours of wars, to fill a very high and confidential office in the military department of this country, with the affiduity of a man of bufinefs, and the manners of a gentleman. If you ARE the author of that pamphlet, I have no apology to make. I fhall treat you, as I hope to be treated myself; read you with severity and criticifm; ftrive to answer you with candor, fincerity, and truth. I may diffent from your deductions as a politician-without outraging your feelings as a gentleman. To you, then, Sir, no more-to the public, especially the Dublin-public, who have read your pamphlet.—————

6c AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM."

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