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ed to command the fame, fhall be obliged to obferve and execute what is specified in these articles, or cause it to be executed punctually, and shall not act contrary on any account.

October 19.

Baron DE GINCKLE.

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AFTER a tedious and melancholy narrative of the state of the Irish catholics at different periods, for the space of more than of one hundred and fifty years, I fhould have no occafion to relate the following, had their fufferings ended at the furrender of Limerick. Then indeed they might fubfcribe with others, in proclaiming the change, a glorious revolution! But the conditions they had by that furrender obtained (I may fay fealed with their blood), though agreed upon and figned by both parties, in the most folemn manner, and afterwards ratified and approved by both their majesties, King William and Queen Mary, under the great feal of England, were foon after bafely infringed contrary to the law of nature, the law of nations, and the public faith.

The infringement of these articles on the part of government commenced very early after they were figned; and it was afterwards repeated, from time to

VOL. II.

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