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war, its caufe, and its confequences. Let us not be amongst the first who renounce the maxims of our forefathers.

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P. S. You may communicate this letter in any manner you think proper to my constituents.

TWO

TWO LETTERS

FROM

MR. BURKE,

TO

GENTLEMEN IN THE CITY OF BRISTOL,

ON THE

BILLS DEPENDING IN PARLIAMENT

RELATIVE TO THE

TRADE OF IRELAND,

1778.

ΤΟ

SAMUEL SPAN, Esq.

MASTER OF THE SOCIETY OF MERCHANTS ADVEN

TURERS OF BRISLOL.

SIR,

AM honoured with your letter of the 13th, in

I alfer to accompanied

answer to mine, which accompanied the resolutions of the house relative to the trade of Ireland.

You will be fo good as to prefent my best refpects to the fociety, and to affure them, that it was altogether unneceffary to remind me of the intereft of the conftituents. I have never regarded any thing else, fince I had a feat in parliament. Having frequently and maturely confidered that intereft, and stated it to myself in almost every point of view, I am perfuaded, that, under the prefent circumstances, I cannot more effectually purfue it, than by giving all the fupport in my power to the propofitions which I lately tranfmitted to the hall.

The fault I find in the fcheme is, that it falls extremely

VOL. III.

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