Public Register Or Freemans Journal, The (Newspaper) - October 8, 1763, Dublin, Dublin VOL I ublu Numb 91 Freeman s From TUESDAY the 4th to SATURDAY the 8th 1763 the COMMITTEE of the for a FREE PRESS in Dublin GENTLEMEN In looking over Papers lately with Intent to get clear of Lumber I met with the Letter which you may of as you judge If you think it conducive to your good poles you may give it a Place in your Paper For as I am credibly informed that the Noble Lord to whom it is has it to all from Patron to his Servants and I hear the Author in Return gave Copies of it to of his Friends it may be preSumed the Publication of it can offend neither To his Excellency the Earl of HALL IF AX Lord Lieut General and General Governor of May it your Excellency S H O U L D think wanting in tude and Duty to the mott gracious of did I not hew my ReadineSs upon all to my tor his in any of hib Governments in that of this Kingdom whole Metropolis has done me the nor to me one of their Members in inent Few if any of his have been di- with fuch Marks of the Royal Clemency as the King has been pleaSed to honor me withall And though if I know I needed not this tive to Duty and Loyalty yet I mult think it more than ordinary incumbent on me to give the moil Proof ot Gratitude to my Royal Deliverer every of the Zeal for promoting the Honor and of my Royal And give me leave my Lord to add that your Excellency's in the and important voi long and eminently filled gives that your Excellency would not accept the Reins of Government in this Kingdom but with the noble Intention of fully the beft of Kings to the mult Loyal and Dutiful of Subjects his Royal and Clemency in extending his declared Care to hib faithful People and thereby your own Integrity and Honor my Lord are which every good Man is bound to regard and to promote are my Motives for taking the Liberty of in this Manner to your Excellency before I have the Honor of being known to you Considerations 1 Hatter mutt procure me your Excellency's In- dulgence when you are as you mult be when my Character is known to you that in what I now do or hereafter may offer to your Excellency in my Capacity I neither have nor ever can know any other View than that of promoting the true In- and Glory of Crown the jult Emolument mi Honor of his Viceroy and the Freedom and of the ot Kingdoms all of which are to firmly connected that they mult be if not Enemies who attempt to them Since all jull mutt upon one and the fame and muft rile or fall together If Sentiments have the good Fortune to obtain your Excellency's Approbation when the Sincerity and city of my Heart is known to you what I hive now to offer can hardly fail of being taken in good part though a nuy appear to have impelled me thus prematurely to ex- cede prudential Bounds Upon a Preemption that I have the Honor of by the fame w ciples political and moral with your Excellency 1 to inform you of the Affeftions and of with whom you are to hold in this Kingdom to the real true Friends of the Government from pretended and who are its and molt dangerous Enemies Among your may learn in which Clals I am to he ranked I mall fay nothing for my felt let my Speak for me Your Excellency has tration enough to my Intentions Thele I hope your judgment will approve to your Honor I am ready to lay my open to your Excellency as far as it may be conducive to the common Good And to your Humanity for an Apology for this well intended Piece of Preemption I venture to cede If your Excellency will but caft an Eye over the Lift of your in this your high Office it will afford you a melancholy to find fo few of the great Number whether dead or living held in any and fo many of them held in Contempt and both by King and People This -is fo that it mutt call forth all your Fortitude to induce you to undertake the Talk in which fo many have made Wrecks of their tation But the hideous forbidding Phantom will from your Excellency's Sight when you take Time to look into the Caufe This Wreck of ConScience and tation you will find to have been wrought by nothing dm i trampling all Rules of found Morals and Policy under Foot For I will be bold to lay that upon due Information it will appear to your Excellency that the Generality of fallen Great Men to take upon them the Government of a wretched ple wi h the fole View of and providing for a long Train of hungry Minions at the Expence of a Kingdom To evince this your Excellency may look back and fee the Figure fome of the Men put into this Employment have been able to make upon their Return home after enjoying this Place but for a or two See fome of them and their Tools loaded with Penfions for Numbers of lake a View of the Favorites they have vided for in the Church the State and the Army your Excellency will often find the infamous of Men the very of Britain put into the Em- ts or loaded with exorbitant Penfions which all that or gave Sanction to the and definitive MeaSures of fuch Viceroys never failed of an ample Share in the Spoils of a plundered People From this View which yom Excellency will find but too true you will not wonder at the Bankruptcies and Ex- Credit that have often attended the Arrival of a Lord Lieutenant in Ireland This been found as fatal to us as the Cap am ViSus to the unfortunate of the An U- go under the Ottoman Yoke This may at Sight ical to your Excellency who probably fees as far as you have had time to look back into our the Lord of this Kingdom to Sovereigns loaded with complementary from both in the Strains of Adulation and perhaps with Thanks to the fur Sparing from his Councils and the able font to in the Government of loyal and happy of the free and One Pen My J Kingdom of Ireland Such we arc told great Officers have been in our Days Such the State of the Nation But how your Excellency will foon able to determine upon a little further Examination The feeming Contradiction however will be reconciled when your Excellency that Source of our National was naturally productive of this have often been ed to a Length in this They have Seldom known any Limits to their Duration but the Death of the Sovereign or die Member can hardly a King who has had more than one Parlement It is to conceive how fuch may degenerate may become ignorant of their Duty ignorant of the Principles and End of their Your Excellency would not wonder if you find fuch Parlements run counter to the true as well as of their You would not think them the of the People if you find that they were a packed Convention a Faction fo far from being by the People that they weie con- appointed in to the of the Electors and held in fervile Bondage by fome One or a Junto of a few crafty grown rich and ful by the Spoils of a plundered and Nation un- der the Sanction of fuch Parlements Could Men fo pointed and under fuch Influence be looked upon as the true of the Nation as Guardians of the Rights of the People as faithful Counsellors to the Sovereign And your Excellency will find finch Men ever SubServient to the Luft of who had it beft in their Power to pay them the of Iniquity Upon due Inquiry your Excellency will find Ireland has been too often governed in this Manner j ib that the true and State of the Nation has Seldom if ever reached the of the King or perhaps that of his For nothing has been more common than a few artful Men with fuch an In- fluence in Parliament fetting up as the whole Kingdom while the legally appointed have otten been forced to Submit to be but HO minal Rulers and with the Parade and outward Appearance ot that they may at cafe lhare the Pirey with the Surreptitious Governors by a late too Lord Lieutenant as famed for Spirit as for Wit and Humor called the Undertakers My Lord I am but a few Months returned Under his gracious from a tedious twelve Year's Exile I can not therefore lively Say how far any Men may at preSent Set up as or in the Kingdom but that Smh have been there yet re- mains the fatal Proofs And it is certain that fuch Viceroys as entered into pacts or Suffered themSelves to be ruled or led by joined in g an innocent poor and loyal People of Serving prejudiced and the Crown of their Sovereign while they ed up to and Infamy as their Names It is to conceive how all this might be done under the Sanction cf Some Such as Sometimes infected this What has once been may probably be again my Lord And though under the King with whom we are now and under a Lord Lieutenant of Appointment famed as well for Judgment and tude as Probity and Loyalty fuch may nor openly to yet there is Some ReaSon to four that while none may dare to hold the Lieutenant in Fetters or these set Men
