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Show A > MW":- ; «w..- = A - . Wrom.wfiwv_ i224] [ 225 1 rants of Ireland, is a point, I believe, which cannot be contefied; for Judge Blackfione himfelf has declared in a MOST PART ofthe {aid Inhabitants are ‘equally intitled to it, in Right of their " ‘Tlaat t/Je 2'72- conquering Aneeflors; for it would be highly injurious to deprive them of their " babitontr of IRELAND are, FOR THE hereditary PrZ-‘vl'lc'gfl, which dcfcend to " MOST PART (77), o'cjémded from the " ENGLISH, who planted it as a kind of " COLONY, after tbe Congue/l of it by them from the actual Conquerors them- felves. " King Henry the Second," 8e. and con- polz'tic, to make any partial dif'tinétion fequently " THE MOST PART" of the faid between them and the defcendants of the 'eongzzered 1/2/23, who, after many years firuggle, are now, atlail, happily incor: preceding page, 99 : Inhabitants ought tobe confideredasfianding in the place of, the Conquerors. rather than of the Conquered, {0 that if the Reafim afiigned by thefc three learned men has any weight, 'viz. that fome degree of/uperz'orz'ty is acquired by Rig/3t of Conqmj}, it muf't be allowed, that " THE " MOST (77) The following Extract, from Sir Wm. Perry's Political Survey of Ireland, will corroborate this juit Remark of Sir William Blackflonc.--" The Erin/l; " Protellants and Church have three-fourths of all the " Lands, five-‘fiitths of all the houfing, nine-tenths of "all the houiing in walled towns and places of " flrcngth, two-thirds of the foreign trade," fife. p127. And, on the other hand, it would be equallyzzrg/u/l', wicked, and i172- porated and blended with them as mafia: People! Having now examined the Opinions of the mof't eminent Writers, that haVe fa- VOUred this Notion of a Right in the Bri- tifh Parliament to Mod the Subjects Of Ireland " when typeez'a/br named," I truf't it will appear, to every impartial Reader, that fuch doctrine is {0 far from having any real foundation to fupport it, that it is G g |