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Some remarks, upon a late scandalous pamphlet ; entituled, An address, of some Irish-folks to the House of Commons

This paper "being printed by the Printer to the trustees, transcribed by one of their Clerks, corrected in the Press by their Secretary, and first published and applauded by Mr. Tr-----d, who delivered it to a Gentleman in the publick Coffee-House the day before it was made Publick; in respect to his Character, and the great trust reposed in him; I cannot use it with so much contempt as some men do, who judg of the Author by his performance on this Occasion; he must pardon me, therefore, if I give him the credit of it till the real Author is discovered. In his first Report relating to the Irish Forfeitures, he has bare faced endeavoured to blacken all Ranks of men amonst us, and has so long escaped, that he thinks he many now use us with scorn, and turn every thing we do into Ridicule. Nor does he treat the King better, for first, he did what in him lay to expose his Grants, and make them appear unreasonable, and now he has the boldness to intercept the addresses of his people to him, and turn them into Ridicule before His Majesty has seen them, which is an Indignity would not be offered without hazard to any private Gentleman. Suppose there were any thing contained in the Addresses of dangerous consequence to either Kingdom, as I humbly presume there is not, whilst they are in the hands of the Addressers, they may be suppressed or altered ... my method shall be first, to set down this Mock Address paragraph by paragraph, then strip it of its banter, that the evil design of it may appear to the meanest understanding, and afterwards make proper Remarks upon it."--Page 2-3.

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