ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW AND MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER (INCLUSIVE,) -1806-- AN AMPLE REVIEW OF FOREIGN LITERATURE. * Be it known to all who are unkier the dominion of hereticks that they are set free from Printed, and published for the Proprietors, by J HALES, at the Anti-Jacobin Prefs, AND SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOMS OF GREAT ΤΟ ALEXANDER THE FIRST, EMPEROR OF ALL THE RUSSIAS, THIS VOLUME IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, AS A TESTIMONY OF GRATITUDE AND ESTEEM FOR THE GLORIOUS EXAMPLE WHICH HE HAS SET TO ALL THE SOVEREIGNS OF EUROPE, AND FOR THE MAGNANIMOUS EFFORTS WHICH HE HAS DISPLAYED IN DEFENCE OF THEIR RIGHTS AND INDEPENDENCE. ANTI-JACOBIN Review and Magazine, &c. &c. &c. For SEPTEMBER, 1805. Is demum profectò vitam æquê lance penfitabit, qui semper fragilitatis humanæ memor fuerit.-PLIN. ORIGINAL CRITICISM. Strictures upon an Hiftorical Review of the State of Ireland, by Francis Plowden, Efq. or a Juftification of the Conduct of the English Government in that Country, from the Reign of Henry II. to the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. London. Rivingtons. Svo. PP. 233. 7s. 6d. 1804. BEFORE we proceed to review this very excellent work, it will be neceffary to make a few preliminary obfervations on the state. of Ireland, and to point out to the reader the nature and origin of the work which is the fubject of its animadverfions, and the motives of its author. For nearly two centuries and a half, the Irish Roman Catholics have endeavoured to feparate their native country from England, and to banish or extirpate fuch of the English as had fettled in it, except during the fhort period that they laboured under penal restrictions. As Spain was the most powerful state in Europe, in the fixteenth century, and bore the most invenomed hoftility to England, they folicited her affiftance to accomplish thefe purposes, and, in the reign of Elizabeth, they introduced five Spanish armies into Ireland, which reduced it to a moft woeful ftate of defolation. Ever fince France has become formidable to Europe, under the au fpices of Richlieu, Mazarine and Colbert, they have fought her alliance and protection to make their native country independent of England; and at no period have they manifefted fo much zeal to do fo, as fince, by the repeal of the penal laws, they have been ad NO. LXXXVII. VOL. XXII. B mitted |