A Serious Answer to Lord George Gordon's Letters to the Earl of Shelburne: In Which an Attempt Is Made, by Fair and Ingenuous Argument, to Give Ample ... Possible, From Any Inquietude for the Salva - Hardcover

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With respect then, my Lord, to the soli citude you express for the support of good government, and the true public liberty, reg'ety and peace of the three hingdoms of Scotland, England and Ireland, I beg leave to con gratulate you upon your release from a great portion of trouble and concern about the interests of the last-mentioned country; for I can, from the most unquestionable authority,' the concurring voice of the whole nation, assure you, that there is not this day breathing a man whose zeal and as sistance the people of that kingdom hold in more complete contempt than your Lord ship's. This, my Lord, which can proceed from nothing else in the world than that strange habit of blundering the country is proverbial for, is a truth you might have been long since sensible of, and which the Irish nation, composed as the mass of it is, of Papists, Protestants and Presbyterians.

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