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Title: The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed
In an Address to the People of England, in Which It Is Proved by Incontrovertible Facts, That the System for Some Years Pursued in That Country, Has Driven It into Its Present Dreadful Situation

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THE CAUSES OF THE REBELLION IN IRELAND DISCLOSED,

IN AN _Address to the People of England_.

IN WHICH IT IS PROVED BY INCONTROVERTIBLE FACTS,

THAT THE _System for some Years pursued in that Country_,

HAS DRIVEN IT INTO ITS PRESENT DREADFUL SITUATION.

BY AN IRISH EMIGRANT.

Insita mortalibus natura violentiae resistere. TACITUS.

_LONDON_:

Printed for J. S. JORDAN, No. 166, Fleet Street.

[PRICE ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE.]

CAUSES OF THE REBELLION,

&c. &c.

FELLOW SUBJECTS,

It is always a bold undertaking in a private individual to become the
advocate of a suffering people. It is peculiarly difficult at the
present moment to be the advocate of the people of Ireland, because
there are among them men who have taken the power of redress into their
own hands, and committed acts of outrage and rebellion which no
sufferings could justify, and which can only tend to aggravate ten-fold
the other calamities of their country. Deeply impressed, however, as I
am with a conviction that these difficulties stand in my way, I shall
yet venture to state to Englishmen the case of Ireland. In doing so, I
rest not on a vain confidence in my own strength, but on the nature of
the cause I plead; for I am convinced, that when the train of measures
which have led that miserable country into its present situation shall
be fully disclosed, it will be but little difficult to rouze the people
of England not merely to commiser