ABSTRACT
THE Author of the following sheets does not pretend to enter into a discussion of the Commercial Laws which restrain the trade of Ireland. He thinks their tendency inconsistent with the rules of sound policy, but at the same time does not conceive, that the exercise of them, comes within the meaning of that hateful word Tyranny; which signifies “despotic government, cruel, severe, uncontrouled by law”. He is happy to find that, the epithets explaining the word, do not apply in any degree to the government of Great Britain or Ireland. – The author imagines that the facts related in this weak essay (the principal merit of which consists in its being the only attempt to lay matters impartially before the public) relative to the conduct of our landholders, manufacturers, absentees, &c. &c. will be thought fully sufficient, by every dispassionate reader to involve this country in her present distress without recurring to the Tyranny of Great Britain as the cause which has been rung in our ears so oft en by a Faction, solely with a view to sow dissention at this critical period between Great Britain and Ireland. /
