arrogance of one man, and the narrow fanaticism of another; these
events are within the power of human beings, and I did not think
that the magnanimity of Englishmen would ever stoop to such
degradations.

Longum Vale!

PETER PLYMLEY.



HISTORICAL APOLOGY FOR THE IRISH CATHOLICS.



Historical Apology for The Irish Catholics. By WILLIAM PARNELL,
Esquire. Fitzpatrick, Dublin. 1807.

If ever a nation exhibited symptoms of downright madness, or utter
stupidity, we conceive these symptoms may be easily recognised in
the conduct of this country upon the Catholic question. A man has a
wound in his great toe, and a violent and perilous fever at the same
time; and he refuses to take the medicines for the fever because it
will disconcert the toe! The mournful and folly-stricken blockhead
forgets that his toe cannot survive him; that if he dies, there can
be no digital life apart from him: yet he lingers and fondles over
this last part of his body, soothing it madly with little plasters,
and anile fomentations, while the neglected fever rages in his
entrails, and burns away his whole life. If the comparatively
little questions of Establishment are all that this country is