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 we usually call, though somewhat IMPROPERLY,” (very “IMPROPERLY” indeed,) “the Right of Conquest:” &c. Now, I most heartily join with him in his application of the adverb “IMPROPERLY” to the words which follow, viz. “THE RIGHT OF CONQUEST,” whenever it is mentioned as a reason to justify this claim or imaginary right of binding the people of Ireland, either by being “specially named or included under general words;” for I hope I shall convince that learned gentleman himself, as well as the rest of my readers, before I conclude, that “the Right of Conquest” is not “ the original and true ground” of any such “superiority, in the present case,” as he supposes; but, on the contrary, that it seems rather to have