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 is a point, I believe, which cannot be contested; for Judge Blackstone himself has declared in a preceding page, 99: — “That the inhabitants of Ireland are, for the MOST PART (77), descended from the English, who planted it as a kind of Colony, after the Conquest of it by King Henry the Second,” &c. and consequently “THE MOST PART” of the said Inhabitants ought to be considered as standing in the place of the Conquerors, rather than of the Conquered; so that if the Reason assigned by these three learned men has any weight, viz. that some degree of Superiority is acquired by Right of Conquest, it must be allowed, that “THE MOST PART” of the said