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 Inhabitants are equally intitled to it, in Right of their conquering Ancestors; for it would be highly injurious to deprive them of their hereditary Privileges, which descend to them from the actual Conquerors themselves. And, on the other hand, it would be equally unjust, wicked, and impolitic, to make any partial distinction between them and the descendants of the conquered Irish, who, after many years struggle, are now, at last, happily incorporated and blended with them as one free People!

Having now examined the opinions of the most eminent Writers, that have favoured this Notion of a Right in the British Parliament to bind the Subjects of Ireland “when especially named,” I trust it will appear, to every impartial Reader, that such doctrine is so far from having any real foundation to support it, that it is