2001 ON THE POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF IRELAND, WRITTEN DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF EARL CAMDEN; WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THOUGHTS ON THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. AND A POSTSCRIPT NOW FIRST PUBLISHED. BY ALEXANDER KNOX, Esq. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY J. PLYMSELL, AT THE ANTI-JACOBIN PRESS, PETERBOROUGH COURT, FLEET STREET; 1799. PREFACE. TH HE following Effays are republifhed, because they relate to fubjects on which it is of importance. to throw every poffible degree of light, both in order to the present restoration of tranquillity, and for the purpose of future information and inftruction. Had the commotions in this country been merely of a local nature, it might appear impertinent to call the attention even of the other parts of the British Empire to a republication of tracts, whose object was, almost wholly, to trace those commotions to their fource. But when the plots and confpiracies by which Ireland has been af Iletcher |