could not deny; but begged that Mr. Miller would not expofe him, or make Mention of what had happened. And the faid fo feph Miller declares, that he hath often repeated the above Tranfactions to the feveral Masters of the Corporation of Tanners, on Election Days, and to the Brethren of faid Body, in order to guard them against such Deceits and Impofitions, as aforefaid; as also to warn them, that they may not, upon any Pretence whatfoever, part with the Key of the City Seal, out of their Poffeffion. Given under my Hand, this 3d Day of August, 1749,

LER.

JOSEPH MILLER.

I DO certify, that I was prefent when the above-named Joseph Miller declared the above several Allegations to be true,

JOHN ATKINSON, Mafter of the Tanners.

THE above-named Jofeph Miller declared the above feveral Allegations to be true in every Particular, and figned the fame in the Prefence of me. So I atteft the Day and Year aforesaid,

GEO. KAVANAGH, Not. Pub.

A PP EN DI X,

Jot

OHN HUTCHINSON, one of the present CommonCouncil of the City of Dublin, declares, that he met Samuel Morgan, Officer of Commons, at the Door of Mr. Mc. Farran, at the Corner of Suffolk-Street, and afked the faid Morgan, the Reason why he was not fummoned on the Committee, which fat, about a Week before the last Quarter Affembly Day, on the Reverend Ephraim Cuthbert's Petition; whereupon, faid Morgan, not being able to acquit him felf, faid he would discharge the Fellow whom he employed for that Purpose, if the faid John Hutchinson would infift on it, and then defired and begged, that faid John Hutchinson would not complane of his faid Neglect to the Commons. And the faid John Hutchinson declares, that he verily believes, the Reason of his not being fummoned to faid Committee, was owing to his having given Oppofition to the aforefaid Petition, about fix Months ago, on a Committee that then was held at the Tholfel, the faid John Hutchinson having refused to fign a Report in Favor of faid Cuthbert's Petition, as aforefaid, which I certify under my Hand, this zd Day of August, 1749,

JOHN HUTCHINSON.

THE faid John Hutchinfon declared the above feveral Allegations to be true, and figned his Name thereto in my Presence. "So I atteft the Day and Year above-written.

GEO. KAVANAGH, Not. Pub.

APPENDIX,

APPENDIX,

NUMBER IV.

County of the City of Dublin, H Street, in faid City, Periwig

LJUGH GREGG, of High

to wit,

maker, came this Day before me, and made Oath on the Holy Evangelifts, and faith, that he, this Deponent, is one of the Common-Council of faid City; that on or about fix Months after Deponent was admitted one of faid Council, as aforefaid, there was a Poft-Affembly held at the Tholfel of faid City, to which Deponent was not fummoned. Deponent faith, that upon meeting with fome of faid Commons, before the fitting of faid Post-Af fembly, Deponent was defired not to forget, but to attend at faid Poft-Affembly; whereupon, Deponent did then declare, that he had not received any Summons for his Attendance on faid Post-Affembly, nor did Deponent ever receive any Summons, or other Intimation, for his Attendance on said Post-Affembly, other than the Information which Deponent received from one of the faid Commons, as aforefaid. Deponent further faith, that on the Day of faid PostAffembly, Deponent applied him felf to Samuel Morgan, Officer of Commons, demanding of him the Reason why Deponent was not fummoned to faid Poft-Affembly, as aforefaid; whereupon, faid Morgan feemed to be ignorant of the Matter; and thereupon called a Man to him, whom Deponent apprehended to be a Deputy to faid Morgan, and charged faid Man with faid Neglect, as aforefaid, after making feveral trifling Excuses, faid he did not know where Deponent lived; whereupon, faid Morgan begged that Deponent would not take further Notice of faid Neglect in faid Poft-Affembly, which was then fitting, and that for the future, Deponent fhould be regularly served.

SWORN before me, this 2d Day of Auguft, 1749,

HUGH GREGG,

ROBERT ROSS.

LETTER

LETTER, &c.

MY FRIENDS and FELLOW-CITIZENS,

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WHEN a City is befieged, the Citizens muft mount Guard, watch and fight for it's Defence. The more potent the Enemy, the more fubtilly they make their Approaches, and the nearer they come to affail the Walls and Bulwarks, the more Vigilance and Fortitude must be exerted by the Citizens, to foil their Machinations, and to repell their Force. But, when the Enemy has once made a Breach; when they have effaced the Barriers-and Out-works, layed waste the Walls, beaten down the Bulwarks, entered the Town, and poffeffed them felves of it's Treasure and it's Capitol, what Resource is left for the unhappy Citizens?Whither are they to fly for Succor, or Refuge? Here, VIRTUE alone, not Force, can furmount the Difficulties, and remove all the Obftacles, to a Reftoration of Freedom and Rights.

THE national Conftitution may juftly be compared to a wellfortified City, within which, all the Subjects are placed in the utmoft Eafe, with Affurance of the most full and perfect Security, to their Health and Lives, to their Liberties and Properties; for the Defence and Prefervation of which, human Art was never known, in any Age or Nation, to provide more strong, lafting and effectual Bulwarks, than our LAWS.

THESE are the impregnable Walls that furround Us; in the Maintenance and Prefervation of which, every Individual has his allotted Share and Station, which he is not to neglect or defert.

WE fhould always look upon the few, to whom the executive Part of the Law has been committed, with a jealous and a watchful Eye: They have, in all States, and in all Ages, ever been encroaching upon the Rights and Privileges of the many. Against thefe, We fhould always be more upon our Guard, than against avowed, foreign Enemies.

SECURITY always begets Sloth. A good Garrison can never Deep, can never be surprised. And fuch is the Strength of our Garrison, that, untill We fleep upon our Pofts, or otherwise neglect or defert our Stations, We can not poffibly be taken or surprised.

THE LAW is not onely a general Garrison for covering all the Subjects at large, but, it is also, a Weapon in the Hand of every Individual, which ferves occafionally for Defence and Offence.

WHILE the Law is duly executed and exerted for the wife and noble Purposes of the Inftitution, the Weal and good Government of the PEOPLE, NO Men, fo fecure, so happy, fo free, as thofe under the British and Irish Governments. But, whenever Laws are made and impofed, in any Measure, or Sort, contrary to the Ends of the Inftitution, or the established Laws, are extended to evil Purposes, or their Benefits, are, in any Degree, with-held from any, the meaneft of the Subjects, the Garrifon is reduced, the Guard, that is, the Body Politic, is wounded, it becomes diftempered, the whole Syftem is in Danger. The People, in fuch a Conjuncture, are reduced to the worft Kind of Slavery, that which has the feeming Sanction of Law, and which they can not therefore lawfully oppose.

THOUGH, whenever any Degree of thefe Violences are offered, the Executors of the Law are principally to blame; yet, fuch Vi olences could never be attempted, but upon Prefumption, that the People were ignorant of their Rights, and remifs in difcharging their Duty.

To make my FELLOW-SUBJECTS and FELLOW-CITIZENS fenfible of their Rights and Privileges under the LAW, and to excite them to fulfil and perform their Duty, in their respective Stations, is the fole End and Purpose of my poor Labors; and, as fuch, however short of mine Intentions they may fall, I hope they will prove acceptable to the Public.

I AM fenfible, that he, who prefumes to advise an other, fhould be endowed with fuperior Understanding and Judgement. And this Confideration has, I dare fay, often prevented many Men of good Senfe, but of greater Modefty, undertaking the important and dangerous Tafk of Monitor, either public, or private. But when the Danger is iminent, and there is nothing left for the Safety and Security of the Rights and Liberties of the Public, but fome Man's interpofing himfelf in it's Favor, every Man fhould lay afide all private Confiderations, all Senfe of Modefty, or Bafhfulnefs, and, naked and defenceless, throw him felf into the Gap, if it were to ftave off but a fingle Blow from the Community, or to warn them of any approaching Evil.

THEREFORE, without vanely arrogating to my felf any Superiority to any Fellow-Citizen, but that of being more patient of Toil, I muft beg Leave, as often as I fee Occafion, to say before You, all fuch Things, as I judge in any Way conducive to your Honor, or Intereft, or to the PUBLIC LIBERTY.

I HAVE already informed You of many Breaches made in the national, as well, as civil Conftitution, and I have curforily pointed out the Means of Redress and Reparation. But, I muft take this Opportunity of enlarging upon fome of the moft interefting and affecting Circumftances in the prefent critical Posture of your Affairs.

UNTIL lately, I thought You had Commons; but, the Gentlemen, fo called, have, in many Inftances, convinced me, that they are the Aldermen's Commons, not yours. Iii

THE

THE Commons of any Society, fhould be their honeft, difinte refted Reprefentatives, the faithful and judicious Counsellors, the true Minifters and just Servants of the Body Politic. The Commons fhould ferve, fhould know, none other Intereft, but that of the People, who delegated the Whole, or any Part of their Power, to them. And even Self-Prefervation in the Commons, that is, afferting and fupporting their own immediate Rights and Privileges, fhould onely, or principally, be done, with Refpect to their Conftituents, from whom, they hold and derive their Power and Trust.

How far thefe, and other Principles, which fhould ever actuate the Minds of fenfible and worthy Men, have been obferved by the prefent Commons, I fhall leave the impartial World to judge, when I offer fome few trivial Charges against them.

THEY have neglected almost all the Rules and Orders layed down by the COMMONS of the Years 1741, 1742, and 1743: They have admitted an Alderman, not onely to fit among them, but at their Head: They have given an Alderman, who fold or refigned his Place, in Favor of Alderman Charles Burton, one of your prefent Candidates, a Penfion upon the Establishment of the City; when the Aldermen refufe to admit the Commons to any Share in the Election of Aldermen; and, at the fame Time, dare not contend for their Right to that Election, though there have been many Vacancies on Affembly-Days, and though they have received Information, that, if the Commons fhould elect an Alderman, it must bring the Merits of the Cause before a Court of Judicature: They neglect contending for reftoring the Right of Freedom to thofe, who marry the Daughters of Citizens; though I convinced a Committee of them, of which, Mr. Henry Duggan was Chairman, from the City Records, that it was a Privilege, as juftly and as lawfully inherent to the Daughters, as to the Sons of Citizens; and, at the fame Time, admit the Sons-in-Law of Aldermen, and any Perfons, at the Requeft of a Lord Mayor, or an Alderman, or a Sherif, to the Freedom of the City: They have ordered the Lord Mayor, five hundred Pounds, at entering upon the Office, for which, they should not have even received his Petition, until the Expiration of his Office.

Look but at the Conduct of the Commons, with Regard to me, and fee if they have not done the utmost Despight and Violence to Liberty, to fuflice, to Law, to common Senfe and English, in their Procedings against me, as they published them in the News-Papers of this City, of the 21ft of the laft, and of the 4th of this, Month.

In the one, both the prefent Sherifs Elect, to fhew what Favor, what Juftice, what Senfe, what Judgement, We are to expect from them, in the future Execution of their Office, joined to draw up, or bring forth, that fenfelefs, incoherent, inconfiftent and lawless Cenfure, paffed on the broken, nameless Paragraphs of my fecond Letter. In the other, an eminent Commoner moved for the reading their worthy Fellow-Commoner, Mr. James Taylor's

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