HISTORICAL, POLITICAL AND MORAL; BEING A PROPER SUPPLEMENT то BARATARIANA. By BRUTUS, AND HUMPHREY SEARCH. In Two VOLUMES. VOLUME I. Libertas et natale folum. DUBLIN: Printed for, and fold by the BOOKSELLERS. To the Right Honourable the LORD-MAYOR, the SHERIFFS, COMMONS, INDEPENDENT and ELECTORS of the CI- My Lord, and Gentlemen! IT This with the greatest propriety that we dedicate a volume of letters, in defence of liberty and our excellent conftitution, to the trufty guardians and free electors of this metropolis. The noble ftand which the citizens of Dublin have of late made, in defence of both, has juftly ranked them amongst the moft diftinguished pa triots. By their firmness and a generous zeal in the cause of freedom, the long loft fpirit of free elections was revived. They nobly defpifed, and fpurned at the frowns of power, baffled all its attempts, rejected proffered bribes, and like men, directed by the genius of liberty, elected the worthy and independent, or fuch as were fuperiour to felfishness and corruption, to be their reprefentativesing flot THE authors of the following letters prefume not to derive merit from them, but they have a fubftantial claim to your protection, as a regard to yours, and the kingdom's welfare, were the motives that induced them to ftand T forth |