3490 SOME STRICTURES UPON TH The British Tri AND OTHER ANONYMOUS TRADUCERS OF THE IRISH NATION; AND ALSO SOME OBSERVATIONS ON LORD REDESDA LE'S LETTERS TO THE PRINTED BY H. FITZPATRICK, 4, CAPEL-STREET. 1804. A.S Levens A POSTLIMINIOUS PREFACE TO THE HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE STATE OF IRELAND. THE marvellous fertility of the present æra in extraordinary occurrences will reconcile the reader to the publication of a postliminious preface to a work, that has been upwards of six months before the public. Whilst the great Ruler of the Universe continues to produce the wise ends of his providence over human beings through secondary causes, the reasoning powers, with which he has gifted them, continue to be the ordinary means, by which he enables them to face the circumstances of the day, however awful, pregnant, or unprecedented they be. To every function and department in social life, appropriate duties are affixed, which arise out of, and can only cease in the extinction of social nature itself. If Bolingbroke observed truly, that the love of history seems inseparable from human nature, the historiographer A 2 |