Excerpt from Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland: As to Their Conduct for the Service of Their Country The Title of tlns very rare Book is Memoirs of the Twentieth Century: heing migninl Letters of State, under George the Sixth, ielatmg to the most important events in Great Bitten] and Europe, as to the Church and State, Aits and Sciences, Trade, Taxes, and Tieanes, Peace and War: and the character of the greatest paisous of those tunes, tiom the middle of the Eighteenth, to the end of the Twentieth Century, and ot the World, Received and Revealed in the Year 1728, and now published, for the instruction of all eminent Statesmen, Churchmen, Patriots. Polluclaps, pi'ojqclols, Papists, and Protes. Tants, Iii Sit Volumes, 8vo. London, 1733 Time was something very mysterious in the History of these Memous, whirli weie addressed in an iionical dedication to Fiedeiick Prince 0! Wales, and only one Volume of the Work appeared. One Thousand Copies eie -pl'll]t but in less than a Fortnight 900 'copies were deliveied up 10 Di. Madden, and iii all probability destroyed. The late Mi. Tutet had a Copy of it, and never licaid ot anothei, although he made, many iiiquiiies after it. A second is iii the curious Library of MI. Bindley, of the stanip-othce, London; and a thud was sold in Dublin, at the Sale of the Libiuiy ot Dr. Kearney, birhop ot'ossory, iii June 1815, to Mi. Tripliook of London, for GBP8 23. 0d It is believed that the present is equally scarce, andto be much more valuable and intciestiiig to Irishmen.
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