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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1775 Excerpt:... that the King might have his'eyes open to prevent their folly, if it were October. really true. First, That it has been debated amongst them,, whether it be not their interest to join themselves to some catholic crown able to protect them, rather than be subject to the revolutions of the protestant kingdoms of Great Britain, and that most of them.at Paris have been of this mind. That upon this design it was, that they were so opiniatre in some points in the parliament; and that, after it, they decried the King's proceedings, to make it the easier to go off from him, if they found any to accept of them. That it was for this, they would have all Irish secretaries and other officers Irish, that they might have it, one time, in their power to manage this matter the more closely. To furnish these at Paris with arguments of the necessity of these things, some in Ireland were employed to write letters to defame the King and his government, and to cry up that of the natives. These letters were all transiated into French, and by bifliop Malony, taking on him as empowered for Ireland, communicated to the court of France. That it was, for this reason, they could not suffer the earl of Melfort, suspecting that he would soon see this matter, of which the King knows his suspicions founded on appearances. That the duchess of Tyrconnel is a main instrument, in carrying on this design, and keeps a constant correspondence with M. Courtin, and, by him, with M. Louvois. That, for this reason, bishop Malony stays here, and had the impudence to give one of these lybels to the Queen, and to propose to her the having an Irish envoy at the court of France; he himself having the promise of lord Clare and others for their endeavours, that he shall be the man. For this reason; it's s...