mount and pre-eminent above every other, I address it with confidence neither to the colony nor the catholic, but to both, and to every virtuous and reflecting mind of both perfuafions, and in both kingdoms.

London, April,

1799.

FINIS.

1

DEAN TUCKER's

ARGUMENTS

ON THE

PROPRIETY OF AN UNIÓN

BETWEEN

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND;

WRITTEN SOME YEARS SINCE,

AND

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED

IN

THIS TRACT

UPON THE SAME SUBJECT.

BY THE REV. DR. CLARKE,

SECRETARY FOR THE LIBRARY, AND CHAPLAIN TO
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES.

[In this Work, the great Objections urged at a Meeting of the, Irish Bar, are diftinctly confidered and confuted.]

66 TROS TYRIUSQUE MIHI NULLO DISCRIMINE HABETUR."

DUBLIN:

PRINTED FOR J. MILLIKEN, 32, GRAFTON-STREET.

1799.

PREFACE.

THE HE magnitude and importance of the commercial propofitions in 1785, had led men to investigate the pofitive and relative conditions of the fifter kingdoms, in order to understand the extent of that negociation.This fubject occafioned much private inquiry and difcuffion between Dean Tucker and Dr. Clarke; and out of it arofe the question of an Incorporate Union. Dr. Clarke enjoyed at that period the conftant fociety of this able and excellent man; and now reflects on it as an honour and happiness of his life. The common occurrences, however, of human affairs having feparated them, their intercourse was afterward kept up by correfpondence and the queftion of an Union was ftill difcuffed, until Dr. Clarke was too far removed from the scene of British Politics, and no where stationary for the regularity of communication upon fuch topics. But the opinions, which had been urged by the Dean, upon a subject of fuch magnitude, feem too valuable

valuable for oblivion at a moment fo important as the present, and which this profound Politician had long foreseen and often anticipated, in his difcourfe. His arguments, therefore, without their meaning being marred, or their reafoning weakened, but as they were drawn up himself, are, with permiffion, fubmitted to the Public, by Dr. Clarke. To his great and virtuous friend his debt of gratitude has been always large: his love and veneration will be endless.