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Foreign News
May 31, 1780
The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
What is this article about?
Editorial from Dublin urging the Irish Parliament to assert full civil and commercial rights independently, warning against trusting British ministers and emphasizing the need for resolution to avoid dependency and dishonor.
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DUBLIN, February 10.
It is expected by the friends of Ireland, that our Parliament will rise superior to the receiving rights as favours or even rights themselves, if imperfectly granted, or accompanied with slavish restrictions. Without being fully free, our state will be dependant and dishonourable; with wisdom and resolution then let us use the means which nature, the constitution, publick spirit, our own industry and feelings have furnished us with. If our privileges, civil and commercial, be not now openly claimed and asserted, it will be in a manner renouncing them altogether. We are not to put our trust in any Ministers; this in our situation would be a sort of politic knight-errantry: Wise men have told us that there is scarcely such a thing as disinterestedness in statesmen, or generosity to be found in the policy of nations respecting each other. Let us not therefore deceive ourselves with false hopes; no future time will probably ever give to this country what is now be withheld.
It is expected by the friends of Ireland, that our Parliament will rise superior to the receiving rights as favours or even rights themselves, if imperfectly granted, or accompanied with slavish restrictions. Without being fully free, our state will be dependant and dishonourable; with wisdom and resolution then let us use the means which nature, the constitution, publick spirit, our own industry and feelings have furnished us with. If our privileges, civil and commercial, be not now openly claimed and asserted, it will be in a manner renouncing them altogether. We are not to put our trust in any Ministers; this in our situation would be a sort of politic knight-errantry: Wise men have told us that there is scarcely such a thing as disinterestedness in statesmen, or generosity to be found in the policy of nations respecting each other. Let us not therefore deceive ourselves with false hopes; no future time will probably ever give to this country what is now be withheld.
What sub-type of article is it?
Political
What keywords are associated?
Ireland Parliament
Rights Assertion
Political Independence
British Ministers
Civil Privileges
Where did it happen?
Dublin, Ireland
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Dublin, Ireland
Event Date
February 10
Event Details
Friends of Ireland expect Parliament to reject imperfect rights or those with restrictions, urging use of natural, constitutional, and public means to claim full civil and commercial privileges, distrusting ministers and warning against false hopes of future concessions.