ABSTRACT
These essays, written by leading members of the developing Patriot party in the Irish Parliament, attack all the actions and policies of Lord Lieutenant Town-shend between 1769 and 1772. They are all highly critical of what their authors believe to be the threat that the Irish executive poses to the constitutional rights of the Irish Parliament and the liberties of the Irish people. They admit that the liberty of the press has expanded in Ireland in recent years, but they protest that the Irish Parliament has remained too subservient to the executive in both Ireland and Britain. Some of the essays provide accounts of political developments in the imaginary country of Baratariana, but the observations and reflections contained in them are all aimed in fact at the recent conduct of Lord Town-shend. The first appendix includes the protest by a minority of Lords against a non-member for entering a protest in the Journals of the Irish House of Lords.
