ABSTRACT
The charge of Supporting the Defenders endeavoured to be attached upon the Sub-Committee resolves itself into two heads: a connexion with the people called Defenders; and a levying of money for improper purposes, and among others for the purpose of assisting the insurgents. The present insurgents who, with very different principles, have adopted the same name, commenced in April last, and have extended through the counties of Louth, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan, and other parts adjacent. Before entering, into the intended investigation, the Sub-Committee appeal to candour and good sense of their countrymen, whether the conduct imputed to them by those groundless rumours be probable or likely, or in the smallest degree consonant to the general tenor of their views and their conduct? The Sub-Committee trust they have now exonerated themselves of the imputations thrown out against them; and they pledge their whole credit, as men of veracity and honor, for truth of every fact advanced in the foregoing statement.
