An Old Friend, An Address to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, on the Conduct they Should Pursue at the Present Crisis; on the Subject of an Union (Dublin: Printed for J. Moore, 1799)

In this chapter, the author aims to stated, that the Catholics were unanimous in favour of an Union, and that their motive was this, that as they had failed in their attempt to elevate themselves to the political privileges of the Protestants, they were determined to have the satisfaction of seeing the Protestants brought down to their own level. Whilst Ireland continues a separate kingdom, the Catholics will not drop their claims, nor the argument of numbers in their favour. So far from dropping their claims, they have already renewed them; and the Catholics of Waterford, in an address to the Lord Lieutenant, have repeated their demand for political equality, and advanced it on a plea of merit. They have still, and will ever have, electioneering partizans in parliament, and speculative advocates in England, to feed their hopes, and they will be supported by every open opposer and secret ill-wisher to the government.”