THE MAGISTRATES OF WESTMEATH
... MAT IT PLKABR YOUR EXCKLLKNCY, beg leave humbly to represent your Excellency, that whatever may be the causes of it, a systematic and rooted principle of resistance and defiance of the laws actuates the peasantry of this county. have observed the growth of this disposition with acute regret from the first, and from the description of crimes which arc committed under it, characterised by rit of ...