Drapier's Letters III, Some observations upon ... the report of the committee
To the the NOBILITY and GENTRY of the Kingdom of IRELAND.
HAVING already written Two Letters to People of my own Level, and Condition; and having now very pressing Occasion for writing a Third; I thought I could not more properly Address it than to Your Lordships and Worships.
The Occasion is this. A Printed Paper was to me on the 18th Instant, Entitled, ARERT of the COMMITTEE of the LORDS His MAJESTY's most Honourable PRIVYUNCIL in England, relating to Mr. WOOD's ALF-PENCE and FARTHINGS. There to Mention made where the Paper was Prin??, but I suppose it to have been in Dublin; and have been told that the Copy did not come over the Gazette, but in the London Journal, or some her Print of no Authority or Consequence; and any thing that Legally appears to the contrast may be a Contrivance to Fright us, or a Pro?? of some Printer, who hath a Mind to make a any by Publishing something upon a Subject, which now employs all our Thoughts in this Kingdom. Mr. WOOD in Publishing this Paper would innate to the World, as if the Committee had a eater Concern for his Credit and Private Emonent, than for the Honour of the Privy-Council ??d both Houses of Parliament Here, and for the ??iet and Welfare of this whole Kingdom: For it