E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Martin Pettit, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) THE CAUSES OF THE REBELLION IN IRELAND DISCLOSED, IN AN _Address to the People of England_. IN WHICH IT IS PROVED BY INCONTROVERTIBLE FACTS, THAT THE _System for some Years pursued in that Country_, HAS DRIVEN IT INTO ITS PRESENT DREADFUL SITUATION. BY AN IRISH EMIGRANT. Insita mortalibus natura violentiae resistere. TACITUS. _LONDON_: Printed for J. S. JORDAN, No. 166, Fleet Street. [PRICE ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE.] CAUSES OF THE REBELLION, &c. &c. FELLOW SUBJECTS, It is always a bold undertaking in a private individual to become the advocate of a suffering people. It is peculiarly difficult at the present moment to be the advocate of the people of Ireland, because there are among them men who have taken the power of redress into their own hands, and committed acts of outrage and rebellion which no sufferings could justify, and which can only tend to aggravate ten-fold the other calamities of their country. Deeply impressed, however, as I am with a conviction that these difficulties stand in my way, I shall yet venture to state to Englishmen the case of Ireland. In doing so, I rest not on a vain confidence in my own strength, but on the nature of the cause I plead; for I am convinced, that when the train of measures which have led that miserable country into its present situation shall be fully disclosed, it will be but little difficult to rouze the people of England not merely to commiserate a distressed country, but excite them to exert their constitutional endeavours, as head of the British empire, to avert the destruction of its principal member.