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served, lest she should become connected with some other power.There are three ways in which that connection may be imaginedto be formed. Our present connection is better known to YourGrace than to me; you know better than I do, whether thecabinet of Great Britain does or does not guide the cabinet ofIreland in every measure of importance; if it does not, Ireland is, as to us, an independent country , and our connection with itis similar to our connection with Hanover. Another mode ofconnection might be the treating Ireland as a conquered country ;this, notwithstanding the provocation we have received, will notI hope be thought of. A third, and what I esteem the mostbeneficial mode of connection for both countries, would be alegislative union. I remember the having suggested this to theDuke of Rutland, when he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; inhis answer he agreed with me in the principle, but said thatwhoever should attempt such a thing in Ireland would be tarredand feathered. The temper of the Irish may since that time bechanged, and their late calamities may have convinced them, thatan union with Great Britain , on liberal political terms, woulddo more to tranquillise and to aggrandise their country, than allthe systems of corruption which a few rapacious individuals mayhave formed for them. “ I am, &c.

“ R. LANnAFF.”

Letter to the Earl of Galloway.

“ My dear Lord,

“ Your Lordship’s letter gave me great satisfaction, for I feelpeculiar pleasure when I see men of distinction in the state in