text:  We have alluded to the amount of taxation imposed on Ireland to prove that injustice is not perpetrated upon her under that most touching head;--we have exposed the fictitious grievances and recounted the measures passed and promised by Sir Robert Peel to show how groundless the complaints of the agitators are and that if there be wrongs there is on his part a sincere desire to redress them;--and we have adverted to the manner in which those beneficent acts and promises so favourable to their views and injurious to his administration have been received by those who profess to be the friends and are the leaders of the people for whose welfare they are intended--to convince the British minister and the British people of the absolute impossibility of satisfying men whose own selfish interest lies at the bottom of all their actions and who fabricate grievances that under the pretence of seeking their redress they may be afforded opportunities of inculcating treason