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'a priest at Longford' : letter to parishioner
Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker [undated], to accompany 'a collection of choice documents' on Ireland: 'The little volume called "A Sketch of Irish History" is a more infamous work than Cox's magazine [Irish nationalist publication described earlier in letter, a copy of which also enclosed]. I have the volumes from which it contains some excerpta. They contain a regular history of Ireland, and on the first page are these words, printed at the bottom, "Intended chiefly for the Young Ladies educated at the Ursuline Convents. By a member of the Ursuline Community at Ash." 'This work is written with great care -- most mischievous and inflammatory -- and yet it is thought to be impossible to convict the printer for libel. [...] 'Perhaps the most noteworthy and extraordinary document of all is the letter which I send you. It was written by a priest in Longford to one of his flock, whom he suspected of giving information. He admitted the writing of it to Major Wiles, a police magistrate, but he has not been convicted yet, and therefore names must not be used. Pray read it, it is very curious -- an admirable example of the purposes for which the priests of Ireland exert their spiritual influence.'
