EDITED BY JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, M.A. NEW SERIES. JANUARY 1873. VOL. VII.-No. XXXVII. CONTENTS. ADDRESS DELIVERED ON NOVEMBER 30, IN THE ASSOCIATION PAGE FRASER'S MAGAZINE FOR DECEMBER 1872 CONTAINS EMPIRE OR NO EMPIRE?-BY A COLONIST. WITHOUT A GUIDE. DEMONOLOGY. III. IV.-By M. D. CONWAY. SIX WEEKS IN NORTH AND SOUTH TYROL. (WITH A MAP.)-BY WILLIAM THE IRISH BRIGADE IN THE SERVICE OF FRANCE (1698-1791). THE TRUE SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTS. POSSIBILITIES OF FREE RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN SCOTLAND. CONCERNING THE DISADVANTAGES OF LIVING IN A SMALL COM- DOMESTIC SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS.-BY ROBERT RAWLINSON, C.E. C.B. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Correspondents are desired to observe that all Communications must be Rejected Contributions cannot be returned. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. JANUARY 1873. ADDRESS BY J. A. FROUDE, DELIVERED NOVEMBER 30, IN THE ASSOCIATION HALL, NEW YORK, L ADIES AND GENTLEMEN: If my object in coming to this country was to draw attention to the Irish subject, I may so far be said to have succeeded. I have succeeded also, beyond my expectation, in eliciting a counter-statement containing the opinions of the Irish people themselves on their past history, the most complete, the most symmetrical, the most thoroughgoing which has yet been given to the world. The successive positions taken by Father Burke have been long familiar to me, some in one book and some in another. But nowhere have so many of them been combined so artistically, and not till now have they been presented in what may be called an authoritative form. Father Burke regrets that I should have obliged him to reopen wounds which he would have preferred to have left closed. I conceive, on the other hand, that a wound is never healed so long as there is misunderstanding. England and Ireland can approach each other only on the basis of truth, and so long as Irish children are fed with the story which Father Burke has so eloquently told, so long they must regard England with eyes of utter detestation, until full atonement be made for past wrongs. If Father Burke's account is true, let England know it, look it in the face, and acknowledge it. If it be an illusion, or tissue of illusions, then VOL. VII.-NO. XXXVII. NEW SERIES. it is equally desirable that the Irish should know it, and a bridge of solid fact be laid across the gulf that divides us. A subject of this kind can only usefully be treated from the platform if the audience will bear their share of the burden, if they will test by reference what they hear, compare evidence, and analyse it. You will learn more from the books to which I shall refer you than you can learn from me in the time for which I shall address you. I shall myself venture to indicate the particulars where Father Burke's narration specially needs examination, and refer you to authorities. That an Irishman's view should be dif ferent from an Englishman's view is natural and inevitable; but the difference must be limited by facts, which are easily ascertainable. When they are not ascertainable elsewhere, as, for instance, when Father Burke attributes words to me which I never uttered, I shall venture to speak with authority. I must throw off with a point of this kind. The Father says I have come to America to ask for the extraordinary verdict that England has been right in the manner in which she has treated Ireland for 700 years. Considering that I have drawn a heavier indictment against England in the course of my lectures than she will probably thank me for, considering that I have B 2 |