In 1807 the _Letters of Peter Plymley_ to his brother Abraham on
the subject of the Irish Catholics were published. "The letters",
as Professor Henry Morley says, "fell like sparks on a heap of
gunpowder. All London, and soon all England, were alive to the
sound reason recommended by a lively wit." The example of his
satiric force and sarcastic ratiocination cited below is the Second
Letter in the Series.