Works
Lees published several pamphlets, chiefly in support of Protestant ascendency. They are distinguished by extreme animation of style.
- The Antidote, or Nouvelles à la Main. Recommended to the serious attention of the Right Hon. W. C. Plunket and other advocates of unrestricted civil and religious liberty, Dublin, 1819, 8vo; reprinted with a supplement entitled ‘L’Abeja, or a Bee among the Evangelicals,’ Dublin, 1820, 8vo.
- Strictures on the Rev. Lieutenant Stennett’s Hints to Sir Harcourt Lees by the Anti-Jacobin British Review for September; to which is prefixed A Short Introduction, containing a most important Letter from a Gentleman educated and intended for the Popish Priesthood, Dublin, 1820, 8vo.
- The Mystery: being a short but decisive counter-reply to the few friendly hints of the Rev. Charles B. Stennett, at present an officiating priest in the Religious College of Maynooth, and late a lieutenant of grenadiers in the North York Regiment of Militia, Dublin, 1820, 8vo; 14th edit. 1821.
- A Letter to Mr. Wilberforce, containing some Reflections on a late Address of Lord John Russell’s and the Past and Present Conduct of the Whigs, Dublin, 1820.
- An Address to the King’s Friends throughout the British Empire on the present Awful and Critical State of Great Britain, containing just and necessary Strictures on a late Speech of Henry Brougham, esq., in the House of Lords in defence of the Queen, Dublin, 1820, 8vo; 11th edit. 1821.
- A Cursory View of the Present State of Ireland, Dublin, 1821, 8vo.
- Nineteen Pages of Advice to the Protestant Freemen and Freeholders of the City of Dublin, containing Observations on the Speeches and Conduct of a late Aggregate Meeting in Liffey St. Chapel, the first of June; recommended to the deep and serious consideration of every Protestant in Ireland, Dublin, 1821, 8vo.
- Most Important. Trial of Sir Harcourt Lees, Bart. Before Chief Justice B4 and Serjeant Flummery on Saturday, the 11 January 1823, by a jury of Special-Dust Churchmen, on charges of Barratry and Eavesdropping, Dublin, 8vo.
- Theological Extracts selected from a late Letter written by a Popish Prelate to his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, with Observations on the same, and a well-merited and equally well-applied literary flagellation of the titular shoulders of this mild and humble Minister of the Gospel; with a complete exposure of his friend the Pope and the entire body of holy impostors, Dublin, n.d.
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