The liberator : his life and times, political and social . w to myself, who under the constitutional terms set forth, amwilling to take any part in the Administration, provided it is notemolumentary. Your minister here will find very great opportunitiesfor vigorous retrenchment, such as will not hazard him in the Houseof Commons, and may create an enthusiasm in his favour withoutdoors. I am running into immoderate length, and beg to concludewith assurances of great constitutional hopes, and personal admira-tion, and am with great respect, Your most humble and obedient servant, H. Grattan. Chap
The liberator : his life and times, political and social . w to myself, who under the constitutional terms set forth, amwilling to take any part in the Administration, provided it is notemolumentary. Your minister here will find very great opportunitiesfor vigorous retrenchment, such as will not hazard him in the Houseof Commons, and may create an enthusiasm in his favour withoutdoors. I am running into immoderate length, and beg to concludewith assurances of great constitutional hopes, and personal admira-tion, and am with great respect, Your most humble and obedient servant, H. Grattan. Chapter /ourtb. CAUSES OF THE IRISH —ISOO. The Northern Whig Club: The United IrishmenClub: Catholic Address to the King: PoliticalCommotions: Treachery of Pitt: Lord Fitz-william, the Catholic Question, and the Beres-fords: Maynooth Established: The OrangeSociety: Catholic Clergy: Overzeal of OCon-nell: Arrests: List of Suspected Persons :Lord Cornwallis Administration: The CromwellPolicy: State of the Peasantry: Testimony ofMary IV, T the period when OCon- nell arrived in Dublin in the year 1707, he had heard enough of the state of public affairs to be fully aware that a dark, deep, and deadly struggle was at hand. It had, in fact, already commenced. 1 In 171)0, the Northern Whig Club ft\ was established in Belfast, at the sugges-ts b\ tion of Lord Charlemont. Reform and par-liamentary independence were its avowedand probably its real objects. But neither Irish nor English Protes-tants were as yet free from the illogicalbigotry of prejudice, and they declared thatno person ought to suffer civil hardships for hisreligious persuasion, unless the tenets of his reli- 160 The Eating and Drinking Chub. gion lead him to endeavour at the subversion of theState. x There was a gleam of intelligence in the impliedpossibility that it might not be right, under somecertain circumstances to persecute a man forfollowing the dictates of his conscience ; there wasan al
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