The foundation of the Hospital and Free school of King Charles II., Oxmantown Dublin : commonly called the Blue coat school : with notices of some of its governors, and of contemporary events in Dublin from the foundation, 1668 to 1840, when its government by the city ceased . curse of Swift was upon him, tohave been an Irishman, and a man of genius, and to haveused it for the good of his country. Kirwan cordially accepted the invitation of our governors,and promised to preach on the first Sunday in May, 1785,for the benefit of the chaiity. All the due arrangementswere made, and the Rev. Dr. L
The foundation of the Hospital and Free school of King Charles II., Oxmantown Dublin : commonly called the Blue coat school : with notices of some of its governors, and of contemporary events in Dublin from the foundation, 1668 to 1840, when its government by the city ceased . curse of Swift was upon him, tohave been an Irishman, and a man of genius, and to haveused it for the good of his country. Kirwan cordially accepted the invitation of our governors,and promised to preach on the first Sunday in May, 1785,for the benefit of the chaiity. All the due arrangementswere made, and the Rev. Dr. Law is thanked for giving hisparish church for the purpose. We have no direct recordof the result, but the accounts for this year show an entry :— Collection, Charity Sermon, £145, from which greatcontribution to a single offertory, in those days, we mayfairly assume that Kirwans sermon still lives in the stonesof the edifice it aided to raise. Another entry near these suggests the activity of theDublin coiners then :— Bad silver in chapel, £5 13s. gd. Such precarious help, however, could never have enabledthe Hospital to stem this period of depression and publicapathy. But if public authorities withheld direct aid, the ^ Balls Reformed Church iu Ireland, p. TEMP. GEORGE III., 1784-1800 223 legislation of the Grattan Parliament in the early eighties,indirectly almost supplied an equivalent. Of John Fostersmeasure, giving a protection duty against foreign corn, witha large bounty on Irish grain exported to England, says :— It is one of the capital facts of Irish a few years it changed the face of the land, and madeIreland to a great extent an arable instead of a * If re-enacted it might have that result again. This, coupled with the bounties lavishl}^ though strangelyvoted for the inland carriage of corn from the rural districtsto the Irish towns and ports, enhanced the rental of theHospital estates amazingly. Our Nodstown, yield
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