The British nation a history / by George MWrong . -ment had been well tested, the French Eevolutioninspired some Irish patriots with the hope of establishingan Irish republic. They were promised French help, andTheobald Wolfe Tone, Lord Edward FitzGerald, andothers led in a bloody revolt, which broke out in the sea was patrolled by Englishcruisers, France could send littlehelp; with great cruelty and evenoutrage the English crushed the re-bellion, and its effect was to convincePitt that an independent Parliamentin control of Irish affairs was a men-ace to Great Britain. He resolved tob
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . -ment had been well tested, the French Eevolutioninspired some Irish patriots with the hope of establishingan Irish republic. They were promised French help, andTheobald Wolfe Tone, Lord Edward FitzGerald, andothers led in a bloody revolt, which broke out in the sea was patrolled by Englishcruisers, France could send littlehelp; with great cruelty and evenoutrage the English crushed the re-bellion, and its effect was to convincePitt that an independent Parliamentin control of Irish affairs was a men-ace to Great Britain. He resolved tobring about the legislative union ofthe two countries, and Lord Castle-reagh, the Chief Secretary for Ire-land, took charge of the project. Tofew did it really appeal. The Prot-estants did not like it, since it woulddestroy the supremacy enjoyed bythem in the Irish Parliament; andthe plan was not acceptable to the Eoman Catholics, who,-even with their disabilities removed, could never hope tobe supreme at London, as they might well become at Dub-. EoBERT Stewart,Viscount Castlekeagh, AND afterwards MaR-QUIS OF LONDONDEKKY (1769-1822). 510 THE BRITISH NATION lin. But Castlereagh silenced opposition with bribes ofpeerages, of otiices, and even of money, and by meansnotoriously corrupt the Irish Parliament was persuadedto vote its own dissolution. On January 1, 1801, theunion went into eliect. fSince that date Ireland, in lieuof having her own Parliament, has sent one hundred
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