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... month , the subject of discussion and legislation ; and we believe nothing can better ensure the sobriety of the discussion , and the beneficence and wisdom of the legislation , than the putting the English people in general in ...
... month , the subject of discussion and legislation ; and we believe nothing can better ensure the sobriety of the discussion , and the beneficence and wisdom of the legislation , than the putting the English people in general in ...
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... months only in two years , and returned to England perfectly satisfied with his mission , if he did not leave the affairs of the English government worse than he found them ; and the Lords Justices , in his absence , were entrusted ...
... months only in two years , and returned to England perfectly satisfied with his mission , if he did not leave the affairs of the English government worse than he found them ; and the Lords Justices , in his absence , were entrusted ...
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... month of April , 1778 , the Ranger privateer , CAPTAIN PAUL JONES , made a flying visit to the harbour of Belfast . The towns - folk of Belfast , through their chief magistrate , applied to Dublin Castle for protection ; and Dublin ...
... month of April , 1778 , the Ranger privateer , CAPTAIN PAUL JONES , made a flying visit to the harbour of Belfast . The towns - folk of Belfast , through their chief magistrate , applied to Dublin Castle for protection ; and Dublin ...
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... months , Ireland had an army of citizen - soldiers , to the number of forty thousand and more , well appointed , well disciplined , and well officered , with the flower of the demo- cracy in its ranks , and the heads of the aristocracy ...
... months , Ireland had an army of citizen - soldiers , to the number of forty thousand and more , well appointed , well disciplined , and well officered , with the flower of the demo- cracy in its ranks , and the heads of the aristocracy ...
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... month later , the Viceroy has a still more disagreeable communication to make : - " For some days past , the names of the traders , who appear from the printed returns of the custom - house to have imported any English goods , have been ...
... month later , the Viceroy has a still more disagreeable communication to make : - " For some days past , the names of the traders , who appear from the printed returns of the custom - house to have imported any English goods , have been ...
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agitation arms army Bantry Bay Belfast bill Britain British Captain Catholic cause cavalry Charlemont command consequence constitution corps Court Defenders delegates Directory Dublin Castle Dungannon emancipation enemy England English Enniscorthy execution favour Fitzgerald force France French friends give Grattan honour House of Commons inhabitants insurgents insurrection Ireland John Sheares justice king's kingdom leaders legislative Lord Castlereagh Lord Charlemont Lord Edward Lord Edward Fitzgerald Lord Kingsborough Lord Lieutenant magistrates March measures meeting Memoirs ment military minister months murder nation never night occasion officers Oliver Bond organisation Papists parliament parliamentary party patriots persons pike political Popish popular prisoners proceedings proclamation Protestant Protestant ascendency province Rathfriland rebel Rebellion of 1798 reform Reynolds says Secret Committee Society of United spirit Theobald Wolfe Tone thing tion Tone town treason troops Ulster Union United Irish United Irishmen Volunteer Wexford whole Wicklow yeomanry
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Page 6 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 8 - The landlord of an Irish estate inhabited by Roman Catholics is a sort of despot, who yields obedience, in whatever concerns the poor, to no law but that of his will.
Page 100 - In the awful presence of God, I, AB , do voluntarily declare, that I will persevere in endeavouring to form a brotherhood of affection among Irishmen of every religious persuasion, and that I will also persevere in my endeavours to obtain an equal, full, and adequate representation of all the people of Ireland.
Page 8 - A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cottar dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but an unlimited submission. Disrespect or anything tending towards sauciness he may punish with his cane or his horsewhip with the most perfect security. A poor man would have his bones broken if he offered to lift his hand in his own defence.
Page 154 - Council, issued the most direct and positive orders to the officers cora" manding his Majesty's forces to employ them with the utmost vigour " and decision for the immediate suppression thereof, and also to " recover the arms which have been traitorously forced from his Majesty's " peaceable and loyal subjects, and to disarm the rebels, and all persons " disaffected to his Majesty's government, by the most summary and
Page 55 - To subvert the tyranny of our execrable Government, to break the connection with England, the neverfailing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter — these were my means.
Page 16 - I find by my own and others' inquiries that the people of every religion, country, and party here, are alike set against Wood's halfpence, and that their agreement in this has had a very unhappy influence on the state of this nation, by bringing on intimacies between Papists and Jacobites, and the Whigs, who before had no correspondence with them...
Page 101 - While the formation of these societies was in agitation, the friends of liberty were gradually, but with a timid step, advancing towards republicanism; they began to be convinced, that it would be as easy to obtain a revolution as a reform, so obstinately was the latter resisted, and as the...
Page 29 - ... of his gown only as a just sacrifice upon the altar of his country; that strong statement, rather than pathetic supplication, was adapted to the crisis ; and he proposed to Mr.
Page 237 - I stand upon this sacred and immutable principle of the Constitution, that martial law and civil law are incompatible, and that the former must cease with the existence of the latter.