Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of Londonderry: v. 1. The Irish rebellion. v. 2. Arrangements for a union. v. 3. Completion of the legislative union. v. 4. Concessions to Catholics and dissenters. Emmett's insurrection

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Página 337 - Sec. PS. I am also directed to desire that a new Court-martial may be immediately convened for the trial of such prisoners as may be brought before them, and that none of the officers who sat upon Hugh Wollaghan be admitted as members.
Página 209 - The priests lead the rebels to battle: on their march, they kneel down and pray, and show the most desperate resolution in their attack. The enclosed certificate is curious, as marking the complexion of the rebellion in that quarter. They put such Protestants as are reported to be Orangemen to death, saving others
Página 337 - to acquaint you that his Excellency entirely disapproves of the sentence of the above Court-martial, acquitting Hugh Wollaghan of a cruel and deliberate murder, of which, by the clearest evidence, he appears to have been guilty. Lord Cornwallis orders the Court-martial to
Página 208 - with some of the most desperate of the Republican party here, as well as with those who are in habitual communication with the French agents at Hamburg; and his Grace is in daily expectation of some material evidence from that place, tending more directly to implicate that gentleman in a treasonable correspondence with the enemy.
Página 306 - tendered us its aid. These arguments prevailed, and it was resolved to employ the proffered assistance for the purpose of separation. We are aware it is suspected that negotiations between the United Irishmen and the French were carried on at an earlier period than that now alluded to; but we solemnly declare
Página 293 - of just and popular principles, that some persons, equally friendly to that measure and to religious toleration, conceived the idea of uniting both sects in pursuit of the same objects, a repeal of the Penal Laws, and a Reform, including in itself an extension of the right of suffrage to Catholics.
Página 98 - Of Lord Londonderry, Mr. Wilberforce seemed at first to have formed a very low, and, we need not add, very erroneous opinion ; but, when his Lordship's situation became more prominent, and his character better defined, that polished benevolence, that high and calm sense of honour, that consummate address, that invincible firmness, and that profound
Página 1 - immediately rose in reply, and stated, with great heat and emphasis, that " concessions to the Catholics seemed only to increase their demands; that what they now sought was incompatible with the existence of a Protestant Constitution; that concession must stop somewhere; it had already reached the utmost limit— it could not be allowed to
Página 209 - to a party in this country, highly exasperated by the religious persecution to which the Protestants in Wexford have been exposed. In that county, it is perfectly a religious phrensy. The priests lead the rebels to battle: on their march, they kneel down and pray, and show the most desperate resolution in their attack.
Página 306 - interposition of a trial by jury, had, it was alleged, irritated beyond endurance the minds of the reflecting and the feelings of the unthinking inhabitants of that province. It was contended that, even according to the Constitution and example of 1688, when the protection of the constituted authorities was withdrawn from the subject, allegiance,

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