... plan ; and Mr. H. Grattan (Meath) moved an Amendment, to the effect that it was essential to the peace of Ireland to extinguish tithes, but that just compensation should be. given to those who had vested interests in them. Mr. Grattan observed that a gentleman ...

... memorandums, stated that the cause of the great misery in the south of Ireland must be ascribed to the exaction of tithes. Mr. Grattan was of the same opinion and Mr. Pitt coincided in opinion with his great rival Fox. Mr. Pitt said, that wttbout some great ...