... Hood attempted to revive the old laws against the absentees; and in 1783, proposition for ditto by Mr. Grattan; both failed. *- In 1797, Sir John Vandelear proposed. in the Irish House of Commons, to raise an annual revenue of £240,000 by a tax on the ...

... To give, for love of auld lang syne, The memory of Barns. While courage fires the Briton's soul, While freedons nerves his arm; While country's love his hopes controul, Friendshigs his bosom warm: While woitb and wit shall lustre shed, O'er the soul that ...