... measure was designed to clothe Lord Clarendon with arbitrary authority. He would become the great jailer of Ireland ; but Lord John Russell knew that the Irish landlords, the authors of all the evils of Ireland, would support him in this measure, and in ...

... chits, in the total of about 80,000 men of the fighting ago. Of those niece than half were more or less armed in M~y, and the other hlfU were acquiring arms as fast as they could where money w-ais scarce cud military weapons dear. I have hisown half-employed ...