... nt to me. Brave old gentleman-we hope not. Of that same agricultural protection, by the way, Sir Robert can say, as Grattan said of Irish liberty, that he stood by its cradle and followed its hearse-with the not unimportant difference that the funeral ...

... Western Circuit, a friend of William Adam's, Francis Horner's, Manners Sutton's, and other distinguished men, a fellow of St John's in Cambridge, of good reputation as a scholar and fair ability as a lawyer, but with a practice so moderate and little likely ...

... likely to have a conversation in Parliament, I am pretty authentically informed, of even a more delicate nature than the last ; John Rolle intending to bring forward his old subject of Mrs Fitzberbert. Rolle and Sheridan had a whispering conference under the ...

... zeal was much increased by the conversation and ex- ample of two of my companions and contemporaries in particular- John Symmons and John Conybeare. Conybeare had no great depth of learning, for he had not the necessary diligence; but he had quick natural ...

... throughout, the want of strength and steadfastness of purpose which he considers to have been manifested by the ministry. Sir John Burgoyne's opinion of the inability of the Turks to defend the Danube or even the line of the Balkan against Russia, caused ...

... which early showed itself between Lords Cardigan and Lucan, declaring the latter, however, to be the superior officer, and attributing entirely to his caution the fact that the Light Brigade was not, by Lord Cardigan's fool-hardiness, swallowed up at the ...

... and fine horses, but not for riding-I love to go fast-I would cut the air. Grattan's talk was more fairly to be represented in a note-book than that of Fox. Fox, said Grattan, had no curiosa felicitas in expression, though much of it in his arrangement ...

... neighbourhood as an ecclesias- tical reformer. The prelate of St David's being negligent of oversight, the people of Pembroke and Cardigan, negligent of duty, withheld tithes of wool and cheese. Gerald directed to these enormities the attention of the Archbishop ...

... consequence of the miserable Harney affair, Mr Grattan fairly warned his countrymen that *war was immi- nent. The matter was, however, patched up; but the heart-burning did not cease. The whole tendency of Mr Grattan's elaborate explanations is to make it appear ...

... and graceful form. Her father the Captain had taken charge of the Italian wife and daughter of a friend who had died in his arms on the field of battle. After a time he married the widow, and before she died she had left him two children, Owen and B3eatrice ...

... one franc, as you will, and veal the same-a lump for a song; and then fish, yon had a fish as long as my arm,-and the overseer stretched out his arm with a grimace- for four sons, there was plenty-now al ! par- bleu ! Yesterdcy arfd To-day. By Cyrus ...

... nt in opinion between them, Catholic emancipation. For the Earl of Charlemont, who had previously given the same seat to Grattan, though a Liberal and patriotic Icishman and, like Plunket, strongly against the 'Union, had a strong prejudice against granting ...