... express his opinion of the melancholy state of Ireland. Its Government was utterly incapable; its head was surrounded with old Whigs, who kept him in utter ignorance; and its Chief Secretary was both incapable and unpopular. There was every element of distress ...

... he At one of her small land agreeable dinners in Park-street (all ad the company except herself being Whigs), the desperete prospects of the Whig party were discussed, 1Yes, Said Sidneybmaitl, who was present, 1 ve are in amost deplorable ceudrition ...