Pittoresca Irlanda : una delineazione letteraria e artistica del paesaggio naturale, luoghi notevoli, antichità storiche, edifici pubblici, antiche abbazie, torri, castelli, e altre caratteristiche romantiche e attraenti dell'Irlanda . orset, precedentemente amost viceré popolare, fuggì il paese inabietta paura.* Nel 1757, La Camera con il suo Presidente ha assistito al viceré con una richiesta che il thathe dovrebbe porre alcune risoluzioni relative ai conti pubblici prima del re. Il viceré ha dato una risposta e un rifiuto quibbling; su cui una divisione ha seguito la domanda se la risposta fosse soddisfacente, e il G

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Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . orset, previously amost popular viceroy, fled the country inabject fear.* In 1757, the House with its Speaker attended the viceroy with a request thathe should lay certain resolutions relating to the public accounts before the king.The viceroy gave a quibbling answer and refusal ; whereon a division ensued onthe question whether the reply was satisfactory, and the Government was beatenby a majority of twenty-one. It was important to have cleared the way to theking, but more important to have chastised the insolence of his deputy. Among the greatest measures carried by the patriots was the Octennial Bill.One of the chief objects for which the persistent patriot Lucas had struggledwas to limit the duration of Parliament. The lease for life which members heldin their seats rendered responsibility a delusion—and the length to which theircorrupt services might thus extend made the wages of servility enormous. Itwas an evil of serious magnitude ; Lucas met it with his accustomed boldness, . Swifts BirtliphiL * Tlif //isliiry of //ir ]oIunlcers of -]?, n., chap. i.; 1)y Thom.is MacNevin. Dublin, 1846. DUBLIN. 321 and at length triumphed. The Octennial Bill passed both houses, and when onFebruary 16, 1768, the viceroy, Lord Viscount Townshend, gave the royal assentlimiting the du-ration of Parlia-ment to eightyears, the horseswere taken fromhis carriage andthe people drewhim home. Itwas a great mea-sure then, al-chough foundincommensurateto the expecta-tions of the pa-triots. The realadvantages werefound in theprinciple foughtfor, and thespirit displayedin the debates, *The next Parlia-ment after thepassing of theOctennial Bill, met on the i 7thOctober, 1769 ;and, as Ma c-Nevin says, the struggle between the English interest and the patriots was n

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1880
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• bookyear1885