LIFE AND TIMES

OF

HENRY GRATTAN.

VOL. II.

OF THE

LIFE AND TIMES

OF THE

RT. HON. HENRY GRATTAN.

BY HIS SON,

HENRY GRATTAN, ESQ., M.P.

Non de Tyranno sed de cive, non de domino sed de Parente loquimur.

And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death,
Such in these moments as in all the past,

C. PLINIUS.

"Oh, save my country, Heaven!" shall be your last.

Pore.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1839.

CONTENTS

OF

THE CHAPTERS IN VOLUME II.

CHAPTER I.

Alderman Horan.-Embarrassment of the Government.-The Lord

Lieutenant to Lord Weymouth.-Description of the state of affairs.

-The same to the same.-Question of English laws for Ireland.-

Lord Hillsborough succeeds Lord Weymouth.-His conduct in the

affair of Alderman Horan.-Infatuation of Lord North on the state of

Ireland.-Prudent conduct of the Irish patriots.-The Commissioners

of Customs to the Lord Lieutenant.-Lord Hillsborough to the Lord

Lieutenant.-The Lord Lieutenant to Lord Hillsborough,—-advises

temporising. Sir Richard Heron to Sir Stanier Porten.-Proceed-

ings in the British Parliament regarding Ireland.—Mr. Foster's

resolutions as to free trade.-His character.-Lords Hillsborough and

Buckingham's letters respecting the embargo.-The provisions sent

from Ireland.-Danger of supplying the enemy.-Lord Buckingham's

letter regarding Mr. Grattan and Mr. Conolly, 17th, and of Lord

Hillsborough of the 22nd February, 1780.-Exertions of Govern-

ment on free trade.-Letter of Lord Buckingham of 2nd of March.-

Conduct of the Duke of Leinster.-Exertions of Government against

the Declaration of Rights.-Address moved by the Duke of Leinster

reflecting on the volunteers.-Protest of Lord Charlemont and other

peers against it.-Failure of the Earl of Buckinghamshire to get a