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A quarrel, he says, had like to have happened at Quinze between the General and the Fish. Charles shewed me two of Brooks's cards; on one he was Dr. 4,400, on another Cr. 11,000 pounds. This was the Rich Bank he belongs to. He was Pitt's first Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and died in office at the opening of a promising political career. Belgiojoso.
The Lord-Lieutenant, with his cork just squeaking in the neck of the bottle, nodded; and the Admiral, with officers crowding round, read aloud as follows, part being in type, and part in manuscript: "Commander of Coast-defence at Hythe, to Vice-Admiral Darling, Springhaven. "French fleet standing in, must have slipped Cornwallis. Do all you can. Not a moment to lose.
He has dignified unmerited poverty by prudence and self-denial; and, unable to forget that he is a Bassett, he has put by a little money every year, and bought a small estate or two, and had even applied to the Lord-Lieutenant to make him a justice of the peace, when a most severe and unexpected blow fell upon him.
What with France in revolution and reaching out her hand to Ireland to coax her into rebellion; what with defeat in America and drink in Scotland; what with Fox and Pitt at each other's throats, and the lord-lieutenant a danger to the peace; what with poverty, and the cow and children and father and mother living all in one room, with the chickens roosting in the rafters; what with pointing the potato at the dried fish and gulping it down as if it was fish itself; what with the smell and the dirt and the poverty of Dublin and Derry, Limerick and Cork ah, well!"
Among the peers who had attacked the bill on its first introduction into their House was Earl Temple, whose father had taken so prominent a part in the negotiations for the formation of a new ministry in 1765, and who had himself been Lord-lieutenant of Ireland under Lord Shelburne's administration.
Father McCormack tried feebly to put off the evil hour. "To-morrow, Thady, to-morrow," he said. "There isn't time now. It's half-past eleven, and the Lord-Lieutenant may be here any minute." "Begging your reverence's pardon," said Gallagher firmly, "but to-morrow will be too late.
I plead against the panic which confounds political agitation and political redressal of wrong with crime and its punishment; the Government measure gags every mouth in Ireland, and puts, as we shall see, all political effort at the mercy of the Lord-Lieutenant, the magistracy, and the police."
She delivered to him the white staff, bidding him use it for the good of her people. He would have returned the lord-chamberlain's staff, but she desired he would keep them both; so that he was at one time possessed of the three greatest posts in the kingdom, under the titles of lord-treasurer, lord-chamberlain, and lord-lieutenant of Ireland.
"Ah, well! such a treasure was quite worth the trouble which Squire Valentine took to discover it!" "But, at least, she is of very distinguished parentage: her father was lord-lieutenant of the sheep!" "Such a beauty has not been seen in Kassa for many a long day!" "And all that is as nothing compared with her riches.
There is danger, for there are many to attack and few ready to risk anything in defence. It was otherwise in 1793. The Duke thinks that with every disposition to do mischief there is no conspiracy, or we should have heard of it. November 1. Cabinet at St. James's at one. The Lord-Lieutenant has prohibited, by Proclamation, the meeting of the Volunteer Society. Very properly and consistently.
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