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During the viceroyalty of Lord Townshend, who became Lord-Lieutenant in 1767, an Octennial Bill was passed limiting the duration of Parliament to eight years, but this momentary gleam of better things was not sustained; on the contrary, corruption was, under his rule, carried even further than it had been before.
By the Octennial Bill, this oligarchy was disbanded, and the House of Commons wore something of the appearance of a constitutional assembly, and there were found in it some men of integrity and sagacity.
In things of this nature it would not be either easy or proper to quote chapter and verse; but I have great reason to believe, particularly since the Octennial Act, that several have refused at all to let their lands to Roman Catholics, because it would so far disable them from promoting such interests in counties as they were inclined to favor.
Without being unduly rash we may surmise that the tribute of seven youths and seven maidens whom the Athenians were bound to send to Minos every eight years had some connexion with the renewal of the king's power for another octennial cycle.
At length, in the session of 1767, "the Septennial Bill," as it was called, was returned from England, changed to octennial, and with this alteration it passed into law, in February, 1768. A new Parliament the same year was elected under the new act, to which all the friends of the measure were triumphantly returned.
The difficulty of reconciling lunar with solar time is one of the standing puzzles which has taxed the ingenuity of men who are emerging from barbarism. Now an octennial cycle is the shortest period at the end of which sun and moon really mark time together after overlapping, so to say, throughout the whole of the interval.
At length, in the session of 1767, "the Septennial Bill," as it was called, was returned from England, changed to octennial, and with this alteration it passed into law, in February, 1768. A new Parliament the same year was elected under the new act, to which all the friends of the measure were triumphantly returned.
The Affairs of Ireland. Condition of the Irish Parliament. The Octennial Bill. The Penal Laws. Non-residence of the Lord- lieutenant. Influence of the American War on Ireland. Enrolment of the Volunteers. Concession of all the Demands of Ireland. Violence of the Volunteers. Their Convention. Violence of the Opposition in Parliament: Mr. Brownlow, Mr. Grattan, Mr. Flood. Pitt's Propositions Fail.
Condition of the Irish Parliament. The Octennial Bill. The Penal Laws. Non-residence of the Lord- lieutenant. Influence of the American War on Ireland. Enrolment of the Volunteers. Concession of all the Demands of Ireland. Violence of the Volunteers. Their Convention. Violence of the Opposition in Parliament: Mr. Brownlow, Mr. Grattan, Mr. Flood. Pitt's Propositions Fail.
It is impossible, within the narrow limits assigned to me, to give even a sketch of the successive stages by which the independence of the Irish Parliament was established. The movement began with the Octennial Act, limiting the duration of Parliament, and it came to full maturity during the war of the American Revolution.
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