On this page
- Departments (1)
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
OBITUARY.
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
( 622 )
Untitled Article
1825 . Aug . 22 , at the house of his brother , Lord Hutchinson , Bulstrode Street , Manchester Square , the Earl of Donoughmore , a Peer of Great Britain , one of the original Representative Peers for Ireland , a Privy Councillor , Lord Treasurer ' s Remembrancer of His
Majesty ' s Court of Exchequer in Ireland , a General in the army , Governor in the county of Tipperary , &c . His residences in Ireland were Knocklofty , in the county of Tipperary , and Palmerston-house , Dublin . Some of the Irish papers , in
recording the death of the Earl of Donoughmore , give elaborate sketches of his public life , as connected with Irish affairs . The most prominent topic of eulogium is the Noble Earl's steadfast and unalterable adherence to what is called the
Catholic cause , through all the vicissitudes of its varied success . The principle of this line of conduct he inherited from his father , who was the first statesman in Ireland , who , both in the Cabinet and out of it , was the avowed and uncompromising advocate of a repeal of the penal
code , which degraded both the Government and the people , as well as for the removal of those baneful commercial restrictions which paralyzed the energies of his country , while they diminished the general resources of the kingdom . The Noble Earl ' s father , in his work called
" Commercial Restraints , " developed all those great commercial principles respecting the trade of England , which are now , after an interval of 70 years , acted upon by the enlightened policy of the Imperial
Government . All these principles the Earl of Donoughmore inherited , and has repeatedly recorded them in the Irish and British Parliament . With respect to the Catholic question , it is remarkable that it should be its fate to survive its
greatest , most uniform , and most consistent advocates , although for the last four years the accomplishment of its success has been confidently predicted in their time . Mr . Grattan , contrary to the advice of his friends and physicians , came to England in a dying state , to seal his attachment to his Catholic
fellow-countrymen , by devoting to them the last effort of his expiring strength . Lord Donoughmore , against a similar appeal , made the like sacrifice . He went from his bed to attend the meeting at the Crown and Anchor , which followed the rejection of the bill by the House of Lords , and there made a warm and impassioned appeal to the Catholic Peers and Com-
Untitled Article
moners then assembled , recommending to them the exercise of that temper and firmness in the promotion of their cause which they have since adopted , with so much advantage to their own characters , and utility to their great object . The Noble Earl's last public act was , mainly assisting in bringing together the
sixtyfive Peers , whose admirable resolutions at the Duke of Buckingham ' s house he was afterwards the chief instrument of publishing—thus , on his death-bed , leaving the Catholic cause supported by a solemn league and covenant , which bore the signatures of the greatest and most illustrious names in the British Peerage , who stood pledged to its principles . [ See p 570 . ] For these services the Catholics of Ireland
must for ever be grateful . The late Earl was a rare instance in his rank of life , of being a landlord always residing among his tenantry , to whom , as well as to those over whom he was placed , during the active time of his life in official employments in Ireland , he was uniformly a
steady friend and benefactor . In the hour of coercion in Ireland during the rebellion , the Earl of Donoughmore , by his presence and active exertions in Cork , repressed and prevented many of those exercises of iC vigour beyond the law , " which the inflamed zeal of the
partisans of Government were then elsewhere daily inflicting ; he was also persevering and intrepid in the performance of what he felt to be his duty ; and his temperance and humanity , during the reign of terror , threw into the scale against the weight of opinion of all good men , only the obloquy of the blind zealots
of party . As a magistrate he was impartial and indefatigable , and his loss , even in these days of a reformed magistracy in Ireland , will be long felt by the poor and the friendless . The virtues of private life are not fit objects of public eulogy ; but in the numerous family of which the Earl of Donoughmore was the head , uniform and affectionate liberality and
kindness , maintained a bond of harmony and mutual attachment , which is rarely found to subsist in the same degree , in the advance of life , among domestic connexions , and which is likely long to survive in the same attached circle , from the cherished worth , and mild and unobtrusive virtues of the present Earl , who has now become its chief link , and who wore a coronet in the service of his country before he acquired one by inheritance .
Obituary.
OBITUARY .
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1825, page 622, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2541/page/46/
-