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says the infeaious loud Howard , in giving his evidence , " I was with Colonel Sidney when he was going into London , and he did take it , several guineas ; I can't tell how much it was ; I suppose they might be about sixty ; and put them into his pocket , which he said were to give Aaron Smith . " * Our limits will not permit us to accompany Mr . Hallam through his
in-* State Trials , Vol . IX . p . 852 . Aitfoft Smith wae a man deeply involved i » th ? dangerous councils of Sidney and hit ) friends .
qumes into the Constitutional History of James II . and of the Revolution , which he has entered into at great length , and with much exactness . The hero of his history is William III ,, whom he idolizes with almost the fervent feelings of an Orangeman , though , we need not say , upon very different grounds . We shall close our remarks with the following eulogistic character of that sovereign :
" The Whigs , such of them at least as continued to hold that name in honour , soon Forgave the mistakes and failings of their great Deliverer ; and indeed a high regard for the memory of William III ., may justly be reckoned one of the tests by which genuine Whiffgism has always been recognized . By the opposite party he was rancorously hated , and their malignant calumnies still sully the stream of history . Let us leave such as prefer Charles L to William III . in the enjoyment of prejudices which are not likely to be
overcome by argument . But it must ever be an honour to the English crown that it has been worn by so great a man . Compared with him , the statesmen who surrounded his throne , the Sunderlands * Godolpbins , and Shrewsbury * , evea the Sowerses and Montagues , sink into insignificance . He was , in trutk , too great , not for the times wherein he was called to action , but for the peculiar condition of a King of England after the Revolution ; aad as he was the las ? sovereign of this country whose understanding and energy ef character have been very distinguished , so he was the last who encountered the resistance of
his parliament , or stood apart and undisguised in the maintenance of his own prerogative . His reign is no doubt one of the most uaportant in our constitutional history , both on account of its general character * whiek I have slightl y sketched , and of those beneficial alterations in our law to which it gave rise . "
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Am . IV . —The History of Ireland . By John O'LhiscoL 2 V * te , Lon don , 1827 . Longman afld Co .
( Concluded from p . 176 . ) Having given a . general account of Mr . CTDriseoPs work , we shall proceed to make some extracts , and the first shall be his description of the state of Ireland from the time of the establishment of British power m Leinstar t < J the time of Elizabeth , or later . It is a description which should make En glishmen anxkms to promote the peace and welfare of a country wfeteA suffered so much from the miseries a few weffe pefhiifted to inflict .
" Notwithstanding that four-fifths of Ireland was not represented , offer mitted to be represented in the Leinster Parliament , yet this provincial assembly did not hesitate to legislate for the whole kingdom ; while they denied the Irish the protection of the law , they held them subject to its pen ^ enactments . With astonishing iftcousietency , the Colonial Parliament * when adverting to the Irish people in tketi acts * designate them as the ' Irish enem */ as aliens and foreigners in a state of perpetual war , and yet hold them t * be bound by , and to owe obedience to , too 9 e very laws which m stigmatize there
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Rem 9 U > . —0 DriscQ ? t Mhitfy of Ireland , $ 55
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 255, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/39/
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