d and of Castlereagh has been
found capable for the moment of revival. To aggravate or sustain Irish
disunion, religious bigotry has been again evoked in Ireland. If the
curse be an old one, there is also an old cure, recorded in the grand
pharmacopoeia of history; and if the abstract force of policy and
prudence are insufficient for the work, we may yet find that the evil
spirit will be effectually laid by the gentle influence of a living and
working Irish nationality. _Quod faxit Deus._

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 73: _2 Henry VI._, act iii. sc. 1.]

[Footnote 74: Lecky's _History of England in the Eighteenth Century_,
chap, vii. vol. ii, p. 205.]

[Footnote 75: Lecky's _History of England in the Eighteenth Century_,
vol. ii. p. 227.]

[Footnote 76: Duffy's _Bird's-Eye View_, p. 164.]

[Footnote 77: Duffy's _Bird's-Eye View_, p. 166.]

[Footnote 78: See Ball's _History of the Church of Ireland_, a valuable
work, deserving of more attention than it seems to have received.]

[Footnote 79: Boulter's _Letters_, i. 138, _et alibi_.]

[Footnote 80: Lecky's _History of England in the Eighteenth Century_,
ii.]

[Footnote 81: Boulter's _Letters_, vol. ii.]

[Footnote 82: Cornwallis's _Correspondence_, ii. 441.]

[Footnote 83: Grattan's _Life and Times_, v. 173.]

[Footnote 84: Lecky, ii. 430.]

[Footnote 85: Duffy, p. 177.]

[Footnote 86: Schiller's _Wallenstein_.]

[Footnote 87: Lecky, iv. 489.]

[Footnote 88: Lecky, iv. 477-479; Brown, _Laws against Catholics_, pp.
329-332.]

[Footnote 89: Lecky, pp. 499-501.]

[Footnote 90: Sheridan's _Critic_, act iii. sc. I.]

[Footnote 91: Plowden's _History_ (1809), ii. 70.]

[Footnote 92: Brown, _Laws against Catholics_, p. 289.]

[Footnote 93: Lecky, i. 297.]

[Footnote 94: Plowden, i. 297.]

[Footnote 95: 1 Geo. II. c. ix. sect 7.]

[Footnote 96: See Lecky, vi. 521.]

[Footnote 97: _The Irish Parliament_, p. 64. Cassell: 1885.]

[Footnote 98: See Lecky, vi. 492, 493.]

[Footnote 99: Lecky, vi. 567.]

[Footnote 100: Plowden's _Historical Review_, ii. 335.]

[Footnote 101: Ibid., ii. 353.]

[Footnote 102: Plowden's _Historical Review_, ii. 498.]

[Footnote 103: Ibid., ii. 357.]

[Footnote 104: Ibid., ii. 505.]

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