Lucas. A true patriot would not have
betrayed such malice to such unfortunate slaves as we." He adds, with
too much truth, that those boasters the Whigs wished to have liberty all
to themselves.]

[Footnote 143: On this subject Johnson was the most liberal politician
of his time. "The Irish," he said with great warmth, "are in a most
unnatural state for we see there the minority prevailing over the
majority." I suspect that Alderman Beckford and Alderman Sawbridge
would have been far from sympathizing with him. Charles O'Connor, whose
unfavourable opinion of the Whig Lucas I have quoted, pays, in the
Preface to the Dissertations on Irish History, a high compliment to the
liberality of the Tory Johnson.]

[Footnote 144: London Gazette, Oct. 22. 1691.]

[Footnote 145: Burnet, ii. 78, 79.; Burchett's Memoirs of Transactions
at Sea; Journal of the English and Dutch fleet in a Letter from an
Officer on board the Lennox, at Torbay, licensed August 21. 1691. The
writer says: "We attribute our health, under God, to the extraordinary
care taken in the well ordering of our provisions, both meat and
drink."]

[Footnote 146: Lords' and Commons' Journals, Oct. 22. 1691.]

[Footnote 147: This appears from a letter written by Lowther, after he
became Lord Lonsdale, to his son. A copy of this letter is among the
Mackintosh MSS.]

[Footnote 148: See Commons' Journals, Dec. 3. 1691; and Grey's Debates.
It is to be regretted that the Report of the Commissioners of Accounts
has not been preserved. Lowther, in his letter to his son, alludes to
the badgering of this day with great bitterness. "What man," he asks,
"that hath bread to eat, can endure, after having served with all the
diligence and application mankind is capable of, and after having given
satisfaction to the King from whom all officers of State derive their
authoritie, after acting rightly by all men, to be hated by men who do
it to all people in authoritie?"]

[Footnote 149: Commons' Journals, Dec. 12. 1691.]

[Footnote 150: Commons' Journals, Feb. 15. 1690/1; Baden to the States
General, Jan 26/Feb 5]

[Footnote 151: Stat. 3 W. & M. c. 2., Lords' Journals; Lords' Journals,
16 Nov. 1691; Commons' Journals, Dec. 1. 9. 5.]

[Footnote 152: The Irish Roman Catholics complained, and with but
too much reason, that, at a later period, the Treaty of Limerick was
violated; but those very complaints are admissions that the Statute 3 W.
& M. c. 2. was not a violation of the