rance of the facts and
sentiments of that time. Throughout the years 1799 and 1800 the thought
of invasion filled the minds of loyalists with dread, of malcontents
with eager hope.

Nevertheless Pitt saw in the Union, not merely an expedient necessitated
by war, but a permanent uplift for the whole nation. From the not
dissimilar case of the Union with Scotland he augured hopefully for
Ireland, believing that her commerce would thrive not less than that of
North Britain. Still more did he found his hopes upon the religious
settlement whereby he sought to crown his work. Ever since the days of
Queen Elizabeth the strife between the Protestants and Catholics had
marred the fortunes of that land. Pitt believed that it could be stilled
in the larger political unity for which he now prepared.

FOOTNOTES:

[555] Pretyman MSS.

[556] "Mems. of Fox," iii, 150; "Grattan Mems.," iv, 435.

[557] Virgil, "Aen.," xii, 189-91. "As for me, I will neither bid the
Italians obey the Trojans, nor do I seek a new sovereignty. Let both
peoples, unsubdued, submit to an eternal compact with equal laws." The
correct reading is "Nec mihi regna peto," which Pitt altered to "nova."

[558] Pitt MSS., 196, 320.

[559] Pretyman MSS. See "Cornwallis Corresp.," iii, 125, 210, for
Unionist sentiment in Cork.

[560] Pitt MSS., 189.

[561] "Cornwallis Corresp.," iii, 52, 54; Hunt, "Pol. Hist. of England,"
x, 447.

[562] B.M. Add. MSS., 35455.

[563] B.M. Add. MSS., 35455.

[564] "Life of Wilberforce," ii, 227.

[565] These were boroughs in which all holders of tenements where a pot
could be boiled had votes. See Porritt, ii, 186, 350.

[566] "Castlereagh Corresp.," iv, 8-10.

[567] "Cornwallis Corresp.," iii, 101, 102, 226; "Castlereagh Corresp.,"
iii, 260; Plowden (ii, 550), without proof, denies the existence of
Downshire's fund.

[568] "Castlereagh Corresp.," iii, 135, 226. On the proposed changes in
the Catechism there is a long _precis_ in the Pretyman MSS., being a
summary of the correspondence of Lords Castlereagh and Hobart with
Archbishop Troy and Bishop Moylan.

[569] B.M. Add. MSS., 35455; "Dropmore P.," vi, 121.

[570] "Castlereagh Corresp.," iii, 263, 278.

[571] M. Mac Donagh, "The Viceroy's Post-Bag," 43-53; "Cornwallis
Corresp.," iii, 245, 251-6, 267, 318-21.

CHAPTER XX

RESIGNATION

It is well known that no quiet could subsist in a country where
there is not a Church Establishment.--G