rs alone can neither
make nor unmake. With the insight of a statesman Pitt now sought to
clinch legislation by sentiment. He desired to vivify the Union with
Ireland by a concession which would come with all the more graciousness
because he had not introduced it into the legal contract of marriage.
But the outcome of it all was, for himself resignation, for the two
peoples the continuance of their age-long feud.

FOOTNOTES:

[572] "Dropmore P.," iv, 337.

[573] "Dropmore P.," v, 82; "Malmesbury Diaries," ii, 507. Sir John
Macpherson called Loughborough by far the cleverest man in the country
("Glenbervie Journals," 54).

[574] Campbell, viii, 172; G. Rose, "Diaries," i, 300.

[575] "Malmesbury Diaries," iv, 21; "Auckland Journals," iv, 114-25.

[576] "Castlereagh Corresp.," iv 8-12.

[577] _Ibid._, iii, 418; iv, 13, 17-20.

[578] Pellew, i, _ad fin._ The original is in "H. O.," Ireland
(Corresp.), 99, together with nine others for or against Catholic
Emancipation, some with notes by Castlereagh.

[579] The first Imperial Parliament met on 22nd January; but time was
taken up in swearing in members and choosing a Speaker. Addington was
chosen. The King's Speech was fixed for 2nd February.

[580] "Castlereagh Corresp.," iv, 17-20; G. Rose, "Diaries," i, 303.

[581] _Ibid._, iv, 81.

[582] G. Rose, "Diaries," i, 309; Pellew, i, 287. Addington afterwards
destroyed those letters of the King to him which he considered
unsuitable for publication.

[583] Grenville agreed with Pitt's letter to the King, but doubted the
possibility of precluding discussion on the question, as it was already
in the papers. He assured Pitt that he would act closely with him
(Grenville to Pitt, 1st February 1801; Pretyman MSS.). Pitt afterwards
declared that his resignation was largely due to the manner in which the
King opposed him.

[584] "Lord Colchester's Diaries," i, 224.

[585] Pitt MSS., 122.

[586] Pretyman MSS.

[587] "Castlereagh Corresp.," iv, 8-12. Both Grenville and Windham
declared in Parliament in May 1805 that hopes were held out to the Irish
Catholics, and that their support of the Union was the result (Hansard,
iv, 659, 1022).

[588] "H. O.," Ireland (Corresp.), 99.

[589] Hansard, iv, 1015.

[590] Pretyman MSS.

[591] Pretyman MSS.

[592] In "H. O.," Ireland (Corresp.), 99, are long reports of the Irish
Catholic bishops, dated November 1800, on the state of their dioceses.
The bishops' incomes did not