By J.P. Kennedy,
formerly an officer of the corps of Royal Engineers, and late Secretary
of the Land and Relief Commissions. Dublin: Alex. Thom, 1847. Halliday
Pamphlets, vol. 1993._
[135] _Ibid._ The italics are Mr. Kennedy's.
[136] Now Lord Emly.
[137] "The works under the 9th and 10th Vict., cap. 107, (the
Labour-rate Act,) were to be sanctioned for sake of this relief, and not
for sake of the works themselves."--_Mr. Trevelyan's Letter to
Lieutenant-Colonel Jones, Board of Works' Series of Blue Books, vol. L.,
p_. 97.
[138] See Proclamation, in Appendix, Note D. "The intended meeting in
Dublin will be _now_ abandoned, as the promoters of it must be satisfied
with Lord Bessborough's Proclamation."--_Mr. Pierce Mahony to the Earl
of Clarendon, 6th October, Commissariat Series of Blue Books, vol. I.,
p. 123_.
Mr. Pierce Mahony was a very well-known Dublin solicitor; a man of
position, and evidently in the confidence of Lord Clarendon. He writes
from the Stephen's-Green Club, the recognised representative body of the
Whigs in Ireland. How anxious the Government must have been that a chief
effect of their proclamation would be to prevent the intended
demonstration in Dublin is patent from the hurry with which Mr.
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