Why, Sir, that was just my argument three
months ago."
The Chancellor of the Exchequer's Bill was carried by a large majority.
It is a pity that noble-hearted Englishman, Lord George Bentinck, did
not live long enough to see how enduring the gratitude of the Irish
people has been for the friendly and bounteous hand he endeavoured to
stretch out to them, in their hour of sorest need. Seven-and-twenty
years have passed away since then; yet that gratitude still survives,
nor is it likely soon to die out amongst a people noted for warm hearts
and long memories.
FOOTNOTES:
[205] Lord George Bentinck, a political Biography, 5th edit., p. 339.
[206] _Ib._ p. 340.
[207] Special London Correspondent of _Freeman's Journal_.
[208] Speech of Dr. (now Sir John) Gray, at the Tuam Banquet, 24th
January, 1854.
[209] "The speech of the night was that of King Hudson. In a most
masterly manner he swept away the rubbish, of the Whig
Chancellor."--_Special Correspondent of Dublin Freeman_.
[210] "How is it that a war expenditure never alarms our practical
public, while half the amount employed among ourselves produces
something like a panic? We spent millions on the Affghanistan war, and
had a whole army destroyed, with no one result whatever; there was
scarcely a remark made about it, and the generals who commanded the
expedition that led to defeat and disgrace got peerages and pensions.
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