...whom my public duty obliges me to court. My occupation is to negotiate and job with the most corrnpt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every...am supported only by the reflection that without a Union the British Empire must be dissolved. Nothing but a conviction that a Union is absolutely necessary...

...court !" he writes of the bought supporters of the Union. And again : "I hate and despise myself hourly for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection that, without the Union, the British Empire must be dissolved.'1 The English Parliament having passed resolutions...

...in it beyond all bearing. . . . How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court!' ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...am supported only by the reflection, that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved.' He recalled, as applicable to himself, the bitter lines...

...it beyond all bearing. . . . How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court ! ' ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...am supported only by the reflection, that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved.' He recalled, as applicable to himself, the bitter lines...

...it beyond all bearing. . . . How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court ! ' ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...am supported only by the reflection, that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved.' He recalled, as applicable to himself, the bitter lines...

...nature of the work he was called upon to do. " My occupation," he wrote to his friend General Ross, " is now of the most unpleasant nature : negotiating...most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate Mr. Lecky's Leaden of Public Opinion in Ireland. Rribery resorted to. myself every hour for engaging...

...involved in it beyond all bearing How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court ; my occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under the sun. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only...

...most repugnant to my feelings. How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court! ' ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...and am supported only by the reflection that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved.' * About the character of the majority he had no illusions....

...1799, " to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court. My occupation is to negociate and job with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise...am supported only by the reflection that without a Union the British Empire must be dissolved." That is the real case for the Union, which could not be...

...duty obliges me to court." And again to General Ross on the 8th of June, 1799, " My occupation is now negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people...myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work." The conscientious objections of the proprietors of the eighty-five rotten boroughs were overcome by...