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Historic Doubts On The Birth-Place Of Celebrated Men;
Right Honourable B , obert King ( commonly called Lord Kingsborough ) , the Honourable Edward Moore ( commonly called Lord Moore , ) the Right Honourable Sir Henry Cavendish , the Honourable Chichester Sherrington , the Honourable John Loftus , Sir Fred . Flood , William Hancock ( afterwards Lord Castlemaine ) John E ( afterwards Judge of
, gan the Co . Dublin , ) Christopher Armitage Nicholson , Sherrington Thompson , George Hatton , Win . Todd Jones , Richard Griffith , Abraham Morris , and John Moore , Esqrs . " All these individuals were confessedly upright and independent characters : men wiio were not less distinguished for their private virtues than for their public worth ; nevertheless , each
and every of them were , on that occasion , declared by committees of the House of Commons , " not duly elected , nor duly returned to Parliament . " That the parliamentary agents of that day , like some of those of subsequent times , were not overscrupulous in fighting the political battles of their clients , will be fully apparent from the following statement , which is by no means without its parallels : —
"The Chairman of the Select Committee appointed to try the merits of the Petition against tho return for Antrim , reported to the House : ' It is the unanimous opinion of the Committee , that Mr . Dennis O'Brien , Mr . Matthew O'Brien , and Mr . Benjamin Bradshaw , agents for the sitting Members , have been guilty of repeated gross acts of contempt of the said Committee in their conduct before them by producing numbers of frivoloussuspiciousand unnecessary
, , witnesses , <§ -c . All which acts have been productive of grievous and unnecessary expense to the sitting Member and Petitioner , and have tended in the strongest degree to delay and obstruct the course of justice . "—See The Journals of the House of Commons for the Kingdom . of Ireland , . D . 1791 ..
We may add that the same records announce the numerous and frequent committals of witnesses to the gaol of -Newgate , for prevarication and other similar offences ; therefore , with such facts as these before us , we feel warranted in placing the testimony of the witness Daly in the category of ordinary election witnesses' evidence . It is quite manifest , that if the
Honourable Arthur Wesley was born in May , 1769 , he could not have been of age when returned for Trim , in April , 1790 . But in former days the Commons even of England do not appear to have been over strict as to the admission of juveniles into their Senate . " Fox took his seat for Midhurst in ] 768 , being then scarcely ticenty years of age . " See The Earl of Albemarle ' s Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham , vol . ii . p . 295 . And Wm . Pitt , we are told , was designated " the boy-minister , " ' —
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Historic Doubts On The Birth-Place Of Celebrated Men;
Right Honourable B , obert King ( commonly called Lord Kingsborough ) , the Honourable Edward Moore ( commonly called Lord Moore , ) the Right Honourable Sir Henry Cavendish , the Honourable Chichester Sherrington , the Honourable John Loftus , Sir Fred . Flood , William Hancock ( afterwards Lord Castlemaine ) John E ( afterwards Judge of
, gan the Co . Dublin , ) Christopher Armitage Nicholson , Sherrington Thompson , George Hatton , Win . Todd Jones , Richard Griffith , Abraham Morris , and John Moore , Esqrs . " All these individuals were confessedly upright and independent characters : men wiio were not less distinguished for their private virtues than for their public worth ; nevertheless , each
and every of them were , on that occasion , declared by committees of the House of Commons , " not duly elected , nor duly returned to Parliament . " That the parliamentary agents of that day , like some of those of subsequent times , were not overscrupulous in fighting the political battles of their clients , will be fully apparent from the following statement , which is by no means without its parallels : —
"The Chairman of the Select Committee appointed to try the merits of the Petition against tho return for Antrim , reported to the House : ' It is the unanimous opinion of the Committee , that Mr . Dennis O'Brien , Mr . Matthew O'Brien , and Mr . Benjamin Bradshaw , agents for the sitting Members , have been guilty of repeated gross acts of contempt of the said Committee in their conduct before them by producing numbers of frivoloussuspiciousand unnecessary
, , witnesses , <§ -c . All which acts have been productive of grievous and unnecessary expense to the sitting Member and Petitioner , and have tended in the strongest degree to delay and obstruct the course of justice . "—See The Journals of the House of Commons for the Kingdom . of Ireland , . D . 1791 ..
We may add that the same records announce the numerous and frequent committals of witnesses to the gaol of -Newgate , for prevarication and other similar offences ; therefore , with such facts as these before us , we feel warranted in placing the testimony of the witness Daly in the category of ordinary election witnesses' evidence . It is quite manifest , that if the
Honourable Arthur Wesley was born in May , 1769 , he could not have been of age when returned for Trim , in April , 1790 . But in former days the Commons even of England do not appear to have been over strict as to the admission of juveniles into their Senate . " Fox took his seat for Midhurst in ] 768 , being then scarcely ticenty years of age . " See The Earl of Albemarle ' s Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham , vol . ii . p . 295 . And Wm . Pitt , we are told , was designated " the boy-minister , " ' —