Strong pressure was brought to bear on him, and he was induced for his own sake, after many protests and with much reluctance, to publicly refuse the office he had already privately accepted.

Mr.Taylor professes to model himself on Robert Emmet and Thomas Davis; it is hard to realise Thomas Davis or Robert Emmet as a Coercion Crown Prosecutor in the pay of Dublin Castle.

Since then there has been no more persistent caviller at the Irish policy and the Irish Party in company where he believed such cavilling paid.
When Home Rule was proposed by Mr.Gladstone, he had a thousand foolish sneers for the measure and its author.

When the Bill was defeated, he elected Mr.Chamberlain, Mr.Goschen, and Mr.T.W.
Russell as the gods of his idolatry.

Such a nature needs a patron, and Mr.Webb, Q.C., the Tory County Court Judge who doubled the sentence on Father M'Fadden, was the patron to be selected.