If any cruelties had been practised, they must have been resisted by a high-spirited people.

Were there no courts of justice?
The conduct of the lord lieutenant was highly commendable.
The system recommended by Lord Moira would only tend to villify the Irish Government.' Then came the fatal announcement which sounded the death-knell of thousands of the Irish people, and caused the destruction of millions' worth of property.

The home secretary said: 'The contrary system must, therefore, be persevered in; and to the spirited exertions of the British military should we owe the preservation of Irish laws, of Irish property, and of Irish lives!' To this the Marquis of Downshire added 'that he was not afraid of the effects of coercion.

Every concession had been made that could be made towards Ireland.

Every Catholic was as free as the safety of the state would admit.