An abuse of a good law caused the evil in the one case, and a removal of that abuse is now rapidly effecting a remedy.

In the other case the evil appears to have arisen rather from the want than the abuse of a law; but the corrective for both will, I believe, be found to be essentially the same.' The expectation that such a neglected people, made wretched by bad land laws, should be loyal, was surely unreasonable.

For them, it might be said, there was no Government, no protection, no encouragement.

There could not be more tempting materials for agitators to work upon.

Lord Cloncurry vividly sketches the state of things resulting from the want of principle and earnestness among politicians in dealing with Irish questions at that time.
'From the Union up to the year 1829, the type of British colonial government was the order of the day.