Grattan's Parliament, though it did contain a single Catholic, is condemned because it gave the Catholics votes in 1793.

The recall of Lord Fitzwilliam, an Englishman and a Protestant, in 1795, is justified because he was in favour of emancipation.

Flood and Curran are treated with disdain.
Burke, though he was no more a Catholic than Froude himself, is told that he was not a true Protestant, and did not understand his own countrymen.

Sir Ralph Abercrombie was possessed with an "evil spirit," because he urged that rebels should not be punished by soldiers without the sanction of the civil magistrate.

His successor, General Lake, who was responsible for pitch-caps, receives a gentle, a very gentle, reprimand.
"The United Irishmen had affected the fashion of short hair.