But he did not restrain with a sufficiently firm hand the crowd of subordinate functionaries whom Coningsby's example and protection had encouraged to plunder the public and to sell their good offices to suitors.

Nor was the new Viceroy of a temper to bear hard on the feeble remains of the native aristocracy.

He therefore speedily became an object of suspicion and aversion to the Anglosaxon settlers.
His first act was to send out the writs for a general election.

The Roman Catholics had been excluded from every municipal corporation; but no law had yet deprived them of the county franchise.

It is probable however that not a single Roman Catholic freeholder ventured to approach the hustings.