Some of his friends, indeed, hoped that they should be able to insert in the bill a clause bestowing on him all the confiscated estates in the county of Tipperary.

But they found that it would be prudent in them to content themselves with conferring on him a boon smaller in amount, but equally objectionable in principle.

He had owed very large debts to persons who had forfeited to the Crown all that belonged to them.

Those debts were therefore now due from him to the Crown.

The House determined to make him a present of the whole, that very House which would not consent to leave a single acre to the general who had stormed Athlone, who had gained the battle of Aghrim, who had entered Galway in triumph, and who had received the submission of Limerick.
That a bill so violent, so unjust, and so unconstitutional would pass the Lords without considerable alteration was hardly to be expected.