Excerpt from Documents Relating to Ireland, 1795-1804: Official Account of Secret Service Money; Governmental Correspondence and Papers; Notice of French Soldiery at Killala; Statements by United Irishmen; Letters on Legislative Union With Great Britain, Etc The payments commence on 21 August, 1797, and terminate on 31 March, 1804. These entries are in order of date on the right hand pages of the book, and are here printed line for line, as they stand in the original. The Principal Secretaries to the Lords Lieutenant, referred to in the accounts as having sanctioned payments, were Thomas Pelham, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, and William Wickham. From August, 1797, to 1801 the payments were, according to memoranda1 in the book, vouched by affidavit of Edward Cooke, under-secretary of the Civil Department of the Government in Ireland. Cooke, on his resignation in 1801, was succeeded as Under Secretary at Dublin Castle by Alexander Marsden, who was in office in 1804, in March of which year the entries in the book terminate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.