Excerpt from The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald When Ireland, after the long sleep of exhaustion and degra dation to which a code of tyranny unexampled in history had doomed her, was again beginning to exhibit some stirrings of national spirit, again was the noble name of Fitzgerald found foremost among her defenders; and the Memorial addressed by the first Duke of Leinster to George II denouncing the political Primate Stone as a greedy churchman investing himself with temporal power, and affecting to be a second Wolsey in the state, marks another of those chapters of Irish history in which all the charac teristic features of her misgovernment are brought together in their most compendious shape. This honest Remonstrance concludes with the following words Your Majesty's interest in the hearts of your loyal subjects is likely to be afiected by these arbitrary mea sures; as few care to represent their country in Parliament, where a junta of two or three men disconcert every measure taken for the good of the subject, or the cause of common liberty. Your Me morialist has nothing to ask of your Majesty, neither place, civil or military, neither employment or preferment for himself or his friends; and begs leave to add that nothing but his duty to your Majesty, and his natural hatred to such detestable monopoly, could have induced your Memorialist to this presumption. 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.