[Footnote 137:  Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Tierney, and Lord William Russell led the denunciations of the government in the English House of Commons.  A protest against Pitt’s refusal to dismiss the Lord-lieutenant, Lord Camden, the Chancellor Fitzgibbon, and the Commander-in-chief, Lord Carhampton, was signed by the Dukes of Norfolk, Devonshire, and Leinster; Lords Fitzwilliam, Moira, and Ponsonby, “two of them Irish absentees, who were discharging thus their duties to the poor country which supported their idle magnificence.”—­The English in Ireland, iii., 454.]

[Footnote 138:  “Constitutional History,” iii., 451 seq.]

[Footnote 139:  Massey’s “History of England,” iv., 397 (quoting the Cornwallis correspondence).]

[Footnote 140:  Lord Stanhope’s “Reign of Queen Anne,” p. 89.]

[Footnote 141:  In the House of Commons by 158 to 115; in the House of Lords, February 10, by 75 to 26.]

[Footnote 142:  An amendment pledging the House to maintain “an independent Legislature, as established in 1782,” was only defeated by 106 to 105.]

[Footnote 143:  In the House of Commons the majority was 158 to 115; in the House of Lords, 75 to 26.]

[Footnote 144:  This estimate, which was but a guess, proved very inaccurate.  The first census for the United Kingdom, which was taken the next year (1801), showed that Ireland was considerably more populous than its own representatives had imagined.  The numbers returned (as given by Alison, “History of Europe,” ii., 335, c. ix., sec. 8) were: 

England..................................... 8,382,484
Wales.......................................   547,346
Scotland.................................... 1,599,068
Army, Navy, etc.............................   470,586
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Total...................................10,999,434
Ireland..................................... 5,396,436

So that the proportion of population in Great Britain, as compared with that of Ireland, only exceeded two to one by an insignificant fraction.]

[Footnote 145:  See his letter to the King, dated January 31, 1801, quoted by Lord Stanhope in the appendix to vol. iii. of his “Life of Pitt,” p. 25.]

[Footnote 146:  Mr. Fox, called on by Mr. Alexander to explain his expressions (in the debate relative to Mr. Pitt’s funeral), by which he had declared his disapprobation of the Union, and his concurrence in opinion with Mr. O’Hara that it ought to be rescinded.  Mr. Fox repeated his disapprobation, but disclaimed ever having expressed an opinion or entertained a thought of proposing its repeal, that being now impracticable, though he regretted its ever having been effected.—­Diary of Lord Colchester, February 17, 1806, ii., 39.]