the first fire Grattan's shot struck Corry in the arm. The seconds ordered them to fire a second time. Grattan fired in the air, and Corry's shot did not take effect. Their friends then withdrew them from the ground. So ended the attempt to bully Grattan.

In the mean time the first resolution, "That a legislative union of the two kingdoms was desirable," was carried by a majority of forty-six; and one by one the remainder passed through committee, and were sent up to the Lords, where the supporters of the Government were in an immense majority. When the resolutions were laid before the English Houses, the Government met with as little opposition as they had in the previous year; and on May 21st, Lord Castlereagh introduced into the Irish Commons a bill embodying the resolutions. The Opposition could only muster 100 votes against 160 for the Government. The second reading was carried on May 26th, by 117 to 73. The report of the committee was carried by 153 to 88. adjourned, the speaker walked out, followed by forty-one members. The populace outside uncovered; and in deep silence accompanied them to the speaker's house in Molesworth Street. On reaching it the speaker turned round, bowed to the crowd, entered his house; and then the whole assemblage dispersed without uttering a word. All was now over. The decision of the Upper House, under the stern dominion of Lord Clare, was a foregone conclusion; and the bill received the royal assent on August 1st.*

40 Geo. III., c. 38.

When the House

Thus ended the Parliament of the English Colony in Ireland. It was never in any sense representative of the nation. It was the corrupt embodiment of a dominant race. It sold the birthright of the nation for its own. selfish ends. There had not even been a dissolution to test the opinion of the constituencies, the proposal to consult the people upon a question so vital to their interests having been sternly condemned by Pitt as "rank Jacobinism." The most remarkable and creditable thing about the whole transaction was that so many as one hundred members of the Lower House were found, whose integrity the Government were unable to corrupt, and whose honour it was powerless to purchase.

APPENDIX I.

LIST OF THE CHIEF GOVERNORS OF IRELAND FROM 1173 TO 1800 A.D.

HENRY II.

1173. Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Meath, Lord Justice. Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, Lord Justice. 1177. Raymond le Gros., Lord Deputy.

1179.

JOHN, EARL OF MORTON, LORD OF IRELAND.
William FitzAldelm, Lord Justice.

Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Meath, Lord Deputy.

1181. John de Lacy

Richard de Peche} Lords Justices.

William FitzAldelm, Lord Deputy.

1184. Philip de Braosa, Lord Deputy.

1185. JOHN, EARL OF MORTON, LORD OF IRELAND. John de Courcy, Earl of Ulster, Lord Deputy.

RICHARD I., 1189.

1189. Hugh de Lacy, the younger, Lord of Meath, Lord Justice. William Le Petit, Lord Justice.

1191.

I 194.

William, Earl of Pembroke, Earl Marshal, Lord Justice.
Peter Pipard, Lord Justice.

Hamo de Valois, Lord Justice.

JOHN, 1199.

1199. Meiler Fitz Henry, Lord Justice.

1203. Hugh de Lacy, the younger, Lord Deputy. 1205. Meiler FitzHenry, Lord Justice.

1208. Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster, Lord Deputy. 1210. KING JOHN IN PERSON, LORD OF IRELAND. William, Earl of Pembroke, Lord Deputy.

John de Grey (Bishop of Norwich), Lord Justice. 1213. Henry de Londres, Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Justice. 1215. Geoffrey de Marisco (Mountmorres), Lord Justice.

HENRY III., 1216.

1219. Henry de Londres, Lord Justice.

1224. William, Earl of Pembroke, the younger, Lord Justice. 1226. Geoffrey de Marisco, Lord Justice.

1227. Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, Lord Justice.

Richard de Burgh, Lord of Connaught, Lord Deputy.

1229. Maurice Fitzgerald, Lord Justice.

1230. Geoffrey de Marisco, Lord Deputy.

1232. Maurice Fitzgerald, Lord Justice. 1245. Sir John de Marisco, Lord Deputy.

1247.

Theobald Walter, Lord of Carrick Lords Justices.
John de Cogan

1248. Sir John de Marisco, Lord Justice.

1252. Prince Edward Plantagenet, Lord Justice.

1255. Alan de la Zouche, Lord Justice.

1259. Stephen Longespee, Lord Justice.

1260. William Dene, Lord Justice.

1261. Sir Richard de Rupella (Roche), Lord Justice.

1266. Sir John de Marisco, Lord Justice.

1267. Sir David de Barry, Lord Justice.

1268. Sir Robert de Ufford, Lord Justice. 1269. Richard de Exeter, Lord Justice.

1270. Sir James Audley, Lord Justice.

1272. Maurice Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, Lord Justice.

EDWARD, 1272.

1273. Sir Geoffrey de Geneville, Lord Justice.

1276. Sir Robert de Ufford, Lord Justice.

1277. Stephen de Fulburn, Bishop of Waterford, Lord Deputy. 1280. Sir Robert de Ufford, Lord Justice.

1282. Stephen de Fulburn, Lord Justice.

1287. John de Saunford, Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Justice. William de Vesci, Lord Justice.

1290.

1293.

William de la Haye, Lord Justice.

1294. William de Odinsele, Lord Justice.

1295.

Thomas Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, Lord Justice.
Sir John Wogan, Lord Justice.

1302. Sir Maurice Rochfort, Lord Deputy.
Sir John Wogan, Lord Justice.

EDWARD II., 1307.

1308. Sir Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, Lord Deputy. Sir William Bourke, Lord Deputy.

1309. Sir John Wogan, Lord Justice.

1312.

Sir Edmund Butler, Lord Deputy.

1314. Sir Theobald de Vardon, Lord Deputy.

1315. Sir Edmund Butler, Lord Deputy.

1317. Sir Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, Lord Justice. 1318. William Fitzjohn, Archbishop of Cashel, Lord Deputy. Alexander Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Deputy. 1319. Sir Roger Mortimer, Lord Justice.

1320. Thomas Fitzjohn Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare, Lord Deputy. 1321. Sir John de Bermingham, Earl of Louth, Lord Justice. 1322. Ralph de Gorges, Lord Deputy.

Sir John Darcy, Lord Deputy.

1323. Sir Thomas Burke, Lord Deputy. 1324. Sir John Darcy, Lord Justice.

1326. Thomas, Earl of Kildare, Lord Justice.