QUIET OF IRELAND RESTORED.

The intestine broils of Ireland were happily composed this year, by the prudent management of the marquis of Hartington, lord lieutenant of that kingdom. By his steady and disinterested conduct, his candour and humanity, the Irish were not only brought to a much better temper, even among themselves, than they were before their late outrageous riots and dangerous dissensions happened; but also prevailed upon to acquiesce in the measures of England, without this last being obliged to give up any one point of her superiority. The leading men in the parliament of Ireland were the first that conformed; and though the ferment continued very high for some time after, among the middling and lower ranks of people, it was at length entirely allayed by the wisdom of the lord lieutenant, and the excellent law which he encouraged and passed for the benefit of that nation.* The primate of Ireland, who had been very busy in fomenting many of the late disturbances, was, by his majesty’s command, struck off the list of privy-counsellors; and the greatest part of those patriots, whom faction had turned out of their employments there, were reinstated with honour.

* Among other objects of the attention of the legislature of
that country, ten thousand pounds were granted for making
the river Nore navigable from the city of Kilkenny to the
town of Innestalge; twenty thousand pounds towards carrying
on an inland navigation from the city of Dublin to the river
Shannon; four thousand pounds for making the river Newry
navigable; a thousand pounds a year for two years, for the
encouragement of English protestant schools; several sums,
to be distributed in premiums, for the encouragement of the
cambric, hempen, and flaxen manufactures; and three hundred
thousand pounds to his majesty, towards supporting the
several branches of the establishment, and for defraying the
expenses of the government for two years.

1756