Within the last twelve months we have seen, in the streets of Belfast, the painful proof that the work of Beresford and of Castlereagh has been found capable for the moment of revival. To aggravate or sustain Irish disunion, religious bigotry has been again evoked in Ireland. If the curse be an old one, there is also an old cure, recorded in the grand pharmacopoeia of history; and if the abstract force of policy and prudence are insufficient for the work, we may yet find that the evil spirit will be effectually laid by the gentle influence of a living and working Irish nationality. _Quod faxit Deus._
[Footnote 73: _2 Henry VI._, act iii. sc. 1.]
[Footnote 74: Lecky's _History of England in the Eighteenth Century_, chap, vii. vol. ii, p. 205.]
[Footnote 75: Lecky's _History of England in the Eighteenth Century_, vol. ii. p. 227.]
[Footnote 76: Duffy's _Bird's-Eye View_, p. 164.]
[Footnote 77: Duffy's _Bird's-Eye View_, p. 166.]
[Footnote 78: See Ball's _History of the Church of Ireland_, a valuable work, deserving of more attention than it seems to have received.]
[Footnote 79: Boulter's _Letters_, i. 138, _et alibi_.]
[Footnote 80: Lecky's _History of England in the Eighteenth Century_, ii.]
[Footnote 81: Boulter's _Letters_, vol. ii.]
[Footnote 82: Cornwallis's _Correspondence_, ii. 441.]
[Footnote 83: Grattan's _Life and Times_, v. 173.]
[Footnote 88: Lecky, iv. 477-479; Brown, _Laws against Catholics_, pp. 329-332.]
[Footnote 90: Sheridan's _Critic_, act iii. sc. I.]
[Footnote 91: Plowden's _History_ (1809), ii. 70.]
[Footnote 92: Brown, _Laws against Catholics_, p. 289.]
[Footnote 97: _The Irish Parliament_, p. 64. Cassell: 1885.]
[Footnote 100: Plowden's _Historical Review_, ii. 335.]
[Footnote 102: Plowden's _Historical Review_, ii. 498.]
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