[39] The following extract from a letter of Mr. Secretary Legge, dated London, May 4, 1740, and addressed to Dublin Castle, expresses very naively an English official's feelings about the terrible frost and famine of that year:—"I hope the weather, which seems mending at last, will be of service to Ireland, and comfort our Treasury, which, I am afraid, has been greatly chilled with the long frost and embargo."—Records, Birmingham Tower, Chief Sec.'s Department, Box 10.
[40] Speech, p. 26; quoted by Plowden, vol. i., p. 253. Note.
[41] Answer to Address of Commons, 2nd July, 1698.
[42] Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland, App., p. 149.
[43] Groans of Ireland, p. 20.
[44] Mr. Prior's Pamphlet was dedicated to the Viceroy, Lord Carteret, and both Houses of Parliament, which proves how certain he was of his facts and statements.
[45] See Note A in Appendix, for a fuller discussion of the question of Absenteeism.
[46] "The present miserable state of Ireland." How like the Ireland of the other day!
[47] Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland, App., p. 40.
[48] Impartial Review, p. 3.