[84] [Plowden.] In 1736 the Board granted an allowance of £100 a year to Mr. Dunkin (who was Ball’s predecessor in the Great Ship-street School), on Swift’s appeal.—[See Swift’s Letters.]
[85] Walk. Hib. Mag. 1777.
[86] Walk. Hib. Mag. 1791.
[87] In 1771, John Ponsonby resigned the Speakership rather than present to Lord Townshend the adulatory Address of the House of Commons, and Pery was, by Government influence, elected in his room.
[88] See Wellington’s Correspondence.
[89] Grattan said Townsend was a corrupter, and Buckingham a jobber in a mask.
[90] On this prorogation, “Baratariana” has—
“Our worthy Lieutenant comes down to the House,
Protests their proceedings are not worth a louse,
And leaving undone the affairs of the nation,
The session concludes with a d——d prorogation,
Derry down.
“Here mark, my dear friends, that our ruin’s completed
Since a parliament’s useless which thus can be treated;
While they served his foul purpose he’ll fawn and collogue them,
But if once they do right he’ll that instant prorogue them.
Derry down.”
[91] In 1739 the English parliament passed an Act removing the duties on some of the Irish Woollen Exports, and this was done for the benefit of the English wool manufacturers.
[92] Out of 300 members 104 held places, and 120 were nominated by patrons under the influence of Government. The civil establishment, with its contingent expenses, amounted to over half a million sterling a year, while the entire revenue of the kingdom was under a million and a quarter.—[Pery.] In 1789, Lord Jocelyn presented to the House, by order, the list of pensions. The civil pensions amounted to £97,850, and the military pensions to £5,827.