The next had all the cunning of a Scot,
The third, invention, genius—nay, what not?
Fraud now exhausted, only could dispense
To her fourth Son their threefold impudence.”
It is said that Ireland was so enraged at this publication that he broke the shop windows where it was exposed for sale.
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In the days of Daniel O’Connell beards were not usually worn, and in the House of Commons, Col. Sibthorp, M.P. for Lincoln, was the only member who wore one. O’Connell, wishing to retort to some attacks made on him by Colonel Sibthorp, Col. Verner, M.P. for Armagh County, and Col. Gore, M.P. for Sligo county, composed the following parody:—
“Three colonels in three distant counties born,
Armagh, Sligo, and Lincoln did adorn;
The first in direct bigotry surpass’d,