The speech of the late rt. hon. john, earl of clare, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland: delivered in the irish house of peers on the second reading of the bill for the relief of his majesty's roman catholic subjects, in ireland, March 13, 1793. (First printed in Dublin 1798.) To which is now added a preface.
London.
Printed for J. J. Stockdale, 1813.
8vo.
41, 3pp. With three terminal pages of publisher's advertisements. Uncut and unopened in modern cream paper boards. Rubbed and marked. Early inked ownership inscription to head of title page, occasional marginal loss, scattered spotting.
A speech delivered in government by John FitzGibbon, first Earl of Clare (1748-1802), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who was convinced of the necessity for a legislative union between Great Britain and Ireland, but believed this development must be unaccompanied by Catholic emancipation. This belief, first made absolute in the speech within, would lead to him travelling to London in 1798 to present his views to the prime minister, William Pitt the younger.
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