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Title: Essentials in English history (from the earliest records to the present day)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Albert Perry, 1862-1911 Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943
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Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rotestant clergy; and even the hitherto Britain peaceable Protestants of Ulster demanded parliamentary (1801) reforms and relief from English dictation in their government.In 1798 the United Irishmen, under the leadership of WolfTone, actually invoked the aid of France for a general up-rising against England. The movement failed, and many ofthe leaders were executed, but the danger was acute. As a safeguard against further trouble, Pitt conceived theidea of merging the British and Irish legislatures into one.The Irish Parliament, consisting of the pro-British residentsin Ireland, made little objection. The principal protest camefrom the owners of boroughs (who were unwilling to lose theirchance to sell seats and votes in the Irish Parliament), andPitt silenced their opposition by binding the government topay them £1,200,000 (or £5675 a seat) for the losses sustained.By this means an Act of Union was passed in 1800, by whichthe two Parliaments were united: the Irish peers were to 100
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TO CEYLONINDIAN OCE^. UL.POATES, ENOn, N.Y. 80 INDIA IN 1857 SCALE OF MILES 0 200 400 oloBritish DomainsProtected States 80 474 LOCAL CONDITIONS (1783-1820) 475 choose twenty-four of their number to sit in the new Houseof Lords, and one hundred representatives of the Irishboroughs and counties were to sit in the new House ofCommons. The cross of St. Patrick was added to that of St.Andrew and St. George on the royal flag, and the country wasrenamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Unable to secure further reforms which Pitt had promisedthem, the Irish again rebelled in 1803, under the leadershipof Eobert Emmet. Mobs in Dublin and Ulster were dis-persed with difficulty; but Emmets uprising was imperfectlyorganized, and the Irish failed to act promptly and unitedly.Emmet was executed, and the rebellion was stamped out soeffectually that Ireland remained quiet, though discontented,for many years. In 1798 the government of India was intrusted to RichardWellesley (later Marq

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