MEMOIRS

OF THE

POLITICAL AND PRIVATE LIFE OF

JAMES CAULFIELD,

EARL OF CHARLEMONT,

Knight of St. Patrick, &c. &c. &c.

OF THE

POLITICAL AND PRIVATE LIFE OF

JAMES CAULFIELD,

EARL OF CHARLEMONT,

Knight of St. Patrick, &c. &c. &c.

BY FRANCIS HARDY, Esq.

MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, IN THE THREE LAST
PARLIAMENTS OF IRELAND.

SECOND EDITION.

VOL. II.

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quàm, ut Græci dicunt, ПTxov, Erant in eo plurimæ literæ, nec eæ vul.
gares, sed interiores quædam, et reconditæ; divina memoria, summa
verborum et gravitas, et elegantia: atque hæc omnia vitæ decorabat
dignitas et integritas.

CICERO, de Lucio Torquato.-Brutus.

London:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND;
By. G. SIDNEY, Northumberland-street.

1812.

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SRAP

MEMOIRS

OF

JAMES, EARL OF CHARLEMONT.

1782.

THAT celebrated convention now drew near. It originated from the southern battalion of the first Ulster regiment, commanded by Lord Charlemont. The officers, and delegates of that battalion, met on the 28th of December, 1781; when, having declared that they beheld with the utmost concern the little attention paid to the constitutional rights of Ireland, by the majority of those, whose duty it was to establish and preserve them, they invited every volunteer association throughout the province of Ulster, to send delegates to deliberate on the alarming situation of public affairs; and fixed on Friday, the 15th February, 1782, for such assembly of VOL. II.

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