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| | + Mem rg of ie Difeand Cocepondenceof the Right Ho
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“epFtood) 1 iM. P..° Colon 1 Volunteers ;" containing» Reme-
et niseences of the Irish Commons, and an Account of the Grand
ie National Convention of 1783.1 By Warden Flood, Esq. hate
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: +e Captain Slet Regiment. * Dublia? a eda
C The biographical history. of Ireland, abr the post cenioryy|
evant be. contemplated without pride and satisfaction by all who
feel an interest in her glory or a sympathy for her sufferings.—
Reduced_to a condition of ‘slavery, such aa no nation upon earth
at ever endured—her n
the di
in the very drunkenness of corruprion—it is nevertheless consol-
ing to discover, that amid wretchedness and; thraldom she was
still not completely cursed, but tbat the master-spiriis whom she
produced may well take their stand beside the highest minds of
aay olber pation, whe: her io poetry. or literature, in eloquence
or statesmansbip, in the camp orin the court. Oppression, how,
‘ever, it may debase the physical and mental “energies of @ peo;
ple, cannot thoroughly destroy them :, and those very periods
{ that to ordinary observers seemed least likely to be illuminated
one
‘edorng.” Th The
6f Rienzi rose, from ils fragments, and reatored fora brief space
is golden glories; the genius of freedom lived within Maxsa-
- hiallo, reared a it were in the cradle ot despotism inself, and are
Fested for a@ moment tyranny in her mareh;, liberty, was almost
jextifict in England, whea Hampden became the oposile of her!
‘precepts, and was martyred iw her defence; and when the very |
pame of Irishman was little otber than the synonime of slave
and’ dastard. then it was that Molyneux, and Swift, and Lucas,
flood forth to teach the poblest priaciples of government, and to
“exalt ‘those Tristh serfs toa ‘dignity commensurate with theic i im,
jportancey *
~ oy Phe. dezzting varray, of names by which the. annals’ of, our
country have been graced, is far;more extensive than ordinary
“bigots would suppose. , Commencing with the early part of the
. eighteenth century, we find that jn literature, an Irisbran—~
° “the ustrious Swifi—was almost.a sovereign lord; io Boyle
and Berkeley, philosophy saw, herself honorably, represented 5
jaad poetry bad, surely ng voworthy worshippers in, the elegant
‘end ‘classic Parnell, or the sprightly, and engaging Steele.—
"Molyneux, the correspondent of John Locke, bad Bee Pro-
“pavaded thove celebrated constitutional doctrines, whose virtue:
{was their coaden:narion with the parasite parliaments of those
sdays, bul which, when aferwards practically followed out, ex-
“alted [reland to a station such as she had never before occupied:
while by Malone the bolt of eloquence was wielded with’ an in-
trepidity, a. power, ond a succecs, that might have adorned even
Roman senate. _,
fgallery | ‘of shining names, Goldsmith, and Burke,, end Sterne,
"and Sheridan, and Daly, and Burgh, and Pery, and Le alverton,
‘and Charlemont, und Grauan, and Curran, and .Ti
‘Party. aad Floo
Pie is true, but stilt at slightly ereditable to pur country 5; and |
owhio, s 28 representatives of, our people, must for ever. remove
“from By ihe reproach of having been vi wea es Tana Soir ny
ot of the British constitution which was We " [er
tpaoghily denied to our just claims, and yielded 2 eal” a A
Wyte Jats Jews 18 eavil od
eh ind ‘bow yeolnes
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, Proceeding a litle onward we in-our !an
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id many others, leas splendidly disiageisbed [ite p passages which are to ve found ja the speeches of .F
YORK, SATURDAY,
‘NOVEMBER 35,
ceased tobe a boon. :, And if we felt disposed 10 fallow. up the | livities of the table, entered the house just before ‘the termination »
st hi
caialogue to ourown days also, we could without pny dificult
enumerate individuals, who, in the senate and at the b:
their vores aga im.) Flood was) {
of the discussion, to recor
ar, and in| speaking at the t.me, and seeing them arrayed i ia the orange and ¢
the still more alluring paths of the belles lett-es, have, earned a} blue uniform of the club, suddenly exclaime: ty fiat. what do;
fame no way inferior 40 that ofmen with higher pretensions and} J beboli!: I hail those plorious colors suspicious to the constitu: ;
far greater advantages.
‘In our present paper
racter of a traly illustrious, Lrishman—T[Henry Flood. |
patsy
we Iropase to. review the life ‘and ‘cha,
io ~The se honorable doult peat. the night i is
” hen,
he glory; and. fortune of. the commonwealth.” Then,
vigy
le hos tatending his arms—!* Come, come to tbis heart, “inh all your,
long been one of our divinities, and with some slight Se ee patriotism.”,. The sarcasm was successful, and sruote down these.
weibink a on the whole, one of the most faultiess public cha: | honorable revellers.
i Sprong from the nristocracy, he stood by the | a digression must have beg consummate, . On another occasion,
people, » His Sh might bave made him, not ungracefully, the iy the course of his speech, he saw the whipper-i in‘ of the mio vi
minion of the: court, and the defender of its corruptions, but bis | try taking down the names of auch patriotic, members as had.»
racters in
But the acting which succeeded in so bald?
native honesty charmed him away from its Vircean circle, and | promised to support the castle, and glidiog about, from. bench, to,
Ireland beheld him kneeling at ihe shrine of freedom—ihe,elo,| bench soliciting others, ead_perbaps, bribing a few..
‘| quent and intrepid aposite of het cause, -. His great abitities, had
he stooped to progtiiute them, might have gained for tim coroneis
,aad patronage, they might have even degraded him, ta the post
of, prime minister of hig native land; but the day he became a
representative. in parliament, he flung away for ever all lowly
thoughts of selfy aad regarded only. Ireland... Like the oll Ror’
man, he might bave.declared, bi imsell non sibi sed: patria natum. |
His couniry,was bis devotion: che aspired to be her benefagior— |
his ambition. was gratified :. not, it ‘e true, as fully as he. would
have wished, but sufficiently go to entitle hia to the veneration:
of every, lover of liberty.; Few men have been more unsparing-
sly assailed by ealumny than, Flood ; few. men have so triumph-
| antly outlived ity ..He seems to have heen during his whole life
the object at which detraciion shot its poiaoned shafis, .: His m
tives suspected ; his actions vilified; his designs sometimes op-
posed; he Sond e nevertheless. firm: ia the ranks of freedom, ua-
disgusted. by: the meanness and the. jealousy of his colleagues,
Wit the great fey of the pation be was always popular ; the.
storms of democratic fary, from. which his rival, Gratian, nar-
rowly escaped. with life, seem never to have alighted on his head,
But the Petty enmity.of peity men-—this he did, not escape—
His conscious clotegrity supporied him |thtoughout, and bistory,
bas doge justice to the purity of his patriotism 5 yet bis life was,
not the happiest, nor did be always win the laurels of the patri-
ots, though be eminently deserved them, : ‘The gteainess of his
ambition excited envy, but bis scorn of all, Jow cunning, and the
linle mechanism of, intrigue by which courts are worked, quili:
fed that ambition, and be did not.climb because -be..would not
eep.., His intellect was self-willed, and alwaye. led him, re-
gardiess of the consequences, to promote thet view of a question
which be deemed the honestest aad wises!, so that at times he
was considered impracticable by, the men with. whom he acted ;,
but in no.instance have events shown him to be wrong, and on
the great questiup of. 1782, in. which he. differed with, Charle-~
mont and Grattan, and indeed the majority of the kingdom, ng
act of 1800 fatally aad evly, proved! that bis wisdom same Jintk
short of. prescien:
Oa that side ofthe Irish’ “House of Commons, where liberty.
and the genius of the country took, their stand, Mra Flood was,
for a great portion of his life, the leader. , He was the Breat pub-
lic man of the people, , Their freedom stood identified with bim..
He was her representative; and no ablef was ever found.—
Some may have been, more successful, but, Flood was, inferior |.
to no man, end Ireland's history has no more.Juminous nome.
He was perhaps less auiied for a popular assembly than Grattan
stinguished minds, Genius hag often the most splendidly jor Daly;, but ia debute he was at least their equal—many have
Roman constitution lay in ruins when the spirit | said, immeasurably their superior., Ele wi
8 always.armed,
and no man betier knew how to defend or to attack. ;; The sar,
casm of the court became wretched and feeble when matched ||
against his giant power of invective; and he may be said not sv
much to have reasoned men into honesty, as to. have terrified
them... is enunciation. solemn jand deliberare, struck the ear
aud claimed the notice of the habitually inaileative. ,. Eis argus
ment: powerful, conclusive, irrefutabley was felt to be 6, aud
could be opposed. only by the light and fascinating syliogisms
in, which Hutchinson, loved to indulge... But. he who repelled
force by force, reason by reason, argument “by argumenl, was
certain to be worsted by the superior power of his aniagonist.
He was at all times forcible, eluguent,.6nd convinejng, but op
great occasions, and w 8 was roused. he hore away.all be-
fore him, like some mountain torreuts . The erafiy sephisms of
overament,—the delusive patriotisin of hollow courtiere,—ihe
fase and distorted representations of the trutt,—ail were swept
along and eogulphed for ever by the: transcendant energies of
this one man,, ** Upon whatever subject this CHAMPION OF OUR
LIBERTY speakers Says a writer®, of that period, in a. letter, to
Lord Yown: ‘!he does an with such knowledge, accuracy,
and peo “that 0 ne would imagine that subject bad been
the particular, and chief object of hisenquiry. Does be make
calculations ?—what mathematician more exact! Does be plead
hie country’s cause ?—-what heart does not glow wish patriotism!
He seems nearly 40 approach that erent or ginal, Demosthenes,
, whom heso well understands, ;.H6, hae all his fire, brevity,
perspicuity.,, And we trust he will be handed down to pos-
terity, not only aa a genius and orators but what is much. more
to bis bonous.” aye fds hye ©
aloe confirmation of thie eulogy. we may cite one or two remarke
lood.—
To spirit, in boldaess, in effect, they are said to have equalled
Chatham,,,On.a ‘certain debate, some members of the, Hills-
borough Clab,, who bad been jndulgiog raiher freely in the fes~
irectly..
Flood bebeld him, he stopped i in the middle of a sentence, and,
ooking os with horror in bis countenonce, ‘he thus; broke outs,
*Whatis this that. I see? Shall sbe temple of, freedom be as
hauntet by the faul fiend of bribery and corruption? ., Lee
Frey before me an, jacernation of that, evil, orice Satich{
ives by,the destruction of pubjic, virtue! , Avauat! thou, loath,
ome sprite; thou pander to ministerial profigacy ; ;aod colonger!
pollute with thy presence this edifice, consecrated to the consti-;
ution." ,,The effect, was magical, and the incersate, fend of;
purruption suddenly, vaniehed from bis evil errand.,- Apain,, ons
a motion which he had brought forward in 1782, for leove to ines
raduce beads of, a bill for quieting possessions held under Eng-|
Jish acis of. parliament, he was so violently opposed that he felt;
the opposition was qotso much against the bill as himself. -Thig ,
system he thus nobly and bavgluity denounced ¢ 1 Whena man?
rings ia a bill4oa. apie possessions, it,is hard to say, that he it inz;
ends to inflame. also hard to say that because somethings
nore is to be done, nathion shall be attempted ; opposi-
is to the particular man, [am the object vot these. puny,
efforts, buy whey, harm me Rot. I shakesben of ofall the dew; |
trop fron th '$ mane.’ 4
hs Nor, is his! wee Wife se deserving of our admiratiod than}
his public,career., In the latter he was mighty} in the first he,
fascinated , * His, wit, o eeet fine, and easy, illuminated e every”
subject on. which, it shone, and the fire of his fancy could throw’
brilliancy over the mast absiruse speculations. , Even intis or,
dinary discourse there was an aitic polish and Tefinemeni; oie
like the pompous periods, in which Chetham spoke and prided ¢)
‘unlike the simple familiarity of Fox, or the harlequin dclivery*|
of Grattan. So profaund awae bis knowledge, so, studious b A
research, that he could without difficulty have taked the leadin |
whatever, was the topic of discourse, but his modesty and Rens,
{eness wot spirit prevented b and he wag at_all ‘times more:
willing to listen than to Tecture, ‘The mitdness of his demean=.
our i private contrasted sirougly with the might of him beford”
whom a corrupt senate trembled; ‘and few would have recognised »
in the gay and elegant gentleman’ of the salon, the powerlu' ad-"
vocate of his country’s wrongs,; Eis attachment to the classics *
—ihose amena virela of literature—was always warm ; he loved |
the sweet companionship of books... His temper was the most®
even in the w man ever saw it moved or even ruftle
He, maioiained the most’ perfect equanimity” amid moments of
the ‘greatest tial; and did we not know ‘to ‘the’ contrary,” he?
‘might have been mistaken; for the possessor, of a. soul, co
gloomy, and sustere. , Bodily suffering did not bend dowa his
mind 5 it. was ‘elastic, and could, rise, whén apparently .most op
pressed. Al the moment that a very’ severe _uperation was tol
be performed on him, he endured it with a ‘stoiciem that sores
prised his surgeon, and was fond next day by his friends, gaily,
dressed with sword and bug, epparenily aa unconscious ot pain?
as if he had never borne any, And yet with all this remiss :
everity of character, bis disposition was gay, warm, ani con:
vivial, and he at times sank the philosopher in the sportsman.!
Uis sauyity,eod urbanity were such that he yeas a favourite.
with’all who came in contact with bim, and with younger men
then himself ke was always an object of affection, lor he did not
hesitate freely to impart to them “hose, treasures of. Anos
which he so amply, possessed. “To Grattan, when your, + he.
gave considerable assistance, andl weed lo read and discuss “wit
him on political subjects. , roie, they argued, they de-,
bated together,” says Mr. Henry Gratien, aod by the encour?
agement of the elder siatesmagy, the, young orator Was first, in-
duced to eter on that public ‘career in whieh’ be afierwarda,
shdne so brilliantly, , And go litle ia unison had he with aught
that was mean or petty, ihat he never forgot a favour or remem:
bered an injur:
Such was Blond fi in ‘his domestic tite ine picture ‘without
shade; ‘the dise without a material blemish. «OF private vices,
or eveo faults, the Linterest of his opponents could uever accuse
him; they vituperated, loudly hie public character, but the da:
mestic one was heyond their reach. Those who knew hia well
regarded him with the utmost, devotion. of, friendship. sad they
were men whose love ia a demonsiration of his virtues: sK1e
must have been no ordinary man who could earn the almastan-
thusiastic reverence of that pure being, the Eorl of Charlemant,
by whorn he ia conetanily addressed ia these fond and beauiiful
terms, * My dearest dear Flood."". ,Though sever blessed with
children, he bved in the most perfect happioess wii his wife}
on bis death her mind was so prostrated with affiictioa U
was unfit to attend to. business for a considerable time, Aa
that death was not without its glory f it’ proved that on his last
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