Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 63: January-June, 1848Opposition, for two years, and when at length the evil had risen to such a height that it could no longer be endured, the leading agitator, after being convicted in Ireland, was libe rated, in opposition to the opinion of a great majority of the twelve judges, by the casting-vote in the House of Peers of a Whig law-lord. British liberality, when the season of distress came, was extended to the famishing Irish with unheard-of munificence, and while the Highlanders, who suf fered equally under the potato failure, got nothing but from the never-failing kindness of British charity, Ireland, besides its full share of that charity, received a national grant of ten MIL lions sterling, of which no less than eight millions were borrowed by Great Britain.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.