1799 - 1800 AD
Immoral Union Conclusion
1799 AD Moving towards his real agenda William Pitt - the Younger the British Imperial Conservative Tory Ascendancy Prime Minister in England "dismissed" Parnell the Anglo - Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland, together with their previous "Placemen" in the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland who were now "against" his intention of bringing about the Immoral Union of Ireland with England. and also included among these was the son of, John Foster the Speaker in the Anglo House of Commons in Ireland who they could not dismiss, while the anti - Catholic Lords, Charlemont, Enniskillen and Downshire, together with the "Orange Society / Order" were also at this time, "against" the Immoral Union, and Daniel O Connell - the Liberator who was now a "barrister," together with a group of his colleagues also came out publicly "against" the Immoral Union. Just as had occurred in Scotland, were only 220 persons in high office, many of whom had been simlarly bribed, had been allowed to vote to bring about the Immoral Union there, "ordinary citizens" in Ireland had "no real interest" and if they did they also certainly had "no say" in the matter anyway regarding the proposed Immoral Union as their 3 main immediate worries at this time were their "Rents, Enforced Tithes to the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland, and their Religious Freedom." After all of this time and the never - ending tribulations under the Ascendancy it mattered little to them whether they were to be "repressed" directly from the Ascendancy in England or indirectly by the Ascendancy in the Dublin Castle. (The Devil's 1/2 Acre).
January
22nd:
The
Ascendancy Anglo
Parliament in Ireland was re - assembled, and
General Cornwallis the
British Imperial Lord Lieutenant in Ireland
who
was acting for the British
Imperial Conservative Tory Ascendancy Government moved a motion in the
Anglo Ascendancy Parliament in
Ireland that they should consider the
Immoral
Union of Ireland with England, while
George Ponsonby moved an
amendment for the Anglo
Parliament
in Ireland
to remain "independent"
January 23rd:
George Ponsonby's amendment for Ireland to remain independent was
only narrowly "defeated" by 1 vote 106 - 105, which
was just "too close" for comfort for William Pitt - the Younger the British
Imperial Conservative
Tory Prime
Minister
January 24th:
With a few more personal changes to suite the
motion to
consider the
Immoral Union was then
to be
"defeated" once again by 5 votes, 111
votes to
106 and
Robert Stewart / Lord Castlereagh
then "promised" the
Ascendancy Anglo House of Commons in
Ireland that he
would not bring it forward again until it was the "wish" of the
Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland and the
"Country" themselves, as it seemed that it was now time for him to "begin in earnest" a
truly "immoral campaign" of
outright
British Imperial Government "bribery" and "severe intimidation" to ensure that he
would be able to bring the Immoral Union in over the "next year." He confided this fact personally to his
uncle,
Lord Camden who had been the previous
anti - Catholic hard - line British
Imperial Lord Lieutenant, that this
was definetely William Pitt - the Younger's intention, and it was now only a matter of an even
stronger line of British Imperial Government
"persuasions" being implemented on all of the parties involved in this decision
in Ireland.
February:
British Imperial Martial Law Act was
bought into Ireland, which meant that ongoing trials by
"British Court Martials" were now going to occur
throughout the population in Ireland creating
further "Increased turmoil" until 1805 AD,
and this meant that the British Imperial Tory Conservative
Government now also had
made an "added excuse" to send extra British
Military forces into
Ireland, due to the
"possibility" of a further chance of invasion by the
French,
allowing
them to also bring further physicall pressure on the population in
Ireland
to achieve their intended agenda. (Added to all of this was also
the "unrest" among the
general "rural"
population
throughout the "agricultural areas" caused by the bad harvests that were now occurring.) William Pitt
-
the Younger the British Imperial Conservative Tory Prime Minister in England now
informed
General Cornwallis
and
Robert Stewart
/ Lord
Castlereagh to "advise" the
Catholic Irish Bishops in
Ireland that he
definitely intended to bring in
Catholic Emancipation if
the
Immoral Union of Ireland
with
England was to be brought in and
Robert Stewart also as a further "incentive" offered the
Presbyterian
population an "increase" in their
Regium Donium payments for their
religious ministers, to also gain their support to bring
about
the Immoral Union.
Thomas Addis Emmet the secretary of the United Irishmen Society, was now "exiled" from out of Ireland and he went off to New York in America were he eventually became the State Attorney - General there, and many of the other United Irishmen who were exaspirated of it all now also left for America, as there were ships from America that were bringing flaxseed to Ireland and then returning home.
As the Bill
for
the Immoral Union with England had only
previously just been "narrowly defeated" the
British Imperial
Tory
Government began their "new
campaign" to allocate
further "Jobs, Places
and
Peerages," or "whatever" was required to
buy
the extra votes they needed to bring it about, and also paid out another
15,000
pounds for the
Parliamentary Borough
of
Gowran in
Co. Kilkenny
in the south - west
of
Southern Leinster to obtain another 2
votes there among many others also purchased including
those of
William Tighe at
Hillsborough
in
Co. Down
in the south - east of the Ulster Province who also received the same amount for his
2 votes at
Inistioge
in
Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of
Leinster, and so it went. Finally
William Pitt - the Younger the British Imperial Conservative Tory Prime Minister was to also give out
"further titles" including
28 Life Peerages,
7 Earldoms, 7 Viscounts,
3 Marquis and
2 Ascendancy Church of England Bishops,
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
who was a non - Catholic M.P.
proposed "equal access" to primary
schools for the
Catholic Irish, and also for their religious beliefs to be
respected along with their
Catholic clergy, and although he
also wanted to give
them a separate religious education, this was
rejected, and the
Catholic Bishops at
Maynooth
in Co. Kildare
in Central Southern Leinster also "had to agree" to
subject
themselves to British
Imperial Ascendancy Government interference by way of scrutiny
into their own "religious" appointments.
1800 AD The Irish population had "increased" substantially, and was nearly up to 5,000,000, while the cost of government in Ireland was running at 4,500,000 pounds per year, which was to "greatly increase" after the introduction of the Immoral Union and the "unjust expenses" that would then also be as usual loaded upon Ireland.
To add to the misery the
the
Potato crop
was to fail once again.
During this period also anyone at all who was "suspected" of even being a United Irishman were to be "arrested" and sent on to Australia in 6 vessels, to get them out of Ireland, and among these was General Joseph Holt who was previously a non - Catholic Anglo - Irish farmer from Wicklow in Co. Wicklow in the south - east of Southern Leinster, who was to also be accompanied by his wife and children as he had been the commander - in - chief of the remaining United Irishmen force at Glenmalure in the mountains in the south of Dublin where he was to have 3 - 4,000 men under his command of the contingent previously led by Michael Dwyer the Heremonian Cu Corb Wicklow Chieftain who was also to be "transported." Michael Dwyer was also to be sent to Sydney in Australia on the Tellicherry with his wife and four of his children also, and he would remain in Australia until he was to die in 1826 AD, when he was to be interred in the Devonshire Street Cemetery in Sydney Town. In 1898 his remains were to be removed from there to Waverley Cemetery, to allow for the Central Railway Station to be built In 1900 AD, and a Dwyer monument of white marble, bronze and mosaic was to be erected under the patronage of Dr. Charles Mac Carthy by the Irish population in Australia to his "memory" and also to those Irish who had given their all in the struggle against British Ascendancy Imperialism in Ireland.
By now only 1/50th of Ireland was still under "forest," which was made up of Oak, Arbutus and Birch and only 5% of the whole of Ireland now remained in Catholic Irish hands.
January 13th: Daniel O Connell - the Liberator made his first "public speech" at the Royal Exchange in Dublin against the imposition of the Immoral Union with England, but the "Imperial Trap" was well and truly set by now!!
January
15th:
The
Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in
Ireland met in a new session in
Dublin once again, as the
British Imperial Tory Government
had by now "ensured" that all
were aware that any of their "Placemen"
who voted against the
Immoral
Union
this time
would be "out with them forever," and already
one fifth of the
Ascendancy Anglo
House of
Commons in Ireland had been further "changed to suite" their
Immoral Union agenda, by the granting of
the Peerages,
the Places, the Pensions, the Promises
and also the Threats,
together with various Cash payments.
All of these "inducements" had all
been given out during the "last year" to ensure a successful
vote on this occassion for the passing of the Immoral Union in the
Ascendancy Anglo Parliament
in Ireland to make it "official," while the "majority" of the population in
Ireland still had "no representation" at all, and
although during the session
of this Parliament another
amendment was moved to maintain an "independent
Irish
Parliament," it was
now easily defeated by 138 - 96 votes.
Because of William Pitt - the Younger the British Imperial Tory Ascendancy Prime Minister's previous committment to the Catholic Irish Bishops of Catholic Emancipation on the other hand the Catholic Irish were now "supporting" the Immoral Union, and this now actually put them on the same side as John "Black Jack" Fitzgibbon the hard - line anti - Catholic who was for it also, but to him it meant something quite different, as William Pitt - the Younger, had also offered him the continued maintenance of the Ascendancy position in Ireland forever, due to "no Catholic representation" being allowed in the new combined Westminster Parliament in England. What also happened now was that those in Ireland who were "against" the Immoral Union were to also eventually "split" into 2 separate bodies until 1866 AD, encompassing those who "supported" the rights of the Catholic Irish, and those from the Ascendancy who were still anti - Catholic hardliners who did not.
February:
Although the
Ascendancy
in Ireland was now in a "quandary" as to their
personal agenda on the issue,
Robert Stewart
/ Lord
Castlereagh
the British
Chief Secretary
in Ireland
told
William
"Bottomless"
Pitt - the
Younger the British Imperial Conservative Tory ascendancy Prime Minister
February 6th:
The
Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in
Ireland "accepted" the motion to consider the
Immoral
Union of Ireland with
England, on the basis of the
British Imperial Tory Ascendancy Government's new
debauched majority of
43.
August 1st:
The
Immoral Union
of
Ireland with
England was
given Royal Assent by
German George 111
the Hanoverian King of
Britain,
and
William "Botomless" Pitt - the Younger and the British
Imperial
Conservative Tory Ascendancy Government, with
the assistance of
Robert Stewart /
Castlereagh his Chief Secretary
in
Ireland,
brought in their
"Act of Union" to officially unite
Ireland
with England, and all up it had cost them 1,260,000
pounds in
cash payments
alone, and the granting of
48
further "English Titles," with
both Countries to retain their own
Exchequer.
Ireland was to be
responsible for
2 / 17ths of
the total expenditure, with each to be responsible for their
own debt until it
reached similar proportions, when they would then unite the
Exchequer.
Ireland was to
be "represented" in the
British Westminster Parliament in
England
by twice the number of
non -
Catholic
representatives that
Scotland
had in the Ascendancy British House of Lords, and
more then twice the number in the
British
Ascendancy Westminster House of Commons,
and it was "anticipated" that
any pressure these politicians may bring on behalf
of the population in Ireland would always "be
lost" in the numbers, but
John Foster the Speaker in the Ascendancy Anglo Parliament in Ireland was to "receive" the largest pay out as an "official", although he was "against" the Immoral Union, and the Marquis of Downshire received the "largest" payout for the Boroughs although he was also against it.
Henry Grattan
as the
Irish
Patriot Party leader
in the "Opposition" made a farewell address stating,"
Yet I do
not give up my Country, I see her in a swoon, but she is not dead, though in her
tomb she lies helpless and motionless, still on her lips is the spirit of life
and on her cheeks the glow of beauty."
August 2nd:
The
Ascendancy Anglo
Parliament
in Ireland
held it's "last" assembly when it was "abolished" by
William "Bottomless" Pitt - the Younger, the
British
Imperial Conservative Tory Ascendancy Prime Minister after
500 years
of only continuous representation there by a
"minority" of the population in
Ireland, and Dublin
settled down to
becoming just "another city," and the building that had been used as the
Parliament in
Dublin
was sold off to the
Bank of Ireland.
Daniel
O Connell
- the Liberator who was now
an Irish
Catholic barrister, who would also become the first
Catholic
M.P. in the future, had strongly
"protested and agitated"
against
the Immoral Union, while
John "Black Jack" Fitzgibbon the
hard - line anti - Catholic, who was
now the
appointed
English Earl of Clare had been "for it" although
determined to ensure that
Irish Catholics received
"no
rights" at all in the Immoral
Union, and this
"continued backward sectarian" looking attitude as always was to force those "affected by the
continuing repression" to become even
closer
together in a stronger "common cause". (Once again the lesson is, if you want to make any thing stronger then
repress it.) Those in authority in England had always shown the
Irish population that if they wanted any
"reform"
they would have to "physically fight for it," and with their
"supporters" they would once again be "forced" to increase
their activity beneath the surface, to right the "unending wrongs," to be still
continually heaped on them,
and this "repressed
momentum" would only keep up the "pressure" for further Irish Uprising plans in
Ireland to be continued.
With the introduction of the
Immoral
Union nothing actually changed for the
population in Ireland, and the
British Imperial Conservative Ascendancy
Government
as usual continued to maintain their control over
Ireland
the only way they knew how by
British Military oppression and violence,
sending their usual message to the
Irish
population
that was always the same, that if the
Irish
or any other Colonial people under British Imperialism
control
must always be forced personally to use
violence
themselves,
if they were to receive any reforms or
rights.
(The British Imperial Government
by this time controlled a
Military Regiment in
Ireland of
60,000 troops.
Leases to "tenants" on the Land Lords' Estates in Ireland during this period were for a lifetime 21 to 40 years @ 5/- to 10/- shillings an Irish acre, while any "repairs and improvements" were to be carried out by the "tenant farmers" themselves, with only the pasture being exempt from the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland enforced "Tithes," which had been a change only made as usual to suite the "Land Lords" putting the burden of all the "expenses" on the poorer tenant classes in Ireland with their staple diet of potatoes having a "higher tax rate," and at this time one acre of potatoes could support a family of 6 people allowing 10 lb. per person per day, while the peelings were given to the pigs, and to own a "cow" was their "ultimate reward," which was often to be "confiscated" for the "Tithes" payable to the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland.
As a further pointer to their "actual interest" in Irish Affairs the British Imperial Conservative Ascendancy Government over the next 12 years were to appoint 9 separate Chief Secretaries to run Ireland for them, which did nothing for "stability" or improvement in the life of "anyone" in Ireland, while the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland was now to be "united formally" with the English Church of England.
John Hogan
who was to become one of Ireland's most
"notable sculptors" was born
at
Tallow
in
Co. Waterford in the south - east of the
Munster Province this year, and he would die in
1858 AD.
John Butler who had been the previous Catholic Bishop of Cork, died at 83 years of age and he had since been received back into the Catholic Church, and he left his Estate to Maynooth College in Co. Kildare in Central Southern Leinster, which upset his heirs no end who tried to get the property under the Catholic Irish Penal Laws, which were still on the books, but not enforced, and a "compromise" was reached with Maynooth who received 10,000 pounds from the Estate.