HISTORY OF EUROPE

PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH.

FROM THE

FALL OF NAPOLEON

IN MDCCCXV

TO THE

ACCESSION OF LOUIS NAPOLEON

IN MDCCCLII

BY

SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON, BART., D.C.L.

Author of the "History of Europe from the Commencement of the French

Revolution, in 1789, to the Battle of Waterloo," &c. &c.

VOL. IV.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCLV

The Author of this Work reserves the right of authorising a Translation of it.

CONTENTS OF VOL. IV.

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CHAPTER XX.

IRELAND FROM 1822 TO THE MONETARY CRISIS OF DECEMBER 1825.

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2. Statistics of the condition of the Irish poor,

3. Ruinous effects of the power of the landlord,

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4. Immense and redundant population in the country,

5. Munificent grants of the English to Ireland,

6. Great simultaneous increase of industry and productions in Ireland,

7. Causes of the wretched situation of Ireland,

8. Effects of the Roman Catholic religion,

9. Splitting of farms for political purposes,

10. Pernicious effects of the potato,

11. Want of poor-laws,

12. Absentee proprietors,

13. Ribbonmen and secret societies,

14. Orange lodges,

15. Irregularity and uncertainty in the administration of justice,

16. Intimidation of juries and witnesses,

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17. Catholic emancipation the only remedy proposed by English Liberals and

19. Disturbed state of Ireland in 1823, and prosecutions for the riot in the

Dublin theatre,

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20. Disturbed state of the country,

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21. Renewal of the Insurrection Act, and composition for tithes,

22. Debates on Irish corruption and Catholic emancipation,

23. Improvement of the country in 1824,

24. Mr North's description of Irish miseries,

25. Beneficial working of the Tithe-Composition Bill,

26. Rise of the Catholic Association,

27. Real objects of the Association,

28. Roman Catholic question in reference to England,

29. Parliamentary Reform, Alien Bill, and reversal of Scottish attainders,

30. Reflections on the Alien Act,