Note 79 — PREFACE. (continued 2)
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It was to the loyalty of the people of Ireland at this period, that the Lord Lieutenant of the day alluded, when, in his speech from the throne, he observed, “That the united and great military preparations of the House of Bourbon seemed only to have roused the courage and called forth the exertions of his Majesty’s brave and loyal subjects of this kingdom of Ireland; and I have only to lament that the exhausted state of the treasury has hitherto put it out of my power to give those exertions the most extensive and constitutional operation, by carrying the militia law into effect.