Note 17 — GEORGE ROBERT FITZGERALD.

Mr. Richard Martin had been called to the Irish bar, as the eldest sons of the most respectable families of Ireland then were, not, as might be supposed, to practise for others, but with a supposition that they would thereby be better enabled to defend their own territories from judgments, mortgagees, custodiums, &c. &c., and to “stave off” vulgar demands, which if too speedily conceded, might beget very serious inconveniences.