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PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS

OF THE LATE

DANIEL O'CONNELL, M.P.

PUBLIC

BY WILLIAM J. O'N. DAUNT, ESQ.,

OF KILCASCAN, COUNTY CORK.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

, CHAPMAN AND HALL, 186, STRAND.

MDCCCXLVIII.

THE NEW YORK PUBLICLIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

MEM AOBK

C. WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND.

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS

OF

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CHAPTER I...,

Parson Crampton throwing Stones at his own Windows-Parson Hamilton firing at his own Effigy-Parson Hawkesworth's romantic Affair with Miss Fitzgerald-Newspaper Notoriety -Reminiscences of Country Inns-O'Connell's Contrast between Whig and Tory Governments, and their several Bearings on the Agitation-Civil War of 1798-"Memoir on Ireland"-Misgovernment continued for Centuries-O'Connell on his own Notoriety, and his Nomination to the Throne of Belgium.

ON the 16th of August our usual agitating staff attended a Repeal meeting at Drogheda. Returning, on the following day, O'Connell laughed heartily at the detection of the Rev. Mr. Crampton in the act of throwing stones at his own windows; the reverend gentleman having complained