A Popular History of Ireland : From the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - volume 2

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Parliament met next, on the 21st of January, '94, andheld a short two-months' session. The most remarkableincidents of these two months were the rejection of Mr. George Ponsonby's annual motion for parliamentary reform, and the striking position taken by Grattan, Curran, andall but seven or eight of their friends, in favour ofthe war against the French republic. Mr. Ponsonby proposed, in the spirit of Flood's plan ten years earlier, to uniteto the boroughs four miles square of the adjoining cou
...ntry, thus creating a counterpoise to the territorial aristocracyon the one hand, and the patrons of boroughs on the other;he also proposed to extend the suffrage to every tradesmanwho had served five years' apprenticeship, and gave eachcounty _three_ instead of two members, leaving intact, of course, the forty-shilling freehold franchise. Notmore than 44 members, however, divided in favour of thenew project, while 142 voted against it! Had it passed, the parliamentary history of the next six years couldnever have been written.

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