A Sketch of the Life And Times of the Rev Sydney Smith Based
A Sketch of the Life And Times of the Rev Sydney Smith Based
Stuart J Stuart Johnson Reid
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My best regards to Mrs. Beach, and believe me, my dear sir, yours most sincerely, Sydney Smith. To Mr. Beach. The year 1798 was a critical and anxious period for the English Government ; for there were troubles at home as well as abroad, and the Society of United Irishmen, led by a barrister of revolutionary sym- pathies, was endeavouring, with the aid of French bayonets, to establish an Irish Republic. When Sydney Smith wrote the above letter in November of that year, the fierce and lawless in...surrection of the peasantry had been crushed, and the French invasion under Hoche repelled ; but, although Ireland was " safe, " and " Buonaparte embayed in Egypt, " and the services of the lady in " blue silk pantaloons " were no longer needed in British domains, Ireland probably was never more nearly lost to the English crown. In speaking of their own private affairs, he informs Mr. Beach not only that his pupil and himself are very much at home in Edinburgh, but also that so far as their residence at 38, South Hanover Street is con- cerned, they are "extremely comfortably situated.
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