The Viceroy's Post-Bag

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Excerpt from The Viceroy's Post-Bag: Correspondence, Hitherto Unpublished, of the Earl of Hardwicke, First Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, After the Union It is a thrilling experience to peruse these papers of a hundred years ago - many of them with ink as fresh as if they were written but yesterday, others faded and yellow, and difficult to decipher - and to learn from all the prominent actors in the transaction the hitherto unknown tale of the liquidation of the bill in honours, places, and pensions incurred by the Government of the day in the barter of the Irish Parliament to read the amazing story of the Emmet Insurrection of 1803 as it is told by Viceroy, Chief Secretary, Under Secretary, spies and informers, to follow the development of the treasonable plot, and the Executive counterplot to see the revolutionary working in the dark, in fancied security, and the secret agents of the Executive reporting his every movement to Dublin Castle. For the student of constitutional practice and political history these letters are also most valuable. They illustrate the official relations between the heads of the various departments of the State, and the etiquette which regulates correspondence between them on questions of policy. They also lay bare the jealousies and quarrels of Ministers. It is as if the walls of the departments in Whitehall were removed, and the huge machinery of Government disclosed at work to public view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.