FN 143 On this subject Johnson was the most liberal politician of his time.  “The Irish,” he said with great warmth, “are in a most unnatural state for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority.”  I suspect that Alderman Beckford and Alderman Sawbridge would have been far from sympathizing with him.  Charles O’Connor, whose unfavourable opinion of the Whig Lucas I have quoted, pays, in the Preface to the Dissertations on Irish History, a high compliment to the liberality of the Tory Johnson.

FN 144 London Gazette, Oct. 22. 1691.

FN 145 Burnet, ii. 78, 79.; Burchett’s Memoirs of Transactions at Sea; Journal of the English and Dutch fleet in a Letter from an Officer on board the Lennox, at Torbay, licensed August 21. 1691.  The writer says:  “We attribute our health, under God, to the extraordinary care taken in the well ordering of our provisions, both meat and drink.”

FN 146 Lords’ and Commons’ Journals, Oct. 22. 1691.

FN 147 This appears from a letter written by Lowther, after he became Lord Lonsdale, to his son.  A copy of this letter is among the Mackintosh MSS.

FN 148 See Commons’ Journals, Dec. 3. 1691; and Grey’s Debates.  It is to be regretted that the Report of the Commissioners of Accounts has not been preserved.  Lowther, in his letter to his son, alludes to the badgering of this day with great bitterness.  “What man,” he asks, “that hath bread to eat, can endure, after having served with all the diligence and application mankind is capable of, and after having given satisfaction to the King from whom all officers of State derive their authoritie, after acting rightly by all men, to be hated by men who do it to all people in authoritie?”

FN 149 Commons’ Journals, Dec. 12. 1691.

FN 150 Commons’ Journals, Feb. 15. 1690/1; Baden to the States
General, Jan 26/Feb 5

FN 151 Stat. 3 W. & M. c. 2., Lords’ Journals; Lords’ Journals, 16 Nov. 1691; Commons’ Journals, Dec. 1. 9. 5.

FN 152 The Irish Roman Catholics complained, and with but too much reason, that, at a later period, the Treaty of Limerick was violated; but those very complaints are admissions that the Statute 3 W. & M. c. 2. was not a violation of the Treaty.  Thus the author of A Light to the Blind speaking of the first article, says:  “This article, in seven years after, was broken by a Parliament in Ireland summoned by the Prince of Orange, wherein a law was passed for banishing the Catholic bishops, dignitaries, and regular clergy.”  Surely he never would have written thus, if the article really had, only two months after it was signed, been broken by the English Parliament.  The Abbe Mac Geoghegan, too, complains that the Treaty was violated some years after it was made.  But he does not pretend that it was violated by Stat. 3 W. & M. c. 2.

FN 153 Stat. 21 Jac. 1. c. 3.