Lot 204
Ireland--Peel, Sir Robert.
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
A.L.S. to an unnamed correspondent [probably Alexander Pringle], on parliamentary debate on Ireland: "the tenor of democratic vehemence was unchecked either by the Government or its supporters, no one of whom seemed inclined to rise and express the slightest dissent from the general chorus of Irish sedition... Lord Althorpe made a speech which assumed the tone and equalled the ability of an overseer at a parish meeting... the whole party cursed the signal folly of Lord Ormelie [John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] in having justified by his silly and impotent provocations all the fury of the Irish agitators", referring to the cashiering of the Irish bishops, O'Connell, Church reform and to Cobbett "Old Cobbett is a regular twaddler, excepting when he is making a personal attack upon the Whigs - in this species of warfare he seems very formidable", 6 pages, Whitehall Gardens, 13 Feb. 1833, very lightly dust-soiled; with 2 franked envelopes signed by Peel addressed to Alexander Pringle, Yair, by Selkirk; and 20 other lesser A.L.S. including ones from Martin Farquhar Tupper, Harold J. Laski, Augustine Birrell, E.V. Lucas, Violet Jacob, Hugh Walpole & Henry Lemon, and a few miscellaneous papers (c.25)
Footnote
Note: A forthright assessment by Sir Robert Peel of the debate on Ireland and some of his political contemporaries, especially William Cobbett.