JB/137/392/001

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1819 June 20 1819 Decr 1
Radicalism not

K1 10 Notes
not Irish Volunteers III. Experience
II. Ireland
10.Defendative in their
power.
2. Their democratic
ascendency.
(1) (1)

Prop. 5** or 10. During the whole or a great part the greatest part of or the
whole of this time, had they been so disposed, it was compleatly in the power of
the Association, not only to have new-modelled the Government, but to have carried into effect any new division of
property, or other place of
depredation at pleasure
without possibility of effectual
resistance on the part of
Government.

Plowden p. 528. Ao 1781. Notwithstanding the Earl of Carlisle was sent
over on purpose to give firmness and energy to the Irish Government which
was considered on this side of the water to have been greatly enfeebled
by the Administration of his predecessor, he found himself wholly incapable
of checking the spirit of volunteering, which now knew no other
object, than the attainment of a free and Independent Constitution.
The reviews in 1780 had pointed out the utility of forming regiments
it was clearly perceived that companies acting separately could never
attain Military perfection. In the Spring of 1781, reviews were again fixed
on, and in summer when they assembled, the improved State of
the Volunteers was obvious to every eye; the reviews were everywhere
more numerous, more Military, and more splendid. That of Belfast,
which in 1780 was the largest, had in 1781 nearly double their number,
5383 Men, then appeared in Review with a train of 13 field pieces; other Reviews had proportionally encreased and improved; the volunteers
engaged the affection and commanded the admiration of all their
Countrymen. The IInhabitants of the different places where they
were reviewed, behaved with unbounded hospitality, and entertained
with emulous profusion their Countrymen in arms

Plowden

Plowden. p.530 Ao 1781. It had now become notorious, that government wished
to check and disarm the volunteers; but they (the government) were frightened into acquiescence:
they had before reluctantly distributed amongst them 16,000 stand of
arms, and it was now found politic to sooth and court the power they
could no longer withstand.

Identifier: | JB/137/392/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1819-06-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	392	Info in main headings field	radicalism not irish volunteers
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d10 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	47109
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