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From: Dennis Ahern <>
Subject: Re: Excerpts from Irish newspapers
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:49:51 +0000 (UTC)


WONDERFUL FULFILMENT OF WELLINGTON'S
PROPHECY.
When George IV. was being strongly importuned by
Wellington to give consent to a measure which, he was told,
the urgent necessity of the times, and the social condition of
men, demanded, and must have, the sick monarch, ill at ease,
weary of importunity, and vanquished by argument, gave his
reluctant acquiescence ; and he was informed that he had
saved his dominions from the horrors of civil war. "War!
(said the King)--and how many years' peace do you
guarantee to England, after emancipation is granted?"
"Fifteen," was the ready reply of the minister. This pledge of
triple lustre of tranquility was made in January, 1829 ; and
the fifteen years of the promised duration of peace expired
on the first day of Mr. O'Connel's trial!--Church
Intelligencer.

--The Southern Patriot [Mallow], 9 March 1844

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