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" My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection that without a Union the... "
Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis - Page 102
by Charles Cornwallis Marquis Cornwallis - 1859
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 105-106

1859 - 650 pages
...existence; And, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to nave the country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most eorrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 105

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1859 - 750 pages
...existence ; and, after all, I doubt whether it is possible to save the country.' And again, June 8 : — ' My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing witli the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour for engaging in such...
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The popular history of England, Volume 7

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1861 - 654 pages
...mutual interest and affection " was described by lord Cornwallis in a letter of the 8th of June : " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...am supported only by the reflection, that without a Union the British empire must be dissolved." t On the 29th of March, lord Cornwallis deprecated,...
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The popular history of England, Volume 7

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1861 - 622 pages
...mutual interest and affection " was described by lord Cornwallis in a letter of the ŁĄth of June : " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and lĄate myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work ; and am supported only by the reflection,...
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Charles Knight's school history of England, abridged from the ..., Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1865 - 946 pages
...called " the management of the country" out of their hands. On the 8th of June, lord Cornwallis wrote, "My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven." The system of "negotiating and jobbing" had to be worked by promising an Irish peerage, or a lift in...
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'The sham squire' and the informers of 1798; with a view of their ...

William John Fitzpatrick - Ireland - 1866 - 336 pages
...service in the hands of Lord Cornwallis. " My occupation", writes this nobleman on 8th June, 1799, " is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating...jobbing with the most corrupt people under Heaven. J despise myself every hour for engaging in such dirty work". And again : " How I long to kick those...
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The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern: Derived from Our Native Annals ...

Martin Haverty - Ireland - 1867 - 798 pages
...the 8th of June, 1799, he writes: " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negociating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven....and am supported only by the reflection that without a onion the British empire must be dissolved." The now published correspondence both of lord Castlereagh...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 30

Henry Allon - 1859 - 740 pages
...of winning over the Irish Parliament by corruption. t ' My occupation,' ho wrote to General Ross, ' is now of the most unpleasant nature — ' negotiating...reflection that ' without an Union the British empire must ha dissolved.' During the summer and autumn of 17!J!) the Government and the Opposition made thuir...
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The Crown History of England: Being Our Country's History from the Earliest ...

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1870 - 1036 pages
...called " the management of the country " out of their hands. On the 8th of June, lord Cornwallis wrote, "My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature,...jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven." The system of "negotiating and jobbing" had to be worked by promising an Irish peerage, or a lift in...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 78

1871 - 756 pages
...most cursed of all situations. How I long to kick those whom my public duty obliges me to court !" " My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature...and am supported only by the reflection that without a Union the llriii.-h empire must be dissolved." To attempt to give in our narrow space a detailed...
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