Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Vol. 2 The inability of the country at this period to bear any additional taxation, and the embarrass ment Of Government, are set forth in the account hereafter given by the Lord Lieutenant, who found himself unable to carry the measures contem plated, and was defeated in the House, upon the question of granting new taxes, when Mr. Grat tan carried his motion by the extraordinary ma jority of 170 to 47. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.