John Morley: “The fitness of an absentee parliament to govern Ireland was again to be tested.”

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.