Excerpt from The Correspondence of the Right Hon. John Beresford, Illustrative of the Last Thirty Years of the Irish Parliament, Vol. 1 of 2: Selected From His Original Papers Tun custom of compiling memoirs and publishing cor respondences has become of late years so general, that the Editor does not deem it necessary to enter into a lengthened apology for rescuing the contents of these volumes from obscurity or oblivion, especially as he believes that they will materially tend to throw some light upon a period of much importance in the history of the Irish Parliament, of which little is known, and of which but few authentic records have been preserved. The Editor is anxious, however, to state the circumstances which induced him first to institute a search for the official papers and for the public and private letters belonging to the late Mr. Beresford, his grandfather, and to explain the motives which impelled him to nu der take the inspection of them at so late a period as nearly fifty years after his death. 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.