had been cast upon the
proposers of it_--such a damp, as he had reason to believe, that
the settlement had not advanced one step since the departure of
Lord Temple; and he would add, in justice both to the late and
present Ministry, that he, in his conscience, believed, if the
public were put to any _unnecessary expense_ by the settlement,
_it must be attributed solely and entirely to the delays and
impediments which had been thrown in its way by the present
Castle_.

On a subsequent day, moving the thanks of the House to Lord Temple, Lord
Mornington delivered an eloquent panegyric upon his Government. He spoke
of the Act of Renunciation as having produced an "instantaneous calm in
Ireland," and, adverting to other matters, observed:

These were the great public acts of Lord Temple's Government,
the nation at large had felt their effects, the Lord-Lieutenant
had from the throne applauded them; the House itself had
applauded them in detail, and therefore would not object to
doing so in the gross, which he now called upon the House to do.
With regard to the general attention of Lord Temple to the
common duties of his office, and his management of the interior
system of government here, he would deliver no opinion of his
own; he would appeal to those whose high stations and
confidential offices gave them constant access to the person and
councils of Lord Temple, to testify his ability and assiduity in
business, the extent of his researches, the vigilance with which
he penetrated into the secrets of departments where the most
gross rapine and peculation had been practised for ages with
impunity, _and particularly the firm integrity with which he
resisted all jobs, however speciously concealed, or powerfully
recommended_.

Nothing need be added to this unimpeachable eulogium on the character of
Lord Temple's administration of the Government of Ireland. It comes from
an authority above suspicion, and its statements will guide the
decisions of history.

In the midst of these political anxieties there was a private grief,
arising out of the sundering of attachments consequent upon the
unnatural state of parties, that preyed severely on the sensitive mind
of Lord Temple. This painful matter forms the subject of a letter from
Lord Temple to his brother, Mr. Thomas Grenville, which has not been
inserted in its chronologi