PAGE DANIEL O’CONNELL 1 DANIEL O’CONNELL 9 IN DEFENCE OF JOHN MAGEE: COURT OF KING’S BENCH, DUBLIN, JULY 27, 1813. LORD PALMERSTON 117 LORD PALMERSTON 125 ON THE CASE OF DON PACIFICO: HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE 25, 1850. ROBERT LOWE, VISCOUNT SHERBROOKE 225 ROBERT LOWE, VISCOUNT SHERBROOKE 232 AGAINST THE REFORM ACT: HOUSE OF COMMONS, MAY 31, 1866. THE RIGHT HONORABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P. 285 JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN 292 SPLENDID ISOLATION. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN 303 THE TRUE CONCEPTION OF EMPIRE. LORD ROSEBERY 313 LORD ROSEBERY 318 THE DUTY OF PUBLIC SERVICE. ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES 347 DANIEL O’CONNELL. From the somewhat picturesque assemblage of Irish political agitators emerges the figure of one in many ways the most picturesque, and, in most, the greatest of them. The period (1775–1847) of O’Connell’s activities discloses him as one of the generation that came in with Scott and Wordsworth--children of the overlapping centuries, whom shortly the French Revolution was to stir to many things strange to the world of 1775.