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of his clothes was often besprinkled with 

 acid, showing numerous red spots. 



Although descended from a family who 

 were adherents of the old-fashioned Toryism 

 of Ulster, he very early displayed pronounced 

 Liberal opinions, and was probably a member 

 of the body of United Irishmen ; indeed, it is 

 said that when the agitation burst out, he 

 hid in his house some of the prominent 

 leaders of that party. 



He remained a steadfast and decided 

 Liberal, and was a strong Free Trader, and 

 a liberal supporter of the Anti-Corn Law 

 League. He was an advanced Financial 

 Reformer ; he advocated the abolition of all 

 Customs Duties ; and, indeed, of all indirect 

 taxation, so much so, that he would have 

 applied the Income Tax to all incomes, even 

 as low as twenty shillings per week, and 

 have abolished all other taxes. 



The presentment we have of him is not 

 that of an enthusiastic theorist or an ingenious 

 inventor, not that of a man who would spend 

 days and nights in experimental research, but 

 of one who was eminently practical, who 

 sought to turn to useful and profitable account 

 the knowledge he had acquired. 



His university training did not unfit him 



