GRATTAN

the Irish orator, was born in 1746. and elected to the Irish Parliament in 1775. He led the ‘Independence’ movement in 1782, and got,£50,000 from the Irish Parliament for his sendees, as well as a house and lands. He was opposed to the United Irish men movement, and to the Union with Britain: but he sat in the Imperial Parliament for Dublin, and He was very zealous for Romanist emancipation. from observations made by Kepler. 1747 published his Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (where he had been educated along with Horace Walpole). The Elegy appeared in 1751. and in 1760 he was made Profe or of Modern History at Cambridge. He died in 1771. He wrote extremely brilliant Latin verse.