He was taunted by the alarmists with caring only for sugar islands, and making himself master of all the islands in the world except Great Britain and Ireland.

To Burke all this was an abomination, and Windham followed Burke to the letter.

He even declared the holy rage of the _Third Letter on a Regicide Peace_, published after Burke's death, to contain the purest wisdom and the most unanswerable policy.

It was through Windham's eloquence and perseverance that the monstrous idea of a crusade, and all Burke's other violent and excited precepts, gained an effective place and hearing in the cabinet, in the royal closet, and in the House of Commons, long after Burke himself had left the scene.
We have already seen how important an element Irish affairs became in the war with America.

The same spirit which had been stirred by the American war was inevitably kindled in Ireland by the French Revolution.