Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country.

In the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 Windham supported the union of Ireland with Great Britain believing that Catholic emancipation would follow. was to be a follower if not a worshipper rather than an original thinker or actor.

) was a British Whig statesman. In the Ministry of All the Talents in 1806-7 Windham became Secretary for War and the Colonies having reconciled with the Foxites. Like Burke Windham supported the war as an ideological crusade against Jacobinism and was an enthusiastic supporter of the French émigrés and a Bourbon restoration.