Complex sentence: He was spoken of as a possible defence counsel for the United Irishman William Drennan, who was charged with seditious libel in 1794, and his speech on a possible peace treaty with France the following year attracted a good deal of attention and was later published.
Split into simpler sentences: He was spoken of as a possible defence counsel for the United Irishman William Drennan, who was charged with seditious libel in 1794. His speech on a possible peace treaty with France the following year attracted a good deal of attention and was later published.