 While these Irish bulls have led many writers to portray Roche as a buffoon , other biographers have interpreted them not as blunders , but as calculated attempts to disarm opposition to ministerial policies through humour . Roche ended his political career with the passage of the Act of Union 1800 , which he supported . He chose not to attempt to enter the British House of Commons and retired on a government pension until his death , married but childless , in 1807 . 
