which they did in the 16th and 17th centuries; but it is to be feared, that they would explode, if they were more numerous, and should a foreign invafion, or any publick disturbance that endangered the State, offer them an incitement to do fo. Like the winds confined in the cave of Eolus, if the preffure of the mountain was removed, they would hurl deftruction.

"Ni faciat, muria ac terras, cœlumque profundum,
Quippe ferant rapidi fecum, verrantque per auras."

Sixtus V. fent the papifts of England a dispenfation from the rigorous obfervance of a bull fulminated against queen Elizabeth by Pius V.

They were allowed by it to appear obedient and respectful to her, till their party was ftrong enough to rife against her. Speed 871.*

It should be recollected, that the mafs of the Irish Roman catholicks fhewed the most decided hoftility against our present gracious fovereign and his government, to whose goodness they owed fo much; and at the fame time an enthufiaftick attachment to the French, the avowed enemies of their religion, and of the fovereign pontiff; but as the latter, to whom they owe unlimited obedience, is now become a mere engine in the hands of Buonaparte, it behoves the government of England to guard more vigilantly than ever against the malignant spirit of popery.

I fhall

The Irish traitors, fo early as the year 1796, began to fend miffionaries to Lancashire, where papists are very numerous; and father Quigley was very active among them in fwearing and organizing. Some months before the peace, there appeared in that county a strong spirit of infurgency, and combination cemented by oaths.

I now repeat the following obfervation, which

I have made in many parts of this work: "that

in the ftrictures contained in it, I do not allude to

the nobility, the gentry, the merchants, and per-

fons well educated of the popifh perfuafion, who

are loyal, generous, and humane ;" but they form a

very inconfiderable part of the community.

I fhall conclude, with telling the reader, that the

confeffion of faith, in page 436 of vol. ii. was writ-
ten on a paper, containing a fample of wheat, which
a popish farmer prefented to a corn merchant in the
city of Cork, in the month of December, 1801,
which fhews that this vehicle of impiety and treason
is in circulation among the lower clafs of papifts.

CONTENTS.

Pre-difpofing caufes of the rebellion in the north

Military organization of the united Irishmen

of the Catholick committee

Cvil organization of the united Irifbmen

Origin of the yeomanry

Negotiation of the confpirators with the French

The breaking-out of the rebellion

Attack upon Naas by the rebels

what progrefs the leaders of it made, in unit-

ing the prefbyterians and papifts

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286

upon Profperous by ditto

upon Clane by ditto

Infurrection near Dunlavin

288

295

298

Attack on Ballymore-euftace

299

Infurrection at Kildare

301

TO THE READER AND BOOKBINDER,

Relative to the Plates, Maps and Appendixes.

Plate I. A map of Ireland in the beginning of the work.

II. A map of the north part of the county of Wex-

ford is to face page 393, vol. i.

III. A map of the fouth part of Wexford to face

page 395, ibid.

IV. Ground-plan of Enniscorthy and Vinegar-hill,

ferving to illuftrate the attack on the former
the twenty-eighth of May, and the re-taking of
it the twenty-firft of June, 1798, to face
page 431, ibid.

V. Elevation of it to face page 1, vol. ii. to illustrate

the latter.

VI. Ground-plan of Wexford to face page 470, vol. i.

VII. A ground-plan of Rofs, and a map of the ad-

jacent country, is to face page 503, ibid.

VIII. Plan of the town and battle of Arklow is to face

page 541, ibid.

IX. Ground-plan of the town of Antrim, to illuf-

trate the action that took place there, to face

page 92, vol. ii.

X. A map to fhew the movements of the army of
the marquis Cornwallis, and general Lake, to
face page 111, vol. ii.

There is annexed to every map, a lateral Index, at each
fide of it, divided into inches, and indicated by numbers
from the top to the bottom of the page, which will faci-
litate the finding any particular place, by fhewing its la-
titude. Thus, Wexford will be found in plate III. No. 6.
but when a place lies between two numbers, it will be
fo ftated. Thus Gorey is in plate II. 4, 5.

The general number of the Appendixes is expreffed by

Roman characters, with fubordinate ones marked by

figures.

The Reader is requested, when he is perusing this work, to transcribe on a
piece of paper the number and page of the plates, to fuperfede the necessity,
and fave the trouble, of frequently recurring to the above notice.