were secure; and, under the forms and ceremonies of the law of the land, they then acquired a right to rob and plunder the blind idolatrous Papists whom they had abandoned.

Whoever has travelled through these pages, and duly considered the villany of those statutes, and of the legislators by whom they were enacted; the horrible scenes of oppression, fraud, and murder, which they could not fail to produce; the universal demoralization that must have followed their operation, cannot fail to agree with Tillotson, that, so far as respected the devoted island whose fate we deplore, it were

Better there were no revealed religion, and that human nature were left to the conduct of its own principles and incli nations, which are much more mild and merciful, much more for the peace and happiness of human society, than to be actuated by a religion that inspires men with so vile a fury, and prompts them to commit such outrages.'

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Tillotson applied this strong position to other parts of Christendom; but shut his eyes to the wickedness, the profligacy, and the immorality of the code in force in his native country;*—so much easier is it to take the mote out of our neighbour's eye, than the beam out of our own.

We have now, however, in this enlightened country, bigoted clergymen, who cant, and whine, and turn up the whites of their eyes, deploring

*The English laws on this subject were as wicked and cruel as the Irish.

596 Tillotson, III. 19.

and reviling the persecuting spirit of Madrid, and Lisbon, and Paris, and Rome, and Goa; but, like Tillotson, deaf, and blind, and dumb, to the atrocious system of persecution for ages in operation in England and Ireland. If they attend to the maxim of Jesus Christ, "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone," they will lay an eternal embargo on their tongues, upon this odious, this detestable subject. Sat verbum.

Here we close:-and ask the reader, to whatever nation, religion, party, or faction, he may belong, whether there ever existed a much more horrible system of tyranny? And whether resistance to it, in any of its stages, whatever might have been the result, would not have deserved a nobler name than the odious one of Rebellion?

"Rebellion! foul, dishonouring word,

Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd
The holiest cause that tongue or sword
Of mortal ever lost or gain'd.

How many a spirit, born to bless,

Has sunk beneath that withering name,
Whom but a day's, an hour's success
Had wafted to eternal fame!
As exhalations, when they burst

From the warm earth, if chill'd at first,
If check'd in soaring from the plain,
Darken to fogs and sink again;

But, if they once triumphant spread

Their wings above the mountain-head,

Become enthron'd in upper air,

And turn to sun-bright glories there!"-Lalla Rookh.

THE END.

INDEX.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Parliamentary infamy, 252,
Act of indemnity and free pardon, 274.

Acts of charity, punished with forfeiture, 499.

Age of forgery and perjury, 289.

Amboyna, massacre at, remarks upon, xxix.

Andre, case of, misunderstood, 31.

Anniversary sermons, inflammatory purposes of, 28.

Antichrist, definition of, 480.

Antichrist at Madrid, Lisbon, and Goa, 480.

Antichrist in Geneva, London, Scotland, Holland, and Ireland,

481.

Archbishop of Dublin, free examination of his conduct, 146.
Archbishops, bishops, vicars-general, &c. liable to be hanged, if
they returned to Ireland, 488.

Barrymore, lord, cruelty of, 467.
Beale, the tailor, pretended plot of, 294.
Bedingfield, Henry, pretended plot of, 297.

Bedlow, William, a most infamous villain, 292.

Bingham, captain, statement of, 23, 32.

Bigotry, religious, wonderful prevalence of, 48.

Bloody breakfast, 467.

Boroughs, forty new ones created at once, 249.

Bunker's Hill, battle of, discrepancy respecting, 31.

Burnet, bishop, testimony of, respecting court of wards, 121.

Carleton, bishop of Chichester, sorry tale of, 174.

Carte, fraudulent statement of, 107.

Carte, gross inconsistency of, 109, 110, 393.

Carte, obliquity of, 217..

Carte, imbecile views of, 124, 131, 203.

Cashel, slaughter in cathedral of, 465.

Castlemain, lord, accused of a plot, 298.

Cessation with the Irish, reprobated by the ruling party, 353.

Cessation, resolution of English Parliament against, 355.

Charles I. base perfidy and ingratitude of, 134, 135, 139, 148, 149.

Civil wars, three, 92.

Civil war in England, causes and consequences of, 95.

Civil war in Scotland, causes and consequences of, 93.

Civil war in Ireland, provocation to, and ruinous consequences

of, 97.

Clarendon, fraudulent statements of, 107, 137.

Clergy, Irish, banishment of, 125.

Cobler of Aggavvam, murderous exhortations of, 473.
Collusion, base, of Charles I. and lord Falkland, 143.

Comparison between the provocation of Ireland in 1641, and that
of America in 1776, 99.

Confiscation of Irish estates, the grand object of the governments
of England and Ireland, 63, 64, 65.

Confiscation, the primary object of the lords justices, 349.
Consequences of the civil wars in England and France, nearly
similar, 103.

Conspiracies, forged, a source of confiscation, 27, 177, 178, 179,

et passim.

Coote, Sir Charles, a sanguinary ruffian, 337.

Coote, Charles, absurd testimony of, 47.

Courts of justice in Ireland, prostituted state of, 87.

Cox, Richard, murders and robberies of, 468.

Crosby, Piers, hard case of, 256.

Cromwell, Oliver, murderous cruelty and base hypocrisy of,

459, 460.

Cruelty, remorseless, of the Irish government, 74.

Curry, Dr. his view of the flight of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, 173.
Curry's history, excellence of, xviii.

Curse against traitors, from Lalla Rookh, 476.

Dangerfield, a notorious villain and perjurer, 299.

Davies, Sir John, base quibbles and chicanery of, 190, 191.

Dead bodies, after six weeks, rising out of the water, en masse,

38, 39, 40.

Dead bodies, eaten by the starving Irish, 78.

Dead bodies, free from putrefaction for four or five weeks, 425.
Debate, freedom of, grossly violated, 255.

De La Hide, Walter, cruel persecution of, 73.
Desmond, earl, horrible persecution of, 68, 70.

Desmond estates, confiscation of, 72.

Desolation, perpetrated in Scotland, by the earl of Essex, 234.
Desolation, perpetrated in France and Spain, by the English, 237.
Devastation and desolation, perpetrated on the Irish, 75, 76, 77.
Divines of the assembly, atrocious calumny of, 359.

Drogheda, massacre at, 460.

Education, forbidden in Ireland, under pain of death, 498.、
English by descent, as cruelly persecuted in Ireland as the abori-
ginals, 67.

English title to Ireland, twenty-six hundred years old, 268.
Estated Catholics, only four hundred in the insurrection, 435.
Evidence, hearsay, 399, 408, 409, 414.

Exaggeration and falsehood, hideous instances of, 362.
Falsehood, detected, 367.

Famine, produced by the devastation and desolation of the Irish
government forces, 78, 79.

Father and mother, robbery of, encouraged by law, 500.
Fines, ruinous, exacted, 116.

Forgeries, manifest, received as solid proofs, 27.

Fosterage and marriage made treason, 263.

France, conquest of, how effected, 475.

Frauds and falsehoods, respecting the state of Ireland, detailed

by Clarendon, Carte, and Leland, 107.

Frauds, in representation under Elizabeth, 242, 243; under
James I. 249.

Ghosts screaming for revenge, 42, 43.

Grenville, Richard, a ferocious ruffian, 457.

Gurmond, bestows Ireland on Heber, 268.

Historians of Irish affairs, vile views of, 35.

Historical writing, difficulties of, 17, 32, 24; perversion of, 18.
Horse thieves excited and protected by law, 486.

House of Lords, corrupt management of, 254.

Hume, disgraceful and dishonourable conduct of, 395.

Hume, striking error and mis-statement of, 186.

Inconsistency, gross, of Carte, Warner, and Leland, 109, 110.

Indemnity and free pardon, fraudulent act of, 274.

Indictment, bills of, one thousand found in two days, 84, 86.
Indictment, definition of, 88.

Insurrection of 1641, discussed, 313.