needful for the safety and advantage of the public; such a law cannot be a breach either of these or any other like Articles. But then such laws ought to be in general, and should not single out or affect any one particular part or party of the people, who gave no provocation to any such law, and whose conduct stood hitherto unimpeached ever since the ratification of the aforesaid Articles of Limerick. To make any law that shall single any particular part of the people out from the rest, and take from them what by right of birth, and all the preceding laws of the land, had been confirmed to and intailed upon them, will be an apparent violation of the original institution, of all right, and an ill precedent to any that hereafter might dislike either the present or any other settlement which should be in their power to alter, the consequence of which is hard to imagine." Sir Theobald Butler, better known amongst the peasantry of Connaught as the famed Sir Toby,' died in Dublin, and was interred in the cemetery of St. James's Church, James's-street, in that city, where a monument was erected to his memory, which at that time must have cost a large sum, but which is now in a dilapidated state, and fast crumbling to decay. When I first visited the tomb of this celebrated and patriotic Irishman, who was the framer of the memorable Treaty of Limerick, I was indeed surprised and somewhat grieved to find the monument of this distinguised personage so totally neglected, and the contrast struck me the more forcibly as I was after passing through Sackvillestreet, where a great and unsightly column is erected to the memory of Lord Nelson-an Englishman-to whom Ireland was in no way whatever indebted, and which would never have occupied an inch of Irish ground were it not for the subserviency of a partial Corporation. But it is to be hoped that the Irish people will no longer neglect to restore this fast mouldering memorial to Sir Theobald Butler's memory, but unanimously and liberally subscribe towards renovating the tomb of an illustrious Irishman who was proud of his country, and whose voice was ever and fearlessly raised against the cruel acts of the minions of a tyrant who plunged Ireland in blood, and shamefully trampled on the most sacred treaties which were made with that country. Well may Clare feel proud of having given birth to Sir Toby, and of having adopted O'Connell— two of Ireland's ablest, most profound, and patriotic lawyers! The following is the inscription on Sir Toby's monument, which was erected by his eldest son : "Designatur hac effigie, Theobaldus è Gente Butlerâ ; Hibernus Jurisconsultus, Legum Patriæ nominis decus: Dignitate equestri donatus non auctus. Causidicus Argutus concinnus integer disertus. Barbarie forensi & vernaculâ, Non Partium Studio, The following anecdote of Sir Toby is taken from the Clare Journal of Thursday, May 16th, 1872: "We extract the following from the 'Limerick Reporter' of Tuesday :'Sir Toby Butler, the Attorney-General of our Second King James, "who lost Ireland," and was called in consequence by a name unmentionable to ears polite, was a clever lawyer, ready, witty, faithful, eminent. He drew up the Articles of Limerick, a document of wonderful ability, but soon afterwards to be torn in shreds by those who pretended they would abide by its terms. Sir Toby was adroit in many other respects. He made a fortune for his friend and fellowlawyer Corne Callaghane (as he used to write his name), who laid the foundation of the Lismore family, by introducing him to the wealthy heiress Miss Flegoe, and showing his tongue to her father as the organ by which he (Corne) was destined to make a noise in the world, and realise a name and fame. Callaghane was a young man at the time, but having made a point against Archbishop Cox, of Cashel, in a suit instituted by him in opposition to Mr. Flegoe about the possession of certain lands, he so far succeeded in the cause as to win the full confidence and approval of his leader, Sir Toby, whose patronage and good opinion he had already obtained. Pleading one day before a certain judge of very bad character in the county town of "rare Clonmel," the learned judge, in a half jocose way, remarked that Sir Toby's ruffles appeared rather soiled. "Oh! yes, my lord," said Sir Toby in the blandest manner possible, "but "showing his hands-" You perceive, my lord, that my hands are clean." The judge reddened, and would have roasted Sir Toby, amid the laughter which the retort courteous elicited in a rather crowded Court. Sir Toby was true to his king and true to his party."" It is a mistake in the above quotation to call Sir Toby Butler AttorneyGeneral, but he was Solicitor-General for Ireland. A LIST OF THE OFFICERS WHO SERVED IN THE IRISH ARMY OF KING JAMES II. "Oh for the swords of former time! Oh for the men who bore them, With honours to enslave him, The best honours worn by Man Were those which Virtue gave him. "Oh for the kings who flourished then! Were all the ramparts round them! The throne was but the centre, MOORE From the first moment I contemplated publishing the present work, I intended giving as full and correct a list as possible of the officers, Irish, English and French, who adhered to James II., and served in the Irish army during the war of the Revolution in Ireland, many of whom followed his fortunes on the Continent. Accordingly, I commenced to collect materials from public and private documents and other resources, such as printed works and the genealogies of many Continental families. The result was, that almost at the commencement of my researches I became aware that a work entitled "Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical, of King James's Irish Army List," by the lamented historian of the county of Dublin, the late learned John D'Alton, Esq., Barrister-at-law, &c.. &c., was already published. I therefore was about abandoning this idea, until pressed by several friends to append as an appropriate supplement to The Irish Chieftains; or a Struggle for the Crown,' a Jacobite Irish Army List for 1689, 1690, and 1691, the three years during which this unfortunate civil war continued and devastated the country. According to. the title page, Mr. D'Alton's Army List is for the year 1689, and therefore cannot be taken as a complete list of the Irish Jacobite officers of this period, as changes were continually taking place, owing to promotions, retirements, in consequence of ill health or severe wounds, many of which proved fatal, and. deaths in the field, which are so common in time of war. I consider it quite unnecessary to allude at any length to the calumnies which were cast by Lord Macaulay upon those undoubtedly loyal and brave gentlemen, whose devotion and love of principle elicited the admiration of Swift, who could not but 'highly esteem' the valour of those exiles. Indeed it is my opinion that had his Lordship but lived to make himself better acquainted with the subject he would have retracted his former statement, and would have written as he did in the preface to the reprint of his Essays, "The blemishes which have been removed were for the most part blemishes caused by unavoidable haste." With regard to his assertion of the officers being 'Cobblers,' and soforth, I have only to say that the mass of the Irish people who followed them during the war, and bravely fought and freely bled beneath their respective standards, did not consider them a low-born rabble, but believed and knew them to be "Chiefs and warriors long and bright, From sire to sire bequeath'd to lead them, In valor's morn or sorrow's night, To that pure gem of nature--Freedom!" I take this opportunity of again thanking those gentlemen who so kindly assisted me in my researches, preparatory to sending this work to press. PART I.-1689, 1690, 1691. "Awake! arise burst your galling chains, THE CAVALRY. FIRST TROOP OF LIFE GUARDS. Colonel. Henry Jermyn, Viscount Dover. SECOND TROOP OF LIFE GUARDS. Colonel. James FitzJames, Duke of Berwick, (See Note 48, Page 457). |