rish_ dragoons, by-the-bye.

[16] REDMOND O'HANLON was the Rob Roy of Ireland, and his adventures,
many of which are exceedingly curious, would furnish as rich _materials_
for the novelist, as they have already done for the ballad-mongers: some
of them are, however, sufficiently well narrated in a pleasant little
tome, published at Belfast, entitled _The History of the Rapparees_. We
are also in possession of a funeral discourse, preached at the obsequies
of the "noble and renowned" Henry St. John, Esq., who was unfortunately
killed by the _Tories_--the _Destructives_ of those days--in the
induction to which we find some allusion to Redmond. After describing
the thriving condition of the north of Ireland, about 1680, the Rev.
Lawrence Power, the author of the sermon, says, "One mischief there was,
which indeed in a great measure destroyed all, and that was a pack of
insolent bloody outlaws, whom they here call _Tories_. These had so
riveted themselves in these parts, that by the interest they had among
the natives, and some English, too, _to their shame be it spoken_, they
exercise a kind of separate sovereignty in three or four counties in the
north of Ireland. REDMOND O'HANLON is their chief, and has been these
many years; a cunning, dangerous fellow, who, though proclaimed an
outlaw with the rest of his crew, and sums of money set upon their
heads, yet he reigns still, and keeps all in subjection, so far that
'tis credibly reported _he raises more in a year by contributions
a-la-mode de France than the king's land taxes and chimney-money come
to, and thereby is enabled to bribe clerks and officers_, IF NOT THEIR
MASTERS, (!) _and makes all too much truckle to him_." Agitation, it
seems, was not confined to our own days--but the "finest country in the
world" has been, and ever will be, the same. The old game is played
under a new color--the only difference being, that had Redmond lived in
our time, he would, in all probability, not only have pillaged a county,
but _represented_ it in parliament. The spirit of the Rapparee is still
abroad--though we fear there is little of the _Tory_ left about it. We
recommend this note to the serious consideration of the declaimers
against the sufferings of the "six millions."

[17] Here Titus was slightly in error. He mistook the cause for the
effect. "They were called Rapparees," Mr. Malone says, "from being armed
with a half-pike, called by the Irish a _rapparee_."--TODD'S JOHNSON