ament; and
this probable, wise politic expectation was entertained _by those
Catholic peers and representatives_, who through the cloud of war,
passion, and uncertainty, could exercise the more than human
moderation in solemnly prescribing the narrow bounds of
thirty-eight years to all enquirers after titles under the revived
court of claims: by those peers and representatives, whose
patriotism, political knowledge, and comprehensive minds instructed
them TO DECLARE THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE REALM, THE FREEDOM OF IRISH
TRADE, AND THE INESTIMABLE VALUE OF A MARINE.--Good God, that any
man, woman I mean, after such ACKNOWLEDGED, UNCONTROVERTED
DOCUMENTS of the wisdom and reach of mind of that parliament, could
be induced to credit and to advance the forgeries of a vicar of
Bray under a persecuting protestant administration, FOR THE WICKED
PURPOSE OF CALUMNIATING THEIR MEMORY, AND DEFEATING THE EFFORTS OF
THEIR POSTERITY FOR FREEDOM....

"A secret conspiracy BY WAY OF STATUTE against the lives of near
three thousand people, appears in itself impracticable and
fabulous; but that it should have been agitated IN OPEN PARLIAMENT,
and in the hearing of the protestant members, and yet expected to
have been kept a secret from the protestants, _by these protestant
members_, is childish and ridiculous.--In that parliament sat the
venerable lord Granard, a protestant, and _a constant adherent and
companion_ of King James in Ireland--'This excellent nobleman had
married a lady of presbyterian principles; was protector of the
northern puritans; had humanely secreted their teachers from those
severities which in England proved both odious and impolitic; and
had gained them an annual pension of L500 from government.'--(Leland,
vol. 3, p. 490). 'It was this lord Granard to whom the assembled
protestants of Ulster, by colonel Hamilton of Tullymore, who was
sent to Dublin for the sole purpose, unanimously offered the
command of their armed association, from their confidence in his
protestant principles; but he told Mr. Hamilton THAT HE HAD LIVED
LOYAL ALL HIS LIFE, AND WOULD NOT DEPART FROM IT IN HIS OLD AGE;
AND HE WAS RESOLVED THAT NO MAN SHOULD WRITE REBEL UPON HIS
GRAVESTONE.'--(Lesley's "Reply," pp. 79, 80.) ... Is it then likely
that this man would be privy to a general protestant proscription,