house to about
fourteen.

Allowing then for the Protestants in arms against the Government--out
of the country, or within the seat of war--the disproportion between
their representatives and the Roman Catholics will lessen greatly.

One thing more is worth noticing in the Commons, and that is a sort of
sept representation. Thus we see O'Neills in Antrim, Tyrone, and
Armagh; Magennises in Down; O'Reillys in Cavan; Martins, Blakes,
Kirwans, Dalys, Bourkes for Connaught; MacCarthys, O'Briens, O'Donovans
for Cork and Clare; Farrells for Longford; Graces, Purcells, Butlers,
Welshs, Fitzgeralds for Tipperary, Kilkenny, Kildare, etc.; O'Tooles,
Byrnes, and Eustaces for Wicklow; MacMahons for Monaghan; Nugents,
Bellews, Talbots, etc., for North Leinster.

Sir Richard Nagle, the Speaker, was the descendant of an old Norman
family (said to be the same as the Nangles) settled in Cork. His
paternal castle, Carrignancurra, is on the edge of a steep rock, over
the meadows of the Blackwater, half-a-dozen miles below Mallow. It is
now the property of the Foot family, and here may still be seen the
mouldering ruin where that subtle lawyer first learned to plan.
Peacefully now look the long oak-clad cliffs on the happy river.

Nagle had obtained a splendid reputation at the Irish Bar. "He had been
educated among the Jesuits, and designed for a clergyman," says King,
"but afterwards betook himself to the study of the law, in which he
arrived to a good perfection." Harris, likewise, calls him "an artful
lawyer of great parts." Tyrconnell valued him rightly, and brought him
to England with him in the autumn of 1686. His reputation seems to have
been great, for it seems the lords interested in the Settlement Act,
"on being informed of Nagle's arrival, were so transported with rage
that they would have had him immediately sent out of London."

He was knighted, and made attorney-general in 1687; and on James's
arrival, March, 1688-9, he was made secretary of state. He is said, we
know not how truly, to have drafted the Commons' bill for the repeal of
the Settlement.

Let us mention some of the members.--Nagle's colleague in Cork was
Colonel MacCarty, afterwards Lord Mountcashel. Miles de Courcy,
afterwards Lord Kinsale, MacCarty Reagh, who finally settled in France.
His descendant, Count MacCarty Reagh, was notable for having one of the
finest libraries in Europe, which was sold after the Revolution.

The Rt. Hon. Simon Lutteral raised