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been baked in an oven for three days, is nott-,1
through a Popish miracle, a Prelate of 44 unim-
'peached loyalty and peiceable conduct."
In my last Letter I gave a brief account of the
origin of Whiteboyism, in the latter end of the
reign of George 11., and I sheaved, from the depo-
sition of Matthias O'Brien, a Romish Priest, and
Coadjutor to the titular Archbishop of Cashel,
that " the causes commonly alleged for the

risings by the Whiteboys were but mere pre-
tences, and calculated to conceal their secret de-
sign," which was none other than the subversion
of the Government ; and, as I conceive that
there is a strong analogy between modern White-
boys and those of the period alluded to, not only
as to the object they have in view, but also as to
the alleged causes for the late risings, it may not
be amiss to pursue the 'subject further—the
rather, as misrepresentation seems so much the
order of the day; then let such of. Your readers
as have remarked upon late and passing events
compare them with the account contained in my
last, and with that I shall now give, and draw

their own conclusions.
' From that period (1762) the Whiteboys
continued more or less to agitate the South of
Ireland, as the barometer.
.of their hove or fo-
reign aid rose or fell ; but previous to the' year
1787 they broke out with renovated fury, under
the new appellation of Rightboys, actuated, how-
ever, by the same hatred of the English connec-
tion, the Protestant Religion, and the establish-
ed Laws, which, for upwards of two hundred
years, had characterized the Roman Catholics of
Ireland ; and murder, devastation, and every
species of cruelty to Protestants in general, but
to the Clergy in particular, marked their pro-
gress. This too, after very considerable immu-
nities had been granted to their body (the
Whiteboys and the Rightboys were exclusively
Papists) by a Protestant King and a Protestant
Parliament, and long after many Roman Cp.tho-
lics had publicly declared that they were fully sa-
tisfied with those great concessions."—" On the
31st of January, 1787, the then Attorney-Gene-
ral (afterwards Earl of Clare) stated officially
the grounds of this insurrection to a Committee
of the Irish House of Commons; by which it

appears that the insurgents assembled at a
Roman Catholic Chapel, and there took the
oath to obey Captain Right (each leader of
a party was a Captain Right) :—those last
sworn went on the ensuing Sunday to the neigh-
bouring Chapels, and swore those parishes next ;
and so on, ad infinitum."—" Tithes became the
first object of reformation with those legislators ;
next, they swore the people not to give more
than a certain rent for Band ; not to assist Pro-
testant Clergymen with carts or cars, to draw
away their tithes; and not to suffer tithe-proc-
tors—all of whom that fell into their hands they
treated with a degree of cruelty unheard of
before—cutting out the tongues of some, and
burying others to the chin in holes lined with
furze and filled with earth, there to perish.
They next insisted that no more Churches should
be built, unless the old ones were given up to
them for Chapels ; and, finally, they determined
to prevent the collection of the Hearth-money
tax. In consequence, the Government was
obliged to send a strong military force into the
South of Ireland, and the ' Bill to prevent tu-
Multuous Meetings' was passed, though not
without considerable opposition on the part 'of
certain liberal-minded Patriots, some of whom
very jocularly compared the systematic insurrec-
tion of the Rightboys to a quarrel in consequence
of too free an use of whiskey : however, the
subsequent comparative tranquillity of those
counties, in which it had been carried into ef-
fect, fully proved the wisdom and expediency of
the measure."—" In the year 1789, those in-
surgents, the Rightboys, renewed their cruelties
and depredations on their Protestant neigh-
bours ; and at this time they framed the follow-
ing mock oath of‘allegiance, which*was taken by
the members of the society :—‘ We are bound
to his Majesty King George the Third, and his
Successors to the Crown ; so, for this present
year 1789, we promise faithfully the same obe-
dience, and also whilst we live subject to the same
Government.'—Compare this with the oath of al-
legiance framed by the Supreme Roman Catholic
Council of Kilkenny,then in open rebellion against
King Charles the First, in which they promised
4 to bear faith and allegiance to his Majesty, his
heirs and successors, as far as they may' ; and
who will not see the same Jesuitical sophistry,
which has ever distinguished the members of the
Church of Rome, equally as manifest in the year
1789 as it had been in the year 1641 ? But we
shall find a solution of both in the Manifesto
published by that arch-rebel the Earl of Tyrone,
in the reign of Queen Elizabeth :—after inform-
ing his adherents that they could not conscien-
tiously obey an excommunicated Princess, he
adds, though there might have been_a mitiga-
tion made by her in favour of Catholics, by
which they might be licensed, in civil matters, to
give her, during their inability, obedience.' "
(See " Letters by a Protestant," published by
CHAPPLE, Pall Mall, London.)
Although I have mentioned that I would leave
your readers to draw their own conclusions, yet
I cannot avoid making a few remarks, by way of
drawing a parallel between the insurrections in
1762, 1787, and 1821. They bear strong cor-
responding features, not only as to the object
and design, but also as to the means used,to carry
them into effect. The insurgents, at each of
those periods, have been bound by an oath—in
1762, to the Pretender and the King of France—
in 1787, to Captain Right—and in 1821 to Capt.
Rock. The alleged causes at each period have
been the same—the Abolition of Tithes and
Taxes, and the Reduction of Rent to their own
standard. In 1762, as appears by the deposi-
tion of Father O'Brien, those alleged causes
C 4 were but mere pretences, and calculated to
conceal their secret designs ;" and it 'must be
manifest to every rational, unprejudiced mind,
that they were but mere pretences in 1787, and
are so at the present time. In 1762 • several bf
the Romish Bishops, and a considerable number
of the Priests, took an active,part in the conspi-
racy ; and I ask any man, 'endued with common
sense, if he can suppose, from the Report of the
Attorney-General in January 1787, that the or-