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shall have taken just vengeance on their crimes )
which, We firmly hope viii sooner later come 10
pass Until then We will make upon them unto
death, torecoyer the Independence which is our
tional right being compelled thereto by very
sty and willing rather TO brave danger like men, than
TO languish under insult"
"This promise OF war unto death, made upwards
of 400 years ago, Ia" says the historian yet for
gotten and Il Is melancholy fact but worthy Of
mark that in our own days alluding 10 1881 blood
has flowed in ireland account Of the old quarrel OF
the conquest The period in futuriiy when this quar-
rel shall be terminated il is impossible 10 foresee
and aversion for England, its government, its man
ners, and its language is still the native passion OF
the irlsh race, From The day OF the invasion, the
will OF that race OF men has been constantly opposed
10 the will OF Its masters IL has detested what they
have loved and loved what they have detested.
This unconquerable obstinacy this heightened re-
membrance OF departed libertythis faculty of pre-
serving aud nourshing, through ages of physical mi
sery and suffering, the thought Of that which is no
more,-of never desparing Of conslan Y anguish
ed cause, for which many generations have success
syey, and IN vain persisted in the field and by the
executioner-is, perhaps, the most extraordinary
and the greatest example that people has ever gi-
sen,' (TnEnRr, History Of the Norman Conquest, VOL
p. l6S, l72-4) In this tenacious attachment to
past 'ional recollection and ardent belief in uIti-
mate political regeneration, under the most de-
pressing circumstances the Irish may be cassed with
the ancient Messenans, the Jews the modern Greeks
and the Poles.
2Grattan's Mscel. Works, p. 1919, 1870, and Bar
rngtons Hist. of the Legislative Union, part II. p.
10, IL, and ~, edit. 1909
3Plowden's Hist Rev. vol. III. d. As.
4MacNevens Pieces Of Irish Hist. D. g.
5.uorning Chronicle, goth October, 1888 At home
the Ulster portion Of the Volunteer force alone was
32l52 men, or but few hundreds less than the whole
of the British army at Waterloo! One PROVING col
Ireland could do that then what aru the -FOUR 10
what they might be now' Tanhm RELiaio potuii
siadere ntaiorura
6tirattan's Speeches. vol. Ill D. G.
7Pieces Of Irish History, p. 6.
eSPeeeh Of SIR :. =; Hippesley, on the Catholic,
Question, May lSth 1910, p. So I" In this glorious
storm" says Mr. Alison the loss of the British was
about 600, but twice that number of the enemy fell,
and 2OJ0 were made prisoners, besides l,OO0 who
escaped in boats, SO that The number ofhe garrison at
first, had been greater than that of the beseging
force (History rot VI. p 1907 All very well, Mr..
Alison, but why is all this glorious storm set down
the credit Of one A9usand British and nothing at
all said of the three thousand Irish companionsa 'Fair
play Is Jewel" as we say in Ireland; and, please
God, we must soon get il
9see, on this point, able article on o. Connsll
and The Catholic Us oeiGiion" in Taiis Magazine for
1885, p. 307 and 309
10 Military Observations respecting Ireland and its
tack and Defence, p. l2 Dublin, 1904 This in
structiye pamphlet, printed without the writer's
name, is attributed to Gen. Cockburn.
From the county of Wexford in particular, which
DIR. MacNeven supposed to have supplied 40 900
men to the insurrection Of 1885, great numbers, af-
ter its extinction, volunteered into the British force
preparing against the French in Egypt Numbers,
also, who were sentenced to Transportation preferred
joining that expedition and with regard to the Irish
recruits in general il need scarcely be remarked that
the government Of that day would be anxious have
many OF them as possible in such service or any
where, rather than in Ireland The subsequent dis
tingushed bravery in Egypt Of those Wexford repre-
senIayes Of the British heart and the British arm
briefly adverted to by Hay, in his History of the
Wexford lnsurrection. The insurgents, according
TO the contnuator Of Tones fe were also consider
ably influenced to join the British expedition against
Egypt, by wish of revenge, on the French the APP
parenty faithess desertion Of Ireland by the Repub
liza desertion, however, which was principally II
not wholly owing to Bonaparte, who when told pre-
yious TO his wId-goose- chase expedition to Egyp:,
that the Irish were prepared to rise and ought be
assisted, basey replied, that nothing more was to be
desired from the Irish, than that their move ments
should operate as powerful diversion in favor OF
France Never was a and selfish policy
signally and deservedly punished. First, the
fine feet Of France, consisting, besides frigates &c.
OF IL ships Of the line, destroyed by Nelson al
the Nile. Secondly, large portion OF the picked
veterans oil France, persisted in Area and Asia,
uselessly, because for no ultimately available pur-
pose. Thirdly, the French beaten and expelled
IRON Egypt by a British army, one-half of which
consisted, as we have seen, of lrshmen and the
mander of which army, at the time of the French
population, was ar Irishman. Fourtkly the French
Of Spain, were likewise driven from that country
and France itself invaded through similar means
directed by The retributi,e genius" of an lrshman
Filthy, Napoleon himself was irrerievsbly defeated
and delhroned, and France conquered by the sam,
lrshmen, who had Napoleon, IN l79s, landed BIZ
Egyptian army of 40 900 men in Ireland, would, IL
all probability, haye-been unknown, except as a re
iusee Irish oyalistn Sxthly and lastly, this over
throw of Napoleon was, to a y,ry considerable ex
tent effected by Irish taxes, as well as by lrisi
troops, both of which England would have been de
pryed Of, had Napoleon done Justice TO Ireland.
a victory" says Bourrienne, " on the Adige (i
ltaly) would have been far better for France tina
one on the Nile" Bat, how much better STILL 70
France, would have been a victory on the Shsnno
and the Lfeyl This Napoleon himself acknow
lodged, when too late 10 Las Cases. at Saint Helena
ST. ai lieu de rd{psdiiiOn GEgPt" said he, "j'eus'
fate eeie d'lRLASDE, que pouITdh pAngietTe Gtyourd
hui - Napoleon but too well deserved the fate b
met with.
the army, too, Ii.h, and the lowest Of them-th
jreps Of an lrsh pipuace What a reflection - (Ene
land and the English, vol. !, p. SD Yes, ind, e.
what ref elton"
(I2) Minary observations respecting Irelar d. an
it, Attack and Defence" p. IL.
(l3) On the l2th f May 1880 Mr.. Slaney, NJ p
called the attention. Of the House Of Commons 10 9Th
INC ease which had token place Ia the number Of thos
,m Jloyel in the manufacturing aud mechanical oc
rupaiion. as comp,red with the agricultural class.
From his calculations II appears that M England ih
manufacturers mechanics, as compared with the az
uculturists, were e. 5, in 1901 6to 5, in 1921
m $40 they ass to l. In Scotland the increas
ofthe ormef the latter class was still rap'
the former was as to d 10 1901 as 9 to 9 in 1872
and n 1880 as two TO one. While the general a,
vance Of the population Of Englsn and Scotland {,
twenty yesrs, down 10 1880 was 30 per cent III
augmentation Of their manufacture had been 80 pc
cent, AMI, ia some cases at Leeds and ht Glsgov
as high as 81 per cent in town, and no less III /,
100 per cent ia the other. (See Combe's Constitute
Of Man, p. 6l) How suitable to the formation Of
military population the svocaons Of the great majorit
ofhose manufacturers are will be best by pert
cal of the debtatin ~ de.Iuctv ~, cts Of their pu
sui's upon their cousutuiions and those Of their Of