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Protestant innkeeper; for, from the moment when they came cnAP.under his roof, they ate and drank every thing: they paid for ——nothing; and by their rude swaggering they scared morerespectable guests from his door.*

Such was the state of Ireland when the Prince of Orange Mutuallanded at Torbay. From that time every packet wdiich arrived betweenat Dublin brought tidings, such as could not but increase the lisiiryandmutual fear and loathing of the hostile races. The colonist, lrishrJ-who, after long enjoying and abusing power, had now tastedfor a moment the bitterness of servitude, the native, who,having drunk to the dregs all the bitterness of servitude, had atlength for a moment enjoyed and abused power, were alikesensible that a great crisis, a crisis like that of 1641, was athand. The majority impatiently expected Phelim O’Neil torevive in Tyrconnel. The minority saw in William a secondOliver.

On which side the first blow was struck was a question whichWilliamites and Jacobites afterwards debated with muchasperity. But no question could be more idle. History mustdo to both parties the justice which neither has ever done tothe other, and must admit that both had fair pleas and cruelprovocations. Both had been placed, by a fate for whichneither was answerable, in such a situation that, human naturebeing what it is, they could not but regard each other withenmity. During three years the government which might have

* King, iii. 2. I cannot find that Charles Leslie, who was zealous onthe other side, has, in his Answer to King, contradicted any of these facts.

Indeed Leslie gives up Tyrconnel’s administration. “I desire to obviateone objection which I know will be made, as if I were about wholly tovindicate all that the Lord Tyrconnel and other of King James’s ministershave done in Ireland, especially before this revolution began, and whichmost of any thing brought it on. Noj I am far from it. I am sensible thattheir carriage in many particulars gave greater occasion to King James’senemies than all the other maladministrations which were charged uponhis government.” Leslie’s Answer to King, 1692.