_this Bill_ do pass, say
aye.' The affirmative was languid but indisputable; another
momentary pause ensued; again his lips seemed to decline their
office; at length, with an eye averted from the object which he
hated, he proclaimed, with a subdued voice, 'The Ayes have it.' The
fatal sentence was now pronounced; for an instant he stood
statue-like; then indignantly, and with disgust, flung the Bill
upon the table, and sunk into his chair with an exhausted spirit.

"An independent country was thus degraded into a province--Ireland,
as a nation, was extinguished."

[Illustration: LYNCH'S HOUSE, GALWAY.]

[Illustration: SWORDS' CASTLE, COUNTY DUBLIN.]

FOOTNOTES:

[571] _Clergy_.--Barrington says, in his _Rise and Fall of the Irish
Nation_, p. 67, the Catholic clergy had every inclination to restrain
their flocks within proper limits, and found no difficulty in effecting
that object. The first statement is unquestionably true; the second
statement is unfortunately disproved by many painful facts.

[572] _Them_.--Vol. ii. p. 93.

[573] _Oath_.--I give authority for these details. In the spring of
1796, three Orangemen swore before a magistrate of Down and Armagh, that
the Orangemen frequently met in committees, amongst whom were some
members of Parliament, who gave them money, and promised that they
should not suffer for any act they might commit, and pledged themselves
that they should be provided for by Government. The magistrate informed
the Secretary of State, and asked how he should act; but he never
received any answer, for further details on this head, see Plowden's
_History of the Insurrection_.

[574] _Sermons_.--On the 1st of July, 1795, the Rev. Mr. Monsell, a
Protestant clergyman of Portadown, invited his flock to celebrate the
anniversary of the battle of the Boyne by attending church, and preached
such a sermon against the Papists that his congregation fell on every
Catholic they met going home, beat them cruelly, and finished the day by
murdering two farmer's sons, who were quietly at work in a
bog.--Mooney's _History of Ireland_, p. 876.

[575] _Indemnity_.--Lord Carhampton sent 1,300 men on board the fleet,
on mere suspicion. They demanded a trial in vain. An Act of Indemnity
was at once passed, to free his Lordship from any unpleasant
consequences.

[576] _Remember Orr_.--_Lives and Times of the United Irishmen_, second
series, vol. ii. p. 380.