t the parliament forced him into the war? 6. The king conveyed to the
justices intelligence which ought to have prevented the rebellion. 7.
The Irish Catholics, in all their future transactions with the king,
where they endeavor to excuse their insurrection, never had the
assurance to plead his commission. Even amongst themselves they dropped
that pretext. It appears that Sir Phelim O'Neale chiefly, and he only at
first, promoted that imposture. See Carte's Ormond, vol. iii. No. 100,
111, 112, 114, 115, 121, 132, 137. 8. O'Neale himself confessed the
imposture on his trial, and at his execution. See Nalson, vol. ii.
p. 528. Maguire, at his execution, made a like confession. 9. It is
ridiculous to mention the justification which Charles II. gave to the
marquis of Antrim, as if he had acted by his father's commission. Antrim
had no hand in the first rebellion and the massacre. He joined not the
rebels till two years after; it was with the king's consent, and he did
important service in sending over a body of men to Montrose.]

[Footnote 9: NOTE I, p. 220. The great courage and conduct displayed by
many of the popular leaders, have commonly inclined men to do them, in
one respect, more honor than they deserve, and to suppose that, like
able politicians, they employed pretences which they secretly despised,
in order to serve their selfish purposes. It is, however, probable, if
not certain, that they were, generally speaking, the dupes of their own
zeal. Hypocrisy, quite pure and free from fanaticism, is perhaps, except
among men fixed in a determined philosophical scepticism, then unknown,
as rare as fanaticism entirely purged from all mixture of hypocrisy.
So congenial to the human mind are religions sentiments, that it is
impossible to counterfeit long these holy fervors, without feeling some
share of the assumed warmth: and, on the other hand, so precarious and
temporary, from the frailty of human nature, is the operation of these
spiritual views, that the religious ecstasies, if constantly employed,
must often be counterfeit, and must be warped by those more familiar
motives of interest and ambition, which insensibly gain upon the mind.
This indeed teems the key to most of the celebrated characters of that
age. Equally full of fraud and of ardor, these pious patriots talked
perpetually of seeking the Lord, yet still pursued their own purposes;
and have left a memorable lesson to posterity, how delusive, how
destructive t