can scarcely describe, deep curses repeated from village to village
as the cavalcade proceeded. I have witnessed the group pass the
domain walls of the opulent grazier, whose numerous herds were
cropping the most luxuriant pastures, while he was secure from any
demand for the tithe of their food, looking on with the most
unfeeling indifference."--Ibid., p. 486.


In Munster, where tithe of potatoes is exacted, risings against the
system have constantly occurred during the last forty years. In
Ulster, where no such tithe is required, these insurrections are
unknown. The double Church which Ireland supports, and that painful
visible contribution towards it which the poor Irishman is compelled
to make from his miserable pittance, is one great cause of those
never-ending insurrections, burnings, murders, and robberies, which
have laid waste that ill-fated country for so many years. The
unfortunate consequence of the civil disabilities, and the Church
payments under which the Catholics labour, is a rooted antipathy to
this country. They hate the English Government from historical
recollection, actual suffering, and disappointed hope, and till they
are better treated they will continue to hate it. At this moment,
in a period of the most profound peace, there are twenty-five
thousand of the best disciplined and best appointed troops in the
world in Ireland, with bayonets fixed, presented arms, and in the
attitude of present war: nor is there a man too much--nor would
Ireland be tenable without them. When it was necessary last year
(or thought necessary) to put down the children of reform, we were
forced to make a new levy of troops in this country; not a man could
be spared from Ireland. The moment they had embarked, Peep-of-Day
Boys, Heart-of-Oak Boys, Twelve-o'-clock Boys, Heart-of-Flint Boys,