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_ RESISTANCE,
- When tyranis dare to trample down
The rights of those they rule,
. When toiliog men must meet the frown
Of every lordling fool,
‘When laws are neade to crush the weak
Aud lend the strong assistance,
» When millions vainly justice seek
pe Their duty inc Resinanee | an
2 When tyrant force aide tyrant laws, sree
When brothers sacred stand”. :
Wea failure must be bis who draws oe
Oo power the freeman’
True men will bid the vnitlees pray
»- For God's divice essisiance,
Aad calmly bide a better day, |
. Lheir duty still—Resiatance !
ty ted oi of ar :
_, , When times of better hope arise, , :
And feuds are laid aside, 4
_ When men have grown too calm and wise
‘For traitors to divide, .
When first to aida people’ sright 0-3
© ‘There spriogs into existence :
‘lis surest stay, a people's might,
"he four ts for—Resistance !
Wes re
No empty bose be ours to. dey, oe
: No braggart word or tone,
‘ " Enough to feel we know the wa
Jeol dos >» Phat men should win their own.
ete Our hope and trust for Fatherland «
Now gleam not in the distance ;
: , Let tyrants dare unsheath the brand,
ree That hou will teach resistance !
riemeatas © gers NINETY- EIGIT..
ine Globe quotes Mr.’ Hutchinson's assertion that Govera-
‘ment fostered the insurrectivo of "98, and re proves him as baving
propagated a falsehood to create disaffectio
fle told the truth, and be did well. [fit be the truth, Ireland
: “vanaot bear it too ofien. It fixes on the Union an ancestry wor-
wpuly infamous, and it instructs us forthe future, as all history
does, by the analogy of the past.
He told the uur i The English Gaveroment did bring on the
Linsirection of "98. were the remote cause aod the im-
mediate force that produced that civil -war.. Their base and
, deliberate breach of the treaty of ’82, their government of Ire~
Yaad by corporation, when they could no longer rule it opeuly, |
‘theic destruction of the Volunteers, their refusal of religious li-
iberty, their commercial oppression, their violation of the rights
‘of atmameat and free discussion—in short, their commission of
every imaginable ru(fianism io their executive, aud of ever
_ crime that could be bought from legislature were the remoie
“cause of the insurrection.
bere were intermediate powers whieh were not the Govern-
"There wag that greatest of Irish politicians, Wolfe
Toee. He felt the oppreasiona of the Government, knew their
crimes, and longed to punish them. . He saw the misery: o!
Ireland, fathomed the causes of it, and regolved to redress
“ber. !,
» : He saw that the ignorance and disunion. of the Irish ecabled
‘the English Government to wrong them. He founded the Uni-
‘ved Irish Society. atiently, aod with consummate wisdom,
he arrayed the Tieltect of the North aod East—tavght the prin-
ciples of @ national ‘and fixed government—carried out an or
. ganisation which has ofiev been imitated but never - surpassed.
7 fod noted Englivh vrai forced him from Ireland he wou i
‘ lone his work, and been now our greatest name. Yet
= Beaderfully did be lobour abroad that toastorm Englend ow-
fed ber triumph over his foreigo policy, aa she was indebted to a
traitor for per success over his domestic organ z tion. Well did
“the Standard describe Tone as one of the fittest rulers for Ire-
iTand, acd well does the strongest: man who has yet token the
- field against us, the author of * Ireland and its Rulers,” describe
him as aman, *eoriled 10 moch ‘admiretion—the admiration
_ due to vast deaigns—most able execution, acd great origioal f
» capacity for affairs.” ~ w
Yee, Wolfe Tone and his associates ‘were also powerful to
M.J.B.
y produce '93, but they could not have wona long-suffering Peo-
>, ple like the Irish to revoli had notthe damnable iofamy of the
~ Eoglish rule made the ignorance of ihe country as malcontent
ag ifs education
After, too, that ‘great confederacy was formed, ‘the. beast service
+ “it received, vext to l'one’s genius, was the desperate deed of
‘, * withdrawing Lord Firzwilliam, when the People bad begua to
* believe his promises of Reform. ‘Tone would not bave opposed
“a seviement hed Fitzwilliam remained.
em, the government crea-
>| Doubtless, they wished to oppress without opposition ; but,
“ finding tbe opposition, they tried to drive it into revoli by. their |
: _srueltys They o0 succeeded. “They made the opening for revalty
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and they exploded it in a way best ‘coleotated to ruin the great-
est number of their. opemnens ¢ ofall shades, and to cripple Ire-
land into a province. » Demon: they ‘were, they: succeeded,
and may Ireland siok to idiocy itebe forgive them while she is
We vow assert that the government were conscious. of the
United Society's existence shortly “afer it was forme; The
Lords actually had a report on it in 1793, and Tone's tion was
in their hands before it was dry. ‘' Ia October, 1796, ‘the exis-
tence and power of the United Irish were announced? from the
throne, anda multitude of acts brought in to repress it; but the
Wrongs of the People were aggravated immensely, and the 5o-
torious heads of the conspiracy !eft untouched. There ia reason
to believe that systematic jniormarion ‘waa giveo before this
date, butit appears from A x XIV. of the Irish Com-.
mons’ Report in 1798, that eee Nicholas Magnan gave in
@ report afier every proviocial meeting in Ulster from the 14th
of April, 1797, including the names of the parties attending.
In April, 1797, the: papers of the Belfast Society wereseized.
‘They give the the mioutest information on the structure of the
Society, its force, and the names of its active members, and will
he found in the report of | 1797, which is printed in Appendix
IL. of the report of 1798.
Having thus patiently, and for. ye watched and increased
the discontent of the People, and allowed ‘the proved leaders to
go at large,.Goveroment suddenly felt upon an unorganised
county (Wexford), and, by pirch- caps, house-burning, balf and
whole hangings, teasing, aod free quarters, made aq iosur-
rection blaze up, and then queched it vith Trish blood.
Mr Hutchinson told the trath, aod should tell it again—the
Government, not the: United Irishmen, were ‘* the miscreants
of 98."— Dublin Nation. . .
English and Irish Forees at the Buttle of the Boyne. .
Passing over, as matiers of comporatively minor consequence,
any events which occurred from the conclusion of the campaign
of 1689 to the action of the Boyne in 1690, I proceed ‘to an
analysis of that action, from which it will be evident then any
defamatory inferences, which Voltaire’ and others’ may have
endeavored to draw with reepect to Irish bravery ‘+ at home”
on account of the result of that day, are as remote from justice
as they are from truth. ” Ia the first place, the Boyne is a river
which presents no such great natural obstacles to the passage of
a bostile army as Vohaire, or his Eaglish and Dutch authorities
would lead tte worldto believe.» It is a stream very easy to be
passed at Midsummer, and was more especially so at that peri-
of of the remarkably dry summer of 1690, when the battle took
place. ‘ At Olubridge, in particular, where English aod Orange
rcribblers would persuade us it waa so difficult to cross, Count
de Lavuzum the Freoch General, who was there, and of whose
despatch I have a copy,* expressly mentions that the stream
wes so shallow at low water—or when the tidé was out, which
‘as the period used for the Prince of Orange's troops for pass-
ing}—that the drummers, in marching through the water, play~
ed upon their droms without baving to raise them ‘bigker thao
their knees.’ Again, the defending army, or that of James,
amounted to 00 more, by the bigher emuneration of ite own
generale, or thet of the Duke of Berwick, than 23,000-men;t
of whom coly 7,000 French could be said to have soy consider
able military experience; the great mass of. the Irish having
been but * newly raised, half- fiseiplined, balf-armed."§ The
atiecking force, or tbat of the Prince of Orange—whnse num-
bers have been 80 gererally misiepresented as but 36,000—was
according to the estimate of the Duke of Berwick, 44,009 men.
And with bow much ji justice tbe Duke said this is epparent fron
‘the following summary of the regiments of William's army and
their numbers, as collected from the. very best eources in the
State Paper Olfice, Briish Museum, &c.—the minute or sub-
ordinate numerical details of which ememary are reserved for
a future history of this war:— .
- Officers ond Privates.
Infantry-—42 yegimenis, 4 companies ‘ 38, .
Horee—21 regiments, 5 troops
Drsg goons —5 regimen
Toral
Aad to 0 these an addition of some | hundréde, should be made on
the score of supernumerary or reformed officers ; the proportion
of whom to each regimen, with the exception, shove included,
of the 4 Huguenot regiments, I have no means of ascertaining 5
so that the entice muster-roll amavat of William's regimented
or regular force would be between 51,000 ond 52,000—t0 say.
nothing of the crowdg of rapacious or destructive irregutars, or
volunteers, who accompanied his march: from. the Nonh.- Of
tbe regular infantry of this army, 17 regiments and two detach-
ed companies were Britieh ; 5 regiments northern dsish 3 3 regi-
meats French refugees; 9 regiments and 2 companies, including
a Bradeoburgh or Geran regiment, and 3. Eoglish tegiments
were on tbe Duich establishment; aod 8 regiments were Danes.
Of the horse, 8 regiments and 4 voops were British; 1 regiment
portbern Irish; regiment Freoch; 8 regiments and 1 truop
“ft July, 16902
ch; aod 3 qegiments Danes. - Of the dragoons, 2 regiments
were British; 2 regiments were noribero Irish
Dutch. The cavalry, it witl be perceived, would be 12 265 !—
And this immense force was, ia tbe w its own annalist,
Story, a8 “army, in all respects o¢ well provided as. any. king-
"dow in the world ever bad one aa tothe sumber of mea !"}—
hy and 1 regiment | ha
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enabling any army to dislodge any opposing force, posted, 28
James's was, along a slope for the defence of a river like the
Boyve—the Irish had but six field-pieces.. The Enghsb hed
from above 50 to 60 large cannon, besides several mortars for
throwing shells—or, in other words, from above eight to ten
times the queasy of guns that were on ibe able side of their
opponents. Wirb such an enormous superiority of natural as
well as anificial lore on bis side, our only wonder should be
why the Prince of Orange did not destroy or capture the whole
Irish army. Yet, with so many discouraging odds egainst
them, the Irish did not leave their enemies in possession of avy:
grounds for triumph that were at all proportioned to the immense
advantegee under which those enemies fovght. » The Irish borse
in particular, abundantly proved their superiority during the
day to those of William’s, though William's cavalry were es
three to one in number, and the excellent retreat of James's
army is confessed at all hands.
The Williamites do not even lay claim to have taken more
than two or three Trish standards, one of which is alleged to
have been captured, jo the centre by the Dutch Blue Guards—
then, perbaps, the finest infaatry regimentin the world—eod
the remaining one or two colours are said to have been taken,
on the’ English left, by Marsbal Schonberg’s distinguished reg-
iment of [luguenot cavalry ; which regiment, nevertheless, lost
both its lieutenent-colovel and colonel, and, es well as the Duteb
Blue Guards, was very roughly bandled. : Nor did the William-.
ites take any of King James's artillery, five outof the six pieces
of which it consisted having been brought off. aad the sixth only
left betind, in consequence of its baving fallen intoa bog. Thea
as to tbe luss of troops on both sides the Doke of Berwick statea
tbat of the Trish at about 1,000 men. Oo'the other hand, it
would appear from the’ Williamite writers—ander the ‘rather
odd circumstance of bo regular official list having been publish-
ed on the subject !—that the English loss must have been grest-
er than that of the Irisb. | For if, with Siory, who was with the
English army ot the time, we take William's slain at about
400, this would give us twice as many, or S00 wounded, ma-
king a total of 1,200 men; acd if, with Captain Parker, who
fought with thesame side in the battle, we make William’
Billed about 500, this according to the same moderate proportion .
fcr wounded would present a total of 1,500.
In fine, bow little reason there either was, or is, for avy Eng-
lish boosting at the expense of the Irish, on accouct ofthis hat-
tle, may be sufficiently comprehended from the simple fect, that,
although the Boyne is only about 23 miles from Dublin, ead the
battle was fought oa Tuesday, the Ist of July, the English, with
a force ebove twice the number of the Irisb—with from sbove
eight or ten times the amount of artillery aod having io that
force about 12,000 horee and dragoons—did not send’ a man or
horse into Debdtin, till eight o velock i in the evening of Thurstay,
the 3d of July—the Irish army beviog in the meantime, remov-
ed at their leeure, with their baggage, &c., to Limerick | ,And
how. little the Irish forces, bot particularly their cavalry, were
cast down by the event of the action, is sufficiently anested by
the description of a Williamite journalist, then ia
peaking of the feelings ofthe Protesiants or Willigmites there,
oa seeing King James, with 200 horse, returning to the city afer”
the baule, on the night of the 1st of July, be says—" We con
cloded now that it was @ folal rout, and that (he enemy were just
ready to come into town ; but were greatly surprised, when an
jour or two afier, we beard the whole body of the Irish horse
coming in, in very good order, with kettle-drums, hauiboys, end
trumpets, and, early next moroiog, the French, aod a great
party of Irisb foot. These, berng’a little rested, marcted out
again to meet the ene which were supposed to draw nigh.”*
Such was the action cf the passage cf the Boyne! With a
force opposed to them», of above twice the number uf iafentry,
three times the number of cavalry, from eight lo tea times the
amount of artillery, ond, addition to such immenee advantages, °
for superiorly armed, equipped, and disciplined, what army was
ever less creditably overcome than that of the [rish, on the Ist of
And this much will at present suftice for the vl-
tery, coniemptibte English and Anglo Irish histories—cuiting
down the Prince of Orange's army for a muster-roll of between
51,000 and 52.000 regulars, to 36,000 men; saying vohing of.
that army's enormous advantoge in artillery; and swelling op
King James's force from 23,000, or ratber only 29.000 men, to
diferent fabulous amounts, varying from 22 000 106,000 meat
—From the Green Book. -
* Dated from Li
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tha eoumeragion ofthe "King dad tie Bake Ceiugevisectls ‘reco bythe
circumstance (unknown to or forgotten by the fetter) cf al a from
Blunster, or three regimenteof hot and five troops 0 of horse, having berg on the
march for thi put not, having reached it Ul eaey afer toe hattle~ (Stax
ty, Imp.
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saxe is ‘oven would make Win ‘* ‘army, jet before the mie or at Duvdark®
“inal, not above 36, 000, 4 hougtiz” aays be, the world celled use third-port
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