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Article HISTORY OF THE IRISH REBELLION . ← Page 2 of 11 →
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History Of The Irish Rebellion .
p lunder , and thought to possess the fee simple of the property of the kingdom , by murdering the- present owners and legal proprietors-. For this reason , it was wisely supposed , that concession , at the present moment , would be giving up to rebels and assassins the government of the country , and would be resigning the religion , the laws , the property , and the constitution of Ireland into the hands of miscreants leagued with the common enemy of Godand man .
Towards the latter end of this month General Lake succeeded to the command of the army in Ireland , upon the resignation of Lieutenant General Abercrombie . It Was thought expedient that the departments , civil and military , should , in future , have one corrirrion head , in the person of his Majesty ' s representative , assisted by his usual Cabinet Counsellors , and that the military operations should , under this new arrangement , be directed by General Lake , who assumed the aorjellation of First General in Command .
From the vigorous measures to which the Government of that dis * tracted country were obliged to haye recourse , might have been reasonably expected consequences favourable to the return of tranquillity ; but the character of the Irish , the want of civilization among the inferior part ofthe community , the influence of a narrow and bi- > gotted superstitionare all impediments to so desirable aprospeet .
, A committee , consisting of eleven members , was about this time Uiken into custody , at the house of one Magrath , a publican . On their persons were found papers of a treasonable nature , and , among others , a plan for co-operating with the enemy in the event of landing—an account ofthe arms , ammunition , & c . to be distributed by the Lieutenant Colonels to the different corpsand the form of a
, solemn obligation to turn out whenever called upon , and to pay strict obedience to superior officers . Some deluded men , however , who had been drawn into a conspiracy against their native country , and , having thrown aside their accustomed habits of industry , had recourse to the predatory system of the insurgents , repented of their errors , and surrendered their
sims . A warrant for the apprehension of Lord E . Fitzgerald was issued by the Viceroy , and a reward of ioool . offered for apprehending him . Several Generals , whose names appeared in a plan formed for a general attack upon the city of Dublin , were likewise taken into custody , . and lodged in the Castle . The sufferings of individualsno otherwise connected with the
re-, bellion than b y sustaining , a loss of their property , and being exposed to private or public assassination , were so great , that justice demanded from the legislature an indemnity for the ruin they had sustained , from a strict attachment to the governrtient as b y law established . A bill for this purpose was proposed in the Irish House of Peers
, "rd a committee appointed to draw up the same . On the 14 th of May the magistrates ofthe county ' of Dublin sent a memorial to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant , supplicating -his ^ onlship to issue a proclamation for the delivery , into the hands-of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
History Of The Irish Rebellion .
p lunder , and thought to possess the fee simple of the property of the kingdom , by murdering the- present owners and legal proprietors-. For this reason , it was wisely supposed , that concession , at the present moment , would be giving up to rebels and assassins the government of the country , and would be resigning the religion , the laws , the property , and the constitution of Ireland into the hands of miscreants leagued with the common enemy of Godand man .
Towards the latter end of this month General Lake succeeded to the command of the army in Ireland , upon the resignation of Lieutenant General Abercrombie . It Was thought expedient that the departments , civil and military , should , in future , have one corrirrion head , in the person of his Majesty ' s representative , assisted by his usual Cabinet Counsellors , and that the military operations should , under this new arrangement , be directed by General Lake , who assumed the aorjellation of First General in Command .
From the vigorous measures to which the Government of that dis * tracted country were obliged to haye recourse , might have been reasonably expected consequences favourable to the return of tranquillity ; but the character of the Irish , the want of civilization among the inferior part ofthe community , the influence of a narrow and bi- > gotted superstitionare all impediments to so desirable aprospeet .
, A committee , consisting of eleven members , was about this time Uiken into custody , at the house of one Magrath , a publican . On their persons were found papers of a treasonable nature , and , among others , a plan for co-operating with the enemy in the event of landing—an account ofthe arms , ammunition , & c . to be distributed by the Lieutenant Colonels to the different corpsand the form of a
, solemn obligation to turn out whenever called upon , and to pay strict obedience to superior officers . Some deluded men , however , who had been drawn into a conspiracy against their native country , and , having thrown aside their accustomed habits of industry , had recourse to the predatory system of the insurgents , repented of their errors , and surrendered their
sims . A warrant for the apprehension of Lord E . Fitzgerald was issued by the Viceroy , and a reward of ioool . offered for apprehending him . Several Generals , whose names appeared in a plan formed for a general attack upon the city of Dublin , were likewise taken into custody , . and lodged in the Castle . The sufferings of individualsno otherwise connected with the
re-, bellion than b y sustaining , a loss of their property , and being exposed to private or public assassination , were so great , that justice demanded from the legislature an indemnity for the ruin they had sustained , from a strict attachment to the governrtient as b y law established . A bill for this purpose was proposed in the Irish House of Peers
, "rd a committee appointed to draw up the same . On the 14 th of May the magistrates ofthe county ' of Dublin sent a memorial to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant , supplicating -his ^ onlship to issue a proclamation for the delivery , into the hands-of