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66 NABIS AND THE UNION.".

Historical sketch of, and resemblance between, Scotch and Irish

Anti-Unionism, and remarkable official testimony to the

predominance of Anti-Union sentiments in Ireland (145—

154). Enquiry, as regards the idea of maintaining a Union

by force, into the number of Irish who died in the British

army and navy during the last half century, and likewise

into the comparative military qualities of the British and

Irish people (156-172). Statement (in reference to the

same idea of a Union,) of the comparative size, in geogra-

phical square miles, of Ireland, and the principal states of

Europe, with a view of her great natural capabilities for being

a maritime power, and the peculiar military strength of her

territory, as combined with the large amount of her popula-

tion, and illustrated by a plan of defensive operations, based

on Napoleon principles (p. 181-200). Examination of

the assertion of Voltaire and others, that the Irish "have

always fought badly at home," and confutation of that asser-

tion, by an account of what men, and how much domestic

dissension and money enabled England to terminate the

Elizabethian and Cromwellian wars (200-208). Extension

of the same enquiry, in greater detail, to the Jacobite and

Williamite war, containing a true, in opposition to the false,

or British and Anglo-Irish statements, respecting the com-

parative amount of the Irish and English numbers, artillery,

&c. at the Boyne; and also a passing review and comments

on the events of that campaign, including William's repulse

at Limerick, Marlborough's capture of Cork and Kinsale,

the subsequent defeat of Ginckle's attempted winter-opera-

tions against Kerry and Connaught, and the great annoyance

given to the invaders by the Irish guerillas, or Rapparees,

(208-251). Great preparations of the English for the next

campaign, or that of 1691, and strictures on the equally base

and impolitic conduct of the French, who, by any thing like

proper succours, would have enabled the Irish, at the very

least, to maintain James on the throne of Ireland, as is shewn

by the events of the war in Ulster, previous to Kirk's and

Schomberg's landing-or, in other words, by the complete de-

feats of the Orange insurgents by the Irish army, with very

inferior numbers, at Dromore-Iveagh, the passes of the Ban,

and at Clady-ford before Derry, and even by a fair view of the

shamelessly-overrated Williamite defence of that place (251-

285). Privations endured by the Irish army previous to the

arrival of St. Ruth; great diminution of the national force

through the treachery of O'Donnell and other causes; and

a detailed account of the campaign down to, and inclusive of

the battle of Aughrim, by way of showing what sort of "bad

fighting" the Irish displayed "at home" (285-458). Com-

plete confutation of the notion of the Irish having “fought

badly at home," by a full exposé of what an immense sum it

took to put them down (459-463). Capabilities of Ire-

land for national or self-legislative independence, as con-

trasted with the native strength of Greece in the time of

Philip and Alexander, Spain under Philip II, Holland from

the time it threw off the Spanish yoke to the French Re-

volution, Portugal before and after it cast off the same yoke,

and Prussia down to the French Revolution (464-471).

Proof of the enormous injustice and spoliation imposed on

Ireland by England, as evinced by the general effects of the

Act of Union, but, more particularly, by the violation of that

Act in reference to the portion of the national debt agreed

to be borne by each country; and concluding induction from

the whole of the preceding facts, that Ireland is entitled to,

would be able to attain, and can only expect justice from, a

REPEAL OF THE UNION (471-475).

APPENDIX

From Tait's Magazine, illustrating, from Scotch testimony, the

fallacy of asserting that a Union with England, which was so
good for Scotland, must also be good for Ireland.

GLEANINGS

FROM

A WRITING-DESK.

I SAW THEE--TIME'S RUDE HAND HAD DIMMED.

"I'll not leave thee, thou lone one."-Moore.

I.

I saw thee-Time's rude hand had dimmed the lines

that Beauty traced;

And Fortune's frowns and blighting Grief thy rosy prime effaced;

But, though the noon-day beams that played around thy brow were set,

Like clouds at eve, thy looks retained a tender lustre yet.

II.

We spoke I found thee more than all ev'n Fancy e'er designed;

In feelings gentle, pure in taste, in sentiment refined— Thy balmy words shed manna o'er the desert of my soul

My hours with thee as brightly passed as sunny rivers

roll.

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III.

And art thou, like the wanderer wrecked upon his

lonely isle,

With none to weep when thou wouldst weep or gladden at thy smile?

And shall that Eden heart, where Love might build his sweetest shrine,

Be left amid a dreary world in solitude to pine?

IV.

Oh no!-there is one faithful bosom warmly beats for

thee;

The cold neglect which thou hast felt endears thee more

to me;

For, though in summer hours of bliss the heart is lured

to roam,

'Tis winter's chilling blasts that serve to bind us most to home.

July 7th, 1829.

THE DEFEAT OF SISERA.

"The children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord and the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin, king of Canaän, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera. And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord; for he (Sisera) had 900 chariots of iron, and 20 years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel. And the Lord discom

fited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host.
the hand of the children of Israel prospered,
destroyed Jabin, king of Canaän.'
15, 23, 24.

And until they had

JUDGES, chap. iv. v. 1, 2, 3,

I.

STRIKE ! strike the loud harp to the praise of the Lord,
And, on cymbals of gladness, his glory record!
Exult

for the sceptre of Jabin is broke,

And Israel is freed from the Canaanites' yoke!

II.

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O'er Tabor's wide plains, on Megiddo's green banks, The Canaanite marshalled his numberless ranks ;1 Like the fiend of the desert, in whirlwinds of flame, Breathing death and destruction to Israel, they came.

III.

When the shrieks of the night-tempest, echoing around, Thro' the hundred dark caves of the mountain resound; Hast thou seen the blue lightning, flash darting on flash? Hast thou heard the deep thunder, crash bursting on crash?

"Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying, 'Go, and draw toward mount Tabor?'' "The kings came and fought

by the waters of Megiddo." Judges iv. 6 and 9.