One regiment of infantry is said to be divided into Orange and Catholic factions.

It is certain that, on July 12, the guard at the castle had Orange lilies about them.' On July 26, the viceroy wrote another letter, from which the following is an extract:--'The priests are using very inflammatory language, and are certainly working upon the Catholics of the army.
I think it important that the depots of Irish recruits should be gradually removed, under the appearance of being required to join their regiments, and that whatever regiments are sent here should be those of Scotland, or, at all events, of men not recruited from the south of Ireland.

I desired Sir John Byng to convey this opinion to Lord Hill.' Emancipation was carried, and the people were disaffected still.
And why should they not be disaffected still?
Emancipation had done nothing for them.

The farmers were still at the mercy of the landlords, whose pride they humbled at the hustings of Clare and Waterford.

They were still tormented by the tithe-proctor seizing the tenth of all that their labour produced on the land.