Lord Chesterfield's policy afforded great gratification to the Catholics, who were now restored to their usual privileges; and its political object was so far successful that, as we have said, not a single man of them ever joined the Pretender.

Still, the liberal Protestants, or, as they were termed, the patriotic party, were not satisfied with the mere removal of the Catholic restrictions.

Ireland, at that time, was studded with men, or rather with monsters, like Smellpriest and Whitecraft, who were stained with the blood of their fellow-subjects and fellow-Christians.

Sir Robert Whitecraft, especially, was now in a bad position, although he himself was ignorant of it.

The French Ambassador demanded satisfaction, in the name of his Court and the French nation, for the outrage that had been committed upon a French.