In Reilly, many of those irreconcilable points of character, which scarcely ever meet in the disposition of any but an Irishman, were united.

He was at once mild and impetuous; under peculiar circumstances, humble and unassuming, but in others, proud almost to a fault; a bitter foe to oppression in every sense, and to bigotry in every creed.

He was highly educated, and as perfect a master of French, Spanish, and German, as he was of either English or Irish, both of which he spoke with equal fluency and purity.

To his personal courage we need not make any further allusion.

On many occasions it had been well tested on the Continent.