15/29 They say he will be here in about ten days' time. The French ambassador, the Marquis d'Avaux, comes with him, and many French nobles." "Do you think, father, he will at once order that his friends shall receive the land again which was taken from them by Cromwell's soldiers ?" "I hope not, my boy. It is his interest and not our own we must think of now; and if Ireland is to resist, successfully, the English and continental troops of Dutch William, we must be united--we must be Irishmen first, Catholics and Protestants afterwards. I trust that he will issue such proclamations as will allay the alarm of the Protestants, and bind us all together. In no single case, since he came to the throne, has he broken his royal word once given; therefore, all may feel confidence in any promises he may make. |