Nevertheless something might have been done to heal the lacerated feelings and to raise the fallen fortunes of the Irish gentry.

The colonists were in a thriving condition.

They had greatly improved their property by building, planting, and fencing.

The rents had almost doubled within a few years; trade was brisk; and the revenue, amounting to about three hundred thousand pounds a year, more than defrayed all the charges of the local government, and afforded a surplus which was remitted to England.

There was no doubt that the next Parliament which should meet at Dublin, though representing almost exclusively the English interest, would, in return for the King's promise to maintain that interest in all its legal rights, willingly grant to him a very considerable sum for the purpose of indemnifying, at least in part, such native families as had been wrongfully despoiled.
It was thus that in our own time the French government put an end to the disputes engendered by the most extensive confiscation that ever took place in Europe.