He determined to reverse their relative position, and to put the Protestant colonists under the feet of the Popish Celts.

To be of the established religion, to be of the English blood, was, in his view, a disqualification for civil and military employment.

He meditated the design of again confiscating and again portioning out the soil of half the island, and showed his inclination so clearly that one class was soon agitated by terrors which he afterwards vainly wished to soothe, and the other by hopes which he afterwards vainly wished to restrain.

But this was the smallest part of his guilt and madness.

He deliberately resolved, not merely to give to the aboriginal inhabitants of Ireland the entire possession of their own country, but also to use them as his instruments for setting up arbitrary government in England.