[185] But, when he had been a few weeks at Dublin, his language changed.

He began to harangue vehemently at the Council board on the necessity of giving back the land to the old owners.

He had not, however, as yet, obtained his master's sanction to this fatal project.

National feeling still struggled feebly against superstition in the mind of James.

He was an Englishman: he was an English King; and he could not, without some misgivings, consent to the destruction of the greatest colony that England had ever planted.