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Carney himself: for though violent in politics, and a saint in reli- 

 gion, he took whatever share of tithes were bestowed upon him, and 

 no more : and the consequence was, that his income was as limited 

 as his popularity was extensive. In such a case as the present, how- 

 ever, the Rev. Oliver Bible had but a single vote j and there were 

 three other magistrates attending the petit-sessions, These were, 

 Counsellor Langley, Colonel Wilson, and Patrick O'Grady, Esq. ; 

 the latter a gentleman more distinguished for his following a hare, 

 than signing a mittimus. There were two of these, whom Hogan 

 thought might be calculated upon as favourable to him, Counsellor 

 Langley and Colonel Wilson ; because the one had written a pam- 

 phlet which, by the way, no one ever heard of in favour of Ca- 

 tholic Emancipation ; and the other, since he had got promotion in 

 the army, through the influence of the Whigs, declared himself " a 

 liberal." To secure the favour of the two magistrates, Hogan dis- 

 patched to the Counsellor a new edition of " Macnally's Justice of 

 the Peace," which he bought in Clonmel, and was then in great re- 

 pute with the unpaid; and to induce the Colonel to vote for him, 

 knowing " his honor" to be an antiquarian, he made him a present 

 of an old brass-hilted sword, which his father had found in a bog- 

 hole, and declared to be a genuine relic. Having thus, like many 

 another great man, made his way by bribery, he assailed the religious 

 scruples of the Reverend Rector, by requesting the worthy divine to 

 lend him " a Protestant version of the Scriptures." And the good 

 opinion of Mr. O'Grady was secured, by his swearing, in presence of 

 the 'squire, " that the likes of Mr. O'Grady's mare, True-Blue, was 

 never seen crossing a double ditch ; and that when a body saw her 

 running, it was like a young greyhound coursing a butterfly." 



The church and state party saw, with dismay, that Hogan was 

 winning his way with all the magistrates. When all the underhand 

 trick's of Hogan, and the undue influence he had acquired by his 

 cunning canvass of the electors, became known to the friends of Hall, 

 they resolved to counteract them, by a bold stroke of policy in 

 short, by an overt act of partizanship in favour of the brave Corporal. 

 Old Switzer had the honour of concocting the plan for carrying 

 Hall's election. The old Palatine knew, that though two of the ma- 

 gistrates pretended to be " liberals," they disliked the Papists as 

 much as his worthy Rector, or he himself did. He knew, too, that 

 a demonstration of the force and power of the Orangemen in the 

 district, would be most likely to have its influence upon their minds. 

 Accordingly, as the 12th of July was approaching, he resolved to 

 have, what was never before heard of in the province an Orange 

 procession in the town of Ballyporeen ! Great was the joy and ex- 

 ultation of the Palatines, at the idea. They had often heard of an 

 Orange procession from Corporal Hall, but had never yet seen one ; 

 and he was so well acquainted with all the details of the important 

 fete, that its entire management was confided to their candidate. 



One fine morning then, in the month of July, the villagers of Bal- 

 lyporeen were roused from their slumbers, by the loud and martial 

 music produced by five or six fifers, two trumpeters, and three drum- 

 mers ; all of whom were playing as loudly as each man had the 



