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be placed every day in a more.un-, 
assailable.posture ; and by its maul-, 
tiplied measures of defence, be- 
come impregnable, 
Afterthis conference, many of his. 
partizans slunk away, and declined 
all farther participationin his .de- 
sigis ; others however, and those the. 
majority, resolutely determined to 
foliow the fortunes of their beloved 
leader, and declared, that they would) 
not desert him, aithough they ad- 
vanced with he certainty of utter des-, 
truction to themselves and to their 
cause. ‘The die was nowcast, and all 
farther reflection was repelled, by the 
ardour and firmness of resolution. 
Fortune, on this occasion not to 
be accused of fickleness, seems 
never, from their first embarking on’ 
this desperate adventure, to have 
been for a single moment auspicious 
to the devoted conspirators, Their 
negociation with Dwyer had failed 
“Send a plan, even more specious, 
and on which they now grounded 
the most sanguine hopes of success, 
proved equally failaciuus. A part 
of the plan of general attack deter- 
mined upon, was to force the -bat- 
teries and stores at the mouths of 
the harbour of Dublin, by the as- 
sistance of those working people 
from the counties of Wicklow and 
Wexford, who, in the months of 
June and July, repair in consi- 
derable numbers, for, the purpose 
_ of hay-making, to the neighbour- 
hood of Dublin. The minds of this 
class of men, appeared by no-means 
more softened, nor their passions 
less alive to every motive of discon~ 
‘tent, whether real or imaginary, 
than they were at the period of the 
rebellion of 1798; which they had 
piincipally sepported, and the dar- 
ing conduct of which had . pre- 
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pared, and. habituated) them fo, 
similar encounters; their enmities, 
were figree and vehement--their cou-, 
rage apd resolution, undoubted, it, 
was therefore, natural that.they; 
should. be selected, as. most useful, 
and valuable .quxiliaries. It) aps, 
pears that for, sometime they had. 
maniiested.ihe most cordial concur-, 
*rence; but on the 22d of July, the 
day before that appointed for action, 
for some cause of which we profess 
our ignorance, they formally de- 
clared their abandonment of the 
design. They did not, however, ac- 
company their refusal with any dis- 
covery of theplot.. —_ 
For some days prior to the 23d 
of July, Emmett passed his time en- 
tirely in his depdt, reposing at,night 
upon a mattress thrown upon the. 
ground, amid the implements. of 
death, which he had there collected. 
Here, with pikes and gunpowder 
strewed promiscuously around, did 
this poor zealot indulge the wildesg, 
workings of his imagination, In such: 
a scene as this, did, this lawgiver of 
four and tw enty, superior in his own 
opinion to the Plaios, the Mores, 
and the Hasrapehonss (because he 
conceived himself, superadded to his 
own, in the full possession of theig 
experience,) meditate a digest, of 
their several principles, for the be- 
nefit of the future Hibernian re- 
public; or perhaps, he meditated 
whether it might not be better and 
more consonant to the will of the 
sovereign. people, to divide the 
country into separate independent 
states, and connect them on some 
just and broad principle of alliance, 
of which the Achaian league, or 
some of the more modern tederative 
unions of Europe, might afford, the 
archety pe.—How did hheyin this den 
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