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and their proposed form of constitu- 
tion was the most eligible; the pre- 
sent on the contrary, chose.to prove 
their title to be obeyed, by their au- 
dacity. They hoped to gain on the 
side of concealment, more than they 
should lose by too anxiously be- 
speaking approbation, and storing 
up good will; and that at all events, 
by this latter mode they would ad- 
- vance with more security to the 
completion of their wishes. S 
On the morning of the appointed 
day for this momentous enterprize, 
the 23d of July, unusual crowds of 
peasants were observed on the great 
southern road to Dublin, directing 
their hurried steps towards the ca- 
pital from all parts of the county of 
Kildare,which lies in that direction. 
Our readers will recollect that it 
was in the latter district that Quig- 
ley had succeeded in agitating the 
minds of the lower orders, and had 
disposed them, with very few excep- 
tions, once more to try the fortune 
of rebellion. The city was filled 
at an early hour, and continued so 
during the whole day; indeed it 
was obsétved by travellers and 
others, that many par ts of Kildare 
avere completely eloptied of their 
male inhabitants; women, and chil- 
dren, and feeble men, alone remain- 
ing in the tenements, deserted of 
_ their male population. 
Yowards evening the populace 
Bevan to assemble in vast numbers, 
in St. James’s-strect® and its neigh- 
bourhood, without, however, any 
visible arrangement or discipline: 
these were, however, the materials 
on which Mr. Emmett proposed to 
construct the edifice of repub- 
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licanism. The next object was tv 
arm the body thus collected: for 
this purpose, pikes were deliberately: 
brought out from the store provided 
for them in that neighbourhood, and 
with unmolested regularity placed 
along the sides of the street for the 
accommodation of all who might 
choose to equip themselves. The 
inhabitants during this dreadfuLand 
alarming scene, (the most extraor+ 
dinary and unprecedented ever ex- 
hibited in a civilized country—in 
the _metropolis—in  day-light— 
within a mile of the residence of. 
the chief governor; not half that 
distance from the barracks, where 
between two and three thousand 
men were Jodged, and commanded 
by a most gallant, experienced ,and 
vigilant commander in chief, under 
whom w as a numerous and well ap- 
pointed staff—and in the heart of a 
city whose police establishment was 
perhaps the most expensive in Eu- 
repe) were panic-struck, and seeing 
no prospect of succour or protection, 
withdrew within their houses,barred 
their doors and windows, and be- 
took themselves to the imploring 
the protection of providence, te 
avert from them the impending ca- 
lamity. 
In the subsequent altercations 
which have taken place on this 
subject, it has been asserted, that 
at the castle the guards were dou- 
bled, and that a regiment of infan- 
try quartered not two hundred 
paces therefrom, had orders to hold 
themselves in readiness to act at 
the shortest notice. However this 
fact may-be, certain it is, that at 
the moment when St. James’s-strect 
* This street is about amile in length, leading from the ‘side’ of tle county of Kil 
dare into the heart of the city of Dublin; it is thro: ughout as wide ag Oxford- road, and 
mm which a military force could act with vigour and precision, 
might 
