HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
eharacter, his lordship was consi- 
dered, and withjustice, the most con- 
siderable person of that persuasion. 
During the late rebellion, at the head 
of his tenantry and the neighbouring 
gentry, he had valiantly and most 
effectually fought the battles, and 
guarded the interests of his king and 
the constitution. Influenced by 
those considerations, and by the 
advantage which might accrue there- 
by to the country, the lord fieu- 
tenant of Ireland proposed to put 
him in the commission of the peace. 
Ov the transmission to his lordship 
* Vide Appendix. 
319 , 
of the instrument under which a 
authority derives, the lord chance. 
lor thought proper to accompany it 
by a letter, in which originated the 
correspondence we have adverted 
to, and which, as itis inserted in 
another portion of this work,* we 
shall not here recapitulate. . Its 
having excited a gonsiderable de- 
gree of sensation in both countries, 
is our motive for preserving it in 
our collection; and we are much 
deceived, if it afford not hereafter 
for the historian, a valuable and 
useful document. 
CHAP, 
