women and old men: the number regularly organised is not less than 300,000; and I have no doubt all these will be ready to fight for the liberties of Ireland when they get a fair opportunity."

"The effective strength of the army in Ireland, exclusive of yeomanry, according to an official return quoted by the author of the Strictures on Plowden's History,' on the 1st of August, 1798, was 52,247; cavalry, 7,041, infantry, 45,206. The yeomanry force, by the Commons' Secret Report of 1798, exceeded 50,000. So that the total force exceeded 100,000. The loss on the part of the king's troops, regulars, militia, and yeomanry, is estimated by Plowden, Barrington, Curran, and Moore at 20,000; and the loss on the side of the people at 50,000. Total loss, 70,000."-MADDEN, Second Series, vol. ii., p. 531.

Dr. M. says elsewhere (vol. i., p. 376-7.)-As to the expenses the government had to encounter and defray on account of this rebellion, the following calculation may give some idea of the amount :

From 1797 to 1802 the cost of the large military force that was kept
up in Ireland, estimated at £4,000,000 per annum.
Purchase of the Irish Parliament

Payment of claims of suffering loyalists

Secret Service Money, from 1797 to 1804

Probable amount of pensions paid for services in suppression of the

rebellion and the carrying of the Union, from 1797 to 1842. Increased expense of legal proceedings and judicial tribunals Additional expenditure in public offices consequent on increased duties in 1798, and alterations in establishments attendant on the Union, the removal of parliamentary archives, and compensation of officers, servants, &c.

£16,000,000

1,500,000

1,500,000

53,547

1,000,000

500,000

500,000

£21,053,547

This writer's comment on the above estimate is worth adding, for the consideration of all persons who would rather not see ten per cent. added to the Income Tax:—

"So that the cost of suppressing the Rebellion in Ireland, in 1798, it would appear, cost more than five times the amount which was expended in the suppression of the recent Canadian one; which, on the authority of Sir Robert Peel, cost three millions and a half. To go to war with Ireland forty-five years ago, with half the amount of its present population, cost Great Britain about nineteen millions, and both countries a loss of 70,000 lives."-Second Series, vol. ii., p. 532.

* Debate on the Canadian Corn Importation Question, the 23rd of May, 1843:Sir Robert Peel said, "They found that a rebellion had recently existed in the colony; that the cost of suppressing that rebellion had been, by direct votes of that house, little short of two millions of money; that when they came to add the additional cost of maintaining the army in the colony, and of transporting forces thither, the total expense was in reality little less than 3,500,000. There was a force in Canada of no less than twenty-two battalions of British infantry."

RELIGION PROFESSED BY THE LEADING MEMBERS OF THE UNITED IRISH SOCIETY, OR PERSONS SUSPECTED OF SO BEING.

(The following names in brackets are those of the state prisoners who had been confined in Fort George.)

* Those marked (*) were executed.

†The eminent chemist and mineralogist, Richard Kirwan, on the authority of Dr. Macneven, was sworn by him, Dr. M.

The Clergy who were implicated, or accused of being concerned, in the Rebellion,

were the following:

PRESBYTERIANS.

*Rev. Mr. Warwick,
Rev. W. Steele Dickson,
Rev. William Porter,
Rev. Mr. Barber,
Rev. Mr. Mahon,

Rev. Mr. Birch,

Rev. Mr. Ward,

Rev. Mr. Smith,

Rev. Mr. Sinclair,

*Rev. Mr. Stevelly,

Rev. Mr. M'Neill,

Rev. Mr. Simpson,

CATHOLICS.

* Rev. Moses Kearns,
* Rev. John Murphy,
Rev. Michael Murphy,
Rev. Mr. Kavanagh,
* Rev. Mr. Redmond,
Rev. Mr. Stafford,
*Rev. P. Roche,
Rev. H. O'Keon,
* Rev. Mr. Prendergast,
Rev. Mr. Harrold,
*Rev. J. Quigley,
Rev. Dennis Taafe.

The preceding list of the names of the leaders of the United Irishmen include those of the actors in the rebellion, as well as those of the originators and organisers of it; but if we separate the one from the other, and enumerate the organising leaders, we shall find that the Protestant and Presbyterian members, compared with the Roman Catholic members, are in proportion of about four to one. There never was a greater mistake than to call this struggle a Popish rebellion: the movement was pre-eminently a Protestant one.-MADDEN, vol. ii., p. 342.

* Those marked (*) were executed.

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