"In popular commotions, it has been generally observed that virtue or talent goes but a little way to procure influence; the leader of a mob is almost invariably he who outdoes all the rest in audacity."

"Amid all their other atrocities, the chastity of the fair sex was respected. I have not been able to ascertain one instance to the contrary, in the County of Wexford, although many beautiful young women were in their (the rebels') power. The reverse was the conduct of the soldiery, and friend or foe made no difference."

I have made those few extracts from as great a bulk of notes as would form a volume, for the purpose of showing that the judgment I formed of the period, and the representations of the Tale in connexion with the Wexford insurrection, have been painstaking, and are truthful.