A.

ADRIAN, Pope, grants a bull to Henry II. to introduce popery into Ireland, 5.

Allegiance, oath of, held by the pope not to be binding, on his fedaries to a proteftant ftate, 25, 26.

Affaffination, the lawfulnefs of it, inculcated by an Irifh Jefuit of the name of Mc Mahon, in 1641, 30.- That dodlrine avowed and inculcated by doctor Burke, titular bifhop of Offory, in his Hibernia Dominicana, in 1762, 39. - And by Ghillini, the pope’s legate 40.

Arms, 129,583, feized in Leinfter and Ulfter, in 1797, 165.

Athy, and Narraghmore, infurrectons and maffacres there, 273. - Athy chapel burnt there, and an attempt to impute it to the proteftants, 286.

Addrefs of the Roman catholicks to the viceroy 30th May, 1798, and obfervations thereon, 290.

Arklow, the defigns of the rebels in attacking it, 434 - Michael Murphy, the prieft’s letter to Houfton, previous to it, 435. - The battle there, 437.

Afgill, fir Charles, marches from Kilkenny, in purfuit of father John Murphy, 543.

Antrim, battle of 547.

Altamont, earl of, his houfe plundered 597.

Atkins, a fanguinary wretch in the county of Sligo, 608.

Abfolution from oaths granted by the pope to the emperor,and princes of Germany, 41 .- Granted by two priefts to Thomas Cleary, for the murder of his mafter Mr. Turner, Appendix 147. Granted by Neil, a prieft, near Youghal for murder, 41. - The power of granting it, not allowed by the popifh bifbop of Ferns to Bryan Murphy, a prieft, for want of a faculty or delegation. Appendix, page 148. - for murder given by a popifh bifhop. Appendix, 165.

B.

Bifhops, Irifh, obtain a papal bull to raife money by the fale of indulgences, in 1719, to dethrone the houfe of Hanover, and to eftabliih the pretender on the throne, 30.

Burke, Mr. Edmund, fome anecdotes of him, 35.

Byrne, Edward, an active member of the catholick committee, correfponds with Sinclair Kelburne, a prefbyterian minifter of Belfaft, 81.

Butler, the honourable Simon, a demagogue, and the hired agent of the catholick committee, 94 - Committed to Newgate with Oliver Bond, 10.

Blake, a rebel captain, taken at Ballynamuck. and hanged, 6!3.

Bantry-bay, French invafion, attempted there it 1796, planned by Arthur O’Connor, and lord Edward Fitzgerald, 163.

Ballymore-euftace, attack on it, 443.

Baltinglafs difturbances, and infurrections there, 311.

Bookey, lieutenant, murdered by John Murphy, a prieft, 310.

Burrowes, reverend, Mr. of Kyle, murdered by John Murphy, a prieft, and a band of affaffins, 331.

Ballinrufh, battle of, 347.

Ballynahinch, battle of 556.

Backlane parliament, elefted and returned under Edward Byrne’s writs, and held their feffion, 85, 86. - Send five delegates to St. James’s, 87.

Barrett, doctor, his character, 626. - His fon’s character, 628.

Burke, Richard, fon of Edmund, the popifh agent comes to Ireland in 1792, 91.

Belfaft, the prefbyterians affembled there by Sinclair Kelburne, one of their minifters, begin a negotiation with the papifts in Dublin, headed by Edward Byrne, 80. - The anniverfary of the French revolution, celebrated there the 14th of July, 1792, 108. - They petition parliament to repeal the whole of the popery laws, and unite with the papifts to overturn the conftitution in 1792, 97, 98 - Belfaft, a general mourning obferved there on the recal of earl Fitzwilliam, 137. - The centre of motion to the Northern union, 156 - the prefbyterian leaders there, endeavour to promote infidelity to forward the union, ibid.

Beccaria, his obfervations on criminal law, applicable to Ireland, 150.

Bond, Oliver, the Leinfter delegates arrested at his houfe, 202. - His trial, 631.

Borris, feat of Mr. Kavenagh, attacked by the rebels 377.

Ballyellis, battle of, 515, 516.

Ballyraheene, battle of, 517.

Byrne, William, burns Tinnahely, and commits various acts of cruelty 515 to 524.

Bellew, general, at Ballina, his character 587.

Ballynamuck, battle of 61I.

C.

Celibacy of the clergy, when firft eftablifhed in Ireland, 2.

Catholick committee, origin of, 76 - exift as a delegated body duly elected and returned in the year 1785, ib. - the nobility and gentry of thier perfuafion being obliged to fecede from them, they formed revolutionary defigns, 78 - who then took the lead in it, 79 - They pretend to be very moderate in their views, ibid. - Frame and fend a declaration of their tenets to Sinclair Kelburne of Belfaft, 81 - Curious debate when affembled to frame their declaration, 82 - Doctor M’Kenna’s ftrictures on their impropei conduct, 79 - Edward Byrne, by order of the catholick committee, fends circular letters to convoke a popish convention, 85 - Cenfured by the corporation of Dublin, who publifhed fpirited refolutions on the occafion, ibid. - Popifh convention affemble under Edward Byrne’s writs, and fit in Back-lane, 86 - Send delegates with an addrefs to the king, 87 - Their reception by the demagogues of Belfaft, ibid.

Carlow, county of, confpiracy there, Appendix, page 24.

Catholick fociety, firft inftituted, 78 - Catholick committee raife money on their body at large and protect the defenders, 90 - Extend their views, and rife in their demands of political power, ibid. - Negotiate with Edmond Burke, and hire as their agent, his fon Richard, who comes to Ireland, 91 - Enlift fome proteftant barrifters, viz. Tone, Butler and Jones, in their fervice, who write in their favour, 94 - This was done to lull and inveigle proteftants to promote their defigns, 95, 96 - Send miffionaries to the north to unite the prefbyterians and papifts in the confpiracy, 104.

Councils, Romifh, Lateran and Toledo. See Popery.

Civil wars in Ireland, produced by the reformation, 12 - War of 1641 occafioned and fomented by the pope’s bulls, 28.

Camden, earl of, made viceroy of Ireland, and lands in Dublin ad of April, 1795, and the defenders raife a dreadful riot the night he landed, and attempt to affaffinate the earl of Clare, 135.

Committee, catholick, fend three delegates with an addrefs to the king on the recal of earl Fitzwilliam - Incenfed at the anfwer which they received, they hold a meeting, and an angry debate thereon I37, 38.

Crimes, and punifhments in Ireland, obfervatious on them 150.

Carhampton, earl of, fent to quell the defenders in fome northern counties, 143. - A confpiracy to murder him formed by Dunn and Carthy in May, 1797, 175.

Clubs, revolutionary ones in Dublin in 1792, 113.

Convention law, a very wife one againft the affembling of unlawful conventions; the earl of Clare the author of it, 125.

Coaches, mail, from Dublin deftroyed the 23d of May, 179, 217.

Clinch, a traitorous yeoman of Rathcoole, hanged, 230.

Clane, attack on it by the rebels 240.

Carlow, attack on it by the rebels, 264 - Carbery, the charter-fchool deftroyed there, 266 - Clonard, garrifon there commanded by lieutenant Tyrrell of Kilreny, occurrences there, 267 - Confeffions in the Romifh church, not to be difclofed, and obfervations thereon by Romifh divines, 291, 92.

Carlow, county of, ftate of the confpiracy there. Appendix xi.

Carthy, Cambia, her love of juftice, and her fortitude, 245.

Clifford, Mr. of Caftle-annefley, butchered by the rebels, 346.

Cork city, confpiracy there, Appendix xi.

—, county of, confpiracy there. Appendix xi.

Carrickbyrne-hill, near Rofs, a rebel camp formed there, 393.

Cox, William, captain, taken prifoner by the rebels at Coolcliff, 422.

Confeffion of faith, popish, found at Gorey, 443.

Caulfield, popifh bifhop, faid he was defired by the rebels not to fave proteftants in Wexford, 453.

Corrin, father, gives the facrament to Murphy murdered by the rebels, 456 - Adminifters oaths and grants protections there, 451 - Goes to the bridge to fave the prifoners, but not till fent for by Mr. Kellett, 490, 91, 92, 93 - Obtains a certificate from George Taylor, 492 - Refufes to liberate Lett a proteftant prifoner, 493 - Chriftened a child for Mrs. Kellet at Clonard.

Caulfield, doctor, refufed to ftop the maffacres on the bridge, 490 - Bleffed the pikemen as they proceeded to the bridge, 496 - His letter to father Bryan Murphy about abfolution, 497.

Colclough, his execution 511.

Charm, a written one, found on a rebel in the county of Wexford, 516.

Clare, county of, confpiracy there. Appendix, page 29.

Clonard in the county of Meath, fpirited conduft of the garrifon there under Thomae Tyrrell, efquire, and his family, 521.

Caftlecomer, attack on and conflagration of it, 535 to 543.

Carey, William Pallet, printer to the united Iriftmen, 101.

Carmelites. See Scapular.

Cornwallis, the marquis of, takes the field againft the French, and marches to Athlone, 591

Clergy, proteftant, perfecution of, in Mayo and Sligo, 572.

— popish, their characters in Mayo and Sligo 578, 583.

Caftlebar, battle of 593.

Cowley, father, his character 585.

Coloony, battle of, 605.

D.

Defenders, origin of in the county of Armagh, 53 - Encouraged by father Quigley in 1789, 58 - Their perfecution of the Barclay family and the maffacre of them, 59, 60 - Appear and become terrifick in many other counties in the years 1791 and 1793, 63 - Similar to the white boys in every refpect, 67 - Battle of the Diamond between them who were exclufively papifts, and the proteftants 67, 68.

Dublin, corporation of, their fpirited refolutions on Edward Byrne’s circular letter, 84 - Various revolutionary Societies there in the year 1791, 113 - So much infected with treafon in the winter of i792 that an infurrection was expected, 1 16.

Dungannon, a revolutionary meeting of volunteers held there 15th February, 1793, 123.

Deafe, father, a prieft taken by captain Ormsby, 608.

Defenders, formidable in many counties in 1793 by the commiffion of nocturnal robbery and affaffination, 125 - Are equally fo in 1794, 126, 130 - Grow more terrinck in 1795, on account of the earl Fitzwilliam’s recall from Ireland, commit robbery and assassination in many counties, and become formidable in the metropolis, 135 - Spread fuch terror in fome northern counties, in 1795, that the earl of Carhampton was fent to quell them, 143.

Dublin, defenders become fo dangerous and formidable in it in 1795, that the loyal fubjects unite for their prefervation, 146.

Dunboyne, lord, relapfes into popery and leaves an eftate to the college at Maynooth, 147.

Dobbs,counfellor, negotiates with government for an amnefty for the prifoners in Dublin, 631, 31.

Doolin, Mr. murdered in the King’s county in 1798, 196.

Darragh, Mr. of Eagle-hill, maffacred in 1798, 197

Dublin, ftate of, on the breaking-out of the rebellion, 211, 12, 13

Dunboyne, rifing and maffacre of proteftants there, 415.

Dunftiaughlin, rising and maffacre there, 446.

E.

Emperors dethroned and excommunicated by the pope, 10.

Excommunication of the pope fatal to Henry III and Henry IV. of France, 16 - iffued againft Henry VIII. and Queen Elizabeth as hereticks, 17 - The opinion of various Romifh divines on the operation of it, 11, 14.

Exclufive falvation invented by the artful policy of the Roman pontiffs, 19.

Erfkine, counfellor, the confpiracy encouraged by part of his pamphlet, 154.

Executive Diredories, one formed for each province in November, 1797, 175.

Ennifcorthy, number of the garrifon there, 348 - Defcription of, ibid. - Attacked by general father John Murphy, 350 - Retreat of the garrifon and the loyalifts, 355 - Barbarous excefles and murders committed there, 356, 357 - The rebels form a camp near Vinegar-hill, ibid.

Edgeworthftown, attacked and plundered, 616’.

Elpbin, bifhop of, his fpirited conduct, 615.

F.

Fitzgerald. Sec lord Edward.

Forth, mountains of, near Wexford, a rebel camp formed there by father John Murphy, 380. - A company of the Meath regiment defeated near it by the rebels, 382, 383 Foulkes’s mill, battle of, 483 Fitzgerald, Thomas, efquire, faves the county of Tipperary from being defolated, Appendix xi.

Fitzwilliam, earl, appointed viceroy 131 .

Forth, mountain of, a defcription of the camp there. Appendix xxi. 3.

French fleet enter Bantry bay in December, 1796, 163.

Giraldus, Cambrenfis, his defcription of Ireland - 5.

Grattan, Henry, efquire, a cabinet minifter to earl Fitzwilliam, encourages the Romanifts in their expedations of a total repeal of the popery laws, for promoting which his excellency was recalled, 134, 133 - Prefents a bill for repealing them, 134 - Received an addrefs of thanks from the Romanifts, to which he gives a moft inflammatory anfwer, ibid.

Gorey plundered by the rebels, who commit dreadful excefTes there on the defeat of colonel Walpole, 401.

Grogan, Cornelius, his conduct when the rebels entered the town, and his character, 447, 448 - His execution, 510.

Gaimon, a prieft at Caftlebar, joined the French, 601.

H.

Hereticks, no faith to be kept with them, and not eiiti-fled to any rights whatfoever, by the pope and his feiftaries, 1 1, n. - Heretical princes may be depofed by their fubjects by the council of Lateran, ibid - The fame doctrine maintained by doctor Burke, titular birtiop of OfTory, and Ghillini, the pope’s legate at Bruffels, 39, 40 - Oath taken by the emperor of Germany to adhere to the peace of weftphalia, declared by the pope to be void, becaufe it was made with proteftant princes, whom he denounced as hereticks, 41.

Houfe of Commons burned 47th Feb. 1794, 114.

Hanlon, a confpiracy of the defenders to murder him, 142.

Harman, Mr. member of the county of Longford, murdered in his houfe in January, 1796, 164.

Hamilton, reverend Mr. murdered in the county of Donegal in 1797, 167.

Hill, fir George, his active exertions againft the confpirators in the counties of Derry and Donegal, 191.

Hume, captain, member for the county of Wicklow, murdered by the rebels, 318.

Harvey, Beauchamp Bagenal, his character, and arreft of him, John Colclough and Edward Fitzgerald, 388.

Hore, William, of Harperftown, taken by the rebels, 442.

Hill, doctor, and his brother, curious anecdote of their captivity, &c. &c. by father Kearns and others. 433.

Hughes, William, his fortitude at Wexford in refufing to join the rebels, though threatened by Keugh, 472.

Hay, John, his character and execution, 507.

Harvey, B. Bagenal, his arreft in the Saltees, - His trial and execution 508, 9, 10, 11 .

Hackttftown, battle of, 513.

Hutchinfon, general, marches from Galway to Castlebar, 591.

I.

Ireland, when and by whom chriftianity introduced into it, - When popery introduced into it ibid.

Irifh fwore oaths of allegiance to Henry fecond, but violated them as foon as he returned to England, 5 - Endeavour to expel all the Englifh in 1130, 6.

Irish clergy, bigotry of and dangerous tenets, defcribed by Walfh, the Francifcan friar 6, 7.

Indulgences, invented by the pope to raife money, which flowed from the doctrine of purgatory, 18.

Irish, their hatred to the English heightened by the reformation, which occafioned many civil wars in Ireland, 22.

Ireland, the privileges enjoyed by the papifts in it, previous to the civil war of 1641, 28.

Inquifition, origin of, 16, 17.

Ireland, the laft country in Europe that fubmitted to the pope, 3.

J.

Jones, William Todd, an advocate for the Roman catholicks, 96.

Infurrection law paffed in January 1796, obfervations on it and its falutary effects, 148.

Jones, reverend Mr. an attempt to murder him near Kilcock, Appendix xv.

K.

Kildare, county of, confpiracy and rebellion there, 232 - State of, after the rebellion, Appendix XV.

Kildare, town of, infurrection there and maffacre, 245.

Kilcullen attacked by the rebels, 258.

Kilcock, attack on it, 270.

Kilthomas, battle of, 347.

Kane, the bleffed prieft of Bannow, his character, 48a.

KingFborough, vifcount, h!s capture and captivity, 462 - Invefted with the command of Wexford by the rebel leaders, and fends meffengers to general Lake, with pacifick terms on their part, 498, 99 - Threatened by father John Murphy, 501

Knipe, reverend Mr. murdered in the county of Meath, 172.

Kelburne, a prefbyterian minifter and a demagogue at Belfaft, his correfpondence with Edward Byrne in Dublin, chairman of the catholick committee, 80, 81 Keogh, John, an active leader among the papifts 82 - A flattering addrefs fent to him by them, 84 - Foretels in 1792, in the catholick committee, that from the negociation in London they muft fucceed in their defigns, 91.

Kavenagh, father Francis, of Gorey, a rebel leader, 117.

Keugh, Matthew, chofen governor of Wexford by the rebels, his character, 444 - His conduct towards meffieurs Bland, Cramp and Kellett, 448 - Infulted by Carthy at lord Kingfborough’s lodgings, 464 - His power declines, and his life is in danger from the rebels, as an orangeman, 466 - Threatens William Hughes, unlefs he joins the rebels, 472 - Repairs to lord Kingfborough with other rebel chieftains, to concert meafures of conciliation, and in order to obtain an amnefty fends meffengers for that purpofe to general Lake, 498 - His trial and defence, 506.

Killan, county Wexford, the rape and burning of fome proteftant women attempted there , 520.

Killala, French land there, 573 - Are joined by the popifh priefts, 578 - Retaken, 621, 22.

King’s and Queen’s county, confpiracy there, Appendix xi. .

Kilcomney, near Gorefbridge, rebels defeated there, 542.

L.

Lateran, council of. See Popery.

Lowther, lord chief juftice, his fpeech on the extenfive privileges enjoyed by the Irish papifts previous to the civil war of 1641, 28.

Lord Edward Fitzgerald fled from Dublin March, 1798, 202 - Proclamation, offering £1,000 for arrefting him, iffued 11th May, 205 - Arrefted the 19th of May, 206 - His death, and a fhort account of his progrefs through life, 298.

Loftus, general, his movements with colonel Walpole. See Walpole.

Lake, general, his plan for attacking Vinegarhill, 472 - Goes to command the army in Connaught againft the French, 591.

Lehunte, Mr. an attack on him by Dixon, in confequence of a fire fkreen found at his houfe, 470.

Louth, county of, meeting of the Roman catholicks there, and their refolutions againft the defenders, though fecretly connected with them, 65.

Langrifhe, fir Hercules, his animadverfions on the improper conduct of the Roman catholicks in 1792, 83.

Lucan, earl of, his houfe plundered, 598.

M.

M’Geoghegan laments the fubjection of Ireland to an English and not to an Irifh king, 3.

M’Donnel, colonel, his character, 624.

Maffacre of the Albigenfes and Waldenfes iunder the council of Lateran, 15 - And of the French on St. Bartholomew’s day, 16.

Maynooth, a popifh feminary endowed there in 1795, 146.

Maffacre, a general one intended, the firft lift confifted of 30,100 perfons, 154.

Military organization of united Irifhmen, 161.

Munfter not begun to be organized till the beginning of 1797, 173

Military attempts to feduce them, 177.

Moira, earl of, arrives in Ireland, and moves in the houfe of Lords, that the penal laws fhould be repealed, and that government fhould try to conciliate the confpirators, 198

Monaftereven, attack on by the rebels, 248

Maynooth, attack upon, 283 - Maffacre of John Browne and others there, 284.

Manders, three fifters murdered near Athy, 280.

Martin, father, a prieft, taken near Rathdrum, his confeffion, 317

Murphy, father John, a prieft, rifes at Boulavogue, in the county of Wexford, with 3 murderous banditti, and defolates many parifhes, 327.

Murphy, father Michael, a prieft of Ballycanew, a rebel general, his origin, 338.

Meath regiment, a company of them cut off near Wexford, 385

Murphy, father Edward, prieft of Bannow, his conduft - 423.

maffacre of thirty-fix proteftants near Gorey, after the battle of Vinegar-hill, 480 - Of meffieurs Cliffe, Annefley and Elliott, at Roar, 414.

Meadows, Mr. an anecdote related by him of a papift, confined in gaol with him, 462.

Maffacre on the bridge of Wexford, 485 - At Scullobogue, 425 - On Vinegar-hill, from 361 to 377.

Mutiny in the fourth light brigade at Ferns, 524.

Murphy, father John, of Boulavogue, his retreat by the Scullagh into the county of Kilkenny, 530, 1.

Matthews, of the Downfhire regiment, his purfuit of father John Murphy and his banditti, 543.

Munfter, province of, not begun to be organized till fpring, 1797, and completed in autumn following, 175.

Mayo and Sligo, the rebellion there, 559 - The Carmelites or Scapularians from the north, the leaders of rebellion there, 561, 62 - Reports about Orangemen diffeminated there, 565, 67 - Oaths of allegiance taken there as in Wexford, to deceive the government and the magiftrates, 569, 70 - Perfecution of the proteftant clergy there 571, 572.

Mountjoy, lord, his death 412.

N.

National guards, an armed fet of traitors fprung from the volunteers, and headed by A. H. Rowan and J. N. Tandy, are formed to overturn the conftitution, 116 - A proclamation againft their affembling, 117 - Attempt to affemble in fpite of the proclamation, 119.

North, predifpofing caufes to rebellion there, 152.

Northern Star, an inflammatory newfpaper printed at Belfaft in 1791, to promote the confpiracy, and did infinite mifchief - 157.

Naas, attack on it, 233.

Narraghmore, infurrection there, 273.

Newtown-mount-kennedy, battle of, 314.

Newtown-Barry, attack on it by the rebels, and the battle there 393, 4, 5.

Neilfon, a leader of the united Irifhmen in Belfaft, 105 - Meditated an attack on Newgate 23d of May, 214.

Neil, a popifh farmer, hanged at Cork, his confession, Appendix xi.

O.

Oath taken by popifh bifhops at their inauguration inconfiftent with their allegiance, 14.

Oaths of allegiance. See allegiance.

Orangemen, origin of, 70 - Their ufefulnefs, 72, 73 - Particularly in the north, 194 - Reports in the county of Wicklow that they would maffacre the papifts 305, 306.

Orange lodges not formed in Dublin till January, 1798, 196.

Oviotftown, battle of 285.

Oulart, battle of, when 115 of the North Cork regiment were killed 339, 340.

O’Neil, lord, proceeds towards Antrim, 547 - His death, 551, - and character - 554.

Orr, Samuel, brother to William, who was hanged at Carrickfergus, commanded a rebel column at the battle of Antrim 549.

Orr, William, hanged at Carrickfergus, 178.

Organization. See united Irifhmen.

O’Keon, Henry, lands with the French at Killala, 581 - Exhorts the populace to join the French, 583.

O’Donnel, father, of Kilmackfhalgun, a traitor, 607.

O’Doude, his character, 622.

Oxmantown, lord, his active and fpirited conduct in county Longford, 618.

P.

Popery, firft introduced into Ireland in 1172 [n.p.].

Papal power, origin of, 7 - Eftablifhed by the council of Lateran, which becomes terrifick both to princes and their fubjects, 10 - The opinions of Romish divines on that council, 12 - Council of Toledo fimilar in its ordinances, 13.

Purgatory, origin of, 18 - And of absolution for fin, 19.

Proteftants, number of, maffacred in 1641, 30.

Papifts, obfervations on their turbulent conduct made by fir Hercules Langrifhe in 1798, 83 - A petition prefented on their part to parliament in February, 1792; but withdrawn as indecent and indecorous, 81 - Hold parochial meetings, wherein they debate and condemn lords Fingal and Kenmare, 78 - Endeavour to lull proteftants, particularly prefbyterians,and to attach them to their caufe with a pretence of feeking for general liberty, 95, 96 - Unite and form combinations not to deal with proteftants on the recall of earl Fitzwilliam, 136.

Popifh, college, eftablifhed at Maynooth in 1795, 146.

Paine’s Age of Reafon, printed at Belfaft and circulated in the north, promoted the confpiracy, 156.

Papifts raife large fums of money on their body in 1794 and 1795, 154 - Not fincere in inviting the prefbyterians to unite with them, and meant only to lull them, 158 - Levy large sums of money on their body in 1792 and 1793, 90.

Prefbyterian leaders at Belfaft and Lifburn attend mafs with their volunteer corps to attach the papifts to the union, 105 - Minifters, fome profligate outs in the counties of Down and Antrim,encourage their flocks to join the union, 106 - Great number of them in the north very loyal, 194.

Prefbyterians, loyal at firft except in Belfaft, 88 - Thofe in the county of Cavan publifh ftrong refolutions againft defenders, ibid. - The catholick committee and the leaders of the confpifacy endeavour to unite the prefbyterians with the Roman catholicks to overturn the conftitution, 103., 105.

Peep-of-day boys, origin of, 54.

Parliament, the oppofition in it, by grofs mifreprefentation of the meafures of government encourage the confpirators, 148.

Parliamentary reform, an engine ufed to overturn the conftitution, a motion made for a bill to promote it in the houfe of commons the 14th of January, 1793, 119.

Paftorini, a fanguinary bigot, his book approving of affaffination in Dublin, 634.

Prefbyterians, have a ftrong prediledion for a republick, 120.

Proclaimed, Down and Armagh, the firft fo in 1797, 165.

Proclamation, a wife and conciliatory one, addrelled to the people of the north, by general Lake in 1797 - Another, highly conciliatory, addreiled to the difaffected by government, 17th May, 1797, 177.

Parfons, fir Laurence, moves in the houfe of commons, that the penal laws fhouid be repealed, to conciliate the people, 199.

Profperous, maffacre there, 234.

Proteftant church, ftate of, in the archdiocefe of Dublin in the year 1798, Appendix xv.

Priefts, Stafford, Roche, Kavenagh and Redmond, concerned in the rebellion, 318.

Pounden, Mrs. her fufferings in a floop at Wexford, 450.

Priefts, their influence, and protections granted by them, 460.

Proteftants, urged by friendly Roman catholicks to change their religion, as necessary to fave their lives, 47J.

Prifon-fhip, the fufferings of proteftants in it, 449.

Papifts, property of, protected in the county of Wexford, 511.

Population, of the kingdom, deduced from Ireland, 524.

Portaferry, attack on it, by the rebels, 557.

Prefs, an Inflamtratory flewfpaper, publifbed by Arthur O’Connor, 189.

Papifts, of Dublin, publifh a declaration of their tenets, and fent them to Sinclair Kelburne - Their debate thereon, 82.

Q.

Quigley, father, the prieft, encourages the defenders in the counties of Louth and Armagh, 58 - Deeply concerned with the defenders in 1797, 194.

R..

Rabaud, de St. Etienne, a French democrat, comes to Dublin to promote the confpiracy, 108.

Reformation, produced many civil wars in Ireland , 22.

Roman Catholick. See always Papift and Popifh.

Reynolds, Thomas, the plot difcovered by him, 100 - and the confpirators arrefted in confequence of his evidence at Oliver Bond’s, 201.

Rebellion, breaking-out of, 13d May, 1798, at Kathfarnham, 211.

Rathfarnham, rebels firft rife there and a battle enfued, 223.

Rathcoole, a confpiracy there among the popifh yeomen to murder the proteftants, 218 - The army poifoned by the rebels there, 281.

Rathangan, rising and maffacre there, 251.

Rawfon, Thomas James, efquire, his laudable and fpirited conduct near Athy and Narraghmore 273, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 - A conciliatory addrefs publifhed by him, 274.

Roman catholicks, addrefs the viceroy, 30th May againft the rebellion, obfervations thereon, 290.

Rebels, armies and generals, of Wexford, their plans and defigns 392, 93.

Rofs, Old, a defcription of it, 407 - Approached by the rebels on Lacken-hill, and afterwards on Corbet-hill, 408 - Bagenal Harvey fummoned general Johnfon to furrender the town to him, ibid. - Attacked by the rebels, 409 - Defcription of the battle, 409, 10, 11, 12 - The bravery of ferjeant Hamilton there, 415, 16 - Anecdotes, curious, relative to the battle, 416 to 420 - Gun-boats, their operations on the river there and at Feathard, 420, 21.

Roche, father, elefted general at Carrickhyrne in the place of Bagenal Harvey, depofed, 431, 32 - His letter to father Doyle, a prieft 434.

Rebel, army, defeated at Arklow, takes poft on Limerick and Kilcavin hills, againft whom Dundas marches, 475.

Ryan, captain, killed by lord Edward Fitzgerald, 208.

Roche, the prieft, his execution at Wexford 507.

S..

Saintfield, battle of 554 .

Saunders, Mrs. of Saunders’-grove, county of Wicklow, her fortitude, 311.

Scapular, order of. See an account of it 563, 64 .

Scullabogue, the massacres there, 425.

Servants, popifh of Dublin, difaffected 120, 21.

Sheares, John, agrees with the Romanifts to sacrifice the proteftant Itate to gain their co-operation in the union, 107.

Sheares, John and Henry, arrested, 109 - Their trial and execution, 630.

Sirr, major, his narrow efcape at Grange, 125 .

Smith, Thomas, his evidence on the trial of the affaffins of Hanlon of the artillery, 142 .

St. George, colonel, and Jafper Uniacke, murdered at Arraglyn, on the 9th of February, 1798, 196.

Supremacy, papal. See Papal power.

T.

Tandy, James Napper, fecretary to the united Irishmen in Dublin 31ft December, 1791, 98 - Indicted at Dundalk affizes for fedition, and flies, 12.

Tara, battle of, 294.

Tinnahtly, burnt by William Byrne, 524 .

Tipperary, county of, confpiracy there, Appendix xi.

Toledo, council of. See Popery.

Tone, Theobald Wolfe, a noted demagogue, the founder of the fociety of united Irifhmen, 94.

Troy, doctor, titular archbifhop of Dublin, in a paftoral letter in the year 1793 endeavours to fhew that popery is favourable to a republican government, and doctor Huffey did the fame in 1797, 112.

Turner, the reverend Francis, murdered at Ballingale, 344.

U.

Union of civil and ecclefiaftical power effential to the peace and profperity of a ftate, 8.

United Irifhmen, their origin, and by whom inftituted, 94 - Firft, at Belfaft in October, 1791, 97 - Second, in Dublin in the 9th of November, 98 - Their different addreffes, 99 - Difperfed by the magiftrates and their papers feized 23d May, 1794, 127 - The fate of their leading proteftant leaders, 128 - Their civil organization, 129 - Their military, 162 - Negociate with the French, and invite them to invade Ireland, 168 - Affemble in large bodies in Dublin, and array themfelves under the pretext of attending funerals, 171 - Form a defign of rifing in Dublin in 1797, 172, 73 - Seduce the king’s troops, ibid. - Did not begin to organize Munfter till the beginning of 1797, and it was reported to be perfected in September following, 173 - Form four Executive Directories, one for each province, in November 1797, ibid. - How far their leaders fucceeded in uniting the prefbyterians and papifts in 1797, 180 - Employ regularly attornies and counfel to defend their fellow traitors, 187 - Publifh the Union Star to encourage the affaffination of loyal perfons, ibid. - And a newfpaper, called the Prefs, for the fame purpofe, 188- And the Harp of Erin in Cork, 189.

Ussher, Primate, his account of the religion of the ancient Irifh, 2.

V.

Valentine, reverend Mr. his tomb and his remains violated 571.

Vinegar-hill, a rebel camp formed there, 357 - A defcription of it, 360, 61 - MalTacres committed there, 363,. 64, 65 to 77 - General Lake’s plan for attacking it, and his orders to the general officers for that purpofe, 472 - The movements of our ditFerent armies to furround and attack it under general Lake, 476 - The battle of, 477 - Father Clinch killed there by the earl of Roden, 478 - Why general Needham did not occupy the part deftined for him, 478, 479.

Maffacre of thirty-fix proteftants near Gorey after the battle, 480.

Volunteers, origin of, 47 - Of Dublin, correfpond with the revolutionifts in France in 1791, 108, 109 - Invited by the catholicks of Dublin to promote the caufe of the union, 112.

W.

White-boys, origin of in 1759, 32 - Bound by oaths to each other, and commit horrid crimes, their object to join the French, overturn the government, and eftablifh the pretender on the throne, ibid. - Encouraged by the popifh clergy, 33 - The marquis of Drogheda fent to Munfter to command a body of forces againft them, ibid. - One of their leaders, father Sheehy, taken by his lordfhip and hanged. See a full account of them in Appendix, No. I. - The laws made againft them prove the enormity of their crimes, and how deftruftive they were in their proceedings, 41, 42 - They were fucceeded by the right boys 43, 44.

Woodward, doctor, bifhop of Cloyne, abufed and calumniated for writing in defence of hif clergy, when perfecuted by the right boys, 45.

Weldon, a notorious defender, tried and hanged in Dublin 139, 141, 42.

Weftfieldftown, rifing there, 23d May, 227.

Wicklow, county of, confpiracy and rebellion there, 300 - Conciliatory addrefs of the magiftrates there, 301 - Disaffection of the popifh yeomen there, and how difcovered, 302, 3, 4, - General Craig’s conciliatory proclamation publifhed there 313.

Wexford, county of, rebellion and confpiracy there, 318 - Diffimulation of the popish priefts and their flock there, in taking oaths of allegiance and in addreffing the viceroy, 320,.

Wexford town, defcription of, 380 - Evacuation of by the garrifon as not tenable, 389, 90 - Their retreat to Duncannon fort perilous and painful, 389, 90, 91 - Entry of the rebels into it the 30th of May, 444 - Cruel and perfidious conduct of the rebel failors there, 445, 46, 47 - The great fufferings of the loyalifts who hired veffels to go from Wexford, 448 t0 452 - Father Corrin adminiftering oaths and granting protections there, 451 - Thomas Dixon, a fanguinary ruffian, his conduct there, ibid. - Doctor Caulfield’s obfervations to a lady there about faving proteftants, 453 - Another man of the fame name fhot there, 457 - A fermon preached there on Trinity Sunday by the popish bifhop’s chaplain, 451 - Colonel Lehunte and other proteftants obliged to become converts to popery and march through the ftreets, ibid. - The rebels fearch the houfes there for orangemen, 454 - Ninety-five prifoners brought out of the goal to be maffacred, of which father Corrin faved ten, 460, 461 - Protections granted them by the priefts, ibid - maffacre on the bridge there defcribed, from 485 to 497 - The bloody committee in the goal defcribed, and the calendar of the proteftant prifoners, 494, 495 - Wexford, twelve yeomen enter it aift June, and ftrike terror into the rebels, who fly precipitately, 501 - The flight of the rebels defcribed in a lady’s journal, 503 - A fermon preached there the 10th of June by father Roche, the bifhop’s chaplain, 466 - Infcription on the bridge of Wexford, 512 - A proclamation read from the altar of the popifh chapel for the arreft of four magiftrates, 467 - Wexford county population of, 523.

Waterford county and city, confpiracy there, Appendix xi.

Walpole, colonel, the movements of him and general Loftus towards Gorey, 396, 7 - Their plan of attacking the rebels on Ballymore, 397. 398.

Walpole’s, colonel, defeat near Clough, and the confequences of it 400, 401.

Wexford, general Loftus’s retreat and narrow efcape from the rebels there, 403, 4.

Weftmeath, county of, rifing there near lord Sunderlin’s, 615.

White, Hawtrey, a magiftrate, difcovers the confpiracy in the county of Wexford, and communicates it to government, 311 - Purfues the rebels, on Whitfunday, with the yeomen cavalry - 336.

Wilfon’s hofpital plundered 615.

Y.

Yeomanry, origin of, in 1796, 159 - Oppofed by the principal members of the catholick committee - ibid.

Yeomen, fourteen thoufand in the counties of Fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry and Armagh, moft of them Orangemen and prefbyterians, 194 - - Popifh, of Dublin, many of them traitors, 220 - Difaffecftion of, in the county of Wicklow, 302, 3 - Of the county of Kildare, much difaffected, 163.

THE END.

ERRATA.

Though the author has made Truth his polar ftar in the courfe of this work, yet it is poffible that fome errors might have occurred in it; he hopes therefore that if any perfon fhoulddifcover any fuch, they will be kind enough to communicate them to the author, and he will amend them in the next edition.