Abbe Crelly; and here I must refer to p. 145, of these sheets, where I mention that scandalous Catholic Address which was presented to Fairfax in 1649.

During his stay in London, he boasted, at a public dinner, that he had declined the empty honour of an introduction to the King at Brussels; that he never did favour his cause, or his two Brothers, or Ormond's, and never would; and that to the contrivances of his party, meaning the foreign influenced Bishops, with Owen Roe O'Nial, Cromwell owed the speedy conquest of the Irish nation ! *

29. He even issued orders under his seal to the Clergy of Armagh, to pray for the Protector's prosperity; and he, Macedo, Crelly, Geoghagan, and French of Ferns, were the principal agents of the Roman Court, in carrying on a secret negociation with Cromwell against the Royal Family, by which Cromwell should be flattered and cajoled, the Royal Family excluded, and the foreign influenced

This was not an empty boast, as shall be seen anon.

faction be the protected agents of a spiritual power, which should, on some future day, establish the temporal dominion of Rome!- All I have to ask of those who may not be inclined to believe this tale of iniquity is, that they will hear me out.

30. Whilst this vile intriguer, was thus basking in regicide sunshine, in all his conferences with Irish Catholics, he insisted on the absolute necessity of their being absolved from the censures of Rinuccini !---Walsh, who well knew in what the devotion of Roman Courtiers consisted, and how their principles veered with every wind that blew fair for preferment, said one day to a friend-" Reily "begins to pay me Court-depend upon it he "is at something-I should not wonder if he "come to prayers in my room, though he holds "me

excommunicated"--Pugh--Pugh--said his friend, "he would as soon go to Crom"well's. He calls you a HERETIC."

Walsh however was perfectly right-Reily discovered that he was intimate with a Mr.

Knightly, who was then Archpriest, or Dean,

of the Chapter of the English Clergy, and wishing to exercise Episcopal Jurisdiction in London, by way of shewing the regicide government that he was the Pope of the British Islands, a jurisdiction which he could not exercise without the permission of Knightly, who had pointedly refused it, he hoped to obtain it through Walsh, whom Knightly esteemed.

31. At that time Walsh lived in great obscurity; but he had contrived by subscriptions to procure lodgings, where a large garret afforded room for the expatriated Irish to attend divine service, which he performed for them on Sundays, as clandestinely as possible. Reily's cunning suggested to him a plan for admittance to this garret, by intimating to Walsh that the English Catholic Clergy were not friendly to the Irish; that he hardly knew where to celebrate Mass on Sundays; that he would gladly confirm such Irish Children as should be found in London, at Walsh's lodgings, if he could obtain Knightly's permission; and that he would deem it a favour, if Walsh would use his influence with Knightly for that pious design.

32. Possessed of a heart as generous and religious as his head was sound, Walsh complied. But was he yet aware of the real object which Reily thus covered with the mantle of Religion? No-not until after frequently attending in his room, the Primate, thanking him for his past civilities, said that he wished to shew his gratitude by procuring him some favour from Rome.

Walsh smiling, said he was very welcome to come, as often as he chose, to his room-but that he had no favour to ask.-My dear friend, said the other-could not I absolve you from the censures of Nuncio Rinuccini?

Walsh's indignation was now on the verge of a precipice-but an explosion of invective would have prevented his coming at the ulterior designs of an intriguer, who was playing into the hands of Cromwell with one hand, and maintaining the infamous censures of the Roman Court with the other; and so, restraining his passion, he confined himself to these few words-"You know in your heart-Sir-" that "these censures signify nothing.”

33. There was nothing that Reily more eagerly coveted, than the glory of reducing all the Irish Clergy, who opposed these censures, to unqualified submission !-It was not impossible, nay, he had a strong presentiment, that, if the projects he had in contemplation could be accomplished, he should be appointed Cardinal, as Wolsey was, without any respect to the meanness of his origin, or the penury of his talents, or the vulgarity of his attainments. He possessed cunning, he could put on a treacherous smile, he could play the hypocrite, he could disguise worldly projects under the mask of Religion, and this was the great accomplishment, the sine qua non of an Aulicus Romanus,—“ Volto sciolto— pensieri stretti;”—and he called this prudence; and hoped that, if he could succeed in corrupting Walsh, he could not but succeed in overwhelming all the second order of the Irish Clergy, who had opposed the foreign interest hitherto.

Finding however that he could not corrupt such a Clergyman as Walsh, and much less