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" One part of the Irish people tfren invented a toast , called ' the glorious , pious , and immortal memory of William , the Dutchman ; ' whilst another raised a couuter-toast , called ' the memory of the chesnut-horsu * that broke the neck
of the same King William . But , in my mind , ( if I am to judge of past times by the corporation of Dublin , ) it was only to coin an excuse for getting loyally drunk as often as possible , that they were so enthusiastically fond of making sentiments , as they called them . tl
As to the politics of ray family , we had , no doubt , some very substantial reasons for being both Cromwellians aud Williamites : the one confirmed our grants , and the other preserved them for us : my family , indeed , had certainly not only those , but other very especial reasons to be pleased with King William ; and though he gave them nothing , they kept what they had , which might have been lost but for his usurpation .
" During the short reign of James the Second in Ireland , those who were not for him were considered to be against him , and of course were subjected to the severities and confiscations usual in all civil wars . Amongst the rest , my greatgrandfather , Colonel John Barrington , being a Protestant , and having no predilection for King James , was ousted from his mansion and estates at
Cullenaghmore by one O fcagan , a Jacobite wig-maker and violent partizan , from Ballynakill , He was , notwithstanding , rather respectfully treated , and was allowed forty pounds a-year so long as he behaved himself .
" However , he only behaved well for a couple of months ; at the end of which time , with a party of his faithful tenants , he surprised the wig-maker , turned him out of possession in his turn , and repossessed himself of his mansion and estates .
" The wig maker , having escaped to Dublin , laid his complaint before the authorities ; and a party of soldiers were ordered to make short work of it , if the colonel did not submit on the first
summons , " The party demanded entrance , but were refused ; and a little firing from the window * of the mansion took place . Not being , however , tenable , \ % was sue ceesfuWy stormed ; the old gamekeeper , John Neville , killed , and my great-grandfather taken prisoner , conveyed to the drum-head at Raheenduflf , tried as a rebel by ft certain Cornet M'Mahon , and in due form ordered to be hanged in an hour .
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" At the appointed time , execution was punctually proceeded on \ and so far ' as tying up the colonel to the crossbar of his own gate , the sentence was actually put in force . But at the moment the first haul was given to elevate him , Ned Doran , a tenant of the estate , who was a trooper in King James ' s army , rode up to the gate—himself and horse in a state of complete exhaustion . He saw with horror his laudlord strung up , and exclaimed , —
" * Holloa ! holloa \ blood and ouus , boys ! cut down the colonel ! cut down the colonel ! or ye'll be all hanged yeerselves , ye villains of the world , ye ! I am straight from the Boyne Water , through thick and thin : ough , by the hokys ! we're all cut up and kilt to the devil and back agin—Jemmy's scampered , bad luck to him , without a ' good bye to yees !'—or , kiss my !'—or the least civility in life !'
" My grandfather ' s hangman lost no time in getting off , leaving the colonel slung fast by the neck to the gate-post ? But Doran soon cut him down , and fell on his knees to beg pardon of his laudlord , the holy Virgin , and King William from the Boyne Water .
' * The colonel obtained the trooper pardon , and he was ever after a faithful adherent . He was the grandfather of Lieutenant-colonel Doran , of the Irish brigade , afterwards , if I recollect rightly , of the 47 th regiment—the officer who cut a German colonel ' s head clean off in the mess-room at Lisbon , after dinner , with one slice of his sabre . He dined
with me repeatedly at Paris about six years since , and was the most disfigured warrior that could possibly be imagined When he left Cullenagh for the Continent , in 1783 , he was as fine , a cleverlooking young farmer as could be seen
but he had been blown up once or twice in storming batteries , which , with a few gashes across his features , and the obvious aid of numerous pipes of wine , or something not weaker , had so spoiled his beauty , that he had become of late absolutely frightful .
** This occurrence of my great-grandfather fixed the political creed of my family . On the first of July , the orangelily was sure to garnish every window in the mansion ; the hereditary petereroes scarcely ceased cracking all the evening , to glorify the victory of the Boyne Water , till one of them burst , and killed the gardener ' s wife , who was tying an orange ribbon round the mouth of it , which she hftd stoppad for fear of adddmtt . "
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Critical Notices . 531
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page 531, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/59/
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