and with the other extended, looking, as the witness expressed it, "as if he held the devil by the tail," and marched with a measured pace and a mysterious aspect, to a bridge upon the river Slaney, where he buried the captive demon in what he took for the Red Sea.

Not contented with this exploit, he exclaimed that Neill had seven more devils, which he was determined to expel from this peculiar object of diabolical predilection. The operation was accordingly repeated with such success, that Neill, after much strenuous expostulation, leaped out of his bed, and exclaimed that he was quite well. This circumstance produced a deep impression upon the crowd, among whom there were some Protestants; and two of the latter, a Mrs. Winter and her daughter, knelt down, and called upon the Lord to assist Father Carroll in the perpetration of the next miracle, which, encouraged by their pious sympathies, he almost immediately proceeded to commit. A poor woman happened to pass along the road, whom he had no sooner observed than he knocked her down, and pursued a mode of exorcism similar to that which I have described, with such effect, that one of the spectators cried out for the people to make way, 66 as he saw the devil coming out."

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This achievement only served to excite the wretched maniac, and impel him to another undertaking of the same kind. He insisted that the devil had taken possession of Sinot's child." The circumstances which I have detailed, and by no means endeavored to exaggerate, would be merely ridiculous if they were not the result of a malady which humbles human nature; the incident by which they were succeeded, ought to make Democritus shed tears. Sinot had a child who had been affected by fits, and over whom the priest had been requested by its mother to say prayers. This was not only a natural, but, I will add, a reasonable application. It is not supposed by Roman Catholics that the prayers of a clergyman are endowed with any preternatural efficacy; but it is considered that praying over the sick is a pious and religious act. The recollection of this fatal request passed across the distempered mind of the madman, who hurried with an insane alacrity to

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Sinot's cabin. It was composed of two rooms upon the ground floor, in the smaller of which lay the little victim. It was indeed so contracted, that it could not contain more than two or three persons. The crowd who followed the priest remained outside, and were utterly unconscious of what he was about to do. The father of the child was not in the house when Father Carroll entered it, and was prevented by the pressure in the exterior room from approaching him; and for some time after the death of the child was wholly unconscious of what had taken place.

No efforts whatever were made to prevent his interference. He was produced as a witness upon the trial, and swore that it did not enter into his thoughts that Father Carroll intended to do the child the least harm. He could not, he said, even see the priest. It is not necessary to describe the manner of the infant's death. It is enough to say that, after uttering a few feeble cries, and calling upon its "mammy," every sound became extinct. The madman had placed the child under a tub, and life was extinguished. It may well be imagined that the trial of this case excited a strong sensation in the county where the rebellion had raged with its most dangerous fury, and from which it will be long before its recollections will have entirely passed away. The Protestant party, forgetting that many of their own sect had taken a partial share in the proceedings, of which they had been, at all events, the passive witnesses, exhibited a proud and disdainful exultation, and affected a deep scorn for the intellectual debasement of which they alleged this event to be a manifest proof; while the Catholics disclosed a festered soreness upon an incident which, they could not fail to feel, was likely to expose them to much plausible imputation.

The Court-house was crowded to the roof by persons of all classes and opinions, among whom the clergy of both churches were conspicuous. It was filled with parsons and with priests. Although there is a certain clerical affinity between ecclesiastics of all sorts, it was not difficult, under a cloth of the same color, to distinguish between the ministers of the two religions. An expression of sly disdain, accompanied with a joyous glit

ter of the eye, gleamed over the parsons' faces; while the countenances of the Catholic clergy betrayed, in the rude play of their marked and impassioned features, the bitter consciousness of unmerited humiliation.

The dress of the two clerical parties presented a singular contrast. The priests were cased in huge top-boots of dubious and murky yellow and of bespattered black: the parsons' taper limbs were enclosed in tight and sable silk, which, by compressing, disclosed their plump proportions. The nameless integuments of the Popish ministers of the gospel were framed of substantial thickset, and bore evidence to the high trot of the rough-coated nags with which they had descended from the mountains; while the immaculate kerseymere of the parsons' inexpressibles indicated with what nicety they had picked their steps through all the mire of the Catholic multitude round the court. The priests' dingy waistcoats were close fastened to their neckcloths, and looked like an armor of economy; while the parsons' exhibited the finest cambric, wrought into minute and snow-white folds. A ponderous mantle of smoking frieze hung from the shoulders of the priest; while a well-shaped jerkin brought the parson's symmetries into relief. The parson held a pinch of Prince's Mixture between his lilied fingers, while the priest impelled a reiterated and ample mass of Lundifoot into his olfactory organ.* * The priest's cheek was ruddy with the keen air of the mountain and the glen, while the faint blush upon the parson's cheek left it a matter for conjecture, whether it proceeded from some remnant of nature, or was the result of the delicate tincture of art. The former sat near the dock, and the latter near the bench.

* Lundifoot was a tobacconist in Dublin who made a large fortune by a snuff called "Irish Blackguard." The name thus originated: one of the workmen left the snuff so long in the oven that it became "high-dried." Lundifoot, detecting the neglect, scolded the man, and damned him for an Irish blackguard. On taking out the snuff, he tried a pinch of it (more in despair than hope), discovered that it had a new and peculiar flavor, and repeated the extra drying on a large scale. The snuff took, and when the workman was desired to name it, he called it "Irish Blackguard"—the appellation bestowed on himself. Prince's Mixture is a dark, moist, scented snuff, much affected by George IV., when Prince of Wales.-M.

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Besides the clergy of the two religions, I observed another class, whom, from their plain apparel and primitive aspect, I took for the friars of Wexford, but upon looking more closely I discovered my mistake. There was a grimness in their expression, quite foreign from the natural and easy cheerfulness of an Irish Franciscan; and in their disastrous and Calvinistic visages, their long, lank hair, and the gloomy leer of mingled hatred and derision with which they surveyed the Catholics around them, I beheld the ghostly "teachers of the Word."

A pause took place before the trial was called on, which rendered expectation more intense: at length Mr. Justice Johnson directed that the prisoner should be brought forward. Every eye was turned to the dock, and the prisoner stood at the bar. His figure was tall and dignified. A large black cloak with a scarlet collar was fastened with a clasp round his neck, but not so closely as to conceal the ample chest, across which his arms were loosely and resignedly folded. His strong black hair was bound with a velvet band, to conceal the recent incisions made by the Surgeon in his head. His countenance was smooth and finely chiseled; and it was observed by many that his features, which, though small, were marked, bore a miniature resemblance to Napoleon. His color was dead and chalky, and it was impossible to perceive the least play or variety of emotion about the mouth, which continued open, and of the color of ashes. On being called on to plead, he remained silent.

The Court was about to direct an inquiry whether he was "mute of malice," when it was seen by a glance of his eye, that he was conscious of the purport of the question; and by the directions of his counsel he pleaded not guilty. During the trial, which was conducted.with the most exemplary moderation by the counsel for the crown, he retained his petrified and statue-like demeanor; and although the heat was most intense, the hue of his face and lips did not undergo the slightest change. The jury found that he had committed the direful act under the influence of insanity. Judge Johnson addressed him in a very striking and pathetic manner. He seemed to me to have blood in his eye for Prince Hohenloe,

whose miracles were then in vogue,* and were supposed, however erroneously, to have contributed to the prisoner's infatuation. This was a mistake: he was organically insane, and was in reality as innocent as the poor child who had perished in his hands. The learned judge opened a masqued battery upon Bamberg,† and some of the shots reached to Rome: but he should not have forgotten that there is a form for exorcism in the Protestant as well as in the Roman Catholic ritual. The religion of England requires a further cleansing, and a new Reformation might be a judicious project,

* Hohenloe was a German prince, who had taken holy orders in the Church of Rome, and was a man of such singular piety that it was believed, in Ireland, from 1822 to 1825, that his prayers, if offered specially in any particular case, would immediately effect a cure-no matter how severe the bodily ailment of the person prayed for. — M.

The place, in Germany, of Prince Hohenloe's residence.- M