He was soon made to learn the perils of meddling in the high politics of the High Dutch militarists.

The fine feelings of the foreign mercenaries were soothed by Cobbett being flung into Newgate for two years and beggared by a fine of L1000.

That small incident is a small transparent picture of the Holy Alliance; of what was really meant by a country, once half liberalised, taking up the cause of the foreign kings.

This, and not "The Meeting of Wellington and Blucher," should be engraved as the great scene of the war.

From this intemperate Fenians should learn that the Teutonic mercenaries did not confine themselves solely to torturing Irishmen.