"I know most of them by person, and have got private descriptions of them all from Captain Smellpriest, which will be invaluable to you, Sir Robert.

The fact is--and this I mention in the strictest confidence--that Smellpriest is suspicious of your attachment to our glorious Constitution." "The confounded rascal," replied the baronet.

"Did he ever burn as many Popish houses as I have done?
He has no appetite for any thing but the pursuit and capture of priests; but I have a far more general and unsparing practice, for I not only capture the priests, where I can, but every lay Papist that we suspect in the country.

Here, for instance.

Do you see those papers?
They are blank warrants for the apprehension of the guilty and suspected, and also protections, transmitted to me from the Secretary of State, that I may be enabled, by his authority, to protect such Papists as will give useful information to the Government.
Here they are, signed by the Secretary, but the blanks are left for myself to fill up." "I wish we could get Reilly to come over," said Mr.Drum.
"Oh! the infernal villain," said the baronet, "all the protections that ever were or could be issued from the Secretary's office would not nor could not save him.