Whole counties, he said, were devastated by a rabble resembling the vultures and ravens which follow the march of an army.

Most of these wretches were not soldiers.

They acted under no authority known to the law.

Yet it was, he owned, but too evident that they were encouraged and screened by some who were in high command.

How else could it be that a market overt for plunder should be held within a short distance of the capital?
The stories which travellers told of the savage Hottentots near the Cape of Good Hope were realised in Leinster.