From the hostility of the aboriginal inhabitants, destitute as they now were of chiefs, of arms and of organization, nothing was to be apprehended beyond occasional robberies and murders.
But the war cry of the Irishry had scarcely died away when the first faint murmurs of the Englishry began to be heard.

Coningsby was during some months at the head of the administration.

He soon made himself in the highest degree odious to the dominant caste.

He was an unprincipled man; he was insatiable of riches; and he was in a situation in which riches were easily to be obtained by an unprincipled man.

Immense sums of money, immense quantities of military stores had been sent over from England.