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Thurlogh, The Milesian.
favour , he succeeded so far as to have the happiness himself of assigning the fair one to the arms of her delighted and sympathetic swain . Time now passed away too rapidly for the enjoyments of the enraptured bridegroom . Day hurried on night , and night day ; and yet in the precipitancy of their successive revolutions could they effect no other image on the retina of his mind than that of one continued scene of bliss .
But earthly bliss is notable and inconstant . The Pretender's forces , weakened by the divisions which we have before deplored , retrograted in their position every holir , till , in their desperate determination to push matters to a cricis , they rallied to a certain pass , where , with the united energies of numbers and zeal , they pressed their onset even to an aggressive charge ; when , flushed with the advantage of a transient victory , they elated still more their plumes , and actually formed a mad determination of making
a descent upon England ! Through all the vicissitudes of this romantic struggle , O'Sullivan clung with undissoluble faith to the Chevalier ' s fortunes . No possible inducement , not even the soft endearments of wife and home , could prevail upon him , for an instant , to lose sight of the prince , or relax his exertions to further his interest . In every engagement he was the first to begin , and the last to desist . Wherever there was danger , there was he also ; and though ever foremost to mount the breach , and to conflict the foe , yet did he , by some overruling agency , escape ever from the ordeal , not only
unharmed and unscathed , but emboldened and invigorated . Nor was this the only thing remarkable in O'Sullivan ' s character ; in the deliberations of council , he was not less distinguished than in the activity of battle . In all trying emergencies the Prince ever listened with marked consideration to the auspicious suggestions of his Irish friend ; and though the latter did not nominally hold the office of premier in any of those consultations , yet was it well known that it was he who swayed all
the resolves ; and wagers had accordingly been often won by those , who speculated that the issue in the litigated contingencies , would be consonant with the position which he had espoused . In short , the cabinet shone with tiie lustre of his advice , and the camp resounded with acclamations of his strategy . It will readily be conceived , that so prominent a personage amongst the lines of the insurgents must have become an object of pursuit to the
constitutional emissaries . On Charles ' s overthrow accordingly , the first thought of the government was to secure O'Sullivan , fearful lest that his unbounded popularity combined with his sworn adhesion to the Stuart interest , acting alone upon his ambition and his affection , should propel him forward as the leader of a new rebellion . His vigilence , however , was an overmatch for their vindictiveness , and all the workings of their machinery were
rendered abortive by his skill . But although thus beyond the reach of man ' s persecution , he was not equally inaccessible to divine visitations . His tender spouse , the sharer of his afflictions , and the promoter of his happiness , bade farewell to this
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Thurlogh, The Milesian.
favour , he succeeded so far as to have the happiness himself of assigning the fair one to the arms of her delighted and sympathetic swain . Time now passed away too rapidly for the enjoyments of the enraptured bridegroom . Day hurried on night , and night day ; and yet in the precipitancy of their successive revolutions could they effect no other image on the retina of his mind than that of one continued scene of bliss .
But earthly bliss is notable and inconstant . The Pretender's forces , weakened by the divisions which we have before deplored , retrograted in their position every holir , till , in their desperate determination to push matters to a cricis , they rallied to a certain pass , where , with the united energies of numbers and zeal , they pressed their onset even to an aggressive charge ; when , flushed with the advantage of a transient victory , they elated still more their plumes , and actually formed a mad determination of making
a descent upon England ! Through all the vicissitudes of this romantic struggle , O'Sullivan clung with undissoluble faith to the Chevalier ' s fortunes . No possible inducement , not even the soft endearments of wife and home , could prevail upon him , for an instant , to lose sight of the prince , or relax his exertions to further his interest . In every engagement he was the first to begin , and the last to desist . Wherever there was danger , there was he also ; and though ever foremost to mount the breach , and to conflict the foe , yet did he , by some overruling agency , escape ever from the ordeal , not only
unharmed and unscathed , but emboldened and invigorated . Nor was this the only thing remarkable in O'Sullivan ' s character ; in the deliberations of council , he was not less distinguished than in the activity of battle . In all trying emergencies the Prince ever listened with marked consideration to the auspicious suggestions of his Irish friend ; and though the latter did not nominally hold the office of premier in any of those consultations , yet was it well known that it was he who swayed all
the resolves ; and wagers had accordingly been often won by those , who speculated that the issue in the litigated contingencies , would be consonant with the position which he had espoused . In short , the cabinet shone with tiie lustre of his advice , and the camp resounded with acclamations of his strategy . It will readily be conceived , that so prominent a personage amongst the lines of the insurgents must have become an object of pursuit to the
constitutional emissaries . On Charles ' s overthrow accordingly , the first thought of the government was to secure O'Sullivan , fearful lest that his unbounded popularity combined with his sworn adhesion to the Stuart interest , acting alone upon his ambition and his affection , should propel him forward as the leader of a new rebellion . His vigilence , however , was an overmatch for their vindictiveness , and all the workings of their machinery were
rendered abortive by his skill . But although thus beyond the reach of man ' s persecution , he was not equally inaccessible to divine visitations . His tender spouse , the sharer of his afflictions , and the promoter of his happiness , bade farewell to this