Students of Irish history have to guard themselves against seeing things too exclusively through Ormonde's eyes. He looms so large, compared with other Irish or Anglo-Irishmen of his day, that there is some danger of being unjust to others. But Burnet was not an admirer of his, yet he stigmatises Anglesey and Orrery, his chief critics, as 'two men of a very indifferent reputation.' Anglesey indeed, he says, was very corrupt, 'stuck at nothing and was ashamed of nothing.' His letter, mentioned above, was no doubt mainly founded on Orrery's information. The ex-president, whom Ossory called the 'Charlatan of Munster,' was a persistent alarmist who posed as the champion of the Irish Protestants and thought the Lord Lieutenant altogether too favourable to the Roman Catholics. A French invasion was, in his view, a thing to be daily expected, and the preparations to oppose it were quite insufficient. He was still major-general in his own province and wished to be at the head of a great Protestant militia, about the embodiment of which he thought the Lord Lieutenant too inactive. There does not seem to have been any idea of a French descent on Ireland, and after the conclusion of the peace of Nimeguen there could be no real danger. But Orrery continued to complain of inadequate military arrangements, and to lament that the Irish Government were blind to the Irish ramifications of the plot. He was not satisfied with warning statesmen in England, but circulated his complaints among courtiers and private members of Parliament, thus aggravating the general atmosphere of suspicion and panic. Ossory complained to the King, who merely said that he knew Orrery for a rogue and that he would ever continue so. No French soldiers came, and no attack on Protestants was made until Charles II. and Ormonde were both dead and until the latter's policy had been completely reversed. Ormonde tried to end the controversy with his critic by one full letter, but gave it up in despair, 'his lordship being impossible to be satisfied and of inexhaustible invention.' After Orrery's death in October 1679, his sister, Lady Ranelagh, continued to make mischief in Munster, but she was 'not so inventive.'[121] [Sidenote: Shaftesbury attacks Ormonde.]