[204] _Sheridan MS._ The character in _Macariæ Excidium_, p. 83, is much to the same effect; O'Kelly and Sheridan both accusing Tyrconnel of favouring the Anglo-Irish and depressing the native Celts. In his memoir, printed at the end of Avaux's _Negotiations_, Hugh Balldearg O'Donnell says Tyrconnel was particularly hostile to the Ulster Irish. _Light to the Blind_, attributed to a Plunket, always praises him. 'Infiniment vain et fort rusé,' says Berwick. 'Talbot s'était dès long-tems porté pour patron des Irlandais opprimés. Ce zèle pour sa nation était fort louable; mais il n'était pas tout-à-fait désinteressé. De tous ceux que son crédit avait fait rétablir dans une partie de leurs biens il avait écorné quelque petite chose; mais comme chacun y trouvait son compte, personne n'y trouvait à redire,' _Mem. de Grammont_, chap. ix. Clarendon's _Life_, Cont., pp. 929 _sqq._ Burnet, i. 176, 227, and the Supplement, 255. Next Talbot must by his great master stand, Laden with folly, flesh, and ill-got land; He's of a size indeed to fill a porch, But ne'er can make a pillar of the Church. Marvell's _Advice to a Painter_, p. 67. [205] Burnet, i. 602, information from Halifax himself. _Clarendon and Rochester Corr._ 'Colonel MacCarthy's carriage has been so differing from the others that he has by his great civility recommended himself highly to the affections of the people of Cork, though they are notoriously fanatic.' Longford to Ormonde, September 7, 1685, in _Ormonde Papers_, vii. 358. When Boisseleau was governor there he treated the 'fanatics' very harshly. [206] 'Sarsfield n'est pas un homme de la naissance de Milord Galmoy, ny de Makarty, mais c'est un gentilhomme distingué par son mérite, qui a plus de crédit dans ce royaume qu'aucun homme que je connoisse,' Avaux to Louvois, October 21, 1689. Berwick married Sarsfield's widow. [207] Melfort's letters, cited in note, p. 142, to O'Callaghan's _Macariæ Excidium_. _Sheridan MS._ Madame de Sévigné, July 1, 1676. For an estimate of Anthony Hamilton, see Sainte-Beuve's article, _Causeries du Lundi_, vol. i. For the early adventures of the brothers, see the _Mem. de Grammont_. Melfort told Avaux that the Tyrconnels had hunted him out of Ireland, 'pour sauver Antoine et Richard Hamilton, qu'on avait peur qu'il n'accusast.' Avaux to Louis XIV., August 20/30, 1689. Madame de Lafayette says Anthony was driven from the French Court for making love to the Princesse de Conti, who liked talking to him better than to anyone else. 'Richard alla mourir chez sa nièce, quoique pauvre elle-même, mais moins pauvre que lui, pour ne pas mourir de faim,' St. Simon's addition to Dangeau, December 20, 1717.