THE

VICTIM

OF

INTOLERANCE;

OR, THE

HERMIT OF KILLARNEY.

A Catholic Tale.

BY ROBERT TORRENS,
Major in the Royal Marines.

"He was for ever beating himself against the bars of his cage; and
such is the power of passion over reason, that neither the exercise of his
penetrating and vigorous understanding, nor the experience of constant
failures were sufficient to prevent him from wasting his strength in an
idle endeavour to pass the magic circle which law and custom had drawn

around him."

VOL. I.

Quarterly Review-Life of Tooke.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR GALE, CURTIS, AND FENNER,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

249. 5. 285.

ΤΟ

THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND,

WITH THE

HUMBLE THOUGH EARNEST HOPE,

THAT IT MAY BE PRODUCTIVE OF

LIBERALITY OF SENTIMENT

ON ONE HAND,

AND

MODERATION AND TRANQUILLITY

ON THE OTHER;

THIS FICTION IS INSCRIBED,

BY THEIR AFFECTIONATE COUNTRYMAN,

THE AUTHOR.