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$undefined$ Burke (Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe) declares "the true genius and policy of the English Government there before the Revolution, as well as during the whole reign of Queen Elizabeth," to have been directed to "the total extirpation of the interest of the natives in their own soil": and, after showing how this policy "kindled the flames of that rebellion which broke out in 1641," adds: "By the issue of that war, by the turn which the Earl of Clarendon gave to things at the Restoration, and by the total reduction of the kingdom of Ireland in 1691, the ruin of the native Irish, and, in a great measure, too, of the first races of English, was completely accomplished."' $undefined$ Lecky, I., p. 106. $undefined$ Scobell's Acts of the Long Parliament. Act for the Settling of Ireland (1653). $undefined$ The "Articles of Peace," 1648 [o.s.], are given in full in Gilbert's History of the Confederation and War in Ireland, Vol. VII., Appendix xxiii, Art. 4 reverses all attainders, outlawries, etc., since August the 7th, 1641. Art, 18 grants "an Act of Oblivion to extend to all his Majesty's subjects of this kingdom." $undefined$ Carte, II., 241. Charles II. wrote to Ormond, March 20th, 1649, declaring his determination "to confirm and ratify fully and entirely all the articles of the treaty with our Roman Catholic subjects of the kingdom of Ireland." Carte Papers, xxiv. 107, quoted by Gilbert, VII., vii. See also his letter of March 9th, Ibid. 111