... pay for the support of a church with whose ministry they had no communion; and when their property was seized, in default of payment, by the tithe-proctor, the odious tithe-proctor, as Moore, in his Captain Rock , calls him, no Irishman, with one spark of national feeling in his bosom, could be found to purchase it. Yet the Whig ministry sustained this religious robbery, and, weary of fruitless expostulation ...