text:  Still facts are facts and if the fact be that the tablets of Gubbio are written in the Irish language and that Sir William Betham though as ignorant of his subject as was the boy who invented the safety-valve of the steam-engine has happened in any way by skill or by chance learnedly or unadvisedly modestly or arrogantly on the truth let him together with the condemnation have the credit he deserves if not as a Columbus of a new world of letters at least as a Madoc or a Thorfinn