text:  The restless Frenchman speculates on them as the certain means by which England may be humiliated; and impatiently awaits the moment when under the guidance of the young De Joinville fifty thousand of "les braves" may be thrown on the coast of Ireland and take advantage of the national disaffection for the double purpose of mortally wounding his ancient enemy and of giving as a boon to its oppressed inhabitants that liberty of which he talks so much and knows so little