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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: An Impartial Narrative of the Most Important Engagements Which Took Place Between His Majesty's Forces and the Rebels, During the Irish Rebellion, 1798. + Including very interesting information not before made + public. Carefully collected from authentic letters. + +Author: John Jones + +Release Date: April 8, 2009 [EBook #28529] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE *** + + + + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, C. St. Charleskindt and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="tnote"> +<h3>Transcriber's Note</h3> + +<p>Inconsistencies and variations in spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, punctuation +and grammar have been preserved in this ebook to match the text of the +original document published in 1799.</p> + +<p>Information about typographical corrections and <ins class="correction">dotted underlines</ins> +can be found in a second Transcriber's Note <a href="#Transcribers_Note2">at the end of this text</a>.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<h1> +<span class="size60">AN IMPARTIAL</span> +<br /> +<span class="g">NARRATIVE</span> +<br /> +<span class="size40">OF THE</span> +<br /> +<span class="size60"><i>MOST IMPORTANT</i></span> +<br /> +<span class="g">ENGAGEMENTS</span> +<br /> +<span class="size40">WHICH TOOK PLACE BETWEEN</span> +<br /> +<span class="size75">HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES</span> +<br /> +<span class="size40">AND THE</span> +<br /> +<i><span class="g">REBEL</span>S</i>, +<br /> +<span class="size40">DURING</span> +<br /> +<span class="f"><b>The Irish Rebellion</b>,</span> +<br /> +<span class="size75"><i>1798</i>.</span> +</h1> + +<div class="center"> + +<span class="size75">INCLUDING VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION</span> +<br /> +<span class="size75">NOT BEFORE MADE PUBLIC.</span> + +<hr class="minor" /> + +<span class="size75"><i>CAREFULLY COLLECTED</i></span> +<br /> +FROM AUTHENTIC LETTERS. + +<hr class="minor" /> + +<span class="g size75">DUBLIN:</span> + +<hr class="micro" /> +<span class="f"><b>Printed and Sold by John Jones</b>,</span> +<br /> +<span class="size75">91, BRIDE-STREET.</span> +<hr class="micro" /> + +1799. +<br /> +(<i>Price 1s. 1d.</i>) + +</div> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<div> +<!-- Page iii --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">iii</a></span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a>PREFACE.</h2> + +<p>The Editor with the most profound respect, submits to the Public the +following <span class="smcap">narrative</span>.—It forms a small portion +of a more extended work, calculated to contain the particulars of every remarkable +occurrence, connected with the Rebellion, which happened in the +course of the last year;—a year which will constitute an +<span class="smcap">epoch</span> in the history of Ireland, and the +events of which ought to be universally known.</p> + +<p>The moment of action is not the most favourable to accuracy of +detail:—Notwithstanding the purest intentions and the most +scrupulous regard to truth, much will remain, for candour to +extenuate and information to supply. Impressed with this sentiment, +and feeling the importance of the subject, the Editor has waited + +<!-- Page iv --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">iv</a></span> + +till the season of tranquility, and now presents to the public eye, +the produce of his exertions. He wished to postpone the Publication +in order to complete it, but he yields to the entreaties of his +Friends, and finds it necessary to make some sacrifice to the +eagerness of public curiosity: The remaining part is in preparation +for the Press, and as he continues to be supplied by those who were +witnesses at the transactions, and consequently most capable of +communicating correct intelligence, he hopes soon to accomplish his +design.</p> + +<p>The Reader will perceive from the following specimen, that the +accounts of the Battles are not arranged in chronological order; +neither do they boast of any great pretensions to literary merit; + +<!-- Page v --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">v</a></span> +but they will be found to have a recommendation more valuable than +either—<span class="smcap">authenticity</span>. The Editor was less solicitous about the style +of the work, than the truth of it, and where, upon investigation, +the matter conveyed to him proved correct, he has given it in the +language of his correspondent.</p> + +<p>If History be, as it has been elegantly described, "Philosophy +teaching by Example,"—what example more necessary to be held out to +public view, and transmitted to posterity, than that which shews the +dreadful effects of a Revolution attempted by force? Where the +visionary politician enjoys for so short a time his sanguinary +triumph—suspected even by those whom he calls his friends, he is +superseded by such as are more ferocious than himself, while the +fury of Fanaticism equally destroys <i>his</i> prospects in the mad +effort to exterminate + +<!-- Page vi --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">vi</a></span> +one religion and substitute another.</p> + +<p>The perusal of such transactions must suggest useful reflections. +The surviving Loyalist will rejoice in the triumph of <i>law</i> and the +restoration of <i>order</i>. The surviving Rebel will repent of his +folly, and enjoy the comforts which Law and Order distribute.</p> + +<p>Such are the motives and such the object which influence the Editor +of this little Work. From those who may approve of it, and whose +situation and leisure furnish the opportunity, he requests further +assistance. Particulars of Engagements, not included in this part, +will be thankfully received, and due attention paid to them in the +subsequent Publication.</p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<div> +<!-- Page vii --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">vii</a></span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS.</h2> + +<div class="center"> +<table class="contents" summary="Table of Contents"> + +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"> </td> +<td class="toc3"><span class="smcap">Page.</span></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#Page_3">Description of Clonard</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">3</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#BATTLE_OF_TIMAHOE">Battle of Timahoe</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">9</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#JUNCTION_OF_THE_WEXFORD">Junction of the Wexford and Kildare Rebels</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">12</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#BATTLE_OF_CLONARD">Battle of Clonard</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3"><i>ib.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#MRS_TYRRELLS_SUFFERINGS">Mrs. Tyrrell's sufferings while prisoner with the Rebels</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">20</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#COL_PERRY_AND_PRIEST_KEARNS">Character of Col. Perry and Priest Kearns who were executed</a></td> +<td class="toc3">30</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toccent">LETTERS.</td> +<td class="toc3"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1">I.</td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#LETTER_I">Battle of Carlow</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">34</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1">II.</td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#LETTER_II">Battle of Ross</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">38</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1">III.</td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#LETTER_III">Battle at Castlecomber, &c.</a></td> +<td class="toc3">41</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1">IV.</td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#LETTER_IV">Battle of Kilcomney</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">49</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1">V.</td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#LETTER_V">Second Account of the Battle at Kilcomney</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">52</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1">VI.</td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#LETTER_VI">Battle of Saintfield</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">57</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1">VII.</td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#LETTER_VII">Battle of Kilbeggan</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">60</td> +</tr> + +<!-- Page viii --> + +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toccent">OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS.</td> +<td class="toc3"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#NAAS">Battle of Naas</a></td> +<td class="toc3">63</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#KILCULLEN">Battle of Kilcullen</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">65</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#HACKETSTOWN">Battle of Hacketstown</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">67</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toccent">LETTERS.</td> +<td class="toc3"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1">VIII.</td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#LETTER_VIII">Battle of Arklow</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">70</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1">IX.</td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#LETTER_IX">Account of the depredations of the Rebels at Gorey—their +sacrilegious treatment of the Church, in which they immolated two Protestants</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">73</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1">X.</td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#LETTER_X">Situation of the Rebels on Vinegar-Hill</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">78</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#Page_76">Description of Vinegar-Hill—the Battle</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">76</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#Page_77">The Rebels are defeated</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">77</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1">XI.</td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#DETAIL_EFFECTS">Accurate detail of the effects of +the Rebellion in the County Wexford</a>.</td> +<td class="toc3">78</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#Page_80">Battle at Oulard</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">80</td> +</tr> + +<!-- Page ix --> + +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#Page_80">Attack at Enniscorthy</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">80</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#Page_81">Battle at the Three Rocks</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">81</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#ATROCITIES">Atrocities of the Rebels and the sufferings of the +Loyalists in Wexford, &c.</a></td> +<td class="toc3">83</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#CLERGYMEN_PUT_TO_DEATH">Names of Clergymen and principal Gentlemen put death</a>,</td> +<td class="toc3">86</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toccent">APPENDIX.</td> +<td class="toc3"> </td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#Page_87">Copy of an Affidavid made before the Right Hon. the +Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin, relative to the attack on Prosperous</a></td> +<td class="toc3">87</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="toc1"> </td> +<td class="toc2"><a href="#Page_88">Account of the murder of Capt. Swayne—Burning of +the Barracks, and the cries of the Soldiers consumed therein—Murder +of Messrs. Stamer and Brewer, &c.</a></td> +<td class="toc3">88</td> +</tr> + +</table> +</div> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<div class="adverts"> + +<p class="g center size115"><i>WEXFORD CRUELTIES!</i></p> +<p class="center size75">A GENUINE WORK.</p> + +<hr class="micro" /> + +<p>J. JONES informs the Reader that in a few Days he will publish the +<i>Fourth Edition, greatly enlarged</i>, on a small Type, and good Paper, +intended to bind up with the present Narrative,</p> + +<p class="center">(<i>Price only Sixpence Halfpenny</i>)</p> + +<p class="g center size115">A NARRATIVE</p> +<p class="center size75">OF THE</p> +<p class="center size115">Sufferings and Providential Escape</p> +<p class="center size75">OF</p> +<p class="center size115"><i><span class="g">CHARLES JACKSO</span>N</i>,</p> +<p class="center size75">LATE RESIDENT IN WEXFORD:</p> +<p class="center"><i>Written by himself.</i></p> + +<p>Giving an account of his confinement and ill treatment received from +the Rebels; the political and religious interrogations of Dick Monk; +the situation of Lord Kingsborough; description of the Rebel Camp; +General Roache's proclamation from Vinegar-hill; description of +Messrs. Harvey, Keugh and Grogan; the unheard-of cruel manner of +piking the Loyalists; the re-taking of Wexford by his Majesty's +troops; the liberation of the prisoners, succeeded by a truly +affecting scene—The general orders from Carrick-Byrne +Camp;—Proposal of the Rebels to General Lake, and his answer, with +the singular account of Mr. Colclough's behaviour at the place of +execution; also Mr. Grandy's Information before four magistrates at +Duncannon-Fort.</p> + +<p><img class="floatl" src="images/finger.png" width="35" height="15" alt="pointing finger" /> +This present Edition sells for <i>half</i> +the price of another published in Dublin.</p> + +<p>Printing executed on the shortest Notice—Emblematic Ribbands +impressed with Gold and Silver.</p> + +</div> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<div> +<!-- Page 3 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">3</a></span> +</div> + +<h1><a name="NARRATIVE" id="NARRATIVE"></a> +<span class="size60">A</span> +<br /> +<span class="size80"><span class="g">NARRATIV</span>E,</span> +<br /> +<span class="size40">OF THE MOST IMPORTANT</span> +<br /> +<span class="size80">ENGAGEMENTS,</span> +<br /> +<span class="size40">IN THE</span> +<br /> +<span class="size80"><i><span class="g">IRISH REBELLIO</span>N</i>,</span> +<br /> +<span class="size60">1798.</span> +</h1> + +<p>CLONARD is situate about Twenty five miles from Dublin on the +Western road leading to Mullingar. Tho' constituted a post town, it +is a very small village, consisting of an Inn and a few thatched +houses; but from its situation being on the confines of two +counties, Kildare and Meath, and having a bridge across the river +Boyne, which opens a communication from Dublin + +<!-- Page 4 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">4</a></span> +to Westmeath, and +from thence to Athlone and the Province of Connaught, it must be +considered as a very important pass in all times of commotion and +war. On the Dublin side of the town is situated the mansion house of +the Tyrrell family, and at present belongs to <i>John Tyrrell</i> Esq. It +is an old fashioned house, fronting the road from which it is +separated by a high wall and a court yard; having an extensive +garden upon its right, and a sheet of water upon the left.—Mr. John +Tyrrell, being a Magistrate of both Counties, Kildare and Meath, and +having exerted himself early to suppress the disturbances which were +occasioned by the Defenders, naturally became an object of their +resentment, and having been repeatedly menaced with an attack, he +fortified his house by building up the original hall door, opening +another, which might flank the approach to the house, and +barricading all the lower windows, so as to render them musquet +proof.</p> + +<p>Upon the institution of the Yeomenry, Mr. John Tyrrell was honoured +with a Commission to + +<!-- Page 5 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">5</a></span> +raise a Corps of Cavalry, which was +immediately embodied, under the Title of the <i>Clonard Cavalry</i>, and +Thomas Tyrrell, and Thomas Barlow, Esqs. were appointed Lieutenants. +This Corps soon distinguished itself by its unwearied exertions to +preserve the peace of the neighbourhood; but in the course of the +Spring of 1798, Mr. John Tyrrell the Captain, receiving positive +information of a conspiracy to take away his life, thought it +prudent to retire with his family into England.</p> + +<p>The command of the Corps consequently devolved upon Mr. Thomas +Tyrrell, the first Lieutenant, who had also at this critical period +been appointed High Sheriff of the County of Kildare.—Upon the +tenth of May 1798, he received an official letter, ordering the +Clonard Cavalry upon permanent duty; in this emergency Mr. Thomas +Tyrrell, finding his own house at Kilreiny about one mile and a half +from Clonard inconvenient, and in truth indefensible from its +situation, removed with his family to his Kinsman's house at +Clonard, before described, where + +<!-- Page 6 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">6</a></span> +he mounted a guard of one Serjeant +and 18 men who were to be relieved every week.</p> + +<p>Orders were about the same time issued to Captain O Ferrall of the +Ballina Cavalry, to mount a permanent guard at Johnstown, near the +Nineteen Mile house, which were accordingly complied with: but upon +the 16th of May, reports of a general rising having been circulated, +and being corroborated by encreasing outrages in the neighbourhood, +Captain O Ferrall was permitted to fall back from Johnstown to +Clonard in the night time for protection; repairing to Johnstown at +four o'Clock in the morning, and retiring to Clonard in the evening.</p> + +<p>In this way matters went on for some time, when the country becoming +still more disturbed and apprehensions of an attack upon Clonard +becoming more serious, Lieutenant Thomas Tyrrell repaired to Dublin, +with an escort of his Corps, leaving the command at Clonard with +Lieutenant Barlow. The object of this visit to Dublin, was to +represent to Government the situation of that part of the country, +the daily apprehensions + +<!-- Page 7 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">7</a></span> +of an attack, and the necessity of a +reinforcement. Lord Castlereagh, to whom these representations were +made, answered, that under the existing circumstances no force could +be sent to Clonard, but Mr. Thomas Tyrrell was authorized to raise +some Supplementaries, for whom he would be supplied with arms and +ammunition.</p> + +<p>Pending this application in Dublin, viz. upon the 29th of May the +Rebels assembled to the number of 800 in the village of Carbery, +five miles from Clonard, where they burned the Protestant Charter +School and several houses; they then proceeded through Johnstown, +burning and destroying the house of every protestant near the road. +Towards evening they halted at a place called Gurteen, where they +destroyed the house of Mr. Francis Metcalf.—When intelligence of +these transactions reached Clonard, Lieutenant Barlow marched out +with a party of the guard, and being joined by Captain O Ferrall +they went in pursuit of the Rebels, but did not over take them, +until they had halted at Gurteen, where + +<!-- Page 8 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">8</a></span> +they had taken a very +advantageous position upon each side of a narrow road, behind strong +quickset hedges, so that Cavalry could not approach them with any +prospect of success. Lieutenant Barlow halted his men, and then +advancing some paces towards the enemy, took off his helmet, and +challenged them to come forward. They however declined leaving their +entrenchments, and night approaching, the Yeomenry with great +reluctance returned to their Guard house.</p> + +<p>On the 30th of May Lieutenant Thomas Tyrrell arrived safe from +Dublin, with his escort, carabines for the Troop, musquets for the +Supplementaries and a quantity of ammunition. The next day he +enrolled nineteen well affected protestants to act as +Supplementaries and dismounted.</p> + +<p>By this time the Rebels had collected a very considerable force and +every night committed some outrage and depredation. They encamped +upon an Island in the bog of Timahoe, and also at Mucklin and +Dreihid; they plundered almost every + +<!-- Page 9 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">9</a></span> +house in the neighbourhood of +their respective places, drove away all the fat cattle and horse +they could meet, and intercepted the supplies for the Dublin market.</p> + +<h2 class="narr"><i><a name="BATTLE_OF_TIMAHOE" id="BATTLE_OF_TIMAHOE"></a>BATTLE OF TIMAHOE.</i></h2> + +<p>Government being apprized of these proceedings, dispatched General +Champagne to Clonard, where he arrived upon the 6th of June; and +after consulting with Lieutenant Tyrrell, was escorted by him to +Edendery, where the General expected a detatchment of the Limerick +Militia; but being disappointed in this respect, an express was sent +to Philipstown to hasten the reinforcement, which arrived at +Edendery upon the evening of the 7th; and on the next day, General +Champagne, having arranged his plan of operations, marched from +Edendery, with the following forces: A detatchment of the Limerick +Militia, under Lieutenant Colonel Gough; the Coolestown Yeomen +Cavalry, under Captain Wakely and Lieutenant Cartland; the Canal +Legion, under Lieutenant Adam Williams; the Clonard Cavalry, +Lieutenant T. Tyrrell; and the + +<!-- Page 10 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">10</a></span> +Ballina Cavalry, Captain O Ferrall. +These several corps were distributed, so as that the Cavalry should +surround the bog of Timahoe, while the Infantry attacked the Camp +upon the Island: This judicious plan was completely executed,—the +contest was obstinate for some time, owing to the small number of +the Infantry, who led on the attack; but their firmness and +discipline supplying the want of numbers, the Limerick, headed by +the gallant Colonel Gough, and ably supported by Lieutenant Williams +marched into the entrenchments, drove the Rebels from their camp, +who were attacked in their flight by the Cavalry and many of them +put to death. The Camp was entirely destroyed; and a great quantity +of prisoners and considerable booty were carried off by the victors!</p> + +<p>On the 29th of June, Lieutenant Tyrrell having received information +that a large body of Rebels had stationed themselves upon a hill +near his dwelling-house at Kilreiny, and had committed various +robberies in the course of the preceding night, + +<!-- Page 11 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">11</a></span> +he went to Kinnegad +to solicit a reinforcement and sent an express to Edendery for a +force to co-operate with him. The Kinnegad Yeomen Cavalry, under +Lieutenant Houghton, and a small party of the Northumberland +Fencibles immediately marched with Lieutenant Tyrrell to Clonard, +and from thence being joined by his own Corps, he proceeded to +<i>Fox's hill</i>, where the Rebels were posted to the amount of +600.—The attack was began by the Clonard Supplementaries, who +displayed great steadiness upon this occasion; the Kinnegad Corps +and the Northumberlands supported the attack with great zeal, and +the Edenderry force consisting of a detatchment of the Limerick, +Lieutenant Colonel Gough, the Coolestown Cavalry, Captain Wakely and +the Canal Legion, Lieutenant Williams, having fallen upon the Rebels +from the opposite side, they were routed with considerable +slaughter. Their commander, one <i>Casey</i>, his brother and another +Leader were killed in this action, and their bodies brought to +Edenderry, where they were exposed for several days.</p> + +<div> +<!-- Page 12 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">12</a></span> +</div> + +<h2 class="narr"><a name="JUNCTION_OF_THE_WEXFORD" id="JUNCTION_OF_THE_WEXFORD"></a><i>JUNCTION OF THE WEXFORD AND KILDARE REBELS.</i></h2> + +<p>It might have been hoped, that these successes would have +established tranquility in this neighbourhood, and probably such +effects would have followed the military exertions, were it not for +the irruption of a large column of Wexford Rebels into Kildare, +under the command of Colonel <i>Perry</i> who being immediately joined by +Colonel <i>Aylmer</i>, commanding the Rebel Camp at Prosperous, was +prevailed upon to abandon his intention of penetrating into the +North, and to adopt a plan suggested by <i>Aylmer</i>, of attacking +Clonard, pushing on from thence by Kilbeggan to the Shannon and +surprising Athlone. In pursuance of this plan, the Rebel Forces +amounting to 4000 men made a movement towards Clonard.</p> + +<h2 class="narr"><i><a name="BATTLE_OF_CLONARD" id="BATTLE_OF_CLONARD"></a>BATTLE OF CLONARD.</i></h2> + +<p>Lieutenant Tyrrell was totally unapprised of the intention, or +motions of the enemy:—his guard were extremely vigilant during each +night, but not apprehending any danger in the day + +<!-- Page 13 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">13</a></span> +time they frequently dispersed through the village for the purpose of +recreation and refreshment. This happened to be the case with many +of his men upon Wednesday morning the 11th of July, on which day, +about eleven o'Clock Mr. <i>Richard Allen</i> galloped into the Court, +and brought intelligence that he was pursued by a piquet guard of +the Rebels, whom he narrowly escaped as they were well mounted; and +he was confident a considerable force was approaching. The alarm was +instantly given—every exertion was made to collect the scattered +men, and parties were stationed in the most advantageous positions. +As the enemy were expected from the Dublin side, six of the Corps +(including Mr. Allen and Thomas Tyrrell junr. the Lieutenant's son, +and only fifteen years of age) took possession of an old Turret at +the extremity of the garden; and which commanded the road. Such was +the rapidity with which the Rebels advanced, that the firing +actually commenced from this quarter upon their Cavalry before the +entire guard could be collected, and the gate leading into the +Court yard + +<!-- Page 14 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">14</a></span> +was under such necessity closed to the exclusion of +several, so that when Lieutenant Tyrrell came to ascertain his +strength, he found he had only <i>Twenty-seven</i> men, including his own +three sons, the eldest of whom was only seventeen years old! Such a +critical situation required the coolness of a man innured to +military danger, and all the exertion, firmness and skill of a +veteran soldier. But although Lieutenant Tyrrell never had served in +the Army, his own good sense supplied the want of experience, and +his native courage furnished resources adequate to the magnitude of +the occasion. He found his men as zealous as himself, determined to +maintain their post and to discharge their duty to their King and +Country, or fall in such a glorious cause. After sending a supply of +ammunition to the advanced post at the Turret, and stationing other +out-posts, he retired into the house with the main body, from which +he selected the best marksmen, and placing them at particular +windows gave directions that they should not fire without having +their object covered, he had the rest of the + +<!-- Page 15 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">15</a></span> +men secured behind the +walls and incessantly employed in loading musquets and carabines for +the marksmen at the windows.</p> + +<p>The firing as we have observed commenced from the Turret at the +extremity of the garden. About 300 of the Rebel Cavalry lead on by +one <i>Farrell</i> formed their advanced guard, and approached the Turret +in a smart trot, without appearing to apprehend any danger. The +first shot was fired by young Mr. Tyrrell, which mortally wounded +Farrell, and being followed by a general discharge from the rest +among the body of the Cavalry, threw them into great confusion, in +which state they fled out of the reach of the firing. The Infantry +however coming up, many of them contrived to pass the Turret under +cover of the wall, and numbers were posted behind a thick hedge on +the opposite side of the road, from which they kept up a smart fire +against the Turret, but without doing any material mischief.</p> + +<p>The Infantry who had passed the Turret being joined by a party who +came by a cross road (for it seems their plan was to surround the +house by + +<!-- Page 16 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">16</a></span> +advancing in different directions) they stationed a guard +upon the Bridge to prevent any reinforcement arriving in that +direction. About ten or a dozen of this guard were in a very few +minutes shot by the marksmen from the windows, upon which the rest +fled; not one of the Rebels ventured afterwards to appear upon the +Bridge, so that the communication with the Western road was in a +great measure preserved, the importance of which to the little +garrison in Clonard will appear in the event of the day.</p> + +<p>The enemy being thus defeated in their first onset in both points of +attack, became exasperated to an extravagant pitch of fury, and +determined upon the most savage revenge. A large party contrived to +penetrate into the garden, by the rere, and some of them immediately +rushed into the Turret. The Yeomen stationed there were upon an +upper floor—they had the precaution to drag up the ladder by which +they ascended;—the Rebels endeavoured to climb upon each other, so +as to reach the upper story, but they were killed as fast as they +appeared; others + +<!-- Page 17 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">17</a></span> +then ran their pikes through the cieling, and +fired shots but without effect—the conflict was obstinate—twenty +seven of the Rebels lay dead on the ground floor, when at length, a +quantity of straw was brought and set on fire. The building was soon +in flames; two of the yeomen, Mr. Michael Cusack and Mr. George +Tyrrell, endeavouring to force their way through the smoke were +immediately put to death; the rest of the party viz. Mr. Allen, +young Mr. T. Tyrrell, and two others escaped by leaping from a +window twenty foot high into an hay-yard, from whence under cover of +a wall which divided it from the garden they escaped into the house.</p> + +<p>Having succeeded so well by the effect of conflagration, the enemy +set fire to the Toll house and some other cabbins on the left near +the Bridge, for the purpose of embarassing and confusing the +garrison; during this operation, they were seen throwing their dead +into the flames, for the purpose, it was thought of evading +discovery.</p> + +<div> +<!-- Page 18 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">18</a></span> +</div> + +<p>The Battle had now lasted near six hours: about five in the evening +the approach of succour was descried from the house—the hopes of +all were elevated and they fought with renovated vigour.</p> + +<p>One of the guard who had been excluded by the sudden shutting of the +gates in the morning, finding he could be of no other use, repaired +to Kinnegad, represented the situation of his friends at Clonard, +upon which fourteen of the Kinnegad Infantry, under Lieutenant +Houghton, and eleven Northumberland Fencibles, under the command of +a Serjeant, immediately collected and with great gallantry marched +for Clonard. The communication by the Bridge having been kept open +in the manner before related, Lieutenant Tyrrell sallied from the +house, and soon effected a junction with this reinforcement. A few +vollies completely cleared the roads, and having then placed the +Northumberland and Kinnegad men in such situations as most +effectually to gall the enemy in their retreat from the garden, the +Lieutenant + +<!-- Page 19 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">19</a></span> +undertook in person, the hazardous enterprise of +dislodging them from thence.</p> + +<p>At this time, it is supposed there were 400 Rebels in the garden; +numbers of them were posted upon a mount planted with old fir trees, +which afforded considerable protection, and many lay concealed +behind a privet hedge, from whence they could distinctly see every +person who entered the garden, tho' they could not be seen +themselves—Lieutenant Tyrrell at the head of a few picked men, +rushed into the garden; and was received by a general discharge from +both parties of the enemy: no time was lost in attacking the party +behind the hedge, who being defeated, retired to the mount;—here +the action again became warm, the Rebels appeared determined to +maintain the advantage of their situation, and the Yeomen, tho' +fatigued with the labour of the day, could not think of retiring. +Six of them were badly wounded, among whom was Mr. Richard Allen, +who had so gallantly defended the Turrett—a ball passed thro' his +left arm, and entered his side; his comrades still persevered with + +<!-- Page 20 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">20</a></span> +the most undaunted courage, and supporting a steady and well +directed fire against the mount, the enemy were at length dispersed, +and in their flight were met by the Northumberland and Kinnegad +Corps who made great havoc among them.</p> + +<p>The victory was now complete—as glorious an achievement, we will +venture to say, as occurred during the whole rebellion, and for +which the gallant officers and men can never be too much applauded, +whether we consider it as an unexampled display of genuine loyalty +and true courage, or estimate its value from its immence importance +to that part of the country and the kingdom at large. It was the +first check which the United Army of Wexford and Kildare experienced +and proved the fore-runner of those multiplied defeats which +terminated in its total dispersion.</p> + +<h2 class="narr"><i><a name="MRS_TYRRELLS_SUFFERINGS" id="MRS_TYRRELLS_SUFFERINGS"></a>MRS. TYRRELL'S SUFFERINGS WHILE PRISONER WITH THE REBELS.</i></h2> + +<p>After the Battle it might have been expected that the little +garrison would have given themselves + +<!-- Page 21 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">21</a></span> +up to an excess of joy; but +the breast of their Commander was filled with anxious +solicitude——the partner of his heart—his wife, the mother of +those three gallant youths, who mixed in the hottest scenes of the +day, was absent the whole time, and no tidings of her had reached +the garrison. The men sympathised with the husband and the children, +and success was thought incomplete, until she was restored to their +embraces.</p> + +<p>Probably the reader may participate somewhat of a similar feeling, +and desire some gratification from a brief narrative of the +circumstances attending the Lady while in possession of the Rebels.</p> + +<p>On the morning of the 11th of July, about the hour that the guard +dispersed, as we have before mentioned, Mrs. Tyrrell went in her +carriage from Clonard to her own house at Kilreiny upon some +domestic concerns—she soon heard the Rebels were approaching, and +speedily drove back with the hope of reaching Clonard before them. + +<!-- Page 22 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">22</a></span> +In this however she was disappointed; the noise of musquetry +convinced her of the impractibility of this attempt. The servant was +ordered to turn about and drive to Kilreiny, from whence she +intended to send an express to Edenderry—she had not however +proceeded many yards, when the carriage was overtaken by two men on +horseback, armed with drawn swords who with oaths and menaces +ordered the servant to stop—They turned the carriage back towards +Clonard until they overtook about 200 men armed with pikes, a few +musquets and some swords. They searched the carriage for arms, but +did not find any. Mrs. Tyrrell describes the men as a ragged, +wretched looking banditti: three of them, armed with musquets +mounted the boot of the carriage; three more got behind it—and in +this manner attended by a great crowd, the carriage was drove two +miles round to the high road leading from Dublin to Clonard: here +they kept her a prisoner, notwithstanding her frequent entreaties to +be enlarged; she at one time apprehended the pike-men would cut her +to pieces, as they + +<!-- Page 23 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">23</a></span> +quarrelled among themselves, some disposed to +treat her with civility—others the reverse—After some time she +prevailed upon them to permit her to retire into a cabin, the +inhabitants of which knew her, and two men armed with musquets were +placed as centries. She there remained, until the Rebels were +defeated at Clonard, when the whole body upon their retreat +assembled at the cabin; one of the rebel officers came in and +desired Mrs. Tyrrell to get into her carriage; she asked for what +purpose. He replied, that she must go with them; she entreated him +to permit her to remain where she was, and that her carriage and +horses were at his service; he for some time denied her request: but +falling on her knees to supplicate him, he told her she might +stay:—He then withdrew, but immediately a great common fellow came +in, seized her by the arm, dragged her to the door, and desired some +men to lift her upon a horse, which had been provided for her, as +some wounded men were to be put into the carriage. Mrs. Tyrrell's +alarm now became excessive—she looked + +<!-- Page 24 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">24</a></span> +round for the person, who +had consented to let her remain in the cabin, and getting her arms +round him reminded him of his promise. He acknowledged his +engagement, but confessed he had not power to perform it—that she +must go with them, but would be accomodated with her own carriage. +Three or four men then thrust her into the carriage, which moved on, +attended by an immense body of people, and a great number of +officers. When they had proceeded about a mile, the carriage was +stopped and entered by Col. <i>Perry</i>, who said, he was fatigued. +Mrs. Tyrrell endeavoured to prevail upon him to let her go—but in +vain—she told him, she would use all her influence for his +advantage, if ever she had an oportunity—He answered, that the +Yeomen had taken a general officer, at Clonard, and that she must +remain a Prisoner till his fate was known.—After some time, the +carriage was stopped again, and a fellow came in, who told +Col. <i>Perry</i>, <i>he</i> had a right to it, as he had taken it, and tho' quite +a common fellow, <i>Perry</i> had not power to prevent + +<!-- Page 25 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">25</a></span> +him. Mrs. <i>Tyrrell</i> then applied to this <ins class="correction">man</ins> for +protection; he answered, that +she <ins class="correction">could</ins> not obtain her liberty. She was now reduced to all the +anguish of despair, when a gleam of hope suddenly darted across her +mind, upon <ins class="correction">seeing</ins> a man riding beside the carriage whose countenance +was perfectly familiar—This was one <i>Kearns</i>, a popish priest, who +had been for some <ins class="correction">time</ins> a curate in the neighbourhood of +Clonard, <ins class="correction">and</ins> +had always been received in Mr. Tyrrell's <ins class="correction">house</ins>, with the respect +due to his clerical function, and the hospitality of an Irish +gentleman. <ins class="correction">Upon</ins> meeting a man, who had feasted +for <ins class="correction">weeks</ins> together at +her table, and a clergyman <ins class="correction">too</ins>! she thought herself secure and +implored <ins class="correction">his</ins> protection:—He coldly +answered—"O, yes, <ins class="correction">Madam</ins>"—But +with all the base and black <ins class="correction">ingratitude</ins> of a sullen and unfeeling +heart, insensible <ins class="correction">to</ins> <i>past</i> kindness, he drew back his horse, and +<ins class="correction">with</ins> the jesuitical prevarication, natural +to such a <ins class="correction">character</ins>, determined not to +interfere, while he <ins class="correction">neglected</ins> to console her with +an implied offer of <ins class="correction">assistance</ins>.——Thus deserted, she again +abandoned + +<!-- Page 26 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">26</a></span> +herself to despair, and began to prepare herself for that +death, which she now looked upon as inevitable.——A man, who sat +upon the boot of the carriage, was suddenly struck with the fervency +of her devotion, and turning round, said, <i>He</i> had as much authority +as any other man there, and that the lady should do as she pleased. +Elevated a little from her despondency by this expression, +Mrs. Tyrrell gave him her gold watch, promising him any further reward he +would demand, if he would procure her liberty.——At this time a +person in the garb of an officer, and whose countance beamed with +the rays of humanity, rode up to the carriage—she immedeiately +addressed him in the most supplicating terms—imploring him to take +pity upon a poor defenceless woman, who had not, and who could not +injure him—He interrogated her as to who she was and how she came +there.—She told him—He protested, that he did not before know of +any such thing and requested to know, what she wished to do——She +replied that she only required to be let on her feet, that she +might proceed + +<!-- Page 27 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">27</a></span> +home. He immediately ordered the cavalcade to +stop—handed her out of the carriage in the most kind and humane +manner—conducted her thro' an immense crowd of armed men, and +apologized for not accompanying her to Clonard, by saying, "she +knew, he could not do it with safety."—Mrs. Tyrrell made him the +acknowledgements of a grateful heart, and begged to be entrusted +with his name, that if ever it should be in her power, she might +return the kindness she had then experienced and repay the +obligations she had received.—He said, he was afraid, she could not +do him any service, and with apparent reluctance, told her, he was +Captain <i>Byrne</i>!—He then returned to his party, and Mrs. Tyrrell +having met some of the people in whose cabin she was a prisoner, +they accompanied her to Clonard, where she was consoled for all her +sufferings by finding her husband and children alive.</p> + +<p>The gentleman (for such his conduct evinced him to be) who called +himself, Captain <i>Byrne</i>, proved to be Mr. <i>Byrne</i> of Ballymanus, in +the county of Wicklow, who afterwards surrendered himself + +<!-- Page 28 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">28</a></span> +to +Government, and Lieutenant Tyrrell being in Dublin at the time, +repaired to the Castle, had an interview with Mr. Byrne, expressed +his acknowledgements to him in the warmest terms, and represented +the conduct of Mr. Byrne to the administration in such a manner, as +shewed the Lieutenant's sense of the obligation, while it promoted +the lenient disposition which was afterwards manifested to Mr. Byrne.</p> + +<p>Thus have we given an authentic detail of the battle of Clonard and +the circumstances attending it, which in fact have been but little +known, no official account having ever been published concerning it. +One subject of regret however remains for the victors in the loss of +Mr. <i>Richard Allen</i>, who died of his wounds in a few days after at +Mullingar, regretted by all who knew him, as a young gentleman of +unsullied integrity and undaunted courage—attached to his King by +the purest principles of loyalty, and to his family by the warmest +affection—He was a zealous yeoman and a steady friend. All that +seems necessary to add, is to say + +<!-- Page 29 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">29</a></span> +a few words respecting the fate +of this Rebel Army and its leaders.</p> + +<h2 class="narr"><i><a name="FATE_OF_THE_REBELS" id="FATE_OF_THE_REBELS"></a>FATE OF THE REBELS.</i></h2> + +<p>After proceeding some distance from Clonard, along the Dublin road, +they turned to the right and took up their quarters for the night in +the village of Carbery—where they possessed themselves of Lord +Harberton's house, and indulged in drinking wine and spirits to +excess—they were most of them intoxicated, in which state had they +been attacked, they must have been totally destroyed.—But the force +at Clonard was too small, had suffered too severely and expended too +much ammunition to attempt a pursuit—On the morning of the 12th of +July, the Rebels moved from Carbery to Johnstown, and from thence by +the nineteen-mile-house into the county of Meath—They were pursued +by Lieutenant Col. Gough, with a small party of the Limerick +Militia, and the Edenderry yeomen—An express had been sent to +Col. Gordon, commanding at Trim, to march out with a force from thence, +and co-operate with the Edenderry detachment—Col. Gordon + +<!-- Page 30 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">30</a></span> +accordingly left Trim with 200 men and two pieces of cannon, but +from some fatality, yet unexplained, did not join in the attack, +which Lieutenant Col. Gough, after waiting some time and +reconnoitering the enemy posted upon a hill, commenced against them, +with only sixty infantry and twenty cavalry. The event of that +engagement is well known, the Rebels were compleatly defeated, +leaving immense booty of cattle, &c. behind them.</p> + +<p>They were next pursued by General Myers, with detachments of the +Dublin Yeomenry and Buckinhamshire Militia, and tho' the General was +not fortunate enough to overtake them, yet he drove them towards +Slane, where they were attacked by General Meyrick, and in several +subsequent days were met by different military bodies who +successively routed them, so that at length this formidable body was +completely dispersed.</p> + +<h2 class="narr"><i><a name="COL_PERRY_AND_PRIEST_KEARNS" id="COL_PERRY_AND_PRIEST_KEARNS"></a>CHARACTER +OF COL. PERRY, AND PRIEST KEARNS WHO WERE EXECUTED.</i></h2> + +<p>Every man who surrvived thought only of providing for his own +safety—Col. <i>Perry</i> and Father + +<!-- Page 31 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">31</a></span> +<i>Kearns</i> made their escape into the +King's County, and were attempting to cross a bog near +<i>Clonbollogue</i>, where they were apprehended by Mr. Ridgeway and +Mr. Robinson of the Edenderry Yeomen, who brought them to that town, +where they were tried and executed by martial law. <i>Perry</i> was +extremely communicative, and while in custody both before and after +trial gratified the enquiries of every person who spoke to him, and +made such a favourable impression, that many regretted his fate—He +acknowledged, that 150 of the rebels were killed and 60 wounded at +Clonard—which tho' accomplished by 27 men will not appear +extraordinary, when it is known that these 27 men fired upwards of +1300 ball cartridge.</p> + +<p><i>Kearns</i> was exactly the reverse of his companion—he was silent and +sulky, and seldom spoke, save to upbraid <i>Perry</i> for his candid +acknowledgements—The history of this Priest is somewhat +extraordinary—He had actually been hanged in Paris, during the +reign of <i>Robespierre</i>, but + +<!-- Page 32 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">32</a></span> +being a large heavy man, the lamp-iron +from which he was suspended, gave way, till his toes reached the +ground—in this state, he was cut down by a physician, who had known +him, brought him to his house and recovered him. He afterwards made +his escape into Ireland;—was constituted a Curate of a chapel near +Clonard, and having suffered so much by democratic rage and +insurrectionary fury, he was looked upon as an acquisition in the +neighbourhood, then much disturbed by the defenders—He inveighed +against these nightly marawders with such appearance of sincerity +and zeal, that he was frequently consulted by the Magistrates, and +sometimes accompanied them in their patroles—Some suspicion of +treachery on his part was at length entertained, from the uniform +discovery of the operations agreed upon by the Magistrates, in +consequence of which, he was excluded from their councils, and a +positive information being sworn against him for instigating a +murder which was afterwards actually committed, he fled into +Wexford, where he became a member of an assassinating committee, + +<!-- Page 33 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">33</a></span> +in +which capacity he continued to be extremely active, until he +accompanied Col. <i>Perry</i> upon the expedition into Kildare, which he +is known to have encouraged, and which finally led him to that fate, +which was the just reward of an hypocritical and malignant heart, +filled with gloomy and ferocious passions—He seemed rather to be an +instrument of Hell, than a minister of Heaven, for his mind was +perpetually brooding over sanguinary schemes and plans of rapine, +while he assumed the sacred vestments of a servant of Christ!</p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<div> +<!-- Page 34 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">34</a></span> +</div> + +<p><i>The following Authentic Letters may be relied on, having been +written by Persons of undoubted Veracity, who were fully assured of +the Facts therein recited.</i></p> + +<hr class="minor" /> + +<h2><a name="LETTER_I" id="LETTER_I"></a>LETTER I.</h2> + +<p class="date"><span class="smcap">Carlow</span> <span class="smcap">June</span> 31st, 1798.</p> + +<p class="salut"><i>My Dr. Friend,</i></p> + +<p>YOUR affectionate letter I did not receive till eight days after +date: I have felt much uneasiness at not having it in my power to +answer it sooner; you may think it strange that in the space of ten +days I could not procure time for that purpose, but were you +acquainted with my situation you would be convinced that it is a +fact. If I live to see you, I trust fully to convince you of the +same.</p> + +<p>Providentially for me I was absent from Carlow the time of the +attack on that Town, I say providentially, for my warm spirit and +forward disposition might have led me into danger. The account which +I received from people of veracity, who were on the spot is as +follows.</p> + +<div> +<!-- Page 35 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">35</a></span> +</div> + +<p>On the 24th of May, the day preceding the attack, Haydon, a Yeoman, +but an officer of the Rebels, repaired to the Country, and spent the +day in mustering his Forces. A letter relative to the business, +directed to Mr. J. D. of Arles, was by mistake put into the hands of +a Loyal Yeoman of the same christian and sirname, and residing in +the same place: The bearer was conveyed to Maryborough and executed, +and the letter sent to Col. M— who commanded in Carlow, by means of +which the Military had timely notice of the intentions of the +Rebels. There being no Barrack for Infantry in the Town, the men +were billeted upon the Inhabitants; the genteeler sort paying for +their lodging, they were in general quartered in the Cabins. The +intention of the Rebels was to murder the Soldiers in their +lodgings, surprise and take the Horse Barracks, and then make +themselves masters of the Town, which in all probability they would +have done, had not God brought their designs to light in the manner +above mentioned; for on receipt of the above information the +Infantry were ordered into + +<!-- Page 36 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">36</a></span> +the Barracks, and kept under arms till +the Insurgents had entered the Town.</p> + +<p>About twelve o'Clock the Rebels came forward in great force, and too +confident of a victory not yet gained, gave three cheers crying "the +Town is our own!" but how dreadfully were they disappointed? for in +that moment, the military rushing forward, cut them down in all +quarters; and having posted themselves in an advantageous manner cut +off almost all possibility of a retreat. Many of these deluded +creatures fled into the houses for shelter, but there justice +pursued them—for the Soldiers set them on fire immediately. About +eighty houses were burned, but the numbers consumed therein could +not be ascertained.</p> + +<p>It is supposed not less than six hundred fell that morning; and what +is surprising, only two I believe were found among the bodies with +any simptoms of life!</p> + +<p>Thus did God frustrate the designs of the wicked, and display his +justice and mercy in a singular manner—His justice, in suffering +the ungodly + +<!-- Page 37 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">37</a></span> +to fall into the pit which they had digged for their +innocent, unoffending neighbours; and his mercy, in preserving those +whom he employed as the Executioners of his vengeance on his +Enemies. Not a Soldier or Yeoman was so much as slightly wounded! +One Soldier indeed who had not left his billet, they hung with a +sheet; but being soon extricated he recovered immediately.</p> + +<p>Sir. E. C. Bart. Haydon, Kelly, Kane, Borro, two Murphys, one of +them a Serjeant in the Yeomenry, and several others were executed a +few days after. Haydon it is said, finding it going against his +friends, slipt into his Father's house, dressed himself in his +Regimentals, and came out and fought against those whom he had a few +hours before led to the slaughter.</p> + +<p>Thus by the interference of <span class="smcap">him</span> who declares a hair of our head +cannot fall without his permission, was an innocent people saved +from the murderous designs of a Sanguinary Foe.</p> + +<p class="signindr">I Remain yours Affectionately</p> + +<p class="signr">F. R.</p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<div> +<!-- Page 38 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">38</a></span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="LETTER_II" id="LETTER_II"></a>LETTER II.</h2> + +<p class="date"><span class="smcap">Ross</span>, <span class="smcap">July</span> 20th, 1798.</p> + +<p class="salut"><i>My Dr. Friend,</i></p> + +<p>The following account relative to the affair at Ross is remarkably +brief: particulars would fill a Volume, and as there are many things +said concerning it which cannot be depended on, I think it best to +confine myself to a few plain facts which are not disputed by any.</p> + +<p>On the 4th of June in the evening, the Rebels to the amount of near +20000, took possession of Corbit Hill, one mile distant from Ross. +The military force in the town was remarkably small, the fears of +the Inhabitants were raised to an alarming height, but the coming in +of the County Dublin Militia quieted them much.</p> + +<p>Between three and four o'Clock on the morning of the fifth, the +engagement commenced, Early in the action the Rebels were for some +time victorious, having driven before them all the black cattle they +could collect through the country; this threw the military into +confusion, and obliged + +<!-- Page 39 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">39</a></span> +many of them to retreat in great confusion +over the Bridge; some pieces of Cannon also fell into the hands of +the Enemy. The Rebels then set fire to the houses in the suburbs, +about two hundred and fifty of which were consumed; but this turned +to their own disadvantage, for the wind blowing towards them they +were inveloped in smoke, which together with the immoderate quantity +of spirituous liquors they drank on Corbet-Hill, rendered them +incapable of their business. The Dublin and Donegal Militia who kept +the guards at the Market-house and Fair-gate never left their post, +by means of which the Rebels could not penetrate into the centre of +the town; had they ran, Ross, and in all probability the provincial +towns in Munster would have fallen.</p> + +<p>The Soldiers who retreated (except some who fled to Waterford) soon +rallied again, and entering the town in a furious manner, obliged +the enemy to run. The Battle lasted for near twelve hours—3000 +Rebels it is said lay dead in and near the town; many also must have +died of their wounds: + +<!-- Page 40 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">40</a></span> +'tis thought that between fifty and sixty of +the Military fell: 'twas too many, but we could hardly expect such a +victory on more reasonable terms. B. B. Harvey was commander in +chief of the Rebels; but for his bad generalship on that day was +deposed, and the command was afterwards given to Roach.</p> + +<p>'Twas on this dreadful day that the Barn at Scollabogue, in which +one hundred and seventy Protestants, Men, Women, and Children were +confined, was burned: the Rebels in their retreat from Ross set it +on fire, lest the Prisoners would escape. About twenty of these +sufferers I was personally acquainted with, some of them were my +intimate friends. This burning was not the act of one person as some +report, Priest Shallow of the parish of Newbawn was present, and +twenty five not included in the above number were shot in the most +deliberate manner, their cloaths being worth preserving. I pass +within two miles of the melancholy spot every month, and often +converse with those who know every particular relative to it, both +Loyalists and Rebels.——</p> + +<p class="signr">Yours, F. R.</p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<div> +<!-- Page 41 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">41</a></span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="LETTER_III" id="LETTER_III"></a>LETTER III.</h2> + +<p class="date"><span class="smcap">Colliery</span>, <span class="smcap">August</span> 1st, 1798.</p> + +<p class="salut"><i>My Dr. Friend,</i></p> + +<p>It would give me much satisfaction to have it in my power fully to +comply with your request, by furnishing you with an accurate detail +of the Engagements which took place between his Majesty's Troops and +the Rebels, for the publication you mention. If the following +particulars to which I was an eye witness can be of any service, you +are at liberty to make what use you please of the same.</p> + +<p>On the Morning of the twenty third of June, the Rebels who had been +driven from Vinegar Hill appeared opposite New-Bridge or +Gore's-Bridge, a neat Village on the River Barrow, Co. Kilkenny. The +Forces quartered there, consisting of one Troop of the 4th Dragoon +Guards and a Company of the Wexford Militia prepared to stop their +progress, and in order thereto took possession of the Bridge; but +perceiving the Rebels planting their Cannon on the opposite side, +and fording the River in considerable numbers + +<!-- Page 42 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">42</a></span> +(the water being +low,) they were obliged to retreat; all the Cavalry escaped, but +about twenty of the Infantry were made Prisoners, many of whom were +put to death on that and the following day. Their intention (as one +who had been prisoner with them informed me) was to form a junction +with the Colliers, and after taking Castle Comber, to proceed to +Kilkenny on Monday morning.</p> + +<p>From New-Bridge they proceeded through Kelly-Mount (plundering as +they went along) to a hill five miles from Castle-Comber, in the +range of mountains called the Ridge, where they stopped for the +night.</p> + +<p>Finding it impossible to get to Ross according to my travelling +plan, I was obliged to take up my quarters in the Colliery the week +before. Here I remained in total ignorance of what was going forward +in other parts of the Country, till the twenty third, the day above +mentioned, when an Express arrived, informing us that the Rebels had +crossed the Barrow, and were on their + +<!-- Page 43 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">43</a></span> +way here. In order to know +the truth of the information I rode off accompanied by a friend +towards the Ridge. After riding about three miles I got in view of +their Camp, and by the assistance of a pocket Tellescope could +discern their numbers to be about 8000. They had two stand of white +Colours, and some Soldiers (I suppose those taken that morning) +along with them. Here I met ten or twelve Loyalists with fire arms; +two or three of their company were just murdered by the Rebel +picquets, and some more wounded. Having procured a musket I advanced +with four more till we came in sight of the dead bodies; but as the +Rebel scouts were within musket shot we did not think it prudent to +venture farther.</p> + +<p>Seeing a Man covered with blood a distance from me, I called to him; +he crawled forward and fell at my feet,—he was a Loyalist, and had +received a dreadful wound from a broad sword on the head, and a few +slight wounds on other parts of the body. Imagining there was no +probability of his recovery, I advised him to make + +<!-- Page 44 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">44</a></span> +the best use of +the few remaining moments he had, but on examining his wounds, and +having cause to believe they were not mortal, I bound them up in the +best manner I could, and procuring a horse to carry him, my friend +and I at the risk of our lives brought him four miles across the +mountains to Castle-Comber, were he was dressed: He is now perfectly +recovered; and the happiness which the remembrance of that +transaction affords me, more than compensates for the danger and +labour which attended it.</p> + +<p>From seven till ten o'Clock the roads were crowded with the +Protestants flying from all parts of the adjacent country, into +Castle-Comber. At one o'Clock a Troop of the 4th Dragoons, a Company +of the Downshire Militia, and a few Yeomen arrived from Ballinakill; +these with a Troop of the R. Irish Dragoons, two Companies of the +Waterford Militia, and one Corps of Yeomen Cavalry, about two +hundred and fifty in all, made up the whole of our Military force; a +small number to oppose 8000 Furies! but that the Battle is not to +the strong, the event of that day proved.</p> + +<div> +<!-- Page 45 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">45</a></span> +</div> + +<p>About four o'Clock, the Rebels arrived at Gurteen, three miles from +Castle Comber, where they heard Mass; at five they had Mass again, +(it being a holyday) at the Gizebo, a mile nearer.</p> + +<p>Between six and seven the engagement began at Cool-bawn, one mile +and half from Town. Being with the advanced Guard I was present at +the commencement. The Rebels advanced in the most daring manner, and +in pretty good order, having placed their Musketeers in the front +who kept up a brisk fire. I continued behind the Infantry for about +fifteen minutes, during which time the balls were whistling on every +side. I was so ignorant as to enquire what occasioned the whistling +noise, and being informed it proceeded from the balls, I began to +think of providing for my safety, as my presence there was useless, +having at this time no Arms. I then planted myself behind the pier +of a gate; but observing the Rebels advance and the Soldiers to give +way, I rode back to the Town: the Cavalry followed immediately, and +just behind me shot a villain who + +<!-- Page 46 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">46</a></span> +had the audacity to desire the +Officer to surrender the Town. Here I had a miraculous escape; for +many of the Infantry who came down close behind me were shot, by +lurking Rebels from behind the hedges.</p> + +<p>The Military then took possession of the Bridge, where the battle +continued hot for the space of fifteen minutes, when Captain G—n. +ordered a retreat: the Cavalry and part of the Infantry instantly +obeyed, but about twenty of the Waterford Militia absolutely +refused, declaring "they would prefer death to dishonour." they were +mostly Roman Catholics! I had not heard the order, but my horse +taking head ran off; when I knew their intentions, I did not attempt +to prevent him. We halted about a mile and half from the Town, when +looking behind we beheld it all in a blaze, the Rebel Inhabitants +and some who came the back way, set it on fire. The firing ceased +for a few minutes, the cause I know not, but words cannot express +what I felt that moment; I concluded that my unoffending friends had +fallen victims to the human + +<!-- Page 47 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">47</a></span> +Savages: they were presented to my +imagination in a thousand dreadful forms. God pardon my feelings in +that moment! how hard it is to forgive such Enemies. I proceeded +slowly till I met General Asgill, with about 1000 Men: with these I +returned, sunk with sorrow, fearing the tragic sight which I +expected to present itself on entering the Town would be too much to +bear; but thanks be to God my fears were groundless,—the few +Military which remained, and about thirty Protestants, who were +determined to fight for their Wives and Children, or perish with +them, kept possession, nor suffered a Rebel to cross the Bridge. Our +Cannon in mistake played on the Town for some time, but +providentially no lives were lost thereby. The Rebels on sight of +the reinforcement took shelter in the woods, and from thence killed +a few of the Military; but eighteen rounds of Grape shot dislodged +them. 'Twas four in the afternoon before they retreated. It is said +400 of the Rebels fell. There were twenty six Protestants in +coloured cloaths, and about twenty Soldiers killed, + +<!-- Page 48 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">48</a></span> +some of the former were butchered in cold blood, in a manner too dreadful +to relate.</p> + +<p>For the safety of Kilkenny, the Troops were obliged to return there +that night; the Loyalists who fled with them I think could not be +less than 600; they left the most of their property behind them, +which a party of the Rebels who returned carried off.</p> + +<p>The hand of God was visible in our deliverance that day; but +remarkably so in three instances which I shall mention.—First, from +midnight till five o'Clock, we had the greatest Fog I remember to +have seen; had it not been for this, in all probability the Rebels +would have divided themselves into different parties, and surrounded +the Town: but being strangers in the Country, and not knowing where +they might meet the Army, they kept in a body on the main road, and +attacked us but in one place. Secondly, the burning of the Town; for +the day being remarkably calm, the smoak lay on the street, which +prevented them from seeing our Force; for had they known that the +Army fled, 'tis + +<!-- Page 49 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">49</a></span> +more than probable they would have entered, as +there were many Entrances unguarded.</p> + +<p>Thirdly, the Waterford Militia's disobedience of Orders,—had they +retreated without a very extraordinary miracle the Loyalists would +have fallen a prey to their unmerciful yet unprovoked Enemies.</p> + +<p class="signr">Yours &c. F. R.</p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<h2><a name="LETTER_IV" id="LETTER_IV"></a>LETTER IV.</h2> + +<p class="date"><span class="smcap">Kilkenny</span>, <span class="smcap">August</span> 30th, 1798.</p> + +<p class="salut"><i>My Dr. Friend,</i></p> + +<p>In a former letter you have an account of the fate of Castle-Comber, +&c.—I have only to notice in this, that some Gentlemen who fell +into the hands of the Rebels while in possession of that town were +brought into the presence of the Rebel general Murphy, who is said +to have been a Priest in the Co. Wexford, and was excommunicated for +his bad conduct many years ago.—He was dressed in black, affected +the appearance of a stupid enthusiast, and shewed some bullets which +he said had been fired at him, but had rebounded from his +invulnerable body—incredible as it may seem, this wretched +invention was generally + +<!-- Page 50 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">50</a></span> +believed by the more wretched dupes under +his command—You have here a real statement of the facts, of which I +know you have sufficient curiosity to desire to be informed.</p> + +<p>On Monday morning<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> our reconnoitring parties observed the Rebel +Army posted on the bog, between John's-well mountains and the Ridge, +about eight miles distant from this City—they seemed to be at rest, +and remained quiet except when relieving their Centinels, till four +o'Clock, when they were observed to move to the right along the +Ridge towards Kelly-mount and New-bridge.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> <i>The writer omitted the date.</i></p></div> + +<p>In the course of the evening several false alarms electrified the +inhabitants here—Yet the Garrison was left the whole day at rest. +Next morning Sir C. Asgill marched with a large force, consisting of +two pieces of Artillery, part of the Wexford and Wicklow regiments, +of the 4th, 5th, and 9th, Dragoons, of Hompesch's Cavalry, the +Romney Fencibles, and of the Kilkenny, Gowran, Fassadineen +Shillelogher, Desart, Thomastown, Myshall, and Kellishin Cavalry, +he + +<!-- Page 51 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">51</a></span> +was joined on the march by the Leighlin-bridge Infantry, and part +of the Downshire Militia, with their Artillery, also the Maryborough +and Ballyfin Corps of Yeomen Cavalry.</p> + +<p>About six o'Clock he came up with the Rebel Army, amounting to from +five to six thousand men, advantageously posted on a rising ground, +in an extensive flat, at Kilcomny, near Gore's-Bridge—nothing could +exceed the joy of our brave Soldiers, after so many fatiguing +marches, at last to have a pleasing prospect of retaliating; the +Officers were constantly obliged to restrain their ardour. The +engagement began with a terrible fire of Artillery, which the Rebels +returned with quickness, but entirely without effect.</p> + +<p>A very hot fire was kept up near an hour, but unable to withstand +the impetuosity of our troops the Rebels began to give way, and fled +towards the Co. Wexford.</p> + +<p>A horrible slaughter now ensued, which lasted six or seven hours, +nor did it cease while a Rebel was to be seen—1100 Rebels were left +dead on the field of Action! among whom was the <i>invulnerable + +<!-- Page 52 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">52</a></span> +commander Murphy</i>. This victory was so very decisive that we have +got possession of all their Artillery, amounting to 15 pieces of +different callibre—all their Standards, Ammunition, and Baggage, a +vast number of Pikes, Muskets, Swords, &c. 700 horses, a great +quantity of black cattle, Sheep, &c. also a vast quantity of +bedding, blanketting, and wearing apparel which were given up to the +Soldiers who bravely contended for the same.</p> + +<p class="signr">Yours, &c. &c.——</p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<h2><a name="LETTER_V" id="LETTER_V"></a>LETTER V.</h2> + +<p class="date"><span class="smcap">Maryborough</span>, <span class="smcap">April</span> 20th, 1799.</p> + +<p class="salut"><i>My Dr. Friend,</i></p> + +<p>Being desirous of making public the valour of the Troops of this +town under the command of Major Matthews of the Royal Downshire +Regiment, against the Rebels, I send you a plain narrative of facts +as follows:</p> + +<p>On the 24th of June 1798, four hundred of the Downshire Regiment, +with their Battalion guns, Captain Pole, with the Ballyfin Troop of +Yeomen Cavalry, and Captain Gore, with the Maryborough, + +<!-- Page 53 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">53</a></span> +(both +Troops under the immediate command of Capt. Pole) proceeded towards +the Collieries of Castlecomber and Donane, by order of Sir Charles +Asgill. On the Road we saw Castlecomber on fire; soon after we +arrived at Moyad, and saw the Rebel Army in great force on the high +grounds above Donane; we then received intelligence that Sir Charles +had engaged them at Castlecomber that morning, and that his force +was at least double ours, but that he had retired to Kilkenny. It +was now too late in the evening for us to attack; we therefore fell +back on Timahoe, determined to be at them in the morning. At Timahoe +an express met us from Sir Charles, desiring we should return to +Maryborough; this was answered by an express from us, proposing to +Sir Charles to attack the Rebels next morning on the road from +Donane, and that we would attack on the road from Timahoe. The +answer to this proposal we received at 7 o'clock next morning from +Sir Charles, who could not agree to it, as he said his Troops were +fatigued, but left it to us to fight, we + +<!-- Page 54 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">54</a></span> +could do it with security, +where we were, or to return to Maryborough. We chose to risque the +former, and the proper arrangements being made, returned to Moyad, +where we had last seen the Rebels: when our Cavalry arrived there, +they found the Rebels had gone off to the Ridge; there we pursued +them, and were again disappointed in bringing them to action, as +they had marched for Gore's-Bridge: our Cavalry then proceeded to +Old Leighlin, from which place Capt. Pole, who had gone forward for +intelligence, sent an express to inform Sir Charles Asgill of what +he had done, and of our intention to attack the Rebels wherever we +found them. At Old Leighlin we met with Mr. Vigars, to whom our +intention of attacking the Rebels was made known, and he, seeing our +men much fatigued, immediately supplied us with a number of cars to +carry them, without which assistance we should have been much +distressed; he likewise accompanied us to the scene of action, and +was always in front giving us every assistance in his power. The +whole Corps arrived at Leighlin-Bridge + +<!-- Page 55 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">55</a></span> +about twelve at night. In +two hours after an express came from Sir Charles, desiring us to +meet him at Gore's-Bridge at five in the morning; we instantly +marched, but on the road we got such intelligence as induced our +Commanding Officer to alter his route, in order to get between the +Rebels and the mountains; an account of which he sent to +Sir Charles, by Mr. Moore, Collector of this place, who, with his +brother Mr. Pierce Moore, marched with us, and to whose able advice +and knowledge of the country I heard Major Matthews say, we in a +great measure owed our success. After a march of about three hours +we came in sight of the Rebels; and, as soon as we got within a +proper distance, fired some cannon shot at them: they retired from +us about a mile and a half to form their line; we followed in +Column, with our guns in front, and our Cavalry in the rere; just as +we got orders to form our line for the attack, we heard +Sir Charles's cannon on the other side of the hill; at this instant our +Cavalry were ordered to charge, which they did in a most gallant + +<!-- Page 56 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">56</a></span> +stile; the Rebel line was instantly broke, and we joined +Sir Charles's Troops in the pursuit, which continued with great +slaughter for above six miles; all the cannon, horses, stores and +prisoners they had were taken, and their Army dispersed.</p> + +<p>When it is known that the Rebel Army would not have been brought to +action, or even an attempt made upon them, but for the exertion of +this little Corps—and when it is known that this Corps pursued a +large body of Rebels at least five thousand strong, with ten pieces +of cannon, for nearly forty miles, without orders or directions from +any general Officer whatsoever, and that, except some bread they got +at Leighlin-Bridge, not a man of them tasted food for forty-four +hours, I think you will agree with me that they did their duty, and +that their country ought to know it.</p> + +<p class="signr">Yours, &c. &c.——</p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<div> +<!-- Page 57 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">57</a></span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="LETTER_VI" id="LETTER_VI"></a>LETTER VI.</h2> + +<p class="date"><span class="smcap">Belfast</span>, <span class="smcap">April</span> 29th, 1799.</p> + +<p class="salut"><i>Sir,</i></p> + +<p>In compliance to your request I shall set down briefly what has been +already communicated to a few, but must thro' the medium of your +intended publication be more generally circulated.</p> + +<p>On Saturday morning June the 9th, 1798. Col. Stapleton having +received intimation of a number of people assembled at Saint-field, +and neighbourhood, he set out from Newtownards, with a detachment of +the York Fencible regiment, accompanied by the Newtownards and +Comber Yeomen Cavalry and Infantry; all-together about 320 men, and +two Field Pieces.</p> + +<p>About half past four o'clock in the evening, this little Army fell +in with a body of Rebels, supposed to be between six and seven +thousand men, near Saintfield.</p> + +<p>The Light Infantry, commanded by Captain Chetwynd advanced with +great gallantry to secure an eminence on the right, which having +accomplished, + +<!-- Page 58 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">58</a></span> +he was attacked by a force of at least three thousand +Rebels—the front armed with pikes, the centre and rear with +muskets, whose fire galled them severely till the body of the Troops +and Field Pieces came up, when the Rebels were routed with huge +slaughter. The Rebels by their own account lost above five hundred +men, among whom were many of their leaders. The King's Troops after +routing the Insurgents marched to Comber, where they halted during +the night—next morning proceeded to this Town.</p> + +<p>I am much concerned to inform you of the loss of three brave +Officers by those miscreants hands in this action—<i>Capt. Chetwynd</i>, +<i>Lieut. Unite</i>, and <i>Ensign J. Sparks</i>: Lieut. Edenson was wounded. +The whole return of his Majesty's Troops were—29 Killed, and 22 +wounded. Not only the valour of the other Officers that fell in this +engagement deserves to be publickly recorded, but that of the +amiable, gallant and much beloved Capt. C. ought not to be passed +without particular notice—This brave fellow at the head of + +<!-- Page 59 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">59</a></span> +his men received no less than nine pike wounds! notwithstanding which he +continued his position, encouraging by his example his men to fight +like loyal Soldiers; till alas, two wounds from muskets deprived +this hero of his existence, and our country of his future services.</p> + +<p>Poor Sparks—whose race of glory was now ended, was but sixteen +years old, and had just before he fell, received for his intrepid +conduct the public approbation of his commanding Officer.</p> + +<p>Too much praise cannot be given the Newtownards and Comber Yeomen +Cavalry, who, conducted by Captains Houghton and Cleland, evidenced +the greatest intrepidity during the whole of the action.</p> + +<p>If it be possible to convince those deluded creatures who were then +in arms against the peace and prosperity of this Nation, and of +their certain destruction, should they again have recourse to such +rebellious measures, it must be the event of the above action, where +so many were cut off by such an inferior force.</p> + +<div> +<!-- Page 60 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">60</a></span> +</div> + +<p>P. S. It was ludicrous to behold the varied badges of distinction as +worn by the Rebel chiefs; some were dressed in green jackets, turned +up with white, others yellow, white vests, buckskin breeches, +half-boots, hats with white cock-neck feathers and green cockades, +&c.</p> + +<p class="signr">Yours, &c.——</p> + +<hr class="major" /> +<h2><a name="LETTER_VII" id="LETTER_VII"></a>LETTER VII.</h2> + +<p class="date"><span class="smcap">Tyrell'spass</span>, <span class="smcap">April</span> 30th, 1799.</p> + +<p class="salut"><i>Dr. Friend,</i></p> + +<p>I should have answered your favour sooner, but was making every +possible enquiry in order to furnish you with the best account of +the engagement at Kilbeggan. The gentleman, the bearer of this (one +of our Officers) and I were present on the occasion.</p> + +<p>On the 17th of June 1798, (on the preceding day a fair was held in +Kilbeggan. The lower order of the people appeared uncommonly civil, +and this country had a more placid appearance than for some time +before,) at 11 o'clock at night a recruit of Capt. Clarke's gave +information that the town would + +<!-- Page 61 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">61</a></span> +be attacked on the next day. As +many similar alarms had been circulated before, this was not much +regarded—however the Videts of Horse were ordered to keep a sharp +look-out, and give instant intelligence should any number of men be +descried by them.</p> + +<p>At break of day, (at that time of the year about two o'clock) some +persons were perceived on the top of a hill westward of the town. +Immediate notice of this was given to the Officer commanding, who +directed that the horse-guard should continue to observe the motions +of the enemy; and should their numbers encrease, to retreat slowly, +about two hundred yards in front to the town, and apprize him of the +same.</p> + +<p>It soon appeared that their force was between three and four +thousand divided into bands, from sixty to an hundred, in regular +order, with different kinds of Arms, principally pikes, from five to +ten feet long, pitch-forks, &c. Each band moved separately headed by +an Officer, distinguished by a green sash or cockade—most of the +men had white paper bands round their hats.</p> + +<div> +<!-- Page 62 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">62</a></span> +</div> + +<p>It was generally remarked that they had all clean shirts on, had +each a piece of oat-bread in their pockets, and many were apparently +intoxicated.</p> + +<p>The town (the subject of this letter) has not been remarkable for +loyalty—the principal fears of the garrison arose from an +apprehension of treachery. There were then under arms sixty of the +Northumberland Fencibles, about thirty of the Fertullagh Cavalry, +and thirty loyal Protestants, who either belonged to the town or had +fled there for refuge.</p> + +<p>On the first appearance of the Rebels, (three hours before the +attack commenced) an express was sent to Tullamore where the +principal part of the 7th Dragoons lay—General Dunne forwarded a +Troop about eighty in number—the want of a sufficient force was of +the worst consequence, as the Rebels attacked our party in the +mountains, and obliged the Fencibles to retreat back to the +town—Meantime the Loyalists cleared the streets which were now +full of + +<!-- Page 63 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">63</a></span> +Rebels without the loss of a man—the Cavalry +pursued—Sergeant Price alone killed fourteen Pikemen. On hearing +the firing a few of the Cavalry stationed at Tyrell's-pass flew to +the scene of action, just before the Black Horse arrived—both, +aided by the dismounted from Tyrrell's-pass killed 400 of the enemy.</p> + +<p class="signr">Yours, &c. C. F.</p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<p><a name="OFFICIAL_ACCOUNTS" id="OFFICIAL_ACCOUNTS"></a>The Publisher +having waited in vain for a detail of the engagement +at Naas, Kilcullen, Hacketstown, &c; and public curiosity daily +encreasing, being desirous of gratifying the same, he deems it most +advisable to insert the following OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS received at the +Castle, with their dates.</p> + +<hr class="minor" /> + +<p><a name="NAAS" id="NAAS"></a><i>Extract of a Letter from Lord Viscount Gosford, Colonel of the +Armagh Militia, and Major Wardle, of the Ancient British Light +Dragoons, to Lieutenant General Lake, dated Naas, Thursday Morning, +8 o'Clock, 24th May, 1798.</i></p> + +<p>This morning, about half past 2 o'Clock, a Dragoon, from an +Out-post, came in and informed + +<!-- Page 64 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">64</a></span> +Major Wardle, of the Ancient +British, that a very considerable armed body were approaching +rapidly upon the Town. The whole garrison were instantly under Arms, +and took up their position according to a plan previously formed in +case of such an event happening. They made the attack upon our +Troops, posted near the Gaol, with great violence, but were +repulsed: They then made a general attack in almost every direction, +as they had got possession of almost every avenue into the Town. +They continued to engage the Troops for near three quarters of an +hour, when they gave way, and fled on all sides. The Cavalry +immediately took advantage of their confusion, charged in almost +every direction, and killed a great number of them. A great quantity +of Arms and Pikes were taken, and within this half hour many hundred +more were brought in, found in pits near the town, together with +three men with green cockades, all of whom were hanged in the public +street. We took another prisoner whom we have spared, in consequence +of his having given us + +<!-- Page 65 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">65</a></span> +information that will enable us to pursue +these Rebels; and from this man we learn that they were above a +Thousand strong: They were commanded as this man informs us, by +Michael Reynolds, who was well mounted, and dressed in Yeoman +Uniform, but unfortunately made his escape; his horse we have got.</p> + +<p>About thirty Rebels were killed in the streets; in the fields, we +imagine, above an hundred; their bodies have not yet been brought +together.</p> + +<p>It is impossible to say too much of the Cavalry and Infantry; their +conduct was exemplary throughout.</p> + +<hr class="minor" /> + +<p><a name="KILCULLEN" id="KILCULLEN"></a><i>Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant General +Dundas to Lord Viscount Castlereagh, dated Naas, May 25th, 1798.</i></p> + +<p>In addition to the account which I had the honor of sending you +yesterday, I have the satisfaction to inform your Lordship, that +about 2 P. M. yesterday I marched out again to attack the Rebels, +who had assembled in great force on the + +<!-- Page 66 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">66</a></span> +North side of the Liffey, +and were advancing towards Kilcullen-Bridge: They occupied the hills +on the left of the road leading to Dublin; the road itself and the +fields highly enclosed, on the right. The attack began between 3 and 4; +was made with great gallantry, the Infantry forcing the Enemy on +the road, and driving them from the hills on the left; the Cavalry +with equal success, cutting off their retreat. The affair ended soon +after 4. The slaughter was considerable for such an action; one +Hundred and thirty lay dead. No prisoners.</p> + +<p>I have the further satisfaction of stating to your Lordship, that +his Majesty's Troops did not suffer in either killed or wounded. The +Rebels left great quantities of all kinds of Arms behind them, and +fled in all directions.</p> + +<p>This morning all is in perfect quietness. General Wilford, from +Kildare, joined me last night; an Officer with whom I serve with +unspeakable satisfaction.</p> + +<p>The Troops of every description, both officers and men, shewed a +degree of gallantry which it + +<!-- Page 67 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">67</a></span> +was difficult to restrain within +prudent bounds.—Captain La Touche's Corps of Yeomenry distinguished +themselves in a high stile.</p> + +<hr class="minor" /> + +<p><a name="HACKETSTOWN" id="HACKETSTOWN"></a><i>Extract of a Letter from the Reverend James Mc Ghee, Vicar of +Clonmore, County Carlow, dated Hacketstown, three o'Clock, P. M. May +25, 1798.</i></p> + +<p>IN consequence of an information received this morning, that a large +body of Rebels were marching to attack the Town, Lieutenant +Gardiner, with the men under his command, and a party of Yeomenry +commanded by Captain Hardy, went out to meet them. Having +reconnoitred their force, which amounted to between three and four +Thousand, they took post on a hill under the Church, and when the +Rebels came tolerably near, the Officers and Men made a Feint, and +retreated into the Barrack.</p> + +<p>The Rebels seeing this, came on with a great shout, imagining the +day to be their own. In a few minutes Captain Hume came up with +about thirty of his Troop, and instantly charged them, on + +<!-- Page 68 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">68</a></span> +which the Rebels retreated. A general Pursuit took place; and so complete +was the rout that above Three Hundred of the miscreants now lie dead on +the field of battle.</p> + +<p>To say that the <i>Antrim</i> Regiment behaved well is not any thing new; +but the Yeomen under Captain Hardy's command behaved astonishingly; +nor can I sufficiently commend the conduct of Captain Hume and his +Corps; for though his right arm was in a sling, owing to a very +severe fall from his horse, which prevented his using his sword, he +headed his men with gallantry, and went on with spirit and bravery +that surprized every one, considering his situation.</p> + +<p>As to Lieutenant Gardiner, his conduct and steadiness throughout the +whole affair is far beyond my praise; but I am sorry to inform you +that a severe blow of a stone he received on his breast from a +villain whose life he had just saved, prevents his writing to you +himself. He is, however, thank God, walking about, and having been +let blood, is much better; the villain was shot dead on the spot.</p> + +<div> +<!-- Page 69 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">69</a></span> +</div> + +<p>Every one of the <i>Antrims</i> was vying with each other who should do +his duty best; and I have very great pleasure in telling you that +not a man (Mr. Gardiner excepted, and one Soldier, who received a +contusion in his arm) was in the least injured.—In short, the +loyalty and zeal of the whole party was beyond any thing that has +been seen on a similar occasion.</p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<p>The Publisher having been favoured with the two following letters by +an intimate Friend (to whom they were written without any intention +of appearing in print,) and also being personally acquainted with +the writer, assures the Public that every particular set forth may +be received as Facts.</p> + +<p>Such is the established character of the writer, who is known to +numbers, that he would not advance a falsehood—he was in most +engagements from the breaking out of the late Rebellion to the +defeat of the French at Balinamuck; an account of which is now in +the possession of the publisher, and shall be given in due time.</p> + +<hr class="minor" /> + +<div> +<!-- Page 70 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">70</a></span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="LETTER_VIII" id="LETTER_VIII"></a>LETTER VIII.</h2> + +<p>Some account of the Battle of Arklow, by H. G. of the Armagh +Militia, in a letter to a Friend in Dublin, dated Arklow, June 13th, 1798.</p> + +<p>Written on the Field of Action.</p> + +<p class="salut"><i>My Dr. Friend,</i></p> + +<p>I wrote to Mr. H. by one of the Conductors who promised to leave the +letter at your house, in which I gave him a circumstantial +account<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a> of what took place from the time I left Naas, till the +battle of Gorey, and our retreat to Wicklow afterwards.</p> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> <i>The Press was stopped for ten days, and every possible +enquiry made to recover the Letter alluded to, but for the present +it cannot be procured.</i></p></div> + +<p>On Saturday last we were informed that the Rebels in great force +were pursuing us, the drums beat to arms, and our forces assembled +immediately. Our General formed a square of Infantry at one end of +the town, and left the Cavalry to defend the other. In a little +time the + +<!-- Page 71 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">71</a></span> +Out-posts were driven in, and shortly after appeared their +Colours flying. They extended for more than <i>five miles</i> around us: +a most awful sight! In order to intimidate us they fixed their hats +on their Pikes and rushed on.</p> + +<p>Their Artillery was planted on an eminence which commanded us—Their +armed men in Front, and pike to charge in the Rear. In this order of +Battle they came forward. We waited the first onset; in a few +minutes the firing commenced in all quarters, which lasted from four +o'clock in the afternoon, till near nine at night. They endeavoured +to break our square in every quarter, but like true Soldiers we +cleaved together and repelled them; they stormed our little line +twice, but were beat back with slaughter; they drove their +dismounted horses to the mouths of the Cannon in order to shelter +themselves, but the grape shot made them fall on every side; they +even set the town on fire in order to annoy us with the smoak, but +the wind at the order of <i>our God</i> turned, drove it from us, and +confounded them in their own device; they did + +<!-- Page 72 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">72</a></span> +every thing like +inveterate enemies, and desperate madmen to accomplish their ends; +and their Priests informed them that they could catch the Heretics +balls in their hands, and threw some (as tho' they had caught them) +to their rebellious mob to fire again at us, and declared they could +beat us with the dust of the earth. Oh what superstition! This was +confirmed by deserters from their Camp, who informed us likewise, +that flushed with victory at Gorey, they thought that after they had +taken Arklow, nothing could stop them till they arrived at Dublin; +and indeed I believe, that this Battle for the present, has decided +the fate of this Kingdom.</p> + +<p>One of the Antrim Militia, who fled from them after the Battle +reports their Army to have been 20,000 strong. Among the slain was +Father Murphy from the County of Wexford. They lost about 1000 +killed and wounded, and numbers were hanged in the streets. Every +Regiment vied with each other for victory; we took several stand of +Colours from them, made of green, white and yellow stuff. We have +prepared + +<!-- Page 73 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">73</a></span> +every thing in case of another attempt—If they do not +come forward, we will go immediately and retake Gorey, and storm +their Camp. They are greatly discouraged. Blessed be God, +notwithstanding I was exposed to a heavy fire I never received one +wound. On our side we had about 18 killed and 28 wounded. We are all +in high spirits. Capt. Knox of the Yeomenry and two of his men were +killed pursuing Rebels. Our men (in a former engagement) kept the +town of Gorey when the rest of the army left them. They are worth +gold. Pardon this scroll, as I am in haste. We have been under arms +these four days and nights.</p> + +<p class="center">Farewell,</p> + +<p class="signindr">I am yours in friendship,</p> + +<p class="signr">W. H. G.</p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<h2><a name="LETTER_IX" id="LETTER_IX"></a>LETTER IX.</h2> + +<p class="date"><span class="smcap">Gorey Camp</span>, 28th <span class="smcap">of June</span>, 1798.</p> + +<p class="salut"><i>My Dr. Friend,</i></p> + +<p>A deliverance from hostilities and severe fatigue these two days +past affords me an opportunity + +<!-- Page 74 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">74</a></span> +to address you. In my two last +letters to Dublin, I gave a particular account of those facts to +which I was an eye-witness—You shall now have those which have +since occured.</p> + +<p>The 13th Inst. we received orders to move forward from Arklow, and +in the evening arrived at Gorey—but oh! what a strange reverse! The +town in the absence of the Army was plundered, and almost totally +destroyed by the Rebels; even the Church did not escape their +sacrilegious fury!—they demolished the windows, dragged down the +pulpit, and tore to pieces many of the pews; but what is still more +shocking to relate, at which your soul must recoil, stained it with +the blood of two <i>Protestants</i>, whom they immolated inside—they +burned the two elegant seats belonging to the Ram family here.</p> + +<p>The Rebels upon being apprised of our approach, broke up their Camp, +and precipitately retreated to Vinegar-Hill—We next morning pursued +and killed several of them on the way. In the evening we pitched our +Tents in a small village + +<!-- Page 75 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">75</a></span> +called Houlett, within seven miles of +Wexford, with an intention of remaining there for the night; but +perceiving their pickets on an adjacent hill that commanded our +Camp, at ten o'clock we struck our Tents, marched by a circuitous +route, and in the morning at dawn of day we found ourselves on the +off-side of their daring position.</p> + +<p>From their great numbers and strong bulwarks they concluded they +were impregnable. It is agreed they had that day on Vinegar-hill +30,000! We reconnoitred for some time, and distinctly observed them +to draw up in <i>solid lines</i>. The order of Battle was to commence, by +the command of Gen. Lake, at 9 o'clock. His Army took one side of +the Hill to bombard it, the Light Brigade, under Col. Campbell took +another—other Commanders were fixed in like manner. Our Brigade, +consisting of the Armagh, Cavan, Durham, Antrim, and part of the +Londonderry, Dunbarton, Tyrone and Suffolk—in all about 3000 brave +Troops had to march four miles; it being appointed that we should +flank them in another quarter.</p> + +<div> +<!-- Page 76 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">76</a></span> +</div> + +<p>I shall give you a view of their situation—Vinegar-hill is very +steep, rising in the form of a cone: at the but of it are two other +hills, with quicksets and other ditches across them—these were +lined with their musketry men:—a river ran at the bottom of both, +and adjacent was a small wood. At the bottom of Vinegar-hill was the +once beautiful, but now ruined town of Enniscorthy—on the top of +the great hill was the but of an old windmill, on which they had +placed their <i>green flag</i> of defiance—in a word, the position of +the Rebels was one of the strongest I ever saw. The Rebels did not +wait the time appointed, but commenced cannonading at seven o'clock. +They could not tell what to make of the bombs, and said "they spit +fire at us"—indeed they answered they desired end, by the numbers +they destroyed upon their bursting.</p> + +<p>The Light Brigade, assisted by the Cavalry gained one of the lesser +hills, planted their Cannon and played briskly on them: in a short +time we possessed ourselves of both—the Rebels made to the top of +Vinegar-hill with all possible speed—the + +<!-- Page 77 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">77</a></span> +Soldiers pursued hard +after them, and beat them off it. In a little time the <i>green flag</i> +became a prey to the Royal Band, who triumphed in its fall—it was +an arduous attempt, but we succeeded in the end. The Rebel +commanders deserted their men when they found the day proved +unfavourable to their interests and fled towards Wexford, leaving +the deluded wretches to be cut in pieces. The engagement lasted two +hours and an half—the Soldiers merited the cloth they wore, and +gloried in the name of WILLIAM. Our Brigade remained all night in +the demesne of Harvey Hay, one of the Rebel Chiefs: next day we +returned to Houlet again, where we encamped for two days. The +scouting parties killed more after the different engagements than +what fell in Battle—many of their Commanders, were taken and +hanged. We have suffered much from lying on the roads and ditches +rolled in our blankets, I have almost lost my hearing, but am +content when the good old cause triumphs.</p> + +<p>P. S. At Vinegar-hill we killed men of 70 Years old—we rescued +three Officers of the Antrim + +<!-- Page 78 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">78</a></span> +Militia, and twelve Privates of the +same regiment: yesterday we hanged two of them for endeavouring to +vote away the lives of two of the above Officers and Soldiers when +prisoners.</p> + +<p class="signindr">Yours truly,</p> + +<p class="signr">W. H. G.</p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<p>The following letter was written by a sufferer in the Wexford +Rebellion, while in possession of the Rebels—it fully corroborates +the truth of the atrocities stated in the Narrative by Charles +Jackson, printed, and now selling by the Publisher hereof.—price +6dh.</p> + +<hr class="minor" /> + +<h2><a name="LETTER_X" id="LETTER_X"></a>LETTER X.</h2> + +<p class="date"><span class="smcap">Wexford</span>, <span class="smcap">May</span> 1st, 1799.</p> + +<p class="salut"><i>Sir,</i></p> + +<p><a name="DETAIL_EFFECTS"></a>Altho' I have not the happiness of being personally acquainted with +you, at the request of your Friend, Mr. W—s, it affords me pleasure +to have it in my power to send you a copy of an <i>acurate detail</i> of +the effects of the late dreadful Rebellion, + +<!-- Page 79 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">79</a></span> +as it respected this +part of the Kingdom, written by an intimate and fellow sufferer with +me and transmitted to Dublin, for publication in July 1798.</p> + +<p>On Friday evening the 25th of May, about 9 o'clock, the North Cork +Militia then quartered here, with the Wexford Yeomen Cavalry and +Infantry were ordered under arms, in consequence of an alarm that +the Insurgents were rising in the neighbourhood of Camolin, in this +County; and we continued under arms the whole of that night. On +Saturday orders arrived here from Dublin-Castle to the High Sheriff, +to apprehend B. B. Harvey, J. Colclough of Ballyteigue, and Edward +Fitzgerald of New-park; and they were committed to goal on Saturday +evening and Sunday morning. Early on Sunday morning the 27th of May, +an express arrived here that the day before an engagement took place +between a party of the Camolin Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant +Buckey, and a large body of the Rebels, that the Lieutenant was +killed, but that they had repulsed the Rebels; that they + +<!-- Page 80 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">80</a></span> +were then (Sunday morning) in great force in the neighbourhood of Oulard, +burning the houses of different Protestant Inhabitants in that part +of the County. In consequence of this information; +Lieutenant-Colonel Foot with Major Lombard, and six other officers, +and 106 men of the North Cork Militia, immediately proceeded from +this town, and came up with the Rebels at an advantageous position +they had taken on a hill near Oulard. Through the rashness of the +Major, in charging the Rebels in an incautious manner, the whole +party were surrounded, and not a man escaped instant destruction but +the Lieutenant-Colonel and two privates. By this defeat the Rebels +had acquired a powerful accession of strength and confidence, having +got the whole of the arms and about 57 rounds of ball-cartridge from +each man, they not having fired above three or four rounds when they +attempted to charge them with Bayonets. On the following morning, +the 28th, the Rebels attacked Enniscorthy, and after a severe +conflict of three hours, and above 500 of them being slain, + +<!-- Page 81 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">81</a></span> +they took the town owing to the treachery of some of the inhabitants in +setting fire to the town during the engagement, which obliged the +Militia and Yeomenry to evacuate it, and they, with all the Loyal +inhabitants that could escape, retired on Monday evening to Wexford. +On Tuesday the 29th, the Rebels formed two powerful Camps, one at +Vinegar-Hill, near Enniscorthy, and the other about three miles from +Wexford, at the Three Rocks, on the road between Wexford and Ross, +and sent threats in here that 10000 men would be detached from those +Camps to attack the town next morning.—On Wednesday the 30th, +information was received that a body of the military, (supposed to +be the 13th regiment) was attacked by the Rebels near their Camp at +the Three Rocks; this induced Lieut. Col. Maxwell, who arrived the +day before with two hundred of the Donegal Militia, to march out +with his men and four troops of Yeomen Cavalry to their assistance; +but before he had come up with them, they entirely cut off the +party, which proved to be a slight detachment of + +<!-- Page 82 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">82</a></span> +the Meath Militia, of about 100 men who were coming to Wexford with three +howitzers; and with these howitzers the Rebels attacked Col. Maxwell's party, +and obliged him to retreat into Wexford. The 13th regiment, who were +coming to our relief, finding they could not proceed to us without +attacking the Rebel Camp, returned back to Waterford. From these rapid +successes, and their encreasing numbers, (as it was supposed there +were then 20000 men ready to attack Wexford) the people here were +panic-struck; and finding that many who were entrusted with arms had +deserted the barriers, and it being considered that others could not +be depended on, the Officers concluded that the town was not +tenable, and without firing a shot it was evacuated on the 30th of +May, and shortly after entered by the Rebels; who kept possession of +it until the 21st of June. As to the different engagements the army +has had with the Rebels at Ross, Newtownbarry, Arklow, &c. you must +already be informed of them; in many instances the reports were +vague and contradictory, I shall therefore + +<!-- Page 83 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">83</a></span> +confine myself to such +particulars as fell within my own knowledge, of that I have reason +to believe are facts.</p> + +<p><a name="ATROCITIES"></a>The atrocities committed by those ferocious tygers +while they held this town, were I believe unprecedented. After taking +possession of the town, without opposition, they immediately shot several +Protestant Inhabitants, tore open most of our houses, destroyed and +carried off our effects, (their rage was most particularly directed +again at poor Mr. Daniels and mine) put every Protestant inhabitant +whom they spared from immediate death (some few excepted that they +received amongst them) to prison; but they would not stop here, we +were obliged to slaughter each other. The Sunday after they had +taken the town, June the third, Pigott, Robson, a Mr. Edwards and I, +were dragged from our cells, and forced by the Rebels to put to +death a man for being an approver against a Priest of the name of +Dixon, who had attempted to swear him to be an United Irishman; +after being made the instrument of his destruction, we were forced for + +<!-- Page 84 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">84</a></span> +to drag his body from the place of execution and throw it into +the river. After deliberating for some time whether they should +dispatch us at that moment or not, they carried us back to goal. +Others of the prisoners were obliged to perform the like Office to +another approver. After every species of insult and tyranny to us in +prison, the fatal day at length arrived (Wednesday the 20th of +June,) when the total extermination of the prisoners (namely 500) +and all the Protestant inhabitants of the town, man, woman and +child, was openly avowed to be their fixed purpose! About 95 of the +prisoners were taken out and tortured to death by pikes on the +bridge of Wexford; they returned for more victims, and I was dragged +out of the cell, when above fifty wretches (whose ill-will I had +incurred by exerting myself in the line of my duty,) cried out to +have me destroyed. Providentially an express arrived at that moment, +that the army had defeated a considerable party of the Rebels at +Long Graige, between this and Ross, and requiring an immediate +reinforcement; this + +<!-- Page 85 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">85</a></span> +made them beat to arms, and induced them at +that time to stop the work of blood. The following day they were +totally defeated at their great camp (as they termed it) at +Vinegar-Hill, and routed in all directions, and on the same day the +remaining prisoners were liberated by the army. The horrid cruelties +they committed in this town fell short (if possible) of what they +did in other parts of the County; at Scullabogue, between Taghmon +and Ross, they put 150 Protestants into a barn and burnt them to +death, amongst whom were two beautiful and accomplished young ladies +of the neighbourhood; poor G—d, the Surveyor of Taghmon, attempted +to escape from the flames at this place and was shot by them—at +Enniscorthy they scarcely left a Loyal man alive that they could +find, and the town was almost consumed by fire—There were about ten +of their leaders hanged here, upon the arrival of the army, amongst +whom were B. B. Harvey, Cor. Grogan of Johnstown, Captain Keugh, +J. H. Colclough of Ballyteigue, and Kelly of Killarn, who were +afterwards beheaded, and + +<!-- Page 86 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">86</a></span> +their heads placed over the Court-house. +In consequence of a proclamation from General Lake, inviting the +Rebels to desert their leaders, and promising pardon, numbers came +in with pikes, &c.——</p> + +<p>Such my dear Sir, is the recital of what I can recollect of the +barbarities practised here during the reign of these monsters. What +my feelings and sufferings were during that period, I cannot attempt +to describe. That the Almighty providence may preserve us all from +such another visitation, is the ardent prayer of, Yours, &c.——</p> + +<hr class="spacer" /> + +<p class="center"> +<a name="CLERGYMEN_PUT_TO_DEATH"></a><i>The following Clergymen and Gentlemen, +were taken Prisoners and put to death by the Rebels.</i></p> + +<p>The Rev. Samuel Haydon, Enniscorthy; Rev. Robert Burrowes and Son, +Oulart; Rev. Francis Turner, Ballingale; Rev. Mr. Pentland, Killarn; +Rev. Mr. Troke, Templeshannon; Captain Allen Cox, Coolelife; Major +William Hore, Harpurstown; Edward Turner, Esq. Slane Lodge; Edward +Howlin D' Arcey, Esq. Ba——n.</p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<div> +<!-- Page 87 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">87</a></span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="APPENDIX" id="APPENDIX"></a>APPENDIX.</h2> + +<p>No account having appeared of the attack at Prosperus, 'tis presumed +the following <span class="smcap">affidavit</span> made before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of +the City of Dublin, will furnish the Reader with every particular +relative thereto. The Examinant is well known to the Publisher, and +favoured him with a Copy of the same for the present <i>Narrative</i>. +The Examinant suffered much in the Rebellion, being obliged to +desert his house, and property to a considerable amount, which +became a prey to the Rebels.</p> + +<hr class="minor" /> + +<div class="sidenote"> +<table summary="sidenote"> +<tr> +<td><i>County of the City of Dublin, to Wit.</i></td> +<td><span class="size300">}</span></td> +</tr> +</table> +</div> + +<p>The Examination of J. D. late of Prosperus, in the County of +Kildare, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists, maketh Oath, +and saith; That for many nights previous to the night of the 23d of +May last, this Examinant and his family were very much alarmed lest +they should be attacked by the Rebels commonly called United +Irishmen; That + +<!-- Page 88 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">88</a></span> +Examinant thought he and his family were in some +degree secure, by the arrival of detachments of the Ancient Britons +and the North Cork Militia; That however Examinant still continued +to be alarmed, as his house was a considerable distance from the +Barracks; That Examinant saith that he was awakened about the hour +of one o'clock in the forenoon, by the barking of a large dog he +had, and some time after he was alarmed by the firing of some shots; +Examinant saith that on looking out of his window, he perceived a +great body of people armed with Pikes and Fire Arms, between whom +and the Soldiers in the Barracks a constant firing was maintained; +That as the balls passed by this Examinant's house, and one of them +close to his head, he withdrew and let down the window; That soon +after Examinant saw the Barracks on fire and heard the Soldiers +exclaim, "The house is on fire; we shall be burnt up or suffocated, +we can fight no longer"; That soon after Examinant saw the roof of +said Barracks fall in; Examinant saith that the said Rebels (whose +numbers + +<!-- Page 89 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">89</a></span> +had encreased so much as to fill the streets of Prosperous +and to cover the adjacent fields) on the falling of the roof of said +Barracks, gave many shouts which seemed to rend the skies, and made +this Examinant and his family thrill with horror; That the said +Rebels exclaimed "That the day was their own, and they would there +plant the Tree of Liberty". Examinant saith that the said Rebels +knocked at his door and desired to have it opened, expecting to find +there a party of Soldiers who had been billited there a short time +before, and Mr. Stamer, who had lodged therein when he went there to +receive his rents, as part of the town of Prosperous belonged to the +said Stamer; Examinant saith that the said Rebels approached his +house in a large body, six of which preceded the rest mounted on +some of the horses which they had taken that morning from the +Ancient Britons at Prosperous; That Examinant as soon as he came out +of his door was surrounded by a party of the said Rebels, who +presented their Pikes at him, and who he expected from the ferocity +of their looks would + +<!-- Page 90 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">90</a></span> +have instantly put him to death; that one of +the said Rebels held a musket at Examinant's breast with his finger +on the trigger; that another of the said Rebels who was a +turf-cutter, held a drawn sword over Examinant's head, and Examinant +verily believes they would have instantly put him to death, but a +young man in the croud who seemed to have some influence interposed, +beat down the musket which was presented at his breast and said he +should not kill him; Examinant saith that he knew many of the said +Rebels to whom he and his family had been very kind. That soon after +the said Rebels went in quest of the said Stamer, who lodged at some +distance from the said town; that having seized him the said Stamer, +they led him through the street by Examinant's house, surrounded by +a number of Pike-men, while a low fellow held a pistol at his head; +Examinant saith that as he passed by the Examinant's house, he the +said Stamer cast a melancholy farewel look at Examinant and his +family, that soon after the said Rebels massacred the said Stamer; +Examinant saith that soon after he + +<!-- Page 91 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">91</a></span> +went out with an intention of +enquiring for his friend Mr. —— an inhabitant of Prosperous, and +that before Examinant had gone far he was again surrounded by the +said Rebels, who he verily believes would have put him to death, but +for the interference of the person who had saved him before; +Examinant saith, he discovered soon after that Mr. Brewer, a +respectable manufacturer of said town, who had employed many of the +said Rebels, had been massacred by them, and that his body had been +mangled with savage barbarity; Examinant saith that they also +massacred a poor old man of the age of 70 years and upwards, who +served as Serjeant in his Majesty's forces, they having considered +him as an Orange-man; Examinant is convinced in his mind the only +reason why the said Rebels murdered the said Serjeant was his being +a protestant; Examinant saith that when the said Rebels had +committed the said barbarities, they exclaimed with savage joy +"where are the Heretics now? shew us the face of an Orange-man"; +Examinant saith that many women, who acting with the said Rebels, used + +<!-- Page 92 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">92</a></span> +expressions of that nature, as often and as loud as the men, +and that some old women who were amongst them seemed to brighten on +the occasion, and to shew as much fervent joy as the youngest +amongst them; That some of the said women kissed and congratulated +their fathers, their husbands, or their brothers, on the victory +they had gained, and exclaimed "Dublin and Naas have been taken and +are in possession of our friends; down with the Heretics, and down +with the Orange-men." Examinant saith that many of the wretches who +had been actors in that bloody scene, had come into the town of +Prosperous the preceding day, and in presence of Capt. Swayne, of +the—Cork Militia, whom with a party of his Regiment that morning, +viz. the 24th of May, they had massacred, and also in the presence +of their Parish Priest of the name of Higgins, and declared their +contrition for their past errors, and gave the strongest assurance +of their loyalty, for the future—that many of the said Rebels +surrendered their Pikes to the said Swayne, and as such surrender +was considered as a test of their repentance, + +<!-- Page 93 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">93</a></span> +and as necessary to +entitle them to written protections, numbers of them lamented that +they could not obtain such protections, as they never saw nor had a +Pike, and that many of them declared they would sell their Cow to +purchase a Pike if they knew where it could be bought; Examinant +saith that notwithstanding these declarations many of the said +Rebels appeared in the ranks well armed with Pikes; Examinant saith +he is convinced in his mind that the said Rebels would have +plundered and burnt all the other loyal houses of Prosperous, and +would have murdered the remaining Protestant inhabitants thereof, +but that a party of the Ancient Britons and the Cork Militia, being +a part of the detachment they had murdered that morning, +unexpectedly approached the town, and that the said Rebels on their +appearance, fled towards the bogs and morasses; Examinant saith he +could not refrain from shedding tears at seeing such scenes of +savage barbarity, and that a servant who continued faithful to him +desired him not to shew any sign of concern, lest he might draw on +him the anger and vengeance of the Rebels.</p> + +<p class="center">(<i>A true Copy.</i>)</p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<div> +<!-- Page 94 --> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">94</a></span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="ADVERTISEMENT" id="ADVERTISEMENT"></a>ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.</h2> + +<p>At the breaking out of the late unfortunate Rebellion it was my +intention to <i>note</i> every occurrence of any <i>moment</i>, and at some +future day to arrange and publish the same.—<span class="smcap">some</span> Materials for such +a Work I have collected, others I still wait for——Such an Historic +<span class="smcap">record</span> may be found acceptable; when ready it shall be announced to +the Public.</p> + +<p>The present Publication, now offered to the IRISH NATION, while it +enumerates the dangers which awaited every loyal Man, must +demonstrate to the deluded Creatures (aiding and abetting) the +certain Impossibility of succeeding in any similar attempt.</p> + +<p>To those persons who kindly supplied the Letters, &c. for the +foregoing pages, I feel particularly indebted, and beg they will +accept my grateful thanks. As I intend continuing an account of the +other Engagements down to the French Invasion and their defeat at +Ballinamuck, Gentlemen who have been in the different Battles which +are not yet come to hand, are invited to forward an account of them +as soon as possible previous to the completion of the <span class="smcap">second part</span> of +this NARRATIVE.</p> + +<p style="padding-left: 20%">With respect,</p> + +<p style="padding-left: 30%">I am the Reader's</p> + +<p style="padding-left: 40%">Obliged Servant,</p> + +<p style="padding-left: 50%"></p> + +<div> +<table summary="John Jones Signature"> +<tr> +<td class="center"><i>No. 91, Bride-street,</i><br /><i>June 5th, 1799.</i></td> +<td class="size300">}</td> +<td style="padding-left: 60%">JOHN JONES.</td> +</tr> +</table> +</div> + +<hr class="spacer" /> +<hr class="spacer" /> + +<div class="tnote"> +<h3><a name="Transcribers_Note2" id="Transcribers_Note2"></a>Transcriber's Note</h3> + +<p>Inconsistencies and variations in punctuation, spelling, hyphenation, capitalization +and grammar have been preserved to match the text of the original document published in 1799.</p> + +<p>Because the original plate for <a href="#Page_25">Page 25</a> made only a partial +impression, some words along the left side of the page were cut off. Words that were +determined from context appear with a <ins class="correction">dotted underline</ins>.</p> + +<p>Letter XI is listed as an entry in the Table of Contents. However, the original text +does not contain any document titled "Letter XI."</p> + +<p>Four page numbers in the Table of Contents have been changed in this ebook to +accurately reflect the location of material in the text. The following additional +typographical corrections have been made in this ebook:</p> + +<div class="center"> + +<table class="tntable" summary="Transcriber's Notes Part II"> + +<tr> +<td class="col1"><a href="#CONTENTS">Page ix</a>:</td> +<td class="col2">Added missing letter 'i' (sufferings)</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="col1"><a href="#Page_13">Page 13</a>:</td> +<td class="col2">Removed duplicate word 'the' (six of the Corps)</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="col1"><a href="#Page_15">Page 15</a>:</td> +<td class="col2">Changed Adout to About (About 300 of the Rebel Cavalry)</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="col1"><a href="#Page_28">Page 28</a>:</td> +<td class="col2">Added missing letter 'f' (a steady friend)</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="col1"><a href="#Page_52">Page 52</a>:</td> +<td class="col2">Removed duplicate prefix 'in-' (invulnerable commander)</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="col1"><a href="#Page_84">Page 84</a>:</td> +<td class="col2">Removed duplicate word 'to' (to be their fixed purpose)</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="col1"><a href="#Page_89">Page 89</a>:</td> +<td class="col2">Added missing letter 'b' (whose numbers had encreased)</td> +</tr> + +</table> +</div> + +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of An Impartial Narrative of the Most +Important Engagements Which Took Place Between His Majesty's Forces and the Rebels, During the Irish Rebellion, 1798., by John Jones + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE *** + +***** This file should be named 28529-h.htm or 28529-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/5/2/28529/ + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, C. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: An Impartial Narrative of the Most Important Engagements Which Took Place Between His Majesty's Forces and the Rebels, During the Irish Rebellion, 1798. + Including very interesting information not before made + public. Carefully collected from authentic letters. + +Author: John Jones + +Release Date: April 8, 2009 [EBook #28529] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE *** + + + + +Produced by Robert Cicconetti, C. St. Charleskindt and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +Transcriber's Note + +Inconsistencies and variations in spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, +punctuation and grammar have been preserved in this ebook to match the +text of the original document published in 1799. + +A few typographical corrections have been made; details of these changes +can be found in a second Transcriber's Note at the end of this text. + + + + + AN IMPARTIAL + NARRATIVE + OF THE + _MOST IMPORTANT_ + ENGAGEMENTS + WHICH TOOK PLACE BETWEEN + HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES + AND THE + _REBELS_, + DURING + =The Irish Rebellion=, + _1798_. + + INCLUDING VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION + NOT BEFORE MADE PUBLIC. + + + _CAREFULLY COLLECTED_ + FROM AUTHENTIC LETTERS. + + + DUBLIN: + + + =Printed and Sold by John Jones=, + 91, BRIDE-STREET. + + + 1799. + (_Price 1s. 1d._) + + + + +PREFACE. + + +The Editor with the most profound respect, submits to the Public the +following NARRATIVE.--It forms a small portion of a more extended +work, calculated to contain the particulars of every remarkable +occurrence, connected with the Rebellion, which happened in the +course of the last year;--a year which will constitute an EPOCH in +the history of Ireland, and the events of which ought to be +universally known. + +The moment of action is not the most favourable to accuracy of +detail:--Notwithstanding the purest intentions and the most +scrupulous regard to truth, much will remain, for candour to +extenuate and information to supply. Impressed with this sentiment, +and feeling the importance of the subject, the Editor has waited +till the season of tranquility, and now presents to the public eye, +the produce of his exertions. He wished to postpone the Publication +in order to complete it, but he yields to the entreaties of his +Friends, and finds it necessary to make some sacrifice to the +eagerness of public curiosity: The remaining part is in preparation +for the Press, and as he continues to be supplied by those who were +witnesses at the transactions, and consequently most capable of +communicating correct intelligence, he hopes soon to accomplish +his design. + +The Reader will perceive from the following specimen, that the +accounts of the Battles are not arranged in chronological order; +neither do they boast of any great pretensions to literary merit; +but they will be found to have a recommendation more valuable than +either--AUTHENTICITY. The Editor was less solicitous about the style +of the work, than the truth of it, and where, upon investigation, +the matter conveyed to him proved correct, he has given it in the +language of his correspondent. + +If History be, as it has been elegantly described, "Philosophy +teaching by Example,"--what example more necessary to be held out +to public view, and transmitted to posterity, than that which shews +the dreadful effects of a Revolution attempted by force? Where the +visionary politician enjoys for so short a time his sanguinary +triumph--suspected even by those whom he calls his friends, he is +superseded by such as are more ferocious than himself, while the +fury of Fanaticism equally destroys _his_ prospects in the mad +effort to exterminate one religion and substitute another. + +The perusal of such transactions must suggest useful reflections. +The surviving Loyalist will rejoice in the triumph of _law_ and the +restoration of _order_. The surviving Rebel will repent of his +folly, and enjoy the comforts which Law and Order distribute. + +Such are the motives and such the object which influence the Editor +of this little Work. From those who may approve of it, and whose +situation and leisure furnish the opportunity, he requests further +assistance. Particulars of Engagements, not included in this part, +will be thankfully received, and due attention paid to them in the +subsequent Publication. + + + + +CONTENTS. + + + PAGE. + + Description of Clonard, 3 + + Battle of Timahoe, 9 + + Junction of the Wexford and + Kildare Rebels, 12 + + Battle of Clonard, _ib._ + + Mrs. Tyrrell's sufferings while + prisoner with the Rebels, 20 + + Character of Col. Perry and + Priest Kearns who were + executed 30 + + LETTERS. + + I. Battle of Carlow, 34 + + II. Battle of Ross, 38 + + III. Battle at Castlecomber, &c. 41 + + IV. Battle of Kilcomney, 49 + + V. Second Account of the + Battle at Kilcomney, 52 + + VI. Battle of Saintfield, 57 + + VII. Battle of Kilbeggan, 60 + + OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS. + + Battle of Naas 63 + + Battle of Kilcullen, 65 + + Battle of Hacketstown, 67 + + LETTERS. + + VIII. Battle of Arklow, 70 + + IX. Account of the depredations + of the Rebels at Gorey--their + sacrilegious treatment of + the Church, in which they + immolated two Protestants, 73 + + X. Situation of the Rebels on + Vinegar-Hill, 78 + + Description of + Vinegar-Hill--the Battle, 76 + + The Rebels are defeated, 77 + + XI. Accurate detail of the effects + of the Rebellion in the County + Wexford. 78 + + Battle at Oulard, 80 + + Attack at Enniscorthy, 80 + + Battle at the Three Rocks, 81 + + Atrocities of the Rebels and the + sufferings of the + Loyalists in Wexford, &c. 83 + + Names of Clergymen and principal + Gentlemen put death, 86 + + APPENDIX. + + Copy of an Affidavid made before + the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor + of the City of Dublin, relative + to the attack on Prosperous 87 + + Account of the murder of Capt. + Swayne--Burning of the + Barracks, and the cries of the + Soldiers consumed therein--Murder + of Messrs. Stamer and Brewer, &c. 88 + + + + + * * * * * + + + _WEXFORD CRUELTIES!_ + + A GENUINE WORK. + + + J. Jones informs the Reader that in a few Days he will publish + the _Fourth Edition, greatly enlarged_, on a small Type, and + good Paper, intended to bind up with the present Narrative, + + (_Price only Sixpence Halfpenny_) + + A NARRATIVE + OF THE + Sufferings and Providential Escape + OF + _CHARLES JACKSON_, + LATE RESIDENT IN WEXFORD: + _Written by himself._ + + Giving an account of his confinement and ill treatment + received from the Rebels; the political and religious + interrogations of Dick Monk; the situation of Lord + Kingsborough; description of the Rebel Camp; General Roache's + proclamation from Vinegar-hill; description of Messrs. Harvey, + Keugh and Grogan; the unheard-of cruel manner of piking the + Loyalists; the re-taking of Wexford by his Majesty's troops; + the liberation of the prisoners, succeeded by a truly + affecting scene--The general orders from Carrick-Byrne + Camp;--Proposal of the Rebels to General Lake, and his answer, + with the singular account of Mr. Colclough's behaviour at the + place of execution; also Mr. Grandy's Information before four + magistrates at Duncannon-Fort. + + This present Edition sells for _half_ the price of another + published in Dublin. + + Printing executed on the shortest Notice--Emblematic Ribbands + impressed with Gold and Silver. + + + * * * * * + + + + + A + NARRATIVE, + OF THE MOST IMPORTANT + ENGAGEMENTS, + IN THE + _IRISH REBELLION_, + 1798. + + +Clonard is situate about Twenty five miles from Dublin on the +Western road leading to Mullingar. Tho' constituted a post town, +it is a very small village, consisting of an Inn and a few thatched +houses; but from its situation being on the confines of two +counties, Kildare and Meath, and having a bridge across the river +Boyne, which opens a communication from Dublin to Westmeath, and +from thence to Athlone and the Province of Connaught, it must be +considered as a very important pass in all times of commotion and +war. On the Dublin side of the town is situated the mansion house of +the Tyrrell family, and at present belongs to _John Tyrrell_ Esq. +It is an old fashioned house, fronting the road from which it is +separated by a high wall and a court yard; having an extensive +garden upon its right, and a sheet of water upon the left.--Mr. John +Tyrrell, being a Magistrate of both Counties, Kildare and Meath, and +having exerted himself early to suppress the disturbances which were +occasioned by the Defenders, naturally became an object of their +resentment, and having been repeatedly menaced with an attack, he +fortified his house by building up the original hall door, opening +another, which might flank the approach to the house, and barricading +all the lower windows, so as to render them musquet proof. + +Upon the institution of the Yeomenry, Mr. John Tyrrell was honoured +with a Commission to raise a Corps of Cavalry, which was immediately +embodied, under the Title of the _Clonard Cavalry_, and Thomas Tyrrell, +and Thomas Barlow, Esqs. were appointed Lieutenants. This Corps soon +distinguished itself by its unwearied exertions to preserve the +peace of the neighbourhood; but in the course of the Spring of 1798, +Mr. John Tyrrell the Captain, receiving positive information of a +conspiracy to take away his life, thought it prudent to retire with +his family into England. + +The command of the Corps consequently devolved upon Mr. Thomas +Tyrrell, the first Lieutenant, who had also at this critical period +been appointed High Sheriff of the County of Kildare.--Upon the +tenth of May 1798, he received an official letter, ordering the +Clonard Cavalry upon permanent duty; in this emergency Mr. Thomas +Tyrrell, finding his own house at Kilreiny about one mile and a +half from Clonard inconvenient, and in truth indefensible from +its situation, removed with his family to his Kinsman's house at +Clonard, before described, where he mounted a guard of one Serjeant +and 18 men who were to be relieved every week. + +Orders were about the same time issued to Captain O Ferrall of the +Ballina Cavalry, to mount a permanent guard at Johnstown, near the +Nineteen Mile house, which were accordingly complied with: but upon +the 16th of May, reports of a general rising having been circulated, +and being corroborated by encreasing outrages in the neighbourhood, +Captain O Ferrall was permitted to fall back from Johnstown to +Clonard in the night time for protection; repairing to Johnstown at +four o'Clock in the morning, and retiring to Clonard in the evening. + +In this way matters went on for some time, when the country becoming +still more disturbed and apprehensions of an attack upon Clonard +becoming more serious, Lieutenant Thomas Tyrrell repaired to Dublin, +with an escort of his Corps, leaving the command at Clonard with +Lieutenant Barlow. The object of this visit to Dublin, was to +represent to Government the situation of that part of the country, +the daily apprehensions of an attack, and the necessity of a +reinforcement. Lord Castlereagh, to whom these representations were +made, answered, that under the existing circumstances no force could +be sent to Clonard, but Mr. Thomas Tyrrell was authorized to raise +some Supplementaries, for whom he would be supplied with arms and +ammunition. + +Pending this application in Dublin, viz. upon the 29th of May the +Rebels assembled to the number of 800 in the village of Carbery, +five miles from Clonard, where they burned the Protestant Charter +School and several houses; they then proceeded through Johnstown, +burning and destroying the house of every protestant near the road. +Towards evening they halted at a place called Gurteen, where they +destroyed the house of Mr. Francis Metcalf.--When intelligence of +these transactions reached Clonard, Lieutenant Barlow marched out +with a party of the guard, and being joined by Captain O Ferrall +they went in pursuit of the Rebels, but did not over take them, +until they had halted at Gurteen, where they had taken a very +advantageous position upon each side of a narrow road, behind +strong quickset hedges, so that Cavalry could not approach them +with any prospect of success. Lieutenant Barlow halted his men, +and then advancing some paces towards the enemy, took off his +helmet, and challenged them to come forward. They however declined +leaving their entrenchments, and night approaching, the Yeomenry +with great reluctance returned to their Guard house. + +On the 30th of May Lieutenant Thomas Tyrrell arrived safe from +Dublin, with his escort, carabines for the Troop, musquets for +the Supplementaries and a quantity of ammunition. The next day +he enrolled nineteen well affected protestants to act as +Supplementaries and dismounted. + +By this time the Rebels had collected a very considerable force and +every night committed some outrage and depredation. They encamped +upon an Island in the bog of Timahoe, and also at Mucklin and +Dreihid; they plundered almost every house in the neighbourhood of +their respective places, drove away all the fat cattle and horse +they could meet, and intercepted the supplies for the Dublin market. + + +_BATTLE OF TIMAHOE._ + +Government being apprized of these proceedings, dispatched General +Champagne to Clonard, where he arrived upon the 6th of June; and +after consulting with Lieutenant Tyrrell, was escorted by him to +Edendery, where the General expected a detatchment of the Limerick +Militia; but being disappointed in this respect, an express was sent +to Philipstown to hasten the reinforcement, which arrived at +Edendery upon the evening of the 7th; and on the next day, General +Champagne, having arranged his plan of operations, marched from +Edendery, with the following forces: A detatchment of the Limerick +Militia, under Lieutenant Colonel Gough; the Coolestown Yeomen +Cavalry, under Captain Wakely and Lieutenant Cartland; the Canal +Legion, under Lieutenant Adam Williams; the Clonard Cavalry, +Lieutenant T. Tyrrell; and the Ballina Cavalry, Captain O Ferrall. +These several corps were distributed, so as that the Cavalry should +surround the bog of Timahoe, while the Infantry attacked the Camp +upon the Island: This judicious plan was completely executed,--the +contest was obstinate for some time, owing to the small number +of the Infantry, who led on the attack; but their firmness and +discipline supplying the want of numbers, the Limerick, headed by +the gallant Colonel Gough, and ably supported by Lieutenant Williams +marched into the entrenchments, drove the Rebels from their camp, +who were attacked in their flight by the Cavalry and many of them +put to death. The Camp was entirely destroyed; and a great quantity +of prisoners and considerable booty were carried off by the victors! + +On the 29th of June, Lieutenant Tyrrell having received information +that a large body of Rebels had stationed themselves upon a hill +near his dwelling-house at Kilreiny, and had committed various +robberies in the course of the preceding night, he went to Kinnegad +to solicit a reinforcement and sent an express to Edendery for a +force to co-operate with him. The Kinnegad Yeomen Cavalry, under +Lieutenant Houghton, and a small party of the Northumberland +Fencibles immediately marched with Lieutenant Tyrrell to Clonard, +and from thence being joined by his own Corps, he proceeded to +_Fox's hill_, where the Rebels were posted to the amount of +600.--The attack was began by the Clonard Supplementaries, who +displayed great steadiness upon this occasion; the Kinnegad Corps +and the Northumberlands supported the attack with great zeal, and +the Edenderry force consisting of a detatchment of the Limerick, +Lieutenant Colonel Gough, the Coolestown Cavalry, Captain Wakely +and the Canal Legion, Lieutenant Williams, having fallen upon the +Rebels from the opposite side, they were routed with considerable +slaughter. Their commander, one _Casey_, his brother and another +Leader were killed in this action, and their bodies brought to +Edenderry, where they were exposed for several days. + + +_JUNCTION OF THE WEXFORD AND KILDARE REBELS._ + +It might have been hoped, that these successes would have established +tranquility in this neighbourhood, and probably such effects would +have followed the military exertions, were it not for the irruption +of a large column of Wexford Rebels into Kildare, under the command +of Colonel _Perry_ who being immediately joined by Colonel _Aylmer_, +commanding the Rebel Camp at Prosperous, was prevailed upon to abandon +his intention of penetrating into the North, and to adopt a plan +suggested by _Aylmer_, of attacking Clonard, pushing on from thence +by Kilbeggan to the Shannon and surprising Athlone. In pursuance of +this plan, the Rebel Forces amounting to 4000 men made a movement +towards Clonard. + + +_BATTLE OF CLONARD._ + +Lieutenant Tyrrell was totally unapprised of the intention, or +motions of the enemy:--his guard were extremely vigilant during +each night, but not apprehending any danger in the day time they +frequently dispersed through the village for the purpose of +recreation and refreshment. This happened to be the case with many +of his men upon Wednesday morning the 11th of July, on which day, +about eleven o'Clock Mr. _Richard Allen_ galloped into the Court, +and brought intelligence that he was pursued by a piquet guard of +the Rebels, whom he narrowly escaped as they were well mounted; and +he was confident a considerable force was approaching. The alarm was +instantly given--every exertion was made to collect the scattered +men, and parties were stationed in the most advantageous positions. +As the enemy were expected from the Dublin side, six of the Corps +(including Mr. Allen and Thomas Tyrrell junr. the Lieutenant's son, +and only fifteen years of age) took possession of an old Turret at +the extremity of the garden; and which commanded the road. Such +was the rapidity with which the Rebels advanced, that the firing +actually commenced from this quarter upon their Cavalry before the +entire guard could be collected, and the gate leading into the +Court yard was under such necessity closed to the exclusion of +several, so that when Lieutenant Tyrrell came to ascertain his +strength, he found he had only _Twenty-seven_ men, including his +own three sons, the eldest of whom was only seventeen years old! +Such a critical situation required the coolness of a man innured +to military danger, and all the exertion, firmness and skill of a +veteran soldier. But although Lieutenant Tyrrell never had served in +the Army, his own good sense supplied the want of experience, and +his native courage furnished resources adequate to the magnitude of +the occasion. He found his men as zealous as himself, determined to +maintain their post and to discharge their duty to their King and +Country, or fall in such a glorious cause. After sending a supply of +ammunition to the advanced post at the Turret, and stationing other +out-posts, he retired into the house with the main body, from which +he selected the best marksmen, and placing them at particular +windows gave directions that they should not fire without having +their object covered, he had the rest of the men secured behind the +walls and incessantly employed in loading musquets and carabines for +the marksmen at the windows. + +The firing as we have observed commenced from the Turret at the +extremity of the garden. About 300 of the Rebel Cavalry lead on by +one _Farrell_ formed their advanced guard, and approached the Turret +in a smart trot, without appearing to apprehend any danger. The +first shot was fired by young Mr. Tyrrell, which mortally wounded +Farrell, and being followed by a general discharge from the rest +among the body of the Cavalry, threw them into great confusion, in +which state they fled out of the reach of the firing. The Infantry +however coming up, many of them contrived to pass the Turret under +cover of the wall, and numbers were posted behind a thick hedge on +the opposite side of the road, from which they kept up a smart fire +against the Turret, but without doing any material mischief. + +The Infantry who had passed the Turret being joined by a party who +came by a cross road (for it seems their plan was to surround the +house by advancing in different directions) they stationed a guard +upon the Bridge to prevent any reinforcement arriving in that +direction. About ten or a dozen of this guard were in a very few +minutes shot by the marksmen from the windows, upon which the rest +fled; not one of the Rebels ventured afterwards to appear upon the +Bridge, so that the communication with the Western road was in a +great measure preserved, the importance of which to the little +garrison in Clonard will appear in the event of the day. + +The enemy being thus defeated in their first onset in both points +of attack, became exasperated to an extravagant pitch of fury, and +determined upon the most savage revenge. A large party contrived to +penetrate into the garden, by the rere, and some of them immediately +rushed into the Turret. The Yeomen stationed there were upon an +upper floor--they had the precaution to drag up the ladder by which +they ascended;--the Rebels endeavoured to climb upon each other, so +as to reach the upper story, but they were killed as fast as they +appeared; others then ran their pikes through the cieling, and +fired shots but without effect--the conflict was obstinate--twenty +seven of the Rebels lay dead on the ground floor, when at length, a +quantity of straw was brought and set on fire. The building was +soon in flames; two of the yeomen, Mr. Michael Cusack and Mr. George +Tyrrell, endeavouring to force their way through the smoke were +immediately put to death; the rest of the party viz. Mr. Allen, +young Mr. T. Tyrrell, and two others escaped by leaping from a +window twenty foot high into an hay-yard, from whence under cover of +a wall which divided it from the garden they escaped into the house. + +Having succeeded so well by the effect of conflagration, the enemy +set fire to the Toll house and some other cabbins on the left near +the Bridge, for the purpose of embarassing and confusing the +garrison; during this operation, they were seen throwing their +dead into the flames, for the purpose, it was thought of evading +discovery. + +The Battle had now lasted near six hours: about five in the evening +the approach of succour was descried from the house--the hopes of +all were elevated and they fought with renovated vigour. + +One of the guard who had been excluded by the sudden shutting of the +gates in the morning, finding he could be of no other use, repaired +to Kinnegad, represented the situation of his friends at Clonard, +upon which fourteen of the Kinnegad Infantry, under Lieutenant +Houghton, and eleven Northumberland Fencibles, under the command of +a Serjeant, immediately collected and with great gallantry marched +for Clonard. The communication by the Bridge having been kept open +in the manner before related, Lieutenant Tyrrell sallied from the +house, and soon effected a junction with this reinforcement. A +few vollies completely cleared the roads, and having then placed +the Northumberland and Kinnegad men in such situations as most +effectually to gall the enemy in their retreat from the garden, +the Lieutenant undertook in person, the hazardous enterprise of +dislodging them from thence. + +At this time, it is supposed there were 400 Rebels in the garden; +numbers of them were posted upon a mount planted with old fir trees, +which afforded considerable protection, and many lay concealed +behind a privet hedge, from whence they could distinctly see +every person who entered the garden, tho' they could not be seen +themselves--Lieutenant Tyrrell at the head of a few picked men, +rushed into the garden; and was received by a general discharge from +both parties of the enemy: no time was lost in attacking the party +behind the hedge, who being defeated, retired to the mount;--here +the action again became warm, the Rebels appeared determined to +maintain the advantage of their situation, and the Yeomen, tho' +fatigued with the labour of the day, could not think of retiring. +Six of them were badly wounded, among whom was Mr. Richard Allen, +who had so gallantly defended the Turrett--a ball passed thro' his +left arm, and entered his side; his comrades still persevered +with the most undaunted courage, and supporting a steady and well +directed fire against the mount, the enemy were at length dispersed, +and in their flight were met by the Northumberland and Kinnegad +Corps who made great havoc among them. + +The victory was now complete--as glorious an achievement, we will +venture to say, as occurred during the whole rebellion, and for +which the gallant officers and men can never be too much applauded, +whether we consider it as an unexampled display of genuine loyalty +and true courage, or estimate its value from its immence importance +to that part of the country and the kingdom at large. It was the +first check which the United Army of Wexford and Kildare experienced +and proved the fore-runner of those multiplied defeats which +terminated in its total dispersion. + + +_MRS. TYRRELL'S SUFFERINGS WHILE PRISONER WITH THE REBELS._ + +After the Battle it might have been expected that the little garrison +would have given themselves up to an excess of joy; but the breast of +their Commander was filled with anxious solicitude----the partner of +his heart--his wife, the mother of those three gallant youths, who +mixed in the hottest scenes of the day, was absent the whole time, +and no tidings of her had reached the garrison. The men sympathised +with the husband and the children, and success was thought incomplete, +until she was restored to their embraces. + +Probably the reader may participate somewhat of a similar feeling, +and desire some gratification from a brief narrative of the +circumstances attending the Lady while in possession of the Rebels. + +On the morning of the 11th of July, about the hour that the guard +dispersed, as we have before mentioned, Mrs. Tyrrell went in her +carriage from Clonard to her own house at Kilreiny upon some +domestic concerns--she soon heard the Rebels were approaching, and +speedily drove back with the hope of reaching Clonard before them. +In this however she was disappointed; the noise of musquetry +convinced her of the impractibility of this attempt. The servant +was ordered to turn about and drive to Kilreiny, from whence she +intended to send an express to Edenderry--she had not however +proceeded many yards, when the carriage was overtaken by two men +on horseback, armed with drawn swords who with oaths and menaces +ordered the servant to stop--They turned the carriage back towards +Clonard until they overtook about 200 men armed with pikes, a few +musquets and some swords. They searched the carriage for arms, +but did not find any. Mrs. Tyrrell describes the men as a ragged, +wretched looking banditti: three of them, armed with musquets +mounted the boot of the carriage; three more got behind it--and in +this manner attended by a great crowd, the carriage was drove two +miles round to the high road leading from Dublin to Clonard: here +they kept her a prisoner, notwithstanding her frequent entreaties +to be enlarged; she at one time apprehended the pike-men would cut +her to pieces, as they quarrelled among themselves, some disposed +to treat her with civility--others the reverse--After some time +she prevailed upon them to permit her to retire into a cabin, the +inhabitants of which knew her, and two men armed with musquets +were placed as centries. She there remained, until the Rebels +were defeated at Clonard, when the whole body upon their retreat +assembled at the cabin; one of the rebel officers came in and +desired Mrs. Tyrrell to get into her carriage; she asked for what +purpose. He replied, that she must go with them; she entreated him +to permit her to remain where she was, and that her carriage and +horses were at his service; he for some time denied her request: but +falling on her knees to supplicate him, he told her she might +stay:--He then withdrew, but immediately a great common fellow came +in, seized her by the arm, dragged her to the door, and desired some +men to lift her upon a horse, which had been provided for her, as +some wounded men were to be put into the carriage. Mrs. Tyrrell's +alarm now became excessive--she looked round for the person, who +had consented to let her remain in the cabin, and getting her arms +round him reminded him of his promise. He acknowledged his +engagement, but confessed he had not power to perform it--that she +must go with them, but would be accomodated with her own carriage. +Three or four men then thrust her into the carriage, which moved on, +attended by an immense body of people, and a great number of +officers. When they had proceeded about a mile, the carriage was +stopped and entered by Col. _Perry_, who said, he was fatigued. +Mrs. Tyrrell endeavoured to prevail upon him to let her go--but in +vain--she told him, she would use all her influence for his +advantage, if ever she had an oportunity--He answered, that the +Yeomen had taken a general officer, at Clonard, and that she must +remain a Prisoner till his fate was known.--After some time, +the carriage was stopped again, and a fellow came in, who told +Col. _Perry_, _he_ had a right to it, as he had taken it, and tho' +quite a common fellow, _Perry_ had not power to prevent him. +Mrs. _Tyrrell_ then applied to this man for protection; he answered, +that she could not obtain her liberty. She was now reduced to all the +anguish of despair, when a gleam of hope suddenly darted across her +mind, upon seeing a man riding beside the carriage whose countenance +was perfectly familiar--This was one _Kearns_, a popish priest, who +had been for some time a curate in the neighbourhood of Clonard, and +had always been received in Mr. Tyrrell's house, with the respect +due to his clerical function, and the hospitality of an Irish +gentleman. Upon meeting a man, who had feasted for weeks together at +her table, and a clergyman too! she thought herself secure and +implored his protection:--He coldly answered--"O, yes, Madam"--But +with all the base and black ingratitude of a sullen and unfeeling +heart, insensible to _past_ kindness, he drew back his horse, and +with the jesuitical prevarication, natural to such a character, +determined not to interfere, while he neglected to console her with +an implied offer of assistance.----Thus deserted, she again +abandoned herself to despair, and began to prepare herself for that +death, which she now looked upon as inevitable.----A man, who sat +upon the boot of the carriage, was suddenly struck with the fervency +of her devotion, and turning round, said, _He_ had as much authority +as any other man there, and that the lady should do as she pleased. +Elevated a little from her despondency by this expression, +Mrs. Tyrrell gave him her gold watch, promising him any further +reward he would demand, if he would procure her liberty.----At +this time a person in the garb of an officer, and whose countance +beamed with the rays of humanity, rode up to the carriage--she +immedeiately addressed him in the most supplicating terms--imploring +him to take pity upon a poor defenceless woman, who had not, and +who could not injure him--He interrogated her as to who she was +and how she came there.--She told him--He protested, that he did +not before know of any such thing and requested to know, what she +wished to do----She replied that she only required to be let on +her feet, that she might proceed home. He immediately ordered the +cavalcade to stop--handed her out of the carriage in the most kind +and humane manner--conducted her thro' an immense crowd of armed +men, and apologized for not accompanying her to Clonard, by saying, +"she knew, he could not do it with safety."--Mrs. Tyrrell made him +the acknowledgements of a grateful heart, and begged to be entrusted +with his name, that if ever it should be in her power, she might +return the kindness she had then experienced and repay the +obligations she had received.--He said, he was afraid, she could not +do him any service, and with apparent reluctance, told her, he was +Captain _Byrne_!--He then returned to his party, and Mrs. Tyrrell +having met some of the people in whose cabin she was a prisoner, +they accompanied her to Clonard, where she was consoled for all her +sufferings by finding her husband and children alive. + +The gentleman (for such his conduct evinced him to be) who called +himself, Captain _Byrne_, proved to be Mr. _Byrne_ of Ballymanus, +in the county of Wicklow, who afterwards surrendered himself to +Government, and Lieutenant Tyrrell being in Dublin at the time, +repaired to the Castle, had an interview with Mr. Byrne, expressed +his acknowledgements to him in the warmest terms, and represented +the conduct of Mr. Byrne to the administration in such a manner, as +shewed the Lieutenant's sense of the obligation, while it promoted +the lenient disposition which was afterwards manifested to Mr. Byrne. + +Thus have we given an authentic detail of the battle of Clonard and +the circumstances attending it, which in fact have been but little +known, no official account having ever been published concerning it. +One subject of regret however remains for the victors in the loss of +Mr. _Richard Allen_, who died of his wounds in a few days after at +Mullingar, regretted by all who knew him, as a young gentleman of +unsullied integrity and undaunted courage--attached to his King by +the purest principles of loyalty, and to his family by the warmest +affection--He was a zealous yeoman and a steady friend. All that +seems necessary to add, is to say a few words respecting the fate +of this Rebel Army and its leaders. + + +_FATE OF THE REBELS._ + +After proceeding some distance from Clonard, along the Dublin road, +they turned to the right and took up their quarters for the night +in the village of Carbery--where they possessed themselves of Lord +Harberton's house, and indulged in drinking wine and spirits to +excess--they were most of them intoxicated, in which state had they +been attacked, they must have been totally destroyed.--But the force +at Clonard was too small, had suffered too severely and expended too +much ammunition to attempt a pursuit--On the morning of the 12th of +July, the Rebels moved from Carbery to Johnstown, and from thence by +the nineteen-mile-house into the county of Meath--They were pursued +by Lieutenant Col. Gough, with a small party of the Limerick Militia, +and the Edenderry yeomen--An express had been sent to Col. Gordon, +commanding at Trim, to march out with a force from thence, and +co-operate with the Edenderry detachment--Col. Gordon accordingly +left Trim with 200 men and two pieces of cannon, but from some +fatality, yet unexplained, did not join in the attack, which +Lieutenant Col. Gough, after waiting some time and reconnoitering +the enemy posted upon a hill, commenced against them, with only sixty +infantry and twenty cavalry. The event of that engagement is well +known, the Rebels were compleatly defeated, leaving immense booty of +cattle, &c. behind them. + +They were next pursued by General Myers, with detachments of the +Dublin Yeomenry and Buckinhamshire Militia, and tho' the General was +not fortunate enough to overtake them, yet he drove them towards +Slane, where they were attacked by General Meyrick, and in several +subsequent days were met by different military bodies who successively +routed them, so that at length this formidable body was completely +dispersed. + + +_CHARACTER OF COL. PERRY, AND PRIEST KEARNS WHO WERE EXECUTED._ + +Every man who surrvived thought only of providing for his own +safety--Col. _Perry_ and Father _Kearns_ made their escape into the +King's County, and were attempting to cross a bog near _Clonbollogue_, +where they were apprehended by Mr. Ridgeway and Mr. Robinson of the +Edenderry Yeomen, who brought them to that town, where they were tried +and executed by martial law. _Perry_ was extremely communicative, and +while in custody both before and after trial gratified the enquiries +of every person who spoke to him, and made such a favourable +impression, that many regretted his fate--He acknowledged, that +150 of the rebels were killed and 60 wounded at Clonard--which tho' +accomplished by 27 men will not appear extraordinary, when it is known +that these 27 men fired upwards of 1300 ball cartridge. + +_Kearns_ was exactly the reverse of his companion--he was silent +and sulky, and seldom spoke, save to upbraid _Perry_ for his +candid acknowledgements--The history of this Priest is somewhat +extraordinary--He had actually been hanged in Paris, during the reign +of _Robespierre_, but being a large heavy man, the lamp-iron from +which he was suspended, gave way, till his toes reached the ground--in +this state, he was cut down by a physician, who had known him, brought +him to his house and recovered him. He afterwards made his escape into +Ireland;--was constituted a Curate of a chapel near Clonard, and +having suffered so much by democratic rage and insurrectionary fury, +he was looked upon as an acquisition in the neighbourhood, then much +disturbed by the defenders--He inveighed against these nightly +marawders with such appearance of sincerity and zeal, that he was +frequently consulted by the Magistrates, and sometimes accompanied +them in their patroles--Some suspicion of treachery on his part was +at length entertained, from the uniform discovery of the operations +agreed upon by the Magistrates, in consequence of which, he was +excluded from their councils, and a positive information being sworn +against him for instigating a murder which was afterwards actually +committed, he fled into Wexford, where he became a member of an +assassinating committee, in which capacity he continued to be +extremely active, until he accompanied Col. _Perry_ upon the +expedition into Kildare, which he is known to have encouraged, and +which finally led him to that fate, which was the just reward of an +hypocritical and malignant heart, filled with gloomy and ferocious +passions--He seemed rather to be an instrument of Hell, than a +minister of Heaven, for his mind was perpetually brooding over +sanguinary schemes and plans of rapine, while he assumed the sacred +vestments of a servant of Christ! + + + + +_The following Authentic Letters may be relied on, having been +written by Persons of undoubted Veracity, who were fully assured of +the Facts therein recited._ + + +LETTER I. + + +CARLOW JUNE 31st, 1798. + +_My Dr. Friend_, + +Your affectionate letter I did not receive till eight days after date: +I have felt much uneasiness at not having it in my power to answer it +sooner; you may think it strange that in the space of ten days I could +not procure time for that purpose, but were you acquainted with my +situation you would be convinced that it is a fact. If I live to see +you, I trust fully to convince you of the same. + +Providentially for me I was absent from Carlow the time of the +attack on that Town, I say providentially, for my warm spirit and +forward disposition might have led me into danger. The account which +I received from people of veracity, who were on the spot is as +follows. + +On the 24th of May, the day preceding the attack, Haydon, a Yeoman, +but an officer of the Rebels, repaired to the Country, and spent the +day in mustering his Forces. A letter relative to the business, +directed to Mr. J. D. of Arles, was by mistake put into the hands of +a Loyal Yeoman of the same christian and sirname, and residing in the +same place: The bearer was conveyed to Maryborough and executed, and +the letter sent to Col. M-- who commanded in Carlow, by means of which +the Military had timely notice of the intentions of the Rebels. There +being no Barrack for Infantry in the Town, the men were billeted upon +the Inhabitants; the genteeler sort paying for their lodging, they +were in general quartered in the Cabins. The intention of the Rebels +was to murder the Soldiers in their lodgings, surprise and take the +Horse Barracks, and then make themselves masters of the Town, which in +all probability they would have done, had not God brought their +designs to light in the manner above mentioned; for on receipt of the +above information the Infantry were ordered into the Barracks, and +kept under arms till the Insurgents had entered the Town. + +About twelve o'Clock the Rebels came forward in great force, and too +confident of a victory not yet gained, gave three cheers crying "the +Town is our own!" but how dreadfully were they disappointed? for in +that moment, the military rushing forward, cut them down in all +quarters; and having posted themselves in an advantageous manner +cut off almost all possibility of a retreat. Many of these deluded +creatures fled into the houses for shelter, but there justice pursued +them--for the Soldiers set them on fire immediately. About eighty +houses were burned, but the numbers consumed therein could not be +ascertained. + +It is supposed not less than six hundred fell that morning; and what +is surprising, only two I believe were found among the bodies with +any simptoms of life! + +Thus did God frustrate the designs of the wicked, and display his +justice and mercy in a singular manner--His justice, in suffering +the ungodly to fall into the pit which they had digged for their +innocent, unoffending neighbours; and his mercy, in preserving those +whom he employed as the Executioners of his vengeance on his +Enemies. Not a Soldier or Yeoman was so much as slightly wounded! +One Soldier indeed who had not left his billet, they hung with a +sheet; but being soon extricated he recovered immediately. + +Sir. E. C. Bart. Haydon, Kelly, Kane, Borro, two Murphys, one of +them a Serjeant in the Yeomenry, and several others were executed +a few days after. Haydon it is said, finding it going against his +friends, slipt into his Father's house, dressed himself in his +Regimentals, and came out and fought against those whom he had a +few hours before led to the slaughter. + +Thus by the interference of HIM who declares a hair of our head +cannot fall without his permission, was an innocent people saved +from the murderous designs of a Sanguinary Foe. + +I Remain yours Affectionately + +F. R. + + + + +LETTER II. + + +ROSS, JULY 20th, 1798. + +_My Dr. Friend_, + +The following account relative to the affair at Ross is remarkably +brief: particulars would fill a Volume, and as there are many things +said concerning it which cannot be depended on, I think it best to +confine myself to a few plain facts which are not disputed by any. + +On the 4th of June in the evening, the Rebels to the amount of near +20000, took possession of Corbit Hill, one mile distant from Ross. +The military force in the town was remarkably small, the fears of +the Inhabitants were raised to an alarming height, but the coming +in of the County Dublin Militia quieted them much. + +Between three and four o'Clock on the morning of the fifth, the +engagement commenced, Early in the action the Rebels were for some +time victorious, having driven before them all the black cattle they +could collect through the country; this threw the military into +confusion, and obliged many of them to retreat in great confusion +over the Bridge; some pieces of Cannon also fell into the hands of +the Enemy. The Rebels then set fire to the houses in the suburbs, +about two hundred and fifty of which were consumed; but this turned +to their own disadvantage, for the wind blowing towards them they +were inveloped in smoke, which together with the immoderate quantity +of spirituous liquors they drank on Corbet-Hill, rendered them +incapable of their business. The Dublin and Donegal Militia who kept +the guards at the Market-house and Fair-gate never left their post, +by means of which the Rebels could not penetrate into the centre of +the town; had they ran, Ross, and in all probability the provincial +towns in Munster would have fallen. + +The Soldiers who retreated (except some who fled to Waterford) soon +rallied again, and entering the town in a furious manner, obliged +the enemy to run. The Battle lasted for near twelve hours--3000 +Rebels it is said lay dead in and near the town; many also must have +died of their wounds: 'tis thought that between fifty and sixty of +the Military fell: 'twas too many, but we could hardly expect such +a victory on more reasonable terms. B. B. Harvey was commander in +chief of the Rebels; but for his bad generalship on that day was +deposed, and the command was afterwards given to Roach. + +'Twas on this dreadful day that the Barn at Scollabogue, in which +one hundred and seventy Protestants, Men, Women, and Children were +confined, was burned: the Rebels in their retreat from Ross set it +on fire, lest the Prisoners would escape. About twenty of these +sufferers I was personally acquainted with, some of them were my +intimate friends. This burning was not the act of one person as some +report, Priest Shallow of the parish of Newbawn was present, and +twenty five not included in the above number were shot in the most +deliberate manner, their cloaths being worth preserving. I pass +within two miles of the melancholy spot every month, and often +converse with those who know every particular relative to it, both +Loyalists and Rebels.---- + +Yours, F. R. + + + + +LETTER III. + + +COLLIERY, AUGUST 1st, 1798. + +_My Dr. Friend_, + +It would give me much satisfaction to have it in my power fully to +comply with your request, by furnishing you with an accurate detail +of the Engagements which took place between his Majesty's Troops +and the Rebels, for the publication you mention. If the following +particulars to which I was an eye witness can be of any service, +you are at liberty to make what use you please of the same. + +On the Morning of the twenty third of June, the Rebels who had been +driven from Vinegar Hill appeared opposite New-Bridge or Gore's-Bridge, +a neat Village on the River Barrow, Co. Kilkenny. The Forces quartered +there, consisting of one Troop of the 4th Dragoon Guards and a Company +of the Wexford Militia prepared to stop their progress, and in order +thereto took possession of the Bridge; but perceiving the Rebels +planting their Cannon on the opposite side, and fording the River in +considerable numbers (the water being low,) they were obliged to +retreat; all the Cavalry escaped, but about twenty of the Infantry +were made Prisoners, many of whom were put to death on that and the +following day. Their intention (as one who had been prisoner with +them informed me) was to form a junction with the Colliers, and after +taking Castle Comber, to proceed to Kilkenny on Monday morning. + +From New-Bridge they proceeded through Kelly-Mount (plundering as +they went along) to a hill five miles from Castle-Comber, in the range +of mountains called the Ridge, where they stopped for the night. + +Finding it impossible to get to Ross according to my travelling +plan, I was obliged to take up my quarters in the Colliery the week +before. Here I remained in total ignorance of what was going forward +in other parts of the Country, till the twenty third, the day above +mentioned, when an Express arrived, informing us that the Rebels had +crossed the Barrow, and were on their way here. In order to know +the truth of the information I rode off accompanied by a friend +towards the Ridge. After riding about three miles I got in view +of their Camp, and by the assistance of a pocket Tellescope could +discern their numbers to be about 8000. They had two stand of white +Colours, and some Soldiers (I suppose those taken that morning) +along with them. Here I met ten or twelve Loyalists with fire arms; +two or three of their company were just murdered by the Rebel +picquets, and some more wounded. Having procured a musket I advanced +with four more till we came in sight of the dead bodies; but as the +Rebel scouts were within musket shot we did not think it prudent to +venture farther. + +Seeing a Man covered with blood a distance from me, I called to him; +he crawled forward and fell at my feet,--he was a Loyalist, and had +received a dreadful wound from a broad sword on the head, and a few +slight wounds on other parts of the body. Imagining there was no +probability of his recovery, I advised him to make the best use of +the few remaining moments he had, but on examining his wounds, and +having cause to believe they were not mortal, I bound them up in the +best manner I could, and procuring a horse to carry him, my friend +and I at the risk of our lives brought him four miles across the +mountains to Castle-Comber, were he was dressed: He is now perfectly +recovered; and the happiness which the remembrance of that transaction +affords me, more than compensates for the danger and labour which +attended it. + +From seven till ten o'Clock the roads were crowded with the +Protestants flying from all parts of the adjacent country, into +Castle-Comber. At one o'Clock a Troop of the 4th Dragoons, a Company +of the Downshire Militia, and a few Yeomen arrived from Ballinakill; +these with a Troop of the R. Irish Dragoons, two Companies of the +Waterford Militia, and one Corps of Yeomen Cavalry, about two +hundred and fifty in all, made up the whole of our Military force; +a small number to oppose 8000 Furies! but that the Battle is not to +the strong, the event of that day proved. + +About four o'Clock, the Rebels arrived at Gurteen, three miles from +Castle Comber, where they heard Mass; at five they had Mass again, +(it being a holyday) at the Gizebo, a mile nearer. + +Between six and seven the engagement began at Cool-bawn, one mile +and half from Town. Being with the advanced Guard I was present at +the commencement. The Rebels advanced in the most daring manner, and +in pretty good order, having placed their Musketeers in the front +who kept up a brisk fire. I continued behind the Infantry for about +fifteen minutes, during which time the balls were whistling on every +side. I was so ignorant as to enquire what occasioned the whistling +noise, and being informed it proceeded from the balls, I began to +think of providing for my safety, as my presence there was useless, +having at this time no Arms. I then planted myself behind the pier +of a gate; but observing the Rebels advance and the Soldiers to give +way, I rode back to the Town: the Cavalry followed immediately, and +just behind me shot a villain who had the audacity to desire the +Officer to surrender the Town. Here I had a miraculous escape; for +many of the Infantry who came down close behind me were shot, by +lurking Rebels from behind the hedges. + +The Military then took possession of the Bridge, where the battle +continued hot for the space of fifteen minutes, when Captain G--n. +ordered a retreat: the Cavalry and part of the Infantry instantly +obeyed, but about twenty of the Waterford Militia absolutely refused, +declaring "they would prefer death to dishonour." they were mostly +Roman Catholics! I had not heard the order, but my horse taking head +ran off; when I knew their intentions, I did not attempt to prevent +him. We halted about a mile and half from the Town, when looking +behind we beheld it all in a blaze, the Rebel Inhabitants and some +who came the back way, set it on fire. The firing ceased for a few +minutes, the cause I know not, but words cannot express what I felt +that moment; I concluded that my unoffending friends had fallen +victims to the human Savages: they were presented to my imagination +in a thousand dreadful forms. God pardon my feelings in that moment! +how hard it is to forgive such Enemies. I proceeded slowly till I met +General Asgill, with about 1000 Men: with these I returned, sunk with +sorrow, fearing the tragic sight which I expected to present itself on +entering the Town would be too much to bear; but thanks be to God my +fears were groundless,--the few Military which remained, and about +thirty Protestants, who were determined to fight for their Wives and +Children, or perish with them, kept possession, nor suffered a Rebel +to cross the Bridge. Our Cannon in mistake played on the Town for some +time, but providentially no lives were lost thereby. The Rebels on +sight of the reinforcement took shelter in the woods, and from thence +killed a few of the Military; but eighteen rounds of Grape shot +dislodged them. 'Twas four in the afternoon before they retreated. It +is said 400 of the Rebels fell. There were twenty six Protestants in +coloured cloaths, and about twenty Soldiers killed, some of the former +were butchered in cold blood, in a manner too dreadful to relate. + +For the safety of Kilkenny, the Troops were obliged to return there +that night; the Loyalists who fled with them I think could not be +less than 600; they left the most of their property behind them, +which a party of the Rebels who returned carried off. + +The hand of God was visible in our deliverance that day; but +remarkably so in three instances which I shall mention.--First, from +midnight till five o'Clock, we had the greatest Fog I remember to +have seen; had it not been for this, in all probability the Rebels +would have divided themselves into different parties, and surrounded +the Town: but being strangers in the Country, and not knowing where +they might meet the Army, they kept in a body on the main road, and +attacked us but in one place. Secondly, the burning of the Town; for +the day being remarkably calm, the smoak lay on the street, which +prevented them from seeing our Force; for had they known that the +Army fled, 'tis more than probable they would have entered, as +there were many Entrances unguarded. + +Thirdly, the Waterford Militia's disobedience of Orders,--had they +retreated without a very extraordinary miracle the Loyalists would +have fallen a prey to their unmerciful yet unprovoked Enemies. + +Yours &c. F. R. + + + + +LETTER IV. + + +KILKENNY, AUGUST 30th, 1798. + +_My Dr. Friend_, + +In a former letter you have an account of the fate of Castle-Comber, +&c.--I have only to notice in this, that some Gentlemen who fell into +the hands of the Rebels while in possession of that town were brought +into the presence of the Rebel general Murphy, who is said to have +been a Priest in the Co. Wexford, and was excommunicated for his bad +conduct many years ago.--He was dressed in black, affected the +appearance of a stupid enthusiast, and shewed some bullets which he +said had been fired at him, but had rebounded from his invulnerable +body--incredible as it may seem, this wretched invention was +generally believed by the more wretched dupes under his command--You +have here a real statement of the facts, of which I know you have +sufficient curiosity to desire to be informed. + +On Monday morning[A] our reconnoitring parties observed the Rebel +Army posted on the bog, between John's-well mountains and the Ridge, +about eight miles distant from this City--they seemed to be at rest, +and remained quiet except when relieving their Centinels, till four +o'Clock, when they were observed to move to the right along the +Ridge towards Kelly-mount and New-bridge. + +[Footnote A: _The writer omitted the date._] + +In the course of the evening several false alarms electrified the +inhabitants here--Yet the Garrison was left the whole day at rest. +Next morning Sir C. Asgill marched with a large force, consisting of +two pieces of Artillery, part of the Wexford and Wicklow regiments, +of the 4th, 5th, and 9th, Dragoons, of Hompesch's Cavalry, the +Romney Fencibles, and of the Kilkenny, Gowran, Fassadineen +Shillelogher, Desart, Thomastown, Myshall, and Kellishin Cavalry, +he was joined on the march by the Leighlin-bridge Infantry, and part +of the Downshire Militia, with their Artillery, also the Maryborough +and Ballyfin Corps of Yeomen Cavalry. + +About six o'Clock he came up with the Rebel Army, amounting to from +five to six thousand men, advantageously posted on a rising ground, +in an extensive flat, at Kilcomny, near Gore's-Bridge--nothing could +exceed the joy of our brave Soldiers, after so many fatiguing +marches, at last to have a pleasing prospect of retaliating; the +Officers were constantly obliged to restrain their ardour. The +engagement began with a terrible fire of Artillery, which the Rebels +returned with quickness, but entirely without effect. + +A very hot fire was kept up near an hour, but unable to withstand +the impetuosity of our troops the Rebels began to give way, and fled +towards the Co. Wexford. + +A horrible slaughter now ensued, which lasted six or seven hours, +nor did it cease while a Rebel was to be seen--1100 Rebels were left +dead on the field of Action! among whom was the _invulnerable +commander Murphy_. This victory was so very decisive that we have +got possession of all their Artillery, amounting to 15 pieces of +different callibre--all their Standards, Ammunition, and Baggage, +a vast number of Pikes, Muskets, Swords, &c. 700 horses, a great +quantity of black cattle, Sheep, &c. also a vast quantity of +bedding, blanketting, and wearing apparel which were given up to +the Soldiers who bravely contended for the same. + +Yours, &c. &c.---- + + + + +LETTER V. + + +MARYBOROUGH, APRIL 20th, 1799. + +_My Dr. Friend_, + +Being desirous of making public the valour of the Troops of this +town under the command of Major Matthews of the Royal Downshire +Regiment, against the Rebels, I send you a plain narrative of facts +as follows: + +On the 24th of June 1798, four hundred of the Downshire Regiment, +with their Battalion guns, Captain Pole, with the Ballyfin Troop +of Yeomen Cavalry, and Captain Gore, with the Maryborough, (both +Troops under the immediate command of Capt. Pole) proceeded towards +the Collieries of Castlecomber and Donane, by order of Sir Charles +Asgill. On the Road we saw Castlecomber on fire; soon after we +arrived at Moyad, and saw the Rebel Army in great force on the high +grounds above Donane; we then received intelligence that Sir Charles +had engaged them at Castlecomber that morning, and that his force +was at least double ours, but that he had retired to Kilkenny. It +was now too late in the evening for us to attack; we therefore fell +back on Timahoe, determined to be at them in the morning. At Timahoe +an express met us from Sir Charles, desiring we should return to +Maryborough; this was answered by an express from us, proposing +to Sir Charles to attack the Rebels next morning on the road from +Donane, and that we would attack on the road from Timahoe. The +answer to this proposal we received at 7 o'clock next morning from +Sir Charles, who could not agree to it, as he said his Troops were +fatigued, but left it to us to fight, we could do it with security, +where we were, or to return to Maryborough. We chose to risque the +former, and the proper arrangements being made, returned to Moyad, +where we had last seen the Rebels: when our Cavalry arrived there, +they found the Rebels had gone off to the Ridge; there we pursued +them, and were again disappointed in bringing them to action, as +they had marched for Gore's-Bridge: our Cavalry then proceeded to +Old Leighlin, from which place Capt. Pole, who had gone forward for +intelligence, sent an express to inform Sir Charles Asgill of what +he had done, and of our intention to attack the Rebels wherever we +found them. At Old Leighlin we met with Mr. Vigars, to whom our +intention of attacking the Rebels was made known, and he, seeing +our men much fatigued, immediately supplied us with a number of cars +to carry them, without which assistance we should have been much +distressed; he likewise accompanied us to the scene of action, and +was always in front giving us every assistance in his power. The +whole Corps arrived at Leighlin-Bridge about twelve at night. In +two hours after an express came from Sir Charles, desiring us to +meet him at Gore's-Bridge at five in the morning; we instantly +marched, but on the road we got such intelligence as induced our +Commanding Officer to alter his route, in order to get between the +Rebels and the mountains; an account of which he sent to Sir Charles, +by Mr. Moore, Collector of this place, who, with his brother Mr. Pierce +Moore, marched with us, and to whose able advice and knowledge of the +country I heard Major Matthews say, we in a great measure owed our +success. After a march of about three hours we came in sight of the +Rebels; and, as soon as we got within a proper distance, fired some +cannon shot at them: they retired from us about a mile and a half to +form their line; we followed in Column, with our guns in front, and +our Cavalry in the rere; just as we got orders to form our line for +the attack, we heard Sir Charles's cannon on the other side of the +hill; at this instant our Cavalry were ordered to charge, which they +did in a most gallant stile; the Rebel line was instantly broke, and +we joined Sir Charles's Troops in the pursuit, which continued with +great slaughter for above six miles; all the cannon, horses, stores +and prisoners they had were taken, and their Army dispersed. + +When it is known that the Rebel Army would not have been brought to +action, or even an attempt made upon them, but for the exertion of +this little Corps--and when it is known that this Corps pursued a +large body of Rebels at least five thousand strong, with ten pieces +of cannon, for nearly forty miles, without orders or directions from +any general Officer whatsoever, and that, except some bread they got +at Leighlin-Bridge, not a man of them tasted food for forty-four +hours, I think you will agree with me that they did their duty, and +that their country ought to know it. + +Yours, &c. &c.---- + + + + +LETTER VI. + + +BELFAST, APRIL 29th, 1799. + +_Sir_, + +In compliance to your request I shall set down briefly what has been +already communicated to a few, but must thro' the medium of your +intended publication be more generally circulated. + +On Saturday morning June the 9th, 1798. Col. Stapleton having +received intimation of a number of people assembled at Saint-field, +and neighbourhood, he set out from Newtownards, with a detachment +of the York Fencible regiment, accompanied by the Newtownards and +Comber Yeomen Cavalry and Infantry; all-together about 320 men, and +two Field Pieces. + +About half past four o'clock in the evening, this little Army fell +in with a body of Rebels, supposed to be between six and seven +thousand men, near Saintfield. + +The Light Infantry, commanded by Captain Chetwynd advanced with +great gallantry to secure an eminence on the right, which having +accomplished, he was attacked by a force of at least three thousand +Rebels--the front armed with pikes, the centre and rear with +muskets, whose fire galled them severely till the body of the Troops +and Field Pieces came up, when the Rebels were routed with huge +slaughter. The Rebels by their own account lost above five hundred +men, among whom were many of their leaders. The King's Troops after +routing the Insurgents marched to Comber, where they halted during +the night--next morning proceeded to this Town. + +I am much concerned to inform you of the loss of three brave +Officers by those miscreants hands in this action--_Capt. Chetwynd_, +_Lieut. Unite_, and _Ensign J. Sparks_: Lieut. Edenson was wounded. +The whole return of his Majesty's Troops were--29 Killed, and 22 +wounded. Not only the valour of the other Officers that fell in +this engagement deserves to be publickly recorded, but that of the +amiable, gallant and much beloved Capt. C. ought not to be passed +without particular notice--This brave fellow at the head of his men +received no less than nine pike wounds! notwithstanding which he +continued his position, encouraging by his example his men to fight +like loyal Soldiers; till alas, two wounds from muskets deprived +this hero of his existence, and our country of his future services. + +Poor Sparks--whose race of glory was now ended, was but sixteen +years old, and had just before he fell, received for his intrepid +conduct the public approbation of his commanding Officer. + +Too much praise cannot be given the Newtownards and Comber Yeomen +Cavalry, who, conducted by Captains Houghton and Cleland, evidenced +the greatest intrepidity during the whole of the action. + +If it be possible to convince those deluded creatures who were then +in arms against the peace and prosperity of this Nation, and of +their certain destruction, should they again have recourse to such +rebellious measures, it must be the event of the above action, where +so many were cut off by such an inferior force. + +P. S. It was ludicrous to behold the varied badges of distinction as +worn by the Rebel chiefs; some were dressed in green jackets, turned up +with white, others yellow, white vests, buckskin breeches, half-boots, +hats with white cock-neck feathers and green cockades, &c. + +Yours, &c.---- + + + + +LETTER VII. + + +TYRELL'SPASS, APRIL 30th, 1799. + +_Dr. Friend_, + +I should have answered your favour sooner, but was making every +possible enquiry in order to furnish you with the best account +of the engagement at Kilbeggan. The gentleman, the bearer of this +(one of our Officers) and I were present on the occasion. + +On the 17th of June 1798, (on the preceding day a fair was held in +Kilbeggan. The lower order of the people appeared uncommonly civil, +and this country had a more placid appearance than for some time +before,) at 11 o'clock at night a recruit of Capt. Clarke's gave +information that the town would be attacked on the next day. As +many similar alarms had been circulated before, this was not much +regarded--however the Videts of Horse were ordered to keep a sharp +look-out, and give instant intelligence should any number of men be +descried by them. + +At break of day, (at that time of the year about two o'clock) some +persons were perceived on the top of a hill westward of the town. +Immediate notice of this was given to the Officer commanding, who +directed that the horse-guard should continue to observe the motions +of the enemy; and should their numbers encrease, to retreat slowly, +about two hundred yards in front to the town, and apprize him of +the same. + +It soon appeared that their force was between three and four +thousand divided into bands, from sixty to an hundred, in regular +order, with different kinds of Arms, principally pikes, from five to +ten feet long, pitch-forks, &c. Each band moved separately headed by +an Officer, distinguished by a green sash or cockade--most of the +men had white paper bands round their hats. + +It was generally remarked that they had all clean shirts on, had +each a piece of oat-bread in their pockets, and many were apparently +intoxicated. + +The town (the subject of this letter) has not been remarkable +for loyalty--the principal fears of the garrison arose from an +apprehension of treachery. There were then under arms sixty of the +Northumberland Fencibles, about thirty of the Fertullagh Cavalry, +and thirty loyal Protestants, who either belonged to the town or +had fled there for refuge. + +On the first appearance of the Rebels, (three hours before the attack +commenced) an express was sent to Tullamore where the principal part +of the 7th Dragoons lay--General Dunne forwarded a Troop about +eighty in number--the want of a sufficient force was of the worst +consequence, as the Rebels attacked our party in the mountains, and +obliged the Fencibles to retreat back to the town--Meantime the +Loyalists cleared the streets which were now full of Rebels without +the loss of a man--the Cavalry pursued--Sergeant Price alone killed +fourteen Pikemen. On hearing the firing a few of the Cavalry stationed +at Tyrell's-pass flew to the scene of action, just before the Black +Horse arrived--both, aided by the dismounted from Tyrrell's-pass +killed 400 of the enemy. + +Yours, &c. C. F. + + + + +The Publisher having waited in vain for a detail of the engagement +at Naas, Kilcullen, Hacketstown, &c; and public curiosity daily +encreasing, being desirous of gratifying the same, he deems it most +advisable to insert the following OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS received at the +Castle, with their dates. + + * * * * * + +_Extract of a Letter from Lord Viscount Gosford, Colonel of the +Armagh Militia, and Major Wardle, of the Ancient British Light +Dragoons, to Lieutenant General Lake, dated Naas, Thursday Morning, +8 o'Clock, 24th May, 1798._ + + +This morning, about half past 2 o'Clock, a Dragoon, from an Out-post, +came in and informed Major Wardle, of the Ancient British, that a +very considerable armed body were approaching rapidly upon the Town. +The whole garrison were instantly under Arms, and took up their +position according to a plan previously formed in case of such an +event happening. They made the attack upon our Troops, posted near the +Gaol, with great violence, but were repulsed: They then made a general +attack in almost every direction, as they had got possession of almost +every avenue into the Town. They continued to engage the Troops for +near three quarters of an hour, when they gave way, and fled on all +sides. The Cavalry immediately took advantage of their confusion, +charged in almost every direction, and killed a great number of them. +A great quantity of Arms and Pikes were taken, and within this half +hour many hundred more were brought in, found in pits near the town, +together with three men with green cockades, all of whom were hanged +in the public street. We took another prisoner whom we have spared, in +consequence of his having given us information that will enable us to +pursue these Rebels; and from this man we learn that they were above +a Thousand strong: They were commanded as this man informs us, by +Michael Reynolds, who was well mounted, and dressed in Yeoman Uniform, +but unfortunately made his escape; his horse we have got. + +About thirty Rebels were killed in the streets; in the fields, we +imagine, above an hundred; their bodies have not yet been brought +together. + +It is impossible to say too much of the Cavalry and Infantry; their +conduct was exemplary throughout. + + * * * * * + +_Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant General Dundas to Lord Viscount +Castlereagh, dated Naas, May 25th, 1798._ + + +In addition to the account which I had the honor of sending you +yesterday, I have the satisfaction to inform your Lordship, that +about 2 P. M. yesterday I marched out again to attack the Rebels, +who had assembled in great force on the North side of the Liffey, +and were advancing towards Kilcullen-Bridge: They occupied the hills +on the left of the road leading to Dublin; the road itself and the +fields highly enclosed, on the right. The attack began between 3 +and 4; was made with great gallantry, the Infantry forcing the Enemy +on the road, and driving them from the hills on the left; the Cavalry +with equal success, cutting off their retreat. The affair ended soon +after 4. The slaughter was considerable for such an action; one +Hundred and thirty lay dead. No prisoners. + +I have the further satisfaction of stating to your Lordship, that +his Majesty's Troops did not suffer in either killed or wounded. The +Rebels left great quantities of all kinds of Arms behind them, and +fled in all directions. + +This morning all is in perfect quietness. General Wilford, from +Kildare, joined me last night; an Officer with whom I serve with +unspeakable satisfaction. + +The Troops of every description, both officers and men, shewed a +degree of gallantry which it was difficult to restrain within +prudent bounds.--Captain La Touche's Corps of Yeomenry distinguished +themselves in a high stile. + + * * * * * + +_Extract of a Letter from the Reverend James Mc Ghee, Vicar of +Clonmore, County Carlow, dated Hacketstown, three o'Clock, P. M. +May 25, 1798._ + + +In consequence of an information received this morning, that a large +body of Rebels were marching to attack the Town, Lieutenant Gardiner, +with the men under his command, and a party of Yeomenry commanded by +Captain Hardy, went out to meet them. Having reconnoitred their force, +which amounted to between three and four Thousand, they took post on +a hill under the Church, and when the Rebels came tolerably near, the +Officers and Men made a Feint, and retreated into the Barrack. + +The Rebels seeing this, came on with a great shout, imagining the +day to be their own. In a few minutes Captain Hume came up with +about thirty of his Troop, and instantly charged them, on which the +Rebels retreated. A general Pursuit took place; and so complete was +the rout that above Three Hundred of the miscreants now lie dead on +the field of battle. + +To say that the _Antrim_ Regiment behaved well is not any thing new; +but the Yeomen under Captain Hardy's command behaved astonishingly; +nor can I sufficiently commend the conduct of Captain Hume and his +Corps; for though his right arm was in a sling, owing to a very +severe fall from his horse, which prevented his using his sword, he +headed his men with gallantry, and went on with spirit and bravery +that surprized every one, considering his situation. + +As to Lieutenant Gardiner, his conduct and steadiness throughout the +whole affair is far beyond my praise; but I am sorry to inform you +that a severe blow of a stone he received on his breast from a +villain whose life he had just saved, prevents his writing to you +himself. He is, however, thank God, walking about, and having been +let blood, is much better; the villain was shot dead on the spot. + +Every one of the _Antrims_ was vying with each other who should do +his duty best; and I have very great pleasure in telling you that +not a man (Mr. Gardiner excepted, and one Soldier, who received a +contusion in his arm) was in the least injured.--In short, the +loyalty and zeal of the whole party was beyond any thing that has +been seen on a similar occasion. + + * * * * * + + + + +The Publisher having been favoured with the two following letters by +an intimate Friend (to whom they were written without any intention +of appearing in print,) and also being personally acquainted with +the writer, assures the Public that every particular set forth may +be received as Facts. + +Such is the established character of the writer, who is known to +numbers, that he would not advance a falsehood--he was in most +engagements from the breaking out of the late Rebellion to the +defeat of the French at Balinamuck; an account of which is now in +the possession of the publisher, and shall be given in due time. + + + + +LETTER VIII. + +Some account of the Battle of Arklow, by H. G. of the Armagh +Militia, in a letter to a Friend in Dublin, dated Arklow, +June 13th, 1798. + +Written on the Field of Action. + + +_My Dr. Friend_, + +I wrote to Mr. H. by one of the Conductors who promised to leave +the letter at your house, in which I gave him a circumstantial +account[B] of what took place from the time I left Naas, till the +battle of Gorey, and our retreat to Wicklow afterwards. + +[Footnote B: _The Press was stopped for ten days, and every possible +enquiry made to recover the Letter alluded to, but for the present +it cannot be procured._] + +On Saturday last we were informed that the Rebels in great force +were pursuing us, the drums beat to arms, and our forces assembled +immediately. Our General formed a square of Infantry at one end of +the town, and left the Cavalry to defend the other. In a little +time the Out-posts were driven in, and shortly after appeared their +Colours flying. They extended for more than _five miles_ around us: +a most awful sight! In order to intimidate us they fixed their hats +on their Pikes and rushed on. + +Their Artillery was planted on an eminence which commanded us--Their +armed men in Front, and pike to charge in the Rear. In this order +of Battle they came forward. We waited the first onset; in a few +minutes the firing commenced in all quarters, which lasted from four +o'clock in the afternoon, till near nine at night. They endeavoured +to break our square in every quarter, but like true Soldiers we +cleaved together and repelled them; they stormed our little line +twice, but were beat back with slaughter; they drove their +dismounted horses to the mouths of the Cannon in order to shelter +themselves, but the grape shot made them fall on every side; they +even set the town on fire in order to annoy us with the smoak, but +the wind at the order of _our God_ turned, drove it from us, and +confounded them in their own device; they did every thing like +inveterate enemies, and desperate madmen to accomplish their ends; +and their Priests informed them that they could catch the Heretics +balls in their hands, and threw some (as tho' they had caught them) +to their rebellious mob to fire again at us, and declared they could +beat us with the dust of the earth. Oh what superstition! This was +confirmed by deserters from their Camp, who informed us likewise, +that flushed with victory at Gorey, they thought that after they had +taken Arklow, nothing could stop them till they arrived at Dublin; +and indeed I believe, that this Battle for the present, has decided +the fate of this Kingdom. + +One of the Antrim Militia, who fled from them after the Battle reports +their Army to have been 20,000 strong. Among the slain was Father +Murphy from the County of Wexford. They lost about 1000 killed and +wounded, and numbers were hanged in the streets. Every Regiment vied +with each other for victory; we took several stand of Colours from +them, made of green, white and yellow stuff. We have prepared every +thing in case of another attempt--If they do not come forward, we will +go immediately and retake Gorey, and storm their Camp. They are +greatly discouraged. Blessed be God, notwithstanding I was exposed to +a heavy fire I never received one wound. On our side we had about 18 +killed and 28 wounded. We are all in high spirits. Capt. Knox of the +Yeomenry and two of his men were killed pursuing Rebels. Our men (in +a former engagement) kept the town of Gorey when the rest of the army +left them. They are worth gold. Pardon this scroll, as I am in haste. +We have been under arms these four days and nights. + +Farewell, + +I am yours in friendship, + +W. H. G. + + + + +LETTER IX. + + +GOREY CAMP, 28th OF JUNE, 1798. + +_My Dr. Friend_, + +A deliverance from hostilities and severe fatigue these two days +past affords me an opportunity to address you. In my two last +letters to Dublin, I gave a particular account of those facts to +which I was an eye-witness--You shall now have those which have +since occured. + +The 13th Inst. we received orders to move forward from Arklow, and +in the evening arrived at Gorey--but oh! what a strange reverse! The +town in the absence of the Army was plundered, and almost totally +destroyed by the Rebels; even the Church did not escape their +sacrilegious fury!--they demolished the windows, dragged down the +pulpit, and tore to pieces many of the pews; but what is still more +shocking to relate, at which your soul must recoil, stained it with +the blood of two _Protestants_, whom they immolated inside--they +burned the two elegant seats belonging to the Ram family here. + +The Rebels upon being apprised of our approach, broke up their Camp, +and precipitately retreated to Vinegar-Hill--We next morning pursued +and killed several of them on the way. In the evening we pitched +our Tents in a small village called Houlett, within seven miles of +Wexford, with an intention of remaining there for the night; but +perceiving their pickets on an adjacent hill that commanded our +Camp, at ten o'clock we struck our Tents, marched by a circuitous +route, and in the morning at dawn of day we found ourselves on the +off-side of their daring position. + +From their great numbers and strong bulwarks they concluded they +were impregnable. It is agreed they had that day on Vinegar-hill +30,000! We reconnoitred for some time, and distinctly observed them +to draw up in _solid lines_. The order of Battle was to commence, by +the command of Gen. Lake, at 9 o'clock. His Army took one side of +the Hill to bombard it, the Light Brigade, under Col. Campbell took +another--other Commanders were fixed in like manner. Our Brigade, +consisting of the Armagh, Cavan, Durham, Antrim, and part of the +Londonderry, Dunbarton, Tyrone and Suffolk--in all about 3000 brave +Troops had to march four miles; it being appointed that we should +flank them in another quarter. + +I shall give you a view of their situation--Vinegar-hill is very +steep, rising in the form of a cone: at the but of it are two other +hills, with quicksets and other ditches across them--these were +lined with their musketry men:--a river ran at the bottom of both, +and adjacent was a small wood. At the bottom of Vinegar-hill was the +once beautiful, but now ruined town of Enniscorthy--on the top of +the great hill was the but of an old windmill, on which they had +placed their _green flag_ of defiance--in a word, the position of +the Rebels was one of the strongest I ever saw. The Rebels did not +wait the time appointed, but commenced cannonading at seven o'clock. +They could not tell what to make of the bombs, and said "they spit +fire at us"--indeed they answered they desired end, by the numbers +they destroyed upon their bursting. + +The Light Brigade, assisted by the Cavalry gained one of the lesser +hills, planted their Cannon and played briskly on them: in a short +time we possessed ourselves of both--the Rebels made to the top of +Vinegar-hill with all possible speed--the Soldiers pursued hard +after them, and beat them off it. In a little time the _green flag_ +became a prey to the Royal Band, who triumphed in its fall--it was +an arduous attempt, but we succeeded in the end. The Rebel +commanders deserted their men when they found the day proved +unfavourable to their interests and fled towards Wexford, leaving +the deluded wretches to be cut in pieces. The engagement lasted two +hours and an half--the Soldiers merited the cloth they wore, and +gloried in the name of WILLIAM. Our Brigade remained all night in +the demesne of Harvey Hay, one of the Rebel Chiefs: next day we +returned to Houlet again, where we encamped for two days. The +scouting parties killed more after the different engagements than +what fell in Battle--many of their Commanders, were taken and +hanged. We have suffered much from lying on the roads and ditches +rolled in our blankets, I have almost lost my hearing, but am +content when the good old cause triumphs. + +P. S. At Vinegar-hill we killed men of 70 Years old--we rescued +three Officers of the Antrim Militia, and twelve Privates of the +same regiment: yesterday we hanged two of them for endeavouring to +vote away the lives of two of the above Officers and Soldiers when +prisoners. + +Yours truly, + +W. H. G. + + + + +The following letter was written by a sufferer in the Wexford Rebellion, +while in possession of the Rebels--it fully corroborates the truth of +the atrocities stated in the Narrative by Charles Jackson, printed, and +now selling by the Publisher hereof.--price 6dh. + + +LETTER X. + + +WEXFORD, MAY 1st, 1799. + +_Sir_, + +Altho' I have not the happiness of being personally acquainted with +you, at the request of your Friend, Mr. W--s, it affords me pleasure +to have it in my power to send you a copy of an _acurate detail_ of +the effects of the late dreadful Rebellion, as it respected this +part of the Kingdom, written by an intimate and fellow sufferer with +me and transmitted to Dublin, for publication in July 1798. + +On Friday evening the 25th of May, about 9 o'clock, the North Cork +Militia then quartered here, with the Wexford Yeomen Cavalry and +Infantry were ordered under arms, in consequence of an alarm that +the Insurgents were rising in the neighbourhood of Camolin, in this +County; and we continued under arms the whole of that night. On +Saturday orders arrived here from Dublin-Castle to the High Sheriff, +to apprehend B. B. Harvey, J. Colclough of Ballyteigue, and Edward +Fitzgerald of New-park; and they were committed to goal on Saturday +evening and Sunday morning. Early on Sunday morning the 27th of May, +an express arrived here that the day before an engagement took place +between a party of the Camolin Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant +Buckey, and a large body of the Rebels, that the Lieutenant was +killed, but that they had repulsed the Rebels; that they were then +(Sunday morning) in great force in the neighbourhood of Oulard, +burning the houses of different Protestant Inhabitants in that part +of the County. In consequence of this information; Lieutenant-Colonel +Foot with Major Lombard, and six other officers, and 106 men of the +North Cork Militia, immediately proceeded from this town, and came up +with the Rebels at an advantageous position they had taken on a hill +near Oulard. Through the rashness of the Major, in charging the Rebels +in an incautious manner, the whole party were surrounded, and not a +man escaped instant destruction but the Lieutenant-Colonel and two +privates. By this defeat the Rebels had acquired a powerful accession +of strength and confidence, having got the whole of the arms and about +57 rounds of ball-cartridge from each man, they not having fired above +three or four rounds when they attempted to charge them with Bayonets. +On the following morning, the 28th, the Rebels attacked Enniscorthy, +and after a severe conflict of three hours, and above 500 of them +being slain, they took the town owing to the treachery of some of the +inhabitants in setting fire to the town during the engagement, which +obliged the Militia and Yeomenry to evacuate it, and they, with all +the Loyal inhabitants that could escape, retired on Monday evening to +Wexford. On Tuesday the 29th, the Rebels formed two powerful Camps, +one at Vinegar-Hill, near Enniscorthy, and the other about three miles +from Wexford, at the Three Rocks, on the road between Wexford and +Ross, and sent threats in here that 10000 men would be detached from +those Camps to attack the town next morning.--On Wednesday the 30th, +information was received that a body of the military, (supposed to be +the 13th regiment) was attacked by the Rebels near their Camp at the +Three Rocks; this induced Lieut. Col. Maxwell, who arrived the day +before with two hundred of the Donegal Militia, to march out with his +men and four troops of Yeomen Cavalry to their assistance; but before +he had come up with them, they entirely cut off the party, which +proved to be a slight detachment of the Meath Militia, of about 100 +men who were coming to Wexford with three howitzers; and with these +howitzers the Rebels attacked Col. Maxwell's party, and obliged him +to retreat into Wexford. The 13th regiment, who were coming to our +relief, finding they could not proceed to us without attacking the +Rebel Camp, returned back to Waterford. From these rapid successes, +and their encreasing numbers, (as it was supposed there were then +20000 men ready to attack Wexford) the people here were panic-struck; +and finding that many who were entrusted with arms had deserted the +barriers, and it being considered that others could not be depended +on, the Officers concluded that the town was not tenable, and without +firing a shot it was evacuated on the 30th of May, and shortly after +entered by the Rebels; who kept possession of it until the 21st of +June. As to the different engagements the army has had with the Rebels +at Ross, Newtownbarry, Arklow, &c. you must already be informed of +them; in many instances the reports were vague and contradictory, I +shall therefore confine myself to such particulars as fell within my +own knowledge, of that I have reason to believe are facts. + +The atrocities committed by those ferocious tygers while they held +this town, were I believe unprecedented. After taking possession +of the town, without opposition, they immediately shot several +Protestant Inhabitants, tore open most of our houses, destroyed and +carried off our effects, (their rage was most particularly directed +again at poor Mr. Daniels and mine) put every Protestant inhabitant +whom they spared from immediate death (some few excepted that they +received amongst them) to prison; but they would not stop here, we +were obliged to slaughter each other. The Sunday after they had +taken the town, June the third, Pigott, Robson, a Mr. Edwards and +I, were dragged from our cells, and forced by the Rebels to put to +death a man for being an approver against a Priest of the name of +Dixon, who had attempted to swear him to be an United Irishman; +after being made the instrument of his destruction, we were forced +for to drag his body from the place of execution and throw it into +the river. After deliberating for some time whether they should +dispatch us at that moment or not, they carried us back to goal. +Others of the prisoners were obliged to perform the like Office to +another approver. After every species of insult and tyranny to us +in prison, the fatal day at length arrived (Wednesday the 20th of +June,) when the total extermination of the prisoners (namely 500) +and all the Protestant inhabitants of the town, man, woman and +child, was openly avowed to be their fixed purpose! About 95 of the +prisoners were taken out and tortured to death by pikes on the +bridge of Wexford; they returned for more victims, and I was dragged +out of the cell, when above fifty wretches (whose ill-will I had +incurred by exerting myself in the line of my duty,) cried out to +have me destroyed. Providentially an express arrived at that moment, +that the army had defeated a considerable party of the Rebels at +Long Graige, between this and Ross, and requiring an immediate +reinforcement; this made them beat to arms, and induced them at +that time to stop the work of blood. The following day they were +totally defeated at their great camp (as they termed it) at +Vinegar-Hill, and routed in all directions, and on the same day the +remaining prisoners were liberated by the army. The horrid cruelties +they committed in this town fell short (if possible) of what they +did in other parts of the County; at Scullabogue, between Taghmon +and Ross, they put 150 Protestants into a barn and burnt them to +death, amongst whom were two beautiful and accomplished young ladies +of the neighbourhood; poor G--d, the Surveyor of Taghmon, attempted +to escape from the flames at this place and was shot by them--at +Enniscorthy they scarcely left a Loyal man alive that they could +find, and the town was almost consumed by fire--There were about ten +of their leaders hanged here, upon the arrival of the army, amongst +whom were B. B. Harvey, Cor. Grogan of Johnstown, Captain Keugh, +J. H. Colclough of Ballyteigue, and Kelly of Killarn, who were +afterwards beheaded, and their heads placed over the Court-house. +In consequence of a proclamation from General Lake, inviting the +Rebels to desert their leaders, and promising pardon, numbers came +in with pikes, &c.---- + +Such my dear Sir, is the recital of what I can recollect of the +barbarities practised here during the reign of these monsters. What +my feelings and sufferings were during that period, I cannot attempt +to describe. That the Almighty providence may preserve us all from +such another visitation, is the ardent prayer of, Yours, &c.---- + + +_The following Clergymen and Gentlemen, were taken Prisoners and put +to death by the Rebels._ + +The Rev. Samuel Haydon, Enniscorthy; Rev. Robert Burrowes and Son, +Oulart; Rev. Francis Turner, Ballingale; Rev. Mr. Pentland, Killarn; +Rev. Mr. Troke, Templeshannon; Captain Allen Cox, Coolelife; Major +William Hore, Harpurstown; Edward Turner, Esq. Slane Lodge; Edward +Howlin D' Arcey, Esq. Ba----n. + + + + +APPENDIX. + + +No account having appeared of the attack at Prosperus, 'tis presumed +the following AFFIDAVIT made before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of +the City of Dublin, will furnish the Reader with every particular +relative thereto. The Examinant is well known to the Publisher, and +favoured him with a Copy of the same for the present _Narrative_. +The Examinant suffered much in the Rebellion, being obliged to +desert his house, and property to a considerable amount, which +became a prey to the Rebels. + + +[Sidenote: _County of the City of } +Dublin, to Wit._ }] + +The Examination of J. D. late of Prosperus, in the County of Kildare, +who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists, maketh Oath, and saith; +That for many nights previous to the night of the 23d of May last, +this Examinant and his family were very much alarmed lest they should +be attacked by the Rebels commonly called United Irishmen; That +Examinant thought he and his family were in some degree secure, by +the arrival of detachments of the Ancient Britons and the North Cork +Militia; That however Examinant still continued to be alarmed, as his +house was a considerable distance from the Barracks; That Examinant +saith that he was awakened about the hour of one o'clock in the +forenoon, by the barking of a large dog he had, and some time after +he was alarmed by the firing of some shots; Examinant saith that on +looking out of his window, he perceived a great body of people armed +with Pikes and Fire Arms, between whom and the Soldiers in the +Barracks a constant firing was maintained; That as the balls passed by +this Examinant's house, and one of them close to his head, he withdrew +and let down the window; That soon after Examinant saw the Barracks on +fire and heard the Soldiers exclaim, "The house is on fire; we shall +be burnt up or suffocated, we can fight no longer"; That soon after +Examinant saw the roof of said Barracks fall in; Examinant saith that +the said Rebels (whose numbers had encreased so much as to fill the +streets of Prosperous and to cover the adjacent fields) on the falling +of the roof of said Barracks, gave many shouts which seemed to rend +the skies, and made this Examinant and his family thrill with horror; +That the said Rebels exclaimed "That the day was their own, and they +would there plant the Tree of Liberty". Examinant saith that the said +Rebels knocked at his door and desired to have it opened, expecting +to find there a party of Soldiers who had been billited there a short +time before, and Mr. Stamer, who had lodged therein when he went there +to receive his rents, as part of the town of Prosperous belonged to +the said Stamer; Examinant saith that the said Rebels approached his +house in a large body, six of which preceded the rest mounted on some +of the horses which they had taken that morning from the Ancient +Britons at Prosperous; That Examinant as soon as he came out of his +door was surrounded by a party of the said Rebels, who presented their +Pikes at him, and who he expected from the ferocity of their looks +would have instantly put him to death; that one of the said Rebels +held a musket at Examinant's breast with his finger on the trigger; +that another of the said Rebels who was a turf-cutter, held a drawn +sword over Examinant's head, and Examinant verily believes they would +have instantly put him to death, but a young man in the croud who +seemed to have some influence interposed, beat down the musket which +was presented at his breast and said he should not kill him; Examinant +saith that he knew many of the said Rebels to whom he and his family +had been very kind. That soon after the said Rebels went in quest of +the said Stamer, who lodged at some distance from the said town; that +having seized him the said Stamer, they led him through the street by +Examinant's house, surrounded by a number of Pike-men, while a low +fellow held a pistol at his head; Examinant saith that as he passed +by the Examinant's house, he the said Stamer cast a melancholy farewel +look at Examinant and his family, that soon after the said Rebels +massacred the said Stamer; Examinant saith that soon after he went +out with an intention of enquiring for his friend Mr. ---- an inhabitant +of Prosperous, and that before Examinant had gone far he was again +surrounded by the said Rebels, who he verily believes would have put +him to death, but for the interference of the person who had saved him +before; Examinant saith, he discovered soon after that Mr. Brewer, a +respectable manufacturer of said town, who had employed many of the +said Rebels, had been massacred by them, and that his body had been +mangled with savage barbarity; Examinant saith that they also +massacred a poor old man of the age of 70 years and upwards, who +served as Serjeant in his Majesty's forces, they having considered him +as an Orange-man; Examinant is convinced in his mind the only reason +why the said Rebels murdered the said Serjeant was his being a +protestant; Examinant saith that when the said Rebels had committed +the said barbarities, they exclaimed with savage joy "where are the +Heretics now? shew us the face of an Orange-man"; Examinant saith that +many women, who acting with the said Rebels, used expressions of that +nature, as often and as loud as the men, and that some old women who +were amongst them seemed to brighten on the occasion, and to shew as +much fervent joy as the youngest amongst them; That some of the said +women kissed and congratulated their fathers, their husbands, or their +brothers, on the victory they had gained, and exclaimed "Dublin and +Naas have been taken and are in possession of our friends; down with +the Heretics, and down with the Orange-men." Examinant saith that many +of the wretches who had been actors in that bloody scene, had come +into the town of Prosperous the preceding day, and in presence of +Capt. Swayne, of the--Cork Militia, whom with a party of his Regiment +that morning, viz. the 24th of May, they had massacred, and also in +the presence of their Parish Priest of the name of Higgins, and +declared their contrition for their past errors, and gave the +strongest assurance of their loyalty, for the future--that many of +the said Rebels surrendered their Pikes to the said Swayne, and as +such surrender was considered as a test of their repentance, and as +necessary to entitle them to written protections, numbers of them +lamented that they could not obtain such protections, as they never +saw nor had a Pike, and that many of them declared they would sell +their Cow to purchase a Pike if they knew where it could be bought; +Examinant saith that notwithstanding these declarations many of the +said Rebels appeared in the ranks well armed with Pikes; Examinant +saith he is convinced in his mind that the said Rebels would have +plundered and burnt all the other loyal houses of Prosperous, and +would have murdered the remaining Protestant inhabitants thereof, +but that a party of the Ancient Britons and the Cork Militia, being +a part of the detachment they had murdered that morning, unexpectedly +approached the town, and that the said Rebels on their appearance, +fled towards the bogs and morasses; Examinant saith he could not +refrain from shedding tears at seeing such scenes of savage barbarity, +and that a servant who continued faithful to him desired him not to +shew any sign of concern, lest he might draw on him the anger and +vengeance of the Rebels. + +(_A true Copy._) + + + + +ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER. + + +At the breaking out of the late unfortunate Rebellion it was my +intention to _note_ every occurrence of any _moment_, and at some +future day to arrange and publish the same.--SOME Materials for such +a Work I have collected, others I still wait for----Such an Historic +RECORD may be found acceptable; when ready it shall be announced to +the Public. + +The present Publication, now offered to the IRISH NATION, while it +enumerates the dangers which awaited every loyal Man, must +demonstrate to the deluded Creatures (aiding and abetting) the +certain Impossibility of succeeding in any similar attempt. + +To those persons who kindly supplied the Letters, &c. for the +foregoing pages, I feel particularly indebted, and beg they will +accept my grateful thanks. As I intend continuing an account of the +other Engagements down to the French Invasion and their defeat at +Ballinamuck, Gentlemen who have been in the different Battles which +are not yet come to hand, are invited to forward an account of them +as soon as possible previous to the completion of the SECOND PART +of this NARRATIVE. + +With respect, + +I am the Reader's + +Obliged Servant, + +_No. 91, Bride-street_, } JOHN JONES. +_June 5th, 1799_. } + + + + +Transcriber's Note + +Inconsistencies and variations in punctuation, spelling, hyphenation, +capitalization and grammar have been preserved to match the text of +the original document published in 1799. + +Because the original plate for Page 25 made only a partial impression, +some words along the left side of the page were cut off and were thus +determined from context. + +Letter XI is listed as an entry in the Table of Contents. 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