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Fames, (who during the whole Action flood with fome Squadrons of Horfe upon the Hill call'd Dunmore) reprefented to His Majefty how near He was being Invelop'd; adding He ought to think on nothing but a Retreat, which he doubted not to make good with many brave Officers then about him, and the Remains of his French and Swiss Troops. This Advice was too wholfom not to be follow'd by a Prince whofe Age and Temper did not fuffer him to end his Days by Defpair; and therefore His Majefty, attended by the Regiment of Sarsfield, march'd off to Duleck, and from thence in great hafte to Dublin; whilft Count Lauzun, Sheldon, and fome other Officers, difpos'd all things for a Retreat, which they perform'd in very good Order.

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King James's whole Lofs in this Battle was generally computed at Fifteen Hundred Men, amongst whom were the Lord Dongan, the Lord Carlingford, Sir Neal O neal, the Marquis D' Hocquincourt; and feveral Prifoners, the chief of whom was Lieutenant General Hamilton, who to do him Juftice, behaved himself with great Courage, and kept Victory doubtful till he was made Prifoner. On the English fide fell about Five Hundred, an inconfiderable Number, confidering the Gain of fo important a Battle, if the Renowned Duke of Schomberg had not been amongst them. He was a Perfon of firm berg's and compos'd Courage, and one of the beft Gene- characters rals that France ever Bred. To the Laurels he gather'd in Catalonia and in Flanders, he added the Glory of having fixt the prefent King of Portugal on his Throne, and of having been Inftrumental to the Settlement of King William. He had a great Experience of the World, knew Men and Things better than any Man of his Profeffion ever did, and was as great in Council as at the Head of an Army. In his declining Years his Memory very much fail'd, but his Judgement remain'd true and clear to the laft. He appear'd Courteous and Affable to every Body, and yet he had an Air of Grandeur that Commanded Refpect from all. He was of a middle Stature, fair Complexion'd, a very found

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A. C. hardy Man of his Age, and fat a Horfe incompaAs he loved always to be neat in 1690. rably well. Cloaths, fo was he ever pleafant in his Converfatition, of which this Repartee is a pregnant Inftance: Some time before he went for Ireland he was walking in St. James's Park, amidft Crowds of the Young and Gay, and being ask'd, what a Man of his Age had to do with fuch Company? His Anfwer was, That a good General makes his Retreat as late as he can.He was Eighty Two Years of Age when he was kill'd; and as Monfieur La Caillemote had follow'd that Great Man in all his Fortunes while Alive, fo did he in his Death, for he did not long furvive his Wounds. As for the King himself, He receiv'd no manner of Hurt in the Action, though He was in all the height of it; only a Cannon-Ball carried away a piece of his Boot. His Majefty did all that the greatest of Generals could do upon this Occafion; He chofe the Field, difpos'd the Attacks, drew up his Army, charg'd the Enemy feveral times, fupported his Forces when they begun to fhrink, and demean'd himfelf throughout with that Conduct, Gallantry, Refolution and Prefence of Mind, and was fuch a Poife for the inclining Victory to his own fide, that the Irish themselves confeft; That if the English chang'd Kings with them, they would fight the Battle over again. However both Kings have been equally blam'd for not Improving, the one the Advantage of his Victory and the other that of his Retreat. Thofe that have writ in Favour of King James, fay, King William might have march'd directly to Dublin, a Place open and unfortified on every fide; and prevented the Irish af. fembling any more, and fecuring Limerick, Galway, and feveral other Important Places. And fuch as are Partifans of King William, blame both King Fames for leaving Ireland with fo much Precipitation, and thofe he left behind, for not having carefully collected the Remains of a Defeat that had coft them but few Men.

King James being arriv'd at Dublin, and having immediately Affembled the Magiftrates and Council of the City, he told them: "That his Army in “England

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"ly receiv'd by that King, and had all the affurance K. James's imaginable to be Re-establish'd on His Throne. Speech to "That in fome time after He came to this King-the Magi "dom of Ireland, and found all his Roman Catho- ftrates of lick Subjects as well equipt and prepar'd to de- Dublin. "fend his Caufe as their Ability would bear; and though He had been often told, that when it came to the Touch, they would never bear the Brunt of a Battle, He could never credit the fame till that Day, when having a good Army, and all Prepa rations fit to engage a Foreign Invader, He found the fatal Truth of what He had been fo often "Precaution'd; and though the Army did not Defert Him, as they did in England, yet when it came to Trial they bafely fled the Field, and left it a fpoil to his Enemies; nor could they be prevail'd upon to Rally, though the Lofs in the "whole Defeat was but inconfiderable; fo that "henceforward He never more determin'd to Head "an Irish Army, and did now refolve to fhift for "himfelf, as they themfelves muft do. That it "had often been debated, in cafe fuch a Revoluti

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on fhould happen, Whether upon Deferting the City "of Dublin, the fame might not be Fired? He did "therefore charge them on their Allegiance, That "they neither fhould rifle it by Plunder, nor deftroy it by Fire; which in all Kingdoms would be judg'd 66 very Barbarous, and must be believ'd to be done by his Orders; and if done, there would be bur "littel Mercy to be expected from an enrag'd Enemy; concluding He was neceflitated to yield "to Force, but would never ceafe to labour their "Deliverance as long as He liv'd. His Majefty having ftaid a Dublin one Night, the next Morn ing, attended by the Duke of Berwick and Tyrcon nel, and the Marquefs of Powis, He Pofted away. to Waterford, where He arriv'd the fame Day, taking care to have the Bridges broke down behind him, for fear of being purfued. There He went on Board a Veffel call'd the Count de Lauzun, that

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A. C. was ready to receive him, but the Sieur Foran who 1690. commanded the Squadron, meeting him at Sea, defir'd him to go on Board one of his Frigats for K. James his quicker Paffage, and by this means he got oretires to ver once more into France, and fix'd his Refidence France. at St. Germains. So foon as King James was gone, all the confiderable Papifts fled from Dublin, and the Proteftants were releas'd, who poflefs'd themfelves of the Militia Arms, and with the Affiftance of the Bishops of Meath and Limrick, form'd a Committee to take Care of things, and fent Letters to King William, to give him an Account of what had pafs'd, and humbly to pray His Majefty to Honour that City with his Prefence.

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Let us for a while look back upon England, where England. we fhall fee the Queen fuftaining the weight of Affairs, and defending her Subjects by her Pru

dence, whilft her Royal Confort is Conquering his The Jaco Enemies by his Valor. King James's Adherents, bite Plot. who about this time began to be diftinguifh'd by the Name of Jacobites, being furnish'd by King William's Abfence, with a promifing Opportunity to attempt fomething confiderable to the Advantage of the Abdicated Monarch, timely concerted Measures with France, to put their Defigns in Execution. It was agreed, that while part of the French Fleet fhould bear up the Thames, to countenance the Jacobites in London, who were grown very bold and numerous, by the flocking of a great many of that Party from all Parts of the Country thither, they thould make an Infurrection in feveral Places at once. Certain Perfons were to have taken upon them the Administration of Affairs, till the return of King James, who was to leave the Command of his Army to his Generals, and haften with all speed into England. The other part of the French Fleet having join'd their Gallies, was to have Landed Eight Thoufand Men at Torbay, with Arms for a greater Number, after which the Gallies and Men of War were to Sail in the Irish Sea, to hinder the return of King William and his Forces. And the Discontented Scotch were to have revolted at the fame time in feveral Parts of that Kingdom.

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But however the Matter was in reality, the whole A. C Contrivance feems to have been founded upon a 169c. Prefumption of the English Fleet being first beaten by the French; of which, whether they had any Forefight otherwife than from the inequality of the ftrength, which at this time, was confiderably to the Advantage of France, Hiftory is fill in the Dark. However it was, the Confpiracy, by the feafonable Discovery of it, prov'd but an abortive Contrivance, tho' the Grounds upon which it feem'd to depend, were attended with Succefs.

The French Fleet having enter'd the Channel as be fore concerted, hover'd fome time about the Englifh Coaft, as expecting the Effect of the Confpiracy that was to have broke out the 18th of June; of which the vigilant Queen Mary was no fooner inform'd, but fhe fent Orders to Admiral Torrington to fight the Enemy where ever he fhould meet him. Accordingly, on the 24th of June that Admiral fail'd from St. Helens, the Wind at NorthEaft, and ftood towards the French Fleet, which was feen the Evening before off of Fresh-water-Gate in the Isle of Wight, but the Wind taking them fhort, he came to an Anchor off of Dunnefe, within Five Leagues of the Enemy, who at Eight the next Morning were at Compton-Bay, and in the Afternoon of the fame Day, feveral Dutch Men of War join'd the English Fleet, as did fome other English Men of War, that had been Cruifing abroad. On the Sea Fight 30th of June, the day before the Battle of the between the Boyne, the two Fleets drew up in Lines off of Beachy, rate and Confede and about Nine in the Morning, the Dutch having French the Vanguard, began the Fight, as alfo did fome of Fleets, June the English; but not being feconded by the reft of 30. the English Fleet, which unexpectedly ftood away, feveral of the Dutch Ships were either Burnt, Sunk, or Difabled; and the English far'd but little better, for fuch as engag'd were very much Battered. The Fight continued from Morning to Evening, the Dutch maintaining their Stations with fo much Refolution and Obftinacy against the whole French Force, which confifted of Eighty Two Men of War, that they had much ado to escape being

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