from which good effects have already flowed, and from which further good consequences will naturally follow.

I have the honour to be,

SIR,

your most obedient humble servant,

TO CESAR COLCLOUGH, ESQ.

(OF DUFFRY-HALL.)

E. COQKE.

Father John Murphy's Journal, found on the field of battle at Arklow, by lieutenant-colonel Bainbridge, of the Durham fensible infantry, and sent by him to general Needham.

"SATURDAY night, May 26, at 6 A. M. "1798, began the republic of Ireland, in Boula

vogue, in the county of Wexford, barony of Gorey, and parish of Kilcormick, commanded by the Rev. Doctor Murphy, parish priest of the "said parish, in the aforesaid parish, when all "the protestants of that parish were disarmed, "and, among the aforesaid, a bigot, named "Thomas Bookey, who lost his life by his "rashness.

"26. From thence came to Oulart, a country village adjoining, when the republic attacked "a minister's house for arms, and was denied of; "laid siege immediately to it, and killed him

"and all his forces; they same day burned his "house, and all the orangemen's houses in that "and all the adjoining parishes in that part of "the country.

"The same day a part of the army, to the "amount of one hundred and four of infantry, "and two troops of cavalry, attacked the "republic on Oulart-hill, when the military were "repulsed with the loss of one hundred and "twelve men, and the republic had four killed, "and then went to a hill called Corrigrua, "where the republic encamped that night, and "from thence went to a town called Camolin, "which was taken without resistance, and the

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same day took another town and sate of a bishop. At three in the afternoon, the same day, they laid siege to Enniscorthy, when

they were opposed by an army of seven hun"dred men, then they were forced to set both "ends of the town on fire, and then took the "town in the space of one hour, and then en"camped on a hill near the town, called Vinegar-hill.

BRYAN BULGER,

DARBY MURPHY, his hand and

Dated this 26th.

pen.

The inaccuracy of this incipient journal cannot escape the reader's notice. I have copied it from Sir R. Musgrave's book, as he doubtless had the

original from general Needham. A copy, which a friend in Dublin procured for me, hardly differs from it. Bulger has been secretary to Father Murphy. By the sate of a bishop is meant Ferns.

TRANSLATION OF A LETTER FROM GENERAL HUMBERT TO THE LORD BISHOP OF KILLALA.

MY LORD,

"Dover, October 26, 1798

"BEING on the point of returning to France, I think it my duty to testify to you "the extraordinary esteem with which your "conduct has always inspired me. Since I have "had the good fortune of being acquainted with 66 'you, I have always regretted that the chance "of war, and my duty as a military officer, have

obliged me, in carrying the scourge of war "into your neighbourhood, to disturb the "domestic happiness which you enjoyed, and of "which you are in every respect worthy. Too happy, if in returning into my country, I can "flatter myself that I have acquired any claim "to your esteem. Independently of other rea

sons which I have for loving and esteeming 'you, the representation which citizen Charost 'gives me of all your good offices to him and "his officers, as well before as after the reduction "of Killala, will demand for ever my esteem " and gratitude.

"I entreat you, my lord, to accept my decla"ration of it, and to impart it to your worthy

AT A GENERAL QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE GOVERNORS AND GOVERNESSES OF THE

WEXFORD FEMALE SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY,

HELD ON THE 1ST DAY OF FEB. 1802,

It was unanimously resolved,

THAT the conduct of the Romish clergy of this town, in compelling the parents of such children of their religion, as were pupils at said school, to withdraw those children, under pain of excommunication, excites our surprise.

That the reason assigned by the Rev. John Corrin, parish priest of Wexford, for their being withdrawn, viz. "that attempts had been made "to seduce them from their religion," appears to us to have no other foundation than a too easy belief of the misrepresentations of prejudice, and the fictions of calumny ;-and we call upon Mr. Corrin to substantiate the charge, by naming the persons who attempted such seduction, and producing the children on whom it was practiced.

That, had such attempts been made, they would not justify the mode of conduct which has been adopted; as it does not appear that complaint was ever made thereof to any governor or governess, or at any general quarterly meeting; nor does it appear that the interests of their religion could possibly have been injured by deferring this violent measure one week longer, when the general quarterly meeting of this day would have afforded an opportunity of complaint and redress.

That the female school of industry was established at a time of universal scarcity and distress; and that the children of the Romish religion were admitted into said school, and therein educated, and in part clothed and fed; not, as is falsely asserted, to induce them to barter their religion for the supply of their wants; (of such baseness the governors and governesses of that school are incapable,) but to prevent those wretched children from falling the immediate victims of poverty and vice, to enable them to earn their daily bread by honest industry, and to teach them virtue.

That, when this subject, if cause of complaint did actually exist, could have been so easily adjusted by a temperate conduct, and a proper representation, on the part of the Romish clergy, of any grievance or defect, which occurred to them in the arrangements or conduct of this