"26. From thence came to Oulart, a country "village adjoining, when the republic attacked a minifter's houfe for arms, and was denied of, "laid fiege immediately to it, and killed him and all his forces; the fame day burned his house, " and all the orangemen's houfes in that and all "the adjoining parishes in that part of the country. "The fame day a part of the army, to the amount of one hundred and four of infantry "and two troops of cavalry, attacked the repub"lic on Oulart-hill, when the military were re pulfed with the lofs 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 refiftance, and the fame day took another town and fate of a bishop. At three in "the afternoon the fame day, they laid fiege to Enniscorthy, when they were oppofed by an army of feven hundred men, then they were "forced to fet both ends of the town on fire, "and then took the town in the space of one "hour, and then encamped on a hill near the ર town, called Vinegar-hill. BRYAN BULGER, DARBY MURPHY, his hand and pen. Dated this 26th. The inaccuracy of this incipient journal cannot escape the reader's notice. I have copied it from Sir R. Mufgrave's book, as he doubtlefs had the original from general Needham. A copy, which a friend in Dublin procured for me, hardly differs from it. Bulger has been fecretary to Father Murphy. By the fate of a bishop is meant Ferns. Tranflation of a Letter from General Humbert to the Lord Bishop of Killala. "Dover, October 26, 1798. ઃઃ ~66 r 6c MY LORD, "BEING on the point of returning to France, I think it my duty to teftify to you the extraordinary esteem with which your conduct has always infpired me. Since I have had the good fortune of being acquainted with you, I have always regretted that the chance of war, and my duty as a military officer, have obliged me, in carrying the fcourge of war into your neigh"bourhood, to difturb the domeftic happiness "which you enjoyed, and of which you are in every refpect worthy. Too happy if in returning into my country I can flatter myself that I "have acquired any claim to your efteem. Independently of other reafons which I have for "loving and esteeming you, the representation se which citizen Charoft gives me of all your good 66 offices tr 66 cr "offices to him and his officers, as well before as "after the reduction of Killala, will demand for esteem and gratitude. ever my "I entreat you, my lord, to accept my decla"ration of it, and to impart it to your worthy "family. I am, with the highest esteem, my lord, your most humble fervant, HUMBERT. L 1 INDEX. A. ARKLOW, Reception of the Loyalist Fugitives at, 106 State of, after Walpole's Defeat, Conduct of an Officer at, in danger of a fecond Attack, Atkins, Captain Thomas, Treatment of, Accufation, fecret, Afkhill, Station on, Antrim, Battle of, Amnesty, Act of, Adams, Captain, defeated on his March, Addrefs to the Men of Ireland, 125 126 169 230 бо, 62 137 159 190 100 293, 294 Baptizing of Proteftants by Romish Priests, Balliná taken by the French, 124 161 163 172 174 175 195 217 232 Ballynamuck, - 177 97 98 182, 184 198 193 233 238, 239, 241 201 215 152, 153, 217 285, 288 233, 237 248 241 8 Colclough, John Henry, arrested by Captain Boyd, Death and Character of, Cornwallis, Marquis, appointed Viceroy, -, his Honor unquestioned, -, his Arrangements, his March, Compenfation to Suffering Loyalifts, Clergy, Proteftant, how treated by the Rebels, Romish, Conduct of, Situation of, Castlebar, Rout of, ---, fecond Attack of, Coloony, Battle of, Convention, Catholic, Church, Objections made to the Eftablishment of, 35, 37 Charoft, Lieutenant-Colonel, character of, |