I read this paper out, and one of my men exclaimed, "Ah! Major! ah! fure you would not fhew that to any "body now do tear it." "No, I won't, you croppy! I "will put it into the hands of Captain Tottenham, if it were my own brother that wrote it." And fo I did.

When we came to Corbet-hill, I entered the manfionhouse of Captain Corbet, on the top. It had been occupied by General Harvey, and other of the rebel officers; and I muft do their ruffianly attendants this juftice to observe, that no injury that I could perceive was done the house, excepting the floor of one parlour, where fome of the wounded rolled and tumbled, covering themfelves with the carpet; but the blood foaked through and through. By General Harvey's defire, they had cut off the heads of the fire-irons for bullets. In one recefs of the improvements, I faw two coats glued together by the ends half way with blood, and so thoroughly impregnated were they with this confolidated gore, that they might be made to ftand on end, like a new tarpaulin. All about the place were great numbers of unbroken bottles, moftly emptied of their contents. The house-steward told me, that the rebels brought large creels and hampers of wines, malt, and fpirituous liquors, of the first quality, befides provifions in great abundance.

From Corbet-hill we went into another part of the country, in order to come home another way. Here I went into a cabin, where was a poor terrified woman, who, I am fince told, concealed her husband, left I fhould prefs him into the rebel service. I asked her for a drink of water. She gazed at me, firft with apprehenfion, then with veneration; and at length exclaimed, with affectionate pathos, " A flóre "ma chree!" you fhall have milk, if your reverence will "wait until I get it from the cow." I did delay a little time, for I was very thirsty. The good woman went for a yeffel. I have not feen," fays the, "the face of any mortal

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mortal these three weeks." She foon came to me with the milk, which she prefented on her knees. I faw now that fhe took me for a priest. I lifted her up, took the milk and drank heartily. I then gave her my bleffing, from a heart diffolved with the tendernefs of gratitude and efteem. The Pope could do no more; and I hope that that Being who enkindled thofe fenfations vifited the poor old woman with an anfwer to the prayer which they produced. I did not think it proper to tell her I was no prieft.

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On my way home I met with my Vinegar-hill loyalifts, who received me with loud huzzas. They were accompanied by a party of the military, and two commiffioned officers, who informed me, by the General's defire, that my men, for the most part, behaved very well; and that honeft Smithson conducted himself with the greatest and most undeviating própriety. Captain Dalton alfo was very serviceable deputy-major would not give fo good an account of all the men. Some of them he believed to be difaffected knaves ; though the number were exceeding few. For my part I muft fay, of the whole body in general, that they were the moft gratefully affectionate of men I ever knew; though many of them were shameful skulkers; but this might be very naturally imputed to their ftarved condition. I found but one rebel amongst them, and I gave him up to justice. During the abfence of the General from Rofs, we had the firft and Coldstream regiments of the King's Guards, Dunbarton Fencibles, Loyal Cheshire Fencibles, and the Lancafbire Militia. The Colonels of the Guards kept the most peaceable order in the garrison, and the generality of the non-commiffioned officers and privates were fpirited fellows. I fhall relate a curious anecdote of one of them. Corporal Morgan, of the first regiment, observing a country protected rebel, whofe house was burned for his crime, drop down at the word of command upon his knees to the gentleman

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tleman who had burned his houfe, ran haftily to the fellow and lifted him off his knees, exclaiming, "Get up, you

mean-fpirited boor! and do not proftrate yourself to any "being but your GOD. Surely you do not mistake this man for that Being." "Sir," replied the gentleman," he fhall go on his knees to me, as he ought." No, Sir," returned the corporal," he shall not; at least in my pre

fence, and while I have the honour of being in the King's "Guards. We give the King but one knee, and that the " left, referving the right knee, as well as the honour of

both, for GOD; and I tell you to your fiery phiz, (whe "ther you believe me or not) that you are neither a god nor "a king, nor fhall you receive the honour of either.". This was a young man of good education, and in the fame Latin clafs with me at the late Rev. Mr. WESLEY's academy at King food, near Bristol. He was the fon of an eminent Methodist preacher. Colonel Courtenay, of the Chefbire Fencibles, mingled humanity with difcipline. By my desire, he meliorated the fituation of the prifoners, and ordered provifions from the commiffary's stores for the wives of abfent foldiers. I am under great obligations to this commanding officer, as alfo to the Colonels of the Guards, for their kind partiality. They, as well as General Johnson, never refused my application, in behalf of any prifoners, but once; many were, on my report, fpeedily examined and liberated. I have been cenfured for this by fome whom I have alfo been the means of liberating, more from partiality to the uniformity of their clothes than that of their actions, with those of certain respectable loyalists. Is loyalty indiffolubly connected with inhumanity?

Never did I know a regiment more beloved, or more worthy of being fo, than the Lancashire militia. One of them declared to me, as they were going to leave town, that the family on which he was billeted and he parted with

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tears! This, in Rofs, was a miracle; and it will appear the greater when it is confidered, that thofe foldiers remained here but for four days. Such a set of strong wellmade fellows, I never faw. Next to thefe, the Dunbarton Fencibles were moft efteemed.

About the fifth of July the rebels began to come to this town for protection. They were conducted by the Rev. Mr. James Doyle, parish priest of Whitchurch, about five miles from Rofs. He had himfelf been lately tried as a rebel, having been actually difcovered at the rebel camp. In his defence, he produced a threatening letter addreffed to him from the celebrated rebel-priest Roach, who, in return for a loyal answer to a former invitation, threatened to burn Mr. Doyle and his houfe if he did not comply. In confequence of this, Mr. Doyle was acquitted.

From this day to the fifteenth I made a practice of going about a mile out of town to meet the rebels coming in, and to enquire into the nature of those complaints or motives which induced them to rebel against a government, which for fome had been granting them fuch privileges and immunities as they never before enjoyed fince the just forfeiture of a tyrannic conftitution, for that noble one which we now enjoy. I informed them how highly it behoved our government to lay on their rebellious and tyrannically-difpofed forefathers those restraints, which it was of late years taking off at the requeft of their very partial friends and advocates, of whom many were Proteftants in eminent ranks of life." Amongst the foremost of these I ranked Lord Mountjoy and Lord O'Neil; both of whom found it their interest afterwards to place themfelves amongst the foremost and most determined of their oppofers. For, in the blackeft fenfe of

the word," continued I, I cannot call fuch truly great "men your enemies. And now what language has your "conduct put into the mouths of your real and unconditional "enemies?

enemies? Men who cannot with truth or confiftency call themfelves Proteftants in the nobleft fenfe of the word. "They will naturally fay, firft thofe mifcreants began their "addreffes for what they impertinently call Catholic

emancipation,* with humble entreaty; then they proceeded "to request; next, to demand; at length, to threats; and "finally, to the perpetration of crimes ftill more horrid "than even thofe menaces, however diabolical, feemed to "indicate! Now I ask, what have your best friends to say "to all this?" I accommodated my language to their humble information. They complained of oppressions of various kinds, chiefly enumerated in my letter "To all whom it may concern." Hib. Mag. Nov. 1798, page 794, righthand column. They alfo complained very bitterly, in circumftantial details which I cannot now recollect, of their oppression through the tyranny of a certain eminent loyalist. "Will you justify thofe complaints, by plain proofs, if I "get that man brought to justice for you, afterwards; and "that at my own expence?" "We will, fir: never you "fear that." "Well then," faid I, "you will fee in one * of the Hibernian Magazines a letter with my name figned "to it in full length, and calling upon you for this business,

as foon as you pleafe. Then do you but bring in your "proofs, and I will stake my life for the confequences." How well I fulfilled my word to those inexcufable villains, (whom I addreffed perfonally by hundreds) may be seen in the letter alluded to. None of them brought in a fingle charge against this gentleman, though the motives and means were fo plainly laid before them, and my life and character ftaked for the falutary effects; therefore the fiery ordeal of their vile cenfure has only ferved to purify this loyal gentleman's character from the villainy of their black afperfions.