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"Mr. Let me alone and I will let you alone" or, "Mr. Child's bargain." It seems they had paid him fome predatory vifits, and whatever mischief they did his property, he thought it the best of his play, in an open rebellious quarter, not to complain! But to return to the third of June.

The accounts by exprefs of the rebel force at Vinegar-bill and Enniscorthy, now become fo alarming, that GENERAL JOHNSON thought neceffary to send an immediate express to Sir Charles Afgill, at Kilkenny, requiring an additional force to the Ross garrison. Mr. M CORMICK was chofen on this occafion. The diftance was forty miles and the journey dangerous; yet he rode it and returned in fix hours; by which he killed an excellent horse, tired another down, and contracted a rupture, of which he is to this day, at intervals very ill! He met no oppofition from any man; but his journey was unfuccefsful. No army could be fpared!

The force in Rofs was now computed to be fomewhat more than two thousand. Of thefe however ftrong parties were fent to various other quarters. In confequence of an express (perhaps a rebel one in disguise) four hundred were fent at once to protect Burrowes, the feat of Walter Kavanagh, Efq. about fourteen miles off, and on the DUBLIN road. Four or five of thefe quickly returned to the garrifon, and gave fuch an alarming account of an imaginary battle with the rebels, as damped the fpirits of the garrifon very much. They faid that an army of two thousand or more, attacked them from a very advantageous poft, and opening their cannon upon them, produced horrid carnage. But this bloody narrative proved to originate merely in the circumftance of a dragoon's piftol going off by accident! It does not appear that they et with the fmallest oppofition, or a fingle rebel that proved be fuch. Whither the remainder of this force bent their fe, I know not. It were a pity to involve the whole in

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A clofely topographical defeription of Rofs. It's geographical fituation-Its Streets and paffages.-Situation of the rebel camp, and much of the adjacent country.-Remarks introductory to the account and defcription of the battle.

ROSS is a neat town in the county of Wexford in Leinfter. In the language of a general furvey, or it is 8 miles N. B. E. of Waterford; but to the traveller of the road, which winds its way between feveral high hills and leffer eminences, the journey is 114 miles. It lies S. b. W. of Dublin. The road thereto by Burrowes is 65 miles, and by Enniscorthy, 73. It is fituated at the bottom and fo up the fide of a fteep hill on the eastern bank of the river Barrow, where is a large commodious quay the full length of the town, which, taking in fome lofty ftores lately erected on the Ballafl-quay, an appendage to the principal one, is one quarter of a mile long and leads N. E. and S. W. Over the river, to the North Eaft, is a wooden Bridge, lately erected, on a very elegant and very strong conftruction. It has an excellent draw-bridge about the centre, on a principle the most fimple and convenient that can well be conceived. This bridge leads, (by large ftores and other capacious concerns, now building by GEORGE and THOMAS KOUGH Efqs.) to a road over a very long eminence, the N. E. extremity of which is called Rofbercon, and the S. W. Chilcomb, in the County of Kilkenny and Barony of Ida. One road across this eminence, leads to Waterford, as described.

Mary's-ftreet, commonly called the the Main-Street of Ross, leads in an E. S. E. direction from the quay quite through the centre of the towo, breadth-ways, and with a confiderable curve up a steep hill of various acclivity; on the top of which, just on the left hand, ftands the Church-yard. Thence the declivity into the town, by any other paffage, is fo great, that

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a cannon planted on a certain fpot, a little more to the left and close by, commanded a large extent, without much difadvantage from fome intercepting houses. About feventythree yards from the quay, the Main-street is befected at right angles by another ftreet, therefore running length-ways, that is parallel to the quay. This ftreet is confidered as four, viz. Abbey-freet, leading from the Rofs Academy, North Eaft, ftill called "the ABBEY, " where formerly stood St. John's Abbey and St. John's-gate hard by, now thrown down. 2. John's-freet, leading from "Abbey-freet to the Court-house on the right, and farther fide of the Main-Street. 3. Thence the Priory-ftreet, with a sudden curve in the centre, corresponding to a fimilar one at the junction of the ballaft and general quay, leads on to the Priory-gate, S. S. W. the inclination being to the right hand. From between Abbey-freet, and John's-freet, and on a line with the Main fireet, up a very fteep hill, and clofe by a very large and commodious Inn on the right hand, and fome out-offices and then a Friar's chapel and convent on the left, leads Conventlane. The back part of the "New Inn," i. e. just between the Convent and Main-ftreet, is occupied by a very large tump, from which one may take a view of three parts of the surrounding country. Thence Convent-lane continues on the left, to a wall on a line with the fair-gate which tops it like a T. by another lane, which on the left hand leads to very advantageous pofts in the fields; and on the right, leads across by the gate mentioned, and confequently by the town wall, and fo to the Church-yard. Paffing through the FairGate and (for the prefent) turning our backs to Ross, we enter a very broad ftreet dignified with a fort of obelifk. Juft as we enter, there are fome good houfes to the right, and a lane leading round the Church-yard to the top of the Main Street. But leaving this, we go ftraight forward. All the reft of this broad ftreet or Irish-town, confifts of low cabins.

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A little way on the left hand, is a road leading by Mr. NAPPER's beautiful retreat at Bawn-Moore, to Montgarret-ferry, and fo on to the Rower, (fometimes fpelt Roar) and fo to Rofe-mount, the feat of JAMES ROSSETER, Efq. and Ringwood, the feat of the Rt. Hon. the LORD CALLAN, all in the County of Kilkenny. But we are ftill to confider ourselves in the Irish-town. About a furlong from the Fair-gate, on the right, is a narrow road, called " Boreen a flaun," leading towards Corbet-hill road, at the junction of both which the battle began with proper vigour and regularity. But we are still walking in the Irib-town. The ftreet now begins to grow narrower and the cabins more wretched; though some snug flated houses, of various humble descriptions, appear farther down. This is called the Maudlins. At the end of this we pass over a small neat stone bridge. There is the Charter-School a little before us to the left. Leaving the Charter School to the left, which is one quarter of a mile from Rofs, we fee ftraight before us the road to Larkin or Lacking Hill, where latterly ftood the rebel-camp. And straight

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from the Charter-fchool, on the right hand, another road leads to Corbet-hill, where the rebel army encamped before the battle, alfo, to Slieve Keilter, much farther off, where they encamped afterwards. All the country now before us is one continued croud of eminences. Let us come back to the Fair-gate and re-enter Ross. From this gate and down

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a very steep hill to the left of the breadth. The houses are middling. This part of the street, next to the Fair-gate is called the Pig-market, and from the centre downwards, which paffes between the Convent on the right, and the Parish Chapel on the left, is called the ChapelHill. It leads to the upper end of Bridge-street, which runs on a line with this, and likewife parallel to the Main-freet; and fo on to the quay-bridge mentioned. Next to the Church-yard Lane, which is close by the Fair-gate, a few yards

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downward, is the Church-lane, and about as many yards lower, just above the parish chapel is the Chapel-lane, all leading into the Main-freet, the other lanes of which we shall now fpeak. From the Main-freet, and facing the Church-yard alfo, on a ling with the Priory-street, leads Nevill's-ftreet, (almost all cabins) commonly called Brogue-maker's lane, to the Three-bullet Gate facing the road to Corbet-bill. This is a lofty eminence amid fome others, about one mile E. S. E. of Rofs. On the top is the large house and elegant improvements of CAPTAIN CORBET. About half way, is the junc tion between Corbet-hill road on the right, and Boreen a faun on the left, leading to the Irish-town and Maudlins, as already mentioned. Close by the shambles in the Main-street, about thirty yards from the Court-houfe, and on the left hand is Barrack-lane, fomewhat parallel to Brogue-maker's-lane. It leads up a gradual and rugged eminence through thatched cabins to the barrack about two hundred and fifty yards. From the Wind-mill-lane, at the town walls and across Brogue-maker's lane, and clofe by the barracks and parallel to the main-ftreet, is barrack-ftreet. Thence downward to the priory-street and close by the Recorder's fpacious house in that ftreet, is, Michael-freet. From the Brogue-maker's-lane alfo, half way between Michael-firect and the Priory-gate is the Cross-lane. From the middle part of John's-fireet leads Cooper's-lane, arched at both ends. The next paffage to the quay, is the lower end of the Main-Street by the Courthoufe, and lower down to the left is a crooked paffage, called Kough's-corner. Let us go back to the Priory-freet. Hence to the quay first (under an arched way) leads 8-n-lane, very juftly fo called! The next 'is Farlton's-lane, not eafily paffable for the rubbish of little ruins. The next is Alexander's-lane. The next is the Cuflom-house-lane, or rather Cliffe'slane, which leads to the centre of the quay, or thereabouts. The next is the Suggar-boufe-lane, or rather Cuftom-house-lane,

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