Alexsader CSA

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A Succinct Narrative of some of the most remarkable Paffages
in the Rife and Progrefs of the
REBELLION IN THE COUNTY OF WEXFORD,
Efpecially in the Vicinity of
ROSS;

And a minute Detail of the BATTLE fought in and near that Town on the 5th of June, 1798,

IN A LETTER TO WENTWORTH ALEXANDER, ESQ.
OF THE MONASTEREVAN CAVALRY.

To which are added, by Way of Appendix, A CURIOUS LETTER, supposed to be written by a penitent Rebel, and other entertaining Matters.

BY JAMES ALEXANDER, ESQ.
Late temporary Major of the Rofs Unarmed Loyalists.

"Quæque ipfe miferrima vidi.”

Virg. Æn. Lib. II. lin. 5;

DUBLIN:

PRINTED BY JOHN JONES, NO. 91, BRIDE-STREET.

1800.

THE grateful efteem in which you are justly held, not only by the author of the following pages, (which are now at my difpofal) but by every loyal fubject of our amiable Sovereign, leaves it beyond a doubt to whom this little work ought to be inscribed.

THAT you may long live an ornament to your country, poffeffed of the highest esteem of every good and every great man, and continue to meet the just reward of your superlative merit as a General officer, and as the

Hodges: 29 Je, 1721