most eminent deliverer of your country, from a dreadful continuation of the late rebellion, must be the wish of millions, as well as of, DEDICATION. Public Printing-office, No. 91, Bride-fireet, Dublin, FA Mdal in the joyf sir d'm e duob riz Jedadel Sir, Your most obedient, and r Most humble Servant, The Publisher, JOHN JONES. . NEVER, I believe, had any author a juster claim on public indulgence than myfelf, from the confideration of the shortness of time to which I have been necessarily confined in order to produce the following imperfect, though, in many respects, minute detail. Besides this, my minutes lay fo very long on my hands as to become almost unintelligible to myself. On this account I may have flipt into errors either of time, place, or circumstance; nay, perhaps, of all three. I therefore beg, that any gentleman who may have been better informed in any particular than I, will have the goodness to intimate any fuch errors of mine to myself only, in order to their being rectified. Certain it is, however, the more important accounts are well authenticated; and I am difpofed to imagine, that, there is not one circumftantial error throughout the whale, however however immethodically I may have proceed- ed in fome places. It is now fo long fince I wrote the account, and it not being in my poffeffion, or nearer to me than Dublin, I almoft forget whether I have made thofe logies in the course of the work. I know I have faid something therein to the general to ad bonitar o više "Nooow foed synd I doldw Ross, Feb. 12, 1800.. CONTENTS, As drawn up by the Publisher. Page. The Author's letter to the Editor, particularizing Sir Richard Mufgrave's application to Mr. Mc Cormick In 1793, Mr. Alexander perceives fymptoms of rebel- His very liberal opinion of many Priefts, Malicious reports raised relative to Orange-men, Encreafing robberies and murders rouse the magistrates, Captain Tottenham urges Mr. Alexander to join a corps of yeomen-his motives for declining, Many rebels are flogged and their houfes burned, Numbers of Proteftants from old Rofs, Kill-Anne, &c. fly to New-Rofs for refuge, and are treated with ib. Situation of Rofs previous to the battle, A small party of the Mid-Lothian and Ross cavalry en- gage with and defeat the rebels near Kill-Anne, Major General Fawcet with a company of the Meath re- Mr. Alexander fets out from Rofs for Newtown for Mifs Carr-relates what befel him, General Johnfon fends Mr. M' Cormick exprefs to Sir ring the battle, being an eye witness and expofed A topographical description, and the geographical fitu- Situation of the rebel camp at Lacking-hill, Introductory circumftances previous to the battle of Rofs, 46 Thirty-five thoufand rebels affemble on Corbet-hill- Mr. Alexander experiences much polite attention from General Johnson, by whofe means he is preferved } Mr. Cullimore (a Quaker) is providentially confined by "} 3.3 43 Battle of Rofs commences at 5 o'clock in the morning, 54 Mr. Alexander describes the internal state of Ross du- |
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