archly dropped it into the disgusted lady's bosom. She instantly fainted, and thus the scene ended!!! Mr. Gowan constantly boasted of this, and other similar heroic actions, which he repeated in the presence of brigade major Fitzgerald, on whom he had waited officially, but so far from meeting with his wonted applause, the major obliged him instantly to leave the company.

ENNISCORTHY and its neighbourhood were similarly protected by the activity of Archibald Hamilton Jacob, aided by the yeoman cavalry thoroughly equipped for this kind of service. They scoured the country, having in their train a regular executioner, completely appointed with his implements, a hanging rope and a cat-o'-nine-tails. Many detections and consequent prosecutions of united Irishmen soon followed. A law had been recently enacted, that magistrates, upon their own authority, could sentence to transportation persons accused and convicted before them. Great numbers were accordingly taken up, prosecuted and condemned. Some however, appealed to an adjournment of a quarter-session held in Wexford, on the 23d of May, in the county court-house; at which three and twenty magistrates from different parts of the county attended. Here all the private sentences were confirmed, except that of one man who was brought in on horseback that morning, carrying a pike with a handle of enormous length, through Wexford town, on his way to the gaol. This ixhibition procured him the reversion of his sentence, at the instance of the very magistrates who had condemned him.-In the course of the trials on these appeals, in the public court-house of Wexford, Mr. A. H. Jacob appeared as evidence against the prisoners, and publicly avowed the happy discoveries he had made in consequence of inflicting the torture: many instances, of whipping and strangulation he particularly detailed with a degree of selfe-approbation and complacency, that clearly demonstrated how highly he was pleased to rate the merits of his own great and loyal services!

IN Enniscorthy, Ross and Gorey, several persons were not only put to the torture in the usual manner, but a greater number of houses were burnt, and measures of the strongest coercion were practised, although the people continued to flock in to the different magistrates for protections. Mr. Perry of Inch, a protestant gentleman was seizd on and brought a prisoner to Gorey, guarded by the North Cork militia; one of whom, the noted serjeant, nicknamed Tom the devil, gave him woeful experience of his ingenuity and adroitness at devising torment. As a specimen of his scavoir faire, he cut off the hair of his head very closely, but the sign of the cross from the front to the back, and transversely from ear to ear, still closer; and probably a pitched cap not being in readiness, gun powder was mixed through the hair, which was then set on fire, and the shocking process repeated, until every atom of hair that remained, could be easily pulled out by the roots; and still a burning candle was continually applied, until the entire was completely singed away, and the head left totally and miserably blistered!-At Carnew things were carried to still greater lengths; for, independant of burning, whipping, and torture in all shapes, on Friday the 25th of May, twenty-eight prisoners were brought out of the, place of confinment, and deliberately shot in a ball-alley by the yeomen, and a party of the Antrim militia; the infernal deed being sanctioned by the presence of their officers!-Many of the men thus inhumanly butchered, had been confined on mere suspicion!!!

LORD Courtown is said to have been for adopting lenient measures, and although it might be resonably thought that his rank and character ought to have. had due influence in the neighbourhood of Gorey, yet his benevolent intentions were overpowered by the disposition to severity, of most of the magistrates; and consequently, the measures of the most violent were adopted. The following is the rev. Mr. Gordon's representation of his lordship's conduct :-" As

the earl of Courtown had performed much in providing a force to obviate or suppress rebellion, so his treatment of the common people, by his affable man-ners, had been always such as was best adapted to produce content in the lower classes, and prevent a proneness to insurrection. I consider myself as bound in strictness of justice to society, thus far to represent the conduct of this nobleman. Doubtless the people in the neighbourhood of Gorey were the last and least violent of all in the county of Wexford, in rising against the established authority; and certainly the behaviour of the Stopford family in that neighbourhood has been always remarkably conciliating. and humane?"

On the night of Thursday the 24th, the Enniscorthy cavalry conducted by Mr. Archibald Hamilton Jacob, had come to Ballaghkeen; but on hearing the approaching noise, the inhabitants ran out of their houses, and fled into large brakes of furze, on a hill immediatly above the village, from whence they could hear the cries of one of their neighbours, who was dragged out of his house, tied up to a thorn-tree, and while one yeoman continued flogging him, another was throwing water on his back. The groans of the unfortunate sufferer, from the stillness of the night reverberated widely through the appalled neighbourhood; and the spot of execution, these men represented to have appeared next morning," as if a pig had been killed there." After this transaction, Mr. Jacob went round to all the rest of the houses, and signified, that if he should find the owners out of them, on his next visit, he would burn them. These men, whose countenances exhibited marks of real terror, particularly from apprehensions of flogging, which they seemed to dread more than death itself, offered to surrender themselves prisoners to Mr. Turner, who did all in his power to allay their fears, offering to give them all certificates, the production of which, to Mr. Jacob, he was sure, would afford them protection; but they still persisted in prefering to re

main as prisoners with Mr. Turner, rather than to place any confidence in Mr. Jacob.

EARLY on this morning, being Whitsunday, I saw Mr. Turner on his entrance into Wexford He brought the first intelligence of the rising of the peo, ple, from whom, he said, he could not have been so fortunate as to escape but for my messenger, who had called him up before day; otherwise he would have) been at home when his house was attacked by the multitude for arms, as were all the houses throughout the whole neighbourhood at that time. When he had given notice of the fact to the officer commanding in the barracks, I accompanied him to the goal, and after having seen our friend, set out with him to Castlebridge, where finding the insurrection much more serious than was at first imagined, all kind of parleying being deemed ineffectual, on consultation with the officers present, I returned to Wexford, as they considered my situation would be too perilous should I accompany them in coloured clothes. The Shilmalier cavalry, commanded by colonel Le-Hunte, had already assembled, before the arrival of one hundred and ten of the North Cork militia, who took route by the lower road, along the sea-side, while the yeomen had taken the upper road by Castlebridge.

HAVING halted here for some time, they proceeded three miles farther and came in sight of the insur gents, collected in great numbers on the hill of Oulard, distant about ten miles from Wexford. Colonel Foote of the North Cork, seeing their position so strong and commanding, thought it advisable, not to attack them; but major Lombard of the same regiment being of a contrary opinion, orders were given to burn. two houses, situated in a hollow, between the army and the insurgents, and Mr. Turner volunteered his service for that purpose. This was done with a view to stimulate the insurgents to revenge, and thus if possible, to induce them to abandon the advantage of their situation. This feint, however, not succeeding, and colonel Foote still persisting in his opinion, major Lombard instantly addressed the soldiers in terms

animating them at önce to attack the insurgents, who, he said, would fly at their approach. His words had the effect of making them advance. They descended from the small eminence which they occupied, and crossing the valley between, began to ascend the hill of Oulard, while the Shilmalier cavalry took a circuitous route, round the hill to the left, with the intention of preventing a retreat, but in fact they caused numbers to rally who attempted to run off, on perceiving the approach of a serious engagement. This also contributed to make the insurgents rush in greater numbers, and with accumulated force, on the North Cork, who were charging up the hill. They had fired but two vollies when they were totally discomfited. This success of the insurgents was much promoted by the address of a servant boy, who, as the military were ascending the hill, advised such of the insurgents as were then about him, to lie down under cover of the ditches, and wait the close approach of the military. By this manœuvre these were suddenly surprised by a force not greatly outnumbering themselves, but the impetuosity of the attack occasioned their total overthrow, while the fact was, at the instant, utterly unknown to the great body of the insurgents who attended their commanders at the other side of the hill. Of the North Cork party, major Lombard, the hon. capt. Decourcy, lieutenant Williams, Ware, Barry, and ensign Keogh, were left on the field of battle. In short, none escaped except colonel Foote, a serjeant who mounted the major's horse, a drummer and two privates. It may not be unworthy of remark, that here was a fool who followed the North Cork, and who, when he saw the major fall, ran to the body and embraced it, then took the major's sword and with it dispatched two men before he fell himself. The insurgents had but five men killed, and two wounded. The Shilmalier cavalry, and colonel Foote, made a precipitate retreat to Wexford. A large party of the Wexford cavalry also, who had no share whatever in the action, were involved in this retreat. Having lodged Mr. Colclough in goal, they