the bridge! Mr. Colclough was brought out to trial on the same day and condemned. On the next day he was executed, but his body, at the intercession of his lady, was given up to her to be interred. Mr. John Kelly of Killan, whose courage and intrepidity had been so conspicuous at the battle of Ross, now lay ill in Wexford, of a wound which he had received in that engagement: he was taken prisoner from his bed, tried and condemned to die, and brought on a car to the place of execution. His head was cut off, and his body, after the accustomed indignities, was thrown over the bridge. The head, however, was reserved for other exhibitions. It was first kicked about on the custom-house-quay, and then brought up into the town, thrown up and treated in the same manner opposite the house in which his sister lodged, in order that she might view this new and savage game at foot-ball, of which when the players were tired, the head was placed in the exalted situation to which it had been condemned, above that of captan Keugh, over the door of the court-house.

DISAPPOINTED by the repulse at Hackets-town, the remaining Wexford insurgents, in conjunction with their Wicklow associates, directed their march toward Carnew, which they were resolved, if possible, to carry; but general Needham, being informed of their approach, detached a strong body of infantry, and about two hundred cavalry, from his camp at Gorey, to intercept them. The cavalry alone, however, as the infantry were recalled, came up with the insurgents on the road to Carnew. These feigning a retreat, having timely notice of their approach, suffered the cavalry to pass, until they brought them into an ambuscade, where their guns-men were placed on both sides of the way, behind the ditches to receive them. At the first discharge they were utterly confounded, and being unable to give their opponents any annoyance, they attempted to retreat in great haste toward Carnew. But here they had to encounter another part of the plan of ambush; for the insur

gents rightly conjecturing, that, when foiled, they would attempt getting off in that direction, had blocked up the road with cars and other incumbrances, they were for some time exposed to the fire of the insurgents, and lost about eighty of their number, among whom were two officers, captain Giffard of the ancient Britons, and Mr. Parsons adjutant of the Ballaghkeen cavalry; the rest effected their retreat to Arklow. The detachment was commanded by lieutenant-colonel Pulestone of the ancient Britons, of whom twenty were among the slain. The animosity of the people against this regiment, which they charge with being guilty of great excesses, may be instanced in the case of a black trumpeter belonging to it who fell into their hands alive on this occasion. When seized upon, this man loudly declared, that he was a Roman Catholic, and besought them to spare him for the sake of his religion. But his deeds with which he was upbraided, were too recent and too notorious, and he obtained no quarter. The insurgents lost not a single man in this action; but they were foiled in their design upon Carnew, the garrison of which, being alarmed by the retreating cavalry, had just time to secure themselves in a malt-house before the approach of the insurgents, who, after an ineffectual attack, marched off to Killcavan-hill...

DIFFERENT court-martials were instituted in Ross, Enniscorthy, Gorey, and Newtown Barry, and several persons were condemned and executed, and others were sentenced to transportation. Among those who were condemned to be executed, I cannot avoid noticing the case of the Rev. John Redmond a catholic priest, who, it seems, during the insurrection, had done all in his power to save the house of lord Mountnorris from being plundered, which he, in some degree effected, but not at all to the extent of his wishes. Lord Mountnorris, however, to prevent the possibility of this being supposed by any one in future a friend to catholics, sent for Mr. Redmond, upon find

ing that he was present at the plundering of his house, desiring that he would come to him directly. The reverend gentleman, conscious of his own inte. I grity, and apprehensive of no danger as involved in ec no guilt, obeyed the summons without hesitation; but his instantaneous hasty trial, condemnation, and exe-ni cution were the reward of his humane and generous exertions. His body, after death, underwent the most indecent mutilations. But to put this innocent man's conduct in its proper point of view, I do not think I can do better than the reverend Mr. Gordon, a protestant clergyman has done in his history of the Irish rebellion.

"Of the rebellious conduct of Redmond, coadjutor to father Francis Kavanagh, in the parish of Clough, of which I was twenty-three years curate, I can find no other proof than the sentence of the court-martial which consigned him to death. He was accused by the earl of Mountnorris of having appeared as chief among a party of rebels who committed some depre-‚· dations at his lordship's house, while he alleged that his object in appearing on the occasion was to endeavour to prevent the plundering of the house, in which he had partly succeeded. Coming into Gorey on a message from the earl, seemingly unapprehensive of danger, and unconscious of guilt, he was treated as > if manifestly guilty before trial, knocked down in the street, and rudely dragged by some yeomen.I mean not to arraign the justice of the noble lord, his prosecutor, nor the members of the court-martial. The former who had rendered himself in no small degree responsible for the loyalty of the Wexfordian Romanists, had doubtless good reasons for his conduct; and the latter could have no personal animosity against the accused, nor other unfavourable bias than what naturally arose from the turbid state of affairs, when accusation, against a Romish priest, was considered as a strong presumption of guilt. But his protestant neighbours who had not been able to escape from the rebels, assured me that while the latter were in pos

session of the country, he was constantly hiding in protestant houses from the rebels, and that many Romanists expressed great resentment against him as a traitor to their cause. That he expected not the rebellion to be successful, appears from this, that when the wife of Nathaniel Stedman, (one of my protestant parishoners) applied to him to baptize her child, he told her, that he acceded to her request merely lest the child should die unbaptized, in the necessary absence of her minister, on condition, that she should promise to make the proper apology for him to me on my return to the parish."

Ir is a melancholy reflexion to think how many innocent persons were condemned. I have heard of numbers, of whose innocence the smallest doubt cannot be entertained, whose conduct merited reward instead of punishment; yet they fell victims to the purest sentiments of philanthropy, which dictated their interference; these have been perverted by their enemies, who are also those of the human race, into crimes utterly unpardonable.

A court-martial, of which iord Ancram was presi dent, was instituted at Wexford for the trial of persons accused of treason; and contrary to the expectation and wishes of the committee for procuring evidence, many were acquitted. Lord Ancram however soon left the town, and his departure was much regretted by the people; but his lieutenant-colonel sir James Fowlis, of the Mid-Lothian cavalry, succeeded him as president of the court-martial. To say merely that he acquitted himself with honour and integrity, would not be doing adequate justice to his merits. I believe no judge ever sat on a bench, that displayed more judgment, discrimination and mercy in selecting the innocent and misled from the criminal and the guilty; and his conduct inspired so much confidence throughout the country, as to in-. duce such as were conscious of integrity to submit. to trial, which they would not otherwise dare to do, from a well-founded opinion of the rancour of their

accusers, who attempted at first to warp, and afterward to counteract his upright intentions, which those who experienced them can alone appreciate. Was the character of Irishmen such as too many have been led, from misrepresentation, to believe, would sucli a dignified character choose Ireland as his place of residence? Does it not rather appear that the result of numerous trials, not only convinced him for the instant, but even left a lasting impression on his mind, that the people of Ireland were goaded into rebellion, notwithstanding the unnatural calumnies of those whose prejudice and bigotry urge them to revile e their country!!!

I cannot omit here mentioning the case of Mr. Walter Devereux, who having obtained protections from several general officers, had gone to Cork to embark for Portugal; he was there taken up, tried, condemned and executed. Mr. Gibson, a yeoman and wealthy protestant shopkeeper, and Mr. William Kearney, an extensive brewer, were summoned and attended at his trial, and proved that he was in Wexford, and even in goal, at the very time some soldiers of the Wexford militia were shot thirty miles from that fown; and the principal charge against him was that he gave orders and was present at their execution, which some men of that regiment were hardened enough to swear!!! I myself saw him in Wex ford on the alleged day. He was also accused of aiding and abetting the abomination at Scullabogue, and this charge was similarly supported by the testimony of some soldiers' wives! and yet it is an undoubted fact, that he was all that day engaged at the battle of Ross, where he displayed the most heroical bravery and courage, qualities inconsistent with the odious crime it was falsely sworn he had perpetraled!!! But what puts the falsehood of the facts alleg ed against him beyond all question is, that after his execution another Mr. Devereux was taken up on the discriminating sagacity of the same witnesses, who prosecuted the former to death; but who now, (as they said) discovered the right Devereux.