THE
Port
being
more
open
since
the
Return
of
the
Forces
from
the
North
,
I
found
an
Opportunity
by
Captain
Beal
to
inclose
the
particulars
to
the
Sheriff
of
Chester
with
direction
to
be
sent
forward
.
You
Impose
upon
me
a
difficult
Task
,
to
Recite
the
Occurrences
here
,
the
very
Memory
of
which
is
Dismal
.
We
were
Miserable
enough
before
,
but
when
the
Duke
of
Berwick
Return'd
in
that
Confusion
before
London-Derry
,
never
were
People
in
such
a
Distraction
;
Twelve
of
the
Captains
of
the
Regiment
of
Guards
,
who
were
all
that
Return'd
of
Twenty
Four
Companies
,
laid
down
their
Commissions
in
hopes
to
Compound
for
their
Lives
and
Estates
.
Since
whole
Regiments
have
followed
their
Example
,
as
Col.
Kennedy
of
the
County
of
Tiperary
,
Col.
Scot
of
the
Queens
County
,
and
others
.
The
famous
Soldier
M.
G.
Macarty
was
Kill'd
,
or
Mortally
Wounded
,
before
Inniskilling
,
where
they
lost
a
great
many
Men
,
Mr.
Fitz
James
with
some
principal
Voluntiers
and
Officers
,
were
brought
Wounded
to
Town
.
●●ng
James
upon
this
Desertion
of
the
Officers
was
over-heard
to
say
,
I
am
Twice
betray'd
.
As
an
Omen
of
worse
Success
,
that
very
Night
fell
down
the
Mid
Rampier
of
the
Black
Tower
of
the
Castle
,
with
the
Fane
,
on
which
was
display'd
the
Crown
and
Regal
Arms
,
which
did
no
harm
,
only
Kill'd
the
Sentry
who
was
found
Dead
amongst
the
Rubbish
.
The
same
Night
was
blown
up
,
(
whither
by
Treachery
or
Chance
we
know
not
,
)
the
little
Store-house
which
was
built
in
the
Garden
remote
from
the
Castle
.
It
shatter'd
some
Houses
in
St.
George's
Lane
,
and
Ship-street
,
but
did
no
other
damage
.
King
James
,
Jealous
of
some
Treachery
,
(
as
his
last
Refuge
,
)
Arms
his
dejected
Protestants
again
.
An
Oath
of
Fidelity
is
Administer'd
,
and
Arms
deliver'd
,
both
which
we
are
forced
to
take
,
or
be
no
longer
of
this
World
.
The
French
,
(
difdaining
that
any
Trust
should
be
imposed
in
Hereticks
,
)
drew
up
in
a
Body
of
Two
Hundred
Horse
to
disarm
us
.
We
deny
.
An
Officer
is
sent
from
King
James
to
desire
us
to
lay
down
.
We
Capitulate
and
Promise
,
if
they
will
let
us
March
with
our
Arms
into
Town
,
we
will
deliver
them
at
our
own
Houses
upon
Demand
.
It
is
granted
,
and
we
order'd
to
be
ready
upon
the
first
Demand
,
otherwise
,
we
are
Threaten'd
,
(
should
we
join
with
the
Protestants
,
)
to
have
the
City
Fir'd
about
out
Ears
,
as
they
have
done
Carickfergus
,
and
the
rest
of
the
North
.
And
indeed
this
it
is
we
most
Dread
,
the
Irish
long
having
Attempted
to
make
Waterford
the
Capital
City
.
While
we
are
in
this
Confusion
in
Dublin
,
King
James
is
advertis'd
from
Cork
of
the
Approach
of
Admiral
Herbert
,
and
the
English
Fleet
,
which
were
before
Brest
,
discover'd
on
that
Coast
,
bearing
up
Westward
,
the
Wind
at
S.
W.
and
by
S.
K.
James
by
their
Steering
that
Coast
,
being
jealous
of
some
Design
of
Kingsail
,
gathers
all
his
scatter'd
Forces
together
,
French
and
Irish
,
with
a
design
to
Reinforce
that
Garrison
.
They
Marched
out
of
Dublin
on
Thursday
the
8th
.
Instant
.
8000
strong
,
Natives
and
Auiliaties
,
under
the
Command
of
the
French
General
Rose
.
On
Saturday
the
10th
.
The
King
accompany'd
with
Coll
.
Porter
,
Coll
.
Stuart
and
Two
more
,
follow'd
in
the
Reer
,
with
Resolution
to
secure
one
Important
Garrison
,
if
he
had
Relinqish'd
another
,
and
Recover
in
the
West
what
he
had
lost
in
the
North
.
But
see
the
Fate
that
Attends
the
Unfortunate
Scarce
had
he
got
a
days
Journy
off
,
when
Captain
Kelly
who
was
sent
to
observe
the
motions
of
the
English
Fleet
at
Chester
,
brought
an
Express
,
that
his
Grace
General
Schomberg
had
Embarqu'd
all
his
Forces
on
the
8th
.
which
was
Two
days
before
the
King
left
Dublin
:
The
General
himself
being
on
Board
,
and
fallen
down
unto
Highlake
,
from
whence
he
had
set
Sail
with
a
fair
Wind
,
and
consequently
must
Land
in
a
few
Hours
in
some
Placeabout
Dublin
:
Count
Zolms
,
having
set
out
some
days
before
,
with
the
same
Expedition
for
the
North
.
In
this
Exigence
,
it
is
hard
to
Determin
what
is
to
be
don
.
If
we
loose
Dublin
,
we
loose
Ireland
.
If
we
loose
Kingsale
,
we
shall
loose
our
Interest
with
France
.
The
French
Advice
is
to
go
back
and
Fire
Dublin
,
and
though
the
Irish
be
naturally
Inclined
to
Cruellty
,
yet
are
they
Animated
by
the
French
,
to
Commit
this
Barbarity
,
which
had
it
not
been
prevented
by
K.
James
himself
,
had
at
that
In●●ant
been
put
in
Execution
.
An
Army
of
1500
Men
,
being
left
in
and
about
Dublin
,
to
secure
the
King's
Return
,
he
Marches
with
his
8000
Confederates
towards
Kingsale
.
He
had
not
reach'd
Clonmel
,
when
an
Express
is
brought
him
by
Ensign
Bourk
,
that
Herbert
was
with
his
whole
Fleet
before
Kingsale
,
that
he
had
Landed
12000
Men
,
and
Beseiged
the
Garrison
.
Scarce
had
he
Wisper'd
his
Doleful
News
,
when
Capt
.
Coughlin
Rideing
in
full
Speed
,
Informs
him
that
Kingsale
was
Beseiged
by
Admiral
Herbert
,
nay
,
and
what
was
worse
,
that
by
that
time
he
fear'd
it
was
Surrender'd
.
Disdaining
the
Report
,
he
Orders
the
Messengers
to
be
Secur'd
,
and
seeming
Undaunted
at
the
News
,
Marches
on
with
his
Army
,
since
which
time
he
has
not
been
heard
of
,
which
has
given
occasion
of
some
Discourse
which
I
shall
not
mention
until
better
Information
.