THere being so Few , and those so very Difficult Opportunities of hearing from Ireland , especially from Dublin ; it cannot be expected but those Relations we receive here for News , should be there almost Antiquated , and by the constant succession of fresh Accidents , quite out of Date , and though every now and then we have one or other distressed Fugitive put in here , yet their long absconding in order to get off , has render'd most of them incapable of giving any great Account of the French and Irish Transactions there : The last considerable Advice we have , is concerning their Parliament , which by the French Minister's Imperious Influence is so heated and disturbed , that they already begin to make Parties , and enter into Cabals : Some are for quite abolishing and rescinding the Old Act of Settlement : Others are for a New One , and confirming the Forfeitures of the English Rebels ( as they call them : ) Some are for the total Extirpation of the remaining Protestants : Others for Confiscating and Depriving them of what little they have left . But in fine , it s said , they have all agreed in the Banishment of them from the City , by which it is plain , that they Design nothing less than their Total Destruction : For besides the Miseries of Want , which they must certainly undergo , they are hereby unavoidably expos'd to the cruel Barbarities of their Rabble-Army , who lye and take all Places for Twenty Miles about Dublin .

As for that part of it which Besieges Derry , they begin to gnaw their Fingers with the Apprehension of the unexpected Dangers and Difficulties they have met with before it ; for as that Sally wherein Maman the French General , with several other Persons of great Note among them , besides many Hundreds of Souldiers were kill'd , they have since by continual Skirmishes and Sallies , so disheartned them , that the Irish do many of them daily desert , and the French declare they do not like this way of Besieging Towns : As the Assailants are dejected , so the Joy , Courage , and Bravery of the Defendants is unspeakable , their Reverend Champion and Leader , both by Precept and Example , encouraging them , and like another Moses , leading them forth to fight the Lord's Battels , and like him , always returning with Success ; the People and Souldiers seldom going to Meat till they have whetted their Appetites on their Enemies . They say , That in one late Sally the Lord German's Son was killed , a zealous Papist , and violent Prosecutor of the Protestants ; the English in the Town are so used to Sally out and Beat them , that they now make it their Sport , and have made the Enemy so to contract their Camp , and remove further their Trenches , that they seem to have only the Name of a Siege .

The late King is mighty Apprehensive of these Proceedings , and sends them all the Offers imaginable , which they bravely refuse to accept , returning their final Resolutions , not only to Defend the Place , but upon the first Arrival of their daily expected Succours , to take the Field against the besieging Army : And we are since credibly Informed , that the Protestants lately made a Vigorous and almost general Sally , wherein they sail'd little of making an entire Victory ; That they had slain a great number of their Men , and among the rest , several of eminent Note ; that two or three of the greatest French Officers sell in this Encounter , beside some dead of their Wounds since the first great Sally ; and that they had taken a very considerable Booty of Horses , Arms , Ammunition , and Provision . Major-General Kirk Sail'd from Liverpool with three Regiments the latter end of last Week , and it 's said , is certainly Arriv'd , and that the Enemy thereupon resolv'd to raise their Siege , quite despairing of doing any good ; the other Regiments design'd for that Service , have positive Orders to Sail with expedition , so that in a little time we doubt not to be able to take the Field , and force those Rebellious Subjects to their just Obedience .