be depended upon, and referred to on future occafions. I muft here obferve, in juftice to Lord Ormond, that he drove those rebels out of their faftnesses, and only burnt a few houses to. effect it. Lord Clanricarde,, whose bravery and humanity at Galway, are well known, received the fubmiffion of the rebels,, and granted them. his protection till the King's pleasure should be known; but thefe weak and cowardly juftices fent him express orders, viz. "To receive no. more fubmiffions from any rebels whatever, but to prosecute them with fire and fword." Such were their bloody mandates,' fit only for a Nero or a Domitian. Indeed most of thefe orders. were unneceffary, for they well knew, and own it in their letters, "that the foldiers in executing their commands, murdered all perfons that came in their way, promifcuoufly, not fparing the women, and fometimes the children." I will farther add, from the beft authorities, and feveral corroborating circumftances, that but for the flowness, avarice, and cowardly, irrefolute conduct of thefe Lords Juftices, Meffrs. Parfons and Borlace, moft of the above evils would have been prevented; and the rebellion put an end to much fooner, and with vastly less mifchief to the Proteftant interest.

You fay you have not met with any conincing evidence of M'Mabon's being put to the rack,,

rack, &c. That may be, but this way of writing is not the method of answering letters founded on authorities: But that Colonel M Mahon and Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Read were both put to the rack, and to little purpose, cannot be denied, though most contrary to law, as well as to the spirit of the constitution, and without the King's knowledge. Colonel M Mahon's examination, at the time, is amongst the Bishop of Clogher's manuscripts in the Col lege library. Sir John Read's papers that were feized, could not, in- the least, fubject him to punishment, but he was put upon the rack and examined, rather I fuppofe to criminate others, as he had never been active in the rebellion. His fate was fevere. He was fent a prifoner to England, and there outlawed for high treafon ; his goods were feized upon; his lady and children turned out of doors; and when the, in the deepest diftrefs, petitioned Parfons, who could just read and write, for fome part of the effects to support herself and children, he abfolutely refused her, though the Barons of the Exchequer, to whom her petition was referred, certified that it did not appear to them what her hufband's offence was, nor for what cause the crown night be entitled to his goods or estate. You own, in your remarks, that you remember the cafes of Read and M'Mahon, but add, "I think the fond recriminations of the malignant

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(meaning me I fuppofe) mufter up no more." In this you are much mistaken, for Mr. Barnewall of Kilbrew, a venerable old man, upwards of fixty years of age, a delighter in husbandry, and a lover of quiet, was put to the same torture. The only thing alledged against him was, that he had obeyed a fummons. for a meeting. at the bill of Crofty, when Lord Gormanstown declared an union with the rebels. It does not even appear that he approved of the union. Thefe particulars will, I hope, convince you, that, in my letters, I have afferted nothing rashly, or without evidence,—and as you seem defirous of information, if convinced of the truth and impartiality of my letters, I doubt not but you will candidly acknowledge it. You have drawn from me fome difagreeable occurrences, which otherwife fhould not have appeared. It is obfervable, that Lord Maguire and Col. M Mahon, were fent to England, and committed to the Tower in 1642.-After two years imprisonment, they made their efcape; but about three months afterwards, one of them, looking out of the window of the house, in which they were concealed, to call after a woman, crying oyfters, he was known by a servant passing by, who giving information to the Lieutenant of the Tower, they were seized, brought to their trial, and executed. I fhall conclude, with the : words of the judicious Dr. Warner on this fub

ject,

ject which are a further proof of what I have afferted, viz. The arbitrary power exercifed by the Lords Juftices on every fide, their illegal exertion of it, in bringing people to the rack, to draw confeflions from them; their fending out fo many parties from Dublin, and other garrifons, to kill and destroy the rebels, in which care was seldom taken, to distinguish; and men women and children were promiscuously flain; but above all, the martial law, executed by Sir Charles Coote, and. the burning the pale, for feventeen miles in length, and twenty-five in. breadth, by the Earl of Ormond. Thefe meafures not only exafperated the rebels, and induced them to commit the like cruelties, but they terrified the Irifb nobility and gentry from all thoughts of fubmiffion, as there was no hope of pardon, nor any means of fafety left them but in the fword, &c. &c. May these things inspire every party with moderation, with an abhorrence of perfecution and cruelty, and teach them, whatever may be their religious fentiments, to live together like brethren in the bonds of unity and peace! Amen.

HUMPHREY SEARCH.

LETTER

LETTER XXXIX.

Το the PEOPLE.

“Dii, quibus imperium eft animarum, umbræ"que filentes,

"Et CHAOS et PHLEGETHON, loca nocte fi"lentia late,.

“Sit mihi fas audita loqui; fit numine vestro “Pandere res alta terra et caligine merfas.

Infernal Gods, who rule the fades below, CHAOS and PHLEGETON, ye realms of woe, "Grant what I've heard, I may to light expofe, “Secrets which earth, and night, and Hell inVIRGIL.

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MY

Y abfence from the metropolis deprived me of feeing the long-laboured expofition of Lord Townshend's account, as debtor and creditor, to and with the Irif' na tion. It must be allowed, that Verax, (or rather Mendax), deferves to be rewarded with taventy pounds a year out of the late Lord Ca van's penfion; for the wretched flave has harraffed his corrupted brain from the 31ft of Auguft to the 26th of September, to vindicate his FORLORN patron. His long-laboured pro

ductions