An Impartial Narrative of the Most Important Engag

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Transcriber's Note

Inconsistencies and variations in spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, punctuation and grammar have been preserved in this ebook to match the text of the original document published in 1799.

A few typographical corrections have been made; details of these changes can be found in a second Transcriber's Note at the end of this text.

AN IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF THE _MOST IMPORTANT_ ENGAGEMENTS WHICH TOOK PLACE BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES AND THE _REBELS_, DURING =The Irish Rebellion=, _1798_.

INCLUDING VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION NOT BEFORE MADE PUBLIC.

_CAREFULLY COLLECTED_ FROM AUTHENTIC LETTERS.

DUBLIN:

=Printed and Sold by John Jones=, 91, BRIDE-STREET.

1799. (_Price 1s. 1d._)

PREFACE.

The Editor with the most profound respect, submits to the Public the following NARRATIVE.--It forms a small portion of a more extended work, calculated to contain the particulars of every remarkable occurrence, connected with the Rebellion, which happened in the course of the last year;--a year which will constitute an EPOCH in the history of Ireland, and the events of which ought to be universally known.

The moment of action is not the most favourable to accuracy of detail:--Notwithstanding the purest intentions and the most scrupulous regard to truth, much will remain, for candour to extenuate and information to supply. Impressed with this sentiment, and feeling the importance of the subject, the Editor has waited till the season of tranquility, and now presents to the public eye, the produce of his exertions. He wished to postpone the Publication in order to complete it, but he yields to the entreaties of his Friends, and finds it necessary to make some sacrifice to the eagerness of public curiosity: The remaining part is in preparation for the Press, and as he continues to be supplied by those who were witnesses at the transactions, and consequently most capable of communicating correct intelligence, he hopes soon to accomplish his design.

The Reader will perceive from the following specimen, that the accounts of the Battles are not arranged in chronological order; neither do they boast of any great pretensions to literary merit; but they will be found to have a recommendation more valuable than either--AUTHENTICITY. The Editor was less solicitous about the style of the work, than the truth of it, and where, upon investigation, the matter conveyed to him proved correct, he has given it in the language of his correspondent.

If History be, as it has been elegantly described, "Philosophy teaching by Example,"--what example more necessary to be held out to public view, and transmitted to posterity, than that which shews the dreadful effects of a Revolution attempted by force? Where the visionary politician enjoys for so short a time his sanguinary triumph--suspected even by those whom he calls his friends, he is superseded by such as are more ferocious than himself, while the fury of Fanaticism equally destroys _his_ prospects in the mad effort to exterminate one religion and substitute another.

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