The Doctor, says, that he never received any answer to the foregoing letter.

The following letter, concerning Doctor Caulfield, has been sent to me with a request that I should insert it.

SIR,

Dublin, 30th March, 1798.

I AM directed by my Lord-Lieutenant to desire you will make a proper acknowledgement to the titular bishop, who lives in your neighbourhood, for the active and zealous part he is taking in preserving peace and good order among his flock. Exertions of this nature are more particularly called for, when every artifice is employed to seduce the lower orders from their allegiance, to inculcate the spirit of distrust of their protestant brethren, and, to goad them to acts of outrage and insurrection. Those are not the paths to public improvement, or happiness, and it is, therefore, in such times as these, that those men deserve the best of the community, who, regardless of intimidation, and sensible alone to the call of duty, impress the obligations of obedience, morality, and religion, in proportion as endeavours are made to dissolve those ties of society. I am sure you will continue that line, which you have adopted, for preserving the good order and harmony of your neighbourhood,

from which good effects have already flowed, and from which further good consequences will naturally follow.

I have the honour to be,

SIR,

your most obedient humble servant,

TO CESAR COLCLOUGH, ESQ. (OF DUFFRY-HALL.)

E. COOKE.

Father John Murphy's Journal, found on the field of battle at Arklow, by lieutenant-colonel Bainbridge, of the Durham fensible infantry, and sent by him to general Needham.

"SATURDAY night, May 26, at 6 A. M. "1798, began the republic of Ireland, in Boulavogue, in the county of Wexford, barony of Gorey, and parish of Kilcormick, commanded

by the Rev. Doctor Murphy, parish priest of the "said parish, in the aforesaid parish, when all "the protestants of that parish were disarmed, "and, among the aforesaid, a bigot, named "Thomas Bookey, who lost his life by his "rashness.

'26. From thence came to Oulart, a country "village adjoining, when the republic attacked a minister's house for arms, and was denied of; "laid siege immediately to it, and killed him

"and all his forces; they same day burned his 'house, and all the orangemen's houses in that "and all the adjoining parishes in that part of "the country.

"The same day a part of the army, to the "amount of one hundred and four of infantry, "and two troops of cavalry, attacked the

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republic on Oulart-hill, when the military were repulsed with the loss of one hundred and "twelve men, and the republic had four killed, "and then went to a hill called Corrigrua, "where the republic encamped that night, and

'from thence went to a town called Camolin, "which was taken without resistance, and the "same day took another town and sate of a

bishop. At three in the afternoon, the same "day, they laid siege to Enniscorthy, when "they were opposed by an army of seven hun"dred men, then they were forced to set both "ends of the town on fire, and then took the "town in the space of one hour, and then encamped on a hill near the town, called Vinegar-hill.

BRYAN BULGER,

DARBY MURPHY, his hand and pen.

Dated this 26th.

The inaccuracy of this incipient journal cannot escape the reader's notice. I have copied it from Sir R. Musgrave's book, as he doubtless had the

original from general Needham. A copy, which a friend in Dublin procured for me, hardly differs from it. Bulger has been secretary to Father Murphy. By the sate of a bishop is meant Ferns.

TRANSLATION OF A LETTER FROM GENERAL HUMBERT TO THE LORD BISHOP OF KILLALA. "Dover, October 26, 1798

MY LORD,

"BEING on the point of returning to "France, I think it my duty to testify to you "the extraordinary esteem with which your "conduct has always inspired me. Since I have "had the good fortune of being acquainted with you, I have always regretted that the chance "of war, and my duty as a military officer, have obliged me, in carrying the Scourge of war into your neighbourhood, to disturb the "domestic happiness which you enjoyed, and of "which you are in every respect worthy. Too

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happy, if in returning into my country, I can "flatter myself that I have acquired any claim "to your esteem. Independently of other rea"sons which I have for loving and esteeming you, the representation which citizen Charost

gives me of all your good offices to him and "his officers, as well before as after the reduction "of Killala, will demand for ever my esteem "and gratitude.

"I entreat you, my lord, to accept my decla"ration of it, and to impart it to your worthy

AT A GENERAL QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE GOVERNORS AND GOVERNESSES OF THE WEXFORD FEMALE SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY, HELD ON THE 1ST DAY OF FEB. 1802,

It was unanimously resolved,

THAT the conduct of the Romish clergy of this town, in compelling the parents of such children of their religion, as were pupils at said school, to withdraw those children, under pain of excommunication, excites our surprise.

That the reason assigned by the Rev. John Corrin, parish priest of Wexford, for their being withdrawn, viz. "that attempts had been made "to seduce them from their religion," appears to us to have no other foundation than a too easy belief of the misrepresentations of prejudice, and the fictions of calumny;-and we call upon Mr. Corrin to substantiate the charge, by naming' the persons who attempted such seduction, and producing the children on whom it was practiced,