entire body outfide the town, that on any alarm they might turn out and form with greater promptitude. THE BATTLE OF ARKLOW. On the morning of the ninth, about eleven o'clock, intelligence was brought that the enemy were at hand. The garrifon inftantly turned out, and a cavalry patrole advanced two miles towards Coolgreny, where they faw at fome diftance a mounted patrole of the enemy, which immediately retired. It happened very fortunately that a detachment of the Durham fencibles, a very fine regiment, amounting to three hundred effective men, arrived about one o'clock that day, without whose affistance the little garrison would not probably have been able to withstand the fuperior numbers of the enemy. Effective * Plate VIII. + Ibid. II. 2. About four o'clock in the afternoon, the out-poft at the charter-fchool A was ordered in; and another cavalry patrole was fent there, and they obferved at some distance, the enemy deploying the immense mass which had marched by the Coolgreny road from Gorey, and extending themfelves into a kind of irregular line of great depth; the right being at the little rock of Arklow B, where a very ftrong column was formed, which marched by the fea-fide road, and was deftined to attack the lower end of the town, or fifhery, C. On the Coolgreny road' another immenfe column was formed to attack the right of our pofition, at the upper end of the town D. When these arrangements were made, which took up half an hour, the enemy fent forward a numerous patrole of cavalry and infantry, which attempted to furround the patrole which we had fent to the charter-fchool, and obliged them to fall back to the garrifon. In the mean time the king's troops prepared for action, having made the following difpofition: A part of the Antrim, with fome fupplementary yeomen, commanded by captain Rowan, were deftined for the defence of the barrack E, and lined the walls on a temporary banquette erected for the purpose. Another detachment of the Antrim, under the command of lieutenant-colonel O'Hara, was pofted at the upper end of the town at D, with a barricado fuddenly formed of cars and boxes in their front, and having one of their regimental field-pieces with their own gunners. The line of the king's forces was formed with the Durham on the right, in the circular pofition FFG, which gave fome advantage in point of ground; but after the firing began, the troops on the left of the Durham moved forward, under cover of the hedges, their front GGG, where they remained during the reft of the action. The Suffolk fencibles and the Tyrone light companies, with fome of the fupplementary yeomen, lined the very strong hedges HHH; a fmall party was pofted in in the church-yard I, and another at the end of the ftreet K, for the defence of the lower end of the town. The main object of the rebels was to outflank and furround our little army, by which they must have overpowered it by their immenfe fuperiority of numbers; which the excellent difpofition made by general Needhain was well calculated to prevent. The cavalry, with the exception of one troop of the Ancient Britens, and the Arklow cavalry pofted at L, were ftationed at the bridge, and on the fands outfide the town MMM, where they were perfectly under cover. The rebels first appeared on the tops of hedges, in a great circular line, extending from the Gorey or fea-fide road to the fand-banks near the fea, and was very deep. They put their hats on their pikes, and gave moft dreadful yells. The enemy now moved forward to the attack, and in their progrefs fet fire to Lamberton, the beautiful feat of the reverend Mr. Bayly, rector of the parish of Arklow N, which was entirely confumed. The party on the Cool greny road was warmly received on their first appearance by colonel O'Hara, with his gun and party at the barrier D; and they fuffered very feverely from the two guns on the right of the Durham's. One of the enemy's fix-pounders was now dragged off the road by the lane N, and advantageoufly posted on the fummit of an hill O, commanding the pofition of the king's troops, but which was fo extenfive that they could not with their fmall numbers occupy the whole of it. The other gun which the rebels brought with them was drawn by the Yellow-lane P, and pofted not injudicioufly on an eminence at Q. On the trial of William Byrne, a rebel leader, it was proved, that they mustered thirty-one thoufand men before they left Gorey. In their march they plundered the houfes of all proteftants of every thing valuable, and put in ftrict requifition all the fpirits and provifions that could be fupplied. Under the influence |