History of the Civil War in Ireland, Containing an Impartial Account of the Proceedings of the Irish Revolutionists, from the Year 1782 Until the Suppression of the Intended Revolution: To which is Prefixed a Geographical and Historical Account of Ireland, Volume 2S. Butler & Pechin & Frailey by J. W. Butler, 1805 - Ireland |
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Page 32
... received a letter from the Generals in command at the Three - Rocks , demanding all kinds of supplies for their forces ; and apprising him , as the inhabitants of Wexford ( except the gunsmen , who attended for some time on Vinegar ...
... received a letter from the Generals in command at the Three - Rocks , demanding all kinds of supplies for their forces ; and apprising him , as the inhabitants of Wexford ( except the gunsmen , who attended for some time on Vinegar ...
Page 67
... receiving any answer either to their own proposal or lord Kingsborough's dispatches , and as even those which had been forwarded to General Moore himself , he had sent off , request- ing further orders from General Lake . General Moore ...
... receiving any answer either to their own proposal or lord Kingsborough's dispatches , and as even those which had been forwarded to General Moore himself , he had sent off , request- ing further orders from General Lake . General Moore ...
Page 80
... received in that engagement ; he was taken prisoner from his bed , tried and condemned to die , and brought on a car to the place of execution . His head was cut off , and his body , after the accustomed brutality , was thrown over the ...
... received in that engagement ; he was taken prisoner from his bed , tried and condemned to die , and brought on a car to the place of execution . His head was cut off , and his body , after the accustomed brutality , was thrown over the ...
Page 82
... received intelligence of the intended rising , and the imme- diate object of it , had ordered a body of troops to march to Antrim , who arrived too late to prevent them from the execution of their design in the attack of the town . They ...
... received intelligence of the intended rising , and the imme- diate object of it , had ordered a body of troops to march to Antrim , who arrived too late to prevent them from the execution of their design in the attack of the town . They ...
Page 86
... receiving a few discharges of the artillery . When , from these little insurrections , so local , and of so few days duration , we return to view the proceedings of the Wexfordian insurgents , we are struck with astonishment at their ...
... receiving a few discharges of the artillery . When , from these little insurrections , so local , and of so few days duration , we return to view the proceedings of the Wexfordian insurgents , we are struck with astonishment at their ...
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Page cxxi - You do me honor over-much : you have given to the subaltern all the credit of a superior. There are men engaged in this conspiracy, who are not only superior to me, but even to your own conceptions of yourself, my lord ; men, before the...
Page cxiv - I only to suffer death, after being adjudged guilty by your tribunal, I should bow in silence, and meet the fate that awaits me without a murmur. But the sentence of the law which delivers my body to the executioner will, through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy...
Page cxvii - You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed culprit: I am a man, you are a man also; by a revolution of power we might change places, though we never could change characters. If I stand at the bar of this court and dare not vindicate my character, what a farce is your justice?
Page xviii - I do renounce, reject, and abjure the opinion, that princes excommunicated by the Pope and council, or by any authority...
Page cxix - ... an emissary of France! An emissary of France! And for what end? It is alleged that I wished to sell the independence of my country! And for what end?
Page cxiv - I do not imagine that, seated where you are, your minds can be so free from impurity as to receive the least impression from what I am going to utter.
Page cxxii - The proclamation of the provisional government speaks for our views; no inference can be tortured from it to countenance barbarity or debasement at home, or subjection, humiliation, or treachery from abroad.
Page cxv - When my spirit shall be wafted to a more friendly port ; when my shade shall have joined the bands of those martyred heroes who have shed their blood on the scaffold and in the field, in defence of their country and of virtue, this is my hope...
Page cxxi - I am accountable for all the blood that has and will be shed in this struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor — shall you tell me this, and must I be so very a slave as not to repel it? I do not fear to approach the Omnipotent Judge to answer for the conduct of my whole life; and am I to be appalled and falsified by a mere remnant of mortality here?
Page xxi - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, for the purpose of substituting a Catholic establishment in its stead; and...