1. I was not; I never was in the gaol.

2. Do you fwear that you had no converfation at all with the prisoner?

A. I had at a window.

2. Where was this window?

A. I do not know whether it looked into the gaol yard, or into the street.

2. Was it not the grated door of his cell you fpoke to him at ?

A. I do not know whether it was a door or a window.

2. Were you not drinking with the prisoner? 4. He put a bottle through the bars, and bade me take a fup.

2. Did not the prifoner give you money? A. He gave me fome to bear my expences. 2. What expences?

A. The expences I was at to ftay for his trial. 2. When was this?

A. The day before yesterday.

Mary Hall fworn.

2 by the prifoner. Did you fee me during the rebellion?

A. I did. I faw you very often, but I do not recollect any particular day except Whitfun-Tuefday.

2. Did you ever fee me guilty of any outrage or crime?

A. I never faw you guilty of any thing but breaking open a house and robbing it.

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A. Mr. Jofeph Sparrow's, where you took thing, even the sheets under two cripples that lay in the house. You behaved civilly to my little boy, and made the butcher give him a good bit of meat.

2 by the court. You say you saw the prisoner often; in what capacity?

A. I cannot fay. I have feen him with a drawn fword at the head of a party. They obeyed him. I remember he ordered them to fire into Mr. Jofeph Sparrow's house, and they did fo.

2. Did you know Mr. Philip Annefly?

A. I did. I faw him dragged out of the mill on Vinegar-hill, the day my husband was murdered. I afterwards faw his body lying dead on the hill.

The reader may fee, from the perufal of this trial, that Andrew Farrel, fo active in robbery and murder, was a very great coward. In fact, the greateft plunderers and murderers, both of the rebel and of the loyalift parties, were the greatest cowards. This is the most deplorable ftate of fociety, when the worthle's find themfelves able to exert their malignant inclinations with impunity.

This remarkable circumftance attended the death of Andrew Farrel, that he died in the most folemn affertion of an evident falfehood, for what

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what he doubtlefs regarded as a laudable and generous purpose. When he was led to execution, and on the point of being launched into the other world, he addreffed a magiftrate in words to this

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"Sir, to fhew you on what fort of evidence men are liable to be condemned to death in this country, I now, at the moment of my being plunged into eternity, take God and my Saviour "to witness, that I never was on Vinegar-hill; and "if I tell a lye, may I be configned to everlasting punishment!"

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This, which was doubtlefs intended to put a ftop, or at leaft an impediment, to profecutions, had, from the notoriety of the matter denied, a contrary effect. Befide the above given evidence, the following affidavit was made.

County of JAMES COFFEY, of Ennifcorthy, in Wexford. S faid county, gentleman, came this day before me, and folemnly made oath on the holy evangelifts, that he was on Vinegar-hill on Tuefday in Whitfun week, in the year 1798, a prisoner to the rebels; and there faw Andrew Farrel, lately executed at Wexford, a commander among the rebels, while they were murdering the Rev. Mr. Pentland, Mr. Gill of Monglafs, Thomas Gill the wheelwright, and others; and that he faw, at the fame time, John Gill, the wheelwright, stabbed and left for dead.

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He further fwears that the faid Andrew Farrel, by his influence among the rebels, faved the lives of deponent and of captain Blacker at the fame time and place.

JAMES COFFEY,

Sworn before me, at Enniscorthy, this 25th day of June, 1800,

THOMAS HANDCOCK.

As remarkable as the declaration of Andrew Farrel is the following-in which I am inclined to fufpect fomewhat of an overcharge in fome points, from the gloomy ftate of the man's mind at the time of the confeffion.

The Confeffion of James Beaghan. Taken before the high Sheriff of the county of Wexford, and John H. Lyfter, one of his majesty's juftices of the peace for faid county, the day before his execution.

I, JAMES BEAGHAN, acknowledge and confefs. that I am guilty of the crime for which I am to fuffer; but that I did not commit it from ill will to the people that were murdered, but from the orders of Luke Byrne. I could not disobey him. No perfon could refufe to obey the orders of the commanders. I am fure that any man in command could fave the lives of the poor people. Every

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Every man that was a proteftant was called an orangeman, and every one was to be killed, from the poorest man in the country. Before the rebellion I never heard there was any hatred between Roman catholics and proteftants; they always lived peaceably together. I always found the proteftants better masters, and more indulgent landlords, than my own religion. During the rebellion I never faw any one interfere to prevent murder, but one Byrne who faved a man; I think all that were prefent were as guilty as thofe that perpetrated the murders-it was thinking we were all equally guilty that prevented me from flying the country. The women were numerous, and were as bad as the men. The rebels treated their prifoners with great feverity, very different from the way I have been treated in gaol. They thought it no more a fin to kill a proteftant than a dog. Had it not been that they were fo foon quafhed, they would have fought with each other for the property of the proteftants-they were beginning before the battle of Vinegar-hill. Ever fince the rebellion I never heard one of the rebels express the leaft forrow for what was done; on the contrary, I have heard them fay they were forry while they had the power they did not kill more, and that there was not half enough killed. I know that the rebels were determined to rife if the. French fhould come, and I believe they did not give up half their arms; there are guns, bayonets, and pikes, hid in the country. (..) Now, gentlemen, remember what I tell you-if you and the proteftants