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Monthly Chronicle.
< Various parts of the . province are in actual rebellion—and the only thing for me is , to detail the events which are hourly happening , in order that you may form your own conclusions . At Cashel , a feigned attack-was made by n military parry ; the insurgents were trepanned into an ambuscade ; orderly resistance became impossible ; several were killed and wounded , some taken prisoners , and some of ihe military wounded . The town of Cahir was attacked by five parties of insurgents ; no army happened to be in the town ;
it is a lai ge town ; the whole place was plundered of its arms , and the insurgents completely successful . At Clonmell , an attack was apprehended of a snnil . ir nature ; General Eustace made proper preparations ; a soldier Was p inced in every house $ no attack was made . At Cork , on the 6 th inst . several divisions filed off into the country ; some under the command of General Myers , others of yeomanry and military under their respective commanders . The parties took their different routs . On the roads various
escorts were met in all directions conveying prisoners . Associations are frecfu'tit as ever . —There is no house through the country that has not been attacked , where there was the least suspicion of arms to be found . Numbers are confined in the gaols , crouds daily apprehended , and a kind of stern indifference is manifested . ' Information having been received by Lieutenant Chambers , of the Longford militia , who commanded at Killaloe , that a gentleman ' s house in that
neighbourhood was to be attacked by the United Irishmen , he selected ten of his own men , who were accompanied by nine yeomen , and proceeded to the place he was informed would be attacked , when- he took ten men prisoners , who were under arms , which were loaded . On his return to Killaloe , near the village of Scar iff , he was attacked and fired on by a party of upwards of an hundred United Men whose fire he immediately returned , killed twelve on the spot , and wounded several . This party , however , appeared to be nothing
more than the advanced guard of the main body—one thousand immediatel y after appearing . No way undaunted by such a decided superiority of numbers , he marshalled ins men , who fired several volltcs , which , he concludes , must have done considerable execution ; but being incumbered with his prisoners , twelve iu number , he could not pursue them , but left the ground , while the insurgents fled in all directions . ' Most candidly do I state the following as my general observations on the
whole of our present disastrous and eventful situations . A system of terror prevails on both sides ; and , to be middle , is to have one ' s loyalty wickedly and artfully misrepresented . The link which unites the landlord and his tenant-in many places is broken ; ancl a kind of actual avowed cooperation required from every gentleman to the measures of Administration . The great and deplorable calamity of this system is , that Society is broken down ; and the mild par-suasion of an honourable and independent man lost to the wholesome ooeration of unbiassed justice .
' The first error of this system is , that the military attacks are absolutel y disci plining the peasantry ; for , on the rumour of the army coming , they quit their homes , rendezvous , watch their departure ; and , when the spies return , they proceed iu organizing as before . Thi- peasants are therefore learning discipline . The second engine of social dissolution is the universal spirit which appears to us to pervade the country , of paying no rents , suffering : their lands to be drovebut no person daies to become a purchaserthe
, ; corn and cattle are seized , but the purchaser cannot be found . The third evil is the declining state of the cultivation of the land . Parts of this country are not tilled , which used to be rich in agriculture . The military and yeomanry are harrassed and daily exhausted by marches and countermarches . The insurgents parade when no force is suspected ; and they retreat into morasses where no force can follow them . '
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
< Various parts of the . province are in actual rebellion—and the only thing for me is , to detail the events which are hourly happening , in order that you may form your own conclusions . At Cashel , a feigned attack-was made by n military parry ; the insurgents were trepanned into an ambuscade ; orderly resistance became impossible ; several were killed and wounded , some taken prisoners , and some of ihe military wounded . The town of Cahir was attacked by five parties of insurgents ; no army happened to be in the town ;
it is a lai ge town ; the whole place was plundered of its arms , and the insurgents completely successful . At Clonmell , an attack was apprehended of a snnil . ir nature ; General Eustace made proper preparations ; a soldier Was p inced in every house $ no attack was made . At Cork , on the 6 th inst . several divisions filed off into the country ; some under the command of General Myers , others of yeomanry and military under their respective commanders . The parties took their different routs . On the roads various
escorts were met in all directions conveying prisoners . Associations are frecfu'tit as ever . —There is no house through the country that has not been attacked , where there was the least suspicion of arms to be found . Numbers are confined in the gaols , crouds daily apprehended , and a kind of stern indifference is manifested . ' Information having been received by Lieutenant Chambers , of the Longford militia , who commanded at Killaloe , that a gentleman ' s house in that
neighbourhood was to be attacked by the United Irishmen , he selected ten of his own men , who were accompanied by nine yeomen , and proceeded to the place he was informed would be attacked , when- he took ten men prisoners , who were under arms , which were loaded . On his return to Killaloe , near the village of Scar iff , he was attacked and fired on by a party of upwards of an hundred United Men whose fire he immediately returned , killed twelve on the spot , and wounded several . This party , however , appeared to be nothing
more than the advanced guard of the main body—one thousand immediatel y after appearing . No way undaunted by such a decided superiority of numbers , he marshalled ins men , who fired several volltcs , which , he concludes , must have done considerable execution ; but being incumbered with his prisoners , twelve iu number , he could not pursue them , but left the ground , while the insurgents fled in all directions . ' Most candidly do I state the following as my general observations on the
whole of our present disastrous and eventful situations . A system of terror prevails on both sides ; and , to be middle , is to have one ' s loyalty wickedly and artfully misrepresented . The link which unites the landlord and his tenant-in many places is broken ; ancl a kind of actual avowed cooperation required from every gentleman to the measures of Administration . The great and deplorable calamity of this system is , that Society is broken down ; and the mild par-suasion of an honourable and independent man lost to the wholesome ooeration of unbiassed justice .
' The first error of this system is , that the military attacks are absolutel y disci plining the peasantry ; for , on the rumour of the army coming , they quit their homes , rendezvous , watch their departure ; and , when the spies return , they proceed iu organizing as before . Thi- peasants are therefore learning discipline . The second engine of social dissolution is the universal spirit which appears to us to pervade the country , of paying no rents , suffering : their lands to be drovebut no person daies to become a purchaserthe
, ; corn and cattle are seized , but the purchaser cannot be found . The third evil is the declining state of the cultivation of the land . Parts of this country are not tilled , which used to be rich in agriculture . The military and yeomanry are harrassed and daily exhausted by marches and countermarches . The insurgents parade when no force is suspected ; and they retreat into morasses where no force can follow them . '