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An Historical And Geographical Account Of The Kingdom Of Ireland.
plead to their indictment , their trials were not to commence until the 20 th of the same month . Notwithstanding the laudable exertions of Government to suppress the barbarity of the insurgents , they still -perpetiated aits of cruelty which none but cannibals would have thought of but with terror . On Sunday the iSth a party of those deluded wretches , who . had been induced by wicked incendiaries to think murder to be no crime ,
committed an a &' on sufficient to freeze the blood of any human being at the bare recital . They assassinated a farmer in the neighbourhood of Newcastle , in the county of Dublin ; and having mangled his body in a dreadful manner , divided it into four quarters , and laid the several parts before his weeping children—A horrid spedhcle of blood-thirsty atrocity and revenge 1 This unfortunate man , it is asserted ,- was to have been evidence against some insurgents at the Naas assises , to prevent which he was previously butchered .
It would only be presenting a review of ignominy at once repugnant to the feelings of humanity , and descriptive of worse than brutal minds , to follow up in succession the accumulated deeds of horror perpetrated by men who had the daring resolution to declare that they fought and struggled in the cause of liberty . The legislature of Ireland could no longer endure the repetition of them . Accordingly they proclaimed martial law in the country , of
which the southern parts were declared to be in a state of rebellion . Some skirmishes had actually taken place between the rebels and the military . It was discovered that nightly meetings had been held in different places , where the insurgents regularly trained themselves to the use of arms . No doubts remained in the breast of unprejudiced observers , of the real extent of their design ; which the } ' expected would have been carried into full execution by assistance afforded them from France . The event will shew that their expectation was not groundless , but
their exeitions proved in vain . And whatever a factious multitude mig ht have premised themselves from the pioreftion' of a French republican government , they would have experienced from their new masters as much equity and justice , as much peculation and robbery , as the revolutionized states in the Netherlands and the plundered provinces of Italy have suffered from a system of liberty and equality ,
that takes all liberty away , and levels mankind to an equality of misery and wretchedness . A proclamation was issued for seizing all concealed arms . Whatever . difference < f opinion had prevailed on the wisdom of the sjs . tem of politics , by which Ireland had , for many years past been ruled , few men were either so prejudiced or so ignorant as not to perceive that
vigorous measures alone could save the country from impending ruin . Led on by men professedly republicans , and . undoubtedly in league with the . French Directory , the deluded Irish called aloud for Catholi ? emancipation and Parliamentary reform . . [ re BE cexntu'ED . 3
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
An Historical And Geographical Account Of The Kingdom Of Ireland.
plead to their indictment , their trials were not to commence until the 20 th of the same month . Notwithstanding the laudable exertions of Government to suppress the barbarity of the insurgents , they still -perpetiated aits of cruelty which none but cannibals would have thought of but with terror . On Sunday the iSth a party of those deluded wretches , who . had been induced by wicked incendiaries to think murder to be no crime ,
committed an a &' on sufficient to freeze the blood of any human being at the bare recital . They assassinated a farmer in the neighbourhood of Newcastle , in the county of Dublin ; and having mangled his body in a dreadful manner , divided it into four quarters , and laid the several parts before his weeping children—A horrid spedhcle of blood-thirsty atrocity and revenge 1 This unfortunate man , it is asserted ,- was to have been evidence against some insurgents at the Naas assises , to prevent which he was previously butchered .
It would only be presenting a review of ignominy at once repugnant to the feelings of humanity , and descriptive of worse than brutal minds , to follow up in succession the accumulated deeds of horror perpetrated by men who had the daring resolution to declare that they fought and struggled in the cause of liberty . The legislature of Ireland could no longer endure the repetition of them . Accordingly they proclaimed martial law in the country , of
which the southern parts were declared to be in a state of rebellion . Some skirmishes had actually taken place between the rebels and the military . It was discovered that nightly meetings had been held in different places , where the insurgents regularly trained themselves to the use of arms . No doubts remained in the breast of unprejudiced observers , of the real extent of their design ; which the } ' expected would have been carried into full execution by assistance afforded them from France . The event will shew that their expectation was not groundless , but
their exeitions proved in vain . And whatever a factious multitude mig ht have premised themselves from the pioreftion' of a French republican government , they would have experienced from their new masters as much equity and justice , as much peculation and robbery , as the revolutionized states in the Netherlands and the plundered provinces of Italy have suffered from a system of liberty and equality ,
that takes all liberty away , and levels mankind to an equality of misery and wretchedness . A proclamation was issued for seizing all concealed arms . Whatever . difference < f opinion had prevailed on the wisdom of the sjs . tem of politics , by which Ireland had , for many years past been ruled , few men were either so prejudiced or so ignorant as not to perceive that
vigorous measures alone could save the country from impending ruin . Led on by men professedly republicans , and . undoubtedly in league with the . French Directory , the deluded Irish called aloud for Catholi ? emancipation and Parliamentary reform . . [ re BE cexntu'ED . 3