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Monthly Chronicle.
ceived with more cordial friendship than what they had experienced in their progress through the province of Connaught . The caution ofthe Commander in Chief formed the principal feature of his conduCt . He entertained apprehensions lest the enemy , following up their usual tactics , might try the effect of a coup de main , and penetrate inro Ulster on the one hand , or , on the other , might gain the pa ; s of the Sh . innon . Every tenable post he therefore occupied , in order to defeat these
probable purposes . Nothing very particular happened from the ist to the 3 d of September : the time had been taken up in marches and in rendering every future proceeding effectual . But early on the + th the enemy retreated from Castlebar to Foxford . Their departure from the former place was so precipitate that they left behind them 200 stand of arms , between 40 and 50 barrels of gunpowder , an ammunition cart , some pikes , and their sick and wounded . They pushed on rapidly to Sligo ; and General Lake hung upon the rear of their march , without beinsr . able to retard their progress .
Before the French left Castlebar General Humbert had formed a provisional ' administration for the government of" the province of Connaught , the members of which had been appointed by himself , and a person of the name of John Moore constituted President . This man was afterwards taken by Colonel Crawford at Castlebar . A party ofthe Limerick Militia , which had attacked the enemy in the march , at Colcone , suffered a repulse with some loss . Genera ! Lake arrived at Coloone earlv on the morning of the 6 th . General
Nugent was in considerable force in the front of the enemy ; and the Lord Lieutenant , with the main bod ) ' of the army , advanced to French Park . An insurrection in the neighbourhood of Granard was immediately suppressed by a party of yeomanry stationed in that part of the country ; but the most perfeCt tranquillity reigned in the province of Ulster . In their precipitate retreat from Castlebar to Foxford , and from thence to Sligothe enemy attemptedat several passes , to rip up the road with
pick-, , axes ; and at one place aCluall y broke down a bridge , in order to impede the pursuit ofthe British troops . Advices having been received , on the evening of September 8 th , from the head-quarters at Carrick-on-Shannon , by which it appeared that the enemy had passed through Mana Hamilton , and crossed the Shannon at Ballintra . General Lake followed them up close with the column under his command , whilst his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant was marching Mchill
upon . ¦ The enemy , with an intent to expedite their retreat , turew away eight guns and two tumbrils in their march , and were deserted by many of the inhabitants who had joined them . In all quartres the insurgents were discomfited , and the French invaders - seemed now convinced how desperate was the cause which they had undertaken .
Their objeCt , to all appearance , was to have reached the counties of Cavan and Westmeath . But the rapid and masterly movement of Lord Cornwallis to Longford frustrated their design , and , as we shall presently see , obliged them to surrender at discretion . From the Lord Lieutenant ' s official letter to the Duke of" Portland on the 5 th , his Lordship entertained a reasonable supposition , that , from the enemy's movement to Drumahainit was their intention to march to the
, north ; they mig ht indeed have cherished the hope that a French force would get into some of the bays in that part of the country , without which succour they saw thtmselves reduced to a stale of desperation . . Early on the morning of the 7 th , accounts were received b y his Excellency from General Lake , that the enemy had turned to the right towards Drurnkeiin , and that he entertained a suspicion of their intention to go to Boyle ,
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Monthly Chronicle.
ceived with more cordial friendship than what they had experienced in their progress through the province of Connaught . The caution ofthe Commander in Chief formed the principal feature of his conduCt . He entertained apprehensions lest the enemy , following up their usual tactics , might try the effect of a coup de main , and penetrate inro Ulster on the one hand , or , on the other , might gain the pa ; s of the Sh . innon . Every tenable post he therefore occupied , in order to defeat these
probable purposes . Nothing very particular happened from the ist to the 3 d of September : the time had been taken up in marches and in rendering every future proceeding effectual . But early on the + th the enemy retreated from Castlebar to Foxford . Their departure from the former place was so precipitate that they left behind them 200 stand of arms , between 40 and 50 barrels of gunpowder , an ammunition cart , some pikes , and their sick and wounded . They pushed on rapidly to Sligo ; and General Lake hung upon the rear of their march , without beinsr . able to retard their progress .
Before the French left Castlebar General Humbert had formed a provisional ' administration for the government of" the province of Connaught , the members of which had been appointed by himself , and a person of the name of John Moore constituted President . This man was afterwards taken by Colonel Crawford at Castlebar . A party ofthe Limerick Militia , which had attacked the enemy in the march , at Colcone , suffered a repulse with some loss . Genera ! Lake arrived at Coloone earlv on the morning of the 6 th . General
Nugent was in considerable force in the front of the enemy ; and the Lord Lieutenant , with the main bod ) ' of the army , advanced to French Park . An insurrection in the neighbourhood of Granard was immediately suppressed by a party of yeomanry stationed in that part of the country ; but the most perfeCt tranquillity reigned in the province of Ulster . In their precipitate retreat from Castlebar to Foxford , and from thence to Sligothe enemy attemptedat several passes , to rip up the road with
pick-, , axes ; and at one place aCluall y broke down a bridge , in order to impede the pursuit ofthe British troops . Advices having been received , on the evening of September 8 th , from the head-quarters at Carrick-on-Shannon , by which it appeared that the enemy had passed through Mana Hamilton , and crossed the Shannon at Ballintra . General Lake followed them up close with the column under his command , whilst his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant was marching Mchill
upon . ¦ The enemy , with an intent to expedite their retreat , turew away eight guns and two tumbrils in their march , and were deserted by many of the inhabitants who had joined them . In all quartres the insurgents were discomfited , and the French invaders - seemed now convinced how desperate was the cause which they had undertaken .
Their objeCt , to all appearance , was to have reached the counties of Cavan and Westmeath . But the rapid and masterly movement of Lord Cornwallis to Longford frustrated their design , and , as we shall presently see , obliged them to surrender at discretion . From the Lord Lieutenant ' s official letter to the Duke of" Portland on the 5 th , his Lordship entertained a reasonable supposition , that , from the enemy's movement to Drumahainit was their intention to march to the
, north ; they mig ht indeed have cherished the hope that a French force would get into some of the bays in that part of the country , without which succour they saw thtmselves reduced to a stale of desperation . . Early on the morning of the 7 th , accounts were received b y his Excellency from General Lake , that the enemy had turned to the right towards Drurnkeiin , and that he entertained a suspicion of their intention to go to Boyle ,