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Monthly Chronicle.

ORDNANCE , ARMS , AND AMMUNITION TAKEN . 3 lig ht French four-pounders ; 5 ditto ammunition waggons , nearly full of made-up ammunition ; 1 ditto tumbril ; 700 stand of arms , with belts and pouches-, with a great number of p ikes . Officer wounded—Lieutenant Stephens , of the Carabineers . RETURN OF THE FRENCH ARMY TAKEN PRISONERS . AT THE BATTLE OF BALLINAMUCK , SEPTEMBER S , 1798 .

General and other Officers , 9 6 . —Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers , 74 6 . —Horses , about 100 . Ninety-six Rebels taken—three of them called General Officers by the names of Roach , Blake , and Teeling . The enemy , in their retreat , were compelled to abandon nine pieces of cannon , which they had taken in the former actions with his Majesty ' s forces . The amount of the invading and rebel force ishowevercollectivel

, , y taken , so small , that it will , no doubt , furnish new matter of" remark to . those who have argued that this important effort of the enemy might have been more speedily crushed . It is for the public , however , to observe , that this comparatively small force was rendered formidable-by its energy and activity . It was also in the vicinity of several counties , in some of which the germ of disaffection had disclosed itself ; in others it had ripened and spread into full-blown rebellion . It was necessary , therefore , in the first

instance , to cut off all communication with the suspeCfed districts . The JMarquis Cornwallis was aware of this danger , and took his precautions accordingly . In the political as in the natural body , it is necessary to stop the morbid approaches to other parts , before the disease itself can be attacked .

ANOTHER DESCENT . On the morning of Sunday the iGth of September , the French National brig Anacreon , having on board General Rey and James Napper Tandy , Chef de Brigade , appeared off the little town and island of Rutland , on the north-west coast of the county of ' Donnegall , a place so utterly unnoticed , save for its convenience to the herring fishery , as not to be defended by a single soldier . About 8 o ' clock the cresv of the brig landed ; they were for

the most part Irishmen , ancl anxiously solicited information concerning the French army landed at Killala : nothing could equal their dejection when they -were told not only that the whole French force had been destroyed or captured , but that they had been joined by comparatively very few of their Irish rebel friends . Tandy was particularly dejected . The Anacreon was laden with many stand of arms to supply those who should join the French army ; but such was the caution or the terror of the country people , that as

soon as the French appeared they retired to the mountains . General Tandyendeavoured , but with little success , to persuade the fishermen of Rutland , that he and his friends came to deliver them from their oppressois . The General then issued two manifestoes , in order to convey his meaning more explicitly to the inhabitants of Rutland ; these manifestoes , written and printed at Paris , had little or no effect . Having made n more considerable progress in the course of Sunday than the seizure of some sheep ancl swine ' ,

-which the French found in Rutland , Generals Rey , Tandy , and Blackwell , and sundry other Generals who accompanied them , re-embarked on board the Anacreon , out of which not one musket had been landed , and stood away to the north east . The little bay where this debarkment was effected is about 70 miles north of Killala , where the preceding descent was made . It is distant at least 16 5 N . W . of the Irish Capital .

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Monthly Chronicle.

ORDNANCE , ARMS , AND AMMUNITION TAKEN . 3 lig ht French four-pounders ; 5 ditto ammunition waggons , nearly full of made-up ammunition ; 1 ditto tumbril ; 700 stand of arms , with belts and pouches-, with a great number of p ikes . Officer wounded—Lieutenant Stephens , of the Carabineers . RETURN OF THE FRENCH ARMY TAKEN PRISONERS . AT THE BATTLE OF BALLINAMUCK , SEPTEMBER S , 1798 .

General and other Officers , 9 6 . —Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers , 74 6 . —Horses , about 100 . Ninety-six Rebels taken—three of them called General Officers by the names of Roach , Blake , and Teeling . The enemy , in their retreat , were compelled to abandon nine pieces of cannon , which they had taken in the former actions with his Majesty ' s forces . The amount of the invading and rebel force ishowevercollectivel

, , y taken , so small , that it will , no doubt , furnish new matter of" remark to . those who have argued that this important effort of the enemy might have been more speedily crushed . It is for the public , however , to observe , that this comparatively small force was rendered formidable-by its energy and activity . It was also in the vicinity of several counties , in some of which the germ of disaffection had disclosed itself ; in others it had ripened and spread into full-blown rebellion . It was necessary , therefore , in the first

instance , to cut off all communication with the suspeCfed districts . The JMarquis Cornwallis was aware of this danger , and took his precautions accordingly . In the political as in the natural body , it is necessary to stop the morbid approaches to other parts , before the disease itself can be attacked .

ANOTHER DESCENT . On the morning of Sunday the iGth of September , the French National brig Anacreon , having on board General Rey and James Napper Tandy , Chef de Brigade , appeared off the little town and island of Rutland , on the north-west coast of the county of ' Donnegall , a place so utterly unnoticed , save for its convenience to the herring fishery , as not to be defended by a single soldier . About 8 o ' clock the cresv of the brig landed ; they were for

the most part Irishmen , ancl anxiously solicited information concerning the French army landed at Killala : nothing could equal their dejection when they -were told not only that the whole French force had been destroyed or captured , but that they had been joined by comparatively very few of their Irish rebel friends . Tandy was particularly dejected . The Anacreon was laden with many stand of arms to supply those who should join the French army ; but such was the caution or the terror of the country people , that as

soon as the French appeared they retired to the mountains . General Tandyendeavoured , but with little success , to persuade the fishermen of Rutland , that he and his friends came to deliver them from their oppressois . The General then issued two manifestoes , in order to convey his meaning more explicitly to the inhabitants of Rutland ; these manifestoes , written and printed at Paris , had little or no effect . Having made n more considerable progress in the course of Sunday than the seizure of some sheep ancl swine ' ,

-which the French found in Rutland , Generals Rey , Tandy , and Blackwell , and sundry other Generals who accompanied them , re-embarked on board the Anacreon , out of which not one musket had been landed , and stood away to the north east . The little bay where this debarkment was effected is about 70 miles north of Killala , where the preceding descent was made . It is distant at least 16 5 N . W . of the Irish Capital .

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