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Chronological Account Of The Principal Occurrences
A French privateer captured b y his Majesty ' s ship Caroline . 9 . The Rebels in the county of Kildare seized a quantity of provisions and stores destined for the use ofthe military in the Southern districts . 10 . A Spanish privateer captured by a British cruizer off the Cape of Good Hope . Several small parties of the Wicklow , Kildare , and Meath Insurgents defeated by the King ' s troops .
11 . The Paris papers announced , that- the French General Brune had possessed himself of the citadel of Turin , the capital of his Sardinian Majesty . The Rebels attacked the town of Clonard , but were repulsed with some loss . 12 . The city of Dublin thrown into the utmost confusion , in consequence of the United Insurgents in the county of Wicklow having made some approaches towards the capital . In several other parts the Rebels were defeated
and dispersed . In the county of Kildare great numbers of them returned to their allegiance . The Kildare Rebels , commanded by Messrs . A y lmer and Fitzgerald , agreed to surrender , their Chiefs having received permission to transport themselves to any part ofthe world out ofthe British dominions . 13 .- Commodore Blanket , with bis Majesty ' s ship Leopard , Dredalus , and Orestes , sailed from Torbay for die East Indies , with reinforcements of troop ' s for that quarter . ;¦ Messrs . Henry and John Sheares , barristers at law , found guilty of high
" . treason at Dublin , on the evidence of a Captain Armstrong , whom they had .. attempted to seduce from his allegiance . On the following day they were 'both executed at the New Prison , t ¦ The Rebels from the county of Wicklow , who had encamped themselves on the Bog of Allen , fled from their position at that place , and crossed the Boyne , on their route to the North , whither they were pursued by the combined armies of Generals Wemyss and Meyrick . The cavalry soon coming
, \ ip , the enemy were defeated and dispersed in all directions . The Rebels on this occasion lost all their horses , and the greater part of their arms , and of " course were no longer capable of opposing his Majesty ' s forces . General Washington accepted the command of-the " American forces . . 14 . Dispatches from Admiral Vaneleput announced the capture of five privateers by his Majesty ' s cruizers on the Halifax station . Two seamen hanged at Portsmouth , for an attempt to carry his Majesty ' s ¦
gun-boat , the Haughty , to France . - 16 . Advice received of . Passwan Oglou , the Turkish Rebel , having obui . net some important advantages over the troops of the Grand Seignior . 17 . Accounts _ received of the Batavian Directory having prohibited the further importation of English merchandize into the ports of Holland . ' A . message presented to the Irish Parliament b y the Lord Lieutenant , relative to a free pardon to be granted to the insurgents , with certain
exceptions , and the indemnifications to be made to such of his Majesty ' s loyal subjects as had suffered in their property by the rebellion . Mr . M'Cracken , a gentleman of considerable property , and a rebel chief , executed at Belfast .
iS . Advice received at Lloyd ' s of the capture of several British merchant ships by the enemy's cruizers . Various detachments of Rebels in different directions defeated and dispersed by the King ' s troops , Mr . M'Cann , Secretary to the Leinster Committee of United Irishmen , who hael been found guilty of high treason on the preceding clay , on the evidence of Mr . Reynolds , who had himself been appointed a Colons ! in the army of the Union , executed at . the Nev , 'Prison , in Dublin .
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Chronological Account Of The Principal Occurrences
A French privateer captured b y his Majesty ' s ship Caroline . 9 . The Rebels in the county of Kildare seized a quantity of provisions and stores destined for the use ofthe military in the Southern districts . 10 . A Spanish privateer captured by a British cruizer off the Cape of Good Hope . Several small parties of the Wicklow , Kildare , and Meath Insurgents defeated by the King ' s troops .
11 . The Paris papers announced , that- the French General Brune had possessed himself of the citadel of Turin , the capital of his Sardinian Majesty . The Rebels attacked the town of Clonard , but were repulsed with some loss . 12 . The city of Dublin thrown into the utmost confusion , in consequence of the United Insurgents in the county of Wicklow having made some approaches towards the capital . In several other parts the Rebels were defeated
and dispersed . In the county of Kildare great numbers of them returned to their allegiance . The Kildare Rebels , commanded by Messrs . A y lmer and Fitzgerald , agreed to surrender , their Chiefs having received permission to transport themselves to any part ofthe world out ofthe British dominions . 13 .- Commodore Blanket , with bis Majesty ' s ship Leopard , Dredalus , and Orestes , sailed from Torbay for die East Indies , with reinforcements of troop ' s for that quarter . ;¦ Messrs . Henry and John Sheares , barristers at law , found guilty of high
" . treason at Dublin , on the evidence of a Captain Armstrong , whom they had .. attempted to seduce from his allegiance . On the following day they were 'both executed at the New Prison , t ¦ The Rebels from the county of Wicklow , who had encamped themselves on the Bog of Allen , fled from their position at that place , and crossed the Boyne , on their route to the North , whither they were pursued by the combined armies of Generals Wemyss and Meyrick . The cavalry soon coming
, \ ip , the enemy were defeated and dispersed in all directions . The Rebels on this occasion lost all their horses , and the greater part of their arms , and of " course were no longer capable of opposing his Majesty ' s forces . General Washington accepted the command of-the " American forces . . 14 . Dispatches from Admiral Vaneleput announced the capture of five privateers by his Majesty ' s cruizers on the Halifax station . Two seamen hanged at Portsmouth , for an attempt to carry his Majesty ' s ¦
gun-boat , the Haughty , to France . - 16 . Advice received of . Passwan Oglou , the Turkish Rebel , having obui . net some important advantages over the troops of the Grand Seignior . 17 . Accounts _ received of the Batavian Directory having prohibited the further importation of English merchandize into the ports of Holland . ' A . message presented to the Irish Parliament b y the Lord Lieutenant , relative to a free pardon to be granted to the insurgents , with certain
exceptions , and the indemnifications to be made to such of his Majesty ' s loyal subjects as had suffered in their property by the rebellion . Mr . M'Cracken , a gentleman of considerable property , and a rebel chief , executed at Belfast .
iS . Advice received at Lloyd ' s of the capture of several British merchant ships by the enemy's cruizers . Various detachments of Rebels in different directions defeated and dispersed by the King ' s troops , Mr . M'Cann , Secretary to the Leinster Committee of United Irishmen , who hael been found guilty of high treason on the preceding clay , on the evidence of Mr . Reynolds , who had himself been appointed a Colons ! in the army of the Union , executed at . the Nev , 'Prison , in Dublin .