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History Of The Irish Rebellion .
displayed in promoting the formation ofthe -volunteer corps , which associated in Ireland before the conclusion of the last war . He was the confidential friend of Hamilton Rowan , Counsellor Tone , and Napp ' er'fandy . From the confession of one Horish , a chimney-sweeper , when placed in the whipping-Stocksit was discovered that a plan had been
, concerted for setting fire to the parliament house . He said that he was the person who burnt that house six years ago , which was then reported to have been set on fire by an accident in the chimney funnel but he refused to disclose his accomplices on that occasion . : Mr . Arthur O'Connor , ' who had been tried at Maidstone , arrived , iu company with his brother Roger , in Dublin , in the custody of two
king ' s messengers . They were landed at the Pigeon-House , and taken to the house of correction in Smittifield . ¦ Every day brought to light the knowledge of some new acts of atrocity committed by the rebels . Ill the county of Wexford , amonnmany instances of massacre , the following excites particular detestation and horror . The Reverend Mr . Haydon , a protestant clergyman greatly esteemed , having had some of his nei ghbours to spend the evening with him , a Mis ' s Clifford , residing in his house ,
-remarkable for her beauty , and possessing virtues that endeared her to the whole circle of her numerous friends , was requested to sing a song called ' Croppies lie down ; ' she did so , far from suspecting that her compliance would be the cause of her death . The next morning the house was attacked by a party of insurgents , and the whole family massacred with circumstances ofthe must horrid cruelty . The servant who attended them at supperthe preceding nihtsnatched a
, g , pike from one of his brother demons , and plunged it into the bosom of the accomplished Miss Clifford , exclaiming with an oath , ' take that for your Croppy lie down !' Lord Edward Fitzgerald , and seventy other persons , charged with hig h treason , received notice to prepare for their trial ; but the hand of death terminated the life of his . Lordship , without subjecting him
to that of the executioner . He died in tbe New Prison , the place of his confinement , at two o ' clock in the morning ofthe fourth of Jtine . For some hours before his death , a paroxysm of violent madness seized him , but he grew calm towards his last moments . An inquest sat upon his body , which pronounced his death to have been in consequence of an effusion of water from the left side of the thorax , and inflammation in the lungs , occasioned by a fever , -aided bv two wounds inflicted on his right arm by pistol-balls found lodged over the scapula of that side . .
. The rebels had now become masters of Eftniscorthy and Wexford , and , strange to tell , were headed by several priests of the popish communion . It is hard to decide whether they were most wanton in their spoliation pf their property , or cruel in their outrages on the pet'sons of the inhabitants . It became expedient now to re-inforce the military in Ireland . A draft of two thousand of the Guards were
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History Of The Irish Rebellion .
displayed in promoting the formation ofthe -volunteer corps , which associated in Ireland before the conclusion of the last war . He was the confidential friend of Hamilton Rowan , Counsellor Tone , and Napp ' er'fandy . From the confession of one Horish , a chimney-sweeper , when placed in the whipping-Stocksit was discovered that a plan had been
, concerted for setting fire to the parliament house . He said that he was the person who burnt that house six years ago , which was then reported to have been set on fire by an accident in the chimney funnel but he refused to disclose his accomplices on that occasion . : Mr . Arthur O'Connor , ' who had been tried at Maidstone , arrived , iu company with his brother Roger , in Dublin , in the custody of two
king ' s messengers . They were landed at the Pigeon-House , and taken to the house of correction in Smittifield . ¦ Every day brought to light the knowledge of some new acts of atrocity committed by the rebels . Ill the county of Wexford , amonnmany instances of massacre , the following excites particular detestation and horror . The Reverend Mr . Haydon , a protestant clergyman greatly esteemed , having had some of his nei ghbours to spend the evening with him , a Mis ' s Clifford , residing in his house ,
-remarkable for her beauty , and possessing virtues that endeared her to the whole circle of her numerous friends , was requested to sing a song called ' Croppies lie down ; ' she did so , far from suspecting that her compliance would be the cause of her death . The next morning the house was attacked by a party of insurgents , and the whole family massacred with circumstances ofthe must horrid cruelty . The servant who attended them at supperthe preceding nihtsnatched a
, g , pike from one of his brother demons , and plunged it into the bosom of the accomplished Miss Clifford , exclaiming with an oath , ' take that for your Croppy lie down !' Lord Edward Fitzgerald , and seventy other persons , charged with hig h treason , received notice to prepare for their trial ; but the hand of death terminated the life of his . Lordship , without subjecting him
to that of the executioner . He died in tbe New Prison , the place of his confinement , at two o ' clock in the morning ofthe fourth of Jtine . For some hours before his death , a paroxysm of violent madness seized him , but he grew calm towards his last moments . An inquest sat upon his body , which pronounced his death to have been in consequence of an effusion of water from the left side of the thorax , and inflammation in the lungs , occasioned by a fever , -aided bv two wounds inflicted on his right arm by pistol-balls found lodged over the scapula of that side . .
. The rebels had now become masters of Eftniscorthy and Wexford , and , strange to tell , were headed by several priests of the popish communion . It is hard to decide whether they were most wanton in their spoliation pf their property , or cruel in their outrages on the pet'sons of the inhabitants . It became expedient now to re-inforce the military in Ireland . A draft of two thousand of the Guards were