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Article HISTORY OF THE IRISH REBELLION . ← Page 8 of 11 →
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History Of The Irish Rebellion .
ford , in which , if the rebels did not eat the flesh of loyalists , in the thirst of cannibals they licked' their blood ; we have to add one of exemplary wickedness , in the murder of a brother of the late Captain Ryan . This unfortunate young man , who from his birth had been afflicted with an extreme weakness of intellect , was met and questioned by a party of Irish savages ; his name , when they heard it , was sufficient to excite their execrable vengeancenor could either the
re-, collection of his father , a physician , who had been the kind and common benefactor of all the poor in that country , or the unresisting imbecility of the unfortunate boy himself , save him from slaughter ; he was inr stautly pierced with their pikes , and his body left exposed on the high road , a bleeding monument of remorseless villainy .
In the North of Ireland tranquillity seemed lobe completely re-established , the rebellion now seemed stationary , the province of Connaught enjoyed repose , and Munster ceased to be the scene of insurrection and plunder ; but banditti hovered about the kingdom , and committed depredations upon every individual , and on evury mail coach they met with ; so that , notwithstanding the rebels had suffered numerous defeats wherever they had assembled in any forcethe
, general safety of the kingdom was still disturbed by a set of miscreants , devoted themselves to destruction . We have adverted to the arrest , upon suspicion of high treason , of John and Henry Sheares , brothers , and barristers at the Irish Bar . On the 12 tli of July they were tried , and after a full and candid hearing , convicted of sixteen overt aits of treason . Upon hearing the
verdict the prisoners embraced each other and burst into tears , exhibiting a scene of affection and distress that penetrated the heart-of every person present . They were executed on Saturday , the 14 th , and died victims to the infatuation of a democratic phrenzy . They were both men of abilities , and possessed virtues that exalt human nature , but unfortunately suffered a wrong bias to direct their judgment . It is a singular-circumstance that the Sheares , who were active in the first French revolution , were executed " upon its anniversary .,
The rebels who had collected , upon their retreat from Wexford , in the Bog of Allen , were again repulsed by Colonel Blake ; but their main body having reached Dunboyne , proceeded , next day . to the Hill at Garretstown , whither Major General Myers , with a detachment of militia and yeomatny , was ordered to pursue them . The rebels , however , went off in the night for the Boyne , which they waded : Major General Wemys and Brigadier General -Meyrick
followed hard , and came up with them ; an attack was commenced by the military , and the rebels fled in all directions , leaving behind therfi a great quantity of pikes , pistols , swords , rnu .-df . ets , and two standards . Some ofthe rebels who escaped went on towards Ardee , the rest retreated over the Boyne , towards Garretstown , where they were again attacked by Captain Gordon , of the Dumfries Light Dragoons , and again routed in every quarter . . On the 17 th of July the Lord Lieutenant signified his Majesty ' s gracious intention of granting a general and free pardon for all offences
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History Of The Irish Rebellion .
ford , in which , if the rebels did not eat the flesh of loyalists , in the thirst of cannibals they licked' their blood ; we have to add one of exemplary wickedness , in the murder of a brother of the late Captain Ryan . This unfortunate young man , who from his birth had been afflicted with an extreme weakness of intellect , was met and questioned by a party of Irish savages ; his name , when they heard it , was sufficient to excite their execrable vengeancenor could either the
re-, collection of his father , a physician , who had been the kind and common benefactor of all the poor in that country , or the unresisting imbecility of the unfortunate boy himself , save him from slaughter ; he was inr stautly pierced with their pikes , and his body left exposed on the high road , a bleeding monument of remorseless villainy .
In the North of Ireland tranquillity seemed lobe completely re-established , the rebellion now seemed stationary , the province of Connaught enjoyed repose , and Munster ceased to be the scene of insurrection and plunder ; but banditti hovered about the kingdom , and committed depredations upon every individual , and on evury mail coach they met with ; so that , notwithstanding the rebels had suffered numerous defeats wherever they had assembled in any forcethe
, general safety of the kingdom was still disturbed by a set of miscreants , devoted themselves to destruction . We have adverted to the arrest , upon suspicion of high treason , of John and Henry Sheares , brothers , and barristers at the Irish Bar . On the 12 tli of July they were tried , and after a full and candid hearing , convicted of sixteen overt aits of treason . Upon hearing the
verdict the prisoners embraced each other and burst into tears , exhibiting a scene of affection and distress that penetrated the heart-of every person present . They were executed on Saturday , the 14 th , and died victims to the infatuation of a democratic phrenzy . They were both men of abilities , and possessed virtues that exalt human nature , but unfortunately suffered a wrong bias to direct their judgment . It is a singular-circumstance that the Sheares , who were active in the first French revolution , were executed " upon its anniversary .,
The rebels who had collected , upon their retreat from Wexford , in the Bog of Allen , were again repulsed by Colonel Blake ; but their main body having reached Dunboyne , proceeded , next day . to the Hill at Garretstown , whither Major General Myers , with a detachment of militia and yeomatny , was ordered to pursue them . The rebels , however , went off in the night for the Boyne , which they waded : Major General Wemys and Brigadier General -Meyrick
followed hard , and came up with them ; an attack was commenced by the military , and the rebels fled in all directions , leaving behind therfi a great quantity of pikes , pistols , swords , rnu .-df . ets , and two standards . Some ofthe rebels who escaped went on towards Ardee , the rest retreated over the Boyne , towards Garretstown , where they were again attacked by Captain Gordon , of the Dumfries Light Dragoons , and again routed in every quarter . . On the 17 th of July the Lord Lieutenant signified his Majesty ' s gracious intention of granting a general and free pardon for all offences