June 10. 1854.] 



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have I fear to wait too long. I mean an imme- 

 diate reprint (in a separate shape) of the several 

 lists of gentlemen of both parties which are given 

 in King's work. This might be done with very 

 little trouble, and, I think, without any pecuniary 

 loss, if not with actual profit. It would be little 

 more than pamphlet size. The first and most im- 

 portant list would be of the names and designa- 

 tions of all the persons included in the acts of 

 attainder passed in King James's Irish Parliament 

 of May, 1689. They are, I think, about two 

 thousand names, with their residences and personal 

 designations ; and it is interesting to find that a 

 great many of the same families are still seated in 

 the same places. These names I think I should 

 place alphabetically in one list, with their designa- 

 tions and residences ; and any short notes that Mr. 

 D' Alton might think necessary to correct clerical 

 error, or explain doubtful names : longer notes 

 would perhaps lead too far into family history for 

 the limited object I propose. 



In a second list, I would give the names of King 

 James's parliament, privy council, army, civil and 

 judicial departments, as we find them in King, 

 adding to them an alphabetical index of names. 

 The whole would then exhibit a synopsis of the 

 names, residences, and politics of a considerable 

 portion of the gentry of Ireland at that important 

 period. C. 



BARBELLS BEGIMENT. 



(Vol. ix., pp. 63. 159.) 



Your correspondent H. B. C. is undoubtedly 

 correct in his statement that " Ten times a day 

 whip the Barrels," is a regimental parody on the 

 song " He that has the best Wife," sung in Charles 

 Coffey's musical farce of The Devil to Pay, pub- 

 lished in 1731. Popular songs have been made 

 the subject of political or personal parodies from 

 time immemorial ; and no more fruitful locality 

 for parodies can be found than a barrack, where 

 the individual traits of character are so fully de- 

 veloped, and afford so full a scope to the talents of 

 a satirist. Indeed, I knew an officer, who has 

 recently retired from the service, who seized on 

 every popular ballad, and parodied it, in con- 

 nexion with regimental affairs, to the delight of 

 his brother officers ; and in many instances his 

 parodies were far more witty than the original 

 comic songs whence they were taken. 



As regards the regiment known as Barrell's, at 

 the period assigned as the date of the song relative 

 to that corps, i. e. circa 1747, there can be no 

 doubt as to what corps is alluded to. Barrell's 

 regiment, now the 4th, or King's Own, regiment 

 of infantry, is the only corps that was ever known 

 in the British army as Barrell's ; for although 

 Colonel William Barrell was colonel of the present 



28th regiment from Sept. 27, 1715, to August 25, 

 1730, and of the present 22nd regiment from the 

 latter date to August 8, 1734, yet neither of these 

 regiments appears to have seen any war-service 

 during the periods that they were commanded by 

 him, or to have been known in military history as 

 Barrell's regiments. He was appointed to the 4th 

 regiment of infantry August 8, 1734, and retained 

 the command of that distinguished corps exactly 

 fifteen years, for he died August 9, 1749. While 

 he commanded the regiment it embarked for 

 Flanders, and served the campaign of 1744, under 

 Field- Marshal Wade. It remained in Flanders 

 until the rebellion broke out in Scotland, when it 

 returned to England, and marched from New- 

 castle-on-Tyne to Scotland in January, 1746, 

 arriving on the 10th of that month at Edinburgh. 

 The regiment was engaged at the battle of Fal- 

 kirk, Jan. 17, 1746, where its conduct is thus 

 noticed in the General Advertiser : " The regi- 

 ments which distinguished themselves were Bar- 

 rell's (King's Own), and Ligonier's foot." Ligo- 

 nier's regiment is now the glorious 48th regiment, 

 of Albuera fame. 



At the battle of Culloden Barrell's regiment 

 gained the greatest reputation imaginable ; the 

 battle was so desperate that the soldiers' bayonets 

 were stained with blood to the muzzles of their 

 muskets ; there was scarce an officer or soldier of 

 the regiment, and of that part of Munro's (now 

 37th regiment) which engaged the rebels, that did 

 not kill one or two men each with their bayonets. 

 (Particulars of the Battle, published 1746.) Now 

 it will be remembered that your correspondent 

 E. H., Vol. ix., p. 159., represents a drummer of 

 the regiment interceding with the colonel for the 

 prisoner, by stating that " he behaved well at 

 Culloden." And this leads me to the question, 

 Who was the colonel against whom this caricature 

 was directed ? It is proved (" N. & Q.," Vol. vii., 

 p. 242.) that regiments were known by the names 

 of their colonels, whether commanded personally 

 by the colonel or not, until July 1, 1751, and 

 indeed for several subsequent years. 



Now the reference to Culloden renders it pro- 

 bable that the colonel appealed to was present at 

 that battle, and perhaps an eye-witness of the 

 personal bravery on that occasion of the soldier 

 who was subsequently flogged. But although 

 Colonel Barrell retained the colonelcy of the 

 4th Infantry until August, 1749, yet he was pro- 

 moted to major-general in 1735, after which 

 time he would have commanded a division, not a 

 regiment. In 1739 he was farther promoted to 

 lieut.-general, and appointed the same year 

 Governor of Pendennis Castle, which office would 

 necessarily remove him from the personal com- 

 mand of his regiment. He was not present at the 

 battle of Culloden, April 16, 1746, where his regi- 

 ment was commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Robert 



