[COYNE] THE TALBOT PAl'ER8 14S 



FEOM THE TRUTH TELLER. 



Xew York, Saturday, December 1, 1833. 

 The Last of the Old School of Iuish Warriors. 

 Andrew, Count O'Reilly (not the same mentioned by Lord Byron) 

 died lately at Vienna, at the patriarchal age of 93. He was a General 

 of Cavalry in the Austrian army. Chamberlain, Commander of the Mili- 

 tary Order of Maria Theresa, Colonel Propriétaire of the 3rd Regiment 

 of Light Horse, &c. This venerable soldier may be considered as having 

 been the last warrior of the distinguished class of Irish Officers, the 

 contemporaries, or élèves of the Lacys, Dauns, Loudons, Browns, and 

 Bradys, so renowned in the reign and wars of Maria Theresa, and Joseph 

 the Second — that is during the seven year's war, and the campaigns 

 against the Turks. Count O'Reilly was the second son of James 

 O'Reilly, of Ballinlough, Co. Westmeath, (Ireland) and Barbara, daugh- 

 ter of Thomas Nugent, Esq. of Dysart (granddaughter of Thomas, 4th 

 Earl of Westmeath. His brother, Hugh, was created a Bart, by King 

 George 3rd, and subsequently assumed the name of Xugent. His sister 

 is the present Lady Talbot de Malahide. General O'Reilly filled in 

 succession all the military grades in the Austrian service with the excep- 

 tion of that of Field Marshall. Of the events of his life, which led to his 

 elevation, we mean not to give even an outline, but cannot omit men- 

 tioning the fact, "to the brilliant charges made by the Dragoons of 

 O'Reilly, were the remnants of the Austrian Army saved from annihila- 

 tion, at the close of the fatal fight of Austerlitz. We find him subse- 

 quently, that is on the 13th May, 1806, Governor of ,Vienna. The dis- 

 comfiture of the Archduke Ferdinand's force, by Napoleon, having 

 brought the conqueror under the walls of the capital of the Empire, on 

 General O'Reilly devolved the trying and difficult task of making an 

 honorable capitulation with an enemy flushed with pride and victory. 

 He accordingly deputed the Prince of Detrechstein, the Burgomaster, 

 and the principal citizens, to Napoleon, who, after discharging an in- 

 vective against the obstinacy of the intrepid Archduke Ferdinand, and 

 after lauding the wisdom and presence of mind of " le respectable 

 Général O'Reilly" (His very words), accepted the terms proposed by 

 him; but in the 14th article, stipulated that General O'Reilly should 

 be the bearer of the treaty to his master in order to his honestly exposing 

 to the Emperor (Francis) the true position of the Austrian Empire, 

 &c. An important incident in the early part of General O'Reilly's 

 career is not unworthy of notice. Illustrative as it is of the manners 

 of the period, termed chivalric, but which the fastidious of mode,rn times 



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