CHRONICLE. 



4i 



he then took his shirt and stockings, 

 which were covered with blood 

 (the slieet he had left in his 

 master's room), went out at the 

 front door and concealed his bloody 

 linen in a bush, covering it with 

 leaves : the bush was opposite the 

 door, and not many yards from it : 

 he then returned without shutting 

 the outer door, and went to the 

 servants' hall : he opened his win- 

 dow shutters and went to bed (it 

 was not yet four o'clock): he did 

 not sleep, though he appeared to 

 be asleep when King came for the 

 purpose of waking him at half-past 

 six o'clock. He stated, in the most 

 solemn manner, that no person 

 whatever was concerned with him 

 in this horrid deed ; and to a ques- 

 tion put to him, whether he had 

 any associate, answered, " How 

 could he, whfti he never in his 

 life, before the moment of his 

 jumping up from the form, enter- 

 tained the thought of murder." He 

 can assign no motive for what he 

 did : he had no enmity or ill-will 

 of any kind against Mr, or Mrs. 

 Bonar. 



JUNE. 



2. A shocking affray took place 

 at the fair of Carrokeel, county 

 of Donegal, between a party of 

 Orangemen and a party of Rib- 

 bonmen, in which a number of 

 lives were lost. The origin of the 

 quarrel does not seem to be well 

 understood, it having been related 

 in various ways ; but the contend- 

 ing parties appear to have met 

 With intentions determinedly mur- 

 derous, each having supplied them- 

 selves with arms and ammunition. 

 The Orangemen having been 

 worsted in the onset, retreated to 



a village, where they took shelter 

 in some houses, which their pur- 

 suers set on fire. Driven to des- 

 peration, they fired out of the 

 windows, and killed two of their 

 opponents on the spot ; afterwards 

 they sallied out, with the inten- 

 tion of saving themselves by re- 

 treat, when they stabbed another, 

 who is now dead, but, being over- 

 powered, three of them were killed. 

 Thus three of each party have been 

 killed, and, we understand, a great 

 number have beeen wounded. 



3. While Mr. Browne of Ar- 

 raayle, and his family, were sitting 

 in the parlour, at an early hour of 

 the night, accompanied by their 

 guest, Surgeon Brailsford, of the 

 royal dragoons, the house was 

 beset and entered by a banditti of 

 armed villains, seven in number, 

 of whom four took post as sentries, 

 and three burst into the parlour. 

 The leader of them instantly pre- 

 sented a blunderbuss, and de- 

 manded arms ; on which Mr. 

 Browne knocked him down. Dr. 

 Brailsford attacked a second, when 

 in the conflict one of the villains 

 fired at him, and another at Mr. 

 Browne. The latter was despe- 

 rately wounded by a discharge of 

 small slugs from a blunMerbuss, 

 having received several of them in 

 the breast and body ; the former 

 was severely wounded by a pistol 

 shot in the arm, and had his face 

 and head savagely cut and mangled. 

 Dr. Brailsford's servant, hearing 

 the shots, got a pistol from some 

 part of the house, and attempted 

 firing it, but in vain ; the powder 

 having been taken out, although 

 the ball was left in the pistol. 

 This gallant fidelity cost the poor 

 fellow his life; the wretch at 

 whom he aimed having instantly 

 blown the contents of a blunder- 



