HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
Having wasted above an hour in 
those futile and ineffectual attempts, 
distinguished only by acts of indivi- 
dual atrocity, notwithstanding every 
- effort of their leaders to direct. them 
‘towards the castle, the grand object 
of attack; the insurgents seemed at 
dength seriously disposed to assay 
‘that most difficult part of their en- 
-terprize, and had actually collected 
nan immense column, and had 
proceeded through James’s intoTho- 
‘mas street, when the attention of 
‘its rear was diverted to the arrival 
‘of an equipage, which a moment’s 
‘inquiry satisfied the rebels, was that 
of the lord chief justice of Ireland. 
-A halt was instantly called, disorder 
‘and tumult again prevailed—the 
heads of the advancing party imme- 
diately returned upon their steps, 
and the massacre of the venerable 
Jord Kilwarden, became the sole ob- 
ject of this infatuated and execra- 
‘ble mob.—The circumstances of 
this atrocious act we shall present- 
ly advert to—but the delay which 
“the putting into execution the bloody 
deed, as strongly marked by its folly 
“as its ferocity, added to the alarm 
which the outrages of more than an 
hour had universally spread, gave, 
‘though late, an opportunity to 
the military guards of the neighbour- 
hood to act upon the insurgents. 
‘. It was at this period, that it is 
serted Mr. Emmett and the 
ther leaders, who had been some- 
hat more than an hour engaged in 
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a task far beyond thdirpowers—that 
of directing effectually and with pre- 
cision an armed Irish mob—retired 
in despair, at finding all command 
disregarded, all efforts to produce 
subordination ineffectual, and their 
favourite project of assailing the 
castle * rejected for the slightest 
opportunity that occurred of indulg- 
ing the predatory disposition to ra- 
pine and murder, of their associates ! 
It has been urged in their favour, 
that shocked and disgusted at the 
murder of lord Kilwarden, the 
chiefs instantaneously came to the 
resolution of abandoning their vile 
associates.— But if that of colonel 
Brown, and of the corporal of the 
prison guard, had not lessened their 
appetite for revolution, it cannot 
well be conceived that the subse- 
quent barbarities exercised towards 
the lord chief justice, would have 
rendered them allat once so precise 
and squeamish.—in effect, what 
must that man be, who could em- 
ark on an hostile design with a 
drunken, armed populace, and not 
calculate upon being the witness, 
the ACCOMPLICE, of every species 
of crime? 
About half past ten the rebels were 
in their turn severely attacked— 
the mighty project and elaborate 
preparation of Mr. Emmett and bis 
associates; the numbers their design 
had assembled; the lofty conceptions 
they had formed; were all discomfit- 
ed and dissipated in less than half 
- * It is very certain that the head of the advancing column never approached the 
le, nearer than Francis street, which is thence distant about halfa miie. The fol- 
Towing anecdote, the authenticity of which may be depended upou, will serve to shew 
ow little was to be apprehended {from the adherence to each other in the moment of 
“action, or from the subordination of thishorde of barbarians. An inhabitant of Francis 
street, as the advanced ranks proceeded in that direction overheard froin his window a 
leader calling out to his party “to advance,” to which a reply was instantly made, will 
_ # tremendous oath—“ We won’t advance, you are no captain of mine, 1 NEVER Bat 
NOK DRANK WITH vou!” 
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