were ooserved in Marshalsea-lane, 
and the number of armed men who 
issued thence, naturally attracted a 
good deal of attention. Lieut.Coult- 
man of the 9th regiment, at the 
time accidentally in Dublin; par- 
taking in the general alarm, col- 
lected a few men zealous and reso- 
lute like himself, some of which 
were of the regiment to which 
he belonged, others, volunteers of 
the barrack division, of a serjeant 
and 12 men whom he met on his 
way, and who all put themselves un- 
der his command; the entire party 
proceeded to the place whence so 
much mischief had appeared to is- 
sue. The house and the Jane adjoin- 
ing it were by this time completely 
abandoned, Mr. Emmett and _ his 
party not having prepared any 
measure for its security, or provided 
any means of retreat to it, The 
passage through the lane was strew-, 
ed with pikes, which marked the 
way to the magazine already men- 
tioned. Lieut. Coultman and his 
party, on entering it, found the en- 
tire apparatus of rebellion: a large 
quantity of ball cartridge, hand 
grenades, pikes, and gunpowder ; 
7° military dresses ; but above 
Ml, a proclamation wet from the 
ress, of persons styling themselves 
2 provisional government, and 
containing their projects of a future 
stitution. 
The authors of this instrument 
no sort of apology or vindica- 
ion, for intruding themselves into 
asituation already occupied: they 
ar to suppose their claim and 
1 to be perfectly notorious and 
lowed! Perhaps a higher effort 
of presumptuous pride and folly 
ver was before presented to the 
world, than that displayed in this 
Manifesto, which did not even 
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contain one word to attach or ani- 
mate the people: thence it wag 
supposed to be a surreptitious pro- 
duction of some of the meaner 
confederates... Nothing of the su- 
perior mind of an audacious con- 
triver, was therein elicited. The 
entire is as formal as if it were an 
official document, from an acknow- 
ledged and undisturbed govern- 
ment; and as peremptory and de- 
cided as if its authors had ascended 
toauthority, by prescriptive right 
and regular succession. It became 
the jest of the multitude as soon as 
made public. And perhaps no 
other circumstance could have 
more directly tended to produce in” 
this class of people, a disposition fa- 
vourable to the established autho- 
rities; as it was heie taught, that 
the Irish were not to expect by a 
change of constitution any redress 
of their grievances, nor any other 
alteration, save a change of go- 
vernors. 
But the circumstance from which 
this hopeless and disastrous com- 
motion, derived a degree of cele- 
brity, far beyond that which would 
naturally belong to the ordinary 
acts of turbulence in a disaffected 
country, and in an_ ill-regulated 
metropolis; was, the dreadful ca- 
tastrophe of the chief justice of Ire- 
land, the lord viscount Kilwarden. 
This unfortunate nobleman had, 
on the day of the insurrection, re- 
tired 'to his country seat nearly four 
miles from Dublin, as he was ac- 
customed to do after having passed 
the week in fulfilling the duties of 
his exalted situation. ‘The — last 
judicial acts of his lordship on the 
morning of this calamitous day, 
were the liberation of confined 
debtors under the provisions of an 
insolvent act; and the prescribing 
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