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some humane regulations tending 
to alleviate the miseries of others 
of that description, whe were not 
entitled to its benefit. His seat lay 
on that side of the town whence the 
insurgents were collected; and a 
degree of alarm was excited.in his 
family towards evening by the re- 
ports which poured now fast upon 
each other, of vast numbers of sus- 
picious persons having been seen 
flocking into the city, and of their 
obvious intentions, which latter were 
indeed no longer atttempted to be 
concealed, and must have been by 
that time sufliciently notorious. 
Lord Kilwarden had probably, 
as he had advanced in years, grown 
somewhat timorous; but certain it 
is, that since the period of the out- 
rages of 1798, he was in perpetual 
apprehension of being surprized and 
assassinated by rebels; and had 
not ventured, from that time ull 
within the present year, to pass a 
night beyond the limits of Dublin. 
On the first intimation.of the cir- 
cumstances which denoted .distur- 
bance being conveyed to him, his 
jears returned: his anxious mind 
vetraced, in terrifying succession, 
the horrors and the audacity of the 
last rebellion. It probably suggest- 
ed itself to him, that the moving 
directly forward upon the metropo- 
lis was an argument of the greater 
strength, confidence, and resources 
of the insurgents now, than on the 
former occasion. His situation 
was likewise peculiar; as attorney- 
general, it had been his duty to 
point out numbers of the disaffected 
to. the offended laws of their coun- 
try; and as a judge he had ordered 
in the course of his duty, many of 
that description for execution: he, 
therefore, in the event of their pos- 
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sessing power, however mourentaryy 
had much reason to apprehend th 
most dismal effects from their fero- | 
cious resentment.  Inanevil hourys 
obeying the impulse given to hist 
mind by reflections such as these, ve 
did his lordship determine to repairy 
.to Dublin for protection; and fort” 
that purpose, accompanied by his™ 
daughter and nephew, © set £ 
in a post-chaise about the dusk o 
the evening. , 
They passed unmolested and™ 
undisturbed through the solitary 
and deserted roads leading to they 
capital, and so continued until they® 
reached the city; as indeed they” 
would have remained, had they not” 
quitted the country. One chance” 
for safety yet existed. From the! 
termination of the road op which his 
lordship proceeded, he’might enter 
Dublin either by the barracks or by” 
St James’s-street; but by the former® 
road he would have had to pass? 
about a mile farther than on the? 
latter, and through a suburb thinly: 
inhabited and little frequented ; on: 
the latter then he determined, na- 
turally reasoning, that where there® 
was most town, there would be- 
most safety ; and by an over-ruling 
fatality, directed his carriage to’ 
proceed through St. James’s and” 
Thomas streets, which were then” 
triumphantly occupied by the in=— 
surgents! Had he providentially” 
chosen the rejected avenue on the | 
other side of the river, he would 
not have encountered the slightest | 
interruption, nor witnessed the leas 
appearance of disturbance: indeed’ 
several individuals of that quarter, 
who had retired early to their anced 
tations, remained in total igneranc 
of the dreadful events of the even- 
ing, until they were apprized of 
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