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a brifk cannonade upon it, and drove the 
populace out of the place, and retook 
two curricle guns which had fallen into 
their hands. At this time almoft the 
whole of the counties of Antrim and 
Down were ina ftate of infurreétion. 
On the 11th of June a very large body 
of the Wexford infurgents was driven 
back with great lofs from their attack 
upon Major-general Needham’s poft at 
Arklow. As foon as the enemy ap- 
proached, the king’s troops opened a 
heavy fire of grape-fhot, which did much’ 
execution: this firing continued incef- 
fantly from fix until eight o’clock in the 
evening, when they fled on every fide in ' 
_ contfufion. 
The next intelligence from General 
Nugent was not fo favourable as his lait 
details had left room to expect; but it 
had been reported to him, from Antrim, 
by Colonel Clavering, that the difaffected 
in that neighbourhoed had exprefled a de- 
fire to return to their duty; and ‘that at 
Ballymena 150 ma{quets and 800 pikes 
chad been given up to the magiftrates. 
Many arms, 500 pikes, and a brafs field- 
piece, had alio been furrendered to Major 
Seddon. | 
Lord Camden received intelligence, on 
the 12th of June, that Sir Charles Afgill 
had attacked a rebel. camp at the Boar, 
near Refs, which he difperfed, and killed 
s0 people, including their leader. 
On the 12th of June, General Nugent 
fled in all direétions. 
_ defeated a large body of peoplé near Bal- 
lynahinch, who, at the clote of the attion, 
1 The populace 
fought with great obftinacy, and Joft 
about 400 men. They attacked impe- 
tuoufly Colonel Leflie’s detachment, and 
even jumped into the road from the Earl 
of Moira’s demefne, to endeavour to take 
one of his guns, but they were repulfed. 
The lofs on the part of the king’s troops 
was {tated to be but five rank and #le 
killed, and 14. wounded, with the lofs of 
Captain Evatt, of the Monaghan militia, 
killed. é 
After thefe various ations in the north, 
intelligence arrived, that the people had 
affembled in great force in the fouth. The 
town of Wextord had been for fome time 
in the hands of the infurgents; they ac- 
cumulated every day, till their number 
was announced to be at leaft 20,000. The 
government, in order to repel this for- 
midable force, took meafures to form a 
regular cordon reund the town of Wex- 
ford, the common rendezvous of the in- 
furgents ; in which place they are ftated 
to have had their bulletins, as well as go - 
vernment, and they iflued proclamations, 
imploring their adherents ‘¢ to {pare the 
effufion of human blood.’’ In this ftate 
of affairs, the cabinet of St. James’s fent 
Lord CORNWALLIS to Ireland, to take 
upon him the fuperintendance of the mi- 
litary and civil government of that kine- 
dom. : 
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Marriages and Deaths, in and near London. 
Married.}] Mr. Wm. Alchorne, of Tri- 
nity-lane, to Mifs Cobham, of Eaft-lane 
Rotherhithe. . 
Mr. Thomas Dickenfon,; of Whitechapel, 
to Mifs Sarah Arundel, of Tetbury, Glou- 
cefterfhire. ! 
At St. Bride’s, hy the rev. Weldon Champ- 
neys, fub-dean of St. Paul’s, the rev. Wm. 
Lens, of Bunhill-row, to Mifs Simmons, of 
- Dorfet-ftreet, Salifbury-fquare, a'defcendant 
of Richard Pendrill, preferver and condutor 
of King Charles II. after his efcape from 
Worcefter fight, in the year 1651. 
Mr. J. Smith, banker, of Lombard-ftreet, 
to Mifs B. Remington, of the fame place. 
Mr. Oliver, of Brook-ftreet, Grofvenor- 
fquare, to Mrs. Mackintofh, of Kenfington- 
fquare. 
In London, General Duboyne, of the Eaft 
India company’s fervice, to the daughter of 
the Marquis de Defmond. 
Mr. Siffon, furgeon, of Brydges-ftreet, 
Covent-garden, to Mifs Sethree, daughter of 
Mr. S. Hatter, of the fame place., 
In London, Major. James Rooke, fon of 
Uuieut.-general Rooke, M. P. to Mifs Mary 
Rigge, an amiable lady, with a fortune of 
40,0col. 
At Mary-le-Bone church, the hon. Wm. 
Gore, fecond fon of the Earl of Arran, to 
Mifs Caroline Hales, youngeft daughter of 
the late Sir Thomas Pym Hales, bart. 
, At Hornfey, Benjamin Boddington, efq. 
to Mrs. Boddington. 
George Ay{cough, efg. of New Bafinghall- 
ftreet, to Mrs. Niell, of Horton-cottage, near 
Windfor. m/e 
In London, Charles Buckner, efq. vice- 
admiral of the white, to Mrs. Frewen, relict 
of the late Charles Frewen, efg. of Clewer, 
Berks. 
Jofeph Smith, efq. of Hereford-ftreet, to 
Mifs M. Cocks, niece to Lord Somers. 
Mr. Wm. Thompfon, to Mifs Bell, of | 
Mincing-lane. 3 
Mr. Rogers, of Swithen’s-lane, to Mifs 
Elizabeth Wellford, of Tower-dock. 
In London, the rev. Wm. Lockwood, 
Maydwell, of Giddington, Northamptonfhire, 
to Mifs Matilday Lockwoed, youngeft daugh- 
ter of "Thomas. Lockwood, efq. of Mortimer- 
fireet, Cavendith-fquare. 
