ii DEDICATION. most eminent deliverer of your country, from a dreadful continuation of the late rebellion, muft be the wifh of millions, as well as of, Sir, Your most obedient, and Most humble Servant, The Publisher, JOHN JONES. Public Printing-office, No. 91, Bride-freet, Dublin, April 20, 1809. ADVERTISEMENT, ADVERTISEMENT. 3 NEVER, I believe, had any author a jufter claim on public indulgence than myself, from the confideration of the fhortnefs of time to which I have been necessarily confined in order to produce the following imperfect, though, in many respects, minute detail. Befides this, my minutes lay fo very long on my hands as to become almost unintelligible to myself. On this account I may have flipt into errors either of time, place, or circumstance; nay, perhaps, of all three. I therefore beg, that any gentleman who may have been better informed in any particular than I, will have the goodness to intimate any fuch errors of mine to myself only, in order to their being rectified. Certain it is, however, the more important accounts are well authenticated; and I am difpofed to imagine, that, there is not one circumftantial error throughout the whole, however however immethodically I may have proceed- ed in fome places. It is now fo long fince I wrote the account, and it not being in my poffeffion, or nearer to me than Dublin, I CONTENTS, his authorities for what is advanced in this work, In 1793, Mr. Alexander perceives fymptoms of rebel- Emblems of difaffection worn in Rofs, Subftance of a letter from Lord Edward Fitzgerald, to Mr. Alexander, Malicious reports raised relative to Orange-men, Encreafing robberies and murders rouse the magistrates, Captain Tottenham urges Mr. Alexander to join a corps of yeomen-his motives for declining, Many rebels are flogged and their houses burned, Numbers of Proteftants from old Rofs, Kill-Anne, &c. fly to New-Rofs for refuge, and are treated with 7 9 ib. Situation of Rofs previous to the battle, A small party of the Mid-Lothian and Rofs cavalry en- gage with and defeat the rebels near Kill-Anne, Major General Fawcet with a company of the Meath re- Mr. Alexander fets out from Rofs for Newtown for Mifs Carr-relates what befel him, General Johnson fends Mr. M' Cormick exprefs to Sir Introductory circumftances previous to the battle of Rofs, 46 Thirty-five thousand rebels affemble on Corbet-hill- Mr. Alexander experiences much polite attention from General Johnson, by whofe means he is preferved Mr. Cullimore (a Quaker) is providentially confined by the army, by whofe judicious conduct many lives Battle of Rofs commences at 5 o'clock in the morning, Mr. Alexander describes the internal state of Rofs du- ring the battle, being an eye witness and expofed After very many escapes Mr. Alexander arrives fafe at his apartments, σι |