Show an irish letter copy of a letter written during the debelli rebellion on b by y sir patrick an irish member of parliament to his friend in london amy M y dear sir having now a little peace and quietness I 1 sit down to inform you of the dreadful bustle and confusion we are in from these bloodthirsty rs rebels most of whom are thank god killed and dispersed we are in a pretty muss can get nothing to eat nor wine wine to drink except whiskey and when we sit down dawn to dinner we keep both hands armed while I 1 write this I 1 hold a sword in each hand and a pistol in the other I 1 concluded from the beginning that this would be th the end of it and I 1 see I 1 was right for it is not half over yet at present there are such goings on that o everything b asat as at a stand still I 1 should have answered your letter a fortnight ago b but it I 1 did not d this morning indeed 1 scarcely a mair I 1 arrives safe without being robbed na longer fonger ago thin than yesterday the coach with the P faiia pal ma iia 18 from dublin was robbed near this town the bags e had judiciously been left behind for f fear ear of f accident and by good luck there was nothing in it but two outside passengers who had nothing for the thieves to take last thursday notice was given that a gang of robbers were advancing under the french standard abut they had no colors no drum except bago bagpipes peg immediately every man in the place including including wom wea on and children ran ram out to meet them we e soon aund our gur force much too little and we were far too inear tp think thing of retreating death was in every avery face betat 4 they went and by the time that half of our ur little party were killed we began to be alive again fortu fortunately bately the rebels had no guns except pistols cullas cutlasses cut lasses a es and pikes and as we had ad plenty of guns I 1 and ammunition we put them all to the sword not a so soul of hem e escape escaped axce except s some of them em who 0 were drowned ro ned div in an adjacent bog ar ard in in a very short time bothin nothing was as to be a heard hear but ut silence their uniforms were ere of d diffrient ebent colors but all green after the action we went rummaging a sort of camp which phily thoy left behind them all we found was a few pikes without heads beads a parcel of empty bottles full of waterland wat erand a bundle of french commissions filled irish names troops are stationed all around the country which 2 exactly squares with my ideas I 1 have only time to add that I 1 amin aman great haste yours truly I 1 PATRICK i P 5 if you do not receive this of course it must baye been miscarried therefore I 1 beg you will write and let we me know I 1 |