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Show AN IRISH LETTER. "Tu Troubled Times of Niuety-cight," when d handful of men from ilie County of AVcxford struck terror into the hearts of mauy gallant sons of Mars, as well as thp worthy writer, himself, Thefollow".g letter was addressed to a friend in London Lon-don and it is old enough to be ucw to nine out of ten of our readers : "My Dear Si.nt Having npr a little peace antl quietness, I sit down to inform you.dtj the dreadful bustle and confusion i we arc alt in from those blood-thirsty re-! bclsrinbst'of wliom are, thank God, killed: aud-Sisperscd. Wo are in a pretty mess ; can get Mothinff to eat, nor any wine to druk,excegt.hlsky,ii.ndwhen wesitdown todinnctwd areobligedto kcepboth hands anncd, Vhilel Wrife this I hold a sword iu each Iwnd and a pistol in the other, 1 concluded, iroin the beginning that thiswoutd be tho cud of it, and Iscol was right; for, it ia not half over yet. At present there, ore such goings on that evcrythlngfis at a stand" still. I should hayo' answered your letter a fortnight ago but I duliiot receive it uutil this morning. Indeed, scarco a mail arrives without be-iug. be-iug. robbed. No longer ago. than yestcr-doy yestcr-doy the coach, with the niuil from Dublin was robbed near this town. The bogs had been Jeff behind for feat1 of accident, ami by good luck there was nobody in but two outsldo passengers, who had nothing for the thieves to take Last Tuesday notice waa given, that a gang of rebels was adyanclnjg here under the French standard, bat they had no coIom nor any drums except bagpipes. 'Immediately very map in tho place, , including women and children, rau out to incet.theml Yfe soon found our force j much too little- wo were too near tothink 'of retreating. Death was in every face; j but at it wo went again, and began to be p)l alivo again. Fortunately the rebels i had oio guns but pistols and pikes, and as wo bad plenty of musketa and ammunition, we put theni all to tho sword. Not a tool of them' escaped, except some that .1.'- Wcjrp drowned in tho adjacent bogs; and q a cry short time hothhi was heard butdencd. :. Their uniforms wero all pf different colors', but mostly green. After the" aptiott wd went to rummage a sprt of camp which .they., had left behind them. All wp fdoud was a few pikes "Without! hcadsYj parcel of empty .bpttlcs of water, dud a bundle'pf French edmmissiohs filled tf Uh,IrishnanTr00ps atd nowstatidnf. sd all.around tho. cdputry,'. whiclifecxactly squatcithyidoasI hriVdonly,, tlmp to add that I ani 'in a, great. hurry,;' " S;If ,you,dp not receive -this; of cpu'raoiiCmust havd jiilscarried, therofprd I ibeg ypdayillwrito aud.lctaio knott" ,: |