The fifing of the peopfe, in the county of Wexford,
took place in the dire&ion from Carnew to Oulaid, for

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fear, as they alleged, of being whipped, burned, or
exterminated by the orangemen ; hearing of the num-
bers of people that were put to death, unarmed and
unoffending, through the country; — the deliberate
mafiacre and (hooting of eight and' twenty prifoners in
the ball -alley of Cirnew, without trial, and fomc under
fcntence of tranrpoitation, who'^ftopped there on their
-way to Geneva; among thefe was a Mr, William
Toung, a proteftant, who was ordered to be tranf-
ported by a military tribunal. At Dunlavin, thiity-
iour men were Ihot without trial, and among them
the informer on whofe evidence they were arrefted.
Strange to tclUofBcersprefided tofandion thefe proceed-
ings ! A roan efcaped by feigning to be killed, he wa»
one out of eighteen of the corps of captain Saunders, of
Saunders- grove, Baltinglafs. Thefe reports, together
^ith all thedreadful accounts from the county of Kildare,
Toufed their minds to the utmoft pitch of alarm, indigo
nation and fury. They were forming from the even-
ing of the z6th during the whole of the night, in two
lK)dies. One aflembled on Kilthomas-bill, againft
whom marched from Carnew, on the morning of the
27th, a body of yeomen cavalry and infantry, who
proceeded boldly up the hill, where the infurgents pof-
fefled a ftrong and commanding iituation, if they knew
how to take advantage of it; but they were panic-
ftruck, and fled at the approach of the military, wha
purfucd them with great flaughter. They fpared no
vian they met, and burned at leaft one hundred houfes
in the courfe of a march of feven miles.
