Inconsistencies and variations in spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, punctuationand grammar have been preserved in this ebook to match the text of theoriginal document published in 1799.
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The Editor with the most profound respect, submits to the Public thefollowing narrative.—It forms a small portionof a more extended work, calculated to contain the particulars of every remarkableoccurrence, connected with the Rebellion, which happened in thecourse of the last year;—a year which will constitute anepoch in the history of Ireland, and theevents of which ought to be universally known.
The moment of action is not the most favourable to accuracy ofdetail:—Notwithstanding the purest intentions and the mostscrupulous regard to truth, much will remain, for candour toextenuate and information to supply. Impressed with this sentiment,and feeling the importance of the subject, the Editor has waitedivtill the season of tranquility, and now presents to the public eye,the produce of his exertions. He wished to postpone the Publicationin order to complete it, but he yields to the entreaties of hisFriends, and finds it necessary to make some sacrifice to theeagerness of public curiosity: The remaining part is in preparationfor the Press, and as he continues to be supplied by those who werewitnesses at the transactions, and consequently most capable ofcommunicating correct intelligence, he hopes soon to accomplish hisdesign.
The Reader will perceive from the following specimen, that theaccounts of the Battles are not arranged in chronological order;neither do they boast of any great pretensions to literary merit;vbut they will be found to have a recommendation more valuable thaneither—authenticity. The Editor was less solicitous about the styleof the work, than the truth of it, and where, upon investigation,the matter conveyed to him proved correct, he has given it in thelanguage of his correspondent.
If History be, as it has been elegantly described, "Philosophyteaching by Example,"—what example more necessary to be held out topublic view, and transmitted to posterity, than that whi