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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>PROCEEDINGS OF THE IRISH PARLIAMENT in DUBLIN.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">With a later Account of the happy Succe&s;s of the <HI>Protestants</HI> of <HI>London-Derry,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Iri&s;h-Papists</HI> in <HI>Ireland.</HI></HEAD>
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<P>Licen&s;ed according to Order, <HI>May</HI> the 24.</P>
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<P>THere being &s;o Few, and tho&s;e &s;o very Difficult Opportunities of hearing from <HI>Ireland,</HI> e&s;pecially from <HI>Dublin;</HI> it cannot be expected but tho&s;e Relations we receive here for News, &s;hould be there almo&s;t Antiquated, and by the con&s;tant &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of fre&s;h Accidents, quite out of Date, and though every now and then we have one or other di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Fugitive put in here, yet their long ab|&s;conding in order to get off, has render'd mo&s;t of them incapable of giving any great Account of the <HI>French</HI> and <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Tran&s;actions there: The la&s;t con&s;iderable Advice we have, is concerning their <HI>Parliament,</HI> which by the <HI>French Mini&s;ter's</HI> Imperious In|fluence is &s;o heated and di&s;turbed, that they already begin to make Parties, and enter in|to Cabals: Some are for quite aboli&s;hing and re&s;cinding the <HI>Old Act of Settlement:</HI> Others are for a New One, and confirming the Forfeitures of the <HI>Engli&s;h Rebels</HI> (as they call them:) Some are for the total Extirpation of the remaining <HI>Prote&s;tants:</HI> Others for Confi&s;cating and Depriving them of what little they have left. But in fine, its &s;aid, they have all agreed in the Bani&s;hment of them from the City, by which it is plain, that they De&s;ign nothing le&s;s than their Total De&s;truction: For be&s;ides the Mi&s;eries of Want, which they mu&s;t certainly undergo, they are hereby unavoidably expos'd to the cruel Bar|barities of their <HI>Rabble-Army,</HI> who lye and take all Places for Twenty Miles about <HI>Dublin.</HI></P>
<P>As for that part of it which Be&s;ieges <HI>Derry,</HI> they begin to gnaw their Fingers with the Apprehen&s;ion of the unexpected Dangers and Difficulties they have met with before it; for as that Sally wherein <HI>Maman</HI> the <HI>French General,</HI> with &s;everal other Per&s;ons of great Note among them, be&s;ides many Hundreds of Souldiers were kill'd, they have &s;ince by continual Skirmi&s;hes and Sallies, &s;o di&s;heartned them, that the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> do many of them daily de&s;ert, and the <HI>French</HI> declare they do not like this way of Be&s;ieging Towns: As the A&s;&s;ailants are dejected, &s;o the Joy, Courage, and Bravery of the Defendants is un&s;peakable, their Reverend Champion and Leader, both by Precept and Example, encou|raging them, and like another <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> leading them forth to fight <HI>the Lord's Battels,</HI> and like him, <HI>always returning with Succe&s;s;</HI> the People and Souldiers &s;eldom going to Meat till they have whetted their Appetites on their Enemies. They &s;ay, That in one late Sally the Lord <HI>German</HI>'s Son was killed, a zealous <HI>Papi&s;t,</HI> and violent Pro&s;ecutor of the <HI>Pro|te&s;tants;</HI> the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in the Town are &s;o u&s;ed to Sally out and Beat them, that they now make it their Sport, and have made the Enemy &s;o to contract their Camp, and remove further their Trenches, that they &s;eem to have only the Name of a Siege.</P>
<P>The late King is mighty Apprehen&s;ive of the&s;e Proceedings, and &s;ends them all the Offers imaginable, which they bravely refu&s;e to accept, returning their final Re&s;olutions, not only to Defend the Place, but upon the fir&s;t Arrival of their daily expected Succours, to take the Field again&s;t the be&s;ieging Army: And we are &s;ince credibly Informed, that the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> lately made a Vigorous and almo&s;t general Sally, wherein they &s;ail'd little of making an entire Victory; That they had &s;lain a great number of their Men, and among the re&s;t, &s;everal of eminent Note; that two or three of the greate&s;t <HI>French Officers</HI> &s;ell in this Encounter, be&s;ide &s;ome dead of their Wounds &s;ince the fir&s;t great Sally; and that they had taken a very con&s;iderable Booty of Hor&s;es, Arms, Ammunition, and Provi|&s;ion. Major-General <HI>Kirk</HI> Sail'd from <HI>Liverpool</HI> with three Regiments the latter end of la&s;t Week, and it's &s;aid, is certainly Arriv'd, and that the Enemy thereupon re&s;olv'd to rai&s;e their Siege, quite de&s;pairing of doing any good; the other Regiments de&s;ign'd for that Service, have po&s;itive Orders to Sail with expedition, &s;o that in a little time we doubt not to be able to take the Field, and force tho&s;e Rebellious Subjects to their ju&s;t Obedience.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>W. Downing.</HI> 1689.</P>
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