History of the Irish rebellion in 1798 : with memoirs of the union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803 . and children were frightful and heart-rending. To the castle! cried our enthusiastic leader, drawing his sword,and his followers appeared to obey—but when we reached the market-house, our adherents had wonderfully diminished, there not being morethan twenty insurgents with us. Fire the rocket! cried Malachy. Hold awhile, said Emmet, snatching the match from the manshand who was about applying it. Let no lives be unnecessarily back and see what detains the men. Malachy obeyed; and w
History of the Irish rebellion in 1798 : with memoirs of the union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803 . and children were frightful and heart-rending. To the castle! cried our enthusiastic leader, drawing his sword,and his followers appeared to obey—but when we reached the market-house, our adherents had wonderfully diminished, there not being morethan twenty insurgents with us. Fire the rocket! cried Malachy. Hold awhile, said Emmet, snatching the match from the manshand who was about applying it. Let no lives be unnecessarily back and see what detains the men. Malachy obeyed; and we remained near the market-house, waiting their arrival, until the soldiers approached. ******* The conspirators assembled previously in the depot did not exceedthe number of fifty, but pikes and other weapons were liberally dis-persed among the mob, and the number of the insurgents soon swelledto the amount, it is said, of about five hundred. The night was dark,and the scene is described as tremendous; groups of pikemen, andother insurgents, were dispersed in various parts of the vicinity of the. IRISH REBELLION. 409 scene of action, while others were calling out for arms, and led in crowdsto the grand depot. S|E J|C 3ft 5f( Jf- *|» t» It was during the height of the insurrection that the venerablemagistrate, accompanied by his daughter, Miss Wolfe, and his nephew,a clergyman, arrived in Thomas-street, in his way from his country-house to the castle. Lord Kilwarden, and Mr. Wolfe, his nephew,were inhumanly dragged from the carriage, and pierced with innume-rable mortal wounds by the pikemen.* Before he expired he wasrescued by a party of the military and of the police ; and hearing someviolent expression employed as to the punishment of the rebels, he hadonly time, before he breathed his last, to prefer a petition that noman might suffer but by the laws of his country. Such a death wasmore honourable than that of a commander who dies in the arms ofVictory, and who possibly
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