History of the Irish rebellion in 1798 : with memoirs of the union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803 . ed marble, with glass eyes, than as the lifeless re-mains of a human creature. This circumstance I never could get anymedical man to give me the least exjdanation of. I prevailed onGeneral Hunter, who then commanded in Wexford, to suffer the threeheads to be taken down and buried. If an elevation to command was ever, during its brief duration,overcharged with anxiety, disappointment, and unavailing regret, foryielding to a maddening impulse in accepting of it, poor Harveys wasthat short and
History of the Irish rebellion in 1798 : with memoirs of the union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803 . ed marble, with glass eyes, than as the lifeless re-mains of a human creature. This circumstance I never could get anymedical man to give me the least exjdanation of. I prevailed onGeneral Hunter, who then commanded in Wexford, to suffer the threeheads to be taken down and buried. If an elevation to command was ever, during its brief duration,overcharged with anxiety, disappointment, and unavailing regret, foryielding to a maddening impulse in accepting of it, poor Harveys wasthat short and humiliating career. He must have felt conscious thatto his own incompetency to direct enormous masses, which, underproper handling, must have overwhelmed the little garrison, the bloodyrepulse inflicted on the insurgents at Ross, was entirely to be attributed;* * In his martial office, his head became totally bewildered. The sphere ofaction was too great—the object struggled for too comprehensive. Nor did even hispersonal courage follow him to the field—his bravery, as against a single man, was. IRISH REBELLION. 287 and the scenes reserved for him to witness the next day, must haveagonized the soul of one, who felt assured that the disgrace of deposi-tion from the chief command would only be the forerunner of a moreignominious exit on the scaffold. Taylor, after recording the dreadful massacre of Scollabogue, thusdescribes the retreat of the rebels from New Ross, and picturesHarveys feelings when he viewed the scene of the fearful tragedyenacted at the fatal barn :*— After ending this horrid massacre, the rebels marched (exulting intheir diabolical achievements) towards New Ross; but the destroyingangel bad gone before them, and miserably defeated that huge army inwhich they trusted. As they proceeded to reinforce their brotherrebels, they met multitudes of the wounded returning, some crawlingalong as well as they could, others on horses and on cars; some wereshot through
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