a refiftance ftrong and unexpe&ed-which must have the proper effect but from the thunder of the artillery on the heights, that galled the camp, and threw them into confufion, which was farther improved by the columns immediately reducing and forming in front, and after a general volley, charging with bayonets, which completed the victory. "The garrison of Belfaft after generously giving up the Spoiia Opima, returned to town. "The regiments in camp were afterwards drawn up in front of the lines, and fired a grand feu de joy of three rounds. "The general, who was in the camp during the whole of the day, after the feu de joy palled in front of the lines, attended by his aids-de camp and the exercising officer, and made the warmest acknowledgments for the fatisfaction they had given him, and the amazing scene be had been witness of. Joy fparkled in every eye, and pleasure hone in every countenance at the appearance of the general of their choice--a Charlemont who had three times fucceffively and unanimously been elected to review the bands of felf armed, felf-appointed, high spirited, and independent Northerns. The general was received with acclamations that almost rent the kies, which were echoed to Belfast, and caught by the garrison, who were drawn up in two lines through the principal ftreets, and who alfo fired a feu de joy of three rounds to reverberate the glorious found to the firt free and independent camp that any country on earth ever could boalt of. "This day, lord Charlemont left town efcorted by the Belfaft troop and Newry horfe. "The Belfast blue volunteers were under arms, and the artillery fired, upon his lordship's departure to review the volunteer army in Munster." The following is a correct Lift of the Volunteer Army, reviewed at Belfast, amounting to 4000 effective men. ENCAMPED. 16. About two o'clock in the morning, the most dreadful fall of rain commenced that was ever remembered, and continued for up The Camp commanded by the Right Hon. Col. wards of fourteen hours with a violence en O'Neill. tirely unknown to this climate. The floods occafioned by this event, and the confequent dif treffes of the inhabitants in different parts of Dublin, are beyond defcription; part of Ringf end bridge was carried away about eleven o'clock at night. 19. The journeymen of the corporations of taylors, fmiths, bakers, butchers, and fhoemakers, and a number of fawyers, perambulated this city, according to triennial custom, and made a handsome appearance. Some idea may be formed of the situation of the besieged in Gibraltar, from a passage in a letter from thence lately received in this city: "A long confinement to falt provifions has increased the fcurvy, and damped the spirits of the garri fon. Notwithstanding the glory of defending this rock, and the ardour of the governor, we look at one another with difmal countenances. You may conceive the perpetual fire kept up against this place, when I affure you a parapet le venteen feet high, and two hundred long, has been raised near Willis's battery, confifting of nothing nothing else but the shells and ball thrown in by the Spaniards. THE BIRTHS. HE lady of the rev. Dr. Smyth, of a fon. -At the Caftle of Dunboyne, the lady of James Willon Efq; of a daughter.-In GreatGeorge's-ftreet, the lady of William Power Keating Trench, Efq; of a fon.-la Peter-Street, the lady of counsellor Hufband, of a lon.-In Merrion-fquare, the lady of viscount Allen, of a daughter. At Rathmines, the lady of the tev. Dr. Dabzac, of a daughter.-In Sackville-street, The lady of Samuel Yates, Elg, of a daughter. The right hon. the counters of Bellamont, of a daughter. At Ennis, the lady of Richard Wall, Efq; of a fon. In Great George's-street, the lady of captain Brooke, of a daughter. The lady of John De la Morte, Efq; of a daughter.-At Ardels, co. Fermanagh, the lady of the rev. Dr. St. George, of a fon. A MARRIAGES. T Bruffells, Henry Ofborne, of Dardinftown, co. Meath, Efq; to Mils Dunne, of the Queen's county.-The rev. Mr. Powell, of Thomas-Itreet, to the widow Harriton, of Meath-street.-Captain Pratt, of the royal Irish artillery, to Mifs Vallancey, daughter of colonel Vallancey.The right hon. lord Caftlettewart, to Mifs Sarah Lill, fecond daughter of the hon. judge Lill.-Benjamin Ball, Efq; to Mils Hawkins, eldest daughter of the lord bishop of Raphoe. At Woodflock, co. Galway, captain Robert Shaw, to Mifs Mary Hart.-At Rofe garland, co. Wexford, Ponsonby Tottenham, Efq; M. P. to Mifs Leigh, daughter of Robert Leigh, Efq; M. P.-Mr. James Cartland, to the widow M'Mahon.-Nicholas Archdall, Elq; of Great-George's-ftreet, to Mifs Meade.-John Fagan, Efq; to the widow O'Reilly, of Athboy. -Joseph Dowdall, Efq; of Athboy, to Mils Elizabeth O'Reilly of faid place. A DE A T H S. Mrs. Lane, fifter to the lord bishop of Kilmore.At Raford, co. Galway, in the 18th year of his age, Denis Daly, Eiq; ftudent of Trinity-college.-At Aghmore, co. Leitrim, Mr. Stephen Reynolds. PROMOTIONS. REDERICK Trench, to be a justice of the peace for the co. of Roscommon.-Hopton Scott, of Ballycommon, in the co. Wicklow, the honour of knighthood-Edward Crofton, Efq; a governor of the co of Rofcommos.Charles O'Neill, William Caldbeck, Robert Lloyd, James Chatterton, Richard Sheridan and John Currin, Eiqrs, barrifters at law, to the rank of king's-council-Jerome Fitzpatrick, Eq; M. D. the honour of knighthood.-Denis O'Keeffe, of Kilcrea, co Cork, a juftice of the peace for faid county.-Henry Jebb, Efq; M. D. to the honour of knighthood.-Robert Scott, Efq; M. D. to the honour of knighthood.-Las. Parlons, Efq; M. P. for the university of Trinity college. Rev. John Hill, a justice of the peace for the co. of Kildare. TH Anecdote of the Count De Graffe. HE comte de Graffe is the fon of the eldest branch of a noble family, who have long enjoyed a confiderable paternal eftate and a title in France. He was very early in life destined to the marine fervice of his country, in which he is grown old being in the 69th year of his age. Towards the clofe of the last war he rose to the rank of captain. In the course of the prefest war, the comte has been chiefly employed on the Weft-India ffation, but, if we are rightly informed he was fecond in command of the fleet under M. de Barras, which engaged rear-admi ral Graves and Sir S. Hood, in the Chesapeak is Sept. 1781, and from fuperior numbers, gained a trifling advantage over the British fleet. At length the decifive day arrived, when this gallant Frenchman was obliged to furrender his T Donore, co. Kildare, the lady of the right laurels to the immortal Rodney. From the hon. chief baron Burgh.- -In Kilkenny, number of killed and wounded on board La James Robinson, Efq; a member of the Kilken- Ville de Paris, the count's hip, from the length ny Rangers. At Ballyrone, in the Queen's co. of time that he fought, and a variety of other Charles Fitzgerald, Efq.-At Ballymena, in the circumstances, it is evident, that the count ex32d year of her age, lady Spinola, relict of hibited the strongest proofs of perfonal valoer the late marquis of Spinola.-In Cork, the and perfeverance; if therefore his countrymea relict of the late rev. James Weeks; and the have any well-founded charge to bring againft rev. Mr. Pick, minifter of the French church. him, it must be upon fome deficiency, or error In Carlow, Mark Prim, Efq.-At New-Garden, of judgment. From the time of his furrender, c. Carlow, Mrs. Williams.-la Crow-ftreet, to that of his departure from Londen for France, Mr. Turney.-Ia William ftreet, Goff, he was treated with every mark of respect and Efq; fuppofed to be the largest man in Ireland, attention, which characterise the generous fons or perhaps in Great Britain, fince the famous of Britain. His noble conqueror and, his officers Bright of Malden, who weighed 46 ftone 10lb. fet the example; to every perfon who the wed avoirdupoife. Mr. Goff was Icarce inferior, if him any civities, his returns befpoke the gea a judgment may be formed from the dimenfions tleman and the man of feeling. of the coffin, which measured 6 feet 8 inches in length, and one yard and half a quarter over the breaft. The body, when brought out of the hearfe, was with great difficulty fupported by twelve ftrong men-At Lanefborough, near Cafhell, Ambrofe Lane, Elq.- -At Castlebar, in the 86th year of her age, the relict of the late Dr. Thomas Bell, of Athlone.-At Limerick, John Wight, Efq; one of the aldermen of that city. At the Caftle of Thurles, John Mathew, Efq.-At Bristol Hot wells, colonel Caulfeld, of the 56th regiment.—In Henrietta-freet, The comte is one of the 80 knights of the order of the grande Croix of St Louis, and wears a red ribbon, much in the fame manner as our knights of the Bath. He is tall in ftature, mea furing exactly 6 feet 4 inches, and very robuft in his make, but has contracted a habit of ftoop ing, from long fervice on board a frigate, the low cabin of which must have been very troublefome to him. Preparations are making in France for the trial of the comte, and of M. de Boxgainville his fecond in command, as they reci procally exhibited charges against each other. THE HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE: O' R, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, For SEPTEMBER, 1782. Memoirs of General Elliot. With a striking Likeness of him. Texception total diétum of philofo, and afpiring genius, whole greatest with HIS able and gallant general is an him. To a youth of his towering fpirit, phers, that birth and high lineage are not at all to be confidered in the formation of a great character, which must reft folely upon the perfonal merits of the individual who afpires to it. But in the prefent cafe, the consciousness that he was really a gentle man, was what made Elliot a hero.-The general was born of parents to whom their ancestors had tranfmitted nothing but the memory of a long line of predeceffors, who had fignalized themfelves by military exploits, and borne with honour very confiderable employments in the army. The father and mother of our hero were natives of Scotland, where he himself alfo was born. They were both of very ancient and respectable families, and allied to fome of the firft nobility of that kingdom; but unfortunately their circumftances in life was fo low, that they were obliged, however reluctantly, to put out fome of their children to mechanic occupations; among thefe was the prefent brave defender of Gibraltar, whofe lot it was to be apprenticed to a taylor, at an early period in life: the boy had often beard his parents fpeak of perfons of their refpective families, who had commanded regiments, and fought nobly the battles of their country the frequent mention of their heroic deeds had filled young Elliot with ardour to tread in their footsteps, and emulate their glory; and therefore it ought not to be matter of furprife, that be fhould look down with contempt upon a bufinefs, in which the neceffitjes, not the inclination of his parents, had obliged them to place Hib. Mag. Sept. 1782. was to follow the profeffion of arms, a taylor's fhop-board was literally as well as figuratively a hell: and therefore, like his countryman who fled from the thuttle, and is now a great law lord, he refolved to quit for ever an occupation, by which he found himself debafed. He put his defign into execution, and leaving Scotland, went over to Germany, where he entered a regiment as a volunteer. His talents and uncommon attention to his duty, were his best friends, and only recommendation; but he could not have better; for in a very fhort time he was honoured with a pair of colours. Placed in this diftioguifhed fituation, the fpirit he difcovered in several skirmishes soon procured a lieutenancy, and in three or four years after he was raifed to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. The rapidity of his promotions gave no offence to his brother offcers; for these promotions did not outtrip, but merely kept pace with his me rits, as he was not railed from one rank to a higher but in confequence of fome military fervice or exploit, by which the preferment was fairly and nobly earned. In this rank of lieutenant-colonel we find him on the Continent; when at the commencement of the laft war, he made an offer of his fervices to his own fovereign, on condition that he should be admitted to the fame rank in the British army, which he held in Germany. The then minifter accepted the offer with readinefs, and without hefitation fubfcribed to a condition, which would restore to this country LII |