ake their escape to England; and lest any
ill should befall it, when they arrived at Whitehaven they drew lots for
three to deliver it up to the collector of the port, and state to whom
it belonged. They were immediately arrested, as indeed they must have
expected, and with great difficulty were their lives afterwards saved.

I could relate several similar instances which occurred to others; but I
shall only state one more, as occurring to a defenceless woman. My
maternal grandmother occupied at the time of that rebellion the castle
of Dungulph, in the county Wexford, the family residence. It was an old
stronghold regularly fortified and surrounded by a moat, with a
drawbridge; and when she left it to take refuge in the fort of
Duncannon, with the other gentry of the county, it was immediately taken
possession of by a force of rebels from the county Kilkenny, as a most
valuable place of defence, &c. They remained in possession for about a
fortnight, and during that time killed twenty of the sheep found in the
demesne. At the expiration of the period, the rebels of the
neighbourhood, who had been in the interim engaged at the battle of
Ross, returned, forced the others to leave the castle, and when my
relative came back to her residence, she found that twenty sheep had
been brought from another part of the country, and placed with her own
in the demesne; which on being traced by their marks, were discovered to
belong to a county Kilkenny grazier, the county from whence the rebel
party had come; thus the sheep were brought from the same place the
rebels had come from,--it was supposed, as an act of retaliation. I
should add, too, that while these occurrences took place, the heir to
the property was engaged in the defence of Ross, where many of his own
tenantry were slain or wounded, as rebels, by the military under his
command.

Naturally the mind of the Irish peasant is good, honourable, and
grateful--but it has been deteriorated by miseries and neglect; and is
being so, more and more daily _at home_; while, when they go abroad they
seem to inherit all their original good qualities.

It is a fact too, known to all who know them, that when they settle in
England as labourers, they almost invariably share their earnings with
their relations at home. The remittances from London alone to Ireland
amount to many thousands yearly. There is no possible means of
ascertaining the sum; but I know numerous instances myself, and it