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NYMP.783.008
8 Aug 1783:33,34 (3/129)
From the Pennsylvania Journal.
Ireland. Kilkenny, April 5. On the second inst. being the
time of our assises, and the town much crowded, Lieutenant
Colonel Talbot, who commanded the Fencibles now quartered in
this city, returned from Dublin.
---Shortly after his arrival to the barrack a party of the
Fencibles, much more in number than usual, and with fixed
bayonets, received orders to beat through the town. They
also beat much beyond the limits lately prescribed to them.
About the hour of eight the same evening, (being the usual
hour the Volunteers beat the retreat) a large body of
Fencibles, headed by Lieutenant Colonel Talbot, and
consisting of 60 men, beat their drums through the town,
with bayonets fixed. When they came to the shambles, they,
without the least provocation or notice whatsoever to the
public, facing different ways, fired ball cartridge. Many of
the balls raking through the town, struck against the
pillars of the Tholsel, and some went to low as the city
goal. At this instant of time, the company were going to
the assembly at the Tholsel, but providentially no person
was hurt.
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