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PJ.783.069
3 Aug 1783:23 (1612 [=1613])
Kilkenny (Ireland) April 5. On the 2d inst, being the time
of our assizes, and the town much crowded, Lieutenant
Colonel Talbot, who commands the Fencibles now quartered in
this city, returned from Dublin.--Shortly after his arrival
to the barrack, a party of 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 for 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 so low as the City
Gaol. At this moment, the company were going to the
assembly at the Tholsel, but providentially no person was
hurt. . . [12 more lines]
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