The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser

CORK, September 2.

I write you some news. Yesterday evening the 105th regiment declared they would not be drafted, and absolutely dismissed themselves on parade, and this morning the 113th regiment, being the only other regiment here, except a few fencibles, joined the 105th, and the Sergeant, or Sergeant-Major is the Generalissimo of both regiments. No officer, civil or military, was listened to. The two regiments have been under arms the whole day, primed and loaded, marching through the city without an officer, doing no mischief, but resolved to resist.—We expect some troops from Cove and Spike Island to quell them. Some cavalry had come in—The mob appeared, and encouraged the revolting regiments. It is dreadful! Generals White, Stuart, and Massey are here—They first harangued them and offered each man half a guinea, besides arrears; but they would not listen to anything but to be continued under the same officers, and the regiments to be continued; if this was not acceded to, they required to be discharged. The privates showed some printed certificates of the terms on which they were enlisted not to go abroad, nor to be drafted; and they were willing to serve as on the terms of enlistment. This is the consequence of drafting. Every shop is shut, and the most dreadful confusion exists.

September 5.

I wrote yesterday of the mutiny of the 105th and 113th regiments of foot here, in consequence of an attempt to draft them. This day, at three o'clock, the mutineers after having been under arms on the Grand Parade from early this morning under the command of a sergeant major, were fronted by two field pieces and the Louth and Meath Militia with several detachments of cavalry, having also come forward to attack them.

General Massey rode in the front, and ordered the mutineers to ground their arms, or that they would be fired on: some of them did so: others were reluctant; at length they all obeyed. He then marched them away from their arms, and made them take off their accoutrements; then bringing the sergeants and corporals in front, he made them take off their shoulder knots, &c. which they did, by dashing them and their accoutrements to the ground. The sergeants and corporals are imprisoned... the ringleaders will be punished.—

Gen. Massey then addressed them, and told them he would then talk to them, and examine their grievances, but never would whilst they had their arms.

The poor fellows the mutineers, inhabited all the Dublin-Hill houses last night, seized, but paid for milk: and each man to-day, from the town's people I suppose, got a loaf. The citizens never moved. The lower order liked the probable riot, and encouraged the soldiery. Not a single shot was fired. The king's country militia just arrived.—