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REBELLION IN IRELAND

LIVERPOOL, July 28.

Copy of a letter from Dublin dated Sunday 11 o'clock 24th current.

TO A MERCHANT IN THIS TOWN.

"Dear Sir,

You will be shocked to hear that we are at this moment in a more alarming situation than at any period during the unfortunate rebellion: At an early hour yesterday evening a variety of inflammatory proclamations were distributed in every part of the town, calling on people to unite as before, in opposition to English oppression, &c. and at so early an hour as eight o'clock, a large party forced into the lord mayor's, and seized all the arms and pikes which were in the house, and about ten o'clock a general engagement took place in the neighbourhood of James-street. Thomas-street and in every part of the liberty. Lord Kilwarden (the chief justice of the King's bench) coming into town about 9 o'clock, was forced out of his carriage in James-street, with his nephew and were both killed with pikes.

Colonel Brown of the 21st. and a few more officers, and several of the soldiery and yeomen have unfortunately been killed, together with a great number of the very lowest order. But what is the most alarming, is that their plots have been carried on with such secrecy that they are not yet discovered, notwithstanding several prisoners were taken. Mr. Clark, of Palmerston, cotton manufacturer, was shot on Arran Quay, at 8 o'clock in the evening: and it appears there were several parties collecting, in different parts of the town at a very early hour. The privy council has been sitting at the castle these two hours past, and it is expected martial law will be proclaimed immediately. There are several gallows erected in different parts of the town, and executions it is supposed will be innumerable as there are about 100 prisoners taken. They do not seem to have any leader of consequence; the only one taken is a man by the name of M'Cabe.—a publican, at whose house there has been got about 1000 pikes and 600 rounds of ball cartridge. We have not yet heard of any disturbance in the country, and all the coaches have arrived this morning.

The situation of the city is most awful: The drums beat to arms at ten o'clock at night and continued at twelve, when almost every citizen was under arms. The engagements continued until four o'clock, and within these two hours two of the 62d regiment have been killed in the neighbourhood of the Royal Hospital.

From the Hibernian Journal, dated Monday, July 25.

On Saturday evening, last, government having had intimation that a depot of pikes and other engines of destruction, had been made by a newly organized horde of insurgents in the vicinity of Bridefoot street. a detachment of cavalry had been ordered by gen. Dunn from the barracks, which were joined by a company of yeoman infantry, part of the Liberty Rangers, now under the command of the Earl of Meath, having arrived at the spot where their instructions directed them, after a skirmish of a few minutes with the populace, in which few lives were lost, a great number of pikes were found, also several combustibles, parcels of nails, fragments of iron, glass compost clay, oakum and other materials. With these were discovered a number of deal bark in pieces of various lengths, from 7 to 15 feet in length, with a circular cavity in each of about three inches diameter, filled with gunpowder, to each aperture was applied a wooden plug, with a handle and vent hole, or receptacle for a fuse appeared on the upper surface of the timber about the middle : This machine was supposed to have been intended to aid the projected operations of setting fire to Dublin Barracks. Several kegs of powder were discovered, with parcels made of four musket balls in each, and a tin tube of about two inches long, through which fire was designed to have been communicated to whatever vehicle was constructed to discharge them.

A suit of green uniform, with gold epaulets and a splendid embroidery was also found, and several papers, by which the train of operations fixed by those deluded people was discovered and will doubtless be prevented. Among the melancholy disasters of the night might be reckoned the murder of Lord Kilwarden, chief Justice of the court of King's Bench, and the Rev. Arthur Wolfe, his nephew, who accompanied him with the ladies of his lordship's family, in a carriage to town. The wound he received was a large lacerated one in the side, having the appearance of being inflicted by a shot from a blunderbuss,

A privy council has been sitting yesterday at the Castle, and did not break up until a late hour last night: a proclamation, offering a reward of 1000l. for the discovery of the murderers of Lord Kilwarden and the Rev. Arthur Wolfe. had been issued upwards of one hundred prisoners had been lodged yesterday in the new Provost in the barracks. A printed notice from the lord Mayor and board of magistrates was yesterday handed about, apprizing the citizens of Dublin, that from the recent disturbances, they feel it incumbent on them to reinforce the insurrection Act pursuant to which it became penal during the last rebellion, for any citizen not on military duty, to be out later than eight o'clock in the evening.