The Gazette

Lord Edward Fitzgerald.

The following particulars of this man's arrestation, are from a Dublin paper of May 21 :

" Information having Been received that Lord Edward Fitzgerald was concealed in the house of Mr. Murphy a feather merchant, Mr. Justice Swan, Major Sirr, and Captain Ryan went there on Saturday evening last, with a party of soldiers in two carriages.

" Whilst Major Sirr and Capt. Ryan were placing the guard to prevent an escape, Mr. Swan got into a small outer office, and from thence into the lower part of the house, and went up stairs, where meeting a woman, he pushed her down, and got into a room on the first floor, where he found a decanter with the remains of some wine, and some glasses on the table, with chairs round it ; meeting no person there, he rushed into a back room, two stories high, where he found Murphy, the owner of the house, standing in the room. Lord Edward lying in the bed, with his coat off, and his breeches and stockings on. Mr. Swan informed his Lordship, he had a warrant against him for high treason, was sorry for his situation, but he should receive from him every polite treatment suitable to his rank. His lordship immediately rose up in the bed, darted at him, and he, Mr. Swan, feeling something, as if a pistol was snapped at him, saw lord Edward snatch a dagger from under the cloaths, with which he made several stabs at him, which passed through his cloaths without wounding him.

" His lordship then closed upon Mr. Swan, shortened the dagger, and gave him a stab in the side, under the left breast, having first changed it from hand to the other over his shoulder (as Mr. Swan thinks ;) tho' severely wounded, he was unwilling to take his lordship's life. and desired him frequently to surrender and endeavored to wrest the dagger from him, and in the struggle his lordship, made many violent attempts to repeat his blows ; finding the blood running from him, he was compelled, in defence of his own life, to discharge a double barreled pistol at his lordship, and wounded him in the shoulder : he fell on the bed, but recovering himself, ran at him with the dagger, which Mr. Swan caught by the blade with one hand, and endeavored to trip him up : Captain Ryan, directed by the report of the pistol, ran up into the room. and found Mr. Swan bleeding and entangled with lord Edward : Mr. Swan said to Ryan, "he has murdered me," on which Ryan threw himself upon lord Edward and Swan, and was then stabbed by his lordship. On Capt. Ryan's approach, Lord Edward made a strong effort, and forced the dagger from Mr. Swan, and rushing on Ryan, gave him a desperate wound in the belly and other places.

"Major Sirr then came up, and seeing lord Edward entangled with Mr. Swan, made at lord Edward. The soldiers then came up, and would have instantly put his lordship to death, if they had not been restrained. Here lord Edward was secured and disarmed. and bro't prisoner to the castle. Capt. Ryan was so badly wounded, he was obliged to remain in the house for some time, from whence he was removed to the house of Mr. Laurence Tighe, of Thomas street, where he remains dangerously ill. Mr. Swan, after depositing his prisoner in the castle, was carried to his house, having refused to have his wounds dressed until the surgeons had first attended Lord Edward."