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 INVASIONS OF IRELAND 
 PART II 
 
POPULAR SONGS, 
 
 ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE FRENCH 
 INVASIONS OF IRELAND. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 CAPTURE OF CARRICKFERGUS BY THUROT IN 1760. 
 
 EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES, BY 
 
 T. CROFTON CROKER. 
 
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 “ Mats il ne considere 1 'Irlaude que corame le chemin de Londres, 
 Life of General Hoche. 
 
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POPULAR SONGS, 
 
 ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE FRENCH 
 INVASIONS OF IRELAND. 
 
 PART ir. 
 
 CAPTURE OF CARRICKFERGUS BY THUROT IN 1760. 
 
 EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES, BY 
 
 T. CROFTON CROKER. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 In the advertisement prefixed to the fifty-fourth 
 issue of the Percy Society, in February 1845, it is 
 stated, that the reprint of a memoir of Thurot 
 was to be considered as an introduction to such 
 songs as the editor could collect, illustrative of 
 the capture of Carrickfergus by the French in 
 1760. To the account given in this memoir, a 
 general sketch of the state of affairs previous to, 
 and at this period, may not be unacceptable, 
 gleaned from the London Gazette , the Annual 
 Register, John Wesley’s Journal , and Mac 
 Skimin’s History of Carrickfergus ; verified by 
 some additional particulars, from original official 
 documents in the records of the Admiralty office, 
 and manuscript letters from Captain Elliot and 
 the officers of his squadron, which latter have been 
 most kindly communicated to the editor by Mr. 
 Robert Cole, of Token-house Yard.* From the col- 
 
 * Yiz. : — 
 
 3 letters from Captain John Elliot, dated 11 March 1760, 
 29 May, and 14 August 1761. 
 
VI 
 
 lation ot these materials, some important errors 
 in dates are rectified, and a few details preserved 
 that may now be regarded as possessing historical 
 interest. 
 
 During the Spring, Summer, and Autumn of 
 1759, active preparations were going forward at 
 most of the ports of France, for an invasion of 
 the British dominions. Thurot was appointed to 
 the command of a small squadron fitting out at 
 Dunkirk, which consisted of 
 
 Le Marechal Belleisle 
 
 guns. 
 
 - 48 
 
 sailors. 
 
 200 
 
 soldiers. 
 
 400 
 
 La Blond 
 
 - 
 
 - 36 
 
 200 
 
 400 
 
 Terpsichore 
 
 - 
 
 - 24 
 
 60 
 
 70 
 
 Begon 
 
 - 
 
 - 36 
 
 200 
 
 400 
 
 Amaranthe - 
 
 - 
 
 - 24 
 
 40 
 
 100 
 
 With 2 Cutters as Tenders. 
 
 and which force, according to the rumour of the 
 day, was destined to effect a landing in Scotland. 
 
 The design against England, report stated, was 
 to have been carried into effect, by the transport 
 of troops from Havre, and other parts of Nor- 
 
 2 letters from Captain Jas. Loggie, 12 and 15 Nov. 1761. 
 
 1 ditto „ Lieut. Peter Forbes, 29 March 1760. 
 
 1 ditto „ Thos. Pasley, Dd. Jefferson, and Wm. Shan- 
 
 non. 
 
 1 ditto „ Mr. Lewis Brown, 10 March 1760. 
 
 1 ditto „ Mr. John Wilson, 13 March 1760. 
 
 Messrs. Innes and Hope’s account with Captain Elliot, 
 22 Oct. 1761. 
 
vn 
 
 mandy, in “ flat-bottomed boats, ” which, as the 
 editor hopes to be able to shew by an illustration 
 in part III, were the “bugaboos” of popular 
 opinion in all invasions from France. The third 
 descent was to have been made upon the South 
 of Ireland, from Yannes in Lower Brittany, 
 where a considerable body of troops were assem- 
 bled under the command of the Duke d’Aiguillon, 
 the governor of that province ; and the transport 
 of these troops was to have been protected by a 
 formidable fleet of ships of war, which had been 
 fitted out at Brest, and was commanded by M. 
 de Conflans. “ Had this design,” observes the 
 writer in the Annual Register , “ been such as it 
 was represented, and had it been put into ex- 
 ecution, there is no doubt, that such an attempt 
 upon both kingdoms at three different places at 
 once, must have thrown the whole into no small 
 confusion.’” 
 
 Dunkirk was watched by a squadron under 
 Commodore Boys, which however Thurot con- 
 trived to evade. Admiral Rodney bombarded 
 Havre. Hawke blocked up the harbour of Brest, 
 and with a small squadron kept a watch on that 
 of Yannes. 
 
 After the defeat experienced by the French at 
 the battle of Minden, greafer exertions were used 
 to forward the projected invasion. 
 
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 The winter did not delay the operations at 
 Vannes, as it was hoped that season would 
 compel the English squadron to retire, and indeed 
 a violent storm did oblige Sir Edward Hawke to 
 quit his station off Brest, and with his fleet to 
 anchor in Torbay. On the 14th November, the 
 French fleet under Conflans sailed. On the 
 same day Hawke put to sea ; and a general 
 action took place on the 20th November : now 
 remembered as Hawke’s victory. 
 
 On the 15th October,* Thurot with his small 
 squadron, favoured by a hazy night, got out of 
 Dunkirk, and after touching at Ostend, sailed 
 the next evening for Gottenburg, where they 
 arrived on the 26 th, and after procuring supplies 
 of provisions and other stores there, put to sea 
 on the 14th November, the same day with 
 Conflans and Hawke. A strong gale dispersed 
 Thurot’s squadron in the night between the 15th 
 and 16th, and four of his vessels only joined 
 company the next day. The Begon had received 
 so much damage that she was compelled to return 
 to Dunkirk; and was supposed to have foundered. 
 On the 17th, his squadron anchored at Bergen in 
 Norway, where they remained until the 5th 
 
 * The Annual Register for 1760 says the 5th, Thurot’s 
 Memoir the 22nd : both are wrong. 
 
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 December, when they weighed and steered north- 
 ward, and from the 14th to the 27 th, were beating 
 about within sight of the Fero Islands, but 
 without being able to make them. 
 
 A general council was called on the 1st 
 January, when it was resolved that each man’s 
 allowance should be reduced to ten ounces of 
 biscuit, and half a septier of wine or spirits per 
 day. Notwithstanding this regulation they had 
 no more biscuit left than would serve them to the 
 14th, and of wine and spirits only to the 1st of - 
 February. It was then determined to steer the 
 first fair gale for Londonderry, as Thurot’s in- 
 structions were to attempt the capture of that 
 town, but if the winds continued contrary, he was 
 to sail for France. 
 
 On Saturday the ]6th February, Thurot’s ship 
 appeared on the north-east coast of Islay : when 
 two of the islanders, named Macneil and Mac- 
 donald went off* in a small boat, believing the 
 vessel to be English, and in want of a pilot. At 
 this time the Belleisle had been seriously strained 
 by the stormy weather, and was so leaky that two 
 pumps were constantly kept going, and sometimes 
 all the six together. Macneil and Macdonald 
 were introduced into Thurot’s cabin, where they 
 found him with ten or twelve officers at dinner. 
 Wine and glasses were placed before the visitors ; 
 
Thurot and a gentleman who acted as interpreter 
 to the land officers alone, spoke in English. And 
 here it was that Thurot first heard of the defeat 
 of Confians by Hawke, which was told him by 
 Mr. Macdonald. Thurot gave no credit to the 
 fact, until Macdonald shewed him the account 
 in a Magazine, which he had in his pocket. 
 When this was communicated to the other par- 
 ties at the dinner table, they are said to have 
 “ hung down their heads and laid down their 
 knives and forks. 1 ’ After a short conversation 
 about the safety of the anchorage, Mr. Macneil 
 was desired to go ashore, and tell the country 
 people that they had nothing to fear, and that all 
 that would be required was some fresh provisions, 
 to be paid for in ready money. But Mr. Mac- 
 donald, in consequence of his possessing a printed 
 account of Hawke’s victory, was retained on 
 board the Belleisle for some days, during which 
 time he was treated with the utmost politeness. 
 
 On Sunday the ! 7 th February, a council of 
 war, of the land and sea officers, was held in the 
 great cabin of the Belleisle, at which Mac- 
 donald was present. According to his report, this 
 council consisted of thirteen members, of whom 
 eleven gave their opinion for plundering, burning, 
 and destroying the country. 
 
 “ Thurot and one other only were of a differ- 
 
XI 
 
 ent opinion, and spoke with some warmth against 
 the majority. He told them they might, if they 
 pleased, go ashore, but swore that not a man of 
 them should ever set foot on board the Belleisle, 
 if they were guilty of the smallest irregularity ; 
 and at length he brought from his trunk the 
 French king’s orders, which expressly forbid their 
 committing any hostilities, unless they met with 
 opposition in Scotland.” 
 
 Previous to this declaration, it would appear, 
 that Thurot had denied to Mr. Macdonald, all 
 knowledge of an act of aggresson, committed by 
 the long boats of the Belleisle, upon the night 
 when that vessel anchored in Claggencarrock 
 Bay, when two sloops were plundered, from one 
 of which, belonging to Mr. Macdonald, five tons 
 of flour had been taken, and in payment for which 
 Thurot insisted on his receiving fifty guineas. 
 Macdonald’s reply was, “ that the flour was 
 overpaid, being somewhat damnified before.’' 
 Upon this, Thurot remarked, “ that it was good 
 enough for those who were to eat it,” and added, 
 “ that no good merchant should spoil his own 
 market:” 
 
 After the council of war broke up, Thurot 
 landed, and entered into a negociation with 
 Mr. Campbell of Ardmore, respecting the purchase 
 of some live cattle, poultry, and corn ; and so far 
 
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 amicably arranged matters that about 200 soldiers 
 were allowed to land to bring off the supply of 
 provisions his little squadron so much required. 
 Respecting the condition of these soldiers, a con- 
 temporary writer says, “ these poor creatures 
 had no sooner touched dry land, than with their 
 bayonets they fell to digging up herbs and every 
 green thing they met with, at length they came 
 to a field of potatoes, which they very eagerly dug, 
 and after shaking off the earth, and wiping them 
 a little on their waistcoats, eat them up, raw as 
 they were, with the greatest keenness.” Forty- 
 eight head of cattle were procured for the general 
 supply, and seven sacks of barley in grain were 
 sent on board each vessel, with a quern or hand- 
 mill to grind it. 
 
 Thurot quietly embarked, after presenting 
 Mr. Macdonald with a handsome double-bar- 
 reled fuzee, valued at twelve or fifteen guineas. 
 When Mr. Campbell complained to Thurot that 
 the commissary of the land-forces had valued his 
 cattle at twenty shillings a head, and had given 
 him a bill on the French resident at the Hague 
 for that amount ; Thurot replied that the bill 
 was not worth a farthing ; and ordered the officer, 
 after upbraiding him for his attempt to cheat an 
 honest gentleman, to value the cattle at fifty 
 shillings a head, to pay down fifty guineas in part, 
 
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 which was all the English gold he had, and to 
 draw a bill for the remainder on the French king’s 
 banker at Paris, which Tliurot assured Mr. Camp- 
 bell was good money, even though the banker 
 should not honour it, for that the commissary- 
 general was rich, and might easily be forced to 
 pay it, if the other party should refuse. “ Every 
 other thing they got,” it is stated, “ was paid for 
 in ready money.” 
 
 On the morning of Thursday the 21st February, 
 Thurot’s squadron, reduced by the desertion of 
 the Amarinthe to three frigates, appeared off the 
 Island of Magee, standing in shore for the Bay of 
 Carrickfergus ; where, at eleven o’clock, they came 
 to anchor, scarcely distant three miles from the 
 town, and within musket-shot of the point of 
 Kilroot. The small garrison of Carrickfergus 
 consisted of four companies of the 62nd regiment, 
 which did not amount to 150 men, who were, at the 
 moment, exercising in a field half a mile from the 
 town, on the Belfast road. At a quarter after 
 eleven the guard was turned out, made up, and 
 marched to relieve the guard on the French pri- 
 soners in the castle; an old and ruinous fortifica- 
 tion built upon a rock which adjoins the town, 
 and projects into the Bay. The rest of the men 
 continued in the field, where intelligence soon 
 arrived that three ships, which at first were taken 
 
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 for Indiamen and then for an English frigate and 
 two store ships, had seized a couple of fishing 
 boats, and with these boats and several others 
 were plying between the shore and the ships, land- 
 ing soldiers. An order was immediately des- 
 patched to the castle, by lieutenant colonel 
 Jennings, the commanding officer, for both guards 
 to continue under arms, and to double the sentries 
 over the French prisoners, with directions to be 
 particularly strict and watchful upon them, until 
 it could be ascertained whether the disembarking 
 troops were friends or enemies. The garrison 
 soldiers, most of whom were recruits, then marched 
 from the exercise field to the market-place of 
 Carrickfergus, and the adjutant, Lieutenant Ben- 
 jamin Hall was despatched with a small party to 
 reconnoitre. From the rising ground upon which 
 he posted himself, Mr. Hall observed eight boats 
 landing armed men, who formed in detached bodies 
 and took up the most advantageous positions they 
 could find. u My daughter,” said Mrs. Cobham 
 to John Wesley, 44 came running in and said, 
 4 Mamma, there are three Indiamen come into the 
 bay, and I suppose my brothers are come in them'’ 
 (who had been in the East Indies for some time). 
 An hour afterwards, she came in and cried, 4 Oh, 
 mamma, they say they are Frenchmen ; and they 
 
XV 
 
 are landing, and their guns glitter in the sun.' ” 
 After posting his little party, Lieutenant Hall left 
 them, with instructions to fire upon the French 
 troops as they advanced and to retard their pro- 
 gress as much as possible, and he hurried back to 
 Carrickfergus, to inform Colonel Jennings that 
 there could be no doubt of the hostile intention of 
 the body of men just landed, whom he estimated 
 at one thousand. Detachments were immediately 
 made for the defence of the town and the ap- 
 proaches to it : the French prisoners of war were 
 instantly marched off to Belfast in charge of the 
 sheriff, and escorted by forty townsmen under 
 the command of Mr. James Mucklewaine, or 
 Mcllwain; and the Mayor (Willoughby Chaplin) 
 requested Colonel Jennings to inform him what 
 his instructions were with respect to defending 
 Carrickfergus. The Colonel is traditionally said 
 to have coolly received the demand of the 
 mayor by the offer of a pinch of snuff, which 
 being impatiently accepted by his worship, and 
 after taking a huge one himself, he laconically 
 replied to the question, " Fiddle-de-de .” The mayor 
 demanded a more distinct answer, when Colonel 
 Jennings said that, considering the smallness of 
 the force at his disposal, not one hundred and 
 fifty men, and as had been reported to him the 
 numerical superiority of the enemy, together with 
 
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 the ruinous state of the castle, he deemed resist- 
 ance rather unnecessary. But the valiant mayor, 
 with no doubt the memory of the fame of the 
 defence of Londonderry in his mind, notwith- 
 standing that there was a breach in the castle 
 wall towards the sea of fifty feet, that it did not 
 possess a single cannon mounted, and that there 
 were only a few rounds of ball cartridge for the 
 soldiers, regarded the Castle of Carrickfergus as 
 impregnable, and angrily insisted upon resistance, 
 accompanied by the threat of reporting the con- 
 duct of Colonel Jennings to the government, if 
 he declined the defence; and it would appear from 
 the London Gazette (No. 9978) that some such 
 communication was actually made, as it is there 
 chronicled, in the official document which records 
 the capture of Carrickfergus, that “ Lt.-Colonel 
 Jennings had suffered himself with four companies 
 of Major-General's Strode’s regiment to be made 
 prisoners of war.” 
 
 Upon the mayor's declaration, Colonel Jen- 
 nings retired into the castle, and aware of the 
 want of sufficient stores there, for any serious op- 
 position, made the best preparations in his power 
 for a temporary stand, and his small force was 
 joined by the mayor, Lieutenant Hercules Ellis, 
 and a few other zealous and loyal inhabitants ; 
 and here it is only right to state, in using the 
 
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 word loyal, that there was no mark whatever of 
 disaffection among the inhabitants of Carrick- 
 fergus at the period of this surprise. 
 
 The French advanced against the town in two 
 bodies, one marching up to the East, or Water 
 Gate, by what is called the Scotch Quarter, the 
 other crossing the fields to — 
 
 THE NORTH GATE. 
 
 Twelve soldiers and a corporal were posted on 
 the wall. They fired upon the advancing enemy, 
 when General Flaubert fell, his leg having been 
 broken by a musket ball, and he was carried into 
 the house of Mr. James Craig. The next in 
 command, traditionally said to have been “ the 
 young Marquis D’Estrees , 11 then led on the divi- 
 sion, and entered the High Street by the Water 
 Gate, where after a few shots had been fired, it 
 
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 was joined in the market-place by the division 
 that had forced its way down North Street with 
 the loss of an officer and several men. The small 
 party of the 62nd, by whom the town walls were 
 defended, having expended all their ammunition, 
 four rounds, retired into the castle. During the 
 firing, in the High Street, between the advanced 
 division and the retreating English soldiers, a 
 child, the son of Mr. J ohn Seeds, the sheriff, ran 
 between the conflicting parties, which, the Marquis 
 D’Estrees observing, took the boy up in his arms, 
 and seizing a musket from a soldier, who had 
 just fired it, sledged in with the butt end the 
 door of a house in the High Street, which hap- 
 pened to be that of the child’s father, and after 
 placing him in the hall, immediately returned to 
 resume hostilities. The child was subsequently 
 Dr. Thomas Seeds, of the Royal Navy, by whom 
 the Editor was told the circumstance, which is 
 mentioned by Mac Ski min as a “ tradition of old 
 inhabitants.” 
 
 The united divisions proceeded from the market- 
 place against the castle, in the most determined 
 manner, and readily forced the outward gate, 
 which had not been properly secured by the re- 
 tiring party of the 62nd. Although the num- 
 ber of men within the Castle of Carrickfergus 
 amounted only to one hundred and sixty-two, and 
 
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 the French force was estimated at between seven 
 and eight hundred, they were received with so 
 warm a fire, that they retreated with some loss, 
 especially that of their humane and gallant leader, 
 the Marquis D’Estrees, who is described “ as a 
 remarkably fine-looking man. 1 ’ Upon the gate 
 being forced open he was the first to enter; “ at 
 which time he was observed to kiss a miniature 
 picture that he took from his bosom.” Upon his 
 fall, the French troops which he had headed, took 
 up position under cover of the adjoining houses, 
 and an old wall, north of the castle, when Colonel 
 Cavenac immediately assumed the command, and 
 formed for the assault. Perceiving this movement, 
 and the ammunition of the besieged being nearly 
 exhausted, it was determined by them to beat a 
 parley and capitulate upon honorable terms, sti- 
 pulating that the town should not be plundered. 
 The number of troops who surrendered, amounted to 
 10 officers, 11 sergeants, 10 corporals, 5 drummers, 
 and 102 rank and file, of the garrison, there had 
 been 2 killed and 3 wounded. And in the en- 
 counter about 50 of the French were killed, among 
 whom were three officers; “ They were buried,” 
 says MacSkimin, “close by the castle, intheground 
 now (1829) occupied as a garden by the Ord- 
 nance storekeeper.” This surrender, which suited 
 the views of both parties, was followed by an 
 
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XX 
 
 agreement to furnish the French troops with pro- 
 visions in six hours; but that could not be per- 
 formed, there not being a sufficient supply in the 
 town. “ On this,” says John Wesley in his Jour- 
 nal , “ Mr. Cavenac sent for Mr. Cobham, and de- 
 sired him to go to Belfast and procure them, 
 leaving his wife with the general as a hostage for 
 his return. But the poor Frenchmen could not 
 stay for this. At the time prefixed, they began 
 to serve themselves with meat and drink, having 
 been in such want that they were glad to eat raw 
 oats to sustain nature. They accordingly took 
 all the food they could find, with some linen and 
 wearing apparel; but they neither hurt nor af- 
 fronted man, woman, or child, nor did any mis- 
 chief for mischief's sake, though they were suffi- 
 ciently provoked; for many of the inhabitants af- 
 fronted them without fear or wit, cursed them to 
 their face, and even took up pokers and other 
 things to strike them.” 
 
 The terms on which the garrison of Carrick- 
 fergus surrendered are given in the Memoirs of 
 Thurot. They are stated to have been signed 
 by Colonel J ennings and Colonel Dusulier, in the 
 house of William Wilkinson, in the High Street, 
 in the presence of Thurot, who “ spoke English 
 fluently, and was very polite.” The French offi- 
 cers invited the Mayor to dine with them. After 
 
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 dinner, “ the glass,” says Mac Skimin, “ having 
 circulated freely, Thurot requested Mr. Chaplin 
 to sing a song; who, after some entreaties from 
 the different officers, complied; and sung, with 
 much spirit, c The British Grenadiers.’ Thurot 
 heard him out with perfect good-nature; but some 
 of the officers who understood English were rather 
 ruffled.” The French being masters of Carrick- 
 fergus, guards were placed by them in the evening, 
 on the different roads leading into the town, and 
 sentinels on the houses of some of the principal 
 inhabitants. On the first alarm the more timid 
 fled ; those who remained, shut up their doors 
 and windows; and considering that some cases 
 of intoxication occurred among the French sol- 
 diers, it is surprising that so little damage was 
 done or plunder committed. When Wesley en- 
 quired of Colonel Cavenac, — (who had told him, 
 that being almost famished, having only one 
 ounce of bread per man daily, they had landed 
 merely to procure provisions,) — whether they had 
 a design to burn the town? he cried out, “ Jesu 
 Maria ! we never had such a thought. To burn, 
 to destroy, cannot enter into the heart or head of 
 a good man.” 
 
 That plunder to any great extent did not take 
 place, is proved by the Irish House of Commons 
 granting, on the 21st October following, only the 
 
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 small sum of .F4285 12 OJ, in full compensation 
 to the inhabitants of Carrickfergus for their losses 
 by the French; about J?600 of which was after- 
 wards returned to the government. Among the 
 items was £ 17 for the church plate. In June of 
 the next year, an additional JP200, was paid to 
 Mr. J ohn Campbell, Surgeon, for his losses. 
 
 Mac Skimin relates .an anecdote, which al- 
 though it may establish his statement, “ that 
 many houses were broken into, and despoiled of 
 their most valuable effects : and even the church 
 was robbed of its plate,” tends to shew how 
 trifling this plunder must have been. “ Two 
 French soldiers going into the house of an old 
 woman, called Mave Dempsey, one of them took 
 her silk handkerchief, and was putting it into his 
 pocket; when Mave, who was a pious Roman 
 Catholic, presented her beads at him, doubtless 
 expecting that he would be struck with compunc- 
 tion by such a forcible appeal to his conscience. 
 ‘ Ah !’ said the soldier, with a significant shrug, 
 c dat be good for your soul — dis be good for my 
 body.’ It was observed, that the French soldiers 
 never lost their national politeness. 
 
 “ On one occasion, in taking a lady’s ear-rings, 
 the soldier who requested to have them, made as 
 many bows, scrapes, and motions with his hand, 
 as one of our most consummate dandies on enter- 
 ing a drawing-room.” 
 
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 Nor is there any good evidence to fix the loss 
 of the church plate on the French. For on the 
 morning of Friday, the day after the surrender of 
 Carrickfergus, it appears that John Hagan, the 
 mayor’s servant, who had been hiding his master’s 
 plate near lower Woodburn Bridge, was called 
 on by a sentinel to stand ; but hastening his pace, 
 he was fired at and shot. 
 
 In the course of Friday, the French liberated 
 most of the prisoners confined in the county of 
 Antrim goal. There was only one woman in the 
 prison of the county of the town of Carrickfergus, 
 charged with the murder of her child, and they 
 did not release her, “ professing the utmost 
 detestation of the crime with which she stood 
 charged.” 
 
 As the town of Carrickfergus could not produce 
 the required supply of provisions, the Rev. David 
 Fullerton, a dissenting clergyman, accompanied 
 by a French officer, proceeded to Belfast with a 
 flag of truce, and a letter to the sovereign of that 
 town ; demanding provisions to the value of about 
 J?1200, which it was stated would be paid for, 
 and threatening, if not immediately sent, to burn 
 both Belfast and Carrickfergus. The answer re- 
 turned was, that “ their wishes would be complied 
 with as soon as possible;” and, in part of the de- 
 mand, two lighters were loaded on Friday evening, 
 
XXIV 
 
 but the weather was so rough that they were 
 unable to sail. On Saturday morning, a flag of 
 truce was sent from Belfast to the French com- 
 mandant, to state the cause of the delay, and to 
 assure him that one lighter would, if possible, 
 proceed with the evening tide : this vessel did so, 
 but was stopped in Garmoyle by a tender com- 
 manded by Lieutenant Gentil. Intelligence having 
 reached Carrickfergus that armed parties had been 
 seen in motion, from the assembling of some militia, 
 and the expected supply of provisions not having 
 arrived, another flag of truce was despatched to 
 Belfast, with a letter from Mr. Fullerton to the 
 sovereign, acquainting him that if the provisions 
 were not forthcoming early next morning, the 
 French “would burn Carrickfergus, put the in- 
 habitants to the sword, and march to Belfast . 11 
 
 44 These threats had the desired effect ; for 
 early on Sunday, some cars arrived from Belfast, 
 with part of the promised provisions, and a num- 
 ber of live bullocks, with which returned as drovers 
 some of the inhabitants who had guarded the 
 French prisoners to Belfast. The lighter that 
 had been detained, also arrived about the same 
 time, and the enemy were very busy this evening 
 in getting provisions and fresh water on board. 
 Monday they continued actively employed as 
 above, and evidently were in some confusion ; it 
 
XXV 
 
 was believed they had received notice of the troops 
 inarching against them.” 
 
 On Tuesday, the last of the French force, which 
 consisted of volunteer drafts from regular regi- 
 ments,* embarked from the Quay of Carrick- 
 fergus, at four in the afternoon, taking with them 
 the Mayor, Mr. Spaight, port surveyor, and the 
 Rev. David Fullerton, as hostages for the de- 
 livery of the French prisoners. The latter 
 gentleman, being very unwell, was afterwards put 
 on shore at Kilroot. 
 
 They had scarcely left the town, when the 
 advanced guard of the English forces arrived 
 from Belfast, whither the following regiments had 
 been marched, with all speed from different parts 
 of the kingdom : Pole’s (10th), Anstruther’s 
 (26th), Sandford’s (52nd), and Seabright's foot ; 
 with Mostyn’s, Yorke’s, and Whitley’s (7th, 8th, 
 and 9th Light) Dragoons. 
 
 At four in the morning of the following 
 Thursday (28th) Captain Elliot's squadron got 
 sight of Thurot’s ship, and gave chase. 
 
 * French Guards. Le Comte De Kersalls Commandant, 
 M. de Cavenac Colonel. 
 
 Swiss Guards. Cassailas „ 
 
 Regiment of Burgundy. De Roussilly „ 
 
 „ Camkisc. Frechcan „ 
 
 Hussars Le Comte de Skerdeck „ 
 
 Volunteers Strangers „ 
 
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 The details of the action supplied by the logs 
 of these vessels are as follows : — 
 
 H.M.S.-ZEolus. — “Wednesday, 27th February 
 1760, — Wind W.N.W. and N.W. strong gales 
 and squally. 
 
 “ 28th.— Wind N. by W. N.N.W. N. by E.N- 
 N.E. 
 
 “Aire point, Isle of Man. — S.S.E, -J- E. distance 
 2 miles. First part, strong gales and squally, 
 latter, moderate and clear weather. Wore ship 
 several times, by reason of the narrowness of the 
 channel, at 8 p. M. Mull of Galloway, E. by N. 7 
 miles. At 12 Copland Light, N.W. i N. 4 leagues, 
 at 3 a.m. discovered 3 sails to windward, cleared 
 ship and gave chase, at 6 discovered the chase to 
 be the enemy’s, fired two chase guns, which they 
 returned ; at half past 6 got close along side the 
 largest of the enemy and engaged, and soon after 
 the action became general, and continued about 
 an hour and half, when our antagonist struck her 
 colours, as did the other two soon follow her 
 example. They proved to be the Marshall Bellisle, 
 Mon. Thurott commander, the La Blond, and 
 Terpsichore (being loekt with the M. Bellisle) 
 was obliged to let go our small B r . anchor to 
 clear us, slipt the cable and bore away for Ram- 
 sey Bay in the Isle of Man, to refit the ships 
 which were all greatly disabled in the action. We 
 
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 had 4 men killed, and 15 men wounded, the enemy 
 about 300 killed and wounded, amongst the first 
 was Mons. Thurott, Commodore, with several 
 officers of distinction.” 
 
 “Friday 29. — Wind N.E. Moored in Ramsey 
 Bay. Light breezes and cloudy at 3 P.M. an- 
 chored in Ramsey Bay, B l - B r - and moored a 
 cable each way. It was with great difficulty we 
 kept the M. Bellisle from sinking, she having six 
 foot in the hold. A.M. employed repairing our 
 rigging & c. 
 
 “Saturday, March 1. — N.W. Moored in Ram- 
 sey Bay, ditto weather, sailed the Pallas with five 
 hundred prisoners for Belfast; employed fishing, 
 the masts being all wounded.” 
 
 The log of the Brilliant, Captain James Loggie, 
 represents that vessel to be on the 28th February 
 distant three miles from the point of Air, in the Isle 
 of Man, S. E.| S. At 8, when the enemy struck, 
 the Point, bearing S.E. by S. distant 7 or 8 miles. 
 A Lieutenant and 30 men were put on board La 
 Blonde prize ; and the Pallas is recorded to have 
 sailed on the 1st for Ireland, with 550 prisoners. 
 
 The log of the Pallas, Captain Michael Clements, 
 states that vessel to be on the 28 February 1760, 
 with the Point of Air on the Isle of Man, S.E. 
 by E. distant 2 miles. 
 
 “ First part, fresh gales and squally, middle 
 
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 and latter moderate and fair, at 3 P.M. unbent 
 the mainsail, and bent another, at 4 a.m. saw 
 three strange ships on our weather bow, bearing 
 down upon us, cleared ship and gave them chase, 
 they hauled their wind for the Mull of Galloway, then 
 bore away right before it, at daylight were almost 
 within gun shot, out 3rd and 2nd reefs of the to p 
 sails, got up top gallant yards, quarter past 6 the 
 -TColus made the signal for engaging. They proved 
 to be the Marshal Bellisle, La Blond, and La 
 Terpsichore French frigates; half-past 6 began 
 to engage, and at 8 they struck. During the 
 engagement had one man killed and two wounded, 
 our sails and rigging very much damaged, one 
 shot through our majn nyist, and our best bower 
 anchor shot away, when they struck the Point of 
 Air on the Isle of Man, bore S.E. distant 3 or 4 
 miles, at 9, the ^Eolus made the signal to anchor, 
 and bore away for Ramsay Bay, sent our first 
 lieutenant, a mate and nineteen men on board the 
 Terpsichore. At noon the Point of Air S.E. by 
 E. distance 2 miles, the Commodore made our 
 signal to stay by the Bellisle, she having made 
 the signal of distress.” 
 
 2nd March — employed sending the prisoners 
 ashore to Carrickfergus. 
 
 Such are the meagre accounts supplied by the 
 official documents respecting this smart action; — 
 
XXIX 
 
 nor do the private letters communicated by Mr. 
 Cole, furnish any anecdotes, as they are all most 
 business-like ; — one from the first lieutenant of 
 the yEolus to his agents, may serve as an 
 example. 
 
 “ Portsmouth, 29 March 60. 
 
 “ Gentlemen, 
 
 I received your favour of the 27 th 
 with pleasure, and am much obliged to you for 
 your good wishes in setting me down Commander 
 of the Bellisle ; I wish Lord Anson could be 
 brought to think as you do, I might then be 
 satisfy’d tho’ with a much less ship ; my command 
 is yet very uncertain. As for the particulars you 
 desire to know, they really are soon told, for I 
 know no more than three fenglish frigates en- 
 gaging three French and taking them. As for 
 making you part agents, was it in my power you 
 should have the whole, you shall be mine while 
 you think it worth while. I should by this post 
 send you up my journals, but wait to see whether 
 I may make them up for my whole time in the 
 ^Eolus, or a twelve month only. 
 
 4< I am, Gentleman, with esteem, 
 
 “ Your obliged humble servant, 
 P. Forbes.” 
 
 Captain Elliot, after placing some of his men, 
 who were dangerously wounded, on shore in Ram- 
 
XXX 
 
 sey, under the care of Mr. Thomas Gillespie, 
 surgeon of that place, dispatched the Pallas with 
 some of his prisoners to Carrickfergus, and hired 
 a small vessel for the transport of 200 more of 
 them to Whitehaven. On the 3rd of March the 
 Pallas returned from Carrickfergus, after landing 
 450 prisoners ; and H. M. S. Nightingale and 
 Weazle having arrived in Ramsey Bay, 158 super- 
 numeraries and marine recruits were discharged 
 from them into the -ZEolus and Brilliant, for the 
 purpose of manning the three prizes, and with the 
 Pallas in company, the six frigates sailed on the 
 7th from Ramsey. On the 9th the wind changing, 
 Captain Elliot judged it right to bear away for 
 Kinsale, where he arrived with his little vic- 
 torious squadron on the 10th, and from whence he 
 proceeded to Spithead, where he anchored on the 
 25th March. 
 
 “ The Irish House of Commons voted their 
 thanks to the several captains of His Majesty’s 
 ships of war, who on the 28th February signalized 
 their courage and conduct, in pursuing, defeating, 
 and taking the French squadron, that rashly and 
 fruitlessly presumed to insult the coasts of that king- 
 dom ; expressing their high sense of the honour 
 and advantage accrued to that kingdom by their 
 diligence, bravery, and success ; and the dis- 
 couragement thereby given to such vain attempts 
 
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 for the future.” And likewise to lieutenant- 
 colonel Jennings, ‘‘for his prudent and resolute 
 conduct at Carrickfergus, and for the gallant 
 stand he made there, against a much superior 
 force, by which he gained time for the militia to 
 assemble, and preserved Belfast from being plun- 
 dered.” 
 
 “Even this inconsiderable action,” says the 
 editor of the Annual Register, “added to the 
 glory of the English arms. None had been better 
 conducted, or fought with greater resolution. 
 This sole insult on our coasts was severely pun- 
 ished ; and not a vessel concerned in it escaped.* 
 The public indeed lamented the death of brave 
 Thurot, who, even whilst he commanded a pri- 
 vateer, fought less for plunder than honour; whose 
 behaviour was on all occasions full of humanity and 
 generosity ; and whose undaunted courage raised 
 him to rank and merited distinction. His death se- 
 cured the glory he always sought; he did not live 
 to be brought a prisoner into England, or to hear 
 
 * This was not the case, — the Begon, which was sup- 
 posed to have foundered, returned to Dunkirk, — and the 
 Amarinth, which had separated from Thurot’s squadron on 
 the 12th February, got back to France by the west of Ire- 
 land, and reached St. Malo on the 25th of that month ; 
 which port her crew entered “almost dead with fatigue, 
 hunger, and thirst.” 
 
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 in France those malignant criticisms, which so 
 often attend unfortunate bravery. This was the 
 fate of the last remaining branch of that grand 
 armament, which had so long been the hope of 
 France, the alarm of England, and the object of 
 general attention to Europe. 1 ’ 
 
 T. C. C. 
 
 Hyde Park Gate , South, 
 
 Kensington Gore. 
 
 2Qth October 1846. 
 
CAPTURE OF CARRICKFERGUS, 
 BY THUROT. 
 
 I. 
 
 hawke’s victory. 
 
 The action between the English fleet, commanded by 
 Sir Edward Hawke, and the French fleet, by M. de 
 Conflans, off Quiberon Bay, saved the south of Ireland 
 from invasion, and probably the city of Cork from being 
 burned. On the 29th October 1759, the Duke of 
 Bedford, then Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, announced 
 to the House of Commons that Mr. Secretary Pitt had, 
 by his Majesty’s express command, acquainted him that 
 it appeared “ by repeated most authentic intelligences, 
 that France, far from desisting from the plan of in- 
 vasion on account of the disaster happened to her 
 Toulon squadron, is rather more and more confirmed 
 therein, and even instigated by despair itself, to attempt 
 at all hazards the only resource she seems to think 
 left her, for breaking, by such a diversion given us at 
 home, the measures of England abroad, in prosecution 
 of a war, which hitherto, by the blessing of God on 
 his Majesty’s arms, opens in all parts of the world so 
 unfavourable a prospect to the views of France ; and 
 Mr. Secretary Pitt having added on this subject, that 
 there is a strong probability, in case of the body of 
 
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 hawke’s victory. 
 
 the troops, consisting of 18,000 men* under the com- 
 mand of the Due d’Aiguillon, assembled at Yannes, 
 where more than sufficient transports for that number 
 are actually prepared, and ready to receive them on 
 board, should (as the season of the year is growing less 
 favourable for cruising) be able to elude his Majesty’s 
 squadrons, Ireland will not fail to be one of their 
 objects” 
 
 Hawke’s squadron, consisting of twenty-three ships 
 of the line, besides frigates, left Torbay; and Conflans’s, 
 consisting of twenty-one ships of the line and several 
 frigates, left Brest on the same day, the 14th November 
 1759. But the French are said to have out-numbered 
 the English by 4270 men; and the engagement took 
 place, as already mentioned, on the 20th. Hawke 
 ordered his ship to reserve her fire, until laid along- 
 side that of Conflans ; the master remonstrated on the 
 almost inevitable danger of the coast. Hawke replied, 
 
 * In addition to this force, 7000 men are believed to have 
 been formed into five Irish and one Scotch brigade, who had 
 among themselves arranged for the division of the counties of 
 Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Clare, and Galway, and such parts of 
 the country where they expected to meet most friends. This was 
 probably the last movement in favour of the Pretender made 
 by France. Conflans, it is stated, was most assuredly ordered 
 to leave them there ; and the Duke, and those with him, were to 
 make a conquest of the whole island, or lose their lives in the 
 attempt. It is most certainly true, that the Duke d’Aiguillon 
 had then in his pocket a commission from the French king, as 
 viceroy of Ireland. 
 
“ You have done your duty in this remonstrance, now 
 obey my orders, and lay me along -side the French 
 admiral.” A French ship of 74 guns generously put her- 
 self between them. The English admiral was obliged 
 to bestow on her the fire he had reserved for a greater 
 occasion, and with one broadside sent her to the bottom. 
 
 The victory was for a considerable time doubtful ; 
 but at last was decided about four in the afternoon, by 
 the Formidable, of 80 guns and 1000 men, bearing 
 the flag of Rear-Admiral de St. Andre du Verger, 
 striking her colours. About the same time, the 
 Superbe and Thesee, each of 74 guns, sunk. The 
 Ileros, another 74, struck, hauled down her colours, 
 and came to anchor, but it was blowing such a gale 
 of wind, that no boat could be sent to take possession. 
 The Soleil Royal (said to have been the finest ship 
 of the French navy), of 80 guns and 1200 men, com- 
 manded by Conflans, in the darkness of the night 
 came to anchor in the midst of Hawke’s squadron ; 
 at day-break, Conllans ordered her cable to be cut, 
 and she drove on shore. Hawke no sooner saw the 
 French admiral, than he made a signal to the Essex, 
 of 60 guns, to slip her cable and follow, in doing 
 which, she ran on a sand-bank and was lost, together 
 with another ship of the British fleet, the Resolution, 
 of 74 guns; the crews, however, with the greater part 
 of the stores were saved, and the wrecks set on fire, 
 to prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy. 
 In the mean time, the Soleil Royal lay beating on shore, 
 and the French perceiving the English preparing to 
 
4 
 
 HAWKE S VICTORY. 
 
 destroy her, set her on fire. The English, therefore, re- 
 turned, and burned the Heros, which was also aground. 
 The Juste, another large French ship, was lost at the 
 mouth of the river Loire. Next morning, the storm 
 increased to such a degree, that seven of the French 
 fleet threw overboard their cannon and stores in order 
 to facilitate their escape. 
 
 In this important general action, the English had 
 only 1 lieutenant and 39 men killed, with 202 wounded. 
 Admiral Hawke was thanked by the English House of 
 Commons, in February 1760, for his services, and in 
 the following month was presented with the freedom 
 of the city of Cork in a gold box. 
 
 On the terrace of Rostellan, in Cork harbour, the 
 seat of the Marquis of Thomond, there stands, says 
 Sir Richard Hoare, in his Tour through Ireland (1806), 
 “ a statue of Admiral Hawke, the position of which 
 rather surprised me, as the back of this celebrated 
 warrior was turned upon the very element on which 
 he had acquired such immortal honour. I was told 
 that the following circumstance gave rise to placing 
 the figure in this position. Upon the defeat of the 
 French fleet commanded by Conflans, in the year 1759, 
 the city of Cork ordered a statue to be cast of the 
 English Admiral Hawke; but on its completion, some 
 objections were made to the expense by the citizens ; 
 upon which, the noble Inchiquin said, 4 that he would 
 pay for it,’ which he did; and, as a rebuke, placed the 
 admiral’s figure on a pedestal, with his back turned 
 towards the ungrateful city. Mr. O’Brien, the present 
 
iiawke’s victory. 
 
 inhabitant of the place, and who, on the death of the 
 Marquis of Thomond, succeeds to the earldom of 
 Inchiquin,” continues Sir Richard Iloare, “ told me a 
 most singular anecdote relating to this same statue, 
 and which in a less enlightened age than the present might 
 have been considered as ominous ; that the admiral s 
 right arm, which grasped a sword, fell off on the very 
 day that the French landed on the coast of Ireland, at 
 Bantry Bay.” 
 
 “ This same statue” was blown down in the winter 
 of 1834-5, and, the Editor was told, has not been set 
 up again. 
 
 Two songs on Hawke’s victory have already appeared 
 in a collection of The early Naval Ballads of England , 
 edited for the Percy Society by Mr. Halliwell, in 1841, 
 p. 131 and p. 134; but that entitled Neptune's Resig- 
 nation is again printed, as man) 1 - of the readings differ 
 from the version preserved in Sir Richard Hoare’s 
 Tour, and which is the one here followed. 
 
 neptune’s resignation. 
 
 The watery god, great Neptune, lay, 
 In dalliance soft, and amorous play, 
 On Amphitrite’s breast ; 
 
 When uproar raised its horrid head, 
 His palace shook, the Tritons fled, 
 And each his fear confess’d. 
 
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 HAWKE'S VICTORY. 
 
 Loud thunder shook his wide domain, 
 The liquid world was wrapt in flame, 
 
 The god amazed spoke — 
 
 “ Ye winds go forth, and make it known, 
 Who dares to shake my coral throne, 
 And veil my realms in smoke ? ” 
 
 The winds submissive to his nod, 
 
 Sprung strongly up to obey their god, 
 And saw two fleets at sea; 
 
 The one, victorious Haw r ke! was thine, 
 The other, Conflans’ broken line 
 In terror and dismay. 
 
 Amaz’d they saw Britannia’s sons, 
 Destruction deal from all their guns, 
 Their conquering shouts resound ; 
 While vanquish’d Gallia’s hapless slaves 
 Sunk to their deaths in briny graves, 
 Beneath the deep profound. 
 
 The winds return’d, and told their chief, 
 That France was ruin’d past belief, 
 
 And Hawke triumphant rode : 
 
 “ Hawke!” Neptune cried, “ why who is he, 
 Who thus usurps my power at sea, 
 
 And dares defy a god ? ” 
 
HAWKE S VICTORY. 
 
 The winds replied, — “ In distant lands, 
 There lives a king, who Hawke commands, 
 Who scorns all foreign force! 
 
 And when liis floating castles roll, 
 
 From sea to sea, from pole to pole, 
 
 Great Hawke directs their course. 
 
 And when his winged bullets fly 
 To punish fraud and perfidy, 
 
 And scourge a guilty land, 
 
 Then gallant Hawke, serenely great, 
 Though death and horror round him wait, 
 Fulfils the dread command.” 
 
 Neptune with wonder heard the story 
 Of George’s power and Britain’s glory, 
 Which time shall ne’er subdue ; 
 Boscawen’s deeds and Saunders’ fame, 
 Joined with brave Wolfe’s immortal name, 
 And cried, “ Can this be true ? ” 
 
 “ A king ! he needs must be a god, 
 
 Who has such heroes at his nod, 
 
 To govern earth and sea ; 
 
 I yield my trident and my crown, — 
 
 A tribute due to such renown, — 
 
 Great George shall rule for me ! ” 
 
8 
 
 THE SIEGE 
 
 II. 
 
 THE SIEGE OF CARRICK FERGUS . 
 
 The late Mr. Mac Skimin, in his History of Carrick- 
 fergus (p. 88), having stated that, “ Immediately after 
 [the capture of the town by the French], a ballad was 
 written and published here, by a William Magennis, 
 called The Siege of Carrickfergus the Editor, in 1836, 
 requested him to procure a copy of this ballad. In 
 reply, Mr. Mac Skimin wrote : “ I send you the song 
 required, with the exception of the last verse, which 
 I still hope to obtain for you.f I could not procure a 
 printed copy, and the annexed was taken down from 
 an old man. It is, I believe, very correct, as I have 
 some recollection of most of the lines, having heard 
 the song when a boy. There was also another song 
 made regarding the French at Carrickfergus. I have 
 the greatest part of it, but it never was so popular as 
 the song I now send you, — perhaps, from its tune 
 being less lively. In 1760, there was a pamphlet 
 
 * Mr. Mac Skimin adds: “In 1764, a play was published in 
 Belfast, bearing the same title; and in 1770, a pantomime was 
 presented on the Belfast stage, by the name of Thurot , or the Siege 
 of Carrickfergus” 
 
 f Mr. Mac Skimin subsequently sent to the Editor the sixth 
 and seventh verses. 
 
OF CARKTCKFERGUS. 
 
 9 
 
 published at Belfast, respecting this invasion. I have 
 never been able to procure a copy, and have only met 
 with one person who had it.” 
 
 The following ballad, Mr. Mac Skimin informed the 
 Editor, was sung to the well-known melody of “ Haste 
 to the Wedding.” It is here given, not after his manu- 
 script version, but after a copy, differing only slightly 
 from it, in “ Johnson’s Lottery Song Book, or Vocal 
 Adventurer, containing a choice collection of the most 
 admired Love, Hunting, and Bacchanalian Songs, that 
 are sung in the most polite circles ; with a number of 
 new, spirited, and genteel Toasts, Sentiments, and 
 Hob-nobs. London: printed for E. Johnson and Co., 
 at their old Licensed State Lottery Office, No. 4, 
 Ludgate Hill.” The date of which publication is fixed 
 by an engraving resembling a lottery ticket, being 
 inserted opposite to the title page: — 
 
 “London, N°- 5m 854, Lottery, 1779. 
 
 “ I promise to sell the Bearer a State Lottery Ticket for 
 one shilling, if the above Number is the first drawn on Either 
 of the first five days ; and if it is the first drawn on the Tenth 
 Day, to sell the Bearer three State Lottery Tickets for three 
 shillings, which Tickets may be drawn prizes of Twenty 
 
 THOUSAND, TEN THOUSAND, AND FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS each. 
 
 “ (Signed,) Johnson & Co., 
 
 “ At his Lottery Office, licensed by Parliament, 
 “No. 4, Ludgate Hill;” 
 
 and to which is prefixed a portrait of “Mrs. Wrighten 
 of Urury Lane Theatre.” 
 
 The communication of this Lottery Song Book to the 
 
10 
 
 i’HE SIEGE 
 
 Editor, increases the obligations of the Percy Society 
 to Mr. Fairholt. Mr. Wright, our zealous Secretary, 
 has also placed in the Editor 3 s hands, a chap book 
 printed at Glasgow by J. and M. Robertson, Salt- 
 market, 1801, containing “ The Siege of Carrickfergus, 
 or Thurot’s defeat,” to which are added other songs, 
 embellished with a rude wood-cut evidently designed 
 to represent the attack on Carrickfergus Castle. But 
 as by a printer’s error, intentional or otherwise, no 
 less than nine verses of a ballad written with reference 
 to some different affair are strangely comingled after 
 the verse ending with “ brave Captain Bland,” and the 
 subsequent verse, it is only necessary here to mention 
 this copy, as one that has come under the Editor’s 
 notice, and which he believes to be a rare printed 
 illustration of the manner in which information was 
 conveyed in Ireland and Scotland among those disaf- 
 fected to the English Government in 1798. 
 
 THE SIEGE OF CARRICKFERGUS. 
 
 From * 1 * Dunkirk, in France, in the month of September, 
 Fitted out was a fleet, and away they did sail ; 
 
 And- Monsieur Thurot, their only 3 commander, 
 
 With him at their head they were sure not to fail. 
 So 4 away they did steer, without dread or fear, 
 
 And searched and plunder’d all shijis they could find? 
 
 The readings given at foot are from Mr. Mac Skimin’s MS. 
 
 1 At 2 under 3 chief 4 Then 
 
 5 The coasts all around. (The rhyme proves this to be cor- 
 
 rect, unless the eighth line, as probably originally written, ended 
 
 with “ wind.”) 
 
OF CARRICKFERGUS. 
 
 11 
 
 [Till 6 ] at length they arriv’d on the coast of old Ireland , 7 
 And landed their men on our Irish ground. 
 
 [It was 8 ] At Carrickfergus, in the north of this 
 kingdom , 9 
 
 They landed their men and march'd up to our walls; 
 Then cry'd the undaunted, brave, colonel Jennings , 10 
 My boys, let's 11 * salute them with powder and balls. 
 The battle began , and u the guns they did rattle, 
 
 And bravely we fought under Jennings’ command. 
 Said he, play away , 13 play away, my brave boys, 
 
 The beggars the force of our fire cannot stand. 
 
 The town then they took 14 without any 15 resistance, 
 
 The castle they thought was as easy likewise ; 
 
 So they 16 came marching up in 17 grand divisions, 
 
 To storm it, then 18 guarded by the 19 brave Irish boys. 
 But we kept constant fire, and made them retire, 
 
 Till our ammunition entirely was gone ; 
 
 Then aloud we 20 did say, brave boys let’s away. 
 
 And sally out on 21 them with sword in hand. 
 
 6 Till (omitted). 7 in the north of our kingdom, 
 
 8 It was (omitted). 9 Old Ireland, 
 
 1 0 Says brave Colonel J ennings, our valiant commander, 
 
 1 1 we’ll 12 So we begun the battle, 
 
 13 play, 14 it was taken 
 
 15 much 16 And 
 
 17 three (omitted). 18 the gates 
 
 19 with - 20 they 
 
 21 we’ll sally upon 
 
12 
 
 THE SIEGE 
 
 But says 82 our brave colonel, u We cannot defend it, 
 For 23 to make a sally it is but 24 in vain, 
 
 As 25 our ammunition, 2/ott is 26 expended ; 
 
 Well therefore™ submit, awtPgood terms well™ obtain, 
 For plainly you see, that to 0 one they 31 are three, 
 
 ’ Tis 32 best then 33 in time for 34 to capitulate : 
 
 [For 35 ] If they take it by storm, by the law 36 of arms, 
 Then death without mercy will sure be our fate.” 
 
 Then these beggars obtained 3 ' possession of Carrick, 
 Where they revell'd and sotted , and drunk all the while 38 
 Poor people they did sorely 39 ransack and plunder, 
 
 And hoisted it 40 all on board the Belleisle ; 
 
 But Elliot soon 41 met them, nor away did he let them® 
 But forc'd® them to yield up their ill-gotten store ; 
 Noiv, monsieurs , 44 lament in the deepest contrition , 45 
 For now you can brag of your Thurot 46 no more. 
 
 22 Then said 
 25 For 
 
 27 Therefore well 
 29 to 
 31 there 
 33 now 
 
 35 For (omitted). 
 
 23 But 
 
 24 you see its 
 26 is entirely 
 28 in hopes 
 30 for 
 32 So it’s 
 34 dele for. 
 
 36 laws 
 
 37 These ruffians on obtaining 
 
 38 They bullied and roved, and drank the whole while, 
 
 39 sorely did 40 dele it. 
 
 41 he 42 and soon did attack them, 
 
 43 And made 44 Which makes them 
 
 45 in deep discontent, 
 
 46 So, Monsieurs, of your Thurot you can brag 
 
OF C’ARRICKFERGUS. 
 
 13 
 
 Let’s exalt the brave Elliot, who gained this * 7 action, 
 And sing to his praise in the joy fullest** song ; 
 
 For * 9 we of our f$es have got satisfaction, 
 
 And Thurot lies rotting in the Isle of Man. 
 
 Their general is wounded, his 50 schemes are confounded, 
 The brave British tars they can never withstand ; 51 
 The fire of the fierce and 52 the bold British lions 
 Appear'd in the men under 53 brave Captain Bland. 
 
 But now to bring my story to a conclusion , 54 
 Let's drink a good health 55 to our officers all ; 
 
 First brave colonel Jennings, likewise 56 Bland ow ' 57 
 captain, 
 
 Yet 58 never forgetting the brave Mr. Hall. 
 
 Let s drink and be jolly , 59 and drown melancholy, 
 
 So 60 merrily let us 61 rejoice too , 62 and sing ; 
 
 So fill up your bowls, all ye 63 loyal souls, 
 
 And 64 toast a good 65 health to 66 great George our 
 king. 
 
 47 the 48 every 
 
 49 Since 50 their 
 
 51 Their cavalry legions never can stand 
 
 52 so fair of 53 Commanded by the bold and 
 
 54 Now to conclude, and to end my ditty, 
 
 55 In toasting a health 
 
 56 next 57 the 
 
 58 And 59 merry, 
 
 60 And 61 we’ll 
 
 62 now, 63 you brave 
 
 64 Let’s here 65 dele good. 
 
 66 unto 
 
thurot’s dream. 
 
 14 
 
 III. 
 
 thurot’s dream. 
 
 The title of this song refers to the popular belief 
 that Thurot, in consequence of a dream, was possessed 
 with a presentiment of his death. That this may 
 have been the case appears not improbable, from the 
 statement of the French Lieutenant-General Cavenac 
 to John Wesley, which Wesley has preserved in his 
 Journal, 5th May 1760. “ The next morning [after 
 
 sailing from Carrickfergus] as he [Thurot] was walk- 
 ing the deck, he frequently started without any visible 
 cause, stopped short, and said ‘ I shall die to-day.’ ” 
 The ballad-maker, however, has availed himself of 
 the supposed mysterious warning imparted to Thurot, 
 for a satirical purpose, in making the voice of his 
 grandfather advise him to flight from Ireland; as 
 O’Farrell, Thurot’s grandfather, is said to have 
 recommended James II to secure his retreat after the 
 Battle of the Boyne, and to have been the agent who 
 procured a vessel at Waterford, for the conveyance of 
 the abdicating monarch to France. O’Farrell ac- 
 companied James, and when in embarking the king’s 
 hat was blown off, that officer offered his own to the 
 king, which James graciously received, observing, that 
 
THU ROT S DREAM. 
 
 if lie should lose a crown in Ireland, he certainly 
 would remember that he had gained a hat there. 
 
 The attention of the editor was first directed to this 
 song, by Mr. Jordan’s enquiry (1830) whether he 
 knew a ballad commencing with — 
 
 “ My heart it lies breaking for Carrickfergus town, 
 
 That pretty situation the enemy pulled down” 
 
 which he remembered as a boy to have heard sung in 
 Kelso ? Upon the editor stating that he was un- 
 acquainted with the lines, and requesting Mr. Jerdan 
 to furnish him with any other lines that he could re- 
 collect : that gentlemen, without hesitation, wrote 
 thus in reply : — 
 
 “ On the twenty-fifth of February [qu. the month] 
 as I’ve heard people say. 
 
 Three [qu. six]* French ships of war came and 
 anchored in our Bay.” 
 
 “ As Thurot lay in his cabin, he dreamed a dream, 
 There was a voice came to him and called him by 
 his name : 
 
 Saying, Thurot you’re to blame for your long lying 
 here, 
 
 * Mr. Jerdan, in the kind, prompt, and characteristic note 
 accompanying this version, has misplaced his first quere; it 
 should have been after the day of the, and not the month. And in 
 his subsequent quere, certainly he saw not but remembered 
 “ double,” although, historically speaking, he is correct as to the 
 force intended for the invasion on the north of Ireland. 
 
16 
 
 THUROT S DREAM. 
 
 For tlie English will be here to-night, the wind 
 bloweth fair.” 
 
 In the version now printed of nearly the entire ballad, 
 Mr. Mac Skimin’s MS. is followed, except in the third 
 verse, which is given, as more probably the original, 
 for the reasons stated, from a manuscript handed to 
 the editor by the late Mr. Allan Cunningham. — Mr. 
 Mac Skimin’s version of the third verse runs thus : — 
 
 “ As Thurot lay in his hammock, one night he did 
 dream, 
 
 That a spirit came unto him, and called him by his 
 name : 
 
 Saying, Thurot, you’re to blame for lying so long 
 here. 
 
 For the English will be in this night, the wind it is 
 fair.” 
 
 But these really unimportant readings are here re- 
 corded, as illustrative of the oral transmission of a 
 song, of which the editor has never seen a printed 
 copy. 
 
 In 1837, Mr. Mac Skimin informed the editor, that 
 this and the preceding song “were common in print,” 
 but he says, “ I have not seen either in print for 
 upwards of thirty years.” And in 1840 that he has 
 “ not as yet been able to procure the two lines wanting 
 of this song,” adding, “but I still hope to get them.” 
 Alas, Mr. Mac Skimin died on the 17th February, 
 1843. 
 
thurot’s dream. 
 
 17 
 
 thurot’s dream. 
 
 The twenty-first of February, as I’ve heard the people 
 say, 
 
 Three French ships of war came and anchored in our 
 Bay : 
 
 They hoisted English colours, and landed at Kilroot, 
 And marched their men for Carrick, without further 
 dispute. 
 
 Colonel Jennings being there, at that pretty town, 
 
 His heart it was a breaking, while the enemy came down : 
 He could not defend it for the want of powder and 
 ball, 
 
 And aloud to his enemies for “quarter” did he call. 
 
 As Thurot in his cabin lay, he dreamed a dream, 
 
 That his grandsire’s voice came to him and called him 
 by his name : 
 
 Saying, Thurot you're to blame for lying so long here, 
 For the English will be in this night, the wind it 
 bloweth fair.* 
 
 Then Thurot started up, and said unto his men, 
 “Weigh your anchors, my brave lads, and let us begone : 
 
 * The meaning of this line is, that the English may be ex- 
 pected, and that the wind blows fair for Thurot to escape. This 
 was so ; the wind on the 27th February, 1760, at Carrickfergus 
 is recorded to have been “ W.N.W. and N. W. strong gales and 
 squally.” 
 
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18 
 
 thurot’s dream. 
 
 We ll go off this very night, make all the haste you 
 can, 
 
 And we'll steer south and south-east, straight for the 
 Isle of Man.” 
 
 Upon the next day the wind it blew north west, 
 
 And Elliot’s gallant seamen, they sorely were oppressed, 
 
 They could not get in that night, the wind it blew so 
 high: 
 
 And as for Monsieur Thurot, he was forced for to lie 
 
 by- 
 
 Early the next morning, as daylight did appear, 
 
 Brave Elliot he espied them, which gave to him great 
 cheer, 
 
 It gave to him great cheer, and he to his men did say, 
 
 “Boys, yonder’s Monsieur Thurot, we’ll shew him 
 warm play.” 
 
 The first ship that came up was the Brilliant without 
 doubt, 
 
 She gave to them a broadside, and then she wheeled 
 about : 
 
 The other two then followed her, and fired another 
 round, 
 
 “ Oh, oh, my lads,” says Thurot, “ this is not Carrick 
 town.” 
 
 Then out cried Monsieur Thurot, with his visage pale 
 and wan, 
 
THU ROT S DREAM. 
 
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 “ Strike, strike, your colours, brave boys, or they'll 
 sink us — every man : 
 
 Their weighty shot comes in so hot, on both the. 
 weather and the lee, 
 
 Strike your colours, my brave boys, or they’ll sink us 
 in the sea.” 
 
 Before they got their colours struck, great slaughter 
 was made, 
 
 And many a gallant Frenchman on Thurot’s decks lay 
 dead, 
 
 They came tumbling down the shrouds, upon his deck 
 they lay, 
 
 While our brave Irish heroes cut their booms and 
 yards away. 
 
 * 
 
 And as for Monsieur Thurot, as I’ve heard people say, 
 He was taken up by Elliot s men and buried in Ramsey 
 Bay. 
 
 Now for to conclude, and put an end unto my song, 
 To drink a health to Elliot, I hope it is not wrong ; 
 And may all French invaders be served the same way, 
 Let the English beat the French by land, our Irish 
 boys on sea. 
 
 * “ I expect to make out the above two lines wanting.” — Note 
 by Mr. Mac Skimin. 
 
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THE CAPTURE 
 
 20 
 
 IV. 
 
 THE CAPTURE OF C ARRICKFERGUS. 
 
 “ Taken down,” says Mr. Mac Skimin, after whose 
 MS. this song is given, “from an old man, January 
 1836,” and he adds, “I do not recollect of ever seeing 
 this song in print.” — 
 
 “I now recollect,” he adds, “that there was another 
 song on the same subject, but I cannot find any person 
 who has it, and I now remember only two lines, 
 though I had it all by heart when a very young boy. 
 I cannot be mistaken, as its tune was so very different 
 from the other. The words that occur to me are, 
 when speaking of Elliot, that he 
 
 “ Sailed with his three frigates from Kinsale, 
 
 On the pursuit of Monsieur Thurot.” 
 
 and the tune was “ Moll Roe.” — 
 
 THE CAPTURE OF CARRICKFERGUS. 
 
 Louis of France with hunger loud does cry, 
 
 “ A shepherd’s dog in Ireland, lives better far than I, 
 With their butter and their bacon, they have them in 
 stores, 
 
 But I’ll send forth my forces, to plunder their shores.” 
 
 Sing fall, &c. 
 
OF CARRICKFERGUS. 
 
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 It was lately I dreamed my army was away, 
 
 And all these rich dainties, I thought were their prey; — 
 So in the province of Ulster invaded were we, 
 
 By Commodore Thurot, and French frigates three. 
 
 Sing fall, &c. 
 
 To Londonderry city, their course they did steer, 
 
 But they were prevented, although very near, 
 
 Their fleet while at sea, they were scattered away, 
 
 By a storm from the heavens, which did them dismay. 
 
 Sing fall, &c. 
 
 But three of them remained, and there came about, 
 
 To the bay of Carrickfergus, near the point of Kilroot ; 
 Then with flat boats, they landed a thousand men well 
 armed, 
 
 Under English colours, to prevent our being alarmed. 
 
 Sing fall, &c. 
 
 Under General Thurot, these men did march away, 
 Unto Carrickfergus, and he to them did say, 
 
 The garrison are but a handful of silly gossoons,* 
 
 And at our appearance, I’m sure they will run. 
 
 Sing fall, &c. 
 
 * Gossoon, now popularly considered an Irish word, does not 
 belong to the Irish language, in which it appears to have been 
 adopted from the Anglo-norman garson , or gargon. The modern 
 acceptation of the word in Ireland is hobbledy-hoy. 
 
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 THE CAPTURE 
 
 But sore lie was mistaken, for soon they let him know, 
 
 And left him broken-legged, to France he could not go; 
 
 One hundred of his soldiers, and more they did 
 destroy, 
 
 With nothing but the loss of four Carrick boys. — 
 
 Sing fall, &c. 
 
 Like unto hearts of gold, so bravely they did stand, 
 
 Though but one hundred and fifty, against a thousand 
 men ; 
 
 And they were all six feet high, of chosen tories wild,* 
 
 And slighted us gossoons, as Flobert them styled. 
 
 Sing fall, &c. 
 
 They sail’d away by morning, before the sun arose, 
 
 Brave Elliot he espied them, and cried, “ Boys, here 
 are foes ! ” 
 
 * Upon the words “ six feet high ” Mr. Mac Skimin observes : 
 “ The French troops were volunteers from different corps, and 
 are still recorded here for their fine appearance ; especially a 
 corps of the Swiss Guards and some Hussars.” John Wesley 
 in his Journal, 1 May 1760, says, “ General Flaubert, who com- 
 manded the French troops at Carrickfergus, was just gone from 
 Lord Moira’s. Major Bragelon was now there, a man of fine 
 person, and extremely graceful behaviour. Both these affirmed 
 that the French were all picked men out of the king’s guards ; 
 that their commission was to land either at Londonderry or 
 Carrickfergus, while Monsieur Conflans landed in the south ; 
 and if they did not do this within three months to return directly 
 to France. 
 
OF CARRICKFEltGUS. 
 
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 With frigates three like fire darts, he boldly did 
 pursue, 
 
 He from Kinsale had sailed, these robbers to subdue. 
 
 Sing fall, &c. 
 
 “My boys,” he says, “ they’re yonder, betwixt us and 
 the sun; 
 
 Now coolly and with courage, fall on, my boys, fall on !” 
 
 And betwixt the mull of Galloway, and the point of 
 Ayre, 
 
 The thundering of our cannon the nations round did 
 hear. Sing fall, &c. 
 
 Now in this hard engagement, poor Thurot he did die, 
 
 By an unlucky shot that through his heart did fly ; 
 
 Aloud they called for quarter, for lady Mary’s sake, 
 
 For Captain Elliot’s cannon made all their hearts to 
 quake. Sing fall, &c. 
 
 And now then taken prisoners, upon the raging main, 
 
 And back to Carrickfergus they were brought again;* 
 
 Here’s the praise of brave Elliot, who conquered the foe, 
 
 And likewise to Clements and Loggie also. 
 
 Sing fall, &c. 
 
 * John Wesley in his Journal, 18th April 1760, notes, that he 
 
 “ went with Miss F to see the French prisoners sent from 
 
 Carrickfergus.” They were surprised at hearing as good French 
 spoken in Dublin as they could have heard in Paris, and still 
 more at being exhorted to heart -religion, to the “faith that 
 worketh by love.” 
 
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 EPITAPH ON 
 
 Y. 
 
 EPITAPH ON M. THUROT. 
 
 Copied from one of the poetical articles in the 
 Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. xxx. p. 148, for March 
 1760. 
 
 Thurot’s personal appearance and conduct at 
 Carrickfergus, are thus described by John Wesley in his 
 Journal, 5th May 1760, from the narrative of Mrs. 
 Cobham. While that lady was in attendance upon 
 General Flaubert after he had been wounded, “ a little 
 plain-dressed man came in, to whom they all showed 
 a particular respect. It struck into her mind, 4 Is not 
 this Mr. Thurot?’ which was soon confirmed.” 
 44 She said to him, 4 Sir, you seem much fatigued : will 
 you step to my house and refresh yourself?’ lie 
 readily accepted the offer. She prepared a little veal, 
 of which he ate moderately, and drank three glasses of 
 small warm punch ; after which he told her — 4 1 have 
 not taken any food before for eight and forty hours.’ 
 She asked, 4 Sir, will you be pleased to take a little 
 rest now?’ Observing he started, she added, ‘I will 
 answer life for life, that none shall hurt you under 
 my roof.’ He said, 4 Madam, I believe you ; I 
 accept the offer.’ He desired that two of his men 
 
M. THUROT. 
 
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 might lie on the floor by the bed side, slept about six 
 hours, and then returning her many thanks, went 
 aboard his ship. 
 
 “Five days he was kept in the bay by contrary 
 winds. When he sailed he took the mayor of Carrick 
 and another gentleman as hostages, for the delivery of 
 the French prisoners.” 
 
 The presentiment felt by Thurot respecting his 
 death, has been already mentioned on the authority of 
 Wesley. He thus continues — “Awhile after, he 
 (Thurot) said to one of the English, ‘ Sir, I see three 
 ships ; pray take my glass and tell me freely what you 
 think they are ?’ He looked some time, and said, ‘ I 
 think they are English, and I guess they are about 
 forty-gun ships.’ Pie called to his officers and said, 
 * Our ships are too foul to fight at a distance ; we must 
 board them.’ Accordingly when they came up, after 
 a short fire, he ran close up to Captain Elliot, and 
 Captain Scordeck, with his four and twenty hussars, 
 immediately leaped on board. Almost instantly nine 
 of them lay dead ; on which he was so much enraged, 
 that he rushed forward with his sabre, among the 
 English, who seized his arms and carried him away. 
 Meantime his men that were left, retired into their 
 own ship. Thurot seeing this, cried out, ‘ Why 
 should we throw away the lives of the poor men ? ’ 
 and ordered them to strike the colours. A man going 
 up to do this was shot dead, as was likewise a second ; 
 and before a third could do it Mr. Thurot himself 
 was shot through the heart. So fell a brave man ; 
 
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EPITAPH ON 
 
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 giving yet another proof that there is no counsel 
 strength against the Lord.” 
 
 EPITAPH ON M. THUROT. 
 
 Here lies the pirate brave Thurot, 
 
 To merchant’s wealth a dreadful foe : 
 Who, weary of a robber’s name 
 Aspired to gain a hero’s fame ; 
 
 But oft ambition soars too high, 
 
 Like Icarus when he strove to fly : 
 
 In short, Thurot with ardour fill’d, 
 
 His breast with emulation swelled. 
 Abjuring Sweden’s copper shore, 
 
 His course to fair Hibernia bore ; 
 
 There took some peasants unprepar’d, 
 So struck his blow and disappear’d ; 
 
 But luckless fate which oft pursues us, 
 And when we least expect subdues us, 
 This scheme, how well soe’er concerted, 
 Into a dire mischance converted, 
 
 And made it prove, as we’ll relate 
 The sad forerunner of his fate ; 
 
 For CEolus brave Elliot led, 
 
 Who early in his school was bred, 
 
 Cut short this champion’s thread of life, 
 And with it clos’d the doubtful strife ; 
 In which Belleisle, a name we own, 
 Amongst ten thousand heroes known, 
 
M. THUROT. 
 
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 Of France, the wonder and the brag, 
 Again compell’d to drop the flag,* 
 Was forced such fortune to lament, 
 As erst her namesake underwent : 
 But to return to him whose glory 
 Is now the subject of our story, 
 
 He was no wit, nor quite an ass, 
 
 But lov’d his bottle and his lass.f 
 You then good fellows passing by. 
 Afford the tribute of a sigh, 
 
 His fate lament — enough we’ve said, 
 Thurot once lived — Tliurot is dead. 
 
 * The Chevalier de Belleisle, brother to the Marshal, lost his 
 life as he was endeavouring to fix a standard on the Sardinian 
 entrenchments at Exilles, 1747. 
 
 f M. Thurot’s mistress, it is said, attended all his fortunes, 
 and was on board the Belleisle when he was killed. 
 
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