of the Irish, in allowing us only TWELVE PENCE per day, that money would be an article of equal necessity. Yet to these circumstances no attention whatever was paid. From our situation on shipboard, we had no means of keeping any clothes, except what we were using, and a few changes of linen, with some other small articles. When I was hurried off, my whole wardrobe, except what was on my back, consisted of one pair of stockings, and two shirts, only one of which was clean; and of money I was totally destitute, having lent my last guinea to the captain of the ship, the day before. Fortunately, the rumor of Messrs. Tennent, &c. being on their way to the quay, to be put on board ship, and transported, no body knew whither, reached Mrs. Dickson. The idea instantly occurred to her, that, as they had formerly been my fellow-prisoners, I might be called for, and carried with them. On this, she dispatched a messenger to the quay, with eight guineas-all she had in her possession. These to my great comfort, arrived in time to be delivered to me by our naval guardian, captain Steel: but a boat would not be granted to have my washables and other clothes, then in Belfast, sent for, that they might be forwarded by the same conveyance.

Thus scantily equipped and provided, was L with my old messmates, shoved off from the Postlewaite

Postlethwaite, my relatives, and my country, to enter upon a short, but stormy, voyage, and pass into a long exile; or, as my reverend fathers and brethren of the synod of Ulster interpreted the matter; thus did I, in contempt of a law of their body, set out on my "removal to a foreign country, and thereby forfeit all right and claim of my wife and children, on my demise, to the benefits of a fund, for the support of the widows and orphans of presbyterian ministers, to which I had contributed, as a subscriber, for TWENTY EIGHT YEARS.

About half an hour wafted us from the side of the "Postlethwaite" to that of the " Aston Smith," which was accompanied by an armed tender, for our protection. Being ushered on board we were shewn down to the hold, where we found Thomas Addis Emmet, John Sweetman, John Chambers, Roger and Arthur O'Connor, John Swiney, Edward Hudson, Joseph Cormick, William James M'Nevin, Matthew Dowling, Thomas Russel, Hugh Wilson, William Dowdall, George Cuming, Samuel Neilson, and Joseph Cuthbert. On looking round, we perceived, to our great satisfaction, twenty births, tolerably decent and We clean, four of which were reserved for us. learned also, that, in addition to the provisions put on board by order of government, the Dublin prisoners had been allowed to lay in a conside

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rable stock, at their own expence. This was a fortunate circumstance for us northerns, as our detention on board was protracted by the severity of the weather, and we had been allowed neither time, nor opportunity, to lay in a morsel for ourselves.

On the 26th of March, about four o'clock in the morning, we and our armed escort made sail, in a hard gale, which soon encreased to a perfect storm. We got up to the Cumbraes Isles, at the mouth of the river Clyde, in less than nine hours. Happily for us all, we had day-light, and the wind nearly astern, as our vessel was greatly deficient in ballast, and the crews of both entire strangers, not only to the river Clyde, but to the North Channel. In the evening, we came to anchor, a few miles up the river. Next day, we advanced little, as we had either a dead calm, or contrary winds, in squalls from the mountains, and an out-running tide, as usual, for seven hours. On the morning of the 28th we made loose, kept turning up the whole time of flood, against a hard gale, with sudden squalls, and, in the afternoon, came to, about two miles below Greenock, after having narrowly escaped being put ashore. During the whole of the 29th. it. blew a storm; and the wind continued so violent on the 30th. that the ships could not attempt turning up to Greenock. However, as our travelling equipage from Edinburgh,

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Edinburgh, with a colonel Hay and three king's messengers from London, had arrived, and were in waiting, it was determined by them to land us at Goorock, a small town, nearly opposite, and rather to leeward; but as the wind blew so fresh, and the sea ran so high, that this could not be safely attempted in boats, orders were given to run the vessel, as close as possible, into the small creek before the town, for the purpose, as soon as guards should be seen on the shore to receive us. This short delay gave us an opportunity of viewing, from the deck, a train of carriages, which excited some idea of magnifi'cences and a body of horse and foot, which, fifty years ago, would have been called " an army," marching in their rear, and afterwards drawn up on the beach. From what all of us had experienced, or known, of military duties anc discipline, duriing some preceding years, need hardly say that the appearance of such a force excited an idea very different from the former. Be that as it may, they had no sooner become stationary, than a signal was given, on which our ship made loose, and ran into the bay, in doing which she was within half her Jength of bumping on a stony point, and in a heavy surf. However, thank However, thank god, we got safe ashore, though with considerable difficulty, and, as some thought, with no little danger.

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Thus escaped from the dangers of winds and waves, I shall pause for a moment to review the five days, during which we were exposed to them. That these dangers were encreased by the ignorance or neglect of those, to whom the outfit for our voyage was entrusted by government, I have already said. If it proceeded, from neglect, I now say that that neglect, was worse than shameful; as, however lightly their employers might have borne the gain of our loss, they could not be supposed to be pleased with, sending our guards and navigators, merely as a forlorn hope, to perish with us; even though the ships and stores should be thought unworthy of notice. And in justice, I add that this ignorance, or neglect, was the only thing, subject to the control of government, of which we had cause to complain, on the present occasion. Our births, as I have already said, were as comfortable as could be expected, our bed-sacks and blankets being new and clean. With the aid of some private stores, our breakfasts and dinners, though somewhat coarse, were good and plentiful. And, And, during our stay on board, the behaviour of our soldiers and seamen was correct, civil, and obliging. From the same sense of justice, and as an encouragement to other soldiers to imitate their example, I subjoin, that " our guard was a party of the Angusshire Fencibles, under the command