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From: "dorothy done" <>
Subject: The Times, May 28, 1794.
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 19:02:43 -0000


The Times, London, May 28, 1794.

DUBLIN, MAY 21.

Our accounts from Cavan, respecting the late disturbances are of a dreadful nature.

A letter from one of the militia quartered at Cavan, states, that, by the nearest computation, from 100 to 120 of the Defenders were killed, with a loss on the other side of but one killed and three wounded: The Defenders were first attacked by the light company of militia, consisting of an officer, 26 rank and file, a drummer and serjeant. - This party was twice beat from Ballina, h(??) by a continual fire from the windows; the grenadiers, however, attacked the insurgents on the other side, and, having thus hemmed them in, set fire to all the houses save two, killing every man that endeavoured to ascape. Numbers were burned in their habitations. The Defenders are represented to have amounted to between 9 and 1200. Those who have not been killed are effectually beggared by the ravages of the conflagration. Funerals gloom the roads ever since, and many survivors being afraid to own or search after their deceased friends, numbers lie in the burned houses. Ei!
ght prisoners were taken, three of whom are leaders; one of these has turned King's evidence, from whom a disclosure of the principals may be expected.


County Cavan Newspaper Transcription Project.

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