Some Deeds Of Ninety-eight

Aug. 30, 1798, carne near being tha birthday of Irish liberty. The dashing Gen. Humbert had marched from the northwest eoast of the Green Isle to strike at Dublin. He led 1,000 Frenchmen and a contingent of patriots denominated by the British as "rebels." At Castlebar the column was met by 6,000 regulars under Gen. Lake. Being confldent of a sweeping victory Lake refused to make a plan of battle, but proposed to finish the invasión and the rebellion at one blow with a body of horse known as the "Fox Hunters." In fact, Humbert himself gave up the flght at the outset, but decided to go in just for honor's sake. Moreover, he would begin at once. The attack was headed by the Irish insurgents, who dashed among the British cannon pellmell and in a twinkling were mowed down in swaths. Then up marched Humbert's French grenadiers, treading, with fixed bayonets, the bloody road and losing all .semblance of a line of battle at the fïrst volley. With the fragment of bare y 500 men Humbert charged forward and so astonished the British that the infantry broke, the artillerists fled and the invincible British horse stampeded, maiming more of their own people in the mad ride than had been touched by . the enemy's bullets and steel. Lake and his soldiers to'a man fled for their lives, and Humbert pushed on to within a day's march of the goal without meeting an enemy.