befiegers could not long continue to inveft them; advifing them, at the fame time, "to be good husbands of their provifions." From this advice they drew a melancholy prefage of all their future fufferings. Every day the garrifon was leffened by disease, and the wretched furvivors more and more enfeebled by fatigue and hunger. Baker, one of their governors, died; they chose an officer of the name of Mitcheburne to fucceed him. When numbers of them were fcarcely able to fupport their arms, they threatened death to any who fhould mention a furrender. General Hamilton endeavoured to move them by perfuafion; they reproached him with his own treachery. Rofen, who was fent to command the fiege and conducted it with vigour and addrefs, thundered out dreadful menaces against them; and thus by convincing them that no mercy was to be expected, confirmed their refolution. Outrageous at this obftinacy, he declared, that if the town were not furrendered by the first day of July, all of their faction through the whole country to Ballyshannon, Charlemont, Belfast, Innifowen, protected and unprotected alike, fhould be given up to plunder, and driven under their walls, there to perish, unless relieved by a furrender of the town. The appointed day arrived, but the garrifon continued their defence. On the next morning a confufed multitude was feen hurrying towards the walls. At a diftance they were mistaken for enemies; the garrison fired on them, but happily without any damage to the thousands of miferable proteftants, of all ages and conditions, infirm, old, young, women, infants, and goaded on by foldiers whofe ears were tortured with their fhrieks, and who executed their hideous orders with tears. The afflicted spectacle tranfported the garrifon to fury. Numbers of the wretched lufferers thus driven to perifh beneath their walls, conjured them with bended knees and lifted hands, by no means to confider their diftrefs, but to defend their lives bravely against an enemy who fought to involve them all all in one common flaughter! A gallows was no erected in view of the befiegers; they were affured that all the prifoners taken by the garrifon fhould be in ftantly executed, unless their friends were allowed to depart. Confeffors were even admitted to prepare them for death; but Rofen was ftill unmoved. Happily the intelligence of his barbarous intentions flew to Dublin The proteftant bishop of Meath remonftrated to James he answered, that he had already ordered thefe captive to be released, observing, that such feverities were ufua in foreign fervice, however fhocking to his fubjects Those who furvived a confinement of almost three days without fuftenance or fhelter, were thus permitted to return to their habitations, where the ravages of the foldiery had left them no means of comfort. Some of their ablest men were ftolen into the town, and five hundred ufeless people crowded among them, and paffed undif covered, notwithstanding the vigilance of the enemy. The garrifon, with a confirmed horror of the befiegers, continued their obftinate defence, and even made defperate and fuccefsful fallies when they were too much weakened by hunger to purfue their advantage. The flesh of horfes, dogs, and vermin, hides, tallow, and other naufeous fubftances, were purchased at extravagant prices, and eagerly devoured. Even fuch miferable refources began to fail, and no means of fuftenance could be found for more than two days. Still the languid and ghaftly crowds liftened to the exhortations of Walker; ftill he affured them from the pulpit that the Almighty would grant them a deliverance. While their minds were yet warm with his harangue, delivered with all the eagerness of a man infpired, they discovered three fhips in the lake making way to the town, Kirk, who had abandoned them from the thirteenth day of June to the thirtieth of July, at length thought fit, in their extreme diftrefs, to make an hazardous attempt to relieve them; an attempt which he might have made with with lefs danger at the moment of his arrival, and which poffibly might still have been deferred, had he not received fome intimations of a treaty for furrendering. Two fhips laden with provifions, and conveyed by the Dartmouth frigate, advanced in view both of the garrifon and the befiegers. On this interefting object they fixed their eyes in all the earnestnefs of fufpence and expectation. The enemy, from their batteries, from their musketry, thundered furiously on the fhips, which returned their fire with fpirit. The foremost of the victuallers ftruck rapidly against the boom, and broke it, but rebounding with violence, ran a-ground. The enemy burst instantly into fhouts of joy, and prepared to board her; on the crowded walls the garrifon stood ftupified by defpair. The veffel fired her guns, was extricated by the fhock, and floated. She paffed the boom, and was followed by her companions. The town was relieved, and the enemy retired. Of feven thousand five hundred men regimented in Derry, four thousand three hundred only remained to be witneffes of their deliverance; and of these more than one thousand were incapable of service. The wretched Spectres had fcarcely tafted food, when they had the hardinefs to march in queft of the enemy; and fome few men were loft by adventuring too boldly on their rear-guard. The enemy retired in vexation to Strabane, having loft eight thousand men by the fword and by various diforders, in a fiege of one hundred and five days. The gallant WALKER was, unfortunately, killed the next year at the Battle of the Boyue, fighting for WILLIAM, who came to preferve the religion and liberties of his country, FRACTURES FRACTURES OF THE LIMBS, AND INJURIES OF THE HEAD, FROM EXTERNAL VIOLENCE. [From Medical Admonitions, addressed to Families.} PRESUMING that the injurious interference of domeftic practitioners in thofe cafes which belong to this fection, is not to be expected, I fhall here confine my admonitions to thofe points which are neceffary to be attended to by the patient and his friends, during the first moments of the accident. If, in confequence of a fall from fome, high place, or by any other accident, a confiderable degree of injury appears to have been received; the fufferer being unable, in confequence of the deprivation of his fenfes, to point out the injured part; fome confideration and attention is neceffary, before any attempts are made, even to raise him from the ground. Should a fracture of one of the bones, either of the upper or lower extremity, have happened, and not be fufpected by his affiftants, the exertions to raise him, and to place him on his feet, might force the fractured ends of the bone through the foft parts, and convert a mere fimple fracture into a very dangerous compound one. The limbs, therefore, with a view to this circumftance, fhould be carefully examined; but even if they feem to have fuftained no material injury, yet fhould the patient not be precipitately raifed, until fomething be provided, on which he may be placed as thereby unneceffary, and perhaps injurious exertions are avoided. As it will be fair to conclude, from the deprivation of the fenfes, that the brain may have fuftained fome injury, great care should be taken, that whilft he is conveying to his apartment, and and whilft laving in the bed the head be kop moderately raised, and that on no fuggeftion whatever, any spirituous drinks be given to him. The neceflity of the latter caution, from the difficulty it may occasion in forming an opinion of the nature of the injury, will be made evident by the fo following cafe. A lad of twelve years of age fell from a hay-loft about twelve feet from the ground, and was brought to his parents about an hour after the accident, almoft infenfible: it was with difficulty he was roused to anfwer a queftion, and then immediat ly relapfed into a fenfelefs ftate; after having laid in this ftate about ten or twelve hours, the furgeon firft faw him: he then complained of extreme pain in his head, and sickness at his ftomach, relapfing between whiles into a state approaching to infenfibility. Here appeared to be prefent feveral of the most characteristic fymptoms of ferious injury to the head; the furgeon, therefore, had begun to apprife his parents of his apparent danger, when the boy threw a little matter off his ftomach, which fmelt ftrongly of fpirits. He was immediately well drenched with warm water, until what he rejected no longer fmelt of fpirits. He then fell asleep, and awoke perfectly well in a few hours, the brain having fuftained an injury, not from the fall, but from a bumper of brandy, which had been given to him by one of the by-standers, as a cordial, when he was firft taken up. But fhould it be difcovered that a leg or thigh is broken, the aid and directions of a furgeon fhould, if poffible, be obtained, for his removal; but if this cannot be the cafe, the following rules should be observed: 1. That he be not stirred until a proper vehicle is procured, on which he can be placed. 2. This, if nothing more proper can be had, may be a door, a shutter, or two or three planks, well fecured together. VOL. VII. N 3. To |