The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-07-23
Lord Edward fitzgerald.

TIE following particulars Of this mans ar.
relation, are from a Dublin paper of May a. .
Information having been received tia,
Lord Edwcrd Fitzgerald was concealed N
the houfe of M. Murphy a feather merchant.
Mr.. Iultce Swan, Major SIR, and Captain
Ryan went there on Saturday evening lat, with
a party Of folders ID two carriages.
{" Whit Major SIR and Capt. Ryan wer.
placing the guard to prevent an efcaPe, Nh
Swan got into a fmau outer Office, and from
thence into the lower part OF the houfe, and
went up Cars, where meeting woman, 4.
pufhed her down, and cot into a room on n.
irR floor, where he found a decanter with II.
remains Of fome wine, and fome glaTes on N.
table, with chairs round it meeting no peri5n
there, he ruihed into back room, two Rories
high, where he found Murphy, the nwner ~
the houle, Handing in the room. Lord Ed
ward lying in the bed, with he coat of, and
his brcelhes and Gockings on. Mr.. Swan in.
formed his Lordlhip, lie had a warrant agalnA
him toy high trealon, was forty for his Gtu3ton,
but he lhould receive from him every polit.
treatment flitable to his rank. His lo-dhip
Immediately role up IN Tie bed, darted At him,
and he, Mr. Swan, feeling iOmething, as If 4
ritrl was mapped at him, i4w lord Edward
in7tch a dagger from under the clothes, With
which he made ieveral tabs at him, which pai.
FED tn ough his Go hes without wcunIing bin.
" dis iordlhiP then c,ulel rPon Nh. Swan,
lhortCnei the dagger, and gave II m a Dab IA
the Gde, under the ltf: br-tG, having FRI
changed il from ore hand 10 The ether over his
ihouldor (as NJ. Swan thinks y Tho fcverely
wcu ded, lie was unwil ing ID Ike his iOrdhip's
life, ard defrad him frequently to fIrrender.
and endeavo:e1 ID v.ef the dagger from him,
and II he f.uflc his iordfsip made many VIC.
lent attempts tJ rerea' his blow finding the
blood run ing from him, lie was comp lied, IN
defence Of his own lie, to -d al irge a dcutlt
barreled pitiol Al his lordihip, and wounded
him in the lhoul .er be fell On the bel, bat
recovering hiu1ef ran at him with tie dagger,
which NJ. Swan caught BY the blade with one
htnj, and endeavored to trip him up: Captain
Ryan, diFeSed by the report # The pitol, ran
up into tie DOM, and found Mr.. Swan bleed
ing and entangled with lord Edward Mr..
Swan iail to Ryan, che has murdered me-"
on which Ryan threw himfelf upon lord Ed.
waI . and Swan, and was then tabled by bis
lordhP. On Capt. Ryan's approach, lvrd
Edward made Hrong effort, and forced tn.
dagger from Mr.. Swan, and rulhing on Ryan,
gave him defperate wound in The belly and
ether places.
MAJOR SIR then came up, and feei0g lord
Edward cntangled with Mr.. Swan, made az
lord Edward. The folders then came up, and
would have in0antly Put his loldhip 70 oath,
if they had not been reGrlned. here lord Ed.
ward was fur ounded and dil4rmeJ, and bro',
pri.oner to The earle. Opt. Ryan was 70 bad.
ly wounded, he was OBLIGED to remain in the
houfe fer fome time, from whence he was re-
m we'd T. the houie cf Mr.. Laurence Tign, Of
Thomas Gree, where Ne remains DANCE ouly
i'll. Mr.. Swan, AFTER tePoGting his pri.o er IN
The cattle, was carried M his h1ufe, having re-
fuf.d have his wounds dreded until the fur.
geons Ia fri attended Lord Edward"