Jenks' Portland gazette. and Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1803, 1803-10-10

ttidtl csIi d9l u3c~s Ois ijuDt4A attSAtAoli dlA
curicfty in the united country.
The humble and obfcure hiitory ofthe
early life Of this delperado prefents moth
ing worthy cf notice. Born in the vids
Of wicklow, his.fira ftuation in life was
that Of COW boy, and afterwards was
employed as a laborer IN tanners yards,
until the breaking out Of iaid rebellion,
at which time, being about tx or feyen-
and twenty years of age, he ranged him
felf, with enthuGalm, under the banners Of
inIurreetion and though always foremoR
in danger, lad the good fortune to retire
unhnt through all the battles Of that de-
plorable CONTEXT. When the rebellion was
put down, and mott Of the leaders, wife
their partizans, haaened to avail them
feves Of the ACT Of Amnefty, Dwyer
rejected the merciful offers Of the Govern
ment, and withdrew, accompanied by
cholen band, into the faitneass Of lis IA
tive mountains, where he has iince kept
his ground, bidding defiance to all the
parties fent out from time to time ag@inG
him. There is nothing more cxtraor-
binary In what relates to this man, shan
his furpriting means OF obtaining sscree
information.
On certain night. three men who had
before, we believe, been privates in ths
Meath Militia, and one Of whom was the
firA that administered 70 bis then chief,
the oath Of an United Irilhman, fuddenly
deferted from his gang. Dwycf initantly
concluded that they had been tempted by
the rewardto betray him, Of which he
not only foon after received a confrma-
ton from his emifaries, bat ALTO intelIi-
gence Of the night on which they were t.
let our for the purpofe Of iecuring hina.
Beings as they thought, well acquainted
with all his haunts, they uadc'little douOt
of their yftccefs, bat were way-laid By
Dwyer, who put them TO death with his
own hand, not fuhering his comparisons
to interfere III what be conGdered, Or at
leall Represented to be his jua and pertoII-
al revenge. After this, however, he be-
came more wary and iuf picious of fom5
of his anociates, and therefore inviting
thole on whom he could leaf rely, to 4
dinner in a diltant quarter, lie after the
feaG was over, told them, that as there
was no longer any chance Of French aililt-
ance, and hSpeople IN general feemed
difpoled to lubmiilion, he found in vain
to hold any out longer he mutt, of courfe,
difmifs them, and advilethem to difperie,
and return to their families, but never a..
gain TO appear in the vicinity of thofe
mountains. The whilI.y and punch was ;
then circulated until bis companions be-
came inlcnhbly drunk. and when they a. Z
woke from their debauch, could find no
traces Of their former leader who ioon re-
cruited hislofs by the acceaiom Of others,
on Whole fidelity he could have more de-
Pendence.
Ii muG be matter Of altonihment,
that an active, powerful and vigilaut Gov
eminent could never fucceed in extermi-.
mating this banditti from thelc mountains,
however diiHcuit or inaccelllble, they
may at firf fight appear. The Rebel, who
is intimately acquainted with the topogra-
ply of the place, has hisregu'ar videts and
fcouts upon the qzi oivs, in all theH mott
advantageous Points--vho, on theaPpeaf-S
anceof alarm, or the approached ftrangsis
blow their whites, which .elound thro'
theinnumerable caverns, and are fgnals
for a general muiter to thole hardy def
peradoes. They are generally fuperin-
tended By the chief himfef, or BY his
brother in law. Of the name Of Pyrne, a
determined fellow, ii whom alone he Pla- :
5ces an unlimited confidence. They are. s
both great adopts = diiguifng their-facesN