New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-28

portant event in modern history where the artfhcs
OF party writer's IN disgusting or suppressing the
real fact may be observed. This was the famous
battle OF the Boyne. The French party long re-
ported that Count Lauzun had won the battle. and
that William III killed. Busy Rabutn. IN
some memoirs, says: It chroniced this account
according the first reports gave out: when at
length the real facts reached them, the party did
not like to lose their pretended victory" Pers
LOndel. who published register OF the times has
recorded the event in this deceptive manner: The
battle OF the Boyne. in Ireland: Schomberg IS
killed there at the head OF the English" Comment
Ing on this circumstance Disraen says: The
writer resolved to conceal the defeat OF Jauass's
party and cautiously suppresses auv mention -
victory. but very carefully gives a real fact by
which his readers would hardly doubt OF the defeat
OF the English We so accustomed to this
traffic Of false reports that are scarcely aware
that many important events recorded IN history
were In their day strangely disguised BY such
mystifying accounts This We can onIv discover
by reading private letters written at the moment
Bayle has collected several remarkable absurdftfes
OF this kind, which were spread abroad to answer a
temporary purpose. but which had never been
known to US had these contemporary letters not
been published. A report was prevalent IN Holland
IN 1850 that the Kings OF France and Spain and
the Duke OF Alva were dead: a felicity which FOR a
time sustained the exhausted spirits OF the revo-
Iuuonists- At the invasion OF the Spanish Armada
Burleigh spread reports OF the thumbscrews and
had brought with them, and thus fnfaned the
hatred OF the nation
Under the caption. False Reports Are Sometimes
Stratagems OF War" DisraeH says: when the
chiefs OF the league had lost the battle at Ivrv
with army broken and discounted. they still
kept possession OF Paris merely by imposing on the
inhabitants all sorts OF false reports such as the
death Of tho King Of Navarro. at the fortunats
moment when victory. undetermined on which side
20 incline turned for the Ieaguers. and they gave
out false reports OF number OF Victories they had
pamphlets and ballads among a people agitated by
doubts and fears. gladly believed: hattering
their wishes. soothing their alarms. they con-
tribute their ease. and too agreeable allow
Of time for reflection"
The history OF a report creating a panic may be
traced IN the Irish insurrectiOn. IN the curious
memoirs OF James H. A forged proclamation OF
the Prince OF Orange was set forth BY one speke
and rumor spread that the Irish troops were kill
ing and burning IN all parts OF the kingdom. A
panic Ike magic instantly ran through the people
so that quarter OF the town OF Drogheda they
imagined that the other filed with blood and
ruins. History records that during this panic
pregnant women miscarried. aged persons died
with terror. while the truth was that tho Irish
themselves disarmed and dispersed In utter
want OF a meal or a lodging"
In the times Of the civil wars In England under
Charles I the newspapers and the private letters
AFFORD specimens OF this political contrivanos OF
false ssposts Of every sDsOiss No s3tE2SAsAnSs az