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left flank; while the oilier reformed in
fantry Brigades, de Noimandie and des
Yaisseaux, headed by the six fresh regi
ments of the I ri.-h Brigade, uuder the
Lord Clare and Earl of Thomond, ad
vanced against the right flank. In the
language of the national ballad:
( llow fierce the look those exiles wear,
who’re wont to bo so gay,
The treasur’d wrongs of fifty 3 ears are in
their hearts to day!
The treaty broken, ere the ink wherewith
’twas writ could dry,
•/ •
Their plunder’d homes, ! their ruin’d
shriues, their women’s parting cry,
Their priesthood hunted down like wolves
their county overthrown—
Each looks, as if revenge for all were
stak’d on him alone.
On Fontenoy, on Fouteuoy, nor ever yet
elsewhere,
flush’d on to fight a nobler band, than
these proud exiles were!'.’
Davis,
“coon,” adds an English letter from
France, “as the English troops beheld
the scarlet uniform, and the well known
lair complexions of the the Irish—soon
! as they saw the Brigade advancing
against them with fixed bayonets and
crying cut to one another in English
“Steady, hoys—forward—charge’’—too
late they began to curse their own laws,
which forced so brave a people from the
bosom of their native country’ to seek
their fortunes, like wandering Jews, all
over the world, and now brought them
forward in the field of battle to wrest from
them both victory and life!”
That portion of the British immedi
ately opposed to the Irish were, though
the worse for their morning’s work, a
choice body’ of men, containing among
other corps, the Ist Battalion of the 2nd
(or Coldstream) Regiment of Foot Guards,
with two pieces of cannon in front; and
they’ had the advantage of beffig on a
rising ground, the ascent to which they
were to sweep with their musketry;
while the Brigade had to ascend and
charge the occupants of the eminence
without pulling a trigger. As the Irish
approached the British, an officer of the
Brigade, Anthony MacDonough, younger
brother of Nicholas MacDonough, Esq.,
of Birchfield, in the County of Clare (an
offshoot from the old sept of the Mac*
Donoughs of Sligo), being in advance of
his men, was singled out and attacked by
a British officer. But the spirit of the
gallant Britain was above his strength.
MacDonough, as the fresher man, soon
disabled his adversary in the sword-arm,
and making him prisoner, sent him to the
rear; fortunately for him, as he was so
fatigued, that, in all human probability,
he must have fallen in the charge or re
treat ; and it is pleasing to add, that
these gentlemen afterwards became very
great friends. This reucontre, in the
presence of both forces, caused a momen
tary pause, followed by a tremendous
shout from the Biigade at the success of
their owu officer, the effect of which could
only be felt by a spectator; and. at such
a critical juncture, that startling shout,
and the event of ill omen to the British
with which it was connected, were re
marked to have a proportionable influence
upon them. The Biigade being now
sufficiently near, the British prepared to
give them that formidable tempest of
bullets, which was reserved for the last
moment, in order to be discharged with
the more deadly effect. “Whether,” ob
serves our illustrious military historian,
Napier, “from the peculiar construction
of the muskets, the physical strength and
coolness of the men, or ail combined, the
English fiie is the most destructive
known.” And by that fire the Irish
suffered accordingly. Their brave com
mat der, the Lord Glare and Earl of
Thomond strucK by two bullets, most
probably owed his life only to thecuriass
which he wore, according to the royal
airny regulation of the previous year;
the Colonel and Chevalier de Dillon (3rd
son of the lute Lieutenant General Count
Arthur Dillon, and brother ot the two
last Lords Viscount Dillon in Ire laud)
was slain at the head of the family regi
ment; and a large number of officers and
soldiers were likewise killed cr wounded.
But this did not arrest the impetuous de
termination with which their more for
tunate comrades pushed forward, to the
cry, in the old Celtic or Gaelic tongue,
of “Remember Limerick, and Saxon per
fidy !” and “a I’arme blanche,” or “with
the cold steel,” to do business more ef
fectually, in Vendome’s language, as
“bouebers de l’armee,” or “butchers of
the army.” Like their stout countrymen
in the song, represented in opposition to |
an English foot-pad with fire arms, as
relying only on coming to close quarters
with his honest stick, and as finally’ ex
claiming of the discomfited knight ot the
trigger,
“His pistol it flashed
But his head 1 smashed,
<Jh ! chillelah. you never missed fire!”
without any volley in reply 7 to the blaze
of shot from the column, the Brigade ran
in with fixed bayonets, thrusting them
into their laces I And, all hough the
Ca rabineers, in the confusion of the melee,
and from the similarity of uniform be
tween the Biigade and the British, un
luckily’ charged, and even killed, some
of the Irish ere the error could be arrest
ed by the cry of “Viva la France !” or
“France for ever!” this temporary mis
take “among friend J’ was soon rectified,
and avenged in the proper quarter.
While the Carabineers turned their steeds
and sabres with dne effect elsewhere, or
from their brother Celts and fellow sol
diers against the common Teutonic foe,
down went, or away along the fair slope
of the hill went, the immediate opponents
of the Irish, before their crimsoned or
flashing bayonets. Os the twenty can
non belonging to the late formidable al
lied column, fifteen pieces, with two colors,
were among the recorded trophies of the
Brigade ; the Ist Battalion of the 2nd or
Coldstream Regiment of British Foot
Guards being specially noticed, as losing
a pair of colors and two horsed guns to
the Irish Infantry Regiment of the exiled
English Jacobite and brother-in-law of
the late Marshal Duke of Berwick,
Lieut. General Count Francis Bukeley.
In a word, the enemy’, pressed, on one
side, by the irresistible vigor of “la furia
Francese,” and, on the other, where “the
wrath of the Gael in its reel vengeance
found him,” was, with great loss, so rapid
ly broken, and driven from the field, that
his forces disappeared, as it were, by
magic!
“On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, like eagles
in the sun,
With bloody plumes the Irish stand—
the field is fought and won !”
Davis.
“It seemed,” to use the words of Louis
XV.’s contemporary biographer, “as if
it had bein fighting against those en
chanted legions which were visible and
invisible at pleasure; it was,” says he,
“an affair of seven or eight minutes”—
or, as the French Minister, who was
present, affirms of the time in w’hich vic
tory was achieved by this final attack,
“in ten minutes the battle was won !”
Then, we are informed, “the French,
astonished to meet with Frenchmen
everywhere, at length took breath ; they
felt the joy of a victory, so long dis
puted.” Os the Irish, one of their poets,
in a ballad, “The Brigade at Fontenoy,
May 11 tb, 1745,” having noted, how
“There were stains to wash away,
There were memories to destroy,
In the best blood of the Briton,
That day at Fontenoy.”
adds—
“As priz’d as is the blessing
From an aged father’s lip—
As welcome as the haven
To the tempest-driven ship —
As dear to the lover
The smile of gentle maid—
Is this day of long-sought vengeance
To the sword of the Brigade.
“See their shatter’d forces flying,
A brokon, routed line !
See England, what brave laurels,
For your brow to day %sc twine I
Oh! thrice bless’d the hour that witness’d
The Briton turn’d to flee,
From the chivalry of Erin
And France’s Jieur delis /’
“As we lay beside our camp fires,
When the sun had passed away 7
And thought upon our brethren,
That had perished in the fray—
We pray’d to God to grant us,
And then we’d die with joy,
One day on our own dear land,
Like this of Fontem y !”
Dowling.
Such was the conduct of the Irish at
Fontenoy, where, including, of course,
that of the able and gallant Lally, it is
evident, as at Cremona, forty-three years
before, what they did to gain the day was
of such cousequence, that, but for them,
it would have been lost.
i\ote to Kiajr
Wilßiam.
The following is tlie fall text of the note
which is said to have been sent to King
William by Napoleon, immediately after
the reception by tbe latter of Bismarck’s
account of his conference with Jules Favre.
It is but pioper to say that the leading
European journals discredit the authen
ticity of the “note.” W-e give it to onr
readers, therefore, for only what it is
worth;
WiLUELManons, Sept. 26, 1870.
In sending me news every day of the
events which have happened since the
hour when Providence compelled me to
surrender my sword, the King has to a*k
the opinion of his prisoner on the trials
which the Prussian armies impose upon
France in what he believes to be the in-
MBBB3BL ©? Tl.
terest of Germany. The Count’s (Bis
marck’s) communications confirm me in
this opinion.
But is the time indeed come for me to
respond to this twofold expectation by the j
expression of my thoughts ? Until the
4th of Siptember the reserve, to which I
have adhered since Sedan, was due to my
firm resolution to leave the Empress at
full liberty to act in accordance with the
purpose of the country. Since the 4th of
September I could nofr but wish that
France, even at the sacrifice of my dynas
ty, should succeed in driving the invader
beyond' her natural frontier. I There is
probably an omission here. “They,” in
(he next sentence, refers to the Provision
al Government.—Ed]
In approaching the Count as they did,
in a way the result which was easy to for
see, they misrepresented the real charac~
ter of the war; thinking thus to be rid of
responsibility for a general impulse to the
v fheoce of which my Government bad
felt bound to submit The result w 7 as to
destroy the effect of the motives which
they have to refuse the conditions offered ;
it was, above all, to paralyze the national
defense at the very moment when it was
about to assume proportions w rthy of
Fran oe.
The Count appears to be unaware that
the armistice refused was necessary to the
reconstruction of a regular government,
and he is astonished that no one of the
Powers legally existing should have given
its opinion nporf what he consid'rs “a
proof of the King’s moderation.” No
one could blame a Frenchman for having
repaired an imprudent step by refusing to
accept proposals litt e in acoordar.ee with
our glorious past. A duel like this which
is beiug fought between France and Ger
many can only be brought to an end by
he complete ruin of cue or two adver
saries, or by their close and honorable re
conciliation.
First of all, then, the Count ought Ct>
asfc himself whether Germany has more
interest in the ruin than in the alliance of
France. If admitting the former hy
pothesis, Germany does not believe that
France is able to find safety in despair
even though Europe should consent to re
main an ind fferent spectator of an inva
sion that has no fixed limit.
My interview with the King authorizes
me to think that he much prefers aa affi
ance with France to her ruin; that he id
not without anxiety as to the results ot a
struggle carried to extremities, and that
he estimates at their true worth the rights
which a perfect knowledge of the senti
ments manifested during the war by the
different nations of Europe would give to
the two countries once closely united. If
such were in reality the King’s opinion, it
would only remain to poi ; t out the means
of giving it effect. But does it indeed be
long to the conquered so to defile the obli
gations of the conqueror that his generosi
ty may not seem more burdensome than
his demand-?
I can only remind the Gaunt that a mag
nanimous policy never appeals in vain to
the heart of the French people, while
nothing is ever obtained by an effort to
touch the cords of egotism or of fear,
which will remain unexcited whatever re
verses Providence may infl et upon us.
France, if a generous line of conduct
should incline her toward a c’ose and
honorable alliance with Germany, would
be the first to agree that there was no
longer a reason for t he existence of a line of
defense commanded by fortresses between
she two empires. As for the sacrifices
France would have to culure beside, she
would not agree to make them were she
not permitted to understand the immense
advantages which would accrue to the two
nations from a peace of which their own
will would henceforth be sole arbiter.
In this view, the Powers, obliged to hold
themselves completely aloof as long as
France should preserve a hope of success,
would have a serious reason for interven
ing.
The Track and clear statement of the
truth which I always made, established
between France and myself a current of
sympathy which nothing will ever be able
to destroy. Were Ito affirm that cur
honor has no stain to fear from a recon
ciliation based on the disarmament of
fortresses then become useless, and ou tbe
nrinciple of a war indemnity to he settled
by experts, I beli we peace would be pos
sible. These conditions may prevent
France from having recourse to extremities
which a caprice or chance might reader
fatal to the social order of Europe.
Taught by experience, a sound appre
ciation of the divisions by which she is
torn, and delivered f.om the scourge of
v»ar, France would be swift to see and ad
mit thkt her misfortunes are due to her
want of political unity ; and that she must
henceforth seek her prosperity in a strict
regard to the inviolability of her institu
tions
These considerations will daily haze less
weight; especially if the King hesitates to
! take them into account before attacking
Paris. Tac terrible shock which Provi
dence has permitted between Germany and
France may out a spark which
progress will finuuseful to the moral and
material safety of Europe. But if on both
sides they persist in looking to force as the
only solution, there will surely spring out
of this shook a formidable unknown (ua
inconnu redoubtable) as much to the mis
fortune of Germany as there has been of
misfortune to France. Napoleon.
FROM YV ASHI a G TON.
Washington, October 11. —The Post
master General, in answering an inquiry
from New York whether mails would be.
| sent by the Cambria , says it is unsafe at
present to dispatch mails by the North
German steamers.
The President recognizes as the Portu
guese Vice Consuls, Henry Hall Wood
bridge, at Savannah, and Clemens Glacius,
at Charleston.
Weather wet. Ncfthing from the elec
tions.
Washington, October 11.— The St.
Louis bale of cotton, which took the
sweepstakes premium of one thousand
dollars and which was presented by the
owner, Wm. B. MoShane to the Southern
Orphans’ Educational Society, was sold to
dav at 32 cents.
Washington, October 11.—A full Cabi
net meeting to day.
Washington, October IL—The Presi
dent has pardoned Ludwig P. Alvortl, the
last of the Jefferson, Texas, rioters.
In tlie Twenty-third Pennsylvania dis
trict, McJunctin was elected.
Correspondence of the Journal ofl Com
merce.
Ike Execution of Senor Ayesteran—His
Last Hours,
Havana, September 30, 1870. _
1 have only a few words to say of the
Senor Don Luis Ayesteran, the Cuban
hero.
At the first note of war he left the gay
est circle of this city, gave up his home,
wealth, position, and the most devoted
friendships, to discharge his duty as his
mind and hr art dictated. He was among
the very first in the field with his muske;,
and in the racks fought in many battles
until his indomitable bravery ami intelli
gence won for him the high appreciation
of his companions, and the entire confi
dence of his supeiiors. He was selected
as captain over a party of the most deter
mined patriots, where he displayed his
power of combi »aiion and tact with the
little material at his command, keeping a
powerful enemy ia abeyance with the idea
that they were in the presence ot a lamer
force. His command was never seen until
felt, and that so often that his attacks
were reported as of various detachments
from the same column, concealed in the
passes or mounta ns. The consequence of
his ability so constantly displayed, ami the
pressing necessity for more supplies of arms
and munitions, induced him to accept the
call to a more important as well as a more
dangerous position by the authorities of
the revolution. In the discharge of these
duties, relying entirely upon his own
energy and management, and ot neces
sity subject to no superior, he made four
successful expeditions to and from Cuba,
not losing a man or any portion of the
four cargoes. On the fifth trip he took
a hurried run to New Tork to visit his
widowed mother aud only sis'er, as if to
say good-bvc aud to receive the home
blessing ! From exposure, fatigue and
hunger he wa3 overcome and captured on
his fifth return. He was a prisoner six
days, but his name concealed, so that his
friends, including all who kuew him, of
either party, had no chance to make an
effort to save him, which Spanish chivalry
would have aided in, in compliment to his
distinguished bravery and uoselfish sol
dier ship, had there been any opportunity
for a hearing. Ho arrrived on Friday,
23 and, at o’clock, was tried the same
evening, and sentenced to die the next
morning at 7 o’clock- la the course of his
! examination lie was asked questions
which compelled him to reply, “of my
self I have nothing to ejneeal ; of others
I have nothing to say; I am alone.”
Ayesteran told his guard that he wished
to leave something to his mother. Ttie
reply was, “No, you have nothing to
l'3-iv3 ; all things belong to the govern
ment, (tbe nation, I suppose). But,
“my watch and chain —may I njt give
that to my “No, it is the gov -
meat’s.” His guards gave him pen, ink
and paper, and he was allowed to write a
letter to his mother, which was sent to
the Governor of the city, and it may
possibly be delivered. After this last
duty performed Jhe lay down on his cot, and
in a moment was asleep with the calm
ness of a child, and composure of the
Christian. From his si urn b r.s he was
aroused by the information that, the hour
had arrived ! Not a murmur fell from the
hero’s lips; he made a soldier’s toilet;
brief as it going upon a pleasant journey
hotrw. He ascended the platform with
manly dignity ; not a dry rye amoig his
guards ; no sounds, save from Spanish
lips, “save him.” Xo was too late. He
calmly turned ids face toward his happy
no me of twenty-three years, almost under
Lis eyes, in the cerro, and the scene was
over. Not the quiver of a fibre in his
whole frame. A cloud rest3 over all good
hearts in Havana, without any political
exception. He will be allowed the rights
OL burial, I suppose. .
FROM LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, October 11.—Captain
Robert L. Bradley, a Custom House em
ployee, died last night from a stab re
ceived on Saturday night. His murderer
is unknown.
Joliebois and Garson, workmen, fell
from St. John’s Church, a distance of 60
feet. The former vvas instantly killed, the
latter seriously hurt.
Catarina FriedLioff expired iu a dental
chai • f rom the effects of chloroform.
Andrew Ryan and Jenny Sweeny sui
cided by jumping into the Mississippi and
drowning.
Deaths Loin yellow fever yesterday,
four.
due Democrats o: the recoad Congres
sional District have nominated George A.
Fos lyek for the long, ’an IW. R. Great
house for the short term.
WAR DISPATCHES.
Berlin, October 11. —The following is
official: The Government of Prussia,
though uuable to recognize the present
Government of France, will not restore
Bonaparte’s.
London, October 11. — The Chinese Gov
ernment declines a guarantee against fur
ther outrages. All Catholic buildings in
Pekin were destroyed. *
A note from the Prussian Government
informs the powers in Paris, who threatens
to hold out until starved, that in that event
hundreds of thousands must die, as Prus
sia will be unable to feed Paris a single
day after the capitulation, as there is noth
ing edible within two days’ march of
Paris. Nevertheless, Prussia must prose
cute the war, and those holding power in
France w’ill be answerable for the results.
Tours, October 10, midnight.— The
Minister of War has the following from
the commander of the 15th corps, dated
Orleans, this evening : The Prussians at
tacked our forces at Arienav, and after a
sharp fight the Prussians occupied the
position. Gen. Regan, with five regi
ments, four battalions and srtiiie y reic
forced ti\e French, and after fighting until
3 o’clock we were competed to iall back
iato the forrest, which we still hold, and
will hold at ar.y price. The enemy are
greatly superior in numbers.
London, October 11. —Metz advices to
Sunday report the weather very untavora’
bio.
The firing from the works is steadily
maintained. There is much sickness iu
the town.
The Prussians took two thousand pris
oners in the last encounter.
Many of the Prussian wounded have
been removed to Berlin.
It is stated that Bismarek replied to
Lord Lyon* that while he would be glad
to make peace, no truce proposition could
be entertained for a moment.
Tours, October 10.— There has been
nothing received from Paris for two or
three days.
It is reported that Garibaldi will take
his volunteers into Vosges.
It is understood that fighting will be
resumed to day near Orleans.
At the scene of the battle at Artenay yes
terday, only three hours by rail from Tours,
the people became indignant that the 15th
ctrps was not reinforced from the pests
here.
Gen. Bourbaki has been summoned to
Tours to answer the charge of leaving his
post to visit England.
Count de Palikao offers his services to
France.
London, October 11. Margrret
Waters, the notorious baby fancier, was
hung to-day. She died protesting her in
nocence.
Five French iron-clads passed Dover
bound eastward.
Garrabaldi advises the people Nice
and Savoy to discontinue agitation at
present. It oidy embarrasses the French
struggle agaiost Prussia.
Tours, October 11. — Another body of
Prussian prisoners has arrived.
Gambetta’sbalbou brought thirty-nine
thousand letters.
The Prussians shoot all Franc-'ireurs.
This is one reason tireurs carrry
the black flag.
The papers anncuoce the death of Fred
rick Charles.
It requires a large force to protect pris
oners from the indignation of the people.
Madrid, October 11. —Senor Castillar
in addressing the French delegation affirm
ed the sympathy of the Spanish people
as decidedly with the French Republic.
The K ng of Saxony has institute! a
new order, that of St. Henry, solely to
honor the King of Prussia.
A now decoration was delivered on the
9th to King William, who, in response to
th-3 honor, complimented the Saxon troops
for gallantry.
War material is shipped daily from
Liverpool in large quantities, and sup
posed to be for France.
London, October 11. —At last ac
counts from Sione, of yesterday’s battle at
Artenay, near Orleans, the Prussian
cavalry was iu c’ose pursuit of the French
troops.
London, October 11.—The Liberals, in
convention at Stuttgart yesterday, adopted
resolutions in favor of union of Germany,
with■» common legislation and a united
army, and diplomatic representation in
common.
Russia denies all reports that she is
making unusual military preparations. The
entire press declare that the government
wants peace.
Copenhagen, October 11.--Daring the
debate on the budget to-day, the Ministry
declined to make any redaction in army
estimates until the result of the war be
tween France and Prussia is better known.
FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, October 11.— The difficul'y
between James Barbour, editor of the AV
qxircr, and M jor J-rs. W. Walker, mem
ber of the House of Delegates from Mid
son ounty, growing oat ct‘ an assault
made by the latter on the ‘.former, at 1 1 o
train of the Chesapeake A O do Railroad,
ai Saturday tdternoon, terminated l ist
night, with a preremptory challenge Ire m
Mr. Barbour, which was declined this
morning, on the grounds that the Sta f e
Constitution disfranchised participants in
duels. Col. Jehu S. Moseby bore Mr.
Barbour’s menage.
Norfolk, October 11—There was a
! heavy tcj.: h c rc on the night of the 9th
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