MANDERVILLE; OR, The Hibernian Chiliarch: A TALE. BY FRANCIS S. HIGGINSON, R.N. LATE COMMANDER OF HIS MAJESTY'S CUTTER LYNX. "Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood and field; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' th' imminent deadly breach; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And with it all my travel's history." IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. SHAKSPEARE. LONDON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THOMAS DOLBY, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND. MANDERVILLE; OR, THE HIBERNIAN CHILIARCH. CHAPTER I. "They close amain, each singles out a foe; F. H. THE Insurgents, under the command of Sir Henry Mortimer, proceeded rapidly for some hours through an open country; but, their approaching a more difficult and enclosed pass, a party in advance reported, that the wooded heights in front were occupied by a military force. This intelligence, at once so unwelcome and unex pected, gave rise to an immediate order to halt; whilst Sir Henry, attended by Major Allensdale and some other officers, rode forward for the purpose of reconnoitring. A very brief survey satisfied them that a large body of the King's troops were in their immediate neighbourhood; and the accompanying officers were all, except Major Allensdale, directed to return, in order to arrange their forces properly to act either offensively or otherwise, as occasion might require. No sooner had they departed, than Mortimer, turning to the Major, said, "By Heavens, Allensdale, I fear we are betrayed; a force like that before us could never have been accidentally collected in this quarter !" "I fear, indeed," answered the Major, "that they have by some means acquired a knowledge of our intentions; but from whence, I am utterly at a loss to conceive." "Major," continued Sir Henry, "we have but one course to pursue; they do not appear greatly to exceed us in numbers, and were they not |