It was terrible to see the ruined villages on the road from Dublin.

I have seen fighting on the Continent, but nothing to equal the wholesale brutality with which the war is conducted here.

How God can continue to give success, to an army which behaves as this one has done, is altogether beyond me.

Of one thing I am resolved, whether we take Limerick or not--and I own I see but small chance of it--I shall exchange, if possible, into a regiment serving in Flanders.
If not, I shall resign my commission.
"And now, how is your father?
I rode out from Dublin to see your mother, and was very glad to find her, and old Mrs.Davenant, well.

I was glad, too, to find that, owing to the influence of Mr.Conyers, they had not been troubled; and I was fortunately able, myself, to bring some influence to bear upon the council, who seem to be bent upon squeezing the last drop of blood from the Irish veins.
"But the men are falling in, and I must put myself at the head of the regiment.