ments lest they repent it all their lives after, when it is too late; that they learn and study patience and submission to the good will of God, in all his providences towards them, and dealings with them; and be affectionate and assistant to one another, and to their other relations as their condition may afford, and as by nature, they ought; and be also charitable to the poor according as their abilities may allow them, and grow not proud nor haughty, nor set their hearts immoderately on any thing it may please God to bestow on them, lest he blast both them and it; and I beseech the Lord God my precious heavenly Father, to have them in his merciful care and keeping, and to bless them with his best blessings from above, both for time and for eternity, and keep them from all evil of every kind, and that they may be for ever his own in a particular manner, and that I may at length see and rejoice with them and all the redeemed of the Lord, in these happy mansions above, when we have finished our course and time of trial here below. I do also heartily forgive all that have any way injured or offended me, as indeed, I know but few, if any at all, that have done so, and I desire most earnestly that all may forgive me, if I have injured or given offence to any, which I should be very sorry to do, and I hope they are few if any at all. And I do hereby revoke and disannul all former wills by me at any time heretofore made, and this my last will and testament. In witness whereof, I set my hand and seal, &c., &c.

is

"Octr. 19th, 1721.

"DAVID CAIRNES."

He died according to the registration of his will, in 1722, and was buried in the Cathedral church-yard of Derry.

He married twice, and by one of his wives (Margaret Edwards) he had one son, captain John Cairnes, who died before his father, and two daughters, through whom his estates have descended to the present representative of the family, Colonel Cairnes of Portstewart, whose ancestor adopted the family name.*

Sir W. Stewart, First Viscount Mountjoy.

BORN A. D. 1653-killed A. D. 1692.

SIR W. STEWART was the grandson of Sir William Stewart, one of the two brothers who came into Ireland in the reign of James I., and who have been already noticed in these pages. After the death of his father Sir Alexander, his mother married Sir Arthur Forbes, to whom he was granted in ward. He early entered into political life as a commissioner of the officers, and in 1682 was advanced to the titles of Baron Stewart and Viscount Mountjoy.

We here introduce his memoir as supplying a convenient link in the chain of incidents connected with the memorable siege of London

We think it right to apprize the reader, that the chief incidents of the above life were drawn from a memoir of the Cairnes family, by the Rev. J. Graham, and kindly communicated by the author to our publishers.—ED.

derry. We may therefore briefly mention, that in 1682 lord Mountjoy became a colonel in the foot service; in 1686 he served in Hungary and received two dangerous wounds in the siege of Buda; and on his return to Ireland obtained the rank of general of brigade.

In 1688 he was stationed in the county of Derry, and at the breaking out of the contests of that period, the citizens of Derry and the protestants of the north, looked with great and declared satisfaction on the protection which they anticipated in the presence of a protestant commander, many of whose soldiers were also protestants. The fact was also an object of anxious consideration to Tyrconnel, who was fully sensible of the danger to be feared from the temper of the north, and who had also received some intimations of the kindly sentiments which existed between the city of Derry and this commander. He was also anxious under existing circumstances to strengthen the metropolis, as there was a small armament under preparation to be sent to England. Under these considerations he sent orders to Mountjoy to march to Dublin. Commissions were at the same time issued for the levy of four Irish regiments, of which one under the earl of Antrim was ordered to march to Londonderry. They were refused admittance; and that memorable scene took place already mentioned in the previous memoir.

Tyrconnel was alarmed, and sent Mountjoy back accompanied by lieutenant-colonel Lundy with six companies, and with orders to reduce the city. At Omagh lord Mountjoy halted, and sent a message desiring that some of the citizens should meet him at Raphoe; he was attended by captain Norman and Mr Mogredge. On their return to Londonderry they assured the citizens that his lordship came with full power to treat; and that on their full surrender he would ensure a general pardon. By his lordship's desire commissioners were to meet him at Mount Gravelin; and Mr George Philips of Newtownlimavaddy then governor of the city, with four citizens, accordingly attended at the appointed place.

The terms demanded by the citizens were, a protestant garrison, liberty to retain their arms, and keep the guards, together with a full pardon under the great seal. Their demands created a demur on his lordship's part as they exceeded his powers.

On the following day he approached the gates of Londonderry and demanded admittance; and as he was generally looked upon with a feeling of regard and confidence, there was an anxious discussion among the citizens, as to the course they should pursue. After much debate it was agreed to admit lord Mountjoy himself. He was accordingly admitted, and strongly represented that it was important to come to some immediate accommodation for the purpose of preventing the inevitable consequences which must follow a refusal, as a more formidable force would be sent against the city. The citizens could not however be induced to a surrender of their present security, and at last lord Mountjoy came to an agreement to accept of the terms which they proposed, and that his two sons should remain as pledges in the city.

On this Lundy was sent to Strabane, with orders to turn all the papists out of the six companies and keep them there till protestants were

enlisted in their place, and some of the citizens were sent to see that this was faithfully done. In the mean time the two protestant companies were admitted. The orders of Tyrconnel were thus turned to the advantage of the city. Governor Philips freely resigned his powers to lord Mountjoy, who entered with spirit into the wishes of the citizens and exerted all his talent and skill to repair the fortifications, and strengthen every resource of the city.

These proceedings could not fail to attract the zealous attention of Tyrconnel. But the more dangerous attitude of the protestant party, then alarmed both by the rumour of an intended massacre, and excited by the recent turn of events in their favour in England, made it imperative to proceed with some caution. Tyrconnel's dexterity suggested a plan, by which he might at the same time deceive the protestants and dispose of one whom he could not trust. He projected a double-tongued embassy to king James; one ambassador was to warn the king of the danger and vanity of any further effort to recover possession of Ireland, and to assure him of the necessity of submitting to the power of England: this crafty lie was committed to Mountjoy, who considering such actually to be the state of facts, easily believed the sincerity of the message; but Rice baron of the Exchequer was to accompany him with a different tale, more sincerely meant though

not so true.

With this purpose lord Mountjoy was summoned to Dublin, and he left Lundy in command of Derry. The friends of Mountjoy urged that he was to be sent to France, for the sole purpose of removing him out of the way as one most likely to take the lead in the defence of the protestants. He however considered that he was placed under a necessary alternative, either to obey the lord-deputy, or at once declare a premature resistance, while he was urged from England to keep up appearances. These with other reasons urged him to submit. He took several precautions in behalf of the protestants, and made strong stipulations in their favour. Tyrconnel was very compliant in promises which he did not intend to observe, and it seconded his own immediate purpose of endeavouring to lull the protestants into security. He therefore readily agreed that no more levies should be made in Ireland; that the recent levies should be kept in their present quarters; that no more troops should be sent to Ulster; that none should be arrested for meetings, arming troops, &c., at any date before that then present; and that no private gentleman's house should have soldiers quartered in it. We here subjoin the circular letter which Mountjoy on this occasion sent into the north after he had been thus duped.

"You had an account how long I staid on the way after I left you, and the reasons that made me since go forwards; and whatever my jealousies were at my first arrival, I am now satisfied at my coming, and by God's blessing, I hope it will come to good to us all. As soon as I saw my lord-deputy, he told me, he designed to send me to the king, jointly with my lord chief baron Rice, to lay before him the state of the kingdom, and to tell him that if he pleased, he could ruin it för him and make it a heap of rubbish, but it was impossible to preserve it and make it of use to him, and therefore to desire leave to treat for it. The objections I made to this were two; my being not so well

qualified as a northern Roman catholick, whom in all likelihood the king would sooner give credit to; and the improbability of being able to persuade the king, who is now in the French hands, to a thing so plainly against their interest. To the first of these I was answered, what it is not fit for me to repeat; and the other is so well answered, that all the most knowing Englishmen are so satisfied with me, and have desired me to undertake this matter which I have done this afternoon; my lord-deputy having first promised me on his word and honour to perform the four particulars in the within paper. Now because a thing of this nature cannot be done without being censured by some, who perhaps would be sorry to have their wishes in quiet means; and by others, who think all that statesmen do are tricks, and that there is no sincerity amongst them; I would have such to consider that it is more probable I, and the most intelligent in this place, without whose advice I do nothing, should judge right of this than they who are at a greater distance, and it is not likely we should be fooled; so I hope they will not believe we design to betray them, ourselves, and the nation. I am morally assured this must do our work without blood or the misery of the kingdom. I am sure it is the way proposed in England, who depend so on it that no forces are appointed to come hither; and I am sure what I do is not only what will be approved of in England, but what had its beginning from thence. I do therefore conjure you to give your friends and mine this account, and for love of God, keep them from any disorder or mischief (if any had such design, which I hope they had not) and I am fully satisfied every man will have his own heart's desire. I will write to this effect to some other places, and I desire you will let such in the country as you think fit see this. Let people fall to their labour, and think themselves in less danger than they believed."

This letter which explains the entire of the intent and spirit of Mountjoy's conduct, was in a high degree satisfactory to the crafty Tyrconnel without directly committing him; it had the desired effect of lulling the fear, suspicion, or resentment, of great numbers among the protestant body. But the delusion was not long unrevealed; Tyrconnel's operations never slackened for an hour. The first remonstrance of the protestants drew forth a denial of the articles mentioned, and great indignation at the letter. He raised several regiments and seized on Drogheda, Dundalk, and Newry, with all the passes upon the march to Ulster. To crown the whole of this most infamous proceeding, lord Mountjoy was seized immediately on his arrival in Paris, directly accused of having shown a zeal for the protestants and shut up in the Bastile. The advantage which Tyrconnel gained by all this hollow deception was but transient. He undoubtedly removed a dangerous leader in whom the protestants confided; but the exasperation universally awakened was perhaps more than equivalent to the advantage of his ill faith. It is dangerous in the movements of party to substitute resentment for fear. Such impulses as surely impart strength and resolution, as the influence of panic is known to render the largest bodies powerless. And the protestants were ever after on their guard; a fatal effect to one whose weapon was fraud.

We have now done with the career of this nobleman, which was

after this, short, but honourable to the last. He was released from his confinement in 1692; and joining king William in Flanders, was slain fighting bravely in the battle of Steinkirk.

He left successors, but the title became extinct in the fourth gen

eration.

Rev. George Walker, Governor of Londonderry.

BORN ABOUT A.D. 1617-KILLED A.D. 1691.

FROM a small but compendious account written by the Rev. John Graham, we learn the few following particulars respecting the family history of the Hero of Londonderry. His father was appointed to a benefice in Derry in 1630, and in a few years after, obtained the rectory of Cappagh in the county of Tyrone; from which he was further preferred to the chancellorship of Armagh. He had a son and a daughter; the son George Walker was "instituted to the rectories of Donaghmore and Erigal Keerogal, in the county of Tyrone," in March, 1662.* He was educated in the college of Glasgow.

Of this brave man the history is wrapped in comparative obscurity, until we arrive at the last few glorious and eventful years of his long life, spent, we have every reason to believe, in the strenuous practice of the less ambitious but not less exalted and elevating duties of a christian pastor. Thus presenting an eminent instance of the truth, that those divine precepts and that holy spirit which inculcates and imparts humility and charity, can, when the cause of God, and the call of the country demand, send the hero to stand in the breach, and lead soldiers and patriots to their desperate and devoted duty. If it be said in abatement of these reflections, that George Walker was naturally of a busy and ambitious temper, and however noble was his service on that emergent hour of national peril, yet that it was his military taste which spurred him to the honourable post he filled; we must deny the inference: in the following memoir there will be amply found the evidence of a nobler spirit. But there is one preliminary observation which must to all reflecting minds, render superfluous all further evidence on this question: when George Walker left his ministerial duties, to take the lead in that dreadful and trying scene of danger and privation, of heroic patience and daring, he was seventy-one years of age. For nearly half a century he had pursued the homely and retired path of a minister of God's word, in a country resounding on every side with the din of arms. In the strength and energy of his fourand-twentieth year he saw the troubles of the great rebellion, when there was every temptation for the enterprising, and when the safest refuge was in arms. But Walker's bold and leading spirit was not either tempted or driven to the field. It was when the sacred ramparts of the protestant church were assailed, that the soldier of Christ stood up in the very path of his duty to lay down his life, if so required, in its defence. It may perhaps be alleged by many a pious christian

Memoir of Walker by the Rev. J. Graham,-1832.