in his general officers, at a moment the most critical in the nation's history. But time passed on. Galway surrendered on honorable terms after an exchange of hostages. The passes of the Shannon were abandoned one by one down to Limerick, where the final stand was made, during which Tyrconnel, after years of faithful service, "died apparently of a broken heart." The city, though twice betrayed by General Clifford, made a most gallant defence, and its surrender wrested a treaty from the enemy, as glorious to its defenders, as its violation was infamous to the victors.--O retributive justice, how slow is thy finger on the dial! FOOTNOTES [1] Mitchell's Life of Hugh O'Neil, pp. 236, 237. [2] Mitchell's Hugh O'Neil, p. 241. [3] For a further insight to the court intrigue of that period, the reader is referred to the Memoirs of the Duke of Berwick, vol. i., pp. 20 to 30. [4] The Popular History of Ireland, vol. ii., p. 571. [5] There is a very fine engraving of him given in the second volume of Story's Impartial History. [6] Dolby's History of Ireland. [7] See Barrington's Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation. [8] Popular History of Ireland, vol. ii, p. 572. [9] It is necessary to remark that Taylor, who relates this incident, confounds the name of Galmoy with Galway. They were two distinct characters: the latter, whose family patronymic was Burke, was killed at Aughrim; the former accompanied the "Brigade" to France. His family name was Butler. [10] March 24th, 1689. [11] The Student's Hume, page 550. More than one hundred thousand were on foot, and he found himself compelled to disband the greater part of them. [12] The Duke of Berwick was then in his nineteenth year, having been born on the 21st of August, 1670. He had already been raised to the rank of major-general by the Emperor of Austria, for honorable service under the great Duke of Lorrain; he was a son of James II., and nephew of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. [13] Memoirs of the Duke of Berwick, page 50, vol. i. [14] This is the present name of the position then occupied by Hamilton, and seems to have been since given it, in consequence of the "Boom" that was there thrown across the river to prevent the ships of William from ascending it. [15] Popular History of Ireland, vol. ii, p. 557. [16] Taylor characterizes this act as _monstrous_; yet, when were such liberal terms accorded by an English king to Catholic rebels? [17] Vol. ii., page 108.--These troubles commenced while James was yet on the English throne. [18] There is reason to think that this force is overestimated by about 3,000 men, but there is no actual authority to deny its accuracy. The numbers are taken from the Memoirs of King James, who bases his statement on the report of Southerland. [19] This must have been Sarsfield's command, for, though it is not so stated in the Memoirs, the contiguity of Trellick to Omagh, to which place Sarsfield had been ordered by de Rosen, would indicate it.