are: there the
son, having long supported his aged parent, with reluctance obeyed his
last commands, and, abandoning him in this uttermost distress, reserved
himself to the hopes of avenging that death which all his efforts
could not prevent nor delay. The astonishing greatness of the calamity
deprived the sufferers of any relief from the view of companions in
affliction. With silent tears, or lamentable cries, they hurried on
through the hostile territories, and found every heart which was not
steeled by native barbarity, guarded by the more implacable furies of
mistaken piety and religion.[*]

The saving of Dublin preserved in Ireland the remains of the English
name. The gates of that city, though timorously opened, received the
wretched supplicants, and presented to the view a scene of human misery
beyond what any eye had ever before beheld.[**] Compassion seized the
amazed inhabitants, aggravated with the fear of like calamities; while
they observed the numerous foes, without and within, which every where
environed them, and reflected on the weak resources by which they were
themselves supported. The more vigorous of the unhappy fugitives, to the
number of three thousand, were enlisted into three regiments; the rest
were distributed into the houses; and all care was taken, by diet and
warmth, to recruit their feeble and torpid limbs. Diseases of unknown
name and species, derived from these multiplied distresses, seized many
of them, and put a speedy period to their lives: others, having now
leisure to reflect on their mighty loss of friends and fortune, cursed
that being which they had saved. Abandoning themselves to despair,
refusing all succor, they expired; without other consolation than that
of receiving among their countrymen the honors of a grave, which,
to their slaughtered companions, had been denied by the inhuman
barbarians.[***]

* Temple, p. 88.

** Temple, p. 62.

**** Temple, p. 43, 62.

By some computations, those who perished by all these cruelties are
supposed to be a hundred and fifty or two hundred thousand: by the most
moderate, and probably the most reasonable account, they are made to
amount to forty thousand; if this estimation itself be not, as is usual
in such cases, somewhat exaggerated.

The justices ordered to Dublin all the bodies of the army which were
not surrounded by the rebels; and they assembled a force of one thousand
five hundred veterans. They soon enliste