between the king of his fealty, James II., and William, the elected Sovereign of Britain. Colonel Grace, under the influence of his loyalty, hurried instantly to the conflict; and, replacing the helmet on his hoary head, he discovered all his juvenile ardour in battle, and all that contempt of fortune and of life, as light in the balance with duty, which he had manifested in the pride of his age. In this war, as in that against the republic, his high destiny appointed him to be among the last who yielded to the victors, and he yielded only with his life. While he survived, Athlone, which had been confided to his government, was impregnable, however powerfully assailed. When he fell, it was immediately lost; and with it, one of the last hopes of sovereignty to James. For valour and fidelity we must look to the example of Colonel Richard Grace; for success and fortune, to the history of others. But he died gloriously, and the termination of his life consummated its renown. He was buried in Athlone, where he fell, on the 20th day of June, in the year 1691, and honour sits enthroned upon his tomb. No. III. DISCOVERY AND RE-INTERMENT OF THE REMAINS OF THE REV. GEORGE WALKER, RECTOR OF DONOUGHMORE, AND GOVERNOR OF LONDONDERRY. "Thrice honoured shade of Walker wise, To Derry's cause so true, Oh! could you from the starry skies Our sad condition view: How would your wounded spirit feel, The dark day to behold, When all our fathers won by steel, Their sons betrayed for gold."-GRAHAM. On Tuesday, the 16th of October, 1838, the Church of Donoughmore, at Castle Caulfield, being in process of repair by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, it was found necessary to lower and level the floor of it. R In that part of the chancel, immediately under the Monument of Governor Walker, the workmen discovered a full-sized oak coffin, containing the remains of his widow, who, in 1703, caused his bones to be brought there from the banks of the Boyne, where his body had been interred, and had lain for thirteen years. They were this day found in a small oak box, in which this "widow, indeed," full of the endearing recollections of happier days, had deposited them. This worthy lady was the mother of four sons of the renowned Walker, who, at his death, were serving in King William's army, and each of whom, in justice to their immortal father's services and their own, ought to have inherited one of the forfeited estates. John Walker, the eldest son, on a petition to the House of Commons, obtained a pension of two hundred pounds a year, which he enjoyed until the beginning of the reign of George the First, when he was deprived of by the parsimony of the triumphant Whigs. Of the other sons there is no record, save that the daughter of one of them was the grandmother of the late Mrs. Caldbeck, of Lisburn. The Walkers were a Yorkshire family. The father of the Governor of Derry was the Rev. George Walker, sen., Rector of Cappagh, County Tyrone, the friend and confidential adviser of Dr. Bramhall, Bishop of Derry, when this prelate was nobly using his private means and public influence in regaining the alienated property of the Church of Ireland, and purchasing the advowsons of the impropriated rectories, which he added to the vicarages throughout the diocese. He sent his son and namesake to Glasgow College for education; and on the young man's return, soon after the restoration of King Charles the Second, he was presented to the rectories of Donoughmore and Errigal Keerogue, in the county of Tyrone. Walker was in the sear and yellow leaf of life when he went to Derry, in 1689, being then, according to credible tradition, 71 years of age. His sister Anne married William Maxwell, Esq., of Falkland, High Sheriff of the county of Monaghan, in the year 1691, and who was great grandfather of the present representative of his renowned ancestor the Rev. Thomas Carpendale, rector of Donoughmore. Mr. Carpendale, with Edward Evans, Esq., son of the Rev. George Evans, who had been upwards of thirty years rector of Donoughmore, Alexander Mackenzie, Esq., and a few others, naturally regardful of the remains of this great and good man, caused them to be taken carefully from the decayed box in which they were found, and putting them, and those of his widow, into smaller boxes, enclosed both with suitable inscriptions in a leaden coffin, which, being laid in one of deal plank, was solemnly deposited in the hero's grave, by his reverend descendant and successor, assisted by the Rev. John Graham, Author of the History of the Siege of Derry, and also by one of the oldest Apprentice Boys of the maiden city. In the case with Governor Walker's remains was placed a flint glass bottle, hermetically sealed, containing the following writing on parchment : "Be it recorded, that whilst this church was undergoing repair, in the year 1838, search was made beneath the monument of the Rev. George Walker, immediately opposite to the communiontable, at the eastern end of the church, and south side of the aisle, to ascertain whether his bones were deposited there, agreeable to the inscription on the monument, erected by his widow in the year 1703. "We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, having assembled in said church, on Tuesday the 16th of October, 1838, and having made search immediately beneath said monument, fixed in the wall, have found, in a full-sized oak coffin, the remains of his widow, and in a small oaken case adjoining were deposited bones which had not the appearance of regular interment in a coffin, but corresponding with the words of the monument, Ossa reconduntur,' &c. &c. "Now, to testify our veneration and respect for the memory of the illustrious Walker, we herein carefully replace the bones, and restore them in their former position, together with this record. "THOMAS CARPENDALE, Rector of the Parish of Donoughmore. "ROBERT FRASER, Curate of said Parish. Rev. George Evans, formerly Rector of said Parish, "EDWARD EVANS, jun. Esq. of Armagh, son of the said Edward. "HENRY POLE, Esq. J.P.Dungannon." Previous to the re-interment of the bones, a cast was taken of the skull, which was perfectly sound, and in which the organs of intelligence and firmness were remarkably developed. Walker afforded an instance of the value of a classical education and habits of literary composition to a military man; proving that the hero, capable of recording actions in which he has been concerned, with modesty and without exaggeration, is more likely to get full credit for his own merits, than the illiterate warrior, who requires another man's pen to do justice to him. The following extract from the Preface to the " History of the Siege of Londonderry" may not be unsuitable in this place: "The applause which immediately followed the publication of Walker's Diary in London was unbounded. The heroic author basked in a sunshine of royal and popular favour, seldom beaming on the head of any one man at the same time, however great his worth or important his services. King William's munificent bounty to him, was a matter of policy as well as gratitude, scarce less beneficial to the giver than to the receiver of it. The Whigs, who were even then ready enough to be troublesome to their deliverer, and soon afterwards made him weary of his crown and his life together, hailed it as an act which reflected equal honour upon both; and the celebrated Tillotson, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, thus re-echoed the voice of the public upon Walker's promotion to the See of Derry, in his letter to Lady Russell, of the 19th of September, 1689: "The king, besides his first bounty to Mr. Walker (£5,000), whose modesty is equal to his merit, hath made him Bishop of Londonderry, one of the best Bishoprics in Ireland. It is incredi ble how much every body is pleased with what his Majesty hath done in this matter, and it is no small joy to me to see that God directs him so wisely.' "On the 19th of November, in the same year, he received the thanks of the House of Commons; and on the 26th of February following, the University of Oxford, with that regard to the Protestant interest which still characterizes it, conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. Sir Godfrey Kneller, at the King's command, drew his picture; and copper-plates struck off from it were dispersed through the three kingdoms. In some of the prints he is drawn with a Bible open, at the 20th chapter of Exodus, in one hand, and a drawn sword in the other. His garment of a purple colour, and a large old-fashioned band, form a strong contrast to the military sash, appearing in crimson folds about his waist. A copy of this curious print hung for half a century over the parlour fire-place of a tavern in Londonderry." Another copy, said to be a more correct likeness, is in possession of his descendant, William Caldbeck, Esq., of Lisburn, Sub. Sheriff of the county of Down. No. IV. DAVID CAIRNES, ESQ., LIEUTENANT COLONEL OF MURRAY'S REGIMENT OF HORSE AT THE DEFENCE "Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis: Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum Vis: nec imbellem feroces Progenerant aquilæ columbam."-HORACE. The family of this distinguished gentleman, who was one of the earliest and most active defenders of Londonderry in 1689, had been long settled honourably in the province of Ulster, the elder branch of it holding a baronetcy, with considerable estates in the county of Monaghan. On the death of Sir Alexander Cairnes, member of parliament for the town of Monaghan, the baronetcy became extinct, and, for want of male issue, his estates all devolved on his only daughter, a most accomplished lady, who was educated in the family of the great Duke of Marlborough, and treated by the Duchess as one of her own daughters. Some very interesting particulars respecting her may be found in Cox's life of John Duke of Marlborough. In the year 1732 this lady was married to Cadwal |