lader, seventh Lord Blaney, and he dying without issue by her, she in two years afterwards married the Honourable Colonel John Murray, by whom she had four daughters, who inherited her estates. The eldest of these (Frances) was married to the Right Honourable William Fortescue, Earl of Clermont; the second (Elizabeth) to the Right Hon. General Robert Cunningham, member of parliament for Monaghan; the third (Anne) to the Right Hon. Theophilus Jones; and the fourth (Harriet) to Henry Westenra, Esq. Of a collateral branch of this family was David Cairnes of Knockmany, in the county of Tyrone, Esq., one of the most distinguished defenders of Londonderry, of whom LieutenantColonel John Elliot Cairnes, of Portstewart, is the descendant and representative.

The remains of this defender of the maiden city were interred in the Cathedral church-yard of Derry, under a plain tombstone, of which the only part of the inscription which remained on it in 1822, before it was removed from the grave, on the building of the new Sessions-House, and thrown behind the gate of the back entrance into Bishop-street were a few sentences, of which the following are a copy :

"Hereunder was interred the body of David Cairnes, Esq., Counsellor at Law, generally known and regarded for the many and great services done by him for the city of Londonderry, and its preservation and safety when in the utmost danger, which proved so conducive to that grand revolution which we had in these kingdoms in 1688 and 1689, with many sore wounds and hazard of his life. He was much beloved, living and dying, for the many good qualities and parts he was evidently blessed with, as appeared on many occasions. He was also for thirty years"

Here the inscription terminates, the rest of the stone having been broken off and lost; but tradition supplies the remainder of what it has recorded. He was for thirty years representative of the city of Londonderry in the Irish House of Commons, and during that period filled the office of Recorder to the Corporation. The remains of his compatriots, Michelburne and Murray, have been lately

honoured by the erection of splendid monuments over them in the church-yard of Glendermot, at the expense of the Irish Society of London; and it has been a matter of surprise and regret that the remains of Colonel David Cairnes should have been so long neglected, although his name appears, in letters of gold, on the tablet affixed to the Walker testimonial on the ramparts of Derry.

Colonel David Cairnes was maternal ancestor of William Henderson, Esq., late of Castletown, in the county of Tyrone, and of the Rev. Joseph Henderson Singer, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. By the female line the Right Honorable Lord Rossmore became possessed of large estates in the county Monaghan, inherited by him from his venerable parent, the late Baroness, heiress to Sir Alexander Cairnes, and the seventh Lady Blayney.

During the Rebellion in 1798, Lord Rossmore rendered important service to the state, by taking the first military survey of the Shannon between Athlone and Portumna bridge. He was engaged in the defeating of the Vinegar-hill army of rebels, and driving it back from its position there. With the king's army he cleared Ferns and the Bishop's Palace there of the rebels, who had taken possession of both, overawed Wexford, relieved General Loftus, who had been nearly surrounded near Ferns, interposed the division under his lordship's command between the Gorey army of rebels and the city of Dublin, thus interrupting the combined movement of the two great Wexford armies on the metropolis, which they had intended to make for the purpose of burning it, or becoming masters of it. He thus chained them both to their positions, until Generals Lake and Needham came up with the king's army, and dislodged them, which finished the rebellion.

Lord Rossmore afterwards drove Holt from Roundwood, on the eastern side of the Wicklow mountains, until the outlaw found it prudent to surrender. By all these movements and successes, he inspired the British troops with confidence, who had been dispirited, and were falling back and giving up their posts after the defeat and death of Colonel Walpole and Major Lombard of the North Cork militia. (See Gordon's History of the Rebellion of 1798.) By

training the Yeomanry Brigade of Monaghan of 3000 men to chain, order, and guerilla service, Lord Rossmore contributed much to the safety of the country at this awful crisis; so that if his ancestor, David Cairnes, rendered services worthy of remembrance in 1688 and 1689 the same may be said of his noble descendant in 1798 and 1799.

DUKE SCHOMBERG.

On the 10th of July, 1690, the remains of the Duke Schomberg, which had been brought from the Boyne immediately after he was killed there, were deposited under the altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.

His relatives having declined to erect a monument in honour of him, Dean Swift undertook the task, and built one, on which he had the following words inscribed :

"Hic infra situm est corpus Frederici Ducis de Schomberg, ad Bubindam occisi, A. D., 1690. Decanus et capitulum maximopere, etiam atque, etiam petierunt, ut heredes ducis monumentum in me. moriam parentis erigendum curarent. Sed postquam per epistolas, per amicos, diu ac sæpe orando nil profecere; hunc demum lapidem statuerunt; saltem ut scias, hospes, ubinam terrarum Schombergenses cineres delitescunt. Plus potuit fama virtutis apud alienos, quam sanguinis proximatas apud suos.

A.D., 1731,"

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