Several gentlemen spoke to us as we got into the carriage, begging us not to be alarmed: Mrs.Edgeworth answered that she was more surprised than alarmed.

The commanding officer and the sovereign of Longford walked by the side of the carriage through the town; and as the mob believed that we were going away not to return, we got through without much molestation.

We went a few miles on the road toward Edgeworth Town, till at a tenant's house we heard that my father had passed half an hour ago; that he was riding in company with an officer, supposed to be of Lord Cornwallis's or General Lake's army; that they had taken a short cut, which led into Longford by another entrance:--most fortunately, not that at which an armed mob had assembled, expecting the object of their fury.
Seeing him return to the inn with an officer of the King's army, they imagined, as we were afterwards told, that he was brought back a prisoner, and they were satisfied.
'The moment we saw him safe, we laughed at our own fears, and again doubted the reality of the danger, more especially as he treated the idea with the utmost incredulity and scorn.
'Major (now General) Eustace was the officer who returned with him.
He dined with us; everything appeared quiet.

The persons who had taken refuge at the inn were now gone to their homes, and it was supposed that, whatever dispositions to riot had existed, the news of the approach of some of Lord Cornwallis's suite, or of troops who were to bring in the French prisoners, would prevent all probability of disturbance.

In the evening the prisoners arrived at the inn; a crowd followed them, but quietly.