He at length gave way, and suffered the survivors to withdraw.

The garrison then took down the gallows which had been erected on the bastion, [248] When the tidings of these events reached Dublin, James, though by no means prone to compassion, was startled by an atrocity of which the civil wars of England had furnished no example, and was displeased by learning that protections, given by his authority, and guaranteed by his honour, had been publicly declared to be nullities.

He complained to the French ambassador, and said, with a warmth which the occasion fully justified, that Rosen was a barbarous Muscovite.

Melfort could not refrain from adding that, if Rosen had been an Englishman, he would have been hanged.

Avaux was utterly unable to understand this effeminate sensibility.