An Exact ACCOUNT OF THE Present Posture of Affairs IN DUBLIN.  
AS ALSO The Condition of the English and Irish Army. WITH The Particulars relating to James-Town and Sligoe.  

Licenced November the 19th. 1689. J. F.   

Chester, the 16th. of November, 1689. SIR,  
I Have here sent you an Account of the Affairs of Ireland, as we have received it from Sir John Davis and others. Sir John made his Escape from Dablin in a Wherry, and got to the Camp at Dundalk; he left Dublin on Sunday was fortnight, and arrived here from the Camp on Tuesday last: He gives a very lamentable account of the Condition that our Friends in Dublin are in, he says, that two days before he made his Escape, about fourteen Persons were committed to Prison for High Treason, for Conspiring the Death of the late King James, and had notice given them, that they would be proceeded against the first of the Term, which gins in Dublin November 6th. He does not doubt but they will be found Guilty, right or wrong, and be executed. Among those that were committed for this pretended Treason, were Capt. Fitz gera●●. Dr. King, Mr. Tho. Crow, Mr. Robert 〈◊〉 by, Counsellor Edward Winkfield, Counsellor Coughlan, Mr. Hector Vaughan, Mr. Handcock, Senior, and Counsellor William Handcock, with others; many more were imprisoned besides these, as Counsellor Witchett, and most of the Citizens of note, but not committed under the same Circumstances. In short, he does relate such dreadful things of what the poor Protestants have endured of late in Dublin, that would make your Heart bleed to hear. Several of them are dead, as Sir John Castleton, Dr. Mercer, Mr. Samuel Helsham, Bookseller, Mr. Tho. Palmer, Scrivener, Lord Li●bou●n's Agent.  
Last Night arrived here from Dublin Abraham Fuller the Quaker, with one Woman and four Seamen, in a small Vessel of 14 Tuns, he left Dublin on Wedne●day the 13th. Instant, and gives us a much better Account of things there; he says, that most of the Protestants are released on Bail, except Capt. Fitzgerald, Dr. King, Counsellor Coughlan, Mr. John Weaver, Mr. Hector Vaughan, etc. Likewise that most of the Gentlemen in the County of Westmeath are set at Liberty; but that Mass is publicly celebrated in Christ-Church, St. Patrick's Church, and the College of Dublin, and in most of the Churches in the Country; that the Lord Dover, with the Marquis of Albeville, was arrived before he came away. Fuller says, that upon his arrival, the Irish were greatly dejected, in regard he had not brought with him any Assistance of men, Arms, Ammunition, or any thing else, which they with great impatience expected from France. The Lord Dover gives out, that they lost a Ship laden with Arms and Ammunition, and that the Ship he was in narrowly escaped our Men of War, being pursued by some of them. Fuller likewise contradicts what has been reported amongst us here, of any other Shipping being got into Ireland from France, but that the Lord Dover came in.  
We were not without some apprehensions, that Fuller might be come over upon some in Design, and so to relate things otherwise than they were, but we have had him carefully examined before Sir George St. George, and cannot find any ground to suspect him. He further says, that before the late King James broke up his Camp, they had a great Mortality among them, and that they lost many of their Horse for want of Forage and above 10000 of their Men dye●, insomuch, that he heard several of the●r Officers declare, that if they had fought, as the Irish Officers would have done (but were opposed by the French) they could not have lost so many, though they had been beaten; that they have brought a very Pestilential Fever with them to Dublin, and to other places where they are marched, of which many do daily die.  
The Account they have in Dublin of James Town and Sligoe is very different from what our People from the Camp have given out, but indeed I do not find any of them can give an Account of the matter, for it was very uncertainly reported in the Camp when they came away. The Account that Fuller gives from Dublin, is, that Col. Sarsfield having a detached Party of 4000 men from the Irish Camp, was joined by a Party of the Connaught Forces, consisting of 3000 more; that they marched strait to James Town, in which was a Garrison of abour 100 of our men, who having notice of their approach, quitted the place, and got safe 10 Sligoe, to which place Sarsfield likewise came, and out men there behaved themselves so well, as to get off with very inconsiderable loss. But the most certain Account we have, is by a Letter from one Mr. Murry, to Mr. Robert Shaw, dated at Ballyshannon, Nou. 4. who mentions nothing of these particulars, but that they are all very well at Sligoe, and likewise in all those parts.  
The Reports we have had about our Army, are in a great measure false; I have spoke with several who came from thence, that say, we have not lost above 1500 men by Sickness, that several are sickly, but in a good posture of Recovery, our Army being gone into their Winter Quarters. Our Dutch and French Soldiers are very well, the Country agreeing extremely well with them, few or none of them being sick.  
Our Army is very well furnished with all sorts of Provisions from our Ships, and from the North; Forage is somewhat scarce for our Horse, but that is supplied by the great plenty of Grass every where, and a sufficient stock of Oats, which our Ships constantly furnish.  
Fuller says, that Salt is sold in Dublin at 9 l. the Hogshead, and they generally Report, that they have very little Ammunition. The late King expects another Invasion from England to land in Munster, he still continues in Dublin. This is what at present offers from  
Your Humble Servant, etc.    

London: Printed for Roger Smit● ●n Fleetstreet. 1689.