Great NEWS from IRELAND; An Account of the King's Royal Camp, Before the City of Limmerick, And of a Late Defeat of the Enemy There: With a particular Relation of the C of Tyrconnel's Severity to the Bishop of Limmerick; And the Actions of the French at galway.  
SIR,  
THis City has been filled for these several Days past, with great numbers of our Countrymen, that are come from London in their way home, most of which are bound for Dublin, and parts adjacent; where we understand all things are brought into a fine way of Settlement, both in Matters Ecclesiastical, as well as Civil; and His Majesty in the several Counties through which he has past, hath settled the Cities, Burroughs, and Corporations, upon their Old Establishment, and likewise the High Sherriffs, and the Militia, or Trained Bands. His Majesty has been Attended, and Addressed by the Reverend Bishops and Clergy, of the several Dioceses He has passed through, and also by several Nonconforming Ministers. My good Old Bishop of Limerick has suffered a great loss at his House at Limerick; for the Countess of Tyrconnel, just before her going to France, procured some Armed Force of the Garrison, with whom she entered the Bishop's House, (which was very well Furnished with all sorts of household-goods, etc.) and took from thence what she thought fit; telling my Lord, That if he pleased he might replenish himself out of what she had left in her House in Dublin; and so she rubbed off with her Son to Paris.  
The great Failure of the Lough, or that part of the River that lies near the City of Limerick, is very remarkable, and a thing which has not been known before, I am sure, in my time, in the most driest Summer, to become Fordable, which we hear is now in two or three places; which gives us a great Instance to show how Almighty God is pleased to say Amen to His Majesty's most Just and Righteous Undertake, by Faciliting the Reduction of the Rebels in this Kingdom, with so little loss of Christian Blood: And in Order for the continuance of the Blessing of Almighty God on His Majesty, Army, and good Subjects of Ireland, there is a Solemn Fast kept very Religiously every Friday, both in the Royal Camp, and in the several Cities and Towns in Ireland, that are in Their Majesty's Possession.  
It's the Opinion of many Gentlemen here, That we shall have a Parliament, called in Ireland, before we have any Term; the Wind being at present contrary, we have nothing here very new from His Majesty's Gamp, though we do not in the least doubt, but that the first Packet that arrives will bring us the Confirmation of the Surrender of Lymerick. Our last left the Royal Army, Encamped very near Lymerick: The King's Head Quarters, being within half a Mile of the City; that upon part of our Army's approach very near the City, the Enemy made a Sally, with the chief Strength of the Garrison; but were soon beaten in again, and in their Retreat to the Town, a great part of them were cut off; that the Irish Army which not long since made a considerable Body of Twenty Five Thousand Men, were now dwindled to a very inconsiderable Number, and they retired (upon the Approach of Our Army) farther into the Country; great Numbers of all sorts having quitted them some time before, who were retired over the Bogs to the Mountains and Caves, their Old Lurking-holes.  
You seem to wonder at the French quitting of the City of Lymerick; it is, as you writ, the strongest place in Ireland, stronger than that of galway, but the latter is situated far more Advantageous for the French, to get off to their own Country (which doubtless, if they are not already, they will be forced to it in a very little time.) The City of Lymerick is situated Threescore long Miles from the Sen; now galway is but Nine Miles: The Haven of the City of galway is the most considerable in the Province of Connaught, being a very great Bay, some Mile broad, and many more long, having in the Mouth Three Islands (called the Isles of Arr●n) the which lie North and South, by the side of each other, there remaining the Channels for to come out of the Sea into this Bay. One Channel runneth betwixt the Land, and the Northern Isle, and called therefore North-Sound. The Second, between the same Northern Isle, and the Middlemost, which Channel being the most usual of the Three, is commonly styled St. Gregory's Sound. And the Third, between the most Southermost Island, and the Main, named South Sound; in the uppermost part of the Ray, one may Anchor in Five or Six Fathoms of Water.   

Printed for D. Smith in Cornhill, 1690.