A Letter from CHESTER Of the Twenty Second Instant, Giving an Account of some Affairs in Ireland, And of the Arrival and Reception of the General The Duke of Schomberg, And of the Forces there.  

Licenced,  
July 24. 1689.   
ON Thursday last arrived here the Heer Schravanmore Maistre de Camp General, who, next day, laid out the Ground for the Camp, which is close by the Town on the Southside.  
On Saturday last arrived here the Count de Solmes, about Two in the Afternoon, and presently after there followed a Battalion of the Dutch Foot Guards, which immediately Encamped.  
The Duke of Schomberg arrived here on Saturday about Ten a Clock at Night, and was received by the Mayor and Aldermen in their Scarlet, and all their Formalities, attended by the several Companies with their Flags carried before them. The Trained Bands of this City met his Excellency at the Bars, and conducted him to his Lodgings at Alderman Mannerings, who came along with him from London. This day his Excellency, attended by the Count de Solmes, Lord Brandon Gerrard, the Governor of the City, and a great many others are gone to view the Ships which lie at Liverpool, Highlake, and Nessen, for the Transportation of the Forces for Ireland.  
On Thursday last arrived here, with much hazard and difficulty, several Passengers in a small Wherry, which left Dublin the Monday before. I can add but little to what you may have known already; only that at Dublin, they say that very considerable Numbers of Protestants, with their Families, having settled themselves there, in hopes of being more safe, and less Exposed to the Insolences of the French, and Irish Soldiers, than in the Country where the Danger threatens them on all hands: They have had the Misfortune to be obliged to remove, and go home to their Houses and Habitations in the Country, by Virtue of a Proclamation from the Late King, Commanding them, on severe Penalties, to repair to them; which is looked upon by them, as an Exposing of them to the mercy of the Rabble. They say that the Late King is so Exasperatcd at the Disappointment His Forces met with at London-Derry, That He is now resolved to have the last Push for't; And, to that Effect, has sent down a great quantity of Ladders, with Orders to scale the Walls, and take the Town that way if possible.  
This day, and to morrow, 8000 Men are to Encamp here, which, with the 3 or 4000 at Whitehaven, are to be commanded by the Count de Solmes, and, with all Expedition, to be immediately shipped off for Loughfoyle, to join the Forces there under the Command of Major General Kirk. When these are gone, they say that 18 or 20000 Men more come in their room, who are to Encamp also; these are to be commanded by General Schomberg himself, but whither and when they are to go, is not yet certainly known.   

London, Printed for D.K. 1689.