Great News from Dublin: IN ALETTER from an IRISH Gentleman to his Friend in LONDON. Printed according to Order.  
Dublin, Jan. 29. 1689/ 90. SIR,  
YOU cannot be insensible, that an Opportunity of Imparting any manner of News from these parts, is much rather desirable than possible, and consequently that these few lines are as much as you could in any reason expect from me at this time, I having notice of Mr. B— s intended escape scarce a quarter of an hour before I set Pen to paper: The greatest Discourse about Town here, ariseth from the various Conjectures of the Reasons of King James's melancholy, which for these three Weeks or more, hath been extremely taken notice of at Kilkenny, and is now generally whispered through this City. Those who pretend to any insight into the posture of Affairs here, or that are versed in any of the politics of this piecemeal Government, apprehended and privately give out, that it proceeds from a packet the late King received from France about the 24th of January last, in which it is believed the French King hath proved himself defective, either in his Will or his Power, to sand such seasonable supplies as may enable the late King to take the Field early enough, and which his Party here boasted long before would without doubt have been sufficient to have beat Duke Schomberg and his handful of Raw men( as they call them) back to England. Others date his Discontents from the late Review he took of some of his Regiments, which are very ill clad, worse armed, and not in any tolerable manner disciplined: so that it is thought he began to Despond, when he saw on how weak Pillars the bulky Fate of his three Kingdoms leaned, and how basely he had been by his Priests and mongrel Officers deluded into a Belief of a much more pertinent and considerable strength.  
But in short, those who are nearest about him, one of which I have the fortune to converse with, do solemnly aver, That his grief and melancholy did sensibly begin and proceed from Two strange and indeed ominous Dreams, which he had that very night in which by a Renegado from the English Quarters, he received the News of K. William's determinate Resolution to come over and head his own Army here this Spring. And because the Dreams of Great Persons, whose daily thoughts( from whence these roving Phantomes by Night take their rise) are employed in mighty Affairs, have been both by Sacred and profane Pens thought worthy to be transmitted to Posterity; I will here in brief set them down, and subjoin also the Descants and Interpretations that are here made upon them.  
The late King was at Kilkenny, at Supper, when he received the aforesaid News, which so dissatisfied him, that he abruptly rose and withdrew into his Bed-chamber, whither he called a Council, and after three or four hours serious debate, he went to Bed, and dreamed, That a capuchin friar( being one that he had been intimate with in France, and who had helped to convert him to the Romish Religion,) met him alone in a fair Walk belonging to the Castle of Kilkenny, with his Royal Robes on, and a sceptre in his hand, which the friar( coming up hastily in his proper Habit) rudely laid hold of, broken in several pieces, and threw away, and at the same time catching at his rob, and disengaging it readily from the Kings shoulders, he forthwith threw his own Habit and cowl upon the King, and driven him to an old ruinated Abbey or Monastery, which stands at some distance from the Castle, telling him that God had allotted that place for his Habitation, and that till he betook himself thereto, he should never have rest: And so left him.  
His Second Dream was: That having his Army drawn up in some large Plain, in battle-array, he saw King William at the Head of his Army, advancing with a vigorous Grace to engage him, when of a sudden his own Leading Staff fell out of his Hand, and while he was pointing to some near him to take it up, his whole Army was of a sudden vanish 'd from behind him, and himself enclosed in the middle of the Enemy, from whom yet he escapes. These were his two Dreams, and which have rendered him very thoughtful and melancholy ever since: As for the Interpretation, those that dare express their thoughts, thus render them.  
For the first, though it were first in time, yet they conclude it last in order, and indeed they explain it as the natural consequence of the latter; as to the particulars they speak thus: viz. That the dropping of his Leading-staff, either denotes his fear of heading his Army himself, or that the Government of his Army and Kingdom, will be disposed of, and committed to some foreign( which they suppose French) trust, and that the pains he takes will notwithstanding be little for his own Advantage or Honour: And for his Army, seeming to vanish our of his sight, it seems to foretell and presage either some cowardly base flight of his Men, or an universal Revolt from him. Then comes the Capuchin tearing off his Royal Robes, and breaking his sceptre; which evidently seem to foretell the having inevitably lost all hopes of Recovering his Kingdoms, he is obliged for the better security of himself, to retire into some Monastery, there to spend the residue of his unhappy Life in a penitent Sorrow for his manifest and grievous Sins against God, against his country, and against the better part of christendom, in being( as it is justly imputed to him) one of the chief Causes that so much Innocent Blood of good Christians has been spilled in his own and in foreign Countreys and Kingdoms.  
I am Obliged in hast to subscribe myself, Yours T. C.   

ADVERTISEMENT.  
THere is newly published, a Play, entitled The Abdicated Prince, or, The Adventures of Four Years. A Tragi-Comedy: As it was lately Acted at the Court at ALBA REGALIS: By several Persons of Great Quality.  

The ACTORS Names.  

The MEN.  
Cullydada, King of Hungaria Nova.  
Philarax, his true Friend and counselor, but out of Favour.  
Philodemus, Duke of Monumora, the Darling of the People.  
Pietro, a sly malicious Villain; a Renegado Christian, and turned a Mahometan Priest, chief Favourite of the Kings, and a mortal Enemy to the Hungarians.  
Count Dadamore, a special Favourite of the Queens, an Italian by Birth, and sent on a secret Message by the Mufti to the Hungarian Court.  
Barbarossa, Chancellor of Hungaria, a bloody-minded Villain, an Enemy to the Christians.  
Warranto, Two Creatures of the Chancellors, raised on purpose to Sold by the Booksellers ruin the Laws and Liberties of the Hungarians.  
Dispenso, Two Creatures of the Chancellors, raised on purpose to ruin the Laws and Liberties of the Hungarians.  
Remarquo, an Honest Hungarian, a deep Observer of the Court Intrigues, who by a Witty sort of buffonery picks out and discovers all their Plots and Contrivances.  
Sentinels, Rabble, Messengers, Country-People, Officers.   

The WOMEN.  
Hautefelia, Queen of Hungary, a proud imperious bloody-minded Woman, sworn Enemy to the Christians of Hungary, in Love with Count Dadamore.  
Mazato, Marchioness of Bulgaria, chief Confident of Hautefelia.  
Sycophante, Countess of Shambrogue, and Favourite of Hautefelia.  
Celia, Midwife to the Queen.  
Secretta, Nurse to the Queen.   
Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster.    

Sold by Richard Janeway, 1690.