PROCEEDINGS OF THE IRISH PARLIAMENT in DUBLIN.  
With a later Account of the happy Success of the Protestants of London-Derry, against the French and Irish-Papists in Ireland.  

licenced according to Order, May the 24.   
THere being so Few, and those so very Difficult Opportunities of hearing from Ireland, especially from Dublin; it cannot be expected but those Relations we receive here for News, should be there almost Antiquated, and by the constant succession of fresh Accidents, quiter out of Date, and though every now and then we have one or other distressed Fugitive put in here, yet their long absconding in order to get off, has rendered most of them incapable of giving any great Account of the French and Irish Transactions there: The last considerable Advice we have, is concerning their Parliament, which by the French Minister's Imperious Influence is so heated and disturbed, that they already begin to make Parties, and enter into Cabals: Some are for quiter abolishing and rescinding the Old Act of Settlement: Others are for a New One, and confirming the Forfeitures of the English Rebels( as they call them:) Some are for the total Extirpation of the remaining Protestants: Others for Confiscating and Depriving them of what little they have left. But in fine, its said, they have all agreed in the Banishment of them from the City, by which it is plain, that they Design nothing less than their Total Destruction: For besides the Miseries of Want, which they must certainly undergo, they are hereby unavoidably exposed to the cruel Barbarities of their Rabble-Army, who lie and take all Places for Twenty Miles about Dublin.  
As for that part of it which Besieges Derry, they begin to gnaw their Fingers with the Apprehension of the unexpected Dangers and Difficulties they have met with before it; for as that Sally wherein Maman the French General, with several other Persons of great Note among them, besides many Hundreds of Souldiers were killed, they have since by continual Skirmishes and Sallies, so disheartened them, that the Irish do many of them daily desert, and the French declare they do not like this way of Besieging Towns: As the Assailants are dejected, so the Joy, Courage, and Bravery of the Defendants is unspeakable, their Reverend Champion and Leader, both by Precept and Example, encouraging them, and like another Moses, leading them forth to fight the Lord's Battels, and like him, always returning with Success; the People and Souldiers seldom going to Meat till they have whetted their Appetites on their Enemies. They say, That in one late Sally the Lord German's Son was killed, a zealous Papist, and violent Prosecutor of the Protestants; the English in the Town are so used to Sally out and Beat them, that they now make it their Sport, and have made the Enemy so to contract their Camp, and remove further their Trenches, that they seem to have only the Name of a Siege.  
The late King is mighty Apprehensive of these Proceedings, and sends them all the Offers imaginable, which they bravely refuse to accept, returning their final Resolutions, not only to Defend the Place, but upon the first Arrival of their daily expected Succours, to take the Field against the besieging Army: And we are since credibly Informed, that the Protestants lately made a Vigorous and almost general Sally, wherein they sailed little of making an entire Victory; That they had slain a great number of their Men, and among the rest, several of eminent Note; that two or three of the greatest French Officers sell in this Encounter, beside some dead of their Wounds since the first great Sally; and that they had taken a very considerable Booty of Horses, Arms, Ammunition, and Provision. Major-General Kirk sailed from Liverpool with three Regiments the latter end of last Week, and it's said, is certainly arrived, and that the Enemy thereupon resolved to raise their Siege, quiter despairing of doing any good; the other Regiments designed for that Service, have positive Orders to Sail with expedition, so that in a little time we doubt not to be able to take the Field, and force those Rebellious Subjects to their just Obedience.   

LONDON, Printed by W. Downing. 1689.