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THE
Moderate Intelligencer:
Impartially communicating Martiall
Affairs to the KINGDOM of
ENGLAND.
From Thursday, June 7. to Thursday, June 14. 1649.
HAving given Answers to those Queries put to those who were
to goe for Ireland, every of which were disswasive. It may
not be amisse at this time when the Lieutenant Generall is
going, to perswade to the expedition: The first motive shall
be the seasonablenesse of the undertaking, which appears in
the States accommodations of money and other necessaries,
for use of the souldier at this time, at other times, & hitherto,
either wanting altogether, or so given, as that it was rather
an impediment then help to overcome: Now Tents, Ships,
Money, Corne, Cloaths, Ammunition and all is and will be ready to meet the Souldiers,
and this Argument, besides the seasonablenesse is of so much the more weight, as they are
or will be needed in Ireland, Ireland hath for enemies sicknesse and want, which are
prevented by good accommodations, and avoiding excesse: as for the Enemy, who are
to be encountered with, they will avoid fighting but where necessity enforces, and they
say we can kill more that way then by fighting, so that be the English furnished with
what needfull, they run the Rebels out of the Island, all which appears above board.
The second motive, why now, is the growing greatnesse of the Enemy which appears
by Letters from Chester.
June the 4th.
We get certain knowledge from Ireland, that the Ormond party hath taken from
Owen Roe, most, if not all, the strength he held in the Queens County, that they
have set fire of many places, Garrisoned others, and notwithstanding the Revoult of