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| KING WILLIAM'S LANDING, CARRICKFERGUS. -The picture shows the historic cove in which the warship that bore King William III to Ireland dropped anchor on June 14, 1690. Among those who accompanied him were Prince George of Denmark, the Duke of Ormond, Major General Mackay -the famous Scotch Puritan defeated by Dundee the day he fell at Killekrankie; the Duke of Wurtemberg, the Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, the Earls of Oxford, Portland, Scarborough and Manchester; General Douglas and many other well known military chiefs, who came to take their respective commands in the army of 40,000 men, drawn from nearly every country in Europe, then assembled under the orders of Marshal Schomberg in the neighborhood of Newry, County Down. Schomberg, before William's arrival, had shown his appreciation of Irish valor by granting to Sir Teague O'Regan and the Jacobite garrison that had so valiantly defended the Fort of Charlemont, the honors of war. Very soon, William got ready to give battle to King James on the banks of the Boyne, and the rest is known. The cliffs around Carrickfergus bay are bold and precipitous, and on the right of the picture is shown a means of ascent and descent which only the strongest and most daring of sea-faring men may attempt. The chain depending from the rocks vividly recalls the adventure of "Tom Burke of Ours," when escaping from the coast of France, so thrilling described by Charles Lever in one of his most stirring novels. |
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