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... . ma====a=voimmesm= - several 'persons (many 'of them from considerable' distances) assetnbled on that day and tbe,evening preceding,' upon the different roads by which it was possible for bfr. Baker to return from Cashel, and were stetiotraltNina.ootall, detachments in different houses andlilietintioaeOklment, for the purpose of intercepting him ; that :dr. Baker was watched the ficle day by persons apaointed for the purpose; that his departuze from Cashel was communicated by sigitals, and th it when the shots were fired which -deprived kiwi of his dire, a shout of triumph was raised by a number of people who bad assembled in the neighbourhood, evidently to witness this barbarous murder. ~ On the 2d of December I issued a Proclamation in Council; offering 4 reward of 45000 for the disco • very of the person by whom the murder was com mitted. I shortly afterwards received an address, signed by 76 Magistrates of the county of Tipperary, assembled at a Special Sessions of the Peace on the ]writ of December, expressing the strongest acknow. lodgments for the prompt administration of the povrers confided to the Executive Government. and assuring vie, that notwithstanding the recent murder of Mr. Baker, and the manifest intention rf those concerned in it to intimidate die Magistrates kom the execution of their duty, they were determined to co-operate with the Government in endeavouring to , maintain tranquillity, and not to relax theirexertions from the apprehension of personal danger: They concluded by praying, that a superintending Magis trate and police establishment might be placed in the barony in which the murder of Mr. Baker had been perpetrated. I gave immediate effect to the wishes of the Ma gistrates thus conveyed ; and a Chief Magistrate of Police, with 50 constables, was placed in the barony of Clanwilliam. On the 28th of December a warrant 'was issued for a Special Commission to be held in the county of Tipperary. In order that I might not interrupt a connected • account of the measures which I was compelled to adopt in the counties of Tipperary and Limerick, I omitted to state, that in the month of November, a Memorial; signed by several Magistrates of die . • rng's County, assembled at Clare on the 22d of November, was laid before me, representing that va rious acts of violence, viz.. the robbery of arms, the infliction of torture, the assembling in arms by sight, and the administration of unlawful oaths, were com mitted in a small district of that county (4), and praying that it might be declared in a state of distur bance under the Insurrectiun Act. I had previously received a Memotial from a nu merous meeting of the Magistrates of Westmeadi,• assembled at' (guide on the 2d November, stating, that the character of the disturbances which had so long prevailed in that county remained the same; that they were of opinion, that the ordinary powers entrusted to the Magistracy were totally inadequate to ensure security to the inhabitants ; and unani. mously praying. that the provisions of the Insurrec tion Act might be , put its turce iu two baronies of that county (5) without delay. 1 - laving had convincing proofs, that in the districts pointed out by the Magistrates of the King's County and Wesunentli (And which are contiguous districts) a very turbulent disposition had lung prevailed, many instances having occurred (some of which are enu merated in a fol trier part of this dispatch) in allich illegal . oaths had been adcniuistered, in which houses had been plundered of arms,.and witnesses and others susaected of aidilig the administration of justice, had hten o oluideted or most cruelly treated ; and having long witnessed the unceasing bet ineffectual ezertiols on the part of many of the Magistrates in the must - disoirbed parts of those counties, I determined to accede to their application, and with ate advice of the Privy Council, subjected the contiguous districts * of the two counties to the operation of the Insurrec . lion Act, by a Proclamation, which bears date the 2:1111. November. .. • In the course of the present year. the Insurrection Act has not been enforced in any new instance. lis the month of March, in consequence of a Memorial from 27 Magistrates of the county of Louth, a Special Magistrate, with 50 constables, was appointed, for the purpose of assisting them to maintain the peace in four baronies (6) of that county. Various acts of outrage were committed in these baronies about this period. IA the' course of one week, eleven houses in the neighbourhood of Dun dalk were plundered of arms. The house and offices of a farmer. who had prosecuted some persons by whom he had been robbed and nearly murdered, Were wilfully set on ate and consumed. -A party of • earned persons, reported to be not less than 200 in number, attacked the house of another individual, and entered it, after meeting with considerable resis tance : after wounding very severely the owner and two calla inhabitants of the house, they compelled him to deliver his arms, and to 'take an oath that he would give up his tam. In the month of April, in the present year, a simi lar police establishment was also appointed in ,three baronies (7) of the covany of Clare, on a representa ' titan received from 20 Magistrates of that county. For a considerable time past, certain districts in that ' county had been in an unsettled state ; but in the , cdUrse.of the preceding year I had been informed by , the Magistrates, that the examples made under the' Insurrection Act in the counties of Tipperary and Limerick had produced a very beneficial effect in the . , county ,1 Clare. In the months, however. of Fe bruary and March of the inesent year, offences -of the same general character with those which I have before described were very frequently committed.— Nightly meetings of large numbers of the lower or ders took place: in one district, in the course of the month of March, several houses were wilfully burned, and threatening notices were posted up, directed against the letting of lands to others than the old , p,oprietorsrand ;against the paytnent of rents, wept under certain prescribed regulations. I have enumerated all the several instances in which I have; with the advice of the Privy Council, enforced the provisions of either of those Acts of the Legislature which passed in the Session of 1814. lc will appear, from the detail into which I have en tered, that the Insurrection Act has been enforced in the county of Linitrick, the county of. the city of (I) The barony of Kilcourry, and the parishes of Darrow, Itahlut, Lentanaban, Clonmaeno:se, and Wherry. (5) Clonlunan and Moycashel. (6) Upper and Lower Drunfalk, Ardee, and Loath. (7) Ciouderhat, Mucha% and Moyarts. - Linteriek, • aavinakaatvotra • of the count peraty, two Ant nountr of Wit and imelliorict Lines county : and certain distric ts eanatiesi Tipperary, and Clare, special Magistrates anti Constables have been pladed, having the prdinatfpowers given to Civil °dicers, and the•iipenCes consequent on their appointment being levied from they district, within which they set. I shall now state to your Lordship the general re sult of the Measures which have been thus adopted for the preservation of the public peace, in aid of the ordinary operation of the law; and it gives me great. satisfaction to be enabled to-assure you, that tran quillity has been completely restored in some of the districts which were the seat of disturbance ; and that in three of those districts in which the Insuriection Act was enforced in the course of last year, itlas, in consequence of the improved state of Ahem, been withdrawn since the commencement of the present of Tip• .year. In the month of February last, I received from the Magistrates of the King's, County a Memorial, ex pressing their acknowledgments for the additional powers which had been given to them tinder the In. surrection Act, and for the judicious distribution of the military force ; stating the good effect to the peace of the county which had resulted from those measures, and giving their opinion that the addi tional powers entrusted to them might be safely ' withdrawn. From the Magistrates of the city of Limerick, as sembled at an extraordinary Sessions of the Peace on the 15th day of April last, a Memotial was trans mitted, stating their opinion that the circnmstances which induced them to apply for the provisions of the 54th of the King to be put in force in the county of the city of Limerick no longer existed: I have also received a Mitesorial from the Magi strates of the County of Wesiaseath, assembled at a special Session of the Peace heist list month, expiess ing the deep sense which they eatertain.of the benefit which their county has experienced from the measures which had been adopted ; attributing the tranquillity they now enjoy to the successful operations of the provisions of the Insurrection Act; and adding their . wish, that the powers with which it invested them might be withdrawu, and the ordinary coarse of law restored. . I gave immediate effect to their several applica tions, and the Proclamations enforcing the insurrec tion Act in certain districts of the county of West meath, King's county, and the county of the city of Limerick, have been severally revoked by she Privy Council. The only counties, therefore, in which that Act now remains in operation are the counties of I Tipperary and Limerick. I have annexed to this dispatch a Report of the proceedings of the Special Commission held for the County and City of Limerick in the month of No. vember 1815, and in the County of Tipperary in the month of February 1816 ; and a return of persons tried at the Special Session under the Insurrection Act, for offences against the provisions of that Act. I have added also a statement of the proceedings, at the several Assizes in the years 1813, 1314, and 1815. and Lent Assizes of the year 1816, so tar as relates to committals and convictions for criminal acts connected with the disturbance of the public peace in the following counties : Westmeath, Tip perary, Limerick, King's County, Queen's County. Longford, Louth, Clare, Roscommon, and WA. terrord. _ _ _ There may appear to your Lordship a great diapa rity in some cases between the number of committals and the number of convictions; and persons ac quainted with the internal state of this country may inter that committals too frequently take place out sufficient evidence of guilt against the parties ap prehended. No such conclusions, however, (I mean so far as relates to the general practice ot cite Ma gistracy to commit suspected persons on slight and in sufficient ground), ought to be drawn. The frequent instances which have come to my knowledge, wherein prosecutors and wttnesses have been intimidated by the menaces of the friends of the parties deposed against ; the experience I have had of the danger to which they, and even their relations are exposed ; of the necessity which in almost every case occurs, that they should quit the place of their birth and residence; of the odium which universally attaches to the name of an informer; compel me to consider the disproportion . between the number of committals and convictions in many districts, rather as a proof of the disordered state of society, and of the impediments in the way of the administration of justice, than as a proof of undue precipitancy on the part of the Magistracy, in committing on the suspi cion of criminality. I may be allowed here to add, ' that the danger attendant en the giving information Of evidence was so notorious, and so much impeded the conviction of the guilty at no remote period, that the Legislature found it necessary, with the view of deterring from the murder of witnesses, and of pre venting the impunity of the parties against whom those witnesses had deposed, to enact, that if any person having given information upon oath of any offence against the laws should be murdered, or for cibly carried away before the trial of the person de posed against, such information on oath should be admitted as evidence on the trial. It has been necessary in the disturbed counties (in most instances of persons having given information on oath, or intending to give evidence upon trial) on account of the serious danger to which such per sons are exposed, to remove them to places of secu rity previous to the trials, and ultimately to provide for their removal from their usual abodes. In many cases the witnesses for the Crown have. at their own request, been kept a considerable period previously to the trial in the gaol of the county, as affording them the best means of protection; in other cases they have been protected in barracks, 'or brought to Dublin, where however, occasionally, they have not been safe from the hostility of the friends of the par ties apprehended. I have not thought it necessary to mention the nu merons applications which have been, and, continue to be made. for military assistance is aid of the civil power. by Magistrates and others. I never recona= mend the Commander of the Forces •to accede to those applications, without the strongest evidence tal their necessity ; and in almost every case, the mai. tory Othcer in command of the District from which the requisition proceeds, is dieircted to enquire perso nally into the pounds on whkh it is made. I ought that is 1 Louth, I msemeisewkwesr..—sr-osse"---- -- r oat.bosrever, to 'snit to osentios, that st very cond. IZosilitsiy force Is eoplorest in giving assist. tothe Officers of Revenue, the suppression of illicit distillation; which prevails to a greAt extent in seteral of die northern .and western counties of this kingdom. In consequence of an order of the House' of Comfbons; made in the month of February in the present year, a return has been made of the troops at that time employed on: this service, which I have an nexed to this dispatch, and which will give lull infor• matiou with respect to the number of men employed, the detachments into which they are divided, and the stations at which they are placed. • I am. with great truth and regard, my Lord, Yoor Lordship's most obedienthuMble Servant, (Signed) WHITWORT/i. The Viscount Sidmouth, itc. APPENDIX, No. t. Evidenee of John Slattery, Nicholas Salton. and the Reverend JohnAyan. James Slattery was asked, What k the English of the word Shanavestsl—A. I cannot tell. Q. You know k perfectly welL Is It DCK the name of a party in thiscountry I—A. It is. • Q. By the Chief Baron—What is the other party called Caravat s. Q. Has there not been a wicked and malicious enmity subsist kg between those who call themselves Shanavests and earavats A. They are often quarreling. Q. Do not you believe the Shanavests took arms by night !believe they did. Q. And the Caravatal—A. I believe they did. Q. By virtue of your oath, has then, not been a quarrel be tween the Shanavests and Camvats I.—A. There was. Q. What is the cause of quarrel between these two parties, the Sbanavests and Caravats t—A. l do not. knew. Q. What is the true mason I—A. lodeed I cannot tell. Q. Du you know am= of the name of Pasideeu liar I—A. I do. Q. He ;s your uncle. Was he not the principal ringleader and .;ornruatitler of the army of Shattavestsl—A. He is a poor old • ntan, and ant abk to take command. Q. By Lord Norbury.—What was the first cause of the quar rel I—A. It was the Imam foolish dispute about May-balls. Q. By the I..`hlef Baron—Which is the oldest party I—A. The Caravats were going on for two yearsbefore the Shatiavests stirred. Q. Why were they called Canaan I—A. A man, of the name of Hanly, was hanged. He was prosecuted by the Shanavests, and Pandeen Gar said, he would out leave the place of execution till he taw die cravat about the fellow's neck, and from that time they were called Caray.sts. Q. For what !silence was thinly hanged 1--A. For burningthe house of a mast who had takeu Lusd over his neighbour's head. Q. Hailly was the leader of the Caravats I—A. Before he was hanged, his patty was called the Moyle Rangers. Tie Shana vests were catkd Pandeen Gar's Party. Q. Why were they culled bhanavests Because they wore old waistcoats. Nicholas Saxton, a witnexs, corroborated the evidence of James Slattery; his evidence was exactly similar to that given by Slat tery. He gave precisely the same history of the first origin of the party of Careens and Shainavests, and proved that all those connected iu their illegal Associations had no other object in tak ing up arms than to defend themselves against the attacks of each iither. The Reverend Jobe Ryan, Priest of Fethard, was examined, and said, that at the Fair be saw stm►e of the Shanavrats strike the Caravats. ^ Q. (by the Chief Baron).--ls k notorious la the parish who are Shassamests, and who are Caravats T—A. It is. Q. from a gentleman of your.appearance and manners! should wish to be unarmed what is the real cause of quarrel t—A. I never could find out tile teal cause. _ _ ---- Q. (by Lord Norbury).—Do the feuds of those insurgents pre vent their attending divine service T—A. No my Lord: both bhanavests and Caravan attend divine service indiscrimins_ tzly. Q. (by the Solicitor-Geueral).—Do you consider these fella,. as they are called, confined to the lower orders 3 —A. I think they are. I ant not sore wisether any respectable parishioner has joined them. Q. Can you form any opinion whether any one party,is 'bore 'criminal than the other I—A. I cannot : they are equally crinii. nal; but the taking of arms is confined exclusively to the two parties concerned in those feuds. NOTie••••it however appeared on several triab that these par ties frequently laid aside their private animosities, and were uni ted in a general system of outrage and uppmition to the laws. NEW YORK PAPERS. NEW YORK, JUNE s. Our Readers are already acquainted with the fact, that beef, butter, and potatoes have been imported into New York, Philadelphia, and 1141timore, in the course of the spring. It is an extraordinary fact, that these articles, notwithstanding the freight, insurance, duties, &c. have been sold lower than similar articles of domestic growth, and yet have yielded to the im porter a handsome mercantile profit. We understand that a company is now forming in this city to import a full cargo of butter from Ireland for this market in the en►uing autumn. It is believed! that the company will be able to supply our citizens with as good butter as is made in any part of our coun try, and at a considerably reduced price :.and one of our most. respectable brewers has informed us, that himself and others are now making arrangements to import their barley and hops from England. Phis state of things, however, we presume, cannot cond. nue, long, as we do not believe that there is any scar city of these articles in this country. We understand that the United States sloop of war Peacock, commanded by Captain G. W. Rodgers, will sail from this port tomorrow morning for Havre de-Grace. Albert Gallatin, Esq. Minister to the Court of France, goes out in this vessel. RICHMOND (VIRGINIA), JUNE 1. Just as our Paper is preparing for press, we hear of a most distressing occurrence. We have seen a Gen tleman who has seen his two wounded friends. The . *, world is aware of a dispute some time esitting he- ' , tweet% Peter Randolph, Judge of the Circuit Court, and Thomas Wells, a delegate from Nottoway in the General Assembly. It has led to a war in the News. papers; but not, until now, to bloodshed. On Wed -nesday evening Judge Randolph rode to the Court house of Nottaway, to inspect some papers at the clerk's office; his friend and cousin Colonel Greenhill was in his company, until he came within a short distance of Mr. Wells's house. . Wells keeps a public house, the piazza of which is near the road.- Judge Randolph went to the clerk's office, and on his return by Welles house, approach ed it as if to speak to Mr. Wells,' and stepped into the piasza. Wells CAM* to the door; no conversa tion, or a very short one, ensued ; the latter fired and shot Judge Randolph in the breast ; hz staggered out of the house, and had not yet fallen, when Colo nel Greenhill, who had been to the gaol and heard the report of the pistol, came up and found him grounded. Judge Randolph told him of what passed, and begged him not to hurt Wells.' • The latter acain came to the door, and ordered Colonel Greenhill oft The Colonel refused to obey the command ; when Wells fired at him and wound , ed him with two balls, one of which struck on one side of his neck, and wounded round to the other ; the other is hot yet found. After a short time, the two Gentlemen were removed. Surgical aid was called in, sad au Thursday bothgentiensen were seen by our infcrrr I`.t. 'The Physicians had not definitively pronouner - Randolph's case • ' thrones• - , op% Judge A's case : the ball was suppos e d it have passed t. igh anJ lodges neAr to the te6ki of the back bone. BALTIMORE, MAY 29. • We understand that the President of the States and his Lady, with the beads of 1 . 1 —epartin ent . and other Officers of Government, leave Ilia:Lino): this day for Annapolis, with the intention of viut iu .: the Washington, 74, at anchor off that harbour. 4 His Excellency William Pinckney a n d f ano. have proceeded to the same place, for the purpose embarking for Europe. A number of Gentlemen from this city visited d ie United States ship Washington, Commodore Clilua, cey, off Annapolis, on Saturday last, and w ere Tc. ceived by the Commodore with great politenns; as far as their short stay permitted, they exam i. , the ship, and were big!) , gratified wiqi this it bs t specimen of American naval architecture, ce,n ; bi„i,. ; force with elegance, and strength with n eatne.; crew of about 600 healthy young men, :rqd rently in a state of petiect happiness, content, a . 4 discipliue, who worked the guns with the faciinv a company mancenvring their mosk_ts. The d ec i, 'were clean, and the mess kids, cans, and tin cu,, i were placed in rows, with two B:bles spot. th n, ~„ each mess ; and the whole together formed a subject of the highest gratification to the patriot, be mo if science, and the curious citizens, who made th e et . cursion in one of our steam-boats. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, JULY 1. We are assured that the Duke of Angrq;enft Liam Paris on tbe, alt,, for the .Department of Isere. He will return en the 20th, and his Ror.l Highness has desired that no public honours shau4 be paid to him on his passage. Among the company who yesterday repaired to the Thuilleries, we remarked the Prince Royal of Wurtemborgh, the Grand Officers of the Crow n , Marshals the Duke of Tarentum, the Duke of Reg g i o , the Duke of Belluno, the Duke of Rages*. the Duke of Albufera, the Duke of Comeghaao, the Duke of Valmi, the Ministers, Ike. _ The Duke of Bourbon is to leave England oa the &I on his return to Paris. NANFE.S. JUNE 29. A letter from the Commissary-General of the V 4 rine at L'Orient to the principal Commissary at sot port tires the following details: 46 For some time back, some pirates have been cruizing among the Turkish islands: others who went out from Carthagena, when that city was takra by the Spanish Royal Army. are often wrecked upon La Beate, or the Island des Vignes. They generally frequent the rocks of St. Louis, and approach the main land during the night; and they are sometimes seen upon the Point des Salines, or in the Bay of Ocoz. It is said that several of the latter vessels are commanded and armed by Frenchmen. They have on board some negroes and some Spanish riders...- According to the account which has been given to me. they commence their chace under the Spar.idi flag, and then they hoist the tricoloured ft vv.,. Tiler also use, as occasion serves, the flags of Christriphe and Petion. I beg you to make knewn to the C tains of the ships which direct their course to St. Do mingo, the dangers that they may run in these ?Atli.' ALCERINE PIRATE„S. At a moment when all Europe re-echoes cries el indignation at the frightful event that occurred at Bona, and when it is manifest even to minds km susceptible of commiseration, that great and prompt measures are indispensable for avenging Christendom for all the outrages long suffered from the inhabitants of the northern coast of Africa, it is our duty to announce the Memnrial we have received from Sir Sidney Smith, " Qa the Necessity and Means of path,: a stop 19 the Piracies of the Barbary States." This Me morial is accompanied by tour otlizial, Of other pieces all relating to this important :object. We ch4ll only poiat nut the following passages to the frienJcil 4umanity, persuaded that uhea they shall scr'ott , ;l direct their attention to it, this great political st.tii-Ll will terminate : " He who dues not know slayers," observe% a traveller lee!, returned from Algiers, •• and who has never seen what pa z .ei at Algiers, ma form uo idea of the last degree of !tonna uor the alfasenwut to which misfortune cut reduce the mint of ALM . 66 There were at that time about WO slaves at Ale:ere, d whom more than 100 sunk yearly tinder grief, despair, the c ;c.c.s of their labours and the cruelty of their punishments. : hsc every morning ' in a bath, they sleep on the ground, exp. se l to wind and rain. At the dawn of day they are awakened, anti beaten in an unpitying manner, they ire conducted to their ptiu• ful toils, which last till evening. Some work at the arsenal, ek-re the slightest fault exposes them to the most cruel treatment, buck as 500 strokes of a stick on the sees of their lest. Othen, like beasts of burden, are condemned to roll, or carry, enortootts stones, detached from mouwains. They not unfrequently sick under the had, and are crushed to death. 6 6 I have seen some of these wretched creatures return to th, town mutilated and bloody ; I have seen them fall he the street , ' and compelled by strokes of a whip, like the vilest annuals of th• cretstion, to rise, while others rattently support rids torure, 41. , 1 rennin absolutely immoveable, expecting -death. which they courted. " The nourishment of these unhappy beings moist, in ma rolls of breatl a day, black at soot, anti better as gall—ona In the morning, dm other in the evening. Reduced to the mots hie!. ful otitery, deprived of hope and contolattun, they !teflon., the objects of contempt, insult, and the had treatment of PV: ry and Tut k ; and without priests, or divine service, they hay? s t even the support of religion. Sctahi alone pays u toot charged with the superintendatici al.a tittle and 111 , burial of the Christians.- Before this power, a tcw yearn purchased the little ceraetry, the deceased Christians were burial, and thrown to the dugs. " Unfortunately the high price of the ransom renders the,f deliverance vet y difficult. • They require 1,5,0 Oast .es tor .I%li Christian, for Money is thc ruling passion of the..e inrbart::. The present Dey, Nadschi Ali l'acba, is the most cruel that ev^: . reigned in Algiers; he his already reigned sia years, and it is• cr . his extreme. vigilance and cruelty thst be owes bit ptete:cvlio . MON I'ACNE, JUNZ2s. The extravagant plot tormeei here was clisclosec - , we are assured, by One of the accomplices exile:;! Montagne, who obtained permission to return to Alencan. Fortunately there are uo persons of dis• tinction concerned in the plot. The principals app?ar to be the concierge of the chief town of the Senator ?, and his son, The latter composed the proclarn.! , tions and the bulletins which were to be itistribut , 7 ,l among the. country people. .1 great 'number werc found in writing, and in a mannscript which reseal bled print. • According to the bulletins, all France was 11: 4. btete of insurrection &Oast die Roy.' • .