Star. — London, England, 1829-10-31 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS VISIT. Dos MI6 El., making a desperate effort in this, h terrible emergency, is said to have made a farther remit tance of Milreas, together with some very earnest re monstrances, to his friends ; who, for some time past, have been cooling with his fortunes. However that be, it is certain that Dos MIGUEL'S spy and Suborner ASSEC A was seen this morning at early dawn, dodging mysteriously about the Strand, enveloped in a cloak, and loaded with something heavy under his arm. His sinister appearance having awakened the suspicions of the New Police, he was cautiously followed and watched, until he stopped before a shop, covered over with placards and bills of ware, within a few doors of Somerset House. Here he gave a familiar knock ; but his rap having ap parently been long forgotten by the inmates, he proceeded to kick against the door with fury, exclaiming—" un grateful wretch ! interested ! unconscionable !! shame less !!!—and so forth ; until the policeman rushed for ward, and secured the notorious spy by the collar : and upon examining the object he carried so secretly under his mantle, discovered it to be a Portuguese canvass bag, containing foreign silver coin,which the prisoner, in broken English and mysterious look, expressed to be " de Mil rea for him friend of de Morning." The policeman, however, persuaded he was a house-breaker, was dragging him to his station ; when a brigadier-general of the night establishment—followed by his aid-do camp and an officer of the intended police-artillery —making their rounds, came up ; upon which the prisoner, taking the Commander aside, whispered something that whistled on the morning breeze like the sound of Aberdeen ; when instantly the Portuguese spy was set at liberty, who, remarking the fast approach of day-light, repaired hastily once more to the shop near Somerset House, at which he thundered with authority, —until a gentleman ! with a newspaper night-cap and a dirty pen behind his ear, let him cautiously in. The curiosity of the Policeman, who had first watched this bird of evil omen, was again tempted, notwithstanding the injunctions of his officer, to apply his ear to the key hole, when he heard these words—" But—my conscience, your Excellency." "Go—dem your conscience! —who ever hear of dat ?"—" But really the cause is one which I can not with all my courage"—" Courage ! St. Ignacio! have ye de courage to refuse dis ?"—(clinking the bag).— The reply was spoken in a voice tremulous from emo tion : " Why indeed—l—scarce can--withstand tempta tion. Your Excellency knows my weakness—and takes advantage of a poor frail creature—just when I was getting clean, too, in the mind —'tis too bad—no, no, — I cannot—" " clean in your mind ! den must you re main cleaned out, and I mug be clean off." The foreigner here fumbled at the door to get out, when the other voice desperately exclaimed—" Stay, stay—my poverty, but not my will, consents." Shortly after " His Excel lency, the Ambassador of Portugal" tripped out with a sneer of satisfaction, lighter than he came. It is said the honour of this visit is announced in one of the Morning Journals. • • * * • Startled at the bold manly language of a British free man, expressed lately, to our surprise, in the Times newspaper, the Liberticides of the Press, fearful of the impression on the public mind, profess themselves stricken with horror. They can view unmoved the massacre of thousands ; they can echo back the triumphs of the Por tuguese executioners; they can receive from spies the guilty blood-money—exult over the misery of. Patriots in exile—and, in defending usurpation and crime, parti cipate in murder and oppression. But they shudder at the destruction of one tyrant homicide, assassin en masse, be causehe divides with them his guilty booty. Abased in mind, and familiar with meanness, the noble sentiments of man they deride as an absurdity. A despot is a saint, if he can pay. Their public spirit is money ; only gorge them with that, and they will lick the feet of a NERO, and ad vocate the Inquisition. Considering their Journals as mere ware, and the Press as an engine of contribution, they live like marauders amidst their fellow-citizens, un dermining public principle, and attacking every thing which freemen should respect. With them HA RMODIUS and ARISTOGITON merited no monument. TELL was a traitor, for he destroyed the bloody GEISLAR. CIIAR LOTTE CORDIE merited the rack ; and the patriot who would devote his life to rescue Portugal from blood and desolation would be more damned than JUDAS ISCARIOT, because—he would kill the goose that lays the golden egg ! ! ! DRAMATIC ANECDOTE..—." Modern Comedy is more favourably estimated abroad than at home, if we may judge from the fact that FREDERIC REYNOLDS'S Co medy of The Dramatist has been translated into Spanish by Don TELESYORO DE TRUEBA, the author of The Castilian, and performed upwards of fifty nights at Ma drid."—Morn. Chronicle. That the Comedy of FDEDE RIC REYNOLDS has been translated into Spanish by this Don Telesfora de Trueba only proves what a celebrated French poet has expressed in verse, " that there is no fool who is not admired by one greater than himself." If the translation of bad plays with success be a proof of their being " favourably estimated," in what venera tion must we not hold those foliculaires of Paris whose bluettes neglected or damned, in the Theatres of the fourth or fifth order in that capital, are yet—under the Readership of Mr. FREDERIC REYNOLDS—regularly produced on the first stage of this country, with all the honours of the comedies of Mr. REYNOLDS; that is to say, they are played with applause (to the astonishment and delighted vanity of these Paris scribblers), and then —are scorned and forgotten. Let it be remembered,that Cato is the only unmutilated English Tragedy which a ••• • • French audience can suffer. THE GREAT INSA N E.—We are happy to inform the public that the symptoms of mental derangement which so violently affected a certain leading personage have been gradually subsiding into a calmer state of malady ever since the memorable signature of the Turkish treaty. In Spring, however, the physicians apprehend a return of the crisis, if he escapes a paroxysm at the next meeting of Parliament, of which he cannot speak but with distressing emotion. It is the intention of his friends at that fearful period to put all pistols and swords out of his way, and to have the New Police in constant watch at Battersea fields. On examining his tongue this morning, it was discovered to be so much furred and inflamed, that it is feared, it will be a long time before he can well speak in public. His eyes still continue to roll very wildly ; and when the name of Ireland is mentioned, he involuntarily shudders, and sinks into a fit of afflicting despondency, from which nothing can divert him but certain bright gewgaws and ribbons, with which his friends the Foreign Ambassadors never fail, in such moments, to amuse him. With a certain chamber utensil on his head, a counterpane on his shoulders, hung in fashion of royal robes, and a huge iron poker in his hand, he yesterday strutted about his apartment, conceiv ing himself to be no less a personage than NAPOLEON BITo APA RTE. His attendants were commanded to address him as Emperor, and this prodigious mistake of fancy might still have continued, had not a bullying letter from the Emperor NICHOLAS suddenly arrived, to rouse him from the delusion ; upon which, quite chop fallen, he relinquished his mock-diadem with a sigh. Poor man ! How much he is to be pitied! both for his own sake, and alas! for ours. The other patient of the Home Department nas passed a good night—only this morning he is haunted by the appalling ghosts of CANNING and a spianiny jenny ; and conceives nothing but a coronet can put them to flight. He sent to borrow several from the Peerage, but found them all too large for his small head. Disappointed in this, he has thought to frighten away these importunate spectres by vainly disfiguring himself, by frequently turning his coat; but all in vain—the phantoms still stick to him. We understand that a consultation is speedily to be called in a high quarter, in order to relieve the mind of this unfortunate patient. The lunatic in the Foreign Office is, however, got worse and worse ; his case is considered to be of a most desperate description. He dreams of nothing but cas tellated towers, feudal absurdities, and whips and chains, and constantly amuses himself by drawing in colours of blood upon the walls, a ferocious looking being on a scaffold, resembling an executioner, armed with a bloody axe, whom he calls his friend the Dow. Nothing can reduce this maniac to order, but threatening him in high German, with the displeasure of some one called METTERNICH, upon which, he never fails to sneak away in obedient silence like a school-boy that has been well horsed. The inferior madmen are all pre paring in terror to undergo immediate purgation. His MAJESTY, it would seem, solicitous for the safety of these poor lunatics, and his more honest leiges, intends, it is said, soon to remove them, from all possibility of doing further mischief—Goo SAVE TIIE KING. ••• • • DREADFUL STATE OF IRELAND. MURDER OF A PROTESTANT CLERG FMAN.--Again it becomes our unhappy lot to say that another foul stain has been attacked to that sanguinary catalogue of crime, which too fre• ° quently degrades the national character of our country, in the eye of civilized Europe. Bloodshed and murder are unfortunately almost characteristic features in the records of Irish history both ancient and modern. Paving events afford no indication of improvement, and we rather apprehend that we are yet fated to observe more of this dreadful state of society The Rev. John Going, Rector of Moyaliffe, county Tipperary' left his family seat last Friday to attend the Sessions of Thurles' Approaching to evening, Mrs. Going began to feel uneasy for her husband's return, as he had told her on setting out, that he would, if possible, be home to his family before dark.— Under this apprehension Mrs. Going desired one of the ser vants to saddle a horse and ride forward to meet his m aaaa r. He accordingly went to the stable to prepare for the road, and had the animal just equipped—when what was his alto. nishment to see his master's horse drive up to the stable door, and trot into his stall, bridled and saddled, but without any rider! Mrs. Going's distress of mind cannot be de scribed on bearing of it ; the servant was instantly despatched with assistants to search for her husband, while all his children continued in the most painful anxiety. They pursued the road by which he was to return, until they % came near Farney Bridge, where they found the body of their unfortunate master lying across the road, without a spark of life. On his head was a large cut from which the blood bad flown copiously, and their immediate impression was that be had by some mishap been thrown front his burst and killed on the spot. But murder will speak with " most miraculous organs;' even that nslancholy satisfaction was not left his ago nised family and sorrowing domestics ; for on moving the body they traced no less than three gun-shot wounds on differerent parts of his person. All doubt was now removed, and the deceased Clergyman was conveyed to the mansion of mourning, where a widow and nine orphans clasped his lifeless remains with the most piteous and dimming cries !We could not pint this heart-break - ing scene, the very thoughts of what followed this frightful tragedy would harrow up even common feelings. As yet there is no account whatever of the murderers, nor can any reason be assigned for the foul deed. The Rev. John Going was a Clergyman amiable in his manners, inoffensive in his deport ment, and exemplary in his ministerial character. He was aMa gistrate, and a man of great humanity, the son of a most excellent geatleman, the late Richard Going, of Bird-hill, Esq. an indivi dual liked by all the country round, and brother of the ill-fated Richard Going, Esq. Police Magistrate, who was so brutally mur dered at Cappa, county Limerick, in October, 1621. Blois bloanzas.—Thursday night, a party of armed insurgents went to the house of a mac named Ryan, near Templemore, (whose brother is under the denomination of a Government informer, having given evidence in the case of Mr. Baker's murder) they fired into the house through the window and wounded hint so badly that his life is despaired of —they then went about a mile distant to the house of his mother, took her out of bed, and shot her dead on the spot. To instance the estimate taken of human life in Tip perary, weneed only refer to the last Assizes of Clonmel, when it distinctly appeared that a murder was procured by another, who instigated the perpetrators for a bribe of thirty pieces of silver, to destroy a man they had no previous malice whatever against ! On the nights of Wednesday and Thursday three persons were fired at in the neighbourhood of Templemore, and dangerously, wounded. The house of a respectable farmer near Cloughjurdan was attacked by a party of insurgents on the night of Thursday last, and his arms taken. The unfortunate man defended his house for a considerable period, and did not give up his arms until his skull was fractured, and his wife dreadfully wounded. Monday night, at an early hour, the farm-house of Jahn M'Na mars Price, on the lands of Rhebugue, in the Liberties of this City, was burned to the ground.—lt is feared the conflagration was malicious, as the tenant had but recently entered on the farm. The house was on the estate of the Rev. Ottiwell Moore. The family bad retired to their beds quite unconscious of the incipient conflagration, and ail would hare perished in the flames, but for the alarm of a neighbour. There are two persons in custody on suspicion. In the Queen's County, on Sunday last, five policemen conveying two rioters to a place of confinement in the village of Ballyroan, were attacked by a ferocious mob, and severely beaten. Two of the men were stabbed with their own bayonets, and the guns of the whole party were broken, chiefly upon their own heads. Sunday evening, the out-office of the Rev. Mr. Goldsbury, in the town of Boyle, was maliciously consumed—the 66th Regiment prevented the flames from spreading. The Police Barrack at Ballinasloe was burnt down on Wednes day night, and but for the laudable exertions of Captain Deane with his detachment of the Sth Infantry, the flames would have spread to the adjoining houses. The fire originated in the negligence of a female, who left a lighted candle on the bed. The Magistrates of Roscommon and Sligo assembled in large numbers at Boyle, on Monday—Viscount Lorton in the Chair — when they resolved to offer .6180 reward, in addition to £2OO from Government, for discovery of the ruffians who committed the daring outrage on the Rev. Mr. Shaw and his family. At this meeting the Magistrates recorded their decided opinion, that the revival of the Insurrection Act is the only measure calcu lated to suppress the system of outrage and intimidation which now prevails. A Chief Constable. Mr. Colville, and 25 mounted police, in augmentation of the roue already stationed in that neighbosr hood, have arrived at Enoistymon, County of Clue, where they are to remain, as long as the district continues in a state of distur bance. The expense of maintaining this additional force, is to be levied off that district. THE KING. WINDSOR, FRIDAY, Oct.. 30. His MAJESTY visited the Castle yesterday afternoon, accompanied by the LORD STEWARD, where he arrived in his pony phaeton about three o'clock. The KING alighted in the quadrangle, and proceeded to his apart ments in the east front, after which inspected St. Hall, &c. His MAJESTY then drove into the Dleasurc-grounds, and returned by Frogmore Lodge to leis residence in the Great Park at five o clock, and a! sewn etitc..rtained his suite at dinner. His MAJESTY has daily taken his airings during the week. 1::ISEIONABLE INTELLIGENCE CHANGES. The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, front Gower House, in the Green Park, on Tuesday last, on a tour ; the Earl of Jerseys at Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, from a tour; Countess Spencer at her house in St. James's.place, from her seat, Althorpe. Northamptonshire; the Countess St. Martin de Front, to her villa at Twickenham, front Bath; Countess Berkeley for Cranford Lodge; the Countess Dowager Powictt, from Twickenham to Brighton ; the Right Hon. John Calcraft, at Whitehall, from Dor sershire ; Mr. Granby Calcraft, at ditto, from a tour; 'Mr. John Illiem Bethel! for Merley Hall, in Dorsetthire ; Captain and Mrs. Spencer, for Bath ; Maj r and Mrs. Douglas, for the Regency crescent, Brighton; Lieut. Colonel Robet t Bolton, for Dublin ; Major Powis, for Canterbury ; General Sir Thomas Bowyer, on a tour ; Captain llycruft, for Maidstone ; Major Warburton, tor East Grinstead, Sussex; Captain Ellis and Major lirograve. in Pall mall, from Malta ; Sir Digt , )? Mackwortli, Bart. for Sudbury ; Major Francis Moore, for the Depot in the Isle of Wight ; Mr. George Brent, for Hayfield Hall, Norfolk ; Mr. Robert Munro, for Busbridge park, Surry, from Ramsgate ; Mrs. Roberts. tor Itoehampton, trout Hill-street ; the lion. Miss Smith, in Hill street. from Florence; Mr. and Mrs. Tanfield, irons Lower Sey mour-street, for Dover; Capt. and Mrs. Crawley, in Grosvenor street, from Paris ; the Earl of Orford, front Thomas's Hotel. Berkeley square, for Norfolk ; Viscount Bayne, hum ditto, for Shropshire ; Sir William and Lady Cooper, (torn ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cooper from ditto; Miss Pocock front ditto; Sir Charles Chad, Bart. front Fiaching's Hotel, Oxford-street, to Ramsgate ; Air. and Mts. Searle, from ditto. to Lancashire; Mrs. and the Misses Hammond, from ditto, to Bath ; Miss Willoughby, from ditto, to Cheltenham ; Mr. and Mr'. Charles Hanneraall, at ditto, from Cambridgeshire ; Captain Lascelles, R.N. at ditto, from Yorkshire ; P. Belson, Esq. at ditto, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Burditt, front Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, on a tour ; Sir James and Lady Flamer and family, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street. front Cheltenham ; the Rev. Georg e and Mrs. Waddington, at ditto, front Worcester ; Henry L. Bulwer, Esq. from ditto, fur the Continent ; Mrs. Robert Calvert front ditto, on a tour ; Sir William Robinson, front Morley's Hotel, Cockspur street, for Dover; Dr. Newell, from ditto, for Cheltenham ; Dr. Lilbourn, front ditto on a tour; B. Belcher, Esq. (tort ditto, for Tunbridge Well;; Mr. and Mrs. Roche and family, from Talke's Hotel (late Miller's,) Jermyn-street, for Paris ; Capt. and Mrs. Wrench, at Batts' Hotel, Dover-street, from Brussels; Sir George Nugent and Lady, Captain and Miss Nugent, (rum ditto, for their eat near Marlow, Bucks; Capt. Hawks, from ditto, for Surrey. FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER. MORNING Daass.--A dress of lavender-coloured gem de Xages, with broad hem round the border, the head slightly vandyked, and finished by chain work of silk cordon. The body covered with a cazenou spencer of embroidered tulle; with stripes formed of pink satin rouleau:, the waist encircled by a pink ribbon belt. striped with black in hair stripes : over the sleeves, which ate a rimbeeille, of the same material as the dress, frills of broad white lace, and on each shoulder a bow of ribbon with long ends, the same as the belt. Broad bracelets of gold encircle the wrists, surmounted by a full ruffle of lace, ascending towards the narrow part of the arm. A ruff round the throat. formed of lace and pink satin, very much ornamented under the brim with pink satin ribbon and blond, and a full branch of white privet, without foilage, over the right temple. A bouquet of flowers in front of the crown; and broad strings of :pink satin ribbon, clouded with black, float loose. Half-hoots the colour of the dress, fringed round the top, and Woodstock gloves. Are Evamisa Dares consists of an Indian taffety, delicately painted in lozenge diamonds, in outline. A broad hem surrounds the border, and next the shoe are two rouleauz, one straight, the other sealoped, divided by a narrow rouleau of blue satin. On the broad hem, which ascends nearly as high as the knee, are ornaments en wit, placed wide apart, surmounted by a row of strawberry leaves, and finished like the jagged edges of the Florence-ornaments, with scarlet and green satin ; blue is equally fashionable. The body plain and low ; a drawn tucker of blond across the bust. Beneath this tucker is a cape-collar, forming one large scalop in front of the bust : and cleft in points on each shoulder where they form man cherons over sleeves a la Mameluke, of white blond ; these are con fined at the wrist by a narrow cuff of white satin, above which is a coronet bracelet of gold. The collar-capes are trimmed round with narrow blond, and rouleau: of scarlet satin. The head-dress is a turban of white crepe-liese, the folds interspersed with bows of blue or green satin ribbon ; with strings of the same, floating loose. The ear-pendants and necklace are of pearls. GINTLENIZN'S WALKING Dazsa.—An olive green frock-coat, made to fit very tight at the waist ; claire buttons on each side in front ; the collar and lappel made to fold back to chew the waist coat, made of silk of a fancy pattern, and faced with Terry velvet of purple and gold, or green and silver ; the collar of the coat should fall so as to touch the top of the sleeve, which is made very full, and wadded ; the cuffs fit very tight, and are two inches wide ; the corners rounded off, to skew the wristband of the shirt; the skirts full, and in small puckers at the wrist ; the hip-buttons four inches apart; the skirts of the coat lined with silk serge, of the colour of the cloth. The trowsers are of fawn coloured drab kerseymere ; of the same width from the knee to the bottom; a little tongue is inserted at the instep, which throws it over the boot, and admits of a short strap under the foot. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.- MAILS ARIUTID THIS Mr.—Dublin I—Waterford 1. The Royal Edward, from Liverpool, wat spoken with sth inst. in lat 46. long. 53. by the Edgar, Mann, arrived at Limerick. DIAL, OCT. 30.—Wind W.S.W.—No arrivals. Poarsmouru, Ocr. 30.—Wind N. W.—Arrived the Merchant, —, from Dantzic ; and his Majesty's cutter Vigilant. FALMOUTH, OCT. 29.--Wind N.E.--Off the port, the Elizabeth, Holmes, from Smyrna. BRISTOL, Ocr. 29.—Arrived the Airthy Castle, —, from Quebec, and Eliza, Martin, from St. Petersburgh. Hut.s., Ocr. 29.—Arrived the Alfred, Anderson, from Memel ; Eagle. and Zephyr, front Davis' Straits , Brother.. Johnston, and Five Sisters, Clark, from St. Petersburg!); Newcastle, Clay; Planter. Thompson ; Triton, Smith; and Alexander, Anderton, from Riga ; Choice, Dorcas. from Wyburg ; sad Ellen, ----, from Stettin. The Tiber, Higgins , from L ondon to SiWetland, has been bore down the beach at Humberstone, and it is expected will be gut off this morning. Luistocz, Oct. LW—Arrived the Edgar, Mann, and Corsair, —, from Quebec. Almanacs, Ocr. 28.—Off the port, the Brilliant, Barclay, from Quebec. Priminsao, Om 29. Arr i wed the Hannibal, and Superior, from Davis' Straits. The Duke and Duchess of Cu NEERLA N n (lined with the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, on Thursday evening, at their residence in Bushy Park. There were present to meet their Royal Highnesses, the Russian Ambassador and Princess Li EV EN , the Austrian Ambas sador, the Prussian Minister, Count and Countess MON STER, Earl and Countess of CassiLts, &c. The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards was in at tendance, and played several instrumental pieces in the course of the evening for the gratification of the party. The Frenih Ambassador had an interview yesterday morning with the Russian Ambassador and Count MUT TERV/ITZ. T \ Tke Russian AMbassador, accompanied by Count MAETUER'ITZ, afterwards proceeded to the Fo reign Office, and 'had an interview with the Earl of ABERDEEN. The Austrian and Erench Ambassaders had interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Earl of ABERDEEN and Mr. HERRIES visited the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday at the Treasury. Viscount MELv tux held a Levee on Wednesday at the Admiralty, which was but thinly attended by Naval Officers, his Lordship's arrival in town not being gene rally known. TRIAL of tF:c DONERAILE CONSPIRATOR', CORK (COUNTY) SPECIAL COMMISSION. MOO t ) Y.—.(Tll I: welt Y.) At nine tielOck the Court was opened, and it v. , as usual, crowded. At half-past nine Mr. Baron Pennefathe t and Mr. Justice Torrens entered the Court ; shortly after the Solicitor- General, Mr. Sergeant Goold, and Mr. Bennett, nude their ap pearance. • The SouciroasGattsaas wished to have the prisoners whom it was the intention to put on ttial to-day called to the bar. They were Edmond Canners, Patrick Lynda, Mickad Walks. and Timothy Barrett. The COOLS having observed upon the delay occasioned on the part of the Agents for the prisoners in swearing in the Jury. Mr. F. Piretaeuv said he was not ashamed to allow that every art was practised to gain time for the arrival of Mr. ('Connell. Baron PEKNITATNEII thought it a strange allowance to admit the use of such artifice, adding that Mr. O'Connell should have been sent for in time. Mr. John Hawkes being called Mr. Baussee asked, are you of ages—l am. Mr. J. BENNETT—Then 1 challenge you. Mr. G. Boterrs—A good reason. Here a considerable sensation was observed in the 'Hall of the Court, occasioned by the arrival of Mr. O'Connell. who shortly made his entrance, though with considerable difficulty, the crowd having incrraeed to in immense density since the entrance of the Judges. After a considerable delay in challenges, principally on the part of the prisoners, the Jury was sworn. The indictments, similar to those of Friday, with the exception of the Nth charge, against Leary, for soliciting, encouraging au , : in citing, having been read, The Sohterroa-Gescaat. rose and s;ioke Leatly as I.IIOW. : My Lord, and Gentiem As ..f the Jury—The prisoners at tie :..r Edmond Contwrs, Patrick Lynch. Micheel Wallace, and Tini..thy Barrett, stand li:dieted for that they, with v.riuus others, con:loned and conspired to take away the lives of three respectable Gen:le men of this county. Tht re are two important questiots , invoiced in the consideration of this cave. The first. whether a conap:r ). wide in its omit, and dangerous in its objects, extord at all and if so, whether the prisoners were implicated so that co:.. spiracy ? Gent!emen, it is lamentable that any set of men .Is Auld conspire for an object so horrible as that set down in the allega tion, but it becomes still more so when the parites are so circum stances above the common rank of life, and removed front my temptation, front poverty at least. It wood be wrong or me not to take this opportunity of correcting any inisaie:r 110414111 that may be abroad, by omitting to reduce this conspiricy to it, proper limits, and removing front the country at large a stigma which attaches to but one .max portion of it Tins conspiracy dues not extend much beyond tlse immediate neighbourhood of Dourraille. And it strikes me a, psratl.4icas. that such a place—fur I have tlicouost it my duty since 1 Catl:, down on these trials to inquire into the localities—it tart is M.' as paradoxical that this spot, so fertile in itseil, atonal:fin wiiii a wealthy resident gentry and nUlneftolli magieregy, be the spot, of all others, selected fur the eaieerice and di play eit s uch abominable proceedings. If this conspiracy charge) in the indictment be established, I cannot believe that in a t::,tfla eight or ten miles, with such a resident gentry, aided bt forty four magistrates, it can be lung suffered to vela, or that t:.c moral force of the gentry will nut be arrayed against it. If nut for their own sake, for the sake of the miserable wreches, the poor deluded peasantry, who are dragged, assizes after assizes, to the bar of this Court, exhibiting seems of delusion and delinquency, to end in a shameful death, it behoved a high minded gentry to put an end, as soon as possible, to such a horrible state of society. Even should the prisoners at the bar be acquitted, something should be dune to satisfy the anxiety of the spectators who crowd this Court to-day, whe ther such a consideration exists or nut. The primaers may be innocent, yet from the nature of the evidence about to be produced , you will be sati,fied that the conspiracy exists ; and, believing it, you must, one and all, resolve to put ass end to it. If you do so resolve, I'll take proper care to shew you, that the law is amply sufficient for that desirable aiad salutary end, if you have yourselves but the nerve and the vigour, and the courage to put them into operation ; bat if, instead of this, country gentlemen will lend themselves to connive, at least to countenance these proceedings; if they suffer their premises to become the receptacle of Whiteboys, arid the refuge of outlaws ; if when called upon by a Magis trate, to assist In the apprehension of such. they refuse to put forth a finger, nay, would not for a minim' have a hand in apprehending them; and if there be gentlemen, who enter into a tacit, if not an express treaty with these marauders, receiving and affording mutual protection, becoming, as it were, a sort of honorary members of this confederacy,—l must, I confess, despair of restoring the peace of this country. But I believe there are many high-minded and tearless gentlemen, who are not inclined to harbour the plunderer and murderer. If as I believe there are very few men of rank and station, and none of character in the country, who bow down before this iron tyranny, and foul combination to gain a paltry popularity—very few who would refuse to come forward against a White: y, until hr sbews an inclination to make sonic reparation for his past of fences, and becomes useful to society—l have yet hopes that crime will meet its punishment, and the peace of the country be established on a sure foundation. I now come to form a part of my duty fat more gratifying to me than that of adducing evidence of olio guilt of the prisoners. I have to shew the Magistrates the power which the law puts into their bands to quell these disturbances. We'll have much of difficulty obviated if we gain hsed and props r notions of the terms we use. If gentlemen of rank and station will give that means of subsistence, which should be preserved fur the industrious and peaceable, to the riotous and lawless, affording them protection and shelter, what consequence can we expect' A gentleman may be ignorant of the law, he may criminate him self. There has been no reform in the criminal code as relates to this subject ; it is still unrepealed ; and though severe in its coact manta, I, who love my country as dearly as those who are more profuse in their expressions, do not hesitate to pronounce it so litary as it is severe. The Whiteboy code gives Magistrates a power to interfere before any criminal act has been committed, and renders the mere assemblage a misdemeanour. Here we have :as association, ever ready to lend its instruments to the consroissi..!l of the most atrocious climes by the word of Goo himself—but will abow that those oaths taken in blasphemy, conceived in rapine, and ministered its guilt, are no more binding than a rope of amd. Every cne who administers such oaths is guilty of a crime punish. able by death, and he who is aware of, and conceals, offends, con _ mite an offence of as deep a die. But, lest gentlemen may trot know, I have to inform them that the law does nut stop here. It further enacts that if any person wilfully or knowingly coticeat those whose acts come within the meaning of the statute, such persons so concealing—(l care nut whether in haggard or stable yard,) is guilty of an ace punishable by death. I now give this notice publicly, and if any one give me information of such 4 person, and follow it up with proof, I care not bow high, or re - Pt ctable in rank be be, I pronnic hint a Commission for his own special trial, and an execution if there be a clear conviction. — What! is this a time to put upon that fund of employment which should be reserved for the peaceable and the virtuous, the ma rauder, the conspirator, and the murderer? Such conduct is dis honourable in the last degree. and those who practice it should take care, that one step more would involve the protector of tie at Whiteboys in ruin, But.by those laws it is in the power of the Magistrates to coerce the assistance even of those who would not for a million willingly assist in forwarding the ends of justice— they can summon and examine on oath those who will not volume tarily give Information, and if they refuse to give evidence as to ffl 11