The National Register. — London, England, 1821-12-03 00:00:00

382 I ELA Ilie fallowing Letter signed " Moll Doyle" has been addressed to the editor of the Evening foil. It proves that the parties engaged in the present outrages in Ireland, arc assisted by some who are not deficient in education, and it explains the real grounds of the discontent now untbrtu nately existing in that devoted country. " I On II that I neither love nor like you for your continued prrsectilion of meand my family, in visor paper, and your mani f old schemes to rouse our good friends, the landlords and magistrates, against us, 1 am willing to tallow your own example, and shake hands with my enemy, so that Mere may be ma want of concord amongst all classes of his Majesty's subjects; and, as you are now such all advocate for conciliation, and draw such glowing pictures of universal philanthropy, heneeolencty Christian charity, and the like fine things, 1 shall hope tor your aid in behalf of my poor boys, than whom, with a little kind treatment. his Majesty has not better aubjects. Very many lies have been told of us, and things Ltd to our charge that we know not ol: we have been insult. d and abused by alt parties, as it answered then purposes, with little advantage to ourselves, the great loss to . the country, and weary, at length, of the life we have led fur years. But, in order to render the reconcili ilnit permanent, we must avoid all future temptation : fur this purpose prayer alone will not be stitliciein, and, as open confession is good for the soul, a few lines occasionally to yon, by way of information, of the inducements that may be held out to us to transgress, may Mare the ellect of keeping temptation from us, at least it will assure you of out sincerity, and interspersed wets occasional sketches of my birth, parentage, and education, may be amusing, if nat instructive. •• Illicit diatillation has been, of late, the Mani stay of lamely;my it has secured its friends among all class. s; by it Inc tanner eels rather Illore fns his corn—the land lord to better paid his rent—the gentleman is supplied with a cheaper beverage—and the peasant all:tinted his tarottrite cordial in the manufacture, sale, purchase, and keep or the potteen. All are concerned and liable to penalties; all informer is equally dreaded by all ; and such a fleet has this community of interest and of fears on clime districts, that every morage of any of the Wilts is connived at by the others, and protection afiOrded to them against every law process, by a call for some of my tarp s, who are acquainted with the secret springs that actuate the magistrates, the gentry, the landlords, tile landholders, the police, and the peasantry, who only laugh at legal horn's, proclamations, rewards, warrants, and constables; and wi h what reasou, the following scene, at a late t i litarter Sessions,in a proclaimed district, will, I trust, sal esfy yon, it being the first Session since the introduction of the Peelers. Myself and my boys were mixiotss to know how the land lay (as we term it.) fits Worship the banister was on the bench, with some of our B'6ol6(lllring magistrates; he made a long speech anotit me and my children, and liuw lie himself made th e tinvernment proclaim the district, and that until lie took id the Peelers they should remain 'll hat is his worship's ILIUM' Wail the whig ?' says I, ' and where does he live?' 'By my soul,' says my son Pat, that is more than I can tell you, but I know he ie not an Irish men, and that it will not be an easy matter to find hint any where Mr the next three months, as he only steps down once every quarter for three or lourdats, utrarn Iris 5001. per year, besides pocketing the small fees." Paddy (says 1), the times are altered ; the time was when some of our own worthy gen litnitll, born and bred aniungat us, would he sitting ha his place, knowing us alt, and giving us his advice; and if he had ally thing bad to say. or goad to tell its, all the NI agistrates round hint would joiii mit ; so that even their punishments were all re awned and submitted to, it was a bad clay for Ireland that her magistrates gave tip their true places; and moil they shall resume the in again, they will nut go right ; and, iiith.cd, I feel :is I speak.' liis ‘Vorsliii) then ad dressed the Grand Jury about iwiterti udirsketi. ' Paddy (rays I), that will ruin us; why don't these tither Jus tices that we know take a part in the si.ecch 2'. Bush, hush! mother, (says he), they are laughing in their sleeves at hint ; did not I'im and I sell them a nice halt barrel each, of good potieen last 'Monday; and did not his Worship tin the right sell the fire bariCla Of run malt, for whit h 1 paid his Bunion at his own sable, and the exciseman by In, side ? Ills Worship, the Barrister, may talk as he pleases ; them other Magistrates have in terests enough to save us trout all harm. Did not his Worship on the left make the exciseman give back the worm and pot that he took from Toni Corrogan last Sun day night, and hold Isis tongue about it? and as to the Grand Jury and Petty Jury, the High Constable, and the permanent Sergeant, don't you know every mothers babe of them to be either potteen or malt-makers or dealers; and did I not bring in the nice five•gaflon j.O this morning, to his Worship the Barrister's own man, the crier, with a promise of two more when he came next, at 45.6 d. per gallon ? Sure it is time for us now to know how things work; 'tis all palaver cues ski, as his worthy Squire ..—•—ss's daughter says its the little song which she sings tOr us when we take her Hutton, the present of lantern; and as to the Peelers, do you think they could do any tli.ag against the interest of their NVurships, our neighbouring Magistrates, the Sessions Juries, and our other friends? To tell the truth of these same Peelers. they ere iktent fellows email:eh; and one of them told me the Hamster ordered that they were not to mind or execute any w.irrams for continuo ()deuces; so that as long as we keep fruits burning houses, they won't meddle with us; and I suppose th $ the reason the Peelers allowed the big potternemaker, in another proclaimed district, to be rescued, and one of the health tired at and wounded neat door to their guard-house, by a large mob, because it was only a sherd', warrant for something about a thousand pounds of a debt, without Joining in a hearty cause of the bailiffs. To be store, Wale or our magistrates do their business clumsily enough, itt so much MI to make it dangerous to accept r • I' THE NATIONAL REGISTER of their friendship, however, well iuu•nded ; ' for bless the mark,' mu lli on sense and massy of them might be married, inasmuch as there subsists no relatiomhip; but my boys are grown sufficiently intelligent to distinguish between ' a sheep's head and carrot,' as the co tttttt on phrase goes. " This little res:ion•scene will show yon that our course are as faulty as oursel% es ; and now that I have determined in good earnest to reform, let the gentry and the authorities of the country re , pect the laws, as I shall serve them as they would me (if it answered thtir pur pose)—expose them to your view." DISTURBED DISTRICTS. ( Frogs the (Jkmmel Ileru141) IN'e can scarcely recollect an incident of more horrible atrority since the burning 01 Scisllabout_e in the last Irish rebellion, than that which occurred on Mooday night the I9th inst., at or near, " The Seven Acres," a farm so called, between Thorny Bridge and Clogheen, at the foot of Shotenamart, in this county. The place was the re sidence of a better kind of farmer named Shea, who had recently put out some under tenants at will, as they are called, who hold without lease, by civil hill process, and had possessed himself of their lands. For this, he was served with a muter, th tt unless he restored the old oc cupants, he shonld suffer for it ; and being determined to preserve his property, and to resist the attack with which he was menaced, he provided himself with fire arms in sufficient number, for a good defence, and got into Ins house two or three neighbours, of resolute cha racter for his assistance. These precautions, it seems, were fatally rendered useless, for on a late hour on the night alnive-memioned, he and his numeroas family, consisting in all of eighteen, men, women, and child ren, found the dwellinediouse in flames around them. Snea the owner, appears to have been the first to burst opt on his .issailains, hilt was instantly shot, and thrown back into the flames; :mother making a similar attempt shared the same fate and before the murderers departed, every soul in the 11011 he W 35 burned to death I is the pith and !narrow, as far as we can learn from eye witness of the ruins, who has taken out Mr. Tnompson, the coroner, to hold an inquest on the bodies. The conflagration, which continued until a late hour on Tues day morning, was seen at a great distance: and one gen tleman, asking a countryman, whom he met on the road, two or three miles from the place, what could oc casion such a fire, Was answered with perfect affingfroid, Nothitig, I suppose, but satisfaction they are takitig, fur the poor people that were turned out of their houses t'other day." QUEEN'S COUNTY.—WednesJay night last, the 2lst instant, a party of nien attacked tile house of a person named Murphy, near Cullahill, in this county, within four utiles of Johnstown, county Kilkenny. The party having wicceeded in breaking in, dragged Murphy, and beat hint so cruelly with spade!, that in a short nine they derived hint of life; after which they nearly severed flu head from his body with a billhook. The reason as signed for this atrocious outrage is, that Nlitrrty pro. scented two persons who had stolen sheet) flout hint, and who were convicted of that offence at the last assizes. COUNTY ON CLAM—Saturday er, ning the 17th inst. as J man belonging to J allies Creatth, Esq. of Carhane, in the county of Clare, was returning home from Ennis, at five o'clock, he was waylaid and murdered at Crathie, by some persons unknown. Suspicion is attached to a man whom he had a divine with some time back, at the fair of Six-mile-hridge, by the said county. His skull was literally Warn to pieces; he has left a wife with five children to deplore his Inca. An inquest was held on the body by it G. Greene, Esq. Verdict— " Wilful Murder, against persons unknown." The Clare Journal, of Monday the 17th instant, re asserts what it had tormerly stated, respecting the death of Gleeson, the untOrtunate young man who had been wounded at Six-mile-bridge, It says, that the house was enveloped in Climes before the death of that persoti, but still leaves it a matter of doubt whether the wieiched creature lost his Itle by accident or &sign. MURDER or MAJOR COLLIS, NEAR TR A LEE. ( ihe Limerick (. 41 On Thursday the house of Major Collis, within a mile and a MAIM Tralre, was entered by a large party and robbed of every article which the villains could lay ' hands on. Not COlll% it, the murdering gang struck Major Collis a titow of a gun on the head, which de prised him 01 Me and afterwards tired sonic shots into his body. The house of the Rev. Edw. Nash was also attacked on the same nisht, but the fellows were b -at off, as he had arms and assistance in the house. Mr. Nash was reported to be wounded in the breast. Our corres pondent concludes his letter by stating, that—" God only knows where this Intsioess will end." TUN LATN ATROCITY IN TILE COUNTY OP TIPPERARY. (Moon Ike Comae! Herald.,) On Ni'eclnemtay last an inquest was held at Tubber, in the parish of Cif:mem, barony of Middlethird, county ul"Tippeiar, Oriole John Thompson, El. one of the rotoncrs tor the said county, on view of the bodies of Eat out Shea, Niary Shea, Edmond Shea, km. Mary Sile - A, jun., Nicholas Shea, jun Win. Shea, Margaret Soya, Michrid Butler, Patrick Mullally, Catherine Mul lally, Mary Shea, Margaret Power, and the bodies of three met unknown The Jury been sworn, the following evidence was adduced:— N ichoiss Sites, of Seven Acres, farmer, deposed, that he is the brothor of the deceased Edmond Shea knows the bodies of Eilsnond Shea, Alary Shea, Edmond Shea, jou. Mary Shea, jun. Nicholas Sued, jun. William Shea, and Marg.(ret Shra. %%itne.r teas called out of his bed on the wonting of the 2Uth instant, by John Butler, about one or two o'clock, who told him that his bro ther's house was on fire; when he arrived there, the ionise was on foe, and the mot' hail fallen about the hour of • o'clock out morning, went to the door and SSW the bodies of sererJl person. lying on the floor, who had been bunt► to death. Saw the bodies of lb person. taken out the house that morning. John !Mulcahy, of Ballywater, farmer deposed, tha he knows the bodies of Patrick 1111111,11 y, M. Mullally' and CathetineMullallyq saw them lying dead at the house of the deceased Bd LI Shea, oil the morning of the 20th inst. William %' il iams, of Gurtnapish, labourer, deposed, that on the night of Monday, the 19th lust. he gm ti ll to look after a pig ; 43V/ Edmond Shea's house on fire; went towards the house, but wss afruid to go on, in consequence of hearing several shuts fired about the house. A man of the name of P. Dillon fired a shot towards Shea's house, which was returned by otie or two shots from persons about the house on lire, who shouted, and desired Dillon con., on if he dared. Philip Dillon, of Gormapish, farmer, deposed, that William Williams called loin out 01 bed, on the night between the 19th and Voth inst. who told him that E. Shea's !noise was on fire. He desired Williams to call some neighbours; he then advanced towards Shea's home, which was in a blaze, and fired a shot, and called out, " Oh, you rascals," which was returned by two shots, and he was desired to advance if he dare.— Heard several shots about Shea's house. The Jury linuul " that the above persons were wil. fully and maliciously put to death, by some persons, to us unknown, setting fire to the dwelling-house of Ed mond Shea, the dcceasvd, on the tight between the 19th and 30th of November instant.' _ A proclaimoimi of his Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland was issued on Monday, offering a reward of wool; the saute to he paid in tile following manner— :mil. (Or each and every of the first five, and tool, for the next five persons concerned in the outrage, or :le complicet, who shall he apprehended and prosecuted to conviciton ; and his Maj,.sty s pirdon to any of the ac complices. who shall give information within twelve months. - AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR NOVEMAER. Our information from the country, at present, affords little of novelty. The disheartening conclusion of a season, most unfortunate and calamitous to the cultiva tors of the soil, is at hand, without the slightest present prospect of relief to the sufferers, or the solace of any cheerful autiorations ot the future. The report of the day, however, goes the length of asserting the actual formation of a new and powerful opposition party of the landed interest in Parliament, which, it is supposed (3 frail supposition, perhaps) will occasion more disquiet and actual danger to Ministers, than all the Whig or Radical badgering of the past times. It has been likewise said, that the late general temporary abatement of rents has originated in au erroneous policy, which can never answer one of its obvious purposes; and that a fair per 111311Cril reduction would, in the end, have better sub served the interest of both parties. The comparatively small quantity of wheat which has been well harvested, is said to be fully equal, in quantity and measure, to the famous crop of last year; and so extensive was the breadth sown last season, that the markets will be amply supplied dining the ensuing, however ordinary the qua lity of the greater part may be. The grand substitute, potatoes, is put down as half a cropi of which a great part will be of a blighted and inferior quality; and now our sage and learned curb conjurors, in imitation of the ex. ample of their grandsires, they have a new and fine op 'tortoni'', to task their wits for a discovery of the cause of that disease. Wheat sowing has been well performed on all forward and good lands ; on those of a less fortu nate deserptin, front the interruption of too much wet, has been an irksome and troublesome operation : in truth, farming on such soils more particularly has been front early spring to the present month, a most irksome, harassing. and expensive labour; a melancholy addition to a desperately losing pine. The early sown wheats are very forward and luxuriant, and if no frosts come to check them, will be winter-prowl. Should the moisture 01 the atmosphere continue, sheep in the low-lands will be in danger of the rut. Turnips, but with more luildge than bulb, and grass in plenty; but where they have capital to purchase stock, they cannot entertain very Linguine hopes of remuneration for their outlay. Mar kets, both for the live and dead commodity, have been progressively .sinking every week since our last report. rhos the farmer and graz:er's sheet anchor seems to fail him. The remedy of long continued fundamental errors is, unhappily, equally fatal with the disease. Eacesdric CIaiGUS titles —There was once a Duke of Shureditch, but the title is extinct. His Grace of Shore ditch, together with the Matron of Horton, the Mar quis of Pancras, and the Marquis of Shacklewell, ap pear to have beets gentlemen archers, and to have ob tained those titles from Harry VIII. at Windsor. It is well known that the head of the society of bowmen, or archers, held their titular dignity for a long series of years alter, and we believe this is one of the very in stances in which emissent titles have been laid aside without attainder. His Grace of Shoreditch held a grand fete In Smithfield, Seprember 17, 1583, in which 4000 archers were concerned its the processions and cereals°. 1141, of whom above 1000 were decorated with gorgeous gold chains. On Thmsday last the body of a man of very respect. able appearance, Was found drowned in the River Thames. He was tifI . SSLA itt a grey coat with blue pan taloons, and waistcoat of the same colour, and his linen marked R. S. 1). and his handkerchiefs It N. 7. Ilt , body was carried to St. Clement Daises workhouse, Carerllfeet, to he °woad. PilllC/WENT,—hasiii.tl Lovell, a Welch Judge, and maternal grandtather to the late Mr. Edgeworth, who travelling user the sands near Beaumaris as he was going • his circuit, was overtaken by the night and by the tide ; his coach was set fast in a quicksand ; the wilier soon rose into the coach, and his registrar and some whet at tendants crept out o I the windows, and toctinted oil the roof and on the coach-box. The Judge let the s.ater rise to his very lips, and with becoming gravity replwd, to all the earliest entreaties of his attendants, " ;I ii follow your counsel, if you cats quote any preccdclit fur a Judge's moatttiug a coach box." -a