The National Register. — London, England, 1821-12-17 00:00:00

IRELAND. DISTURBED DISTRICTS. - - - ----- - - - Extract of a private Inter dated the 3d instant, from Rattike.ll, in tie county of Limerick :—" Lest night has added to the dreadful catalogue of assassinations which disgrace this country. There is a U r. law to Col. O'Dell, the late 1111'1111)er, who livrsat Holly wood. within a few miles of this town ; his house was attacked .1 short time since, and all his arms taken away. He was aliscrit at the time, and on his return declared before nis servants, that if he had been at home he w0.,1d have given up his arms only with Ina life. One of the servants, whose ti ime it appears was :Murphy, told his master not to nimble himself, as he (Nlurphy) knew the whole party. This declaration of his became public, and the consequence was, that a secret tribunal set upon the life of the unfortunate min, and doomed him to assassination. A party appointed to execute this horrid smelter went last Islithl 10 110114VIX)11.11013C,broke into it, and took nut the wretched matt, and shot him as if by sentence of a court-martial. There is no escaping ttieir Vellgeance for the man who is to irkeil nut a victim. We are in hopes that the Special Commission, which sits in Limerick on the lath, will do some good. It is a melancholy hope. Torre are 24 wretches :o be tried, the greater part of whom will probably be hanged ! Three prisoners have been brought in here this morning; I nave not hea , •ii for what crime.'• (limn the Clonmel advertiser.). On Sunday a servant HIM, supposed to be a prosecu tor at the ensuing Special Commission for the county of Limerick, Wll6 '4lOl 'tear Adare. On ti itorday es( fling a poor Kerry labourer was se verely heaten and wounded in various parts of the body, in the west suburbs ; he states that he was robbed of 3Us iu coange. . _ _ (From the Cork Intelligeneer.) The following official order lor eintemlying the yeo manry corps tinder the command or Sir W. Stainer, Bart. his beet. just issued by authority : " Dublin Castle, Dec. 7, Ib2l. " 6ret,—l am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to ac quaint you, that his Excellency has been pleased to approve ut the Barrack Corps of Yeomanly, under your command, being moguls-wed to eight companies of 40 men cacti. His Excellency, at the same time, directs me to observe, that it is to be distinctly understood, that no exclusion is to be made on account of religion in the per sons forming the augmentation, loyalty end good conduct being the qualifications required. It this is not sti jetty maintained, the Lord Lieutenant must decline sanctioning the alimentation. " A blank torn of roll is enclosed, which you a ill have properly filled up, and forwarded to this department, with tie attestations of the men; and when the same is re ceived, the necessary letters of service will be issued, and thu mile. official steps taken to pluce the coil's in an efli- Cis ot state.—l ha% the honour to be, Sir, " Your must obedient ;Jumble servant, "C. GRANT." NVe understand the barriers are about to t.e replaced the city 01 1).11)Int, a, in 1798 .10(1 1803. It is Letter to err on the stile 01 caution than its opposite. (From the Cionmet Advertiser.) A kw days sine-, three special bailiffs, under a war rant from the sherd' of the count 'y of Wateriord. came so (Jog!wen, a farm near Four futile -water, to execute their office on the property of a Mr. Power living there, but were very soddenly surrounded by a vast multitude of the etnottiry people, who thought the legal process was for tithes. hay drove off the bailiffs, who took refuge at one Ormond's, a policeman of the barony of Glena heiry, where again these officers were assailed, and com pelled to give up their arms. Against such an outrage so deliberate anal systenntic, aa•f aceoit.p oiled by a platy undisguised avowal of these sitiagnided, mistaken, and infatuated people, that they would not suffer any lIIJII in their disenct to he molest ed by law process of any kind. Mr. Alaunsell, the sub.. sheriff, determined upon that species of exertion which its universally successful against a disorganised rabble— having tatten out an officer's party, 20 infantry, to the place. In the spot where a few da)s before e‘ery thing seemed to be at the fun of the mob, and their number was almost countless, the appearance of twenty soldiers served to hare depopulated the district of its male in habitants. We have learned from different person., who went to attend the auction, to which Air. Mautiseil immediately proceeded, ou the defendants goods, that there were not teti men to be collected, so completely were they terrified at this small but effective appear ance. - The auction went on; previous to which Mr. Mann sell apprehended three of the persons charged with the above outrage. The goods, such as they were, were sold, and the prisoners brought quietly away. Mr. Nlaunsell executed his duty with firmness and hu manity—and a painful duty it s•. as. The night previous had beets one of peculiar storm, and a part of the house of Mr. Jachson, brother-in-law to Mr. Power, the de fendant, and immediately near Power's, hsd fallen upon a lovely infant, about four year., old, whom it literally and instantly crushed in lle3lll in its cradle. The howl ing of the storm, the deluge of rain falling, the mangled corpse of the infant in the mitts of one house, and the clfizer. of justice selling :ha little furniture of the other, with a guard of soldiers keeping their prisoners in tile ruin of thc old castle at )Nutt-tube.water—altogether presented a scene of h neuter felt than told, and fitter for the invention of a novelist than the report 01 a news paper. Last night the house of Pat. Carroll, at Ballisheeds, in tile liberties of this city, was broken into, and search ed for his servant man, who expressed himself unfa vourably towards the nightly proceedings of those de luded w retches ; fortunately he was not in the house. Two lield.pices and an iminenSe quantity of ammu nition tritl.ll yesterday in tint. city' (From the Semitone Reporter.) fictween the bolas of one and two o'clock on Fri• day morning, a nutillicr wen burst into a house in THE NATIONAL REGISTER Flag-lane, in ibis city, where a iterson named James Kennedy. a brougne-maker, occupies a room up stairs, several of whom pros.eeded to his apartment; and one of them save him with a stick a severe blow on the bead. Tuey then broke ei cry article in the ro o m; and Kennedy, b: in; apprehensive, that they were intent on murder, crept under his bedstead. His wife was then attacked with brutal ferocity, from the effects of which she now keeps her bed. PR ECACTIONARY MEASURES. DUBLIN, bEC. was Stated on Saturday that the orders which had been issued by Government for the erecting of barriers at the canal bridges, and other outlets of the city were comitermanded. Yesterday, however, we heard that preparations for the barriers were again renewed. The Lord Mayor 'sailed a proclamation on Saturday, ordering all the public-houses within the police district of Dublin metropolis to be closed from the hour of eight o'clock every evenin4, until the hour of seven o'clock ht the morning, until further notice. Doubtless, it is prover that every necessary precaution should be taken for the safety of the public: we would otter the meed of Our applause to that vigilance and C3U• 0011 which should eveu go beyond what might appear to be sufficient ha the protection of the peaceable and well disposed. Hot disloyally is the I.us! thing we should now expect to find in the cry of Dublin. Loyalty is too cold a phrase to express the feelings of its population towards the Kiir a .—warm, ardent, devoted attachment to his Ma jesty, will be found amongst all descriptions of its inha bitants. At a meeting of the friends and and admirers of the late Right Hon. Henry Grattan, held at the Royal Ex change, on Tuesday the 27th last, Robert Day, Esq. in the chair, it was resolved— That as the life or the Right Hon. Henry Grattan was devoted exclnsively to the public good, his immortal ser vices during hall a century, as the first patriot of his country, and tuunder of her liberty, should he comnscmo rated by a permanent testimonial; which, though mines cessary to transmi , his name to posterity, may be a um. mt to record the gratitude and admiration of the age, that witnessed those splendid eat:llium', in which lie lived and died. The E irk of Meath and Fingal, Sir Edward Bellew, Mr. Plunkett, and several other gentlemen, were at the sante time appointed a co nn unite for carrying the abme ronlinion into eikct. ATtmosra, DEC. 7.—On Wednesday last, in conse quence of an altercation that took place between them, a man 'lamed Cunningham was killed here by a thrust of a C,111,11 sword which he received through the heart, from one of the Roscommon police. An inquest was held on the body next tl,y, and a verdict of withal mur der was returned against the policeman. lie has Leen committed to Roscommon gaol to abide his trial at the ensuing assizes._ KJ LILiNN Y DEc. B.—We have been assured that the report, of a lawless confederacy o.2ainst the payment of tulles hating been formed ut the ',lrish of is wholly unfounded. A gentleman of the highest re spectability, residinc in that quarter of ill.: county, who would have been the first to ascertain the fact, and to defeat so mischievous a conspiracy, has given its autho rity to contradict the rumour in the most align tidied terms. NV e should add, that the circumstance which it his been our pleas;iiA duty to discredit, was spoken of in the most respectable circles, with a confidence of its truth, that would have justified a much more positiv and unreserved statement. Our most recent information front different parts of this county, we are most happy to state, affords no fresh instances of outrage or insutiordination. Ott the con. trary, sonic of our most intelligent correspondents, who profess to speak from an ititimate knowledge of rural society, furnish a sery gratifying view of its present st te, in various districts One of our informants, whose avo. cations open to lititt an extended field lin observation, ascribes what he terms—" the meliorated spirit of the peasantry," in an edinient degree, to the strenuous ex hortations and Islitiaule vigilance of the Roman Catholic Clergy. ‘Ve own we are disposed to rate the service, of that influential body most highly, and we know they have been uniformly recognised by our magistracy as powerfully to contribute to social safety. ‘Ve sincerely hope that this encouraging prospect of domestic quiet may not ultimately disappota , tar public hope. • Since writssig the above, an account of a horse rob bery iti the vicinity of aillyragget, a kw nights ago,,was transmitted to its. The paiticulars we suppress for the present, as they came nnautheitticatecl by the name of our informant. If, on further inquiry, the transaction aprars to have been correctly 'tithed, we shall coin:nu n vine the tact. in detail. The affair, as represetited to us, was obviously uncounected with any systematic scheme of iitsiirritctianary outrage. IVe are happy at being enabled to contradict the state. moot which appeared in our l ist, relative to the firing on the sentinel at Ardour, although it had been stated to us by several persons on Sunday last as a matter of fact. We eats arsine our readers and the public that we would be far I wishing to be the means of creasing alarm, particularly at present, when none such exists in this comity.—(Tuams Gawk.) Alttiough this county continues free from acts of open enik oc e, we regret to find that the system of adminis tering unlawful oaths is extending amongst the pea santry. It has now, we had, ut into the barony of Tirawly ; four persons, nam J ely, ohn Carr, Peter Gil. laspy, twat Parley, and Ala-thew Coamhers, of the parish ul (7rossioolitia, having beets committed on Wed nesday to the county gaol, by George Ormsby, Esq. of Gunner Abbey, charged with being riblaconmen, and with aiding and asusting in clinitimering unlawful oatlit.—(3/ayo Consthutiast ) The Clare staff pit nil eon,t antly its the neighbourhood of Clare Castle; parties of the 9.3(1 and the police arc out every night iti this town and suburbs. It gives us great sanstaction in being rumbled to stave that we en joy perfect tranquillity.--0 lore Journal) (Fru* /Arc Dark .ticicar.tot Chronicle ) A ' , emu who acted as a sari *f leader among the marauders, has been arrested by Rohm Twiss, Esq. a active magistrate of the County of Kerry, and conveyed to Dublin, where he is expected to give iiiiich valuable information. He is a person above the ordinary rank, and has disclosed the names of nearly 301) indctidusls who were engaged in these nocturnal distiirbances. He has also, we are informed, given information where up. wards of 30 stand of arms have been recovered. Much credit is glue to Mr. Twiss for the address and prompti tude with which he effected the arrest of this mail. Mr. Twiss being alined, met him in a solitary part of the country, and having reason to suspect his being etiogedi in the late disturbances, threatened him, unless he made a disclosure of all he knew, which alter some time he consented to do, He was then lorwarded to the metro polis, where Mr. 'l'. has also gone. We have no doubt hot disclosures equally important with respect to these outrages will be made from other eprirters. (From the Lunt-rick Chiefilee.) On Monday night, the house of Thomas Wilkinson, Esq. of Caherilly, was attacked in search of file -alms, and as it was impossible, in a thatched house, t o wa k e resistance, they succeeded in getting a gun, but searched the I e very mitnitely for more. Same night the house of Mr. W. Mannan was also attacked, his windows broken, and one gun taken. On Wednesday Hight, about I I o'clock, the house of Mr. John Barry, near Ballineguard, was visited by th e nightly depredators, who, havihig fired a shot at the house, Mr. Dairy opened an upper window, and de manded what they wanted; the reply was "areas," upon which Mr. Barry fired out, when they instantly retreated to the end of the house. A boy was attei wards ilispatched to Ballyneety by Mr. B. and in less than tell minutes Lieutenant Arthur, and a party of the 93 regiment ar• rived to his assistance, but not the least trace of the vil halos could be f I, though the party scoured that part of the country till nay break next morning. Mr. Shaughnessy's house, of I3allybrickcn, was also attacked, and one gun taken. Woos the Gonna! Morning Post.) The painful duly has devolved upon us to record cum of the most melancholy circumstances which has occur. red in this neighbourhood within our recollection. On Wednesday evening, about six o'clock, a most monis ing young gentleman, fifteen years old, and highly at complialied, the eldest son of Major Lenon, who resides at Grange Cottage, in the Queen's County, within three miles of this town, got leave from his father to go out fur the purpose of killing rabbes. The young gentle. nian wrapt himself up in a Portuguese cloak, with the intention of calling upon the son of a neighbouring far mer, of the wine of Maher, sonic years older than himself, who generally accompanied him on such occa sions. In a fatal moment, however, Mr. Lenon con ceived the idea of giving the young farmer a aurprise, and concealing his face, which Ise did by elevating the cloak over his Lead; on arriving at Maher's house, he assumed a feigned voice, and leaning over a hatch-door, dennoideil their money, arms, Sec. Young Maher—the rustic friend and companion of Mr. Lenon's hours of recreation—struck with the supposed danger of the mo ment, seized a blunderbos loaded with slugs, which lay by the lire-side, and, horrible to relate, fired at the young man in whose defence he would have died him self. We can scarcely bring our pen to perform its office, in describing the consequence—the nose and a considerable pan of the head was literally torn away ! Docior Read and Surgeon Byru, of this town, were im mediately sent for, but they could only put an end to the 'untiring anxiety of the wretched parents of both parties, by declaring that hope had fled fur evert—Mr. L died on Thursday. Tho miserable young mail who commit ted the rash act was seized with a delirious, and has gone off, no person can tell where l—Um Saturday there was a Coroner's bluest held on the body. Verdict— " Accidental Death.' ADVENTURES Of A COUNTRY CONSTABLE IN I.ON DON.—A warrant of bastardy having been granted to toe overseers of a parish, about 100 tittles from Loudon, ai4aiiist a young titan who had absconded, the gentlemen of the palish deputed aii itulividudl, whoa* they consi dered to be the sharpest of their constables, to proceed to London in order to execute it, and for this purpose 201. was granted hint to pay tiis expences. This the vigilant officer concealed siitt4ly in his pocket-book, together with his warrant, and ptai.ing it in his breast pocket, he ar rived in London on Tuesday last for the first time in his life. On his arrival, above all places, he sought Charles street, Drury-lane, to take up his quarters, has Mg heard that the object of his mission was a resident tit that direction. He went into the Coach and Horses, and there sat down with some gradate*, who, with all the dexterity of versed thieves, contrived to cut out the pocket book front his coat, unknown to him, whilst he was intent iu con+ ersation. tie at length discovered his loss, and immediately quitted the place in search of a man whom he suspected, lie having left the house. He thoughtlessly left his great coat behind him, and that was also taken during his absence. The enraged officer in stantly proctected to Queen-square (Alice, in order to ascertain whether they could grant him a fresh warrant to apprehend the omit he had come after, that likewise being stolen. He was reused a warrant, and was advised to go back to his own parish for one, winch he was com pelled to do. On Monday st'iutight, as Mr. Allcock, of Norwich, was passing up Loudon-lane, a man affected to stumble against him, and at the sante uuntieta blisoched . bus watch fonts his fob, and rail uhf.—On the same aroma, Mr. Powell, gankiier, of that city, was rubbed near Union-place, tit unite money, the prAitee of debts which lie had been cullecting.—About five o'clock on the Sallie evening, a man had the audacity to enter the house of a person in St. Benedict's, by the back chamber window, wittle the family was below, and was in the act of let ting a bed down from the window, when he was disco vered by a person passing at the time, who gave the alarm, and the thief *hopped down from the window and decamped, leaving his booty behind him.