The National Register. — London, England, 1822-04-22 00:00:00

and justice, pursued those who were chargeable with the crime. Every thing had been done by Government to ascertain something to his prejudice. Government 113,1 rosecnted a poor man named Fly, liar giving a Guardsman a slap in the face; but on an occasion of vital importance enquiry was refused.—lle (Mr. Waith man) had acted with forbearance at the inquest. Inc Coroner, and those of the Jury whose politics were MI fercnt front his, would bear temtimony to that assertion. Wu he, because he was Sheriff, to divest himself of hu manity' Ile was officially bound to pursue criminals. If he saw a man shot, he was bound to pursue those who shot Min. Alderman Waiihman concluded amidst cheers, with stating that enquiry would be advantageous to him. Mr. OLDHAM could not go the whole length with Alderman ‘‘'aithmatt, whose conduct at the inquest was not at all justified upon legal grounds. lie condemned the worthy Alderman for not having finisned the busi ed' the inquest as he had began it, and expressed a tear that great pmdical teal had interfered with the judgment of that excellent individuai. Mr. Dixon said, the public wanted no more of the subject, and moved the previous question. After some observations from Mr. Earl! and others, Aid:rinan Brown withdrew his motion. IREL4ND. NEWCASTLE, APRIL B.—(ERIEaCt of a private letter) —1 have the pleasure of imparting to ‘ou a most heroic and exemplary occurrence, which took place this morn ing, within two miles of Newcastle, in the apprehension of eight noted insurgents, well armed, in female cos tume, by the Rev. Mr. Rochford and his parishioners at Itailica hill. About eleven o'clock, a.m., these eight insurgents, well armed. and (Pressed in female attire, appeared on the road of Rathcahill, having previously driven some cattle lomi off a lam, which was taken by a very honest farmer contrary to the system of these lawless legislators; they then repaired to this man's brother, Mr. Michael t:ussen, an honest man, which they broke open and entered for tire purpose of plundering and setting it on fire. Tire family being at chapel convenient, a private account was sent to the Rev. Mr. Rockford, who was then in the act of dismissing his flock, on which be in stantly called on his parishioners iii the most spirited manner to co-operate with him in the apprehension of the insurgents : accordingly they obeyed, and being sti mulated by the hind:Ade example of their clergyman, sallied forth against the fellows with sticks arid stories, and, although several shots were fired at them by these armed ruffians, they succeeded in arresting five of them, one of whom discharged his gun at the Rev. rlr. Roch lord, happily without effect; the other three at this time made off' towards the hills, but three or four young gen tlemen, who were coursing on the mountains, hearing the shots and perceiving the people running, instantly went to their assistance, and icing well arnied,they very soon put an end to the career of the other three ruffians after an exchange of shots, one of which struck the head of one of the winteboys, and wounded him slightly, they surrendered. Yesterday, at two o'clock, Edm. Fitzgerald, a school master, for attacking the house of 'AI r Morgan, at Dun may lan ; and George Walker, alias Colonel Walker, for attacking John Shire's house, and demanding pewter to make halls, were taken from the county gaol to Rath keale, front whence they are to be conveyed this day, to be banged—the former at Shanagolden, the lattsr at Newcastle. On leaving the prison, they declared their innocence in the same manner as those that previously suffered, although convicted on the clearest and most satisfactory Fitzgerald is the r:rson who wrote the letter to his insurgent friends in the country, requesting them to keep the boys quiet until after the assizes. John Kelly. who was also to be executed this day Shanagolden, is respired. 4Viil am Dunworth, %Valiant Nunao, Jas. Callinan, Ord Patrick Nugent, all comfortable tanners, for robbing a detachment of the 40th regiment of their antis (which hate since been surrendered), remain under sentence of death, and are to be executed at 13a11yagrau oniSaturday. LITRAORDIMART DOCUMENT.—At ten o'clock on the Mein of the sth instant, %V. Nash, Esq. chief officer .r the police stationed at Roscrea, having heard some shuts near that town, proceeded immediately with a party to the quarter whence they were tired. At the distance of about a mile front Roscrea he met Iwo men on one horse ; he chal;:inged, arrested, and searched them. In the ineeches pocket of one, the son of a very respectable man, was found a manuscript book, .vritten with great cleverness, emblazoned with varictia devices, and con taining the oath, pass word, and a complete system of insurrectionary organization, the object of which is truly d.abolical. It would appear fmm this document that a general unioo and utnistilidation of the several systems which have for years back distracted various parts of Ireland, hire been eficted. The prisoner was torwarled on Sa turday to CaptailfWil.son, the magistrate at Turks, who awaits the directions of Government relative to him. For this discovery iLe public are indebted to the prompt exertions or Mr. Nash, whose ability and activity have been conspicuous since his appointment. About a week before the above occurrence, lie succeeded, by a well laid Jban, Henry M ar ti n , a p r i nci p a l i n t h e crue l mur d er o f oseph Huey, a meritorious constable of Shituone, in the King's county, about a year ago. Coax Asams.—Mary Stanley, a woman of respect able appearance, and William Leary, a servant, were chargvo with the murder of David Stanley, bt• shooting hint with a loaded gun, and giving him a mortal w d, by which he died on the 4th of Nov. last, at Old Court, hi this COMity. Counsellor Connell opened the case for the prwecti cntion Mary Sianley, the nri.oner, was ihe wile , and aud. William Lea►y, the other prisoner, was the servant of the late David Sianlcy. Tile deceased was a farmer in comfortable circumstances. raue were no persons THE NATIONAL RECIISTER living with him at the • e but his wife and servant. — He was seen at hie house on Sunday the 4th ; he was not seen there or about the farm on the Monday after by any of his neighbours, and it was not till Tuesday that his body was found in an old house contiguous to the dwel ling. A criminal connection was subsisting between the prisoners before the nturdr. The Jury, after an absence of an hour and a half. re turned lino the Conn, bring in a verdict of guilty against Leary, anti not guilty against Mary Stanley ; but the forenisti accompanied the issue by saying, it was merely on accotini of a deficiency, as they conceived, in the chain of es irkiice, and not front any doubt of her parti cipation- in the guilt of the other prisoner. His Lordship then passed the sentence of the law in the usual manner, Exacurtorr.—On the 11th inst. at Cork, William Leary, for the murder of D. Stanley, to whom he had been servant, underwent the awful sentence of the the law at G3llows.green. Ile was taken from the county gaol a little after twelve o'clock, and walked with a firm step to the place of execution. His conduct since his sentence was extremely penitent. 1V hen the melancholy procession had arrived at the gallows, the ftes. Mr. Eng land said, that he had beets &situd by the prisoner to ac knowledge his guilt. IL was the murderer of David Stanley, and 110 person had aided him in the commission of that dreadful crime. Ile was not led to it by any per sonal enmity or hatred to Mr. Stanley, who had always been a kind and indulgent master, hut entirely at the in stigation and desire of the wretched woman, Mary Stan ley, with whom the prisoner had been induced to lead a criminal life for a long time. Various modes of destroy ing him had been suggested by her: at one time it was proposed to cut his throat with a razor; at another time to poison him; but this latter mode she feared would lead to detection by the appearance of the body. The gums with which Mr. S. was shot belonged to himself, and the powder and halls were furnished by the wife, who retired to bed whilst the murder wis perpetrated.— After hanging the usual time, the body was taken down and conveyed under a guard to the county infirmary for dissection, aureeably to the sentence. DUBLIN, Amur. 17.—The Kerry newspaper announces the arrival at Tralee of the Sandwich Bay schooner, Capt. Lavice, from Devonshire, laden with one hundred tons of potatoes. This is, perhaps, the first importation of pota toes into Ireland (tor the purpose of immediate cousump tion) known to any of our readers. SHERIF/ Salmi% DINT4EI2.—Sir William Smith, the senior High Sheriff, entertained the Corporation yesterday at a public dinner. Various efforts were made to prevail on him to give t h e toast which had been so long a watch word of divisiou in this conntry—but lie constantly declared that his resolution against it was inflexible. He was resolved to regulate his conduct by the " parting admonition and injunction" of his venerated Sovereign, and while he obeyed the COIIIIO4IIIIS of the King, he had no apprehension of being taunted as disloyal. Finding the determination of the Sheriff was not to be shaken, a few " back bone men" had a table prepared in another • apartment, whither they retired to consume the Sheriff's wine, in celebrating orgies offensive to their Soseieign, his distinguished representative in this country, and their entertainer! CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE. _ The four men who were capitally convicted at the last assizes of Naas, for a litirglauy and rolibely at the house of the Widow Daly, have hail their sentence mercifully commuted by his Excellency the Marquis Wellesley, for transportation. COUNTY CORK ASSIZES. SMITH V. ALLEN, O . ILEEIFIY, AND COLLINS. This WA , . au action for assault and battery. The da mages were laid at 4,00 A. The defendants pleaded Nut licilty and the geu•eral issue. From the evidence it appeared, that in the month of July last the illhalotants of Newmarket and the sill round ing country resolved, as a mark of and giatittide, to celebrate the coronation of his Majesty by a niihlic dinner at that village. Up to ten o'clock all was peritct harmony, and It was hoped all would separate With the same feeling. This was iuterroplyd, however, by Mr. Allen and Ms patty refusing, on account of sonic old grudge, to pledge the !width of a Mr. Alilisorth along with the le.t et the company. Subsequently, a Mr. W. Lowe, also one of Mi. Allen's party, and his Mother in law (who has since Iled the country), observing a reverend gentle. man snmen . hal overcome With the lestivitiei of the even ing, intiotbiced a tumbler of whiskey punch instead of a wine glass Olt the tahie before him. This seas resisted by the plaintiff, and an altercation eti,uilig, Mr. Lowe first threw the rowel' in his face, and afterwards the glass itself. The tither defendants were not idle, intliedin:x wounds on the plaintiff with jugs and candlesticks, which confined him to his Led fur upwards tit three weeks in a very precarions state. Ali.. Sergeant Lefroy briefly summed ap the evidence, ronatnenting on the Law as to malice propense end the Jory, alter retiring and tototoltintr for abont halt an hour, rettn nett a verdict for the plaintiff, with lid. damages untl tid. Costs. STATE. OF THE COUNTRY. The Limerick Chronicle contains the following from Kanto. k :—" On Friday Saturday last there were several stand of aims giveu up to the parish priest of Free mount; and on Sunday 11101 nin, while the priest was saying mass, four or five men came iu women's clothes, and earned the whole of them away, though there is a detachment of the inii;:aly stationed in the chapel of 1.1.0 place. The military slattouQd hoe have brought in 30 prisoners this week." CuuNTv Kknitv.—We copy the following paragraph flow aTralee journal of the lush iust. We have not bail any report, nor have we heard even a minute, of tut act uf *Jaw' I ectiohary outrage in this county tor litany days past, anti the Aingdom of Kerry is at this usoinent, to all appearance, as tranquil and as peaceable us ever it wcs within our memory for the lust fifty yea's." (TARE, APRIL 13.-I.ast night a man, employed by Mr. Julm Healy to watch some potatoes upon the lands of Carnelly, gave notice to the policy on pat role in this 'nth by preconceried ut tiring a Phut, that a party of men I:ad come upon true ground for the purpose of tak ing than away. The police instantly went to thi, spot, but, when observed, the men 'Titivate.' into boat, ' in which they passed to th e ot h er si d e . They *etc fired alter, and two of the boats lett behind trete Lava pus- 121 session of by the police. Two men were made prisoVelp ere them is the boats. Wcxeotru.—Abont one o'clock on " , orniiir. a fire was discovered at the chandling house, in the sear of the dwelling house, of Mr. F. Junes, lu the Corn-market, Wexford. A violent storm from the east, which continued the whole of that night anti the following day, rendered every effort to save the back concerns ineffectual. Some thatched houses which were in the neighbourhood were saved from destruction by the terrified imitates—MPH, women, and children being mounted upon the thatch, almost in a state of mulles, throwing down Lir flakes of tire as they tell, while others eatingicished them below.— A strung detachment of theF6th hastened to lie spot, and conducted themselves in a manner highly creditable to the regiment, zealously rendering all the assistance in their power. The fire was earthed by sonic malicious person or persons, as no business had been dune in the ehandling house for the preceding nine or tell days. A reward has been &dieted for their apprehension. RIOTS 1.. V ST.4FFORDSIIIRE. We regret to learn that a serious inclination to insubordination has manifested itself within the last week among the colliers in the neighbourhood of Wednesbury and Bilston—a great number of them have left their work, and for several days have pro ceeded to slop all those pits in u hich the workmen were inclined to continue at their labour.—The lowing is the copy of a letter just received, dated April 17, 1822: " L rim now writing amidst 111 or 6000 Colliers, the Bil.ton, Stourbridge, nod Malley troops all amongst them, wilt. loaded pistols its their bands. A volley of cinders from She the large heap here has just been shattered towards the troops. The position of the colliers is tout sir mi 4. Tire colliers and terrops ore looking ut each wiser, and God only knows whit may be the re,tilt before one hour is past. Four or live erilhers fell into the Canal this morning, oae of whom wr.s drowned, the others nearly so. No pits at work—all stopped. 'the colliers are desperate, and stand up to the noses of the hor.es in the most nternicin a : mr.nuer possible. The Lady Arabella packet has arrived at Fal mouth, after a long passage, from Lisbon. The ad vices do not reach to a later date than the end of last month. An important crisis in the Brazils seemed to be looked for daily ; indeed some surprise hail been occasioned, by the continuance of public tran quillity in the several provinces which had so often, since the revolution, shewn a strong disposition to renounce the authority of the mother country.— The King of Portugal is represented as being politi. tally sick, having in view the loss of his South Ame rican colonies, and scarcely any money to car.? on the Government at home. Petitions similar to those presented to the King of Spain had been laid before his :Majesty, praying him to adopt rne.tsures to afford relief to the commercial portion of his subjects, by withdrawing the high duties imposed on foreign goods and manutitctures. On this subject the letters arc couched in the usual terms of despondency, anti a very faint hope seemed to be entertained that any change would be made. The King, it is said, has replied to the petitions, that it will remain tar the Cortes in its wisdom to deride on those measures which are most calculated to prove advantageous to the kingdom, whether of a commercial or political nature, and that he declines to take any step without tile sanction of that body EARTSIIKALE.—A letter from Petersburgh, dated March 15, gives the billowing account : " At the Lastern boundary of Asiatic Kiisvia, viz. at the WeStetii estr. unities of North America, the iiihnhitunts of the Alcante. hie. (or Foxes) saw in the night of the 2d of Nlarch, I ri-2 1, all the signs which precede toe rreatest di, order of nature. The atoll blew with impetuosity from saa Smola West. At toe sable time th..y fed shaking of the earth, a I :end rtl wit it subterranenus noise. Toe atmosphere aro ictl lined immediately after in all directions, unit clouds of sand a it It ci inlet s, w hich obscured every object, continues 'allot.; shoring the night. " At (lay tireitY. the a ind charzerl, the fall of volcanic mat ter mid tag sea became mo.e aititcted. t 5 titht this Was pitian; at kiaulaclika, a Soie:11.1. Ilist•I forth hi o.lllr. lIIIICk, another isluiol of Ito at rst• (514 1ed. , ,0e•) (rum Uonluchka. When the darkness am: divopaied, the dust nod cinders crowd to fall, the ellects of a volcano acre aura perceived at thialacliks, and columns of ke and fire issued until the munlu of August. Trey then sent to examine the cutter, but the fetal vapours, a iiich car• tended a acrid !wood it, prevenieJ cal! urc•ra. " We tire 34,11••• d, that the soil of tie Wand is inei eased, mat the set ha, recedad a consiecratile distance. Tile corn. bustible matter via, throw a With SIICh •i”leace that a gr. at part of the 1.11 it of thitiiinack, three mile, distant from the voicaco, iv covered. "1 he tollowing account is given in a letter flu n Cepeoliageo of the 2tit of March v..' Tae LOA post from Ireland wiouot new, that they esp... kneed ou 20th, and 21st of I):•a miser heit, a considerable volcanic eruption, very near Net I t, but in a ,pot o !weer silica 161'2, had exhibited the least •olcai C,yinmom. The. fou n d, a mile from Cite crater, swims of the %vela ht of e 0 waned', e have nut yet beard that this eruption bas pruductal an) mischief. The mass or billobure,u4 ash, %hieh form.4l a thick cru,t upon the sui mudding groteal, has been swept /May by u violent hurricane and heavy raiti. The explosion was accompanied by 'Meat detonations, wad shocks of .ta earthquake? " A circumstance of a very extraordinary na.nre late!y occurred in Pembrokeshire. Daltiel Evans, of Llannw. than, near Fislutiard, impelled by a beweveldmi wisi or providing a coffin lin the interment of his trite (who was then considered dangerously ill, but is now in a fair way u: recover)), went to the abate town for that purpose; out so narrow and imperfect is human fore.ialit, that afterharitrgcompleted the bargain he'becaine.int sicaterl, returned home that evenitta, slid at teat o'clock the twat morning he himself stood in 'teed of the same article which was kindly iuteudal fur his bekned ap ,use.