The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-12-28 00:00:00

e i 4411011 10 a A c he, sod ether missile Weems t 'the wretched worn'', I was D early killed ; you, John Ward, with peculiar,atro oily, le this presence of I Peace Officer, inflicted many blows open her, and it was no fault of yours if she was no t thee killed. What excuse can you offer for so daring • an outrage ? None. What injury had this poor crea ture done to you ? None. And what was her offence ? Her offence was that she came here at the last Assizes, as a witness to take a solemn oath—to tell the tr uth. Do you imagine that such conduct will be tolerated ? if you•think so, the example that will be made of you, will convince those astociates with whom you are connected, t hat you are mistake°, and that they wise dare to offend nro atrage the la ws,willmeet with the condign punishment she law inflicts. Sorry am I to say, that your conduct has ' Wooly displayed the bad disposition that pervades the toasty, bat your defence has, if possible, aggravated your pat. I do not speak it lightly, when I uy, that the mass 'bf witnesses you produced, clearly chewed the demoralised . Ittate of the lower orders, and when they came forward lo prov e alibis, were guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury. •od God ! to whet a state are we reduced in this coun try, when miscreants are guilty of 'smelting witnesses for giving lawful testimony in a Court of Justice, and ethers can be toned ready to perjure themselves isomp ,port of them ; if this state of things is to go on, the ,4oautry is not worth living in ; I trust and hope that .- illiertslomle-srbkit will be made of you, will tend to . Puce, good order, mul tranquillity; you, John . n o; I select as the worst. Yon have shelve a depra reater than any of your associates — you h ave been rg , tray of more cruelty and violence ; I therefore sentence you to 18 months imprisonment : and you, Thomas Lee you, Morgan Cregan—you, George D'Arcey—you, John Finn—you, Thomas Keefe—you, Daniel Keefe— you, Patrick Enright—and you, Patrick Cregan, are to be imprisoned twelve months, and all and each of you, at the termination of your imprisonment, are severally to and securities to keep the peace for seven years, particu. lady to Catherine Ilassett and David Fitzgerald, your selves in the sum of 100/. each, and each to find two 'nettles in 251. each ; and should aoy one of you here after violate the peace, you shall not only be dealt with according to the utmost rigour of the law, but your Mends who shall enter bail for you, shall be incarcerated for year future offences. • Daniel Martin was then plated at the bar. Baron M'Celland thus addressed the prisoner—Da ilia Martin, you have been found Guilty of a misdemea nour, for unlawfully and riotously assembling with *noon the 9th of October, in the second year of the pre sent reign at Kilmeedy, in the County of Limerick. — Daniel Martin, you have had a narrow escape, for had the party with whom you were assembled, or bad any dee enlist party proceeded, to a single act of violence, 1 would not have to sentence you now for a misdemea nour, but it would be my painful and imperative duty to pronounce that 'sentence on you, which, in a few minutes I will have to pronounce on seven others, and which your unhappy associate, Timothy Shea, has drawn upon biesselL The sentence of the Court. on yon. Daniel Mar *, is bat yon be imprisoned six eneelle, tiad ahat twice ng that period, yes ire petit* ollipped—throagli the town of Newcastle. Martin Grady. John Grady,- Thomas Keily, Michael Kelly, John Huston, John Mullane, and Timothy Shea, were then placed at the Bar. After calling over the names of the prisoners, Baron 145Clelland thes'proceeded :—Prisoners, you have been severally found Guilty of crimes which the law punishes with death. To me it is a melancholy duty to have to pronounce that sentence, when already in this week have four human beings forfeited their lives to the violated laws of their country, and I am now called on to repeat that dreadful sentence on seven more of my fellow-crea tares. You have been found Guilty on the clearest evi dence, and by a most respectable, a most intelligent, and a most humane jury. Not a verdict of Guilty has been pnononnied without the most mature coosideration,and on the most satisfactory proof. Where it was possible for hninanity to suggest a doubt, it has been turned to the advantage of the prisoner, and some have escaped throughlhe humanity of the Jury. (Here some of title wretched men called out, " a long day, your be mlur, for the love of God.")—That feeling was most honourable to them, they discharged their dal firmly &Id faithfully. When I came down to this Comity, 1 hod but a faint notion of the nature of the conspiracy, a °lore daring one never existed in any country. Men, ectfederated for the purpose of exercising tyrannical drinatiqn over the property of every man in the cofuntry, extending their tyranny even over those salcial ties, which bind the dearest and holiest con nexions of life together. Commencing in the same proposed regulation of land, tithes, and taxes, and when resisted, terminating in the foul and dreadful crime of murder. You, Timothy Shea, were takes PAsoner, after you had been seen with a party con sisting of $0 or 100 men, mounted. You were found with a horse, which you had unlawfully takes for your nightly depredations ; you were armed with deadly weapons; a pistol was found in your breast, and A potr4er horn in your pocket. You, Thomas Keily, and you, Michael Kelly, in the middle of the noon day proceeded to the house of the unfortq nate Mrs. Sperling . , and plundered it of a rms. That old and respectable lady, who was incapable of res . islet:tee, you, Thomas Kelly snapped a pistol at, twice; you snapped a pistol also at her maid, and eventually plundered the house of that unfortunat e, -fileuitan.who bassinet fallen, perhaps by your hands. lobs Huston, and John Mullane, persecuted a \ tstrions man, not only by threat s . but b y o p en ' , olence. You designed his destruction, and that be should have Sperling's fate. as you it. This case plainly chewed the state to 1 :iety had been reduced at Newcastle—when tpy man called for relief, not a door would be opened tolthe or to his children. Yon bad affixed a notice oa his neighbour's door, prohibiting any one from daria4: to associate with him, and you threatened ourtindivietial. for holding any communication with him, and what was his crime ? He was a Kerry wan . That was an offence, according to your code of laws, not to be pardoned. lien. Mat tin Grady, and you, John Grady, have also forfeited your lives to the Wrestled laws of your coun try. Thert• is something more appaling in your case than in any of the preceding. Yorklarie net attempted au prove ail alibi by the ordinary mode, but such hat, s Yoo, 1 1 poor indi acts of ri told him oxproose• wfiich this us IRTS. - ' msi hese die tilorlor that rei have excited, that yea hame 1 14 illnill.:.oth SPORI 4 $,. • e., , .0:. • aro- Wittily produced on that table. 1 wife galas% the • —.alp— 'any husband, a child stalest the father. Yee hare pro- IlliTe b Iliatihilf Poll characteri' —, 1. _1 • . ism _.a_ /Lt--.ll— ►r, le th, eee 11, the tea i 0 ow ,gb• the pe O IMNt ;eort, s pots al bi dole; gls• .., -41 SPORTING INTELLIGIINCIL - - against _ .ove pro tiniest that melancholy rithibiti‘i.—driven and com pelled by your tyrannical mandates, that man has seen the wife of his bosom, the mother of his child, appear log against him, to falsify his testimony, in order to save you, who would have destroyed them both. These are atrocities not to be endured in any country. Baron M'CLett.sso continued at great length, and concluded by pronouncing the awful sentence this : That you and each of you be taken from the place where you now stand, to the gaol from whence You came, and on a day hereafter to be named, your irons to be strnck off, and you and each of you, to the common place of execution, the gallows, and their be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord of his infi nite goodness, have mercy on your soul. Baron M.Clelland, and every individual in Court, was deeply affected during this awful scene. , After Baron M'Clelland had pronounced sentence on the unhappy men, and they had been removed from the clock heavy ironed, 1. . • The SOLICITOR-GENERAL rose to request of the Court, that a young person, named Curtaine, might be discharg ed from custody ; he was charged with the same offence as Histon and . Mullane, and the same evidence which bad been given on their trial, would also have applied to him ; bat his extreme youth induced the Counsel for .the Crown to make the present application, conceiving that he must have been misled by others. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL also requested the discharge of James Jordan, who had been almost miraculously ac quitted of the charge of forcibly taking arms from Mr. Sperling; and he trusted in Ood, that those two men might return to society, as missionaries, preaching obe dience to the laws among their deluded associates. The SOLICITOR-GaN KRAL farther prayed their Lord ships to adjourn the Special Commission, for the County of Limerick, to Saturday, the 18th ofJanuary. It was the firm determination of Government, said the Learned Counsel, until peace was effectually restored, to hold a permanent Court of Justice in the County of Limerick. The White Boys, or the Law, must prevail. More murders may be committed; Magis trate after Magistrate may be murdered, but successors will be found, who will neither slumber nor rest, until the strong arm of the Law shall visit the perpetrators of crime with condign and exemplary punishment. It was most gratifying, however, that if the County of Limerick has been disgraced by the acts of a lawless banditti, it has also been raised by the firm and upright conduct of the resident Oentry, who, in the midst of fire and sword, shrank not from their duty. —The Country was much indebted to the and to the Magistrates; to one in particular (Mr. Yokes) thanks were due in an eminent degree. — It must afford great satisfaction to those around bins to hear that the unfortunate men who bad already ex piated their crimes by a public death, manifested a contrite deportment, and made a full confession of their guilt. Much praise was due to the respectable, Clergymen who attended the unhappy men, and who brought them in their latest moments, to a due sense of their awful situation. Under these circumstances he trusted lie was warranted in indulging a hope el better days; bat should acts of violence again miser, tie perpetrators might depend upon it, that troops. after troops waild be poured into the sountry, until teanquillity woild be fully and firmly establithaiLl He would esk this deluded banditti wh at p re y ed) they had made for the last fifteen yeas ? Could not their own experience slew them the folly of their attempting to cope with the laws? if it could pot, let them ask their fathers and their grandfathers what progress such banditti had made since the year 1776. In that year appeared the " White Boys," lafter those another banditti called the " Right Boys," then the " Night Buys," the " Peep o'day Boys," the " Threshers," the " Shanavests," the " Carayets," and the " Ribbonmen." I pass over the great insurrection of the year 1795, by the United Irishmen, and speak only of the banditti; and I ask, bow did they terminate their mad career but at the gallows? The history of the Country sliews that such only was the result, and as long as the laws of the country are violated such only can be the result. When the Solicitor-Oeneral closed, Mr. Howly said that he felt it not only his inclination, bat his duty, to return thanks to his brethren of the Bar, the Crown Counsel, for the great candour which he met with from them in the discharge of the arduous duty he was called upon to perform, as Counsel on behalf of the Prisoners. He was anxious thns to state his sense of the mild and becoming manner in which they conducted the prates don, on behalf of the Crown, and lie could not witness the present adjournment, without testifying what he felt by a strong and public expression. The Court then adjourned to the 12th of January. COUNTY COURT, Dicc. ?I. This morning, at hall-past nine o'clock, Baron N I CLELLA N D and Mr. Justice Meows took their seats on the Beach. Michael *Grath was then placed at the. Bar. The prisoner was indicted for that be, on the lbth December, in the 2d year of the present Reign, at Cahiraarry, in the County of the City of Limerick, did assault Bernard Morgan. and by force and violence take from the person of the said Bernard Morgan, one gun, value ten shillings, the property of our Sove rei g n Lord the Kink. Bernard Morgan Is a private in the 93d Highlanders. After wit nesses had been examined, Mr. Justice Moons rec9i tulaied the evidence, and charged the Jery, who having retired for about ten minutes, returned with a verdict of (Witty, but recommended the prisoner to mercy. The Court asked the Jury on what ground was the prisoner recommended, and if they had any doubt of his The foreman of the Jury replied, that they bad eat the slightest doubt of his guilt, bat recommended him on the ground of his being drunk at the time .f dal commission of this offence. The Court declared, that at such a time, who. a Special Commission was sent down to that county, such a recommendation could not be attended to. Francis Shaughnessy and Michael M'Orath was then placed at the bar, and the awful sentence of death was pronounced upon them, by Mr. Justice . Moore, in feel ing and emphatic language. The prisoners begged repeatedly for a losg day. After the prisoners had been removed from the bar, the Special Commission in the City Court, at the re quest of the Solieitor-Oeneral, was adjourned to Satur day, the 12th of January nest. Thirteen wise have bees eenteseod to lead, daring this week, at the Special Ceimisitoa. 'There .. ....g more characteristic of the true. Awer t i diria of our Northern friends. than their a. traordinery &Machines ter their mallow% lanpage tali dress. Their salve sports and amusements, which being founded la general upon harmless aid innocent simplici. ty. As themselves so firmly upon the youthful mind of the Gasi t tiat neither thinner distance efface them from his mensery ; fur whenever he engages in the ath letic unwise of throwing the stone. the manly in healthy game of the Shinny or Cammanach, or bears the martial sounds of the Pipes, his eye glistens " with the joys that are past, for the thoughts of Ms soul are en the days of other years." New Year's Day, old style, was the only great festi val or holiday known to the ancient Highlanders ; but of tate, Christmas and New Year's Day, new style. are partially kept. On these occasions, when the old and the young meet to congratulate each other upon the happy return of the season, the usual past time of the youth is, then, a match at the Shinny or I Cameniach; while the aged encourage or instr uct them, 'and often seise the Shinny in their nerveless grasp, with an energy beyond their years, and wish they were young again. The rosy cheeted and plaid clad lane% tie* with delight the manly exertions of their Anon hatbands in the close eontested field; and at the end of inch match the pipes strike up, the young and old trips the merry real with light fantastic toe, upon the now bound heath, and at the same time the brim-filled shell goes round charged with L'squebagb (whisky), which is necessary to resist the chilling blast from penetrating the over-heated breast of the players. Then reflections upon the days of our youth, in which we were not unconcerned spectators, arose from a eiretutstanee which occurred last Christens day.— Some enthusiastic Highlanders, having a few days before hastily proposed to renew the sports of their youth, by a Shinny match on Blackheath, on that day in their native garb, accordingly met at King's Hotel, in the Haymarket. at ten o'clock, and f thence proceeded. by Greenwich-coaches previcat' engaged. to the Hare Inn, Blackheath. and having re freshed themselves, they marched to the heath with their Piper before them to the tune of " The Garb of Aid Gael," and " Oillean an eiladh," (the lads with the kilts), to the no small astonishment of the inhabit acts of Blackheath. who imagined that the High- 1 leaden, being armed wi th Claibh-nior, pistols and dirks, had met to decide some deadly fend, accord ing to the ancient practice of their country. They were, however. agreeably surprised when they saw the Highlanders divest themselves of their deadly weapons. and appear on the heath with only the harmless Shinny or Cowman (a club bent at the end) in their manly grasp. Two gentlemen being appointed to select the players and to ascertain the first choice according to the roles of the game. one of the gentlemen threw his shinny to the other pe daling who caught it about e middle. The first a i gentisesan nixed it close to above the ha nd of the `fileman, who, in .1 turn _grasped it close rst, and so on site' ately to tun top of the *ism% and the last bold had the choice. The players *finites- selected, and the 'bail, or ground, being properly marked, the choice of sides was decided by alternate heeds upon the shinny as before. every ar rangement being thus completed. the ball (about one inch and a half in diameter and covered with lea ther) was brought to the centre of the hail. or ground, and the game commenced by giving the con tended globe to the wind. Thee began the friendly *if.. " Chief mixes his strokes with chief, and man 1 with man, as Autumn's dark storms pour from two 1 echoing bills ; towards each other approached the II youth ; the field echoes from wing to wing, as an hendred hammers that drummed by turns on the anvil ; the strokes of the youth were heard, and many were the anxious eyes of their Mends as they saw them dim on the heath." The Blackbeathians had now an opportunity of calming their fears, and joining in the general laugh °unlined by the slipperiness of the ground, which pro duced falls and ludicrous tumbles. that gave rise to mach merriment. They, however, witnessed and praised the uncommon agility cf the highlanders, from %fie freedom which there native garb (none being allowed to play with say other) gives to their sinewy limbs. The match was finished at three o'clock, and the plaided youth returned from the well contested field in regale" order, with the victorious party in front and the Pipers before them. playing " Scots wlsa liae wi Wallace bled," and the " Highland Laddie." After taking some refreshment, they mounted their cars and returned to town with their Piper playing all the way, and arrived at King's Hotel, between four and Ave o'clock , elated with their day's atensements, and with an understanding to re p eat the same on New INA' 's day next. There Is a copper cola in the possession of Colon. Res., etNigg, of a else somewhat less than a farthing which was found is the ruins of his old farm-offices On one tide of it the Scotch Thistle is easily traced bat the hopression on the other side seems difficult to &medals. The date, however, is perfectly dibtinct. being Stl. We cannot venture to affirm that this is a Scotch coin, the silver penny of Alexander 11., 1214, being the oldest we have any knowledge of. The cots in the pommies of Col. Rose. however. deserves time i attention of the antiquary, as it may strengthen del belief that there are Scotch coins of older date than the last atentiosed.—(h.erneer Courkr.) We are happy to be able to state, for the satisfactiou of hir. • Waliack's friends, that the account of thr aecideat Ohl had befallen him, extracted from the Kew York .Pipers, is greatly exaggerated. Ur. Wal ks* has bad the misfortune to break his leg but not in kW pieces. The report of the surgeon was highly faviewaider when• the last accounts came orr (two days ow the widest), and there was every reason to anti , cipato a speedy recovery aid resumption of his prof *. s*- dead permits. A match for a considerable wager, between a seas es foot and as ass ridden by a buy, was'docided last ends, is Yorkshire, in favour of the latter. The es details, was, which ran from Whenby to York, a &tame of 13 miles, in the shortest time; whieb ass ran la one boor and twenty minutes, beating the petiestrlan &boat a mile. NETTING AT TATTERS 4LL'It. No notarial alteration marred la the bettlefr at Tatter sall's yesterday. 'lto attendance was very thlo, and scantly a bet made. FREE II tlolnic APS. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING, len. MOND ALY. Sweepstakes of 100 gs each.h. ft. for 5-yr-olds and upwards. Last three Riles of B. C. Four to accept, or no race. Are. st.lb. Age: st.lb. Spectre Muter Henry hittleJohn 5 812 Romp 6 8 5 Euphrates Sultan ... Banker Champignen Consul Alder .. .. .... 5 S 9 Schedam 6 712 Cardinal ....... 5 8 8 Philip, 6 7 .12 Regent Miss Allegro 8 9 6 Letitia ..• .. 5 7 9 Shreckhorn TUESDAY. Sweepstakes of 100 gs each, h. ft. for 4-yr-olds: D. I. Four to accept, or no race. et.lb. st.lb. Selma C. by Ardrossan, out Antiope 8 5 of Vicissitude .... 9 0 Sorcerer. e. (Mr. S res Bor po o dino Anti-Galilean St. Patrick, by Sir Trance W a lt e r Deadness 8 11 Canoes, by Ruben'.. 8 0 Mr. Low • 8 9 Vaal** Cavalier 8 8 Athenian ... ...... 7 13 Sir John 8 8 Arbutus Cripple Mavis Moonraker. 8 6 F. by Trul e. out of Paintbrush... 8 6 Reserve 7lO Less WEDNESDAY. Sweepstakes of 100 gs each, h. ft. for 3-yr olds. T. Y. C. Four to accept, or no race. st.lb. at lb. Zeal Michaelmas ,Prophet North Wester .. Bl2 Chryseis ... • ... 6 9 L awrence Varennes 8 0 Pa storella Pantoudo C. by Sena, out of Phidias Palma .... 6 8 Kildare ... 7 1* R ostcrus l a n Jock the Laird's brother 8 4 Luster Prosody Rasselas 8 4 Totals Civet THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 100 gs each. h. ft. for 3-yr-olds, A. T. Four to accept, or no race. st.lb. at.lbl Jack Spiggot 9 0 Blue Ruin i II A ugus t a 9 0 Ineantator .. S 11 Guavas C. by Partisan, out of Henry 8 9 Rldieds F ortuna 8 9 Carbonaro .. 8 Adolphus Reginald ....• Princess Royal . Sir Hudibrand. by Octa - Lady FMK", .• .. 8 6 sirs. out of Troth's d. S 4 Gr. a. by Y. Goltnina. My Lady 8 4 data by Sella .... I /1 Black-sad-all-Blasa 8 4 M atte 7 1$ Tress ili an - 7 111 • Ibi s 8 3 Titian 7 11 Cutest 8 11 C. by Sootbsayei, out of Peter Lily .. Rioter • 8 2 BOXING. The last of the four boxing matches. on Wednesday and which for manhood never was exceeded, took place in Frampton Parish, on Epping Forest. an enemy hay ing driven the cavalcade out from Fairfield, Herts. This match was for thirty guineas, between W. Cox a sawyer, who had put on the gloves a t the Fives' Court, and Ilarry Miller, a coachman. The seconds were Appleby for Cox, and Mason for the coachman. Seven trainee. dons rounds were fought in 26 minutes, as follows: — In the first round, on loosing each other's hands, the men turned to for mischief, and exchanged many heavy blows upon the head and body. Cox lost two teeth in the rally, and Miller's right ogle was nearly closed. They separated, and then renewed another mischievous rally at equal fighting, when both went down weak. 2. A short rally; Cox was floored by a right-handed blow on the side.— 5 to 4 on Miller. 3. The claret flew in streams from the beads of each, and the seconds wore the vermillio n hue. Glee and take was again the will of both, and another slaughter ing round was fought, until both went down from di* 4. In a short rally , M iller was dropped by a kit on the breast, which produced aloud groan, and the rattling of the hit was beard throughout the ring. • 5. A minute elapsed in attituding, until some wind was fetched to relieve the piping of both. The men at length turned to and fought the best round in the bat tle. It lasted eight minutes, and at least half a dozen hits were exchanged upon the head; Cox was thrown, Miller's eye was closed, and the features of both were nearly invisible; their beads were truly excheqnered. 6. A gay round in favour of Cox, whose adversary was too bhod to find his object; be however floored him by a blow in the jaw. 7. This round won Cox th e fi g ht by placing a left handed hit below his adv ersar y 's chest which doubled him up, and he could not come to time. .Thwircns. CORN EXCHANGE. Dec. 28.--Owing to the eentiesance of boisterous weather, we have bad so arrivals of any grain this week, and scarcely any nsines , was done in our m arket to day, the consumers ttfratoing from pur chasing, in anticipation of very large supplies when the wind Changes, in consequence of which our prices may be quoted the same as on Monday. SMITHFIELD 3141 suave-There was an uncommon short market this morning owing to the main being out in various parts of the country, in conseqnence of which, the prices of different descriptions of Cattle is rather higher than last week. To sink the offal per st. of sibe. . , Beef . ... 25. dd. to 4s. 0.1. CATTLE AT HAMLET t Mutton.. Is. od. to Ss. N .. . . SOO • Veal .... Ss. Od. to 4s. Sd. i l2d • . Pork .... ns. 04. to 4e. 01 Lambs— . 11,H10 •.. - 1..Jah.... Os. Od. to Os. Od. Plgs •... .. l6 ll -, ‘-',, Straw and Clover as per last. H AY- MA RILZT.--NO alteration in the price of Heppe ...-. • *rite and Clover as per our last. . Hay $1 10s. to 41.45. I Straw .11.11 s. to 11. 16e. Cl os er 41. Os. to N. Os. j In the evening of New. Year's Der. Wt.'s, , Rdir sad sis o'clock, there will be moth if the warm' prove fine, an interesting con j unction of Saar% Je plo tie, sad eis Moon. .. . , 1 i <l, r, 741 01 _~ di • J , • :rt .1 I A . • _ - y . TO