The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-01-03 00:00:00

r - stars OA IREL4XD. Canute, Dac. 31.—LANDLOIDI AND TINAMTII.-- Rain and devastation threaten the country. The land p•o?rietors must lower their rests, or the come quence most be fatal, in the drat instance to their te nants, in the next to themselves! We must speak oat : this is no time for mincing the matter. We know of oppressions, great aid terrifying oppressions, exlstiag in oar very neighbourhood; aid unless they shall, in some degree, be done away, we forebode evil of the most appalling nature. Let those who are concerned look to the matter in time; we have frrqueatiy point. ed oat the necessity of some relaxation in the emcee scionable demands which have been latterly mode le many place* for rests, where there are owe to be had : and now that the very elements are employed, for .r:se purposes no doubt, is an extraordiaary agency azainst the farmer, it is full time that the landlord should open his eyes, aid see that these visitations from Heaven are intended to produce effects which his heartless indifference would protract, -in opposition to every principle of reason, justice, aid sound policy. itTlfell.—There is a parish in this County which, daring the iecumbeney of one Rector. who is still living, but was deprived of the Rectory for non-resi dence, paid only three hundred pentads per annum ; however, during the late wee, the tithes were raised to eleven hundred pounds I This parish ha. now de emed again in its tithe, from the very low prices of ogrieeltaral produce. bat not la the proportion in which they were raised : this is sot fair play ; things should go ateorrilag to the times. The Clergy is Wand are acting upon this principle, and are wise in so dialog. Custom, Dec. 29—Last Wednesday, in the fore soon, a soldier of the 86th, coming from Ballynamult tothis owe, accompanied by his ware, having arrived at, and jest passed Kilmainhaessbridge, and handed her bis gun to carry for some temporary convenience. an elderly man named Veale, who had been proceed ing the nine way for a fvw yards, proposed to re lieve the woman from the harden of the &thole, and before she had time to accept or reject his offer, took it out of her hand, and at the same instant handed it to a perm named Casey, one of two fellows who came ep at the instant, and who, on getting the arms, instantly es& The soldier Immediately seized Veale, and, single handed, brought him into Clonmel, where he has been fully committed by Colonel Bagwell. It argues somewhat. we should think, for the general temper of the district, that the soldier was uninter rupted while marching his prisoner a distance of more than three Irish miles. Colonel Bagwell immediately exerted himself io having a strict search and pursuit made for the offenders ; and, on that night, a party of the garrison, including some of the Tipperary staff, were actively engaged in pursuit of the offenders, bat we are sorry to say without effect. Whimsically enough in rumoring armor the houses near windygap, they brood a large tree, which Colonel Bagwell's wood • ranger can identify as having been cut at Marlfield three years ago. From the exertions that have been made, and in charity, we should hope, from seeing the impolicy and etiesinality of the robbery, the gun lass since bees sent in to Col. Bagwell. 75 TIM FIROPI/87011.1 of TSB MUZIRICIII csaoxrcLL SPEEL 7/WWlffir. - GENTLIMICII-Irll year last Paper you mentioned that no outrages bad occurred in the Comity of Lime rick during the week of the Special Commission!— Permit me to assure you that on the nights of Wed nesday and Thursday of that week, after numerous convietioos and executions had taken place, Louses at Knockortior, between Bruree and Rewards town, bad been broken into, and where they did not get arms, they demanded and got money. As several statements will be made of an affray that occurred on Christmas-day, at Ballyagran, between the soldiers stationed, and the country people, wherein one of the countrymen was killed, and one or two wounded; to prevent misrepresentations, permit me, who attended at Dallyagran, on the 26th instant, and yesterday at the Coroner's incnest, to give you the following cor rect statement of the facts and circumstances: About two o'clock, during Divine Service there, within the Chapel, a virious and false report was made, that the soldiers had surrounded the Chapel, were setting fire to it, and were to fire on the congregation ; nay, in the remote part of the Chapel it was said, that the sol diets were striking the Priests, and driving them from the Altar—oo which the whole congregation rushed out through doors and windows, and took up stones to repel the soldiers. It has been proved that not a sol dier was near the Chapel, the Chapel-yard, or than the bigh.road, which is at a distance from every tide of the Chapel. The two Priests, in a most praise worthy manner, have proved this, and on this occasion, as well as on any others, exerted their endeavours to dissuade the parishioners from violence or outrage ; however, an affray began, the soldiers were assailed and struck, and wounded with stones; in their own defence, and to prevent their being disarmed, they fired three or four shots, when one man was killed, and one or two wounded. Sir Richard Harts and Mr. Odell Upton arrived from Drew's-Court, at Banger's, within half an hour after the affray, and both gave testimony of the sober and regular state of the soldiers, and of the blood, bruises, end wounds, that the several soldiers exhildtvd and had received. I am, neotlemen, yours, with troth, Ail OLD MAGISTRATE. •We particularly stated the Western part of the county. The man's name who was killed in the abs.. affair is James Lane. Ao inquest was held on the body on Thursday, by John Cox, Esq. Coroner, and a highly respectable Joey, who, after a patient investigation of two days, and examining nearly seventeen witnesses, returned an unmimons verdict of " Justifiable Homicide." SECOND MEETING AT BANDON. An adjourned meeting was Reid in the Court House of !tandem on Monday. The Provost took the Chair snit opened the business, by stating had bees robbed of arms since theiL then left to the discretion of the meth of such precautionary measures as 01 seemed to require. The Earl of BANDON immediately Insurrection Act should be applied for, %levee means of quelling t►e alarnsing that p a ailed. Mr. EVANSON, a Magistrate. oecomilail Captain JAMSS STAWELL argued at length and with • ~.. -.. , ..,7 - -~+-~ the yeas 1766. rawest took the Chair, ing that a few bonses .Afk Majesty has I teir last me e ti ng , an d °ilk sehlah followed meeting the adopt hums to Welder, the preseet ezigeadis = ll lON. His ea be taken lately said, that the "a aotOsSms.„ anus for, as the Daly of his olaratY• He larming &Whams wisse° he was hnt to The barometer fel ecoarleal the motion. 24.11 of December k 7to __; . ia• • gr atshilltyagainst its apedillllloo it rise Leal Iliados. (free skin • tampions) that the ealatiegians stroag, if retail acted pa by the country tiontleatims, to put deem far sac. thus that which mow pentad. . The mode*, however, was pat sad arable by,aa lisasease slaeseroas taajority. . . It was nowt proposal that, ae application abseil be Naas ao faboreratnent to re•aalielly the third. naospasy Oldie Asides Y.oaaary, and that it should also he tagoestal to audios di entbodylag a Tionaery carps of cavalry. The rentalaiag resolution were seemly comma place. A *co/guiles nee . t.took piece between lard Ban ,dett Bed llr.lll•Streeny, in which the former mar **bled of ths aspersion the lather cast ea the Yee- money. Mr. M'Swzartv said, that kis *sive remained un altered. lard 'UNDO* u Id, be would Heti them loyal and inoffensive whoa hog enough to hew them. His Lordship repassed, that he biped time would evince the truth et his (Lard B.'s) laagnage. He thee en tend into a lengdieeod and aelatated panegyric ea the Yeomanry, who, he said, twilit their prejudice the moment they pat es their red coats. He, afterwards. in conclusion. suggested, that the future weekly meet legs of the Magistrates should be close. in order to prevent "Spokormen."—(Cork ellreeiete.) • • The following print* letter is gives is a paper et this nerving. as recestly received from Limerick ;-- " Luseascs, Dec. 30.—Another dreadful mur der has bee. committed in this county. You may have maw heat the Irish papers accounts of nightly attacks mad* upon the house of a Mr.' Cesdoe, of Scarf, near Rathkeale, several times in the amuse of the last six months. He took a man named Hermes for his tenant. le the room of etas whom be bed ejected. This mats became obese ens as as intruder. The famed " Captain Rock" sent him notice to quit, with which he did net comply. A party of ruffians attacked his house last night, denouncing terrible vengeenee. Herman sod his two aqui, able.bodied yeast mes h sedated their en trance mentally. Upon this the party sneaking atm minced a fire of slap through the door and windows, and one of the young men was shot dead through the breast. and the father badly wounded is the leg and arm. Is it not singular that this happened within $ mile of • strong military pest, the town of Rathkeele, sad was not known there until twe o'clock the next day ? The fact was, that so ate of the country people would dare to announce it. There were six military parties sear the place—the nearest half a utile, the farthest litttle more then a mile. Information had bees given to the Commanding Ofileer a forteigitt before of the intended attack, and Gerusaa's hiss* was guarded for several nights. At length the inform ties was disregarded. and the guard withdrawn ; and the very first night after, the murder was committed. Some arms have bees delivered up. bet. of cools a qua , lity, that 1 verily believe it to bedews either fet a stra tagem or for a joke, by Captain Rock"-rid pus and plittols without locks, fit *sly se make bere•-elsoes. -ease& ontieibmser"-eberlsore" Ilerefeettherunil drew ti r.halainip; • ' TUB ST4Ti &VAN. ioadoble nod boorroleot 'prat. -1 worthy ilwitators, who, I a very swoorosfol. I us, Sir, your imoble servant. AN EYE WITNESS. I - The riwiltds it f money, clothing, books, Ike. given an nosily by 111+ John and Lady Shelley, to the most d eserv log Amos, lb industrious poor of the parish of M ares field, tele& last twelvemonth have not received pa roebiale ty. were distributed at Mareslield Park, as usual... Now Year's Day; and it is gratifying to learn that this beeevolent and generous practice continues to be 'needed with the happiest effects. None of the indi vides!s who were rewarded last year have conde scended to apply for relief from the .Parish, al thoogh wages bays been considerably lower, and some of them have bad a child added to their fiiiiiies. In geseral, habit's of economy, industry, sobriety, and attention to the public duties of religion, with a grewlng spirit of independence and virtuous emula czo. dos are the masifest results of this judicious method of bounty. 111 e premiums, as formerly, were adjudged to the nes trio bad maintained the greatest number of ehildres by his own industry ; to him who had the neatest cottage, or garden ; to the woman who had earned assat_by labour in the field, or work at home ; ....: to the ,wisp bad the best character from their After the distribution, a plentiful nor f F aiitpiem-paddlag was given to about 130 Andrea belboging to the National and Sunday Schools; and, after dinner, rewards were bestowed epos such of them also as bad been most exemplary for their coadect as teachers, and their diligence as scholars. • 1/1" errinie madir. - . .e• sip diarist. es , 7 0 IsloooB h..a*erd.. away e were eellieleady • gellewhig leak N Ilyrkereees sod eke losable* bad sews' Lc resin dieeerb• ww Mistime. bare Mud it e am. Sir. selves) know he difference lo the ui of fire% mos." The Marquees of Hastings, says a Ministerial paper, is certainly returning home, and will be in this coantry by May. It is not his intention to resign, but be comes home to Iran -ate operation performed on the upper part of his sheik an9asitentla afterwards to re turn to India. Donis, JAN. 1.--DCPARTBRI or EARL TALBOT._ F Yesterday, the I.Talbot bad a Levee at the Castle, preparatory to departure from Ireland, which was numerously at nded. immediately after the Levee, his Lordship Entered his carriage, and a procession from the Castle took Ore throsgh the streets, which were 14 telitissll tiosttroops of the garrison not on particulo , llllo2ein Fonotir of his Lordship. First, there was a troop of the 12th Lancers ; next. a troop of the 7th Hussars: next, Lord Talbot's carriage, es corted by a troop of the 7th Hussars; next, all the of ficers of the Staff, with a long train of carriage., among which we noticed the Lord Mayor's, Lord Manners, the Attorney-General's. the Doke of Lein 'der's. the carriage of the Commander of the Forces, the Earl of Meath's, the Hon. Mr. Annesley's. Mr. (instants Lambert's, the carriages of the Members of the Corporation. the Lord Chief Justice's, and Lord Castlecoote's. Last week the Marquess of Thal&ld, attended by Lord William Bootjack, and several Members of Lyno CorperatioN, canvassed the resident Burg . Sir W. Foulkes, in a letter to the Burgesses, has declined the contest. C . car. JAN. I.—A meeting of the owners and nesaPien of land in East Kent, WAS held at the Fountain Tavern, in this city, on Saturday last, which was attended by the county Members, and many of the principal Gentlemen of this part of the cesaly. Se veral resolutions, and a petition le the Howe of Com mons, were adopted by the nattedai. at a purport si milar to those lately passed at a umedekg held in West Kent.—(Keveisk Chrea.) Tut BANa.-01 tanker reduction takes place this week in thir lishment. A number of the senior clerks bawl , ads up their accounts, will retire upon the sapernanatated list, with half-pay. The junior clerks will be continued upon the establishment in full pay at present. After the consecrating of the Rnyal Chapel, at Brighton, a greed performance of sacred manic (vocal sad instrumental), took place at the Palace in the evening. The I pieces were performed by the gentle.oes and chorister of the Chapel Royal, St. James's; and the organ was played by Mr. Attwood, mistake of St. Paul's Cathedral. now is his possession a fine wolf the Royal carriage from Herres . a distaoce of wore than seventy His Majesty observing the dog order ta care of, and he has slate proved animal, as to become quite a favourite He is called Wetslar. from the plate taken up.—(Brighioa Chronicle.) fill io Paris on the evening of the lower that it bas bees knows since .( \ • 7. • \ (ZI r-D .0N •• C'. .. \i - • • o - e•t,i" - • wr ;~<.. TO THIS EDlroa OF THE STATES-VAN. Sta.—Having observed In your paper of last night. as attetutat of no accident to a carriage and horses and the driver, which happened near Staines on Christmas Eve I I beg leave, as proprietor of that equipage • to return, through your means, my most grateful aeksowledgnients to your correspondent. the gentleman passenger by the Salisbury coach, to whose hunters, prompt, and persevering endeavours I am in debted for the recovery of the carriage and one of the horses t and my servant, the driver, for his rescue from the perilous siltation into which he was thrown, by the shameful neglect of the Commissioners of Roads of that district. I think it proper to add, that my sense of the duty I owe to the Public at large has in duced me to direst ley solicitor to make application in the proper quarter for redress, and hope it may be the means of preventing the recurrence of similar acci dents in intim I am, bury respectfully. Sir, your obedient servant, CHMILIti UATILL Adam-street, West, Dryanetos Holiday, Dee. SD. Mel. WEATHER IN IRELAND. 49.—CALAIIITOUS Faoon.—Rarly this morning took place, one of the most calamitous floods which Insomnia is this citvfor a lonif_tinse. The injoryl Joie lie hie% isoireiterisive and in its I consequences. The whole of the west of the city, in eluding all the streets and the lanes trenching from Hammond's Marsh; the centre, comprising the Grand Parade, George, Fish, Mayor, and Caroline streets; and the South-eastern extremity embracing the South Ter. race, Rutland-street, &c. have been under water, and in some places, to the depth of five feet. In fact, very few streets escaped from being visited by the calamity. This flood was occasioned by the great quantity of rain which has receatly fallen, aided and increased by the high tide Bowing up the rivers and a strong easterly wind. Seve ral traders and shopkeepers have suffered materially, es pecially such as whose goods were liable to be damaged by water. We cannot enumerate half the mischiefs done in this city, which have come to our knowledge. Fortunately. the flood did not last long, and has now, twelve o'clock, in a great measure, subsided. From Cove the intelligence is equally calamitous which will be seen from the following particulars furnished by our correspondent : COVt, Dec. 28-8 a, u.—lt has blown the severest gale of wind remembered for many years this morning from the South East. The City of Cork, of Cork, Wheeler, Master, for Bris tol, is on shore, and is thumping very hard. The Mary Ann, of Limerick, drove ashore against the New Quay, and is much damaged. The City of Cork Steam Packet has sunk ; one man, the trumpeter. drowned; two others saved. Nearly all the small boats in the harbour are knocked to pieces ; the wreck of them is strewed along the shore. The Hyder Ally (HoIk) is ashore, and is much in jured. The American ship, Caledonian, got adrift, but has not received much damage. WaTearoito, DSC. 29.—The weather is unusually stormy and wet. The wind has lately turned to the eastward, and this circumstance, co-operating with the fresher from the interior, aided with heavy rain, probably caused the tide to rise yesterday as high perhaps as can be remembered. It was neither the season of the year, nor the period of the moon's or bit, at which the greatest elevation was to be expected. Much damage has been sustained in low situations. Lisreaice, Dec. 29.—The continued floods have caused serious injury to Ball's-bridge, and yesterday a hole having been perceived in the crown of use of the arches, the Mayor caused two sentinels to be placed at each side to prevent horses and carriages from passing. A man named Thomas Ryan was this day drowned in passing the County Clare causeway with a horse and car. _ _ The water has now gone off the roal at Orooily Turnpike, and travelling is perfectly safe in that di rection. The quicksilver has been amazingly low for the last week; it was three lines below stormy, and whit is more remarkable the wind wu mostly southerly dar ing that period. The ship Lucy, of 500 tons, Joseph Coles, master, of and for New York, out forty-ti: days from Liver► pool, wu driven on the rocks near Kilcridane. county Clare , on Saturday se'nnight ; when best seen from Scattery, she hose to for a pilot, and in trying to wear is a heavy squall, she went on shore. The crew, 17 in number, were saved by the country people, headed by fie Parish Priest. She will be a total wreck. Thursday last, the ship Wiser, Jenkins, of 350 tons, from Hull to New York, pat iaw the Shannon, --••••• "' leaky, and her sails much injured : site was o'll t - ren't • eight days, and . enconntered dreadful. weather in the North Sea; her cargo consisting of oil, paints..iv. is lauding previous to repair. The Bons*, a smugglieg 'urger, arrived at Care on Wednesday from Flushing, 163 tuns. 10 guns, 45 men. ladeo with 1300 bales of tobacco, besides tea, gin, (qoantity unkiown); she was captnred on Chris. use+ night about 12 o'clock, off Rohereadiead, by the boat• of his Majesty's ships Semirautis ao l Cyrus ; nine of the crew supposed to be English) escaped by takinz away the Cyrns's gig; the remaloder (all foreigners) are made prisoners. RAIN.—By a register of the weather kept at St. Thomas's. adjoining Exeter, we learn that the gian• tity of rain which fell there daring the last six month. was 25 inches, 79 hundredth parts. According t the weekly accounts we ha►e periodically given, the quantity of rain that fell within the same time in the Strand is 20 inches 32 hundredth parts. The prin cipal difference, in any month, it appears, was in • month of December; the quantity being then a: Exeter 8 inches, 58 hundredth parts, and in London 4 inches, 45 hundredths. In November. however, the quantity was greater in London than at Exeter, beinz i■ the former 6 inches, 55 hundredths, and at the latter 5 inches. 44 hundredths, The ge of th • last six months of the year, as observed at &Ahern-, in Hampshire, from the year 1782 to 1793, was 2: lushes, 24 lasadredills; that of November 3 inches, 83 hundredth parts. In the neighbourhood of Waterloo Bridge, the i r.• habitants were much annoyed by the late inuniatiors. especially such as have established themselves in the homes built on what was called the Stone Fiel while the bridge was in coarse of erection. The am:- malatiag rains settling at a wall lately erecte I in the row of these houses, levelled it with the gronsd ua Friday night or Saturday forenoon. Near the Chapel in the Bridge-road, a row of small houses extends across a field to Whitehorse-lane. The flood poured in at their doors, turning their parlours into ponds. To Ay from it was impossible, for the tenements in ques tion, built close against another row, had no hack doors, and the females and children unable to repel the delege were compelled to retreat up stairs. The men, whose business compel them to go out were seen to walk through the pond, and leave others to wait till the retiring tide should permit them to make their escape also. The flood on the Staines road, which had ex tended Ave miles, is now very considerably reduced ; similar, but still more favourable accounts will, we trust, speedily arrive from other parts where the in habitants have suffered most severely from this ca lamity. Among the other sofferen from the floods In the vi cinity of the metropolis were the inhabitants of soots parts of Southwark. On Christmas-day their cellars and kitcffilms overflowed, and the inundation was ascribed to the tide sad freshes, in the Thames. It was aftenresda, however, discovered to have proceeded from a very difsrout cause. The Tarscuck of the district, being engaged to parisike of a Christmas treat, was sufficiently attentivs ilia duty in the fore noon I. turning the water on, alip•stu "Loathed in the to turn the watt* of No moll damage, we bear, was occasioned by this accident, is those cellars that contained sugar and other perishable commodities. POOR CATHOLIC CHlLsaaw. —A respectable Society, composed of persons of various religions persuasions, denominated The Sono of Erin, has been for some time established for the most charitable of purposes, at the house of Mr. C. Cummings, the sign of the Sugar loaf, King -street, Drury-lane. Each 31embir pays the sum of 6d. per week, or any other sum he may think lit. They meet at seven o'clock on Sunday evening, and Like the chair in rotation, and all business is over by 10. The sot-hurls composed of mechanics and labouring persons, whoseobject is to raise a fund for the support of a school, kept by a master of their choosing, Mr. Smith, 14, Museum-street, Bloomsbury, for the educating and partly clothing indigent Catholic children, whcs otherwise would become pests of society, from basing nothing to do but idliag in the streets, their parents being mostly oat of employ this winter. The funds for this benevolent institatios are so low, that it is not sufficient to pay even the master. laying aside findiug any article of clothing ; and without the assistance of the more opulent. it is feared the whole object will fail. The Rev. Mr. Sevier*, at the Catholic Chapel, Duke street, Lincoln's Ann-fields; Mr. Cumming, at the Sugar Loaf ; and Mr. Smith, the schoolmaster, have charitably condescended to receive any trifling dona tion that might be offered towards the support of this truly praiseworthy institution. We congratulate the English Antiquary on the re , storation of one of the oldest ornaments of this county. Cheeuers, the seat of the Revette and Russells, rich in classic recollections, is undergoing a complete repair by order of the present proprietor, R. G. Russell, Esq. M. P. Whether Cromwell ever resided there is perhaps a matter of doubt, but he was a frequent visi tor. and the long gallery. which is now the library, was the council-chamber of the Hampdens and the other pa triots In the neighbourhood—the scene of many a mid night coosultatios. It came into the Russell family by the marriage of Colonel Charles Russell with Mnry Revett. Colonel Charles Russell was graadson of Sir Joha Russell, Ban., by Frances, youngest daughter of Oliver Cromwell. It is situated near that fairy spot, Velret Loma.—(Beeke Chronicle.) "1s• '1 be neighbourhood of Pimlico has for some weeks ' past been infested by a gang of thieves, who have committed their depredations in the most daring man ner, as early as from 6►e to seven in the evening. A few weeks since the house of Mr. Perugia, in Eaton street, was entered by the parlour window, while the family were at tea, and several articles packed up ready fur removal. Mr. P. fortunately beard them in their operations, and fortunately compelled them to make a hasty retreat. A few nights after a house in Eliza-street. Brig. ave-place. was entered by the seine means, and a looking•glass and other articles conveyed away.. On Tuesday last, about seven in the evening. the villains got in at the parlour window of Mrs. linen. in Ebary-eqnare, and carried off a great number of books. It is supposed they were alto disturbed In their operations by the ring of the bell, as a large . pier Ow, some valuable chimney ornaments, and other property were placed our the window rosily for ranoval. The It a eof Mr. Bailey. in the moss 'spare. bas also e -1 piundered, so dela: by the same gin. "NIL, . ~, • - tY J !' • •