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IRE - LAN PAPERS LAID BEFORE BOTH HOUSES OF PAR LIAMENT BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY, Vx3B. 1822. No. 1. 2X7RACT OF A DESPATCH FROM THE MARQUIS WELLES LEY TO VISCOUXT SIDMOUTH. Dublin Castle, Jap. 3, 1822. DIY LORD—Concluditig that your Lordship had been ap prise , before my arrival in Dublin, of every important circum stance respecting the unhappy disturbances which have pre in,.ttas country, I proceed to submit to you, for his Ma jesty's consideration, such information as I haVe received on •that subject diaringlhe few days which have passed, since my . . • succession to this Government. ' • I propose to arrange this 'information with reference to each ' county respectively, for the purpose of facilitatinga comparison , vitt: such staternents, as may already he in your Lordship's • T.v.sessicin, and of enabling you to forin a judgment of the re lative state at each particular district at tile different periods of titre specified in each' dOc i nnent. the =mints WhiCh f' have, received from the province of , Plater assure me of the eon'tinued tranquillity of that province; std. although - in one instance information has been received of, a z.ctiee against the payment of„tithes having been posted in the ' county of Down, that notice does not appear to have been con siderid. as likely to produce,any disturbance, althottgh it has . yendered measures: of precaution necessary. •-•-• From Connaught; (if those parts of the county of Roscom mor, which border upon the - disturbed districts be excepted), the • reperts• which I have received are satisfactory.. InAtie province of Lein..er., from four counties, information " or'actilal or apprehended disturbance has reached'me—namely, • froin - Kildare, 'Westmeath, King's County, and Meath- • '• :• With respect to Kildare, from the letter of the Pplice ara . gistrate, dated 213th ult., enclosing a return of occurrences .for • the preceding week (confirm e d b y the letter of ,- and of other residents in the neighbourhood), it appears that many houses had been set on fire. , With respect to Westmeath, the Chief Magistr a te o f P o li ce . stated the revival of those party feuds and personal conflicts in the neighbourhood of Mullingar, which are considered in this country to be indications of the return of public tranquil • lity, and from which - the Magistrate expects the detection of past offences ay,aiest the State. . In the King"a COunty aNI agistrate reports from Edenderry, •thi - ‘t a heuae had :teen forcibly entered in the night by fiVe men, an d the owner of the house desperately Wounded-. • In the county of Meath a house had been forced, and two guns taken from it. . From the. districts more particularly denominated disturbed, in which may be included parts of the counties of Cork, Lime - rick, Tipperary, Kerry, Roscommon, the following information has been received : . CORK. • At Eallylohy, about seven miles from Kinsale, a party of two hundred persons, mostly on horseback, had assembled at Light, and had visited several houses for arms. • At Templemartin, four miles from Bandon, a party had been seen for the first time on the 24th ult. ; they robbed many - nou3ea of arms, to the extent of ten muskets and two pistols. • At another town in the neighbourhood of Bandon, 9 houses hod been attacked, and a man severely beaten for having given information.. - pet ween Doneraile and Mallow, fifteen armed men' had attacked the house of Mr. Wrixon, but were ultiMately repulsed. At Ross Carbery, a part of the county farther removed, from the orir,inal seat of the disturban ce , tw o h un d re d persons are reported to have been met in the night, and, although the per sors so assembled do not appear to have proceeded to outrage, the houses of several farmers were attacked during that night by men in disguise, and one person was most barbarously beaten. LIMERICK. The Chief Magistrate of Police has reported, that he does not perceive any inclination on the part of the people to sur rader arms, - or to desist from outrage, and that, on the 30th ult., a poor man's cabin, about two miles from Rathkeale, was attacked and broken open, his son killed, and the father wound ed, in consequence, as is supposed, of his having given in formation relative to a robbery. It appears also that a small party of troops proceeding through a village were so violently assaulted by the people warning out of the chapel, as to render it necessary to tire in c elf-41 efen ce. TIPPERARY Two hundred men are reported to have assembled at Bally loby, and to have plundered the inhabitants of 11 stand of arms. • ___ _ KERRY. _ _ _ The house o,f Mr. Townsena, - t:f • Ardtully, was attacked on the %th by a large party of armed men, which, after a long contest, was repulsed by Mr, Townsend and his servants. A most active Magistrate, of this county further reports, that rrse , :tings hid been held on the 24th ult. at which the rescue of per ;z:l% convicted had been the subject of consultatiou, and that xe La..l received a friendly caution that his life was in danger. CLARE. TAB? lett:r of the Chief :Nlagistrate of Police makes the report of a murder committed at Cratloe:— " About three weeks agO a man was Murdered at the same 1 - 4 - 4.c.e: on inquiry I found it proceeded from private resent rot.ht, but having got information of the perpetrator, who is a leiider of the banditti, 1 made arrangements" to have him ap priiended ; and an unfortunate man, named Stack, agreed to IA me know where he was; I only saw Stack once, at midnight ; still he was suspected ; the murderer was taken - by my men yes -morning, and last night the unfortunate Stack was shot near the chapel of Cratloe." in a subsequent letter the same Magistrate reports the fact of a notice having been affixed to the chapel of Cratloc, calling upon, the people " to assert their rights a s in 1798, and to re rard,the man who shot Stack the informer." Trtrn the same quarter information has been received that 2GI: men passed in the night through the village of Cusheen on a.prt.tiatory excursion into the county of Galway, that they ad r,lnistered an oath to one man ; they dethanded arms at two ; they were overtaken by the police, and after some shots }been fired, six men were lodged in gaol. • IP! t Clara a body of 300' men occasioned a riot, but that riot riot considered to be connected with the causes or objects of • tt:e present disturbances : of these rioters 20 were committed trio:?, or admitted to bail. I have, &c. (Signed) WELLESLE Y. No. 2. ki"TrIACT Or A DESPATCH FROM THE MARQUESS ArEL LESLEY 2'o VISCOUNT SIDMOUTH. Dublin Castle, Jan. 11, 1822. Mt LOAD—In conformity with the intention which I ex isieged to your Lordship in my despatch of the 3d inst., I have tiwfUnour to submit, for his Majesty's consideration, such fur tl.ct information as I have received from the country during the lar..L mock ; pursuing for the reasons which I have previously stet, the same arrangement which I had observed in my fcir int.r c,oininunication • • Yr. the , province of Ulster the only •intimation.of disturbance or outrage is frOnl i tile county of Donegal: It appears th a t a t Tullagobugly, an attempt made by the Seneschal of the Bishop' of-P4hoe to hold a Court had been defeated by a mob of three htmdred persons, who. threatened him with death if he pee sistod in his attempt, and compelled him to leave the town.— •'J hc Schoolmaster of the sense place also was prohibitecl,Jinder. t1.7-ata of similar vengeance, from apportioning the losi upon sill nstish and it •is stated, upon • the same authority that ni%k.tly meetings, and the administration of oaths, had tom oreeted in'that county, and that the person giving information oltbese proceedings was in fear of his life in the event of being. detected. as'an'informer. • have not during the last week received information of any oitrage in the province of Connaught. In the provinie of Leinster ' the intelligence transmitted is principally confined to the Counties of Kildsre, Queen's County, King's County, Abeath, and Dublin. A Magistrate communicates, that information had been re ceived by him of several intended attacks upon houses in that neighbourhood, but that they had been prevented by the judi :cietis. employment of the ,Police stationed at Sallans, under the Peace Preservation Act The Chief Magistrate of Police at Mountrath, in the Queen's County, reports the success of similar measures in preventing threatened attacks. , At Edenderry, in the King's County, various persons were attacked on the night of the 3d inst.' One man, a respectable inhabitant, being unable to answer the pass-word, was attacked by six men and beaten severely. . . From Meath, the assistant banister states, that the greater part of the County is quiet, but that the neighbourhood of 'l"ri:n has lately evinced an insurrectionary spirit. An increased disposition to disturbance has recently evinced Garristown, in the (lounty of Dublin, and it is pprted that on the instant nineteen houses were set on fire and burnt., . Your Lordship, however, should be apprised that Garristown has been for many years a scene ,of continued disturbance, ori ginating in local causes, that it has been generally subjected to the provisions ofthe Peace Preiervation Act, and only recently relieved from its operation. 'From the pins of ilf6 county denominated " disturbed," the 'intelligence received ix as follows CORK. The Provost of Bandon repcirts, on the 3d January, that a lar,,ge body of disturbers twice visited the house of one Flem ing, he being the person expected to give information of some • previous outrage, and the Provost entertains little dopbt that the previous removal Fleming saved his life. On the following daf flie Provost transitits, under the autho rity of nine neighbourill'A Magistrates, an-authenticated account of the outrages committed near Bandon on the 15th, 16th, 21st, 23d, and 27th of December; the resultof which is, that on those days 37 houset - had been attacked, N guns, 8 pistols, be sides swords and bayonets, taken ; he further adds, that these acts have been exclusively directed against Protestants, and that, lit consequence, several: families of that persuasion have been obliged to quit their habitations in the country, and take refuge in the town. The police Magistrate reports from Charleville, that he has had many verbal reports or thC intention of the disaffected to deliver up their arms ; but the acts of the nightly marauders are totally at variance with these professions, as they have, within eight days, made several nocturnal visits near Mallow, in the barony of Duhallow. . John Penrose, Esq. states the system of midnight outrage and attack to be rapidly on the increase ; that the %% bite Boys have-been out , every night during the last fortnight • have taken arms from a great many houses, and ill-tre a ted those who had Surrendtied them before : he further adds theparticulars of an unsuccessful attack made by them on the house of Mr. Rye, at Ryecour4 on the 4th instant. It is stated from the more southern part of the county, that notices are on all sides affixed, threatening 'Vengeance against those who distrain for rent or tithes, or who purchase what is distrained, and that there are not a few instances of nightly at tacks and outrages on individuals. On the other hand, reports, that from die communications with the -----, he has reason to believe that the peasantry there are tired of the system ofoutrage, and would give up, their arms, were they not deterred by the dread of' vengeance, if they departed from the system to which they have sworn to adhere. LIMERICK. Mr. , a moat respectable Magistrate, regrets that he cannot perceive any substantial benefit from the convictions that twa assassinationa took place last/week c one three miles from Limerick and the other near Rathkeaie ; and that iliac is no sincere disposition to restore arms. 'Major Croker states, hOwever, in his monthly report, that since the murder of Mr. Raymond's servant, no similar outrage has been perpetrated in the west of•the county, which appears to be tranquil, the number of troops compelling the people to discontinue their nocturnal expeditions. Standish O'Grady, Esq.,. the member for the county of Limerick, states, that ever:.since his arrival in the county, it has been in a very disturbed state ; that a very general attack has been made on the ~ houses of several farmers, all of which have been robbed of arms or money ;. that he had taken the armed leader of one party, whom he came up with in the night; and that in the houses afterwards searched by him, the proprie tors•were not to be found'. TiIItERARY. A Magistrate reports, that the marauders have commenced their attacks in the neiAbourhood of Fethard, and that a party of seventy men, well mounted and armed, have attached some houses with success, and threatened others. The Police Magis'trate reports, that having received informa. tion of certain pikNheads being concealed in- the mountain of Kilnamanagh, he ..proceeded thither and seized eight. But while so employed, the village of Bampelogh, from which his force had been withdrawn, w as a tt ac k e d by. twelve or thirteen well-armed men, undisguised, who beat some of the inhabitants severely, and obtained four guns. The •Magistrate seems to suspect that the persOn who had given information respecting pikes was concerned in the plan of this attack. That part of Kilkenny that borderi upon ,Tipperary is re presented to be in.a very disturbed state ; 'that no resident gen tleman has been able to leave his house 'after dusk for some weeks ; and that they are compelled to keep regular guards in their houses, large bodies of men armed and mounted parading the roads every night, and threatening destruction to those who oppose them. Lord Ormonde states from Kilkenny, that the system of threatening the proctors was in full vigour ; and that where persons had used tithe processes, they had been severely beaten, and that it was impossible, to obtain information of the of fenders. KERRY. In this county an attempt made on the tight of the 4th to burn the church of Templemore, and on the sth sorne armed men entered the house of a man named John Keliar, and cut offhis ear close to his head, with a peculiar barbarity. The cause of this outrage is supposed to have been his having re mained on land before occupied by his brother. Mr. - reports, from the more northern part of the county, that there are new and increased proceedings on the part of the insurgents about his residence. I am, &c. (Signed) WELLESLEY. N 9. -5. EXTRACT OF ADISPATCIII/RONI THE MARQUIS WELLES LEY TO VISCOUNT SIDPftbUTH, WIT/1 TWO ENCLOSVRES • DUblin Castle, Jan. 19. Mr Lortn—Since the date of my despatch No. 2, informa tion of various description has reached me from several parts of the Country, which I now have the honour to subinit for his Majesty's information. Although I am not enabled to assure your Lordship, that no alarm or apprehension exists in the province of Ulster, yet I have still the satisfaction of stating, that in that quarter no vio lence appears to have been committed since my last report. It appears, however, from a letter of the High Sheriff of Down, that sonic alarm exists in that county, arising not from any actual outrage committed in the neighbourhood, but from the administering of oaths and the formation of committees who correspond with other committees sitting in Dublin, and from a great demand for arms which has lately taken place in Belfast. Information has also been received of a meeting having been intended to be held in Tyrone, on the Ist of January ; and that on the 3d, a large body of some hundreds, mostly armed, cross ed the Derry Mountains, demanding arms in their way, but without committing any act of violence ; some of the offenders were apprehended. The province of Connaught (with the exception of those parts of Galway and Roscommon which borderon the disturbed dis tricts) remains free from disturbance. In Leinster, the system, of outrage is confined to the counties of Westmeath, Kilkenny, Kildare, and Dublin. The Police Magistrate of Westmeath reports the setting fire to a farmer's outhouses, which, together with the cattle in them, were consumed. KILKENNY. Several farmers residing in the barony of Kens,' in Kelkenny, are reported to have been visited by mounted persons, and to have been severely beaten. The adjoining barony of Ivesh is, however, represented to be perfoetlytranquil, notwithstanding attempts made to seize arms in the neighbouring parts of Tipperary. KILDARE. The Police ,Magistrate reports the successful result of s gene. ral search for arms in the proclaimed districts under his super• intendence, by which 66 fire-arms, and 126 of other descrip. tions, were obtained from the several thatched cabins in which: the search was made. DUBLIN. The Court of Directors of the Royal Canal have represented, ' that on the - banks of that Canal, in the Counties of Dublin, Kildare, Meath, and 'Westmeath, a combination exists to a most alarming extent, which, though it evidently has originated in a desire to raise the rate of wages, is now connected with the system, which has prevailed in other parts of Ireland, of threat ening the lives of those who do not join, or who quit the conibi. nation and, in one instance, a man working at a lower rate of, wages has been severely beaten and barbarously mutilated. On the other hand, in the County of Meath, the clerk of the Peace reports, that it does not appear that any further acts of outrage have been committed in that county ; an d i t i s to b e hoped that the peace of it may be preserved without the assist. ance of any extraordinary Police. GALWAY. The Chief Magistrate of Police reports, that on the 3d a large body of Ribandmen appeared in the village of Kilconnelly, and broke open. several houses of the peasantry, swore some, and beat others severely. A banditti also attacked the house of a farmer at Shanhnlfy Boughs, Roscommon. The report of the Police Magistrate announces the forcible entry of a house at Kilconan, and the robbery of arms by an armed banditti in disguise, and adds, that on the 12th Lo:t1 Dillon's gatekeeper was found barbarously murdered, his head having been much mangled by a hatchet, and his body stabbed in many places with a pitchforK. KERRY. Mr. - reports a murder on the Bth inst. of a proctor, who had served some processes on that d a y ; b ut on a su b sequent day the same Alagistrate, in consequence of information which he had succeeded in obtaining, exproises himself confidently as to the maintenance of the tranquillity of the country. TIPPERARY. The . officer commanding the Cahir yeomanry reports, that on the_ evening of the 9th, the house of Mr. Burke; of Ardfinnan, where the arms and ammunition of the nightly guard of con. stables were placed, was robbed of the w h o l e o f t h em b y a party of thirteen men, being pan, as he believes, of a greater force collected for the purpose. reports,•that his own house is the only country ha bitation within many miles which has not been plundered of its arms, and although he has collected his neighbours, yet that the insurgents are so numerous and- daring as to give rise to continued apprehension of attack. A representation has been received from 98 gentlemen, of whom nine are magistrates, stating, that the spirit of insurrec tion is spreading rapidly in the vicinity of Fethard, that parties assemble by plett and march through the country, to the ter- Tor of the peaceable, attacking. •and disarming the houses and committing other violent acts of outrage. About five miles from Thanes an attempt was made on the 14th to assassinate.a tithe-proctor. for the details of which, and for a general view of what the police magistrate considers to be the state of that part of the country, I beg to refer your-Lord ship to his letter, or'which a copy is enclosed. CORK. The officer commandifig reports, that during the last two nights the system of nocturnal-meeLings",. by banditti, has con siderably increased ' • that Mr. Sullivan's has been attacl:ed, his son been demanded, and that on the latter being brought out,- he was sworn not to have any communication with mili tary officers. A countryman's house is also stated to have been attacked by forty men, well mounted and armed, who severely beat and wounded him, and took his horse. reports an attack on the house of 31r. Sweet, near Macroonr, who, having received : previous intimation of-the attack, and having prepared for de fence, succeeded in repulsing the assailants, about two hundred in ?lumber, with a loss of two killed, who were carried off by their associates, although their horses were secured. A riot appears to have taken place at Cove. hich is no far ther conneLted with the disturbances in the county than as the object of it was An attack on an individual who had given in formation. He only escaped by being received into Lord Col ville's house. reports, that an attack was made on his .house on the morning of the- Bth by a large party from the barony of Duhallow, who were ultimately repulsed, leaving behind them six horses, of which two were killed. A person, sttpposed to be - a leader, was subsequently apprehended. , states, that the house of Dr. Townsend, at Kilmaraird, was entered forcibly on the Bth by a large party with blacked faces, who having heaten Dr. Townsend, and hav ing searched in vain for-arms, robbed him 'of 'his money, wear, ing apparel, and various other articles ; his Lordship further adds, .that another outrage of the same kind had been commit ted near ( ), arms having been taken from three houses in the neighbourhood by parties who had also, during the-latter nights, assembled to drill at Ballycartnich : aparty of Gentle. men and troops proceeded to apprehend the offenders, but par tially failed in that object, though they recovered the arms.— floins were heard sounding in different directions through the country during the night. • - • Several outrages in the neighbourhood of Skibbereen are also .reported by Lord Kingston, .who particularly refers to attacks on poor people'S houses it; the neighbourhood of his residence. The Sovereign•of Kinsale reports, that disturbance is beginning to manifest itself in the immediate neighbourhood of that town and its liberties by the posting of threatening and inflammatory notices. - • • The Rector of - repOrts on the 10th, that six houses of his parishioners had been attacked on the preceding night, and softie anus obtained from them ; and'that an attempt had been made to assassinate Captain Bernard, an active yeomanry officer, when only a short distance behind his corps, but that owing to the pistol presented at him missing fire, he escaped, and his brother shot the assailant. Mr. a Magistrate near Skibbereen, reports conver. cations with .his- tenantt, expressive of their apprehensions of a bad spirit existing in the county, of their hearing men on horse .back every night, and of horns sounding • and shots being fired in the night. Lord Bantry states, that a report having reached him on' the 11th, that near 500 men, mounted, and. partly armed, had at-' tacked some houses in the neighbourhood and robbed them of arms, he proceeded with five other gentlemen in pursuit of the offenders ; on coming up with them, the party under his Lord ship's conunand was fired at, compelled to retreat; and pursued. -His Lordship adds, that he has since heard that the men in question came from great distances. A very active Magistrate represents this part of the county of Cork to be progressively more disturbed, nocturnal meetings more frequent, and vengeance threatened against those who re sist their unlawful proceedings. Another .Magistrate reports several robberies of arms in the parishes of Skull and Kilmoe, and the burning of a corn store , at Crookhaven ; and another, in representing the alarming state of the County, adds, that the object of the insurgents, in one dis trict at least, has not been confined t o t h e lowering' of rents and tithe, but extended to th e re f usa l a l so o f t h e p r i est ' s , d ues . ? Vie Provost of Bandon and seven Magistrates in the neigh bourhood transmit an account of eight outrages, attended with robbery of awns, in the immediate vicinity of the town, and state, that not a night passes without numerous meetings, which they find it impossible to prevent. I request your Lordship's attention to the enclosed memorial addressed to me by twenty-eight Magistrates of the southern part of the county of Cork. Although the particular outrages to which the repo r t re f ers h ave b een in some cases submitted to your Lordship, yet the general view of the actual condition of that district, presented by so respectable and well-informed a body, cannot fail to command the most serious attention of Go vernment. Orders had been &iven, previous to the receipt of this memo rial, for placing a military force at Bandon and Macroom, and for moving the whole of the 22d regiment into that district. I have, &e. (Signed) IVZLLESLEY. (Enclosure A. in No. 3.) COPY Or A LETTER FROM EDWAII.D WILSON, ESQ. TO THE RIGHT HON. HENRY GOULNERN. Thurles, Jan. 15, 18112. Sin—Before I could have the honour of sending the inclosed letter of the 'l4th, I received information that a tithe-proctor in the employment of Air. Going, Rector of the parish of 3lealiffe, about five miles from this, was assassinated. I instantly went there, and found that the poor man wits .not quite dead, as the shot;fortunately missed him, but he was cut and bruised. I took his info rmat i ons , and al so those of a servant-boy, who was the tint that gave him assistance; copies of which I have the honour to inclose. Air. Going is brother to the late Chief Ma gistrate who wag assassinated in the county of Limerick. He is at present examining witnesses at a Commission which has issued out of one of the Courts, for ascertaining the bounds of his parish. The proctor was to give his - evidence yesterday, and it is thought would prove the parish of greater extent than it at present pays tithes for ; this is one reason supposed for taking his life. But I assure you that the lower orders are become so very depray. ed, that there is no one in a state of security from these daring attacks. On Saturday night last ; five respectable houses in the neigh. bourhood of Littleton were attacked, into and wantonly fired and robbed of their - gtina, and there is no such thing as getting evidence to identify any of the offenders. The people are Laid to come before me to be examined, lest they should have their houses and cattle destroyed. The constables are harassed, patroling at night • but Without information little good is to be done. All the well-disposed are most anxious for.the renewal of the insurrection Act, and I fear. if some strong measure is not resorted to, or at least the old military stations again occu. pied, this County will soon be as bad as the County of Lime. rick. I have, &c. l (Signed) EDWARD WILSON. Right Hon. Henry oouburn, &c. (Inc-los:ire B. in No. 3.) MEMORIAL OF TUT. XAGISTRATE.S OF THE SOUTIIEII2/ DISTRICT OF THE COUNTY OF CORIC. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,—WC, the 'under— signed Magistrates of the Southern district of the County. of Cork, beg leave most respectfully to renew our representations to your Excellency on the.alarming state of insubordination to which-our district has risen. Rut a. short time has. elapsed. since we had the honour to transmit to your Excellency, thrOugh your Secretary, a memorial, praying, among other things, for an increase or military force to be., sent into the district, - 10 the only means of checking thc•progress of a system,•from. which, if suffered to get strength, and to proceed without being met by prompt and vigorous resistance, the most disgraceful and dan gerous consequences were to be apprehended. We have now to lament that our apprehensions were but too well founded ; the progress of this diabolical system durin m the last month has been mo s t rapid and alarming ; and we regret' to say, that we have been obliged, from want of adequate as sistance, to remain almost passive spectators of its daring ad vances, until at leneth many have been obliged to convert their habitations into garrisons, and others have sought security in the towns. We know that nightly meetings are held in various parts of the district, which it would be our duty to disperse, and, if pus- . sible, to bring those concerned in them to justice; and we are most willing to do our duty if we had the means, but. we ere utterly destitute of any force adequate to such an undertaking. We cannot expect individuals to leave their hOuses and fami lies expOsed, while they go: out with patroling parties, and even if they could, for one or two nights, engage in such duty, they could not continue it; it would beyond. their .physical strength, and incompatible with their other avocations. From Clonakilty, where there is.a yeomanry corps on duty, to Skibbereen, where thereis a subaltern and sixteen men of a regiment of infantry, a distance of lf; miles, with a crowded population, there are about six-police-inen. From Skibbereen to Crookhaven; a distance Of 24 miles, equally populous, there may be perhaps eight police-men,---;an establishment wholly in adequate to the ordinary'duties of civil constables, much less to the suppression of formidable insurrection. In fact, the whole district may be said to be in a defenceless state. That .your Excellency may not suppose that we are making exasgera.ied statements grounded only in our own fears, or resting on idle and unfounded rumours, We beg leave tri state a very ?ew facts which hive occurred in this district within the last month. Crooithaven, in the parish of Kilaaoe, Mr. Esker's corn, stores, with all the grain therein, burnt, his shop set on fro, and other property of his.destroyed. At Corminagh, in the - parish-of Kilmacabea, near Rosscar bery, Dr. Townsend's housebroken into, and himself robbed and beaten. In the parish of Scull, several houses attacked by large limlics of men,--and arms taken. At Donem ar k e , near B antry , Mr.-31illifont's house attacked by a body of men, to the amount of sonic hundreds, armed and mounted on horses. These are facts which we state as Bounded on depositions taken on oath. We could add many more equall); well-grounded',' of nightly • meetings, swearing, &c., but we conceive that it would-be an un necessary and improper intrusion • on your Excellency's time to •go into further details. To two Circumstances, however, we think it right t o ca ll your E xce ll ency ' s attent i on, as ten ling to prove that what we' have stated are - not isolated facts, but the result of a connected system., A man who was shot • by Captain Bearnish Bernard at Anveratown a few nights since, when he had the good fortune to come up with a party of these White Boys, is proved to be a man of the name of Harrington, who likd near Ballydehot, upwards of 30 miles from the place where heinet his fate. He had on his person some of Doctor Townsend's clothes, and a considerable part' of his property, proved by the endorsements on the notes, that robbery havin g taken plaee but two night s p rev i ous to the man's being shot, and fifteen miles distant. The psrty that. attacked-Mr. Melh font's house, all mounted and armed, were pursued by Lord Bantry upwards of 14 miles, almost to Inchegrefa. We feel it to be our duty to make this strong statement to your Excel lency, and we consider .that we do not say too ma c h w h en we pronounce it to be o ur h um bl e and conscientious opinion, that the life and property of every respectable individual in this dis trict is at tins instant at the mercy of-those miscreants, who are hourly gain ing strength and confidence, findi ng no e ffo r ts ma d e to stop their daring and lawless prOCeedings. Kingston, ISI. thiscole, T. Townsend, Kingsborough, • J. Broke, •R. Townsend, earbery, E. 11. Jones, Hor. Townsend, T. R.B. Townsend, R. Smyth, 11r. Hale, J. Townsend, A. Q. Driscole, H. Gillman,.• • Sam. Town Send, D. Coghlon, T. Baldwin, • E.W. Kenny, Clk. •T. Kingston, R. N. SoMerville, R. N. Illonek, •P. Fleming, • W. S: L. Linerah. • T. Baldwin, T. Hungerford, • T.•o:Drikole. - S. Brewen, rio. 4. EXTRACT or A DISPATCH I'lo3l THE MARQUIS WELLES. LEY TO TnE .PION. ROBERT PEEL. Dublin Castle. Jan. 27, 1822. •. SIR,—In continuation of my Dispatch, Castle.. 3, I have the honour to forward to you the following abstract of the most material information which I have- received since the date of that Dispatch, with relation to the iniernal state of the country. ULSTER. • Sorhe disturbance appears to have occurred at a fair at Magliera. The houses of two individuals were violent 4 at tacked by a numerous party, who appeared to act under a regu lar pass-word ; the windows were broken, and some shots tired. 'This circumstance has created considerable, alarm among the well disposed inhabitants of the neighbOurhood, but does not appear to hive been followed by any other act of outrage, nor to be connected with any general system of disturbance. KILDARE. A Magistrate from Kilcock transmits a deposition, sworn to before him, of an attempt made by a party . of undisguised arm ed men, to murder a publican, who had in no manner given them otrence : this assault did not terminate in murder, and cannot be considered as a branch of the prevailing disorders. • MEATH. The Assistant Banister reports, that the town of Trim and two parishes of the county are engaged in illegal associations, and that in another small district th e Rib an d. men h ave pr i nte d their resolutions. . The county of Meath, however, is generally tranquil,,andtlie Magistrates have laudably exerted themselves for the main tenance of the public peace. DLIMLIN. The Magistrates of the Police have transmitted information of a notice posted at Lucan, which, however, refers more to lowering the rate of wages, than to any topics usually connected with the prevailing disturbances. They have also received in formation on oath, of arms having been taken from a house by a party at Ballynascarry, in the same neighbourhood. LIMERICK. . The Assistant Barrister (in the absence of Major Wilcocks, states that the house of Mr. Mau=ll, near Rathkeale, had been attacked and robbed by an armed party • that a murder had been committed in the neighbourhood, and that no disposition appears in the people to return to good order. The murder referred to by Mr. Lloyd is detailed by Major Wilcocks, in a letter of subsequent date: it appears to have been the consequence of some. family dispute, and to have been attended with circumstances of great barbarity, but not to have been connected with the late disturbances, otherwise than as the general state of lawless - confusion has rendered such acts of violence familiaisto t About the same time two police-men were attacked by some country men, and after resistance, robbed, of their arms. CORK. The disturbers of the public peace rose in the parish of Plarney, and took arms from several individuals on the 16th, and the Makristrates complain, with others, of the difficulty of obtaining information, 'although large rewards have been offered. Jn this condition of ignorance, the duties of the Magistracy and military are rendered most harassing and perplexing. The commanding officer reports various meetings-of White Boys in the neighbourhood of Mitchel's-town, and Liscarrol, and that n sentinel had been insulted and compelled to use his arms in self-defence at Castictown. A number of houses were robbed of arms on the 13th, tweet' Mallow and Cartletown Roche. Major-General Sir J. Lambert reports, that the bad spirit is increasing in every direction in the county of Cork. The Police Magistrate at Buttivant states, on the 15th, that the force under his command had not been able to apprehend any offenders, yet that outrages continued in that neighbour hood, and that in the night of the llth, a farmer's house at Magg had been searched for arms, and the owner made to beg his life on his knees. lle further transmit's, on. the 20th, a variety - of sworn infor mations, the result of which is, that on one night 12 houses had been attacked in the barony of Fermoy, and that such of them as had arms had been plundered. The high Sheriff of Cork states his opinion, that affairs in that county wear a more serious aspect—that a large party bad robbed the houses of several Gentlemen and respectable farmers, between Mallow and Castletown Roche, of 30 stand of good arms; and that in one case the leader reprimanded One of his men for attendin. , to general seizure of property, instead of con. fining his starch to arms. The same Gentleman transmits, on the 2d, a list of 14 houes which had been attacked in the im mediate neighbourhood, on the night of the 17th and 113th. The commanding officer at Bantry reports a daring attack made a few nights previously, on several, very respectable houses in the immediate. vicinity of .that town, by a numerous banditti, who succeeded in obtaining arms from many : and the officer stationed at Skilobereen states his opinion, that the spirit of disaffection, which had been confined to the northern ba ronies of the county, had spread in an aNiming measure through the whole of West Carbery ; that nightly meetings are held at various place on the coast, and that bands of offenders assemble; consisting of not less than three hundred in each band. The Magistrates resident at Dunmanaway'report, that illegal oaths have for a long time been administered in that neighbour hood ; that noctviial meetings have frequently been held ; that in the • adjoining parishes, notices of an inflammatory de scription have been posted; and in one' parish arnis have been taken from the peaceable inhabitants. A Aiagistrate from the neighbourhood of Doneraile confirms the accounts of outrages in that' immediate 'neighbeturhood ; and states, that the caution and activity. of the offenders, added to their avoiding the public roads, and to their .knowledge of the country, enable them to elude the vigilance of the military patrols nightly employed. • After reporting a variety . of outrages, which have been de tailed in other hAters previondly received, Lieut.-Colonel Hill adds, that, on the nights of the 19th and 20th, several houses in the parishes of, Battevarit, Callercluggan, and ilallyhay were broken open and robbil of arms; and that. the offenders, after meeting in large bodies, usually separate .into smaller parties and make simultaneous attacks upon different honks, even es early as between six and seven in the -- evening, and in situations w1:1: ,h might be supposed to al:bril protection to the house. lieders. . ' The officer commanding at Charleville reports various rob beries of arms in the neighbourhood, and, that the patrols are unsuccessful in discovering the .parties of marauders, so as to frustrate their operations ; that in one instance, whilst patrol ling, shots were heard, an d signals resembling rockets were seen, but the party was not overtaken. . - The principal event, however, which has occurred in this dis trict is stated in the enclosed letters from Nlajor Carthew of the 39th, and Lord liantry, - and Mr. O'Sullivan. From the com parison of those several accounts, with the letter of Sir John Lambert also enclosed, you will be enabled to form a judgment of the cluaraenr of this transaction, and of the nature of the dis turbanzes recently sa much extended in the neighbourhood of .111actoom. A Magigtrate has reported to the officer commanding at Char •leviil?, .hat ono man had been Willed by the banditti at New market on :ittnday, and another on Monday, and that Mr. Lan.,, , ford's !Ouse near Newmarket had been burnt to the ground. _ , _ _ The resilli of the facts stated in this despatch, and its criclo. Suns, seems to justify an opinion, that although no material change has occurred in any other part of Ireland, the d.sturb: ances in the vicinity of Macroom have assumed a more decided aspect of general disorder .1 . and accordingly I have resorted to additional measures of precaution and military operation. I am &c. (Signed) AVELLI:SLIY• (Enclosure A. in Nth 4.) EXTRACT OP A LETTER FROM MAJOR CARTHEW TO XI" jOR-GENERAL SIR JOHN LAmr,: - .ItT, K.C.13. Bantry, Jan. 21, 1822. SIR,—I have the honour to acquaint you, that I last e vening ( received a requisition from the Earl. of Bantry, for a - party c the 39th regiment, stationed here under my command, for the' purpose of aiding the civil power in 'apprehending certain PFr" sons chail:ed with felony. At five o'clock A. M. we marched from hence, and artiv , . ll at the glen of, ' . ,on the road to Macroom ;an exe.asiveli stron g pass, a distance of 10 o r 12 miles ; about six'o'clock, Lord Bantry having previo us ly i n ti ma t e d to me hislaving few days ago, with a small number of mounted gentlemen, been attacked in this peas, and with difficulty- made good theiicr . , 4 " treat. In consequen c e, I p os t e d my very sm all force i-i, all'Y . J. upon the heights at entran ce , fo r th e p ur p ose of preventing those in the glenifrom being assailed with stones in theiiretreatfOVA the immensely high cliffs. nis Lordship, acedinpanied liY l . 3 a mounted gentlemen, proceeded to the glen towaidwinchegteli/f , having succeeded in taking some prisoners, coniinence4 • t?}"' route back, when a rescue was attempted by a immerokis liiiiditl, who, as anticipated, took to the lieiklits in order tocutofith.f party retiring through the glen ; may small foice was not iii .l7- ceived,until they came pretty close„ when they instantly fires' 11'' shot. I then ordered my men 'to move forward, and dio°'' them back a considerable distance; but their ninfibcrs'incri - ing, and observing them aseendin :the mountain ',above '.* obliged me to retreat; and with so e diffi c ulty a nd h r d tight ing, succeeded in regaining the pas 4, , Their i3unibers, , ;'1 far as I could judg e , ,were shout 'fiv4 hund r ed, M an y Well armed with guns - and ammunitioty; they were - -Order -. 5 01 T ) ' -sort of discipline, having a regular bugle which. sou nded the advance and retreat; they f oug ht i n t h e most: resolute -and deterinined•manner ; my party, in keepins- thin in inie , expended about 25 rounds a man ; and as far as-1 uculd ::seer' taro, we must have killed about twelve, and niany wound" ed. It is with regret I have. to - state the less 'of One of l'PY men ; from Ills impetuosity, and disregiffilingN orders, he W=ill surrounded and knocked down, and most barb. gusty. beat r ew:".. I Sent some men to end e avo u r to b r i ng hi m oil', who kid ta•Ae.'l,: him upon one of their backs, when the rebels rushed -do wrvi,0pi , .... , . them in such numbers, that we were obliged to abceneloOrk, I beg to state that the country people are now asp cxgalri'r s "*: - \ against this town, that the force at present stationedhereio q , .. a- • insufficient for the pirotection of the inhabitants, and pliita f ;:!' the aids to the 'civil power. - . - -: .. ‘,.. _ I have, &c. (Signed) CIJARTIES- CART-HEW. :i9th Regt. Brevet NI Ma j -G en . Sir J. Lambert, K.C.8., cotrimatiiiing Cork (Enclosure 13. in No. 4.) COPY OF A LETTER FROM THE EARL OF .f.c,APTTaI" ' THE - RIGHT - HONOURABLE HENRY GOULIHIRN-- I have the honour to inform: you, for the information of t' ExCelleney the Lord Lieutenant, that in constquence ofirf.ol mation taken before me and Mr. O'Sullivan, against persa' concerned in the late illegal assembly, I made aipliction? ' Major Carthew for a party to aid the civil poWer.; The ‘ , lt' s .t; was so obliging as to accoinpany me with fourteen men,and I h-. 4 ' two Magistrates, constables, and tenantry, - including the 0 , ,' - litary, fifty-five men. We went on hOrseback from 13t-ttlrf at five o'clock yesterday morning. - The Major took ,a sition to defend a pass in-the glen, and we proceededthrougli We had scarcely passed, when shouts, horn, and bugle hot? were sounded, and men in every direction appearing on road, we were fired on ; but judging the distance too far, did not return the fire. A man came from the . party 4 4 fired, with a pike in his hand, and asked if we were not Car taro Rock's men : This man we made a prisoner ; and on our return; not finding the persons we went to apprehend at boat'' the White Boys firing, still advanced, and were received in 614 very best manner by 111 ajor Carth ew . I detached Mr. and ten to his support, on foot, the nature of the ground not K' mining cavalry to act. A great forc e was t h en coll e ct e d, . kept a regular fire on the army ; and it is with feelings of 10, 1, '5" regret I am oblig e d to at.... e, that one soldier, too f ar in advanc','• wa ~ killed by strokes of spades, sticks, &c. - Two of the krscr:4°'''" killed him were instantly shot d ea d ; an d, f rom t h e ti re o f 1V1 1 .; 0 , r Carthew's detachment, and Mr. O'S u lli van ' s, I b e li eve riit?r.'Y more have been killed and wounded; I was • obliged to a': 'lodge another party who were attempting' to cut off our p: 0 1* through the glee.., which was effected in the most spirit , " manner. To 111aorealthew I am under the greatest obligations , nq only fbr his assistance on this late occasion but for his kin.. co-operation at all times, and I am convinced every min uad his duty as far as it was possible in the presence or such num bers, and with su small a detachment. To :Ur. O'Sullivan. 111 r. White and the other respectable persons who plaeed thal" selves under m i y directions, 1 feel the gre a t e st g r at i t u de. '..ve4 recommendation of mine was immediately acted upon. I have, &C. 'Tuesday, Jan. 2,1823. ("igned) BAN TRY- Six prisoners were brought in. .. The Right Hon. H. Goulburn, &c. &c. (Ent osure D. in N0:4.) LETTER FROM MAJOR-GENERAL SIR LAM.DERT LIEUTENAN7-GENERAL SIR DAVID BAIRD, 0.c.8. COrk, Jan 24, Itle• MY DEAR SIR—I have just seen Mr. SUMVaIi hart D a " try, who was present at the affair I reported the day beftg! yesterday, by Major Carthew's letter of the 39th regiment : seemed that the insurgents appeared in two parties, One of which might consist of about two hundred and fifty as th" 4 hundred, and the other sixty ; the l arge r p arty h a d vine =It!" kets at first, e' P." , and afterwards ten, having got pos s essio n o 4 the vate's of the 39th rement, who fell into their heals. he td ,., party had five muskets; the others were irregularly armed.''' They evinced a great deal et determination ; however, tb was nothing more in the character of the business than ti ie- 1 be expected amongst the inhabitants of thiS mountainOti%swn; try, who from habit are easily assembled. They are represent. at all times as excessively wild and furious,— I remain. %Sec. (Signed) J. LAMBERT. Lieut.. General Sit David Baird, &c. &c: &c, No. J. EIZTEACT Or A DESPATCH FROM MAUQtrIS WriLtSl.o. TO THE nzonT ROBERT PEEL. • Dublin Castle, Jan. 29- SZR—Sinee the date of my last dispatch I have reozind i felligence, stating, that the disturbances in the county of Corr had assurmid a still more decided appearan.?e of insurrevtien , and that the populace had proceeded to assemble in more nume rous bodies in the day-time, to resist, and even to attack tl;a civil power, and his Majesty's troops, - His Majesty's Government is already apprized of the afalir which took ple.c.e on the 21st, between a detachment cf.•ti' ! ( ..411 regiment, and the inhabitants of ,the mountainous district between Bantry and 3lacroom. That Affair has been succeed . ed by others of a similar clescnption • they are detail e d it the communications from the Commander of the l'crees anal- 1.. think it may be convenient to furnish you with an abstraet•o , these tran::a..ciores - according,to the plan observed in this writ' of my dispatches. Ori the 24th to' st. a large body of persons attacked the mail' coach passing from Tralce to Cork ; and after - having itille" some of the horses, and wounded the guard - , coachman, arid_ " passenger, 'overturned the coach and obtained posSession ,of mail. On the receipt of this intelligence, Colonel itChd 1, who commanded at Macroom, pro ce eded f rom thence with a detach men t of troops in the direction of Nlill,street, pear which plait the coach had been attacked. Ile found there a large 'Lady of men partly armed • they made a show of resistanee, but itNn being attacked by the troops, they fled with precipitation, an" 23 prisoners were secured.: On the same clay, two dragoons, dispatched with orders t- , • the Officer at Vill-street, were attacked and wounded - on tb, road. - The officer, under the direction of a Magistrate, ierovecc . edwith sonic troops in th e di rec ti on o f 11facroom, rid niet. large force of the insurgents, urobably the same 7; . :.i'_;11 Lad been encountered by Colonel kitchen. - tie reports the number opposed to him to have been nearly 5,000, armed with weapons of various descriptions, of whit: 3 - muskets forthed but an inconsiderable proportiote - On the same day,. in the neighbourhood of Charleville, A body of 300 persons, of whom - the leader and several others V't f° armed with muskets e effected the rescueof a man (who had been apprehended, and was in charge of a party of police), :;10,!ei!. paled the police to retire. On the 25th, intelligence was conveyed to Sir J. Lambert, that the whole male population, to the berth of Brandon, ri 44 proceeding . to the mountains, and it was 'ascertained that the previous night had been employed in • assembling the voile ; and that large bodies had been ob serve d in the marain;:i,, on their march in that direction. Colonel 2ditchell again marcnel from Macroom in the direction of Mill street, where the 01311 conveying the mail had been that morning attacked and emu' . dered,- Ile found there a body, stated to aenoun; to . 240,10 ino" posted on the heights near the road; of these about I, oo " e ''," ()ended to attack his aptaament, and fired three shots ; 1, the advance of the troops, they immediattly too?; to :light, id`'!. - mg 30 prisoners in the hands of the military. At the same time a very large body o!" people assembled It the neighbemrhood of Newmarket and 1 7 ..-pturiz, r 4 -7, is supposed, from the departure of some &Iguana who had b ti r eg by ad ) the gee coti lAN oth arid the t • 1, 411 4t3 ka t) tht y Lor 11 Sc e , G, POpt to eut , have cg -.,—* /3u cc 48 LE,'