The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-08 00:00:00

THE DOLLY'S BRAE AFFAIR.

At the inquiry at Carriersllos, as Muted*T.
Rides was
coming
said, Park, I heard of the
• hen coming to Tallymon water 12th of hey,
was ab .est • foresight bafore. Mr. Bath, tho than 'mad
ossen, eded crs as sad said the Orsagommi whited to will:
sa me to shrew their slisodeu to Wt. I Man Ormigessae
unt ase • grand than. I sad that sash a whit wend
ma be I was same le that time of Ids list
sobs sad would les irksome to mee. Gad
to t
oo
Beden, whet ban invalid. Ifs: Boas eats=
be • elloggsletaneat to the Ormegmess, and' OM he
MAC a Add. 1 suuthered foe a WI., sedan
I wood on per is a low dap. I did est mid
wratoblate my that, having tbe *bat Whoa= he Oho
I would allow them to thee tem, peek either
hoasflham esolesudion there ties 81/Iriburs she ;
aselsoussos for not retusiog them
Ana it was, bothos a sp/rit of
stheition was la the thstry. was sad the whole
ineatry were is &vowel the o/Ject of a repeal of the union.
I saw ths sonrumat were detambied to pat dowa diet se-
With, sad I thourht that awry loyal men la the theutty
fooled assist the g Tommie% is this with timetable object.
This was previous to ths 12th of ley, 1618. Th. matins
of Use Orsageesen on that analversory were very utheroth
sad I will sot deny that I did net dheounge stem. Ti.
loyal and peserahle manner is which they conducted them.
setae, sad the onion of sentiment I held with thess,thde it
appear to me, when they wished so psy me • visit, that it
wool be impossible and most ungrateful of as to refuse it,
bops, that happy results would take plea from their oteet-
ieg is 1849. Os the 12 hof Jule , 1849, I met the
at the entrance to To:lymore Park. I set Mr. W.
at the gate. I stated how homes to proceed he tits hall door,
sad I wood as on to TittOWII *endearing predate', n
et emoted that so noise should be made in pis
should hatl-
ess, as there was a lady lying ill of chokes, and any noise
must he lath irksome to her. I stood on the step of the
ball door, accompanied by some ladies, friends of the family.
The procession then pail by, ad were a considerable time
paths. I was told there erns about 60 lodges, towpath
sif about 2,000 man, besides women, their wins sad
feather They proceeded throughthe barbican gate
to • Add when 1 had previously ordered • phte rm
th he erected, and a tent pitched, with lunch for
ladies and gentlemen who come to Winkle@ the prbeados.
I ordered six barrels of small ban to be taken to the field.
This I Intended for three Orangemen who Ind not brought
Terovisioas with them. I also ordered some ads and cheese.
I mat Mr. W. Been, and had with conversation with him
on tho bast of the scenery and the happiness that prie
veiled. I and him some asthma had set me, red intro
dead me to Mr. Freethinker. I sold Mr. Bars that Mr.
ittemeerise had told has that on amine there that north',
this wag • Death of armed man ens sloes the road, fel
• the itelekboarhood of Dolly's Bros, sad that Mr. FPIIIINO-
gba Ist espested me to use my inflames to prevent the
going the new nth. I said to Mr. Bath, Would
read to get them to go that way ? " He said,
" Oh, then will be no death, aad it would be impracticable
If is 'We, as there would be a split." I felt Ms swat
so that I did not prose the matter any funhar;
but I Wand the people trent the platform, *sada
this septa:ad home quietly and peaceably, so they
come. When I got on the Ostrom a bash was sounded, and
the platform w s soca crowded. I saw may of my Row
Catholic neighbours looking on, and there was not, I be-
lieve, • word of unkindness among us. Mr. W. Bare
thee told the people that I wished to address thous, thi,
if you persit me I will rad the words I seed (Lord ZOO
thee read his spill from a journal of the Ist of Aura).
After having wide that speech I eases down hem thoplat-
form, and they Isis the Aeld. It stssek me that about 300
were armed with guns. I did not say a word to than about
Dolly's Brae. On the 11th I law Mr. Tahitian. He did
not represent to me that there would be • eoliths. I had
no idea that there wood be one oar that day. Mr. Shaw
ant me • letter enclosing a threatening letter, but I paid on
attention to it, I get so essay of the same kind myself. 111
were to pay attention to those I get I wend have my sided
very ill at moo. Mr. W. Mass may have communicated to
as that he had theme I the Oranges" to go by Dolifs
Base, but I do not remember it. I sight have board t
thin was a pia of honour in going by Dolly's Byes, bad
did net attend it. Did not best of &buena songs till the
other day. Did not hear of the 'has fired at Mr. Merges is
1648, and heard that everything went off well is that per.
He and his friends had orange and due ribbons. The Who
had. Hoard as shot in the field, that was all. I did set
know what insult might take place between the parties, but
I mated so collision.
To Mr. Res—They assembled with arms is their hards.—.
Did they ever meet he TellymorsePark befit. ? Nom.—
Was there not a postal minting et Orangemen from Cs s.
wells there beton this time ? Not to my knowledge,
seer lathed them to es. to the park. I think the Omega
the am loyal men. It I had hoard a whams *weer yester-
day that the Orangemen would march over her Majesty's
troops, I would have said the men that would dam would not
be loyal tee. From what I know of the Orangensithit smell
party of 'oldie's and police had bees posted at the entrusts
of Dolly's Bra, I do sot think they would have basted urea
piss that road. As loyal subjects, I think they would have
sh
red the authorities. 1 thought the Orangemen safe fees
ties in my park. I saw several whelks there—
labourers and depeedents on me. There were others she.
Bess of them employs:. themselves without orders there.
Os objection of also to • repeal of the ,thion is, that I
believe there would be catholic secendiose ie ewe mid
state ; if it wore not for that I sight haves Mirth adds.
I hays seen, I date say, " Protestant asedinse" on mened
the Sage at the Orange prop shoes. Tha satholim did ea
met to tea the armed precision surryiss Sags withthat in-
seription. I Wien there would have then no blood shed 0 the
Onagemen bail not beat attacked. If the Omar. procession
bed ant gone lute a catholic district--if they had Sees through
• protestant dirrict—there would have both no distarbanes.
Os the ad road there are *greet many catholic base. I
believe they an all Roman catholic hours on the new. He
hoot • very toys] subject who would kill an old women. I
knew it Is false that at one period it was the intention of the
Ontogeseen to chap the succession to the crown. I bard
it woo in the ppm that it was intended to pot the Doke at
Camberland en the throne in plate of Quese Vieth* at it
was 'opposed she was brought op in catholic oplutookait it
wee a lie. I heard there was nth width bathes Roseau
osthalso and protestants at Tullyorier in February last. I
math tho meeting disposed at Monad ; it was an so-
amid Inc It was proclaimed by the Lord Linwood. I
tech as meth to prase • proclamation thiut the Orsag•
I, as a amber of the sdanthey, wily pave the
some small boor. Sep eft Leg William had
beisi a' the Boys., I was. oft Pak It any that
to me or the protestants if • Ribbed preothis took plea.
with Sago, on which was inscribed thistle asusithey. I
do not know thsfprevious to the Orange salsa there wee
an monition for the destructioa of the pretalmate. I meth
reediest smethashig Omens' to pt areas, at
a gun deb. I gives ones to my own theithaNlMtre
Orsegemen. I aver gave the catholic hands arms. I pat
the pendants arms to protest their lives and properties.
They were mon exposed than those of ths crholica. I be-
lieve I have 24 stand of loth in my house. Noss of them
ewe brought out es the 12th.
To Mr. Megas—l have been reddest hers, from time to
time, foe 29 yeas,. I near heard before that Dolly's Bras
bed bees the wens of a eaflict many pus Nip. Daiwa,
to lb. Csardswellan bench. We have bed paths behoosol
he party riots. Party Whig may have isteriesed within the ,
last year ores. There were demonetrations of Ribloothem
on the last 17th of March generally through this ocessay.
I believe they wen very mach pat down by the Rothe
estleolis clergy. Such rrocthions produce a bad Amt.
I dieeppreve of Soothes altogether. I think I eme
preserving_ the peace most by allowing the mrsoiesiss to
MN to Tames-park, ifor thee I would have an am.
pthasity of addressing thous, and requemieg them to sou-
dust thaseelna progeny, and by all moth to preserve the
pease.
To Mr. Boo—l believe them is • rule by which the
Clatillthem were bound to obey their suparhs. When I
Inlay Mr. Ban at TuUemore.park, Mr. Striven was not
theist. I bad received no comstheleations from the
Orangemen previous to the 12th as to the procession. 1
never knew say Orsags procession before going ever Dolly's I
Bra. Before the 12th of July I sear heard there was •
point of hoses in going over Dolly's Brae. The that heir
oath in about the 7th of July. It erne from Castlithe-
hant. I was in Belfast about that time or behes I bete
sena orange ribbons about that duo and am issiten.
pad for the ereetioe dila Patios. It the eseseed on the
lltb. Imw the Bilked protasis passing my dose, but
there were ao arms with them. Thom may have bees arms
with the Rahlriland lodges. I could not say where the
majority of that prOCOSItOII came from. I did not believe
the armed body on the hill would have attacked the Draw-
stem. lam not quits an whether It mu Mr. Freed.
Boers, is Dublin, or Mr. W. Ban, that told as the Outage.
ass were to go by Dolly's Brae. I was not lased
that the Ribbonmen and Orangemen were to hare a Said
day at Dolly's Bras. I understood that sass gunpowder
wastage • day or two before, which was coming to a gas-
powder dealer in Csstlewellan. I had no sonenesnication
with the magistrates of the district as to the preservation of
the pose. I think apr omission I saw at Rathfriland, in
183 2, was • superior one to tits het, anti the Orangemen
there were nearly all armed. I did not feel alarmed at the
proosselon. I think fin or six years ago I delivered six or
sena Sand of arms to some of my protestant tenantry. The
Chanteuses who were armed, it appeared to me, carried the
arms for their own defeats.
To Mr. Berwick.—The fact of their being armed showed
thin expected something sight occur.
To Dlr. Ross Moore—l do not confound Roman Catholics
with Ribboning.. I have • very great number of Roman
Catholic tenants, and I have • very great regard for thein
and I hops I show it. I gsve arms to my protestant heath ;
to protect their lives and propeity. I did not give them to
the Catholics, lest they should be iodated to join Ike Ribbon
Society, and then an • great number of them, nearly all, I
believe, in Fofany, who are Radioman. lam convinced
ths Orangemen would have behaved themselves peaceably
if they had not been attacked. On the 17th of March last
I went out to C istlawellaa sad towards Hiltown. I saw
a larp body of oho well snood ; asd some of them touched
their hats to me, and others fired she's. I rode s'terwards
among • Protestant portion of the notary, and kilned of
them sot to interior. with the processionists The pre:
sessiosises ass into Bryane'ord in the evening, and fired
II alley out My gate ; but I do not believe their hawks
was to do any harm. If 1 had not bdieved that th• Orange
procession was • legal one, 1 irsainly would not have
allowed it to enter my sate. I saw Mr. W. BOn at my gate,
and afterwards asked him to sae that the parer persons
should get the refreshments I had provided. He exerted
hinted( very much among the people. It is not a principle
of Orangemen to offend or insult their esthetic neighbours—
quite the contrary. I do not remember ever having seen
• Ribbon prolusion in my neighbourhood previous to last
year. Is allusion to the word " split," if the Orange party
had separated from each other, aid gone duff, rent roads,
than would have been more danger to them, for they would