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London, England, 1826-03-30 00:00:00

IRELAND.

MI: RI) R.

COLLEGY-STREZT POLICE-OFTICE.—On Friday last one of
the,Ntigiatrates proceeded frem this office to take the informations
M a man named Hugh .heridan, who was laying in Sir Patrick
thiti's Hotpral, in corvequenee of a dreadful beating which he
received thine a party of men, in the vicinity of Merrion, on the
7to inst. It i oat possible to convey an idea of the frightful con.
diti,xi of dais u ifrivtunate man. When the Magistrate entered the
ward, Lis time and eyes afforded sufficient evidence of the flume.
!qua coat...viol* he had received, anti the difficulty with which he
*74:misted announced lois approaching dissolution. At such a
*tea no time was to be hiat, and therefore the Magistrate hastened
r talks his dying declaration, of which the following is the pur.
OR 3

Agarly on the above day. when informant was passing the church.
pad of Nlerrirm, he was assailed by a party of men, consisting of
lalursen is number, who, with spades, shovels. &c., beat him in a
martt unmerciful manner; they uttered nothing but the words
f• %We will pay you the rent." and at every stroke they reiterated
thin unmeaning sentence. informant deputies% to Ida ignorance of
baying ever offended any of the party, with whom he was quite on.
acquainted, neither did he ever see them before, hot according to
their appearance, he was of opinion that they might have been la-
bourers to some bricklayers raiding in the neighbourhood.
Shortly after the departure of the Magistrate, .in operation was
performed on him, but his use was so desperate that surgical as-
sistance, though judiciously administered, proved fruitless, and he
died a victim to the malice of this lawless banditti. An inquest
was about being held this day. Four persons are in custody, taken
on the information of a woman who was an eyewitness of the
scene, and who thinks the antipathy might have had its origin from
the contemplation of Sheridan's calling. which this female in.
torment stated to be that of a resume/ion Indic —Dublin &cc.
rioter Journal, March 27. •

lacaursT.—DgeaDrul. Case.—An inquest was held on Fri-
day last, on the body of a girl named Margaret Bonham, who ex-
pired on Friday last, in the Fever Ilospital, in Cork-street. IVe
subjoin the precise words of the verdict, as given in by the Jury :
•• That the said Margaret Bonham was assaulted by her
.father,
Heo►ge Bonham, in Hanover-lane, on Fri'ay night, the 17th of
March, 1112 t, and that he did inflict on her violent bodily injuries,
through the effects of which she langtti•hed until Thursday the ...r.lll
day of March, h 1•26. on which da► she died in the Fever Hospital
.Cork-street, in the parish of St. Catherine's, and bounty of
Dublin."

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It appeared in evidence, that the unfortunate parent was in a
state of degierate intoxication at the time of the occurrence, and
%tat he h. 4.1 seined his child by the leg and arm, and doh d her
violently against the wall of the apartment in which they resided.
It also appeared that he entertained an antipathy towards this child
from some religious motive. lie has been committed to Kilmain-
ham gaol, to abide his trial at the next commission.—Freratan's
Journal.
• S R I tent.—The church of elonsilla was broken into on Fri-
day night law, by some persons unknown, why carried off the
cloth of the communion table and the pulpit cushions. The police
are in ac'iv search after the parties, but hitherto without effect.—
rermaa's ✓ournal. _

GRUTIL—The Clonmel Paper gives the following
statement relating to this unfortunate young lady :—" At eleven
' o'clock on Sa•nolay, the Mayor, assis(ed by Dr. Fitzgerald and a
respectable Jury, held an inquest no the remains of this once amia-
hie and generally regretted young lady, at the County Court-house.
' The Jury having been impanelird the evening preceding, viewed
the body, which rendered an inspection on Saturday unnecessary.
As we anticipated, nothing wu elicited on this inquiry tending to
explain, in any vati.factory manner, the cause of the death of this
hapless female and her Farmer in misfortune ; nor has any light as
yct been thrown on a calamity which may probably remain unex-
plained to the end of time. Enough, however, has appeared to
justify the vorclusion that the interesting couple had come by their
death accidentally. At the commencement of the inquiry, one of
the Jurors handed in to the Mayor a written paper, which he said
he had a few minutes before received. The substance of it was,

that a Mrs. Bagge had had a conversation with a man who worked
at Captain Poser's, at Gurteen, and who had been coming into
flonniel on the evening the deceased had been drowned; that at
Dudley's Mil. (a little below which place the body of Lieutenant
Close was found), he heard screams of murder, and a loud splash-
ing in the water; sad that shortly alter three men passed bitn by,
whose names he knew. The 3layor sent for Mrs. Bagge. It ap-
peared from her evidTnee, however, that the whole of the above
communication had arisen front public rumour, and that she had
rot spoken to any person who had been on the quay that night.
The Jury were unanimous in their verdict—" found drowned."
The mortal remains of Miss Anna filubb were interred in the
grate-yard it; the Irishtown, at four o'clock in the afternoon of Sa-
turday lot.

PROCLAMATION TO THE PEOPLE OP THE RE-
PUBLIC OP CHILI.

Fellow-citizens-4 feel myself imperiously added opon en carry
the standard of liberty to the Atchipelago of Chiloe. This ap-
pays to me the most honourable of those risks which I am at all
times determined to encounter against the commun enemy of our
independence. The dignity of the Government, the necessity of
giving Integrity and unifoemity to the natural territory of the Re.
public, the net-natty also of confitming Its seenritv and that of the
other investor emancipated America; and. finally, the completion nt
the measures dictated by the Legislatureorgentiv tall for the execii.
non of this invariant enterprise. If it be ditdcult to explain the
conduct of my predecessors, whose differences have afforded the op.
prissors of our brethren in Chiloe sufficient time for obtaining the
.kind and extern of Torre which they may new oppose to us, and
• without which they might have been easily expelled, the mere autho-
rity with which the parties accused of so much indolence and im-
prudence were clothed, imposes upon us the duty of repairing
the neglect.
All the different nations, which, at the ovens' of so much blood,
. . . .

have obtained their independence. view with hjust. feelings of jealousy
• and indignatiim this interesting point, which, situate at the entrance
of the Pacific, might with still more facility than Critic, or l4an
Juan de (tilos, serve as head quarters for the fitting out of new ex.
peilitions, by which the obstinacy of our implacable enemies keep
up, if not their extinguished hope of a certain triumph, at least
their sanguinary hatred and expectation that the continuance of the
horrors of war may paralyze the progressive improvement of good
institutions, and weary nut the constancy of a people, who regard
themselves as already in possession of the means of tranquilly con.
anlidating their civil liberty. We should be criminal were we to
Phut our ears to the respectable voice by which this universal cry is
uttered.
The re.inenrporation of this part of the Chilian territory interests
us very closely. It forms the boundary of our southern provinces.
We shall be seriously responsible to the present generation and to

posterity, if we leave in foreign hands this important key, and
steam it that unfortunate portion of our compatriots, whose want of
I,lutadvarritges of political regeneration deprives us of the recipro.
oily of their commerce, and sepsis in the social state these whom
molest, has geographically united.
These considerations induced the Sovereign Congress in 1823 to
' decree the expedition for the deliverance of Chiloe, which the as.
semblies of Coquimbo, Santiago. and Conception had previously
sanctioned. Never was It more avesiale to me to be placed at the
head of the .n.itional forces than in obeying this decree. To.
morrow I derart to fulfil it. If the result correspond with ray
wishes. I sha,l have the happiness of securing victory, though it
should be at the expense of my life, and I should newer share those
days of prosperity which the triumph should give to Chili.
In fact, when our frontier* Sr. secured by the incorporation of
Chine, a small number of "reran troops will be sufficient for our
'eternal security; and in proportion as the military influence is
dmitsished, and the weight of the public burdens are alleviated,
the revenue may be applied to purposes calculated to make the
' pest benefits anticipated from the revolution felt, end to repair the
sacrifices of a terrible struggle and agitated period of lateen years.
The regress of civilization and of sound principles will then find
no obs.hcle to the extension of their influena. and the citizen will
regard this epoch as the commencement of his civil enjoyments.
.1 shall concur in accelerating this event, even though the moment
of its snivel should be the last of my existence.
• The Supreme Government is, in the mean time, intrusted to a
body composed of citizens. whose distinguished popularity is well
*Appreciated by public opinion, and whose civic talents and virtues
palely merit the Milgment pronounced upon them. There citizens
aim the Senores bon Jose illigth.l Infante, and the three Ministers
Of Ault e, to whom I have most particularly recommended the task
of superintending the preparatory measures for the meeting of a
General Congress, which may at length he effected with that sue- I
Coolul issue which the provinces ardiintly desire, without these
*angers and disagreeable results which attended preceding assem-
blies, and which were calculated to render the sacred male of
liongress hateful to the people.
The division of the provinces epistlers to me to be an object of the
tiro consequence in accomplishing this important purpose. Phis
measure will dissipate the jalousies and fears of inequality to which
it appears we have chiefly to attribute the misfortunes and ill-
Oedema of preceding legislatures. The citizens entrusted wish the
piivemmei.t are eseeially chrged with this partition of the territory,
bappy consequences of which, in the aggrandizement of
the exintry will secure them the congratulation of every good
Chilian.

I should expect to offend that nobleness of nature, and that worthy
pwtriotistn, which characterise my fellow citizens, were I to charge
deem to preserve order during my absence. Their own sense of
the national interest will be the sentinel. to check the slightest
symptom. which might affect the great work we have undertaken,
or :oterrupt the pacific mcoures in which the Government has em.
barktd all its strength, with the ♦iew of laying open the field or a
prinanent and systematic prosperity ; and this is the only proofed*
esteem which, in return for his, will be exacted by the citizen,
whp„ in the midst of the greatest convtdsions, hie been honoured
bitbe wlt.,le people of the Republic with the ratification of the
tie which places him at their head, and which he never will abuse.
NI,. 27, Ilk a. RAMON FREIRE.

Two instances of suddcn and awful death occurred within
the last we.k at Homfmd one an elderly female, who had arrived
ftirs GtAcherter by the Wellington coach. on the 11th inst., whilst
waning in the %bond Mr. Otter, chemist, for a conveyance to
litttys. to visit her daughtrr: was taken ill ; and although medical
asastapce was instantly aflurded, the survived but a short lime.
Ttie other, a carpenter, of the name of Marteall. who whilst walking
on Monday evening, the 13:11 inst. near the barracks, fell down,
ant; toa few momenta expired.—Bury Gazette.