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GIER,ILT -JR, Dzc: 27 .

On th. NI), in the evening, the garrisen, was
alarmed with the report of a nattily having token
out in the 2-3 battalion cf the Royals, whiel, how-
ever, was soon suppresst2 without any serious con-

seipemces.
'fee circumstances were as follow :—The men
cf that regiment had beer. extremely dissatisfied
with what they conceived to he uratetessary severity
in a new Adjutant who had been lately appointed,
and against whom they had beer. much prejudiced
before his arrival free England. On that day it
happer.ed that all the nen et the regiment were off
duty, and had been paid the balances of their ac-
counts, and it being Christmas eve, nutty of them
had drank freely, and had got liluor*into the bar-
racks. To prevent their obtaimeg more, and to
keep them from straggling out, the Adjutant di-
rected the gates of the barracks to be locked ; on
this, a number of them seized their arms, andrush-
ing out of the doors and windows, threatened to
s.iurder the Adjutant wherever they could find him.
They had proceeded as far as the Esplanade to the
number of about '230, when General Barnet over-
took them, and harangued them on the impropriety
of their conduct, requesting them to go back to
their barracks, and assuring them, that it they had
any just complaints, they should be redressed in the
morning. They listened to him with the greatest
respect, and were on the point of returning, when.
unluckily the Adjutant appeared among them ; at
the sight of him their fury seemed to revive, many
crying out, " Kill him ;" and he with great &Wt.
culty escaped into a house, several blows and thrusts
having been aimed at him. Shortly after this, the
greater part of the men, after some shouting and
huzzaing in the streets, were persuaded to return to
their barracks; but about thirty of the worst cha-
racters amongst them, chiefly Irish, who appeared
to have some further mischief in view, Proceeded to
the south barracks, about half a mile front the
town, where the 54th regiment Were quartered,
wholly composed of Irishmen, some of whom were
supposed to be ifisafected ; these thirty from the
Royals, in consequence expected to be joined by
them. In this, however, they were completely dis-
appointed; the instant they called upon the 5 tth to
join them, that moment they received a volley from
the grenadiers, who were immediately opposite the
road by which they advanced, and the whole regi-
ment joined in one shout of " Loyalty, and good
Diu: for over," The mutineers imrnectiaaely
tied, and returned to their barracks, and in less than
an hour from the commencement of the business all
veas quiet. From the darkness of the night, only
five or six were wounded by the firing of the gre-
nadiers of the 54th regiment.
The conduct of all the other regiments in garri-
son, was, on this occasion, highly to their honour
and credit, as, in five minutes time, after the first
alarm, every man was under arms on parade,
ready to act when called upon, and they unani-
mously expressed the utmost fidelity and attachment
o their officers.
On the following morning a severe example would
probably have been made of some of the ringlead-
ers, hail not the regiment paraded without their
arms, andi requested General Barnett to intercede
with his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, and to
assure him of their entire submission, and sincere
repentance of the excesses into which they had been
betrayed, and promising the most exemplary beha-
viour in future. To tins his Royal Highness, after
some deliberation, consented, and ordered the regie
• men. to appear under arms befOre him, when he, in
the most forcible terms, pointed out to them the
fatal consequences of such disorderly conduct,
which, in them, was the more unpardonable, as no
soldiers in his regiment could say, that he had ever
made a just complaint without obtaining redress.
After this, his Royal Highness proceeded to the
other regiments, and thanked them separately for
the steadiness, fidelity, and discipline they had
hewn, and he was received by them all with three
cheers, and the warmest enthusiasm and applause.

Last night the Garrison was again alarmed, ow-
ing to a drunken riot of some soldiers of the 25th
regiment. The regiment had that evening receiv-
ed the balance of their accounts, when most of
them, as too often happens on that occasion, got
extremely drunk and noisy ; and about ten at night,
about forty or fifty of the most riotous sallied into
the streets, shouting, and firing. their muskets in
the air, though without offering violence to any
one.

The Garrison, on hearing the noise, and ignorant
of • the cause, immediately got under arms, when the
2d battalion of the Royals, anxious to wipe off the
disgrace of their late conduct, requested their Offi-
cers to solicit his Royal Highness's permission for
their going to 4=ll -the riot. A strong party of
them were accordingly detached for that purpose,
who, meeting with about thirty of the rioters, near the
King's Ba,t!on, drove them before them towards
their barracks without opposition. In their way
thither, they unluckily, in the dark, came upon a
party of the artillery, who had taken post ,between
the King's Bastion and the Barracks, who, seeing
the rioters advancing that way with their arms, and
not perceiving that the detachment of Royals were
in their rear, immediately fired upon them, by which
two of the rioters were killed, and unfortunately,
at the same time, one of the Royals was killed, and
three or four were wounded.
This morning, thirteen of the chief rioters were
delivered up by the regiment, and a General Court
Martial is now sitting upon them, and it is supposed
that an example will, be made of some of them, as
though their conduct a.ppears chiefly to have origin-
ated from drunkenness, yet the exciting of such an
alarm, after what bad lately. .happened. :old which
has been attended with such fatal consequences,
cannot be passed over with impunity. All is now
perfectly quiet in the garrison.

Monday the adjourned Sessions of the Peace, for
the City of London, were holden at Guildhall ; when
Lilly, a Stock Broker, and a person hitherto
of much respectability, was tried before Mr. fLE-
co ara.a, and a molt respectable Jury. on an indict-
ment which charged him with an offence, of which
he was found Cathy.
The Court, after much deliberation. were of opi-
nion, the good character the defend:int had received,
rendered' hisn deserving, in some daAree, a lesser
punithment than otherwise; and, accupaiugly sen-
tenced Wm to be imprisoned 'us Nensre tor three
months.

IRELAND.

sPECIAL COMhllssioN, cLONMEL, SAN. tl.
Baron Genitte delivered to the Grand Jury ii
charge peculiarly appropriate to the circumstances
under which they were called together. After
touching briefly on the general duty of their office
on ordinary occasions, of which, he said, their oath
itself •.vas the best expositor, he reminded them that
at this particular juncture, something further was to
be expeeted from their conduct: it was to be ex-
pected that as their whole attention was now di-
rected to one concern, the support of the peace and
good order of the country, they would exhibit an
example from which all good men may be confirm-
ed in their allegiance, by knowing that the strength
and protection of government were their security,
and that the ill-disposed may see in the vigour and
fif7intess of a mild administration the certain ruin
which must follow from their misconduct. His
lordship could not here, he said, look to the present
situation of the country without recurring to the
dangers and alarms that have passed away, and to
the security which has followed. Happily for the
country its loyalty has been able to put down all
spirit of rebellion, never, he trusted, to raise its head ,
aeain; and, still more happily, the war, cf which .
the rebellion was a consequence, has been closed
by a peace, produced by the atchievements of our
:.reties and fleets, that have quieted the world.—
The happiness of this situation was encreased by the
bounty of Providence, so kind and plenteous, that
every man hying industry and grace, partakes his
share of it—governed by an administration, the
mildest that ever exercised power over a nation, dis-
pensing the wisest laws that the world has ever
known—with the military force recalled from fo-
reign service, to support the laws, the peace, and
the happiness of the people. In a season like this,
in which vices and crimes had so little expectation
from foreign sticcour, and so many enemies at home
to oppose their progress and crush their weakness,
it was not to he wondered at, since crimes and vices
mutt prevail in some degree, that their latitude was
confined to a portion, and that a small one, of the
province of Munster, which became an exception to
the lest of. the kingdom, where the advantages of
its si,tuation were reaped in industry and peace.—
For, unhappily for that small portion, a dissolute-
ness of morals and corruption of principle had rooted
itself in the rebellion, too strongly for any system of
policy or certainty of advantage, in a moment to put
it down. And this was to he expected. It was in-
separable from the gross ignorance of the peasantry
and populace, that they possessed likewise the. gross-
est credulity ; a credulity, which in spite of experi-
ence, makes them listen with avidity to the imposi-
tions of any disturber whii has ability to excite their
terrors, or their hopes, and to lead them, as such
characters invariably do, to certain destruction,
where the deluded rabble regularly find themselves
deserted by those under whose instigation they have
been ruined. It is their friend, therefore, as well
as the friend of the law, and the peace, and the
government of the land, wbo will try and put an
early and vigorous check to their enormities, be-
cause though any, or all of their efforts combined,
arc not serious, vet their consequences must be ca-
lamitous. They begin on the poor and the unpro-
tected : let them meet with impunity, they aspire
to the destruction of those a little more opulent and
powerful--let that step pass, and the gentry are their
objeft. if this evil be not checked early and effec-
tually, where will it end ?
When his lordship alluded to the gentry,. he
animadverted with his customary strength and per-
suasiveness of reasoning on the supineness of those
who suffer themselves to temporize with any enor-
mity committed in the neighbourhood. He exhi-
bited the weakness of such conduct, as inviting an
attack upon the person who could pursue it.—He,
who would sleep quietly in his bed, ought, in times
like these, to prove that his bed was defended, and
step forth in support of the laws by which he and
his country, and the safety of both were identified.
But this is not to be done by two or three, much
less can it be effected by individual, unconnected
existence :—The Gentlemen of the Connie', to ensure
its peace, should unite in its cause, every man who
has character or property to value. "As long,
said he, as you support yourselves in the mainte-
nance of order, with the arm of a regular, mild,
and firm government at your hacks--if ye will use
your own strength in such a cause, I know not what
ye have to fear. To do this with effect, review
your police, and see that every man around you
supports the law of the land--lletermine yourselves
to set your faces against every ernunal of every kind,
and the populace round you, and the tenantry
under I.lu, will cover you with them blessings for
saving them from destruction."

JAN. 15.
Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, the following
persons, tried and convicted on the three preceding
days, were conveyed from prison to the Court to
receive sentence:
Dan;el Ryan and rmothy Hallman, for the rape on
Margaret Daniel; John Supple and John Londregen,
for a burglary and feltmy in the house of John De-
vereux ; and Christopher I.ondregan, Edmund Lon-
dre:an, James Fox, Matthew Mockbr, Edmund
Dwyer, Ofiebael Hennessy, Dennis Carew, and John
Croneen, for burglary and felony in the house of
David Grady, in the Glyn of Agherlow, on the
night of the Scl of September last.
Previous to I•assing sentence, the Hon. Mr. Ila-
ron GEORG r. addressed the prisoners in a most im-
pressive manner, on the enormity of the crimes for
which they were to suffer, and on the importance
of their employing the short period which inter-
vened between them and eternity, in the deepest
reflection and contrition. To the convicts for bur-
glary, be represented the fatal consequences w:lich
would result to the community, were such crimes
as theirs permitted to pass unpunished. Where
property and life are tr.secure, even individual
prosperity must be unknown ; the land would coon
resume its original uncultivated aspect, and its in-
habitants would be degraded to their former level
of vassals and slaves. In the present case, the
crime of burglary, at all times punishable by death,
was aggravated by some peculiar circumstances. A
spirit of opposition to the laws, and of contempt to
the Magistrates, had produced a wicked anklrainous
species of combination among a considerable portion
of the peasantry of this anal some of the adjoining
counties and it wa.s in furtherance of this destruc-
tive system that the prisoners had attacked the
houses, with an evident intention of destroying the
properties, And of at least abusing the persons of

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two honest, peaceable and loyal men, from whom
they had never received an injury, or probably an
insult—thus at once outraging the ordinances of
their God and the laws of their Country ! "Mi-
serable, deluded men I what have you done?" em-
phatically asked his Lordship: " In attempting the
destruction of others, you have brought down an
infamous death upon yourselves, and sorrow, ruin,
and disgrace upon your unhappy families!—The
Learned Judge, with almost indescribable feeling
and force, lastly addressed the two Prisoners con-
victed of the rape. Presumptuous indeed, it would
be, were we to attempt following his Lordship in
his own words s and, were even that attempt suc-
cessful, it would be utterly impossible to represent
to our readers the penetrating irresistible strength
which the dignity of his 'expression added to every
period. We can barely give a sketch of his Lord-
ship's conclusion.
. .. " But, enormous as is the guilt of your
fellow-sufferers—your's, Daniel Ryan, and Timothy
Hallinan, exceeds it ; for yr( tr's are crimes which
must be abhorred by all who bear the name of min !
At the dead hour of night you entered the dwelling
house of a poor industrious MD, then absent, at::
demanded his horse; after giving his wife your
solemn promise that no harm should be offered to
her, you seized an opportunity of bring alone, for
the perpetration of an act, at the recital of which
humanity must litidier—you violated her. In
vain were her intreaties, her representation of her
situation—that her day e,f delivery of the clad of
which she was then great, was at hand, and that
her death, and the death of her unborn infant,
would be the certain consequences cf your falfill na;
your intentions : you. persisted—you both* with
more than savage atrocity, effected your diabolical
purpose ; and you both• contaminated her ! The
predictions of the poor mother, the wretched wife,
were at least in part, but too true: yon added murder
to your other crimesthe innocent, unbornpei
through your brutality and your uncleanimers I-
-0 I did you believe that there existed a God above,
and yet hope to escape his vengeance ? Great and
numberless are the crimes of mankind ; but, till the
awful hour of your public atonement arrives, cease
not, Timothy Hallinan and Daniel Ryan, to recol-
lect, that your crimes have exceeded them all ! To
this your prior guilt, you have added an outrage
upon justice and the universal feelings of Nature :
finding that she alone who could prosecute you was
protected from the influence of terror, you found
means to extend that influence over the minds of
some of her nearest kindred; and by threat and
artifice conjoined, the brother and sister, were pre-
vailed upon to come forward to this table, to com-
mit bare-faced perjury, in order to invalidate the
testimony of their injured sister! What depra-
vity ! Never was it so shamefully, so unnaturally
displayed in a Court of Justice. The wretched
dupes of terror, in the confusion occasioned by.
their conscious guilt, acknowledged the cause,
which before this confession WAS disgustingly evi-
-1 dent.

Unfortunate meta 4 Let not the smallest hope of
mercy in this life, rest in your bosoms 1. To extend
that mercy to you now, would be to inflict a dcalh.
wound on the trar.quility of the Country. At the
Throne of your Itadmrner, whom you have so hein-
ously offended by your transgressions, you can alone
hope for fo:7iveness."
The Learned Judge concluded by pronouncing
the dreadful sentence of the Law, which is to be
executed as follows :

Timothy Ha!hoax anci,Dan;el R;ato to be hanged at
Newcastle, on Monday the 9.4 th inst.
goon Supple and john Londrqatt, on Saturday the
29th at Clonmel.
Chrietoph.er Lotselreean, Eirmood Lomb-riots' Jams:
Fox, Matthew Meek
E.'mind Dwyer, and
Hennet.7, on Wednesday the I'6th, at Glen of Ag.
hetluvr.
gobs Croseen Caren., recpited till fur-
ther orders.
Immediately after passing Sentence, the Court
adjourned.
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