The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-09-11 00:00:00

EX ECIITtOW.

Yesterday John t/71;/y,;h;;Iits convicted at lire
county Cork Assizes, or attacking the house of
James Barry, Esq. near Inehigeela, ttncle►went the
dreadful sentence of the law at Gallows Green.—
The unfortunate man was attended by the Rev.
Mr. Barry, P.P. of Douglas, and the Rev. Mr.
Ma'hew, of the South Friary. He appeared very
weak, and his livid countenance exhibited the ap-
palling tenor with which he awaited the awful ca-
tastrophe that was tirterminste his unhappy career.
The persons who attended the place of execution
were not numerous.
CORK. lIIPTEMBER 6..

Yesterday a respite arrived for Denis Deggan
and Wm. Lamb, for horse stealing, and John Cahill
for murder; and a respite was received this morn-
ing by the High Sheriff of the county, to miry, the
execution of Walter Fittntau.rice, alms Captain
Rock, who, with William Costello, for the abduc-
tion of Miss Goold, were to undergo the awful
sentence of the law on to-morrow. There is now
none remaining in the county gaol f,r exteution
but the unfortunate Costello.
. KILICANNY, SEPT 111111111 5.

in our paper of Saturday last we adverted to
some facts which led us to believe that the disgrace.
ful scenes of nuttage of the last winter and spring
were about .to be reacted in a part of our county.
This day it is our. melancholy.duty .to relate an act
of barbarous atrocity which, hail it not been for the
interposition•of 131:vene Prossidesiet,- would have ri-
valled the massacre of the Shea. in guilt. although
not in the number, of de tined victiins. .
At two o'clock yesterday morning the wife of
Patrick Kennedy, of New House, between Betniett's
Bridge and Thormistown, in the Barony of Goween,
was disturbed from use sleep by a noise of, as she
conceived, several persona walking outside the house
and dirturbing the pigs. She -listened fur some
time, and all was again quiet; but in a few minutes
after, she felt a suffocating smoke which almost
overpowered her faculties; she rose and examined
the grate and the interior of the house without.bt-
:: ing able to find any trace of file. She then called
her husband and the servaot .boy, and looked out,
when she observed the thatch of the roof on fire in
two places—one over a style leading from the yard
to a field, the other over a stone seat near the door.
The diabolical incendiaries must have stood both
on the style and the stone seat when communicating
the tire to the thatch, the tare being otherwise too
high to be teethed without • ladder. The place
where the fire had then made the greatest progress
was immediately over the bed of Kennedy and his
wife. Kennedy was able, with the assistance of
his wife and boy, •to save the greater part of his
furniture, but the house wss consumed. He is a
quiet industrious farmer, and bears a -good charac-
ter. In the spring of last year he was attacked by
threg ruffians in hi, °madras yard, as be was going
into his stable, after returning-from a fair where lie
had sold some cattle. He tussle a gallant resist.
once with a stick, by ■ blow of which he knocked
oft the lock of a gun which was outwitted at him,
and obliged the villains to decamp without any
booty.—(iloderatur.l

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