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HORRIBLE ATTEMPT TO MURDER.
[Prom ohs etionnel AarefObrr.l
It is ow painful duty to slaw, thus one of the meat deaworefel
Wowed that ever &raced this esiosty; wee perpetrated between
the midnight of Monday, and ono o'clock yesterday morning, st
Ilernerton, two miles from this MAN in • savage and murderous at-
tack on the boa* and person of am of the maw leveled and respeeht
table gentleman that ever atinened
For some weeks past, the worthy gentlestae alluded to, Michael
Hanterton, Esq. who woo needy four-scote years of fp, boo bees
in &declining state, and mostly confined to his bed ; and bed Ito
been left 'unmolested but a sheet time low:, the ordinary aloft
of nature would hide terminated his heocetrible apt ms
rictus life.
But to penned with the facts of this horrid traninctio :—At diet
time and place abotementioned, alc armed Milano almost knees:
taneously forced their way in at the back window, Mt the ground-
floor, of the trumilion at Hatweetoo, by Inane of a ploogit-iresii,
with whith it is supposed they beat in the seek in a few nownents.
Having thus, made a lodgment In the boner, two of them mem
placed Off the butler, whale Mid-chamber was within tinselled.,
of the winddir where they bad entered, while the other fon OuN
ereded op stairs towards the hall, from which an anti-chembry
leads to the bed-ehember when Mr. Hametten_lay. The ne
having acquainted lir. liamerton that yobbos bed
feeble seise was in body, though pest in mat, amoo bes
and passing through his own room sod the gliikkeisissa, with
ass of pistols In his lumds, met the egewed Midas ssee sides or
door nutria into tusk and ow or botli Odle pis-
tols at thinly , tit what .Mhs-w we itainialtoiSs= the Use wed
red with bleed, from whom It resditilie to say. Tbs,
then knocked him down, and toot hie Payt of this alums: le
nation was Nen by two faunae earvalslok wlttersitaratparti. •
their beloved master, list who dared rosier as
Thames. Butler, his fessanan, whir bridtatil asuheaset,
who, in the conflict in the hall, received • widish astored slider
the hip, and which has not been since ex
tbeitedWallli Mit
are entertained of his recovery. Buter,
threw hiniself out of a winclaw,and alarmed, by !midst at
doors, the inhabitants of two bodies adjoining s but, is taus
time, the murdering fiends had dragged his. revered lima dew
stain from the hall to the ground-floor, where they humid he
skull with the plough-iron; and where he was found anee dos,
went away, lying bathed in his gore, acmes his butler's room doer,
end has never since uttered c word, though he remained etlfroltre
yesterday evening, after rune fragments of the skull had bus etas
moved by aurgiel operation&
On their moomg the footman, who had made his way eras slier
being wounded, or their hearing him alarming the adriser.
hood, they got afraid, and one of them was he ti erg int
'• Nelson," which is suppoted to have been their sivof Ass,
gee; and thereupon ,they all made of, through ens of is Ilmst
windows, taking with them, however, Mr. lismosses plods, a
blunderbuss, and a musket.
The infernal monsters who committed this horrid violation, Lift
after them the murderous plough-iron, marked with Mood, a hay
rope, and a lock of a gun, which seems to have burst in the hall g
with which, we heretofore forgot
tomentiow, a large hulls( mid isism
small shot had been fired through one of the tode-doora, sod as.
other shot.hole appeared in the watrisoat of one of the fine laud So
lastm which decorated the hall.
Each of the villains MOO disguised by having his face
and wearing a blue great coat wound round with roper of by
object of the attack cannot be known, but perhaps any be lefessit
from the sting taken. If money was the aim, they *se emisstsd
in that respect by the alarm given by poor Butler, whom *SW
conduct deprived them of the leisure necessary for suck an meta
prise. With vegan) to any ptmonal resentment, no MAD Ihrifi bad
any complaint against Mr. Hamerton, who is • pesdasis of
princely fortune, whose life had been marked by acts of Modems es
all, and whose name was foremast on the lists of every losimmehmt
wociation.

Mr. Singleton, the Chief Constable of Felice staked at Chad
mel, haring been made acquainted with the catastrdplte, SIM alba
the alarm bad been given Buda, hurried off to Hinman wide
his mounted police, where he arrived at two o'clock ; and Jumbo
' sent orders to the detachments at Donegal and Lisrenagb' to area
a strict search in their vicinities in various directions, proceeded
himself towards Chancellorstown and (liant's-mv_ and took Into
custody three men, one of whom, an old man hoot Kerry ' was yea.
terday enlarged, after examination by the Earl of Desiongllmeweand
other magistrates then sitting at Hamerton ; the other two have
been committed to gaol en the infertruitions of Mr. !Regimen,
touching the circumstances of their apprehension.
On arming at Chansellorstown Mr. Singleton perceived a lad.
der placed at the upper window of house there, and on examining
it, found marks of fresh fat clay on the rungs; on going Weide
(after removing the ladder to rrerent escape), found the like en the
window stool, and marks of footsteps taws a bed, also exhibiting
fresh clay, Here ape of abeam@ feand *MAW Weil:
manalm weed them was tette into tweedy ekes,-
there was four ones in the tame room. A few snail Apt. of
Hood ware ibisseem the mare .0% waistcoat, ad torelmr OMB
jacket exhibited still him marks of the same kind. He at
first denied it wee blood, but afterwards amounted for it by saying
he gut it in a fight on Saturday. The shoes of the other her men
were dry.
At thant'icrave Mr. Singleton took the second man, who is still
in custody. le was found In bed, but his shoes were wet, and by
his bed was found a hay-rope, of • like length. and timidity with a
hsy.mpe left behind at Hemerton by the aesastna. The only °b-
arn-anon made further was, that both these men bed blue riding.
casts, as had all and each of the 'Manaus assassins who had gone
upon this most diabolical purpose. a
As Sllllll as the appalling intelligence had reached Clonmek the
most Indignant feeling of horror pervaded all rinks; every person
expressed his abhorrence at the injury offered to the beet of men,
and the small security which real virtue mail goodness amid coat
amend the best of characters. Great numbers of all eases throng-
ed out to the scene of disaster. The Earl of Doeoughtnore, the
Right Hon. W. Bagwell, the Rev. W. Stephenson, Captain John
Bagwell, W. 11. Bradshaw, EN. Doctor Constable, and Richard
Chadwick, Esq. Magistrates, hastened to the spot, and remained
there a great part of the day, examining witnesses, and investigat-
Info tbe ease; and before adjournment, they cotomenced a subscrip-
tion. offering rewards for the nyprehension and convictka of the
eanilers. As soon as this shall have been generally
the subscriptines for prosecution will be increased bey:an=
precedent, the crime being of the deepest die, and of the meet
alnnning diseription.
In earlier life Mr. Heaverton wan in the army, and served in the
Snit American war as Aide-de-Camp tinder General Giant: He
was brothel-in-law of amend Sir W. 31eadows; resided 43 yam
rat Ham-nun, the mansion of his aneistors, in the retirement of do-
mestic life, and heretofore guarded by the affections of his neigh.
beers, which he never ceased to merit. It is remarkable, that on
Monday five years he lost his son and heir, Robert Tisdale Ha-
mmon, Esq. who died of a decline, and his beloved Damon fol-
lowed her son to the grave in ab. two years after. Major Wm.
Meadows flarnernen, who is in a delicate state of boiM hoax
wounds ',Meta in the late war, and Mrs. Eaglet Lady et the Bev.
gdmird Eagle, are the only surviving issue of this owe
mem happy and most respectable couple.
finiedlin Rini. in w.—Nine o'ClodL—lt is strange that, up to
this boar, no account of Mr. liamertoe's condition has been yet
received this mottling for this we have awaited with a fervent de.
sire to satisfy the public anxiety.
Timm Ent r iox.—l'e to this hew (half-past ten o'clock) no
change has taken place in Mr. Ilasnerton's deplorable situation.
Ile remains as he was yesterday.
Letters received in town Reis morning fronr, Cleaed, dated late
on %Veda/twiny ni,4lst (lid) inst.), state that Mr. H MIMS was still
alive, bat that no hopes whatever were env:raided of his re overy.
The Pence, although using every exertion, have ace 1.et been able
to detect the perpettatom of this bloody deed. so faithfully are they
protected by their telkiws.—De/ilin Farming Natl.
In die livable Pre', of Monday we gave a brief account of the
murderous attack on Mr. Hsu:erten, and erroneously stated, on
tie authority of a Dublin paper, that the anfactunate gentleman
was killed on the spot.)
Hazard and Co. respectfully remind the Public that the
battery begins To-morrow, when the two ant Prise will be
entitled to 25,00101. each . • the Scheme tentainin/ seven Prises of
20,01i0L„, and every Blank drawn the tint day will have a second
chance, or the holder may receive lOL befbre the 10th of Mona.
Bayard and Cub's Old Established and Fortunate Offiate, Royal
Exchange-gate; l'ornhihl, and 314, Oxford-street; and of
Regent-street; where Cepital Frit:shave been sold, amounting to
went millions.

The critical day. nay, the critical lour, is fast approach..
Mg, tor within five minutes after the drawing commerical To.
nonnow, Two out of the Seven Prizes of 20,00111. will be decid.
ed: this at all ti!:-.cr would have been an interesting erznt, but is
now become doubly so bra the certainty of Lotteries being discon-
tinued by hivcminent. Mr. rkt sw t outs hos certainly coition!
sound judgment in taking this last Contract, for it was to be ex-
pected that ter people would like to have to reproach themselves
with having omitted to embark some trifling sum for advantages
so great, now that the opportunity of doing so is kterally expiring
this accounts for the present extraordinary demand for 'rickets and
Sharps.

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Richardson anti Co. beg leave to remind tht'ir fortunate
Friendsand the Public in genera that Tickets and Shares for do
Grand State Lottery, which begins drawing Tesmeerow, aru
on Sale as their fortunate Otli.c. till, Charing.cross, when two of
the Seven Prises IK:V.U1101. will be drawn in the first five minutes,
besides other Capitals that may be ilmwn on that day. Richardson
and Co. hope to dktribute sonic of the above as in the last Lottery,
when No. 18,708, a Prise of 20.11M11., in Sixteen Sixteenths,
and No. 11,147, a Prize of 1.15101. ware all soki to the public' !
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