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thy declined doing .n, alleging that he had receiv
.
rd letters from London, which, with other docn.
memo, he deemed expedient to submit to the
11..:ommittee of Investigation, who would, alone, be
compttnitt to decide upon the Motives.
Mr. O'CoN ELI, ultitu.itchy said, that he wonld
par hi+ clvirg.'s in wittintz, and hand them to the
Committee, when Mr. flay should answer them in
the same insinser.

LUBLIN, NOVEMBER 5.
COII NI 1 ;SION, WEDN repay, Novemsts 3.

R.:•1-re the Ilnu. Justiers FLIiI4:IIER and Niooart.
and Li moo respectable Jury.,
Patrick Keegan. othvrwise Timothy ',John.. for
strahubg a mare in tire cou-ty Carlow, the property
of ‘largaret Ciu'ger.
Richard Mercer, ',mind-keeper, of Tallow, got
iisforsnation On the 23.1 September last, that it buy
maw, +trorigly surprcted to be stolen, was in the
pwsessiun of Prisoner; in consequence of which he
slapped both the Pe:oiler and the mare. Prisoner
told him that .Ir. Lake Byrne, of Francis-ttreet, in
Uuhlut would vouch for him that the mare W.lll his
proitcrty. Nercrr proptweil ro accompany hint for
that purpose, upon which Reeg ut cool-el...Hi that he
Ind stolen the mare from tier own sister-in-law ; se-
rrrai utierward. came. who claimed the
mare for Nlrs. Bultztr, who it no relation of hit.
Tlicte persons were produced US witiretses, awl the.
Jury instantly returned a verdict of Guilty—
Denth.

l'a:riek Skelly. for having be his posteotion •
forged Batik of Ireland note, fur I/. well knowing
the same to be co ttttt erfeit.

_....._ _
The Prisoner pa..sied two notes on the same boy to
Diane Gillen, • inablicen near Ittnlifarnham ; one
or them. through the medium an man of good cha-
racter, Patrick Doyle, to +ham he hid towed 7v. 6.1.
eight years before, on pretence of pitying him his
longstanding debt ; the other he give the s sme wo-
man, observing how simply she had been Imposed
ou by the first offered to her.
The Prisoner mode no defence, nor attempted to
recount for the seamier its which the notes emue
into his possession.—Gwilly.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4.

Michael Thrward, Patrick drchbold, and Thos.
Sheridan. were arraigned far riotuu•ly and wickedly.
iu company with serer4l others, assauliii.g on the
Snot of July last, near Liiiihay, in this county,
William Mortimer. fisherman, putting him iii fear
of his life, and cutting away with axes nod other
instruments. the whole of the ril;ging and tackle of
his, Mortimer's amuck, the Transit, in which he
was then peaceably lying of said [Amin'''. And
in a second indictment I,t a cutopiracy to assault
and injure in his proferaion and property, the said
William Mortimer.

Mortimer identified the three Prisoners, as bring
active in the riot, and 11tt.troying the rigging anJ
tackle of his smack. Thirteen smacks assailed
him at the same time, sill of which acted perfectly
in concert, and carried each a black flag, as a sig-
nal of attack. These men were in a smack, the
property of Joseph Riccards, called the llock, and
he was positive they were port of about thirty men
wba boarded him, and committed the outrage on
himself, his crew, and vessel. Lambay was then
four or five miles N.W. from them. They of
course S.C. from Lambay, but by so much as four
Of five miles farther nut to sea. They were above
three hours repairing the ropes, Sec. before they
could attempt to sail fur land. His damage was
above 901.
'Mamas !fodder, an Englishman, of Torbay, was
on board the Transit with Mr. Mortimer whets they
were attacked by 13 smacks, thirty or better of the
crews of which ()time...rowdy cut away, armed wills
sixes and large knives fixed on poles, the whole of
the rigging and tackle. He identified Michael
Howard as one of the rioters.
Edward Good, an apprentice, was on board, and
swore positively to Archbold, us being one of those
who assaulted them, and cut away the rigging and
tackle. .

Peace Officer Gilbert swore, that accompanied
by Mr. Mortimer, and a strong party of the Horse
Police, he took into custody the three Prisoners at
the bar, in the town of llowth, they being described
and pointed out to him by Mortimer. There was
soother man in the hoot where they found these
whom Mortieter knew to he in the tint, bat, he ;
said, he behaved so well on the occasion, and pro- I
tected him front the violence going to be offered
by his comrades, that he would not wish to in•
jure him.
The defence consisted in producing a ,:umber of
fishermen to prove an alibi, who all agreed that the
smack, The Rock, with her crew, were at the time
of the outrage et a place called the Kish, about 20 I
miles distant from the part where it was committed.
fishing for bait, as the weather did not permit their
doing any thing in their business for two or three
diva before.
Peace-officer Gilbert was produced, who swore,
that the three Ptisoners themselves declared, when I
brought to the Head Office of Police, that they
were not afraid of meeting the charge agusint them,
as they could prove they were lying the whole day,
when the assault was made, safe in Nowtli harbour.
Gilbert had communicated this to Alderman Har-
ley, who ordered him to repeat the question to them
I in preiwoce •'f another officer. Ile mcrordlogly took
peace officer flambee with him, mid asked them
whether they could prove that they ware at the time
of the assault lying in flowth hat-boor ? and they
then solemnly declared that tliey wild prove It.
Both officers swore to iuformatmou• 1.1 this fact lie-
fore the Aldermen. Peace officer !Limber appear-
ed, and corroborated this statement.
Justice lloore, after a short consultation with his
brother Judge, Inmented that this tutorage on
peaceable and industrious men, in the lawful excels-
tion of their profession, should, through the incom-
petency of that Court to decule upon it, escape even
for a short time, the just punishment of the law.
"The offence of the riot stud assault, he was sorry
to soy, was entirely .•tit of their jnrisdi;•tton. and
appertained solely to the flight C7cort of Ailtni-
rally. He thought it would be well deserving the
consideration of Government to issue a Commis.
sion fur that Court to take cognizance of it, and
put a atop, if itmisihle. to a repetition cf such out-
rageous and disgraceful conduct. The conspiracy
he regarded in a different light —there was all the
appearance of the attack being meditated; the
combination was so sudden and complete ; the pee.