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feelings which at pitied agitate dos ent•ftspats
and di4ressed part or the country came st ill in
conarittition with them.
Edward Morgan examined—Lives within seven
miles of Rathkesle; on the night of the 10th August
• party or 10 or 14 men came to his bouse'and de-
mended grins; he gave them elf he had out at the
window, in old sword, and this he did frown no other
mot ive.than fear of his life; knows two of the party,
the Prisoners at the bar ; the night war not dark,
so he could not be mistaken, partiewlarly as he has •
known thegi Tor the last seven or eight years ; wit.
ness`ii house is merely thatched. •
Croa-esamined—Was an insolvent, and Med a
schedule in Dublin ; his nephew. had quarrels With
Mr. curtyp, Ptirouers' master.
Jane Morgau-1, wife to the last witness; remeta-
. hers the giyilit mentioned in the indictment ; a
party clime the house and demanded a gnu ; a
sword orasldaed out to them, being all the arms
in the 'house ; the' night was dark and she could not
see the *Praity ; knew the Poisoners before that ;
they were' not there ; her husband did not say that
night' hat he knew 'any of the party; he afterwards
said so. but she did not give credit to him:
Cross-emnineil.—The house was twice thatched;
it was within a few days after the attack mentioned
in the ibdictment that her husband- told her the
. Prisditem were at it; witness slept in • separate
rooms from bet husband and did not get out of bed.
Adositashe:made a declaratiou, and a solemn one,
never to live with her linsband if ha prosecuted the
Prisoners ut the bar, or tiny one at all concerned
in either of the attacks on the house. This she
did because she could nut give credit to his state-
ment.. ller husband, on his part, swore two oaths,
when Ile came for his clothe', that he never would
prosecute. • Said, at some time or other, that she
and her children would Le murdered if sny prose-
cution took place. Knows not why she should
have said so, as she did uothin6 to offend any of
her neighbours. They, on their part, it . was true,
demanded arms. hut that was quite a common
siting through the country ; dues nut now live with
her husband.
John Morgan, son to the preceding witnesses re-
collects the attack of the 10th of August ; was in
bed, nearthe window where the sword was handed
nut ; did hot hear his father say any thing about
their persons.
Cross-examined.—His father lived with him at

that time; got some money from his fattier to begin
with ; laves ut Shesley's, the publican's, in town,
during the Assizes ; got money from his mother to
pay Ins- expenses ; Ins mother sod lie think his
hither wrung.
James Curtyn gave the Prisoners a good chi.
racier ; they are small .tenants of his, •ud occa-
sionally do work for him.
Cross-examined—Thinks many as respectable
persons as the Prisoners have been coucerued iu the
late troubles in this country.
Garret Filezerald —Knows Mr. Morgan; saw him
in the first week of August lust; knows it must have
been thee, as die fair of Ballittgarry was a day or
two before; they had some consenitition; Mr. Moe.
gin said to him, the only way of bettering his si-
tuation.was to join him in raising a prosecution in
these troublesome times against some fellows or
other, and that their fortune would be made to the
end of the world; attains there was • couluess be-
tween them for some time about au art/mutton, in
which witness was referee.
Edward Morgan was here confronted with witness
and being examined on oath, swore he had ueser
made use of such expression in his life to "tuned.,
or any other person; and that lie had not once
iipeord his lips to the witness since the decision of
the arbitration; this took place in April last.
An ■lmsuack was now referred to, and it appear.
ed there was no such fair as that of Ballingarry ht
A ugust.
Judge MOORE charged the Jury, and • verdict of
Guilty was immediately returned against both
Prisoners. Sentence not proliounced.
David Carton, Joins bitten. and Johns Mullane,
were then placed at the bar.
The Prisoners were indicted, for that they, at
Churchtown, in the coutity of Limerick, did uu the
25th of November feloniously break into the house
of John Reilly, in order to compel him to quit the
place; and that they, on the same day and place,
did uttempt, by threats stud menaces, to compel
said John Reilly to quit the neighbourhood ; and
further for assaulting the said John Reilly.
The Prisoners pleaded Not Guilty.
The SOLICITOR-GINERAL stated to the Court,
that in consequence of the youth of the Prisoner
David Carton, it was out the intention to prosecute
him, conceiving he must have been misled. He
was, of course, put back ; lie appeared to be shout
16 years of age. The trial of the two other Prisoners,
fliston and Mullane, was then proceeded with.
John Reilly examined by the SoLicyroa-GX-
xanai—Wituess lives at Churchiown, near New.
castle, on Lord Courtown's estate: w-itness built
'the house he lives in in April last ; lie knows
I'the prisoners; knows them since August two
years: Oise the wltuess identified theiu. He-
members the Sunday that Buckley was mur-
dered; there was a notice stuck up at the door of
neiehliour of witnees`r; it was the second door
to witness's house; on Sunday, the 25th of No-
vember a number of men smashed in witness's
door, aid broke the jamb of it ; were übout ten or
twelve men; knows four of them ; when they burst
in witness seized a scythe; he would have defended
the door but it stood contrary ; be was hit with
stones ; a man not now on his trial said to him,
" Do put mean to defend yourself ?" W itness said
4‘ he did." lie also said, " For the honour of God,
neighbours, don't take my life." They then threw
stones at him ; he still held the scythe, and one of
them said, " That's the scythe that will cut off your
own head." The two prisoners were there; they
came in after; t he prisoner John Mullane asked
him, " Did he meats to stop itilhe place in spite of
them ?" Mullane then took a stone and threw it at
him ; it struck him on the arm ; Wilms raised a
heavy virtue with both his hands and flung it at
him ; the weight of it knocked witness dawn; he
Tin between the window and the chimney,; thinks
his brains-would have been baggilyA oat auly that
his bat was stuffed with hay, which saved the blow;
showers of stones were then thrown ; his son', name
is Daniel ; two of his little boys arty ui the house
at the time; witness has four in Cannily some of
them fled to Killertiry ; witness is a firm man;
be can read and wrote.—[Him the Intuem identified

• written paper prisJaced to Li *lide which
was posted up at his neighbitisei del"'The read.
ing of this document excited great Laughter; it was
to the following elf6dt :
Joke Reilly-4 desire you to quit place, or else you
may expect the some wisp istorliog got; sad I wars all
persons to 'bald Do twasarsaiessiostoisb Juba Reilly, or
they will be used as Sportiag was. I desire you, John
Woods, to trait Reilly's company. which yew were sioticed
before; sod if you do set. row will be tried by the Gummi-
cal Laws established is din rehos of Clarets *sae.
• (Siimi) Captains JOHN ROCK, Ranger of the Roads.
This trial continued sit great length; a number
of witnesses were examined, among shorn was Joan
Reilly, the daughter of the Prosecutor. This *li-
ken could not speak English; an interpreter was
procured, who swore her in Irish. mud translated
her evidence, the substance of which was, that she
took refuge at the tune of the outrage in the house
of the Ptisoner. Histon, who, she swore, did not
stir out all the time. During the trial it transpired.
that a subscription purse lied been opened at New-
castle, fur the defence of -.itch men as might be
taken and brought to trial for crimes connected
with the disturbances of that part of the country.
Baron M,CLar.LAND spoke in
.terms of the
strongest reprehension of sods • proceeding; and
having detailed the evidence at much length, the
Jury retired, and shortly returned, finding both the
Prisoners guilty.
STATE OF THA COUNTRY.
KILDARE.
On the night of the 6th instant an armed
petty went to a far m-houae in the parish of Drown-
tugs, barony of Clane, which is occupied by Mr.
John Sinytii. from whom they took a gun. After
one of the party had fired a shot. they proceeded
to the house of one James Dosielly„ who lives
near Mr. Smyth's place of residence, from whom
they took a blunderbuss. One of the party' tired
a shot into Donelly's house, and ordered the rest
"to shoulder their arms." They then departed.
On the night of the 11th instsut, a party went to a
house occupied by an old woman. It widows in the
parish of Carough, and barony of Clare, from
whom they took a gun and a pistol. On the slight
of the 16th instant, a party went to the house of
another woman who lives in the parish of Carough,
and took from her a gun. They proceeded from her
house to Billyvollau, where they broke into the
house of a man of the name of Cluzion, from whom
they demanded his fire-arms, but did not obtain
any.—/Eveulog Paper.)
We have received an accurate account of the
ammunition which hod been fraudulently taken out
of the King's stores in Nuas. The proprietor of a
public-house in the town contrived to get the key
of the powder magazine in the barrack, from which
he took three casks of ammunition. Two of them
contained ball cartridges, and the other blank car-
tridges. A part of the plunder he gave away to
sererul persona. and the remainder he sold to a
vender of gunpowder in the tneris of Naas. When
the circumstance became known to Major Tandy.
he instantly instituted an inquiry into the strait, and
succeeded in obtaining almost the whole of the
ammunition. It seems, however, that no criminal
use had been made of the retnainder.—//bid.)
The following, says a Truer Paper, is a copy of
a notice which was posted in the county of Tippe-
rary :
" A notice is hereby givta to the farmers of the county
of Tipperary, December the 10th, Ink. These are the ar-
tides and laws of General Kuck Major Steel, and Captain
Ribun, as follower—
', Warning that no tithes nor lazes is to be paid. Sixty
pounds per cent. reduction for rein, no proctors to be at.
lowed; be it further enacted, that any farmers who has
given up their arms to Magistrates is to receive the use
death of the Micas, unless they bring them back again; be
it further enacted, that no one is to take ground that au
under tenant lives on, nor to give for estated ground
more' than forty shillings an acre; say farmer or farmers
that hos taken ground within these Ave years must star.
render It to the former tenant, or if 'they do not they will
receive a most unmerciful death. Take wilier John Condon,
of ICnockballynamoluagh, to, surrender the farm you bold
from M'Creagur to the tight or if you do nut, you
will receive as bail a death as heretofore mentioned—do not
put me to the trouble of calling to your house, for the law
must take its course—remark this Wen. Conduu, Petrick
Condon, Wm. Cologan, Timothy Moluny, with great massy
other., to have your graves mate, for you will surely receive
a worse death then Going for giving away your arms. Let su
farmer or farmers charge liens double their own rent for
quarter ground. We are pressed by the tyrannical laws of
the English Government, obi& we cannot endure no longer,
to which they crowd us with reuut .titlses, mud lases,
which we chi!, sustain the bunko Of without the least
abatements of rents. We &tweeted at Ike coming of
George the Fourth to Ireland that he would grant a small
prtviledges to the farmers sod busbandmen of Ireland—
and their to the poor peasantry of this nation English laws
must he curbed in, for we will
have the Irish Parliament and King remelted is Ireland, as
there formerly was; the sword is drawn, and the hand of
God is with us, and tyranny will toms be swept away. I
have travelled through most part Europe, and I bad not sees
half so much oppression on the inhabitaiits of any other 0/4.
tin. a I does in this Ireland. 1 caution all the farmers of
Ireland and county of Tipperary nod barony of Cloowillisin
against selling in sewing( either beef, pork, mottos, baiter,
potatoes, milk, or any kind of groin to either city, tows,
borough, or village to be mild, if obey du they will die the
most unmerciful death. Let so oast presume to take lids
down us palm of death. -k
0 Under my timid this December the 10th, Is2l.
(Sigurd)
"General RUCK, Captain STEEL, Major
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CURIOUS • ISCAPIL•iyi.

[From Ilse Philadelphia Union.]
!olio Walker, Sbeliff of Barnwell District, SC. was
lately Indicted fur negligently permitting John Anthony, a
felon, cirimieted of reorder and under scuteuce of death, to
escape from his custody.
It appeared io evidence that Ike Sheriff exercised also the
duty of gaoler, and bad no turukey buts sou about 12 or 14
years old, sail three daughters who were nearly grown, and
lived with their fatties. in (Biro'. On the night in which
Anthony effected his escape, Mr. Walker was spending •
social hoer at ■ frieutra house, and in his ■baeuce the wife
and daughter of the culprit ohisined admittance, a favour
in which, it Berms, they had before bees freely todolged.
la • little time the old woman beg.. to complain of be.
lug very ouwell, and said site would die if they did
not come op. Upon this the Sheriffs daughter, a girl of
fourteen or Mere years, and a tiegre minte, took the
key to -let her net. Autheey •1■ the mean time dressed
himself in his wife's clothes, and as he was as emaciated old
wises and s►e a very laege women, lie pet ea a greet deal of
clutheig to give himself a suitable rutead•ty. The you%
woinau sad the sepia were decelveditsed reffeied him to pass.
He Sent out of the deer leerier on his deoghtm's arm, who
told them her emitirre wee very sick; het as sees as be gut
out they thought they perceived semethiag atrsnge in his
gait, which raised timer sespkions. They rest up stoles to the
.Prh•saar'a room, where they found Mrs. A-whitey awned
up is the bed clothes, epos which they gave the slant. All
auWw•pts tesireake the Prismatic were Makin's.
The Jury acquitted the Sheriff.

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