The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-04-20 00:00:00

CHRAP lATTERV!!!

ONLY TWENTY SHILLINGS 10K A SIXTMENTLI
CHANGH OF THE DRAWING NEM' MONTII,
AF.YEKTEENTR or MAY,
()THEN SHARES INPROPORT2ON.
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C~UCII au 1141011101:11.4 liedUCtll/11 111 ice hat
475 canoed an unprecedented Sale, and the Contr.ictios are
happy iu fi•oling that the Public appreciate their endeavours
to Ide4•••• In addition to the above singular novelly, eves.y
Person who buys before the ltth Slay adveutuses with the
following favourable adeautages
TWO Proses of 210410/., and 4,105 other Po Ivo of 4,0001.,
1 001 )0i Consuls and Money, are sure to be Drown 17th
or May ; hesialea which. sheer are 100 Chances of gaming
Taro of skies/. in a subsequent thawing.
There are Po rlgases,! Dairy Tick' t will he &sus out of
. she Wheel siuglp,.eaell deciding its own rate sod
Every Chance bought bi fort the 127th of May, is sure to
Lt &tided 17th ut Map

LIMSRICK, APRIL 11.
Betaeen eleven and twelve o'clock on Sunday
night, a p irty of those slightly atesperatdoes, to the
ber of thirty, who infest the south liberties of
Limerick. assailed the house of John Torrance,
Esq. at Cisnirigar. The attack commenced by the
party blooding, hallooing. and emoshing almost all
the windows 111 the lIOUSe front ; and here their
utmost exertions were directed againat the par-
lour windows. the whole of which they forced in
with 'ledges and large stones. The servant man,
en hearing the noise, came to Ili* toaster's door to
render assistance, but Mrs. Torrance could not
open it ; Mr. Torrance immediately gut his arms
and went to his bed-room window (which had no
fastening), and attempted to fire sr viral shuts on
the party who were then just under him, but they
all missed fire. The robbers having now gut
into 'he house, rushed up Stairs, and tlwowing •
large atone at Mr. T.'s dour, one of the upper
panarls of which they broke to, they demanded
his arms, and a•ite;l,- if he would ptoinise to quit'
the place'; lie raid he would never give his arms up,
nor would lie make any promise about leaving
Conciliar. Two of them having bees' placed as
sentinels oil arra:nit, whose head they cut se--
verely, they 6.1111111ellt:ed firing through die door at
Mr. T. which lie returned most gallantly, Mrs.l'.
rendering every' assistance by charging the arena
stint hooding theist to her husband ; the conflict
here coot:mord for some time, they then with a
sledge endeavoured to break through a partition
*l:hch, had they effected, would have placed
Mr. T. between two fires, but he taking deliberate
aim at the person ars emplo3ed, disabled him,
sisal lie was dragged into the servant's room. The
firing now ceased, and the party ordered two large
bundles of Itay, which they had brought into the
par:our, to be set on fire. Mr. T. said, if they did
so, sonic of their companions should also suffer;
he knew lie hail killed one, and the rest should
never go down stairs alive, but that lie would let
them away quietly if they promised to leave the
house, sod also one loin Might come up stein;
this being agreed to, the mom did so, and a ladder
bring put to the servant's n iiiclow, the whole of
"dud, was forced out, they dragged the dead man
to if, and carried loin down that way. and having
taken a door from the prerniows, on which it is sop.
pared they placed the body, they weal off. Mrs.
and Mr. 'l'. escaped unhurt, but his face and legs
were burnt with the powder of his assailants, whose
gins were fired off quire clew! to
A great number of balls have been picked front
the walls of Mr. T.'s bee-room, mid a vet), baud-
seine pistol was left br;iind by these ilespetadura,
who broke every article of furtiii ate that crone U.
their way. including lookisig-glasser, chairs, tables,
glass, sod .chion. Tam much pram., cannot be
given to Mr. T. for his t spotted and resolute
conduct, behaving single-handed (if we .except the
admirable support he received from his wile) fought
ALA expelled Irons his house this most desperate
gang of valiant. ,
Monday Alderman Gobbet'. W. T. Monstii, of
Tervoe, Esq. and the Rev. Richard Dickson. at-
tended by a lowly of Major Going's police from