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his legs, with the air or • Counsel opening some
Important cause, le my Lord, before we proceed
to revel the depositions against these unfortunate
Wen, I shall beg leave to state tl►e cone en it ap-
peers to me, and to give • slight sketch of the
;metal situation of this barony."
" Sir," interrupted the Judge, " I won't hear
Son. You can tell me soothing of this country
that I do not already know. I Imre neither time
nor health to listen to idle declamation, and ten
times told tale%•."
" My Lord, I must oliseroe," cowl 111 l (.41 young
Crawley, petnl,utl►, " that :►mnug the virtues of •
Judge, pstience is the must necessary; and Lord
Mansaeld, env Lord, obtained more credit for that
virtue, than for all his other judicial merits com-
bined."

" Then, Sir, my Lord Mansfield never wee
•blAged to listen to you," replied the Judge,
coldly.
A universil smile followed this observation,
which was made with a sort of sullen naivete, that
Rave it great effect; while old Crawley, trembling
it the audacity of hi* gun, whispered him.
" Airy now ! airy. Con, dear : troth you'll put
Sour root in it, if you let your jsiiius get the better
of you this way."
The clerk iiitw read the depositions in a mend
tone, and drawling brogue, which gave infinite
ansusement to the fashionable part or the mi.
diencr ; and at last got through the sundry charge*
•gainrt Padreen Gar, 1111 l a Shamus Joy,
Dan Brogan. Teague Mac %Saloon, ()wily Sullivan,
ond others. who came moiler the denomination ut
" NORM! GAM'S •oTS."

They stood accused of feloniously awiemhling
for purpories of rebellion. and breach of the King'"
purer. at St. Gobssatr's well, under the pretruer
at celebrating the feast Of that "unit; and of acting
under thr influence of Terence Oge O'Leary (who
had al:moulded, nod whose papers. bring sets• it),
betrayed a ►egul r plan of insurrection, aided Its
teerrAl Catholic Gentlemen of the country, ill cor-
respondence with Spain and France.
Baron Boulter slow ((adios; his letter, called for
a lighted candle aid *A addressing
the primmer', said,

My honest friends, it appears to me, from the
depositions which have been just set forth, thst you
all have incurred the chance of being hanged; an
*vent that must, in all probability, have taken
at one time urtather of your lives and 1 dare say
you will agree with mr, my liuni4 frit istl., that wh.-
ther a little moiler, or a little later, is a matter of
but trifling importance. (I'll t tile you. Sir, to
snuff the candle.) Yon str, my friends, I MIA to
fin nothing in the dark, and am endeavouring to
throw every possible light upon your cave. There
now, is !toy young and clever friend, Mr. Conway.
Townsend lc raw ley. smiling at our; said Inv old
friend, Mr. Crawley, his venerable father, smiling
also. The Crowley% gentlemen, are good-humoured
men, and cheer 11.1 men. I ant. us) self, a good-
liu 1111 l ore man ; slid in that point, at least, I warm.
hle Lord Alamdielil. And now, my friends, with
such active Magistrates and loyal men as the Mister
Crawleys among you, the row an High Sheriff, the
other an High Treasurer ; the one a Sitting Barrister,
and another a Serjeant (ant, however, I trust, a per-
moment Serjecuit) ; with such enlightened guardians
of the law, to keep yon quiet, and put you up,
end put you down, it is singular that you should
meet at St. Gohnate's well, fur the purposes of se•
dition and rebellion. For Mr. Crawley, *en. may
be justly styled the grand conservator of the peace
of Ballydah ; and with his worthy sons. I must say,
form% an aulis reps (a term, hy.the-bye, borrowed
from the Norman law, as you well know, my honest
friends, none better). (I'll trouble you, Sir, for a
little black wax.) As for Counsellor Conway
Crawley, 1 look upon him as the very reperto-
rium of the laws; one who has read every thing ;
Burn's Justice, Blacksturee's Commentaries, The
Registrar's Brevivan, and Paley's Evidences; deep
read in the Saxon law, the Norman law, the Brelio n
law, and the game law—apropos to game laws !
‘Vould you, Mr. Footman. step out to my servant.
and tell hills to take the gruu.e nut of the gnu eine,
and present theni to the cook. with Baron Boulter's
very best compliments ? But, my honest friends,
the point to establish is this—were you de facto a!
Sint Gobilate's well for the purposes of sedition ?
Can you prove that you were riot ? I address my-
self in particular to you, Mr. Padreeti Gar, us chief
of this cousuiracy : were you at Saint Gobnate's
well this morning, and for what purpose ?"
" Is it for what purpose. my Lord ?" said Pa-
(heels Gar, advancing intrepidly into the centre of
the hall, and displaying a bold and careless coun-
tenance. Is it, what brought me there, Sir ?
Sure your Lordship knows right well, what would
be bringing a poor man to the holy well, plate
your Lordship's honour. Sir ; isn't it his demotion,
my Lord ? what else, Sir. And has been going to
the well au hundred years, and more, my Lord—
troth we have."
Will you make affidavit of that, Mr. Padreeu
Gar r

will, place your Lordship."
" Then, Mr. Padreeit, I can only say, that II
pitcher that goes so often to the well is liable to
come home broken at last, which I think I shall he
utile to prove to you before I have donc. But who
is that in the red ahanaveat ? (I believe that is gnat!
Irish fur ti waistcoat, as some of you know, my
friends, to your cost ;I he who is seeking my alien-
lion, as I judge by his expressive countenance."
" Its Burney Telly, as sonic, your Honor a
Aarse, my Lord, last sizes ; long life to your Lord.-
ship," said a slight meagre, but alert person, step-
ping before Parlreen Gar, and displaying a counte-
nance of sly and intelligent expression.
" So, Mr. 'Fully, how du you do, my equestrian
friend ? Now, Mr. Barney Tully, though I have
too much respect for your name and calling to wish
to pry into Tally's Offices, I must neverthelerl in-
stitute an inquiry into the cause of your appearing
at St. &Ornate's well ?"
4, Oa! phase your Hollow, I'll prove an nishi,
my Lord ; fur upon mills this day, 'hove all days
of the year, I was working on Mr. Crawley's new
road, when I was stew and taken at Si. Gobnate's
well, Sir."

" Tullus Anfidius, it is very plain you
are of that ciss, tis Irish zoology. tot puzzling to
tither natu►alists, called the ldrd that cam be ifs two
places at one.."
•' I sot, Sir," replied Berney, smiling archly ;

" sore enoogh, an Irish bird, egg abd feather ;
and so was my father before me, my Lard."
'‘ Vire have nothing to do with your father, my
honest friend, Tully. because we do not want to
this instance to kill two hirds with oote stone ; and
prefer in all instance% a bird in the hand to two iu
the bush. Now, my friend in the carowat, what
is yam name ?" addressing a foolish looking person
with a red handkerchief tightened round his neL k,
almost to strangling.
" called Teague MAC NlattOtt, plus,. your
Lordship.”
" You could not be celled by a better nante,
Mr. Mac Mahon, if your father WWI sly anxious as
Tristram Shandy's to give you a lucky one."
" Long life to your Lordship, mad God bleu you,
Sir."

" But. Mr. Mac Mahon, with pith a name, I
cannot well uuderstand how you should he guilty of
such disloyal practices, as to jam Padreen Gar's
band, at that site of all insubordination,
St.huate's well."
" Why then, see here, plate your Lordship,"
said Teague Mac Mahon, waving his hand, and
speaking with great emphasis, •• I should never
gone near the well, and had no occasion, only in
regard to my taste of baron, which was stolen dis-
honestly frosts sue. plaze your H ttttt nir."

. -
" Then you are one of tho nelorovident per-
toms, Mr. Nltit• Nl:then, who have not vie art of
saving your baron."
" Sure, I did save it *. phase your Honour, and
saved it well, and hung it no iii Cite rotitrililvy, dud
quartered it in three halves, my Lad ; told was to
give a •tonall 1.31 f to Darhy Iltiolega•-, in lieu of two
perks of male (aural). and it. litnitlrtd of mails for
my brogue.; and wuilr I ivAts it tibei%, what 0 111
he do, hut comes in, and akrti,.r 1 ty with
gest half, and I the oitly it (loony taste; Alll.l
PO 1 went after lion to Si. Gith...ite's, where 1 %°".
taloli lip, Sir, only fur tooling alter the remains of
my bacon,"
" The truth then is ont, FM,. Mac Mallon ; you
went in ward' of a man, who had the Isoldnevs to
make an abridgement of Huron."
.• Oth ! that's i 1 ; lung hfit to your
said Teague, ti i tttt
" I lope, however, Mr. Mae 1141 iiiii th it your
fri.ll(l had the taste to preserve all the attic
salt 9"

1' Orli! glaze your liiinour, it was well salted
mud smoked too before he took a last.- or it."
"'Then, Mr. Mac Mahon. I mule any, that had
you but smoked your friend as luu have smoked
your bacon, you wouhl not wive he the victim
of your credulity, nor brought before we tut twin-
clot, of high treason." _ .

" My Lord, my Lord," interrupted Judge
A tilirry, wadi an air of irrepreiwilde impatience,
" I beg your pardon, but thinigh I hrlieve ton.
miiekery of justice is got up si tiply for the amuse-
mesa of this distinguished clock, yet I CISIMOI
11C144 or assist in carryttig nil a farce, "duels may
the end be pregnant evil to the persolls af.o
ataud in ctistorlyr'befaie us. The deFos;tilits are a
tissue of absurdity and sion•ense : and though
Magistrates can in this comitry lifetime persons
of their liberty upon mrotiiiils quite as blight, yet
I SIB toot quite certain that the witrriiiit upon
which they have been attested, is a legal instru-
ment. Show me your warrant, constable.—Yes, dt
is, as I suspected, a vague mittimus : a contrivance
of certain active Magistrates, to get obnoxious tier-
MOOS into their power, and by which they baffle the
protection of the laws, omitting to State ally
(NY, ur place, or particular of the offences. No-
therefore, remains but to discharge these
poor men, and send them to their work."
" My Learned Brother," said the Baton, with
much pleasantry of manner, " 'tis not for yi,u or
me to bring in the verdict : we must refer it to the
Jury ; and I believe of:rarer Jolty never rat. What
say you, Ladies! guilty, or 1101 ?"
" !Vol guilty upon my honour," cried Lady
Georgina, joined by all the patrician voices pre-
sent ; while Lady bonfire, as much amused by the
turn the mock trial was taking, as she had been
agitated by its probable issue, cried out louder
than them all, " Oh, not guilty, not guilty."

• i. •. Carc it, rat it—An Hibeanicisai.

Extract of a letter from Gibraltar, elated 26111
November, 1816 :—" By a letter just now received
r G. HILL, dated on board the schooner Nir
Thomas 'lardy, Fueicholsbay, Madeira, lie states,
that a vessel was plundersel un the third day atter
leaving this (she sailed the Ist November), by thr
crew of a large chip of three hundred tons, and
160 wets (vrolessed pirates—had murdered all
their own officers), composed of Americans and
British; they sent Mr. HILL and the owner on
board the ship, and put them down the forecastle;
held a consultation as to their being murdered
there, or put again on hoard tier scl net and sunk,
after the vessel was- plundered. They gutted the
cabin completely, and took Mr. limb's wate li out
of his pocket. carried off 1114 tenuity, and cue half
of the cargo. During the time of ilia consul anon
strange sail hove in sight, when they put Messry.
HILL and SMITH oil hosed the schooner, and made
sail after the other vessel. Three of the Sir Thomas
Hardy's men entered this vessel. Arrived at
!Madeira on the 14th instant, mill would sail oil the
18th for Trinidad."

LavrxrAst► SUICIgst Friday morning the family
of Mr. Witham Hinton, an old aid most respettilde 111114-
bitaut of Uxbridge, were thrown tutu the greatest .Ii irt ss
by the melancholy death of Mr. Hinton by his us it
hand. The deceased retired to bed at his usual hour on
Thasility night, and at that Wile nothing extratiolinary ale
peered its his behaviour, he did hot comedown to his blea-
riest at the lime be generally made his appearance, on Friday
morning, and some of the fatuity went ep to call him, and
found him in a moat dreadful condition, perfectly setisele.s,
covered with blood, which issnril from a wontid that hr had
indicted in bin side, with a knife, which lay near him us, the
hed. Sargeons were called to, hut they could limit reader
any assistance to the deceased; they discovered that she
knife had been forced an tiffielltly into she sole, that the
heart was deeply toiristal. Infuriatio' of the circulla•lttliee
W3l IrMen to Mr. Stinr.usG, the Coroner, mil h•• is-
sued summonses to hold an Inquest sin the hotly yes-
terday (Sunday) ■t two 'Murk, at the Greets Dragon, at
Uxbridge. 'thi• deceased Uad not been in good health for
Rothe hm., owl ittstitt six me.llllls lagpo Sw CO his throat ii
a mad dangeious manner, and amid have bird to death had
nut a surgeon been near at bawl slitt sewed tip tlw U.1(111.1
immediately, and in a shoo time he occurs-red from its
effects. No rause has been assigned fur the deceased tom-
tattling the fatal dud.