The National Register.
London, England, 1819-12-26 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

IRELAND.
(Frets Us Nears Deeming Pad, Dec. 18.)
That some ititheatitnib of a troubled spirit have been
manifested in the %Vest of Ireland, we have had occasion
already to state : that they have been exaggerated, we
do believe; but it would not be dealing Nifty with the
public, it we pretended that rumours which have reached
us, were all gotten up by toe interested and ii:tra-Loyal.
The county of Buse iiiii mon is the principal scene of
this agitation. By accounts which we .hone this day
received I that, part of the euuntry, it appears that
" many straligers bare within the last six IllOntllS •C“ltit
into 1{05e011.111011; Wine of cahoot, trove their accent,
appear to he Englishmen. 'rimy are well dressed and
well mounted, and go About At night at the heath of the
ifibee itimingents. When they come to a hint? eto swear
the inmates, the strangers generally titter and Amnia-
liter the oaths, While the natives remain at a
outside." Efforts have been made to swear the pour of
Mayo, particularly those on the borders of Bosconnison ;
but we MC happy to state, they have proved -altogether
invlrectitol. 1 tie Islagistraies of this county, aided by
the Clergy, Protestant and Catholic, have hither.° re-
fereed Slayo from the enittag.oh.
Themimit Bev. Dr. U Kelly, Catholic Archbishop of
Them, has taken 2 anon active :toil laudable pan lit this
work uipeace and huntanny. •• At the risk of Iris
says the learn Gazelle, " he went to those places where
this midnight work was said to be carrying on with
%iguia, and exhorted thew feeliogly,,pointing out the,
enormity of their crime, and the Jost iihnishthent which'
sooner or later ttttt st follow.: so erlectual was his
remioning,.atid the threat field out to them, that they all
threw themselves at Ins feet, and in the presence 01 their
Gt! and their pastor, promised to resist, even at the
expense of. their lives, any future 1111111)10113 oh those.
emissaries o: darkness."

By the ellOrts of this exemplary prelate, • aided by his•
parochial clergy, Galw y has iu a great measure been
preserved Iron' the contagion ; yet the magistrates arc
on the alert. arjourned meeting of them was held
at Moylough on Wednesday; his Grace the Archbishop
and Lord Clotibrock also attended. Alter a minute
imestigation of the present state of the Laos .ICII 01
1.1:111) time. Tyaquin, hip iiu, and Dunmore, it was
necessary to hate a police established in each
uarony ; and oy a general concurrence of the meeting
they were proclaimed.
That the principle now in partial operation has been
moat inveterate, will Le manifest front a fact which we
shall now state. The Catholic Clergy of the Arch-
diocese of 'roam had to resort " to sue of the severest
duties of their religions orders, in consequence of the
refractory spirit of two unfortunate men who reside in
the paristies,where the Archbishop preached on the two
precreding Sundays. It appears these men, after the
admonition of his Lordship, launched into the niost
horrible expressions, and endeavoured to g..in over to
their ranks the people Never were secit so many pet_
sons within the walls of 1114 chapel, or a ceretuany
which excited such awe. The Rev. B. Burke explained
to them the °thee they had that day to perform, in
cutting away lions the church these two delostled own,
and said, that nothing would deter them pens-
tering in their clerical ditties, even at the rick of their
lives, until diuttlectioti was ilr,vrii litmus among them
The terror Lamed • g tile cou.itry peorle was also
visible, by the affecting manner in seinen it was ex-
plained, in Irish, by Mr. Fitzpatrick. This was the
first ceremony ut exam 11111 l imication ever remembered it,
Turin."

The conduct of the clergy in the county of Mayo his
been equally exemplary and successful. Olt last huntlay,
upwarus of 1,000 01 the peasantry of .iayo assembled at
the chapel of Drymiles, and lin:lured a complaint to
Nlr. Denis Browne, •" of various attempts which had
been lately made to force them into rebellion. They
had hitherto, they said, resisted Ahem elhins, and would
continue to do so, if they Isere aliiictled the means to
protect themselves. 'llll7 chose six men I rum amongst
them to be appointed special coos able, who immedi-
ately tout: the nails of allegiance at the altar, and swore
faithfully to discharge their duty in every respect, parti-
cularly w apprehending any person who should attempt
,o sh..lte their loyalty. and Ming upon them the warms
f rebellion."