The Sun.
London, England, 1806-12-09 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUEL/NT, DEC. 6.—The Thrashers still proceed
with their atrocities; they take every precaution to
disguise themselves when in arms, and also to mur-
der every person whom they suspe& not to be sted-
fast to their cause. On this account, at the Com-
mission held a few days back at Sligo, not a single
man was conviEted, the evidence not being suffi-
cient to support the indictment.

As an instance of their brutal caution, I relate to
you the following circumstance, which I have heard
from the very best authority : A poor farmer in the
County of Mayo, being unwilling to reside any longer
amidst so much tumult and danger, advertised his
house and stock to be sold; having determined to
iyiltake asn Afarm in the County of Dublin. Some
cf. the ' hashers hearing this, suspe&ed that he
perhaps was acquainted with some of th,eir transac-
tions; and was
,about to inform against them.
To prevent this, a- near relation of his, con-
ne4ed with the, gang in the neighbourhood, un-
der the mask of . friendship brought him to a
public-house, and while they were there drinking
in a room with several other men, a man with his
head, body„ and all his limbs covered with ropes of
hay regularly twisted round them, entered, and, with
a hatchet which he held uplifted in his hands, abso-
lutely split the suspected man's head in two halves.
The relation of the deceased has absconded. Sever
ral of the other men present have been apprehended,
but there is no evidence to prove that they• were in
league with the murderer, who is, of cow, as yet
unknown... ~ . .

I have this day received a letter from Ballinalee,
stating, that it is almost impossible for any man to
live irr that part of the, country .who is not friendly
to the Thrashers ; they are out every night taking
arms from the Gentlemen„in the country, and burn-
ing the corn and turf„and houghing the cattle of all
those whb are inimical to theth. - '

. In .Various places near Mullingar and neighbour-
hood., .nightly depredations continue .to be com-
mitted by the Thrashers, and oaths administered as
to the quantum of Tithes and Priests'-Dues to be
paid, or at least this has been the pretext for such
nocturnal and unlawful associations. Two of .these
deluded men were killed last week, and some Silken
prisoners, near Granard, by a small party of thq'
Cavan Militia. A few nights ago a large body of
them entered the village of Ballinalee, in the Connty.
of Longford, and immediately made the, hinabitants
illuminate their windows, where they re,mained
til near morning. They are of late very numerous;
upwards of.a thousand
.have been frequently seen. to-
gether in the County of Longford.
We understand that Lord LONGFORD has caused
a nightly guard to he placed' upon the bridge over

of Cool: which divides the Counties of Longford
and Westmeath, thr the puiTr..;se of preventing the
passage of the ThraThers into the latter County,
which has yet remained undisturbed;
The disturbance in Mayo and the adjacent Coun-
ties are sta►ed in the Moniteur of the 7th, in a
Letter dated Leitrim, oa.

Thursday night; so early: as eight o'clock, a num-
ber of villains, mostly mounted, stopped at the house.
of a man in the employ of Col. LEFROY, t his fields
in the vicinity of Limerick, and rapping at the house,,
obliged the man to: give, underneath the door, the
key of the gate, where two of the Colonel's horses
were; they took the horses and returned to the
man, leaving the key and loCk. at the threshold, or-
dering him not to presume to open the door until:
'it least an hour would .elapse ; the fellows then
trotted forwards to commit. depredations.
Friday morning, about three o'clock, a number of.
fellows -(about fifty or sixty) well mounted and
armed, went to the house of William Cleary, a pub-
lican, residing in
,the South, Liberties of Limerick,
near Ballyneety, and demanding to have the door
immediately opened, when on Cleary refusing, they
broke into the house through one of the windows,
fired a pumber of bullets into the house, made
Cleary. get out in his .shirt, . and supply them with
whiskey and porter ; they then insisted he should
give them a horse:out of the stable; which they took
away.—The above-party had a Piper mounted, play-
ing before them—and another man sounding a horn.
(Limerick Chronicle)

PRIVATE LETTERS PthBLISHED- IN A SCOTCII PAPER.

BALLYMENA, Nov. 23.—The objea for my writ-
ing you at present is, to' mention that some 'unplea-
sant symptoms have again appeared, in the neigh-
bourhood. One mail-girt-rd has been dete&ed carry-
ing letterS for the disatfeAei between Belfast and
Newry ; other two persons 'bin been apprehended
at the former place; and three people are just now
Sent off; taken up betwixt this andiktitritn, and
found, lam told, in pasession of pikes, &c. 'This
place is said to be the; pripciixtl rendezvous, and
manymther reports are in' (irculatiotr,. -which I do
not. think right to repeat.—Ndne but the very lowest
rank in society,appear.to concerned.,

BELFAST; Nov. 29.--:-General CAMPBELL and a'
party of the Derry Militia have left this for Antrim
and Ballymena, in consequence. of the.symptoms 'of
disatie6tion Ivhie4 have spread into
.that,peighboar7
hood from some 'of the Western Counties. It is
hoped that, the *hole. plan will soon be. developed,
Govern=ut having, with a laudable' alacrity, taken..
up the business on its very first appearance.

The young and gallant King of SWeden is expeEt-
ed. by our military men to spew the Fwnch some
sport by his defence of Stralsund. As this fortress
can receive supplies from the sea, a blockade can
never •take it ; and as the garrison ,may be doubled
or trebled in the course of a night, any troops which
presume to lie before it must be. numerous enough
to allow for' this possibility, •or they may be totally
de4troycd.

NEW PARLIAMENT.

MEMBERS RETURNED.

COUNTY Og SuTHERLAND-...-R ght Han, WillialL
Duudas.
COUNTY OP CLAMMANNAN—Hon. Geo. Aber-
crombie.