The Sun.
London, England, 1801-05-27 00:00:00

PtOM THE COMMITTEE •Ok SECRECT

OF THE
IJOUSE OF. COMMONS.

C,ordtededfi-ciit oitr Pap& vrjmterdajr.)
the present year, but few inst:n.ces of Cot rts
Mat.tial; &Oiling upon offences committed within
that period, have been tranSinitted to your Cora-
mittee, and. those chiefly for the tii•al outrageS
conitnitted in the Wicklow; Mountain's finid in the
neighbourhood of Dublin. But they 'have received
from the reports of Magistrates and Genet ai Officers
in most parts of the Coenzry, up- to' the latest:Pe-
riod, accounts which have app(eu.ed so fully:lLl:ten-
ticated, and so material in theinees, that they
have thought it proper to insert several extracts
fram than in the Anpeedix to their. Report'. The
nature of mdch of this, however, as conneCted with
the general safety of the Empire., has laid your
Cothmittee under some difficulty as to the mode of
submitting it. to the lionseelest by endeavouring tti
enable them to appreciate the dander in order td
provide for the prevention of it, they should facie
'hate either to the Foreign or Domestic EnemieS or
the Country, the means of augmenting ir; they
have thoughtiit must prudent therefore to avoid in
general,: the particular description of the Counties
or Distrids referred to; as well as the names of the
Magistrates and Officers from whom the information
is derived: . .
Froth :the result of 'this, it appears, that in one.
County,. notwithstanding the general tranquillity.
that prevails, there is orie-Distria which still per-
severes in legislating for itself, and enforcing obe.
(Hence to its own. las's. That in another Barony
in the same County, the frequent praelice of killing
Cattle in the night, is represented, in' the opinion
of all the Magistrates,•" as connected with the Re-
bellion' which so lately prevailed in the Country."
And recently, a paper has been found upon a 'man
in another Barony in the same county, dated 24th
January, I Bot, containing, amongst other things,
some Oaths expressed in tern's -Which deserve very
particular attention.
Thaf4 similar disposition exists in part of the ad.
joining County, where it is stated, that " nothing .
but the strongest measures of Governinent call put
down thounquenched flame•of Rebellion, while any •
expeetation.is entertained of French aid," and that
the same County is still infested with , gangs of
armed robbers, who -.commit frequent' excesses.—
That the ptaeliee of proscribing new Tenants of
Lands, and ,fixing the rent. of them by pabli, notice
in some fealtious name, still prevails, and has beeo
recently enforced by 'atrocious.ads.:of murder; that'
in the perpetration of it, the same mode appears to
have been adopted, whiely has been before noticed
4pendix„ as facilitating similar outrages by
conveying, the gang to or from a'considerable dis-
tance ; by carrying Off, • for that purpose, the hest
horses, they can find. And your Committee think
it material to ohserve, that thi's praCtice of horse
stealing, which-has been prevalent to a great degree
in different parts of. Ireland, appearS to have pro-
ceeded, not so inueb front the motives which lead to'
particular; -a Is' of thcf: or robbery in other Court_
tries, as from qt.:math: design in the disaffeeted,
to acquire the means. of mote readily executing their
atrocious projeds against the Government of the
Country; as well as against the Lives and Property
Uf indiviSuals, whom they may have marked out
as their viCtimS.

That in another adjoining County, the pradice of
Flog.,iq;' to induce an arbitrary cheapnes of pro-
visions, often attended with robbery, still prevails,
conduoed in, some instance, by a banditti of too
men armed and mounted. That a difficulty is found
in procuring the assistance of the Magistrates ;
and that inconsequence of these outrages, the Corps,
of Yeomanry are ordered on permanent duty. And
this information comes from a General Officer, who.
had at the beginning of the same month 'represented
the general tranquillity of that part of the C6untry.
-That two Counties, in another Province, have
been subjeft to,depredations of the most alarming
kind, accompanied with murder where resistance was
found or expeded. A general tendency to disorder,
among the, lower class, is stated to exist; and the
dispomtion to Rebellion itself, not to. have been ex..
tinguished.
That in another county, though disturbed by no'
murders or, plunder of fire-arms, and though rhp.
dinary course of law has there been found coli.pe-
tent to bring to trial and capital conviction, not
less than twenty at the last Assizes ; 'yet that no
Juries would have ventured to give the
they, did, but tar the proteetion afforded them under
the Martial .Law Mt. That still, apprehensions
are entertained of projeded mischief, f;Jr which the
lower orders are supposed not to. be unprepared.
That in a part of the county, a new association has
lately been formed, formerly called Der6iders,.,
but now distinguished by the name of "
ails."

Tat in another county, for a year past, one
whole Barony has been tributary to and in posses..
sion of an armed, banditti of about so persons, un_
der two- known, leaders, who regularly exercise
their men, station. their pickets, .and match, to the
sound of a horn, to the commission of all sorts of
outrages, and declare their intention, of persisting
till a general rising ntay enable thenti to, overturn
the existing. Constitution and Government.
From part of another province, similar represeri_
Cations are made of the state of the public mind
and ;lethal. information has been, received, of a gang
of 170 men, embodied and pratflising regulai exec..
cisc with poles representing pikes, adapted to a
body formed three deep, and calculated to resist the
charge of Cavalry ; and that in many distrias the
country rimains organized'as before the,Rebellion ;
and that ilirough the whole province means haye
lately been taken of communicating with the fin.-
men leaders of the United Irish.
Other instances have occurred, where the pro-
ceedings appear to your Committee. to be too noto-
rious to require the caution which they have hither-
to used in concealing the name of the place. Among
these it appearekthat ontbranding Rc-beis still
continue thetr deprvdations in the county of Wick_
low; that though when military posts were esta.
Wished in the mountains hist summer, they divided,
thent4ch LI) into tevcral parties, yet a connection is