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London, England, 1807-01-09 00:00:00

the ready alcistanco of the Govern 4 ent, and the ...id
• ofevery loyal man, we shall he able to bring punsh-
ment upon the guilty, and that the law will be st,;ong
enough to wrestle
,with and put down these disturb-
ers of the public peace.
Gentlemen, 1 shall say only afew words more
The laws in beingoif which I shatimake ashort state-
ment, will appear tot. every one calculated to moet
the outrages which at present exist : they are laws
which bare not been recently introduced. Fut half a
century the country has been visited with partial in-
surredions during a portion of the reign of the
Late King, and during the entire of the present, laws
have been etiaLled, calculated to meet these•crimes.
These laws are still in lull force. • If these insurgents
assemble with arms ; if they assume any particular
denomMation, or wear any badge, to the terror of
his Majesty's Stibjeds—hy that mere a& of assem-
bling—though nu further ad be done, they are
punishable by law. The Magistrates are authorised
to disperse and apprehend them. If they resist, and
any be killed, the Magistrate- is indemnified ; and
if he has just cause to susped that any person can
give information respecting such outrage, he may
summon the person, examine him, bind him in a-
recognizance to-appear, and' commit him in case he
refuses. I wish this was generally known, that if
any man meet such an assembly he is called upon to
disperse it, and to apprehend the persons assembled
and if death unfortunately ensue, the Magistrate is
indemnified.

" The Magistrate is also armed with extraordinary
powers to preserve the' public peace. lid isentitled
to call for the assistance of every man in the county.
The. rower which the • law has, in: ordinary cases,
entrusted to the Sheriff—that of raising the Posse
Comitalus—ls in this Instance given. to every Magi-
strate ; and if any man refuse to give 'his assistance,-
he is guilty of a .misdemeanour. Persons not en-
titled' by law 'to carry arms are liable to have their
houses searched; the law prOteas the persons tnak-
iitg search.
• " If any persons tumultuously' assembled shall
assault or injure the habitation or property of ano-
ther, they arc punishable with ekath ; every person
who administers, an oath, whatever the nature or
purport of it may be, binding-theperson taking it to
be of a particular party_ or association, is punishable
with death ;' any person who voluntarily takes such
oath is liable to be banished for ever ; and he 13 not to
suppose, that after voluntarily taking such an. oath,
the mere Circumstance of going to a Magistrate and
telling him, will protect him ; two circumstances
must concur to save him from punishmen st, that
he was compelled to take the oath—and secondly,
that he gave Immediate information of his being so.
compelled ; so that here are abundant provisions ter
the punishment of these offences. &ft, Gentlemen,
it has been industriously circulated that these, laws
are jkxpired. I 'tell you, and those who hear me,
what was stated yesterday from the high authority
of the Bench, that these laws are in full force and*
existence ; and every man joining in unlawful con,'
federacieS, is liable to pay the penalty infliCted by
those laws.

• " Uentlemcn, have also to inform you, that
under the
.Statute of the I.sth and ttith of his present
Majesty's reign, commonly called the Whiteboy
ACt,' any . pert,on Who harbours, conceals, or gives
assistance to, any person concerned in such outrages,
is as mucn.guilty as the person so concealed; and
any person who supplied horses, arms, or
.ammuni,
tion fOr the purpose of those confederacies, is liable
to lot reit his

`f Gentlemen, armed with these laws, which have.
beet found competent to put 'down tisurredion as
alarming as the present, with the honourable zeal
and activity Oflthe Magistrates, which you maycon-,
tidently look te„aitd with the sincerest desire of Go-
vernment to proted the loYalatid reclaim the guilty,.
are we to despait of the law's 'being able to copo
with the mischiefs, and not tolook for the resta-
ration of tranquillity and peace 1-4 cannot so per-
snade myself, and I am not uneasy as to the result.
" Gentlemen, with regard to the particuiar law
now before you, it will appear that the prisoners, on
the night of the id of September last, with many
others, attacked the house of Peter O'Neill, at Car-
ton Wats, iu this county. He bad been audacious
enough to say, he would pay the dues which
.he.
was accustomed to pay ; he was not prepared, et
the instance of these Lagislatuts, to renuence his
obedience to the laws—he said, he should pay
as he had formerly done. This was High Treat-
son by their law ; they repaired, to his house—
they broke it open-=they dragged him naked from
his bed—they asked him for money—that is part of
their system for redress of gricVances—he had only
one tenpenny piece-7-he had no more, but he was
desired to send more to the 400se of a person whom
,they named,: but who is not now upon trial. 'Piney
took him away naked, and one of the party bad
an instrument for carding wool, with which. they
inflided punishment upon him,, by, severely ex-
coriatinb r, his back. The priseners will be iden-
tified by O'Neill, his mile, . and son, who plain-
ly saw them, so that there are three witnesses
to the transadion. If these fads ,shall be prov-
ed, there can be nu doubt of the melancholy
necessity which will be' imposed upon
O'Neill gave inferrnation to Mr. Soden, the Alagi..
strata, and exhibited his back, which was excoriated
with the. torture which had been inflicted ulmil
so that with regard to this being a case within the
statute, no queitien could arise. But if the evidence
be not clear and satisfactory—no sense of danger or
alarm should induce you to tied a verdict whist the
prisoners. It will, in that case, be your duty
.to
acquit them--but if you have no doubt of their
guilt, I will not humble you or myself by supposing
that any of you would shrink from a firm and
manly discharge of his duty."

Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog..---Take the leaVes
Of rue picked from. the, stalks and bruised, G ounces
ofgarltck picked from stalks, bruised; Venicetrea-
cle, or Mitbridate, and scrapings of pewter, of each
4 ounces, boil all these over a slow tire in 2 quarts
of ale, till 1 pint is consumed ; keep it in a bottle.
close stopped, and give 9 spoonfuls to the person'
bit, warm, seven mornings sueeesiively, and,6 to a
dog, for 9 dart.—Apply some of the ingredients to
the part bittott.-L:—N. 13. This receipt wa, taken ont
of calthorp church, in Lincolnshire; the whole town
altnoa beiug bitten, and not one person who took
' this medicine but was cured.

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