The Sun.
London, England, 1815-11-21 00:00:00

IRLLAND.

KING'S COUNTY.--We have much plealure in
stating, that any application to Government, to
proclaim this County, has been found unnecessary.
WEXFORD, Nov. 13 —Two women and a man,
strangers, decently attired, were industriously cm.
played last week in circulating counterfeit Notes,
of 20s. and 30s. of the B ink of Ireland. They
purchased, in a number of shops, small quantities
of different artichs, and had left town before
the fraud was tliscovered—the notes were uncom-
monly well executed. Instantly several of the in-
habitants, who had taken these notes, took dif-
ferembroads in pursuit ; and they were fortu-
natelyovertaken in a hack-carriage, near Ennis-
corthy, and informations lodged against them be-
fore that active Ma-istrate, A. H. Jacob, Esq.
who immediately after granting a warrant for
their committal, set off for Dublin, jo commu-
nicate the circumstance to time Directors of th,t
Bank of Irel-nul. We congratulate the pubik
on the apprehension of this dangerous gang,
which we hope will lead to the detection of their
associates, and consign the whole to that punish.-
merit they so richly merit.
On Thursday last, hands Twiss, Esq a Ma-
gistrate of the county Kerry, and a party of this
Antrim militia, front Castle Island, apprehended,
after a desperate resistance, a notorious ruffian,
named Daniel Kearney, who had the command
of a lawless banditti, and who for the last year
committed a variety of burglaries ; lie fired at
the military when Mr. Twiss seized him, how-
ever, one of the soldiers returned the shot, and
mortally wounded Kearney. His body WRS
broUght into Cutrens, and a Coroner's Jury
brotOtt in a :ertlict according to the above
statement.

LA W I NTELLIG ENCE.

COURT OP KINGS BENCH, Nor. 20.
MURDER,

The Ax:rORNEY GENERAL made a motion of a
singular sort, w tie!) was to relative an indictment
for murder from Rochester, where it was laind,
in order to transmit it to he tried at Nisi Pritts at
the Assizes. He moved this on the ground that a
satisfactory trial could not be had at Rochester;
for he wobtild not go the length of saving, that its
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a question of murder a fair trial could not be had,
even in any dose jurisdiction. The fact was, that
the indictment had been found at the Sessions for
Rochester, and they were of opinion, that they
could not remit the case to be tried at the county
Assizes. and therefore he was under the necessity
of making the present motion. He remembered
a case some years ago, when a motion was made
to remove an indictment for felony from the
Westmoreland Sessions, where it was supposed a
certain person had an overweening influence,
(Lord Lonsdale.) Upon-that occasion Lord Ken-
yon said, the Court bad the power, and they
certainly would exercise it. His friends at the
bar had also furnished him with ttvo instances
where the Court at Nisi Prius on the Circuit had
tried felonies, and by the Statute 14th Henry VI.
cap. 1. it was enacted, that the Judge at Nisi
Prtus who took the inqaest for felonies should
pass the sentence. He apprehended, therefore,
that there would be no difficulty in the case ; that
the indictment being btooght into this Court by
Certiorari, it would go down to the Assizes like
an official information. The facts were, that a
Corporal being placed on hoard a King's ship
in the Medway, within the jurisdiction of the
town of Rochester, it was his duty to keep
off the land boats which ply about the King's
ships, and are-niost commonly the receptacles for
stolen stores which are thrown out at the port-
holes. He had warned a boat, in which the de-
ceased was, to keep off. But as it persisted itt
approaching, by way of alarming them, he fired
his piece, meaning to fire it over the head of the
man who was Id led. At that moment, however,
the man who was stooping before jast raised him-
self,- and the haft unfortunately took effect. The
Attorney-General then hinted, that the prejudices
of the people of Yochester ran so strong against
the prisoner, that it was desirable he should be
tried tlsew`,,,ere.

The Court said, it was a fit subject to be con-
sidered, but entertained considerable doubt whe-
ther they could do it.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said) if they could not,
Le must avail himself of the privilege of the Court
to remove it by Certiorari, and have it tried at
Bar.—Rule Nisi granted.