The Sun.
London, England, 1812-03-19 00:00:00

bAiIiNG OUTRAGES.

• The folloWing statement, which unhappily rests
upon an authority that precludes the slightest sus-
picion of its truthJ exhibits no ordinary features of
ferocity, although unattended; by any fatal conse-
quences.
About threeo'clock on the afternoon of Ike 21 s t
of last month, the • house. of James Whelan, of
Knockaska, in the pariah of White Church, in the
county of Waterford, was attacked by four men,
.who had blackened their faces with a view to avoid
deteaion, and who were •all doublyarmed. One of
them had a gun and pistol, and each, of the other
three a
pistol and blunderbuss. Immediately on
entering the house, • one of them fired at James
Whelan's !daughter, and wounded her severely in
the head with slugs, thus committing an act of cow-
ardly be-barite, which, so far as we know, is with-
out example even among the atrocious achievements
of this description.
When the patty arrived at the house, they were
seen by a young boy, son of the Proprietor, who in-
stantly went to a field, where two labourers were at
work, and communicated to them what had occur-
red. Whelan is a respectable farmer, and had been
entrusted with arms for his defence, as hia house
had been attacked on some former occasions. The
two labourers, who knew where the arms were de•
posited, immediately repaired to the 'house, with
the firm and laudable determination of defending it
at every hazard. Their design, however, was frus-
trated by the precautions which had previously been
adopted. One of the party stood as sentinel on the
outside, by whom, they were compelled to go into
the kitchen. On their entrance, one of them was
knocked, down by a blunderbuss, and the other
twice fired at. The first shot grazed his thigh, and
the second penetrated his knee, and disabled him,
perhaps for life, Resistance was now at an end,
and the fire-arms, consisting of two .blunderbusses,
a case of pistols, and a gun, were unavoidably deli-
vered up by Whelan's wile.
The party then went off, but they stopped, seve-
ral persons whom they met on their retreat, and de-
manded money from them. One.of them soon af-
terwards returned, and came to a house not far from
Knockaska, inhabited by nu old man and his daughL
ter, from the former of whom he demanded a gui-
nea. The man said he had it not, but he would go
out and procure it. On his return without having,
obtained it, his visitor attacked him with a blunder-
busa,sed broke it on his head and arm, infliaing on
him several severe' wounds. From this house he
went to another, at no great distance, where he re-
mained for some time. Meanwhile an alarm had
been excited, and four or five resolute men endea-
voured to trace the party but without success as to
three of thetn. Two of these men, named French,
followed the man who returned into the house where
be had last gone. On their entrance he presented
a blunderbuss at them, and demanded who they,
were, and, on hearing,from them their names, he said
they might sit down. He was also traced to the
house by another man, named Bluett, who having
livened for some time at the door„ and having
beard the voices of the Frenches, on whom he knew
he could depend, at last went in, when the same
question was put to him,' and the same threatening
attitude'as had been before resorted to. Bluett gave
a name different from his own ; the man immedi-
ately replied, that that was not his name, and put
his hand towards his side to take a pistol from it, his
-blunderbuss, as afterwards appeared, having been
previously discharged: On this, Bluett immediately
rushed upon him, and threw him down, and-the
Frenches coming to his aid, the criminal was dis-
armed and secured; after having received several se-
vere wounds on thehead.'
He was then taken back to the house of the old
Man whom he had sociuelly beaten, and there left
bound, whilst those-who had seized him went to
communicate to Michael Barron, Esq. what had
happened, and to receive his directions laow to aa.

On their return to the house, for the purpose of
conveying the prisoner to a more secure place, they
were detained for some time at the door the
daughter of the old man, who appeared to faint t hro'
terror.

While rthis scene was aEling, the prisoner, it
would seem, had in the
,interim been unbound, es-
caped through a hole mode in the back part ol• the
hous6, and has not been since heard of.

When the attack was made upon. Whelan's house,
he was from home at a funeral, and returned only in
time to hear one of the shots fired, and to see the
party at some distance on theirlttreat.—W4lerfotd
Chronicle.

A daring set of insurgents to the amount of 20
and upwaids, on Wednesday night, the 4th instant,
attacked the .house of a farmer of the name of Ito-
gets, at Baldinstown, near Garristown, demanding
artnii, or that-they would bum the house. After a
desperate resistance made by Rogers and his brother,
the robbers succeeded in breaking into 'the house
through the thatch, which they plundered of pro-
perty to a considerable amount, and carried off two
houses, with bridles and saddles. After which the
same gang broke into the house of Mr.Nich.White,
of Beashellstown, near Garristown, which they
also robbed of property to a considerable amount,
taking Mr. White's jaunting car. and a saddle horse
to convey away the plunder. In consequence of
private information communicated to the Magis-
trates of Police, they sent to a house in. Bull-lane,
where a considerable "part of the property-
.stolen
from Mr. 'White was discovered ; and by the
lance of the Police, two of the principal ring-leaders
of the gang were afterwards a;prehended and
brought before the Magistrates of the King's Inns
Police Office! Ormond-quay, where they were fully
identified and committed to Newgate, to abide their
trials at the next Commission.—The public are much.
indebted to the alive exertions of the Police on
this occasion, which we have every' hope wig
break up the entire of the gang.—The horses and
jaunting-car have been also discovered at livery
stables in Dublin, and restored to the o wner.—(Dat-
lin Journal.)

The late Marchioncs of BucturiGnial was not
only disiinguishud Er her t.,te in the Fine Ails,
,but fyr such skill in d:a,,,ing as would have been
highly creditable to a pro,;.inal Artist.

41R, grP...itiVSOk eiND fruNErielL.

this truly'valcabl'e and respeaed, man &parte.;
this life on the 7- ih inst: at his house. in. Frith-streer ;
and his death is deeply and sincertly lamented by
his afflitited relatives, and ab extended circle of 041
-viving friends.

.• To those who had the happiness of being inti-
'tnately known to Mr. Swain.son, it would be unne-
cessary to say any thing respetting his merits : but
to others, it is but justice to departed worth to de-
clare, that he was a warm, and even enthusiastic,.
friend to the cause of humanity in general. libmani
nihil a me a lien rim polo--seemed to be the spring
from which all his actions flowed. ln his privarei
friendship, and in his personal attachments, his zear
. scarcely. knew any limit, exhibiting a benevoltrAit
of heart scarcely to be met with:

'On all occasions, lie was particularly anitious td
afford every assistance to tho4e, who were ctimbiAg
up the hill of science : fully conscious also of the
infirmity of human judgment, he was always the.,
first to make every allowance for what he conceiveci
to be errcr in others.

The greater part of his valuable life was devoted
to the noblest of purposes, viz, an unremitting study
hoW he rilight.most effectually remove or alleviate
the sufferings of his fellow-creatures, by preparing
and administering the celebrated Vegetable Syrup
Of De-Velnos, of which he was the sole proprietor.
This itirpoitant duty he discharged with fiddiiy
diligence, during a period of thirty years;
with a success which has hitherto been unequalled
in the annals-of medicine. In the performance of
this duty, his liberality was-erninently_cunspicuqu4.
His constant hingUage was, thaii. the greatest hap-
piness of his lire. colidsted in being a!t)- to mitigates
the sufferings of his fellow men, and his aetiOUS'ab•
ways kept pace with his professions.

accompaued by a few sele& friends,
were, on Saturday the fourteenth instant,• interred
in a family vault at Twickenham ; v,-here, ird on
by an ardent, desire to increase his •knowkdge iu
the vegetable kingdom, he formed a botanical
garden ; i.vhich has long been not only the admira-
tion of the nobility and gentry in the ne-ighbour-
hood, but of men of science, in almost all parts of
the island.

By his death, the valuable medicinal recipe for
the Vegetable Syrup of De Velnos, becomes the
property of his nephew, Thos. Canham, Esq. who
is prepared by an assiduous study in Mr. Swsinsou's
school, to promote the wonderful effeAs and exten-
sie utility of. the medicine, by administering it
conformably to the expetience of his very respected
relmive.

In that school he has learnt, that the systems or
Galen and Boerhaave seem to be revivitz; and that
the humoral pathology is likely to prevail in the
mutability of fashions. The state of the Mood,
lymph, and humours, is becoming the obie6ts
medicine, and praaitioners find it necessary, not
only to remove, obvious superficial symptoms, by
air, exercise, and sea-bathing, but to purge tt,e in-
ward malady, which like a worm gnaws the coats
of the constitution. In the season of fashionable
emigration, they seek temporary relief by plunging
into water, or by change of atmosphere, but do not
get rid of the noxious influence of their internal'
habits.

Mr. Canham has seen, with satisfaCtion, the
happy efforts of Mr. Swainson to relieve symptoms,
which were the effeas 01 intemperance, sedentary
habits, study, and indiscretion committed by the
patient or his ancestors. The humors] patlylogy
on which the credit of the Vegetable Syrup, and the
success of the late Mr. Swainson has been so long,
supported, does not restore by violence, but by gra-.
dual'and permanent means which ameliorate /tie
whole constitution. Mr. Swainson, and Mr. Can- -
ham following his praCtice, avoids copious evacua-
tions, because they enfeeble the lacteals and ituloce
dropsy ; and in cases of nervous, gouty, and scor-
butic affeetions, in paralytic and epileptic
they accelerL,e the bile ; and in all the affeCtions
the liver, in which the S)rup is used, and this
complaints called bilious, they are very pernicious.
Mr. Canham has witnessed with sorrow the ap-
pearance of brave men, with deranged and vitiated
digegion, with copious and acrid bile, with elleat_.4
perspiration disordering the intestines,. and diminish-
ed strength of ihe fibres :all these, owing to surd' en
changes of scorching heat and suffixal* atiuos-
pheres into cold and -wet seasons, to crude alitneists, .
excessive anxiety, and. to long and continued la-.
ligues, would have been relievyci, by the seasonable
use of the Vegetable Syrup.
Mr. Canham therefore hopes, that he shall be am
successful as his excellent predecessor, 'in impress-
ing on the minds of the afflicted, a proper alarm'in
the first stages of all debilitating d;seases ; for a
corpse may be as soon re-animpecl, as an asthma,
a consumption, or a cancer, cured, which is fatly
mat wed.

B IRTIIS.

On the gth inst. at Sheerness, the Lady of William Cock.*
craft, Esq. Commanclor of His Majesty's ship Susacx,
Sun.

.On the t4th inst. at Twickenham, the Lady of H. Bel-
lairs, Esq. of a Son.
The same day, the Lady of f. H. Stacey, Esq. of Har—
ley- place, of twin I)at4liters.

On Surnlay•the Ist!' inst. at the Bishop of Lincoln's house,
Great George-street, Westinilister, the Lady of W. I.E. 'foal,
line, Esq. of a Ihiughter.

m A R Rib 6,
On the 3d irkst. at Inverness, Mr. Wiliam Machean. rt
London, to Janet, the third daughterof Alexanda 1 14zer,
Esq.
On Saturday last, at St. Andrew Undershatt, Leadenhall.
street, W. S. titford, of Union-s-rect, llishopsgate, Ac-
countant, to tliss Nancy Wabters, of Leadenhall.street.