The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-23 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.

( From the Carlow Morning Poet, At.g. 21.)
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a party of the Police was ordered out to disperse, according
town after the fair. Prudently and peaceably dismissing
froM public houses the guests regaling therein, to their
respective homes, they entered one house in which they found
PeasanuY as still remained in
man of the name of Richard 31‘Daniel, (a comfortable
farmer, occupying sixty acres of Land, a man of most ex-
cellent chewer, of perfectly sober and remarkably quiet •
habits,) with his sister, whore they also ordered to depart.
—The man declared himself ready to go; and that he then
, only waited for his company, two men still drinking in an
inner room. Some of the Police entered this room, and
while (they still peaceably) signified to three men the neces_
sity of their immediate departure the remainder of the
party became rough with .111‘Daniel, who probably resisted
their efforts to force them out. A scuffle ,ensued—his two
friends came to his assistance—the Police, cloven in nzimlxr,
dealt their thrusts most manfully, until the unfortunate 31*Da.
niel fell, pit: ac En WITH FOURTEEN BAYONET AND BAB HE
WOUNDS! I l It was scarce more than the work of a minute-,
yet it was the work of death ! Humanity shudders at So terriel
an abuse of power—and justice must surely. blush, at witness-
ing in her tier?, agents such cruel violation of her sacred.
laws. Admitting this unfortunate man had resisted, and re-
turned to their orders to depart, opprobrious language,
and even blows—how feeble must his efforts, and those of his
two companions, have proved, unarmed as they were against
eleven armed men ! Why then not arrest, and by imprisonment
and adequate punishment render them amenable to the offended
laws ? That justice which consigns to death a fellow being,
should be awful and impressive, to serve as a warning to.
others—not delivered, where the occasion does not war.
rant, at the point of the sword or bayonet, to exasperate the
feelings of the man anti drive to desperation. We must allow,
as some extenuation of this wanton act, that in one of the,
houses which the Police had previously visited, they had been
given,. as it appeared on the Inquest, from the testimony of
their Serjeant, spirits to drink—but then, is it on men, who when
inflamed with liquor, or fired with passion, are ready, in the ,
frenzy or intoxication of the moment to draw their bayonets, the
peace of the country or protection of the subject should depend ?
That poor wretch, the victim of the fury of eleven armed men,
anti whose life-blood has flowed front his wounds, gave than
also his sweat in the cultivation of his little farm, every acre of
which has contributed its modicum to their support,—and for
what ? for protection on their part •, but bow that protection liar,
been given, was fully manifest on the event of the Inquiry held
at Abbeyleix on Friday, when all the Coroners of the Coenty,
summoned by difThrent parties, attended.
Jouzc KELL ES CI. (as senior eoroner, and by unanimous
consent), presided with equal and impartial justice, when the
verdict of a most respecuilde jury consigned six of these rash
men to the county gaol. Jogs Pitiou, of Castletowu, Esq,
uninfluenced by piny or personal feelings, shrunk not on this
occasion from the duty of an upright Magistrate; but previous
to the inquisition, with exertions in the cause ofjustice that do.
equal credit to his zeal and humanity, had the offenders ar.
rested, while he released from detention the two wounded and
suffering companions of the ill-fated WDaniel.
The reader may rely upon the accuracy of the above state-
ment, the particulars of which we Teemed from a person of
high respectability.