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cities supposed to have been committed by me : but
nothing specifically authenticated had transpired :
the very committal was so vague as to have excite,!
the astonishment of a professional friend of mine in
Dublin, and to have eventually led to my discharge.
I shall now proceed to the particulars of my case.
Immediately upon my arrest, I was brought into
Youghal, where, without any previous trial, I was
confined in a loathsome receptacle of the Barrack,
called the Black-Hole, rendered still more offensive
by the stench of the common necessary adjoining
it. In that dungeon I remained from Friday until
Monday, when I was conduced to the Ball ally to
receive my punishment. No trial had yet inter.
vened,. nor ever after. I was stripped and tied
up ; six soldiers stood forth for this operation ;
some of them right.handed, some left-handed men,
two at a time (as I judge from the quickness of
the lashes) and relieved at intervals, until I had
received two hundred and seventy-five lashes, so
vigorously and so deeply inflicted, that my beck and
the points of my shoulders were quite bared of the
flesh,
At that moment, a letter was handed to the Offi-
' cer presiding, written, I. understand, in my favour,
by the late Hon. Capt. O'BRIEN ROSTELLAN. It
happily interrupted my punishment. But I had not
hitherto shaken the triangle ; a display of feeling
which it seems was eagerly expected from me. To
accelerate that, speaacle a wire cat was introduced,
armed with scraps of tin or lead. (I judge from
the effect, and from the description given me.)—
, Whatever were its appendages, I cannot easily for.
get the power of it. In defiance of shame, my
waistband was cut for the finishing strokes of this
lacerating instrument. The very first lash, as it re.
neweal all my pangs, and shot convulsive agony
through my entire frame, made me shake the triangle
indeed. A second inflidion penetrated my loins,.
and tore them—excruciating : the third maintained
the tremulous exhibition long enough—the speaa-
tors were satisfied.
I should spare you, my Lords and Gentlemen, the
disgusting minuteness of this last detail, but it will
be found materially conneilted with a most dreadful
charge which appears upon the minutes of a Court
of Inquiry, held to investigate my case the year
following, in Youghal, under Gen. GRAHAM, by
order of the Marquis CORNWALLIS. Before this.
Court I was not brought ; nor any friend of mine.
summoned thither to speak for me. It was even a'
subjea of sarcastic remark in the prison-ship, that
while I stood there among the aailnrs, my trial, as
they termed it,. ,was going on in-Youghal. With,
the proceedings of that Court I am to this day un-
acquainted. It was ordered, I know, in consequence
,of a memorial upon my situation, handed to a dia.
tinguished Nobleman, and by-him presented at• the
Castle ; I was not consulted with regard to its con-
.tents. Unfortunately for me, it was penned with
more zeal than accuracy ; setting forth, among
other hardships, that after my punishment, I had
been left without medical assistance (on the report,
I presume, of a sister-in-law who, visited me,within .
the interval between the whipping, and Apothecary's
arrival) ; it further stated, that I
.had been whipt
and ths.own into a dungeon ; instead of stating, as it
ought to have done, that I. had been thrown into
dungeon and ,whipt. This inversion was fatal to
me. For the evidence of Mr. GREEN, Apothecary,
most plausibly contradiaed these allegations of the
memorial ; and that circumstance, when coupled with
the subsequent horrid charges audaciously forged
and foisted into the Minutes of the Inquiry, excited
an almost invincible prejudice in the mind of the
merciful Lord CORNWALLIS against me. For
when, after a considerable lapse of time, my
professional friend in Dublin renewed his ef.
forts to save me, at the risk of being deemed
importunate and troublesome, he was still graci-
ously honoured with an audience, wherein to pre.
chide all future interference, as quite ineffeaual and
hopeless, his Excellency directed Colonel LITTLE.
HALES to read these minutes to my patron. They
reported that I had freely avowed to Mr..BENIA.
MIN GREEN, Apothecary, while he was dressing
my wounds, at the time I was about to be sent on
board the Prison Ship, that I deserved all I had
suffered and more ; for I was privy to the murder,
&c. &c. committed in my parish : that I could ac-,1
'count for my conduit in no other way, than by at-
tributing it to the instigation of the Devil ; and
,that I deserved to be shot. The cruel edge of this
forged evidence was still ,further whetted by sub-
joining to it, that this Mr. GRFEN was a Roman
Catholic. My respeaable intercessor, being quite
unprepared to meet such an accusation, hung•down
his head and withdrew. But he lost no time in
communicating this reverse to my Ordinary, Doctor
COPPINGER, who was equally astonished at these
assertions; but who seized the opportunity, until a
refutation of all could be procured, to point, in
the interim, to the designing and notorious false-
hood of Mr. GREEN's Catholicity. In a very few,
days Mr. GREEN himself spontaneously furnished
my Bishop with a peremptory denial of the above
particulars, under his own hand: declaring, mote_
over, in a written acknowledgment, that no can_
venation had passed between him and the prisoner,
but as between a medical man and his patient. This
same Gentleman also ingenuously presented himself
at the parish chapel of Ballymacoda, offering to
make oath, that he had not, given the evidence here
attributed to him. The Deputy Judge Advocate
General, Major al.'s,- has been pleased to tran.
scribe these minutes, as far as they regard Mr.
GREEN, for the expiess purpose of contradicting
this I.)rgery. I shall now insert them, with his
Letter to the said Mr. GREEN.

" SIR, Ygughal, 28th Ya 4 1804.
" Your application to me for a Copy of the Evidence you
gave at a CoUrt of Inquiry, by order of Major General G R
HAM, at which, by the said General's orders, you were
obliged to attend, I have not the smallest objeCtion to give
you, which I have taken verbatim from the original, now
in my possession, and in which I cannot be mistaken, as you
know I acted as Deputy .judge Advocate General at the said
Court.
" I am, Sir,
46 Your most obedient Servant,
.RICHARD LUIS."