The Sun.
London, England, 1821-04-24 00:00:00

DREADFUL OUTRAGES.

LIMXRICK, APRIL 11.-At twelve on Sunday
-night the Bth instant, about 30 desperadoes as-
sailed the house of aL Torrance, Esq. at Cunnigar.
They first broke all the windows, forcing in the
parlour windows with sledges and large stones.
Mr. Torranre,got his arms, and went to his bed-
room window and attempted to fire on-the party,
who were then just under him-, but missed fire.—
The robbers having now got into the house,
rushed up stairs, and throwing a large stone at
Mr. T.'s door, one of the upper pannels of which
they broke in, they demanded his arms) and
asked if he would promise to gait the place ? he
said he would never give his arms up, nor would
he make any promise about leaving Cunnigar :
two of them having been placed as centinels on
the servant;- whose head they cut severely,
they commenced firing through the door at
Mr. Torrance, which he returned, Mrs. Tor-
rance 'rendering every assistance by charging
the arms and handing them to her husband.
They then with a sledge endeavoured to break
through a partition wall, which, had they effect-
ed, would have placed Mr. T. between two fires,
but he taking deliberate aim at the person so em-
ployed, disabled him, and he was dragged into
the servant's room. The firing now ceased, and
the party ordered two large bundles of hay,
which they had brought into the parlour, to be
set on fire. Mr. T. said if they did so, some of
their companions should also suffer 1. he knew he
had killed one, and the rest should never go
down stairs alive, but that he would let them go
away quietly, if they promised to leave the house,
and also one man might come up stairs ; this
being agreed to, the man did so, and a ladder
being put to the servants' window, the whole of
which Was forced out, they dragged the man to
it, and carried him down that way, and having
iaken a door from the premises, on which it
is supposed they placed the body, they went
off. Mrs. and Mr. 'F. escaped unhurt, but his
face and legs were burnt with the powder of
his assailants, whose guns were , fired off quite
close to him. A number of balls have been
picked from the walls of the bed room, and a very
handsome pistol was left behind by these des-
peradoes, who broke every article of furniture,
including looking glasses, chairs, tables, and
china. On Wednesday night, about twelve
o'clock, upwards of fifty armed men attacked the
house of. Charles Sullivan, near the lands of Lif:.
ford, and having broken the thatch, gained an
entranCe; others of the party broke down the
wall of the house, and fired several shots through
the windows and doors. Sullivan was dragged
out and much beaten in the head, and the party
having taken a pistol, sword, and bayonet, with
above five pounds in money, left the house, and
proceeded in search of fire-arms to other places
in the same neighbourhood. The same gang vi-
sited the house of Mrs. Bennet, at Rutland, and
after searching all the rooms for arms, they wept
off without doing any mischief. Some other
houses on the Ballittaurra road ere also entered
in search of arms the same night. Oh Thursday
night, two farm houses in the neighbourhood of
Cooly henan, occupied by a herdsman and a dairy-
man, in the employment of George Gloster, Esq.
were attacked by a gang of men in search of
arms; from the herdsman they took a bayonet,
and at the dairyman's house, not finding arms,
they left an injunction for him to quit or prepare
his coffin against Sunday night, as they were de-
termined no intruder or stranger should be per-
mitted to remain there.--Belfast News Letter.

A letter from the • Earl of EGREMONT is pub-
lished upon the Catholic Bill, in which he thus
expresses himself :—" I approve of that part of
the 'Bill which is purely tolerative, and which
repeals the declarations against the speculative
doctrines of transubstantiation,. the invocation of
Saints, and of the mass, which do not affect the
safety of the Constitution and the Independence
of the Kingdom; but- I cannot consent to 'the
proposed alteration in the oath of supremacy,
Which I think will be dangerous-to our establish-
ment iii Church and State, which I aM convinced
will give no satisfaction to the most distinguished
heads of the Catholic Church, whom I consider
as the :leadeis of the gfeat,rbody of Roman Ca-
tholics. in Great Britain and Ireland, on a ques-
tion. Which, like this, is entirely of religious scru-
ples to. them; although to us it is alone one of
political expediency, and which will impose a
perpetual perjury upon the Clergy bf our own
and that of the _Scotch Church,: who .will be re-
quired to declare, upon their oaths, that no
foreign Prince, Prelate, &c. bath any jurisdiction,
power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, I
ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm, after
the passing.of this Act, by which the authority of
the Pope within the realM will he publicly re-,
tognizedand eStabliShed (Hampshire Telegraph.)
GETEqNSEY, APRIL 17..LLTheboats employed
in the Oyster. Fishery of . this Island, have dis:-
covered another bank, near'that. which had been
:found a:few weeks since. One boat brought in
upwards of seventy tubs, Saturday morning, and
eight small cutters entered. St. Samson's alideep-
ly laden- with, oysters;—A Savings' Bank will be
established_in_ this Island.—The boats arriving
here from Sark, sell their potatoes at 9d per
bushel. Lord BERESFORD, Governor-of Jersey,
has appointed I'. LE BRETON jun. Esq. and Col.
TouzEt., Receivers-General of the Revenue in
that Island. 2 •

On the 4thinst. whilst a fleet of about 140
• -fish . .
English- were dredging for oysters
off, S,t. Martin-le-vieux, about three leagues
arid a half..from the' French coast, the French
brig of war Lynx came out of Granville, fired a
gun, at them, acrd sent a' boat and took possession
of 'one of the vessels, and' carried her, with the
crew,-into Granville. It 'is a qUeition to be de-
cided between the Goverements, whether -Eng-
lish fishermen 'have a right to- dredge for oysters
at a less distance than 6 miles from the French
coast.. The. Vessel was released" next day.—
(Portsmouth Paper.)
• BAGUELY, Daummor.in,und Jomisov, so' con-
spicuous. at the Manchester Reform Meetings,
;were 'released from prison last week.; BAQUELY
refused to be shaven. during .bia confinement.