Star.
London, England, 1830-12-09 00:00:00

FANATIC.

The unhappy fanatic who was arrested yesterday near the entrance to
the House of Lords, immediately he was seised by the police-cam
thrust the muzzleof his pistol in his right cheek and attempted to dis-
charge it, but it only dashed in tbs pan. It was first intended to bring
him to the bar of that house, but under all the circumstances of the rase,
the Black Rod, Sir Thomas Tyrwhiu, consigned him to the civilpower,
and be remained for a long time handcuffed in a room at the Home
Mice. He will be examined at Bow.street, on Friday, at 12 o'clock.
He had been observed about the entrance of the Lords from Friday
last to the time of his arras*. He is an athletic powerful man with
prominent and strongly marked features, a weather-beaten face, ;ad an
expression heavy and morose. By kindness of manner, bs was induced
to abandon his taciturnity, and a cautious, indirect mode of tesestioning,,
elicited a good many facts.
He stated that he was a native of Cork, and had from his infancy
studied the miracles of the Old Testament, and every part of it where
the Lord enjoined the slaughter of mankind for their wickedness. He
himself was deeply imprinted with the sinfulness of the world, and the
Lord had appeared to him in many visions, enjoining him to preach
repentance, and to tell all men that the world was coming to ha end.
When he attempted this, people either laughed at him or put him into
prison, as had been the case in America t and because be bad ceased to
preach righteousness, the Loan had persecuted him night and day. He
was now weary of life, and by attempting to kill some great man, he
should teach the world the reality of his mission, and for the sake of
which he was content to die.

He said he had sailed in a privateer for Baltimore and Charles-
ton, but that the LORD had stopped the vessel ; and when
he told the Captain of this, be laughed at him ; but the LORD
immediately wrought a miracle, by changing the wind and
obliging the Captain to put back. He had seen a roan stand in the sun,
" which had never been seen before since the creation ; " and the Lord 1
having told him that he would kill for him all his enemies, the vision
proved true; for, when he returned to Cork, he found that, in his ab-
sence, nine of those who had dispossessed him of his property on the
ground of his being insane, including the attorney, had died. And
whilst he was at Cork, the Lord produced an earthquake.
The unhappy man's ideas were confined to such subjects. He had
no particular wish, he said, to kill the Duke of Wellington, but he main-
tained that all the miseries of the poor. the crimes of war, and panicu-
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lady the $O.OOO souls killed at Waterloo, were owing to he vices of the
great people, who were selfish, roguish, and oppressive, and that they
ought to be killed; and by his killing some them the world would
be reformed, and then come to an end.
There was evidently some imposition in his histories of himself.
When questioned upon the nature of Charleston harbour, his answers
evinced his ignorance of the localities of the place: and, moreover, he
used several terms respecting his being on ship-board, totally incon-
sistent with nautical phraseology : such as putting a ship about at an-
chor. It appears that he had been confined as a lunatic at Baltimore.
Although his notions of killing great men were very extensive, he was
evidently bent upon one individual, and seemed sullen and distressed
when the subject was alluded to.