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In consequence of the privilege of official franking
of letters having been abused in several of the public
establishments, Mr. GOULBURN has addressed letters
to the several Public Offices in Ireland, complaining of
the abuse, and requesting that in any case in which
letters may be sent under cover to them, either by
unauthorised persons, or in any manner at variance
with the liberal construction of the law, they may be
forwarded to the General Post Office, for the pur-
pose of being regularly charged.
Mr. Ness having invited the Marquis WELLESLEY
to the Meeting of the Guild of Merchants, for admit-
ting a number of Catholics into the Guild, his Excel-
lency transmitted an answer in the following terms:'
That although his Excellency is a Freeman of
the City of Dublin, he does not consider it would be-
come him, in his station as Lord Lieutenant, to at-
tempt to influence the decision of the Guild of Mer-
chants on any point connected with the exercise of
their privileges. All measures of conciliation must
be grateful to his Excellency ; but unless they be
founded on the free and cordial feelings of the Cori.
poration, they will neither correspond with his Excel-
lency's wishes, nor be consonant to the paternal spirit
of his Majesty's gracious intentions and admonitions."
It is understood that his Grace the Duke of WEL.
LING•ros intends to pay a visit shortly to his Illustri-
ous Brother in Dublin. On the motion of Sir
Geonce NVIIITFORD, the Common Council have re-
solved to solicit his Grace to sit for his picture,
that it may be placed in the Mansion•honse, next the
portrait of his MAJESTY.
A body of Orangemen, members of the Guild of
Merchants, with Alderman NuoiNt at their head,
went up to Mr. SAuniti, on Thursday, with a sort of
complimentary Address, in which they spoke of his
services to the country.
The house of Mr. Daniel Nunan, at Baheen, near
Kanturk, in this county, was attacked on the night
of the 3d inst. by a strong party, who came about
the house huzzaing, and insisted that the door should
be immediately opened, upon which Mr. Nunan's
son got out of bed, and demanded of them what they
wanted ? The reply was, unless the door was in-
stantly opened the house would be set on fire, at the
same time they broke a window in front of the house,
Mr. Nunan living in a thatched house, and being
obliged to surrender his arms to another banditti some
time previous, was under the necessity of opening the
door, when four men arched with guns entered and
asked him if lie had any arms? he told them he had
not ; they then demanded all the money he had in the
house, upon which Mr. Nunan endeavoured to re-'
monstrate a little with them on the impropriety of
their conduct, when one of them said, unless he in-
stantly complied with their demands, he should meet
his brother's fate, and they at last departed, after
taking a pound note from this Gentleman, being all
the money he had at the time in the house. It will
be recollected that a brother of this Gentleman was
brutally murdered in 1820, near the same place, for
which a man of the name of Stapleton was hanged
soon after.—(Limerick Chronicle.)