Star.
London, England, 1803-02-01 00:00:00

NAPT SURGEONS.

Ma. EDlTOR—Having obfcrved in fume of the
late publications of the STAR fome remarks on the
difireffed and negleCted fituations of Mailers and
Surgeons in the Navy, I have made it a point to
enquire into the juftice of thole complaints; and I
have found them to be but too well founded. The
conduit of Surgeons, in all the battles fought dur-
ing the late war, has been highly honourable and
meritorious to themfelves, and the corps to which
they belong : and their fervices to the fick and
wounded Officers and Seamen have been confej;dly
eminently ufefirl. Yet it is a fhameful truth that
they have not the fmalleft degi .e of remuneration
or encouragement for thofe pail fervices. Sur-
geons who have ferved during the whole °flail war
are not now allowed the fmalleit pittance of half
pay ! Many who have ferved two years as Mate,
and feven or eight years as Surgeon, are not now
on the half pay lift !—Ercellent encouragement !
The truth is, I find the whole body of Navy Stir.
geons completely difpirited, and fecretly repeating,
I that they were ever induced to enter iato the
fer-
vice. The confequence is, that the prefent race of
Surgeons, now completely inveigled, and, from
their long fervices at lea, and abfence from their
Friends, having loft theirfiore conneetions, will con-
tinue dejefiedly to drudge on as they have hitherto
done. But will not their lorry condition, their
grievances and complaints, In long negleded anu
unredreffed, deter others from following their foot-
Reps ? And if any do enter, they will be found
of mean education, and altogether unqualified for
their office. Such men will not only not be bene-
ficial, but literally hurtful to the fervice, and a
difgrace to the corps whole name they will affume.
—So much for want of encouragement.—Speak
ing on this head, I have heard it inccmfiderately af-
' forted by Lieutenants, that Surgeons' pay being
not only equivalent, but fuperior to that of Lieu-1
tenants, " they are not fo ill off." That their pay
is equal, and, in general, fuperior to that of Lieu-
tenants, is granted. But let it be remembered,
that the Lieutenant is a young man, in his fi:ji
fiep towards (time endlef: promotion. Put a Surgeon,
generally fpeaking, ever continue: a Surgeon. A
Lieutenant becomes a Maker and Commander, a
Poll Captain, an Admiral, a Commander in
Chief, &c. ; and all this time may be acquiring
immenfe wealth. Add to which, fome fortunate
encounter with an enemy may procure him Knight-
hood, raife him to a Baronetcy, and laftly, he may
be elevated to the Peerage ! This is encourage-
ment indeed : and we all allow that they have
well deferred the riches and honours they have
acquired, and the laurels they wear. Surgeons
neither claim wealth nor laurels. They only pe-
tition for a moderate and juft compenfation for
their pall fervices.—Again, the moment a Lieu-
tenant receives his warrant or commiffion, that
moment he becomes entitled to half pay, and has
the honour to rank with a Captain in the Army.
A Navy Surgeon obtains neither rani nor bdf fray on
bit appointment. Regularly-bred medical men,
(who, by the by, begin to decline coming into
the fervice, for want of due encouragement,) ac-
quire their liberal education and profeffional
knowledge at an immenfe expence, both of money
and time. Lieutenants and Mailers, on the other
hand, while they are learning their profeffion, are
at the fame time earning their living as petty of-
ficers, receiving both pay and visuals at the ex,
pence of Government. Government even pays
their fchoolmafter.—ln (baring prize-money, a
Surgeon has three time: left than a Lieutenant. A
Surgeon is mater of his profeffion before he goes
into the Navy ; yet he is obliged to undergo the
mortifying fituation of Surgeon's Mate, in all the
gloom and horror of a fqualid cockpit, for the
(pace of generally fpeaking two years. After this,
perhaps, he emerge: from this (alma) ignominious
Rate, and becomes Surgeon. What then ? Why
he lives perhaps more comfortably : but he is
neither entitled to rank or half pay. It has gene-
rally been believed, that Surgeons, after five years
fervice, are entitled to half pay ; but this is a grofs
miftake, and has been the ;gni: faun which has
allured many into the Navy. The truth is, they
are not, according to the prefent eftablifhment,
entitled to that pittance, unlefs they are within a
certain number on the Lift of Surgeons; or, in
other words, only a certain number of the WO Sur-
geons enjoy the benefit of half pay. And until
PROVIDIIIIca think proper tofinemes the /odor Sur-
geons to the other world, the jessMr Surgeons, how-
ever long they may have fined, can never get
within the limits of half pay ! Mailers, I believe,
labour under the fame &advantage, which, how-
ever, is, in fome meafure, compenfated by their
flaring prize-money as Lieutenants. The Sur-
geon, on the other hand, (bares with thole very
mach bateath ban.

According to the prefcnt eflablithment, a Sur-
geon may not only ferve five years, but twenty,
before he has the advantage of half-pay ; fo that,
in fad, a Surgeon has aw encouragement what-
ever. But it is to be fincerely wilbed, for the fake
of humanity, as well as the interefi of the fervice,
that the prcfent deplorable fituation of Navy Sur-
geons be taken into immediate confederation, and
their condition ameliorated. Their emeiseest finites
are acknowledged even by the illiffirioue Peer who
prefides over the Navy, as well as by all the other
efe/iagerilled Admirals and Commanders in the fir.
vice. They hew lies their humane attention to
the rick, am/ their ftr‘cer to the wounded horse: is the
day e le&
If their complaints continue unattended to, the
confequence mull be fcrious ; for, inllead of
of abilities, liberal education, and profcffional ta-
li:nth/mu . but thole of ;satin will enter into
the ferrite, viz. Thotc,lvticei, from their ignorance,
cannot fncceed on BIM, or have been refuted by
the Army. By the by, this prediction is partly
fulfilled already, when we recoiled that the
fcarcity of Medical Men, I mean Mates. was fo
great in the late war, that (hips, wholecomple-
ment was four or five, had oesly oar J and that
amity (hips of war het mow : and that the Commif
Goners for Sick and Wounded Seamen were obliged
to have recount to okeertifestest: in the Newtpa•
pets, to estia mull:kit Mates tato the ferrice. But

in vain. A fufficient number of qualified Mate:
will never be obtained, as long as Surgeons are Co
much difcouraged. And here I would beg leave
to remark, that it is not by increafing the pay of
Mates that able Medical Men will be induced to
ferve in the Navy : young men of abilities have
the laudable ambition to look forward. They will
willingly endure the inconveniencesc.fa Itlatelhip,
provided they are Pure of being fuitably recom-
penfed when they become Surgeons.
Enough has been already laid to denron,grate how
much Navy Surgeons are neglaed ; but if we com-
pare them with Army Surgeons, their condition
will appear/ill more lamentable. To fpeak gene.
rally, Officers in the Army, by being almoll al-
ways on (hove, enjoy a thoufand more of the plea-
lures of life than Navy Officers. We (hall let
down this, however, as nothing ; nor (hall we
mention the dangers and ditligreeable circum-
dances attending a fea life.
A Surgeon in the Navy never has any rank.—
An Army Surgeon ranks with a Captain. A Sur.
geon in the Navy has no half-pay, until after a
very longfervitude. A Surgeon in the Army is en-
titled to ss. per diem half-pay, immediately after
his promotion from being Mate or Affiflant•Sur-
geon. A Surgeon in the Navy is obliged to pur-
chafe medicines at his own expence (but a few
gratuitous articles are allowed him). A Regi-
mental Surgeon gets all his medicines by fimple
requifition—all gratuitous. The Naval Surgeon
is clafred with low warrant Officers. The Army
Surgeon has the honour to bear the King's Com-
:million, and has rank with Captains, as has been
obferved above. Thole who are in the Navy flyled
by the vu/gar nan: of Surgeons' Mates, are in the
Army, by a Royal Proclamation iffued in 1795,
ordered to be denominated Affiflant-Surgemu ; in
order that, as the Royal Ediel e:eprefily declares,
the fecondary daft of Medical Officers may be
rendered more refpedable. lam far from being
vexed, that the Army is fo well provided for ; I
am only lorry that the Navy is not equally at-
tended to • the obvious and general inference to
be drawn from all this is, that Medical Men of
reflatetability will decline going into the Navy :
and thofe, who are not inclined to pradife on (bore
and at home, will go into the Army, or embark
for the Briti(h Colonies and Settlements abroad.
And thus the Navy, holding forth no encouragement
to able Medical Men, will be obliged to receive the
wry refute and dreg, of 'bine ! 11,10.12.

LONDON MARKETS.

QORN-EXCHANGE, MONDAY, JANUARY 3v.
A Return of the PRICES of FLOUR from the tenth of Jan.
to the alit of Joint ry inclu five.
Total 15934 l'achi.—Averase 495. 94.
os. 'ld. higher than left return.
RETURN of WHEAT in Mark-lane, including only from
the i7th of January to the sad of Jemmy.
Total-206 raLiarters. Average spa 744.
Os. sid lower than IDA return.
PRICE OF HOPS.
Kent
Ka os n tel to stl 4si 1 Kent tea se to 121 nisi
Sufic: col os to Idrse Sa l
cs lob os to ill its l
Eifel 10i os to 10i toe Fate. 141 os to al 01 4
PRICE OF S , January 3yr
Red Clover (new) los to nos per cwt.
Red Clover (old) 3os to 7Se per ewe.
White ditto cos to recto
Trefoil 3os to 76s
Turnip 31$ to 26s per head
Rye Grate 308 to sm per quasar
Caraway 36s to 4as per cwt.
Coriander as to 30e ditto
Canary Seed cos to $3. ditto
New Rape Seed 321 to 331 per hit.
Brown Milliard Seed stie to 240 per Maki
White ditto roe to its per ditto
Broad Beans 3u to 46e per do.
Long Ads see to aSs per dm
Rib Grab 40' to 60e. per mt.
SMITHFIELD, Jemmy 31.
To Ask the eißel.-per &me a illi.
Beef 4$ od to ens 62dAlifeal & col to &06
Mutton 4s lid to Rs od Pork m to lie Id id
NEWOATE and L ENHALLcalanuary it.
Per Race me of by the car
Beef 35 4d to 4s lid I Veal so od to 79 01
Mottos m od to 3$ od. Pork 4$ $4 to fie od
Stock at Market this aerate. &aft s7oo•-••Sheep S.Soh. 4
AVERAGE PRICES OF WOOL. • .
Fine Hereford, trinded, 245. to 275. per Roue of tab.
Hoe look Ryland roe. to ass. ditto.
Southdown, 60e. to 60. per tad of 321 b.
Ditto, off the Downs, ad. to sod. per lb.
Wilts, lid. to 16d. per lb.
Dorfet, 14d. to [yd. per lb.
Kent. Mark 141 os.to ant. os. per peek. •
latieefter, 355. to 332 per god err alb.
Lincoln, 311. to 35e. 6d. ditto.
New Leictfler, 333. to_34L ditto.
PRICE OF HAY AND ,RAW, January 3v.
Smithfield. St. James's. Whitechopel.
O. Hay s •to 6 6 4 4oto 7 00 4 10 to 7 7 •
Straw 113 to 1 tp tzpo to a t o z26to s s 0
Clover 410 to 6 to 6 to to 7 is 0
No Coale at Market this day.
A Beet of three Markel MI hourly espedted.
MONTHLY •CiaICULTUI•L RIPOILY FOI 1•1117/1111r.
The weather throughout this month has proved highly fa-
vourable to al tie hafenable permits of Agriculture. The coa-
tinuation of the trait bee ambled the settee Halbeeime to
drcfs his youeNClowers, and other lands, to the attest of his
wither. Tlie ht. and general fall of (now, will he hued les,
eiceabk to the Yheate„ In protedkorg the root upon tender,
bloating foes I the plants, shalt sitherfally, remain lbereg.
and tualthr.--The produce of the ten hermit Rill exceeds the
average calculation, and the Whom tram mod countries is
found cool zerably to need its weight. The enarbets are up-
held in pries, by the re-exportation of all the lore* Caen that
WAS under luck In the River. The ports of 1:1(ea and Kent,
being now frozen up. will probably famewhat enhance it. Bar-
ley continues every when a cheep article; and Oats, when a
free navigation is mitered, will. no doubt, be equally rat/sable.
The Bean and Pat loads broke up kindly between the two tr 011...
aid a canliderible breadth of both were (own ea tender folk.
New Clover Seed. from sang to badly, is become fame, and is
of work se the advance. 'Fla mamma harp winds, that pre •
varied fee a few drys, have materially injured the Rope heel
plants ; but the Turnips have hitherto fultahred ban little da-
mage : thole in Norfolk, and the North of Sashed, from their
(tondo& at aim, me oearty fed et Tams. and Rye, were
kora* known to Rated a fevere winter better. Hay has ad-
vanced asehlaahly le the courfe of the elm& The Wool
Market has varied het Mae knee the hit Repast. Solitkildd
has had a good empty of Dell and Pork, bet prime Mutton and
Veal cominue (came mid doe. Lean Steck, of all kinds, men.
ten their high prima The Welt Coveter Flecks have begun
to herb down Melly ; but the Icareity of (uocident food. for
their (upper', is a 'faecal memplaiet.
The gimmicky et ride takes this um& is meal to assail
hehes of depth. The weather hosomoo the whale, been noi
hr the feafon •' we can tubes but me week's frog dor* the
month, and the thennommer was very kite only part of two
days. On the lath. at midnight, it Rood at at deg. and be-
fore foarife ea the z3.b, It was at ill deg. The mean heat a•
equal to 3$ di.

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LAW INTELLIG ENCL.'.

COURT OF KING'. DI:NCH, JAN 3t.

This day was obferred in IVeilminrier Hall as
the Anniverfary of the Martyrdom of King Charles
1. the 3oth falling on a Sunday. One Judge, how-
ever, came down to each of the Courts to take bail
and to difpatch other neceifary buliiiefs.
In the King's Bench, the Grand Jury for the
county of Middlefez were (worn. When they had
taken the oaths, and the ufual forms had been
gone through,
Mr. Jolliet Goose delivered to them a charge, in the con rfc
of which be obfervel, that in this great City, which, for its
trade, commerce, and wealth, was become unqueftioaably the
metropolis of theginise. there necelfarily 'role from avarice
and diffipation, a number of vices which it imported the tank
of Religion and Morality to check, for the general benefit of
the fociety in which we lived. The points to which the molt
immediate attention was wanting, were licentious and obfeene
publications of books end prints, of various forts, the tendency
of which was to inflame the palions of youth of both feces,
and to lead them to &ht.:aeries which m gbt end in ruin,be-
f. re their judgments :fo matured as to be able to guide
their anions :—Houfes of id-fame alto required to be checked
for the fame reafon ; and among them, :a :can; bourns were of
the wortt defeription, for they were nightly the retort of the
idle, the profligate, and defperate, and the (cents therein exhi-
bited, were of the molt deitradtive kind to morals, and which
often led to ignominious death. The Learned Judge took par-
ticular twice of the carts, carriage, and machines, which
flopped io the ftreets, infte;d of being taken into yards and
other places, for the purpofe of Otters and exhibitions of wild
Waits, de. They were nniknees which, he had on doubt, had
been obferved by the Jury, as they had frequently been obferv-
ed by him, not indeed this morning, but frequently within this
Term• and betides the impediments they created to inffengers,
they colledied together a number of the molt worthlc(s perfous
of both feces and, among them; many thieves It was true
that the Conflables had power to abut:labia nuifance; for as
the owners of ;ink machines bad their names on them (or if
they had not.they were fubjed to a known penalty) they might
be taken before a Magiftrate and properly difpoled of, wilds
they &mild be too refradory to be taken, which he hardly be-
lieved they would, then they might be p;efented to the Jury
in an indidbment, of which they were fit fubjeds, for certainly
this was a fpeettsvf nuifance which ought not to be fuffered
any longer to exift. The Learned judge raid he was not aware
of any thing elk material for him to notice to the Jury, cam-
poled as they were, of Gentlemen whore countenances he had
the pkafure to have teen often on octant:as fimilsr to the pre-
fent, bat with whom he had not the honour of a perfonal ac-
quaintance. They would now proceed upon the bufinek about
to be laid before than, sad of which they would, no doubt,
difpdein a manner honourable to themfelves and advantage-
ous to the public.

Two perfons, apparently foreigners, were then
charged with an indiament, presioully found
again(' them (and to which they pleaded not gnu
ty), for publithing a fcandaloully obfcene book,
the contents of which were too indecent to be re-
peated, called u The Frolics of a Boarding School ;
or, Mifs in her Shift, &c." They were remanded
to prifon until they can procure bail, and told their
trials will come on at the fittings after the prefent
Term.

Two other perfons, Tailors, were charged upon
another indiftment, for a confpiracy to charge and
accufe falfely one William Befwell with the mur-
der of William Darlington. They pleaded—not
guilty. They were alfo remanded to prifon, for
want of bail; and were told their trial would Rand
for the fittings after the prefent Term and they
were alfo kindly informed by the Officer of the
Crown, that any perfon on their behalf might have
the indictment read over to him at the Cron n Of
bee gratis, to enable him to prepare their defence,
or, upon paying for, might have a copy of it.

COURT Or KING'S BENCH, DUBLIN, JAN. s 6.
lea/AMIN O. JOHNSON.
Mr. Watt-act opened the pleadings, by Paying
this was an ailion of trefpafs, vi et arose. The de-
claration contained three counts : the firft charg-
ing the defendant with a criminal connexion with
plaintiff's wife, depriving him thereby of the corn.
forts of her fociety, &c. The othertwo counts all ed g•
ed an elopement from plaintiff's houfe at the infli-
gation of the defendant, who alto influenced his
paramour to take from tile houfe of the plaintiff,
her hatband, certain articles of haberdafhery goods
to a confiderable value.
Damages were laid at aoool. to which the de-
fendant pleaded the general iffire.
Mr. G. Poisson ay, in flaring the cafe, declared it
one more ftrongly marked by moral turpitude
than any of a fimilar tendency which had ever,
perhaps, been fubmitted to the confederation of a
Jury. The plaintiff and his frail partner, it
' would appear in evidence, had formed a matrimo•
nial connexion, fo early as the year :768, and at
the time of her elopement with the defendant,l
about two years fence, had, in point of age, nearly'
attained her grand climaCieric. During a cordial
and affectionate cohabitation of near thirty years,.
in which this prolific lady brought forth to her hat-
band about twelve children; their felicity and con-
jugal jots were uninterrupted, until this cruel
fpoiler came—a gallant of fixty years (landing—
to (Avert the harmony of a hours, in which he
was uniformly received with limpitality, friend-
flip, and a confidence on the part of the plaintiff,l
which knew but one limit, and that he was refi.lv.
ed to invade. The defendant, married in gradual
and lawful fuccetlion to three wives hinitelf, it
would appear from his experience, had rather
embark with any other man's wife, than venture a
fourth time on a new lea of troubles by any of
thnfe legal in • honourable means to which ma for-
mer occafions be retorted.
Mr. Ponsoisr here took oceafion to expatiate
in a very ferious flrain, through which our limits
will not permit us to follow him, on the many ag-
gravating circumflances which would appear in
evidence, deprecating any of that negligence or
frivol ius confederation from the jury in appreci•
sting dansagesovhich the inferior rank of his client,
Wing a hair dreier, might poffibly deduce.
Eleven wirneifes, adduced on the part of the
plaintiff, confpired to prove, by a chain of firmly
circumilances. the co of adultery, elopement, and
fobfequent caliabitation of the criminal parties,
trace the year 1800. Arne.rg there was a youth
of fatten years old, fon to the plaintiff's wife, aid
reared and educated by the plaintiff alto as his
own. Oilier tt :the frts depoced to the happy add
egnjugal-like Slate of plaintor and his wife fur many
her elopenr st with the &fen.
(he wore a fair charafter in she
y Meet, where flic and far

linfl and refidcd, and had been vifited by females of
d:cency and repute, who would not affociate with
her if they did nut believe her charader unfullied.
On crols•examination of the fon it appeared
from him, that the plaintiff, upon all occafions of
wrangling and difpute between him and his mo-
ther, which were frequent, did upbraid her with
an indifcriminate connexion with all the male',
lodgers who from time to time, during 16 years,
had retorted to their houfe; that he had repeated-
ly denied he was the father of this boy, and called
him and his fillers, on various occafions, a bundle
of ballards ; that his forpicions of his wife's infi-
delity had been fo ftrong and inflexible, that when
the eloped with the defendant, plaintiff laid force
fcheme to take her from the houfe of a Noble Earl
fince deceafed, with whom he conceived the had
been long Bonneted; that one year previous to
his mother's elopement, the plaintiff had difcover-
ed her in company with the defendant, proclaim-
ed her guilt, yet cohabited with her. After elope-
ment, and while the plaintiff had been aftiduoully
making inquiries for his wife, the and her paramour
had taken different lodgings near the Bleeding.
Norte, under the feigned name of Magrath. In
there lodgings they had but one apartment with
one bed. The fon vifited them. In one lodging
he went by the name of Magrath, in the other by
that of Murray.
The fubftance of Mr. Climates defence, which
was offered in his peculiar manner, as occafion
required, of ferioufnefs, wit, and pleafantry, tended
merely, on the ftrength of the boy's crofs-exami-
nation, to prove that conjugal comforts did not exi ft
among the parties, confequently the plaintiff could
receive no damages for the alledged privation of
what he never enjoyed. That he was alto, by ac-
quiefcing with.his wife's guilt Coon as he had been
convinced of it, a confederate in his own difgrace.
Lord KILWARDEM charged the Jury, diferimi-
nating between the apparently unbiaffed witneffes,
who teflified to the ordinary courfe of connubial
felicity, previous to this tranfaftion, between the
plaintiff and his wife, and the depofitions of her
fon, who (wore that he fomctimes lived with his
father, but as frequently with his mother, after her
elopement. His Lordfhip Paid, that in his mind,
the adultery was fully proved, and confequently it
was incumbent on the Jury to find a verdid for
the plaintiff. With refped to the quantum of da.
*usages, it was a matter which lay eaclufively with
them, while they apportioned them to the meafure
of the injury adually fuftained, a principle by
which, he conceived, they fhould, in all fimilar in-
ftaaces, be invariably guided.
Verdi& for the plaintaff—xool. damages, 6cLeolis.

1 DUBLIN, JANUARY 27.
Thurfday evening lel, about (even o'clock, the
poll-boy and efcort from Amite to Colon, were
i fired at by Come mifcreants, within about a miles
( f the latter town ; fortunatelj they received no
injury, and brought the mail fate into Collon.
Thurfday night two men, of the names of Brad-
t ley and Campbell, went into the houfe of Mr. Pat.
Wild, grocer, Peter-flreet, Drogheda, and afked
him for (mall notes for three Bank Pott Bills, for
ten, eight, and three guineas. Wild fent the bills
to a friend to know if-he was fate in taking them ?
the perfon to whom they were fent knew from the
date that they had been taken out of the mail, and
immediately gave information to Mr. Sheriff Sin-
DALL, who went to the houfe and apprehended
them. On being.brought to the watch-houfe and
examined by Capt. SMITH, Ald. MiEle TAG 11, and
the Sheriff, they denied any knowledge of the mail
robbery, and raid they were given to them by a boy
in the country ; however, after repeatedly being
queftioned, Bradley made a full difcovery of the
whole tranfaaion, and gave the names and places
of abode of every perfon concerned with him in the
robbery. The Sheriff called on Capt. Woods for a
party of boric to go in purfuit of the villains, who
ordered his men inflantly out, and politely accom-
panied him. After a long ride through the coun-
try, one Flynn, a young man who lives near Plot-
ten, was the only perfon tiken; the others probably
on hearing of the apprehenfion of Bradley, fled from
their hoofer. On Sunday night they opened the
letters in a haute at Stanlin, county of Meath, and
divided the property among them; each of the
(even received 150 guineas, and a further him was
kept by one of them for one Barron, who planned
the robbery. Bradley (fates, that the guard fired
three (hots at them, and that one of the party was
flightly wounded.
Between four and five o'clock on Friday morn-
ing, tome villains broke into the (hop of Mrs.Cor-
. mack, confeaioner, Waterford, and took thereout
the till, containing 20 guineas, a bond for s+l. los.
and a note for 4to guineas‘ due in three years, both
payable to Catharine Aylward. They alto plun-
dered the (hop of every article of value.
An attempt was made on Friday night !all to
rob the honk of Mr. James Malony. of Clonakilty,
by means of a fellow fecreting himfelf in the houfe,
and opening the back door to admit his accomplice.
Mr. Malony, however, being alarmed by the noife
made by there midnight ruffians, came down (lairs
from his bed, and, with a courage which we can-
not fufficiently applaud, fecured them both, until
Ph. Donovan, Efq. the Deputy Recorder of Clo-
nakilty, hallened to his affillance,. and by a moll
refolute and allive eo-operations lodged them in
gaol, before the art ival of the military, who came
tinnily after.
Thurfday evening fall, between five and fa
n'rlock, feven freebooters flopped on Galloping
G:cen (the road to Bray) a very induflrious far-
mer and honell man, Mr. Wm. Clift. of Carrick-
mines, as on his way home, and robbed him of soL
and other articles, and beat him feverely. They
ha .1 taken his hat, but returned it on the entreaty
of the (offerer. The ruffians knew the man they
were plundering ; for one of them Paid, after the
rcqucft, "give lack to Clift his hat".
The offices, hay and turf of Win. Sanely% Efq.
of Crevagh, near Ballymahon, county Longford,
we: e malicioufly fet fire to on the night of the idth
.infl. cr early in the morning of the t 7th. and an
ancnynious notice of a moil inflammatory and
threatening nature was failened to the lock of his
hag:7;2rd gate.
Sunday morr.ing early, Mr. Jullice BILL, with

a party of foldiers, furprifed a number of people in
the aft of making Bank notes, at a p;:p :r-mill near
Templeoge. The note-makers made a delperate
refittance, in which two of them were killed; four
were afterwards made prifoners. Mr. Bs 1. t. received
a wound of a bayonet in the knee, from a woman.

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