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LOab—l have Nid the honour of receiving your
Loreship's letter of die 27th day of April, enclosing
au Adatess froth the House of Commons to his Royal
Highness the Prince Regent, praying that his Royal
Highness will be gratioudy pleased to direct that
there be laid before die House a Statement of the na-
ture and extent of the Disturbances which have re-
cently retailed in Ireland, and of the measures which •
,have been odopted by the Government of that country
in consequence thereof; and I proceed to obey the
commands which your Lordship has signified to me
in that letter, that I should enable his Royal Highness
to comply with the Address of the House of Commons.
'Though 1 havesr as your Lordship is well aware.,
apprised you front time to time of such events con-
nected with the internal interests of Ireland as have
been most worthy of notice, and of the measures
which I have adopted with a view to restore and
Maintain the public peace, it may* be satisfactory that
I should (instead of referring your Lordship to the
detail of my seprr3te letters) embody the substance
of them in this general dispatch. - •
It is not, I presume, wished that I should extend
the statement, which is required from me, -beyond
the period at which I assumed the administration of
the affairs of this country ; and I shall,, therefore,
only shortly and generally refer to events which oc-
curred during the government of my predecessor, or
to the measures to which he had recourse.
The Insurrection Act was passed by the Legisla-
ture in the year 1807 ; it was not enforced on any
OCCISibh during the three years for which it was at
that time enacted, and the state of Ireland was con-
sidered to he such in the year 1810, as not to render
necessary the continuance of this Act, and indeed to
admit of its repeal a very short period bef.,re that to
which its duration was limited by law.
In the early part, however, of January, 1811, in
consequence of the numerous outrag. s committed in
die Counties of Tipperary, Waterford, Kilkenny, and
' Limerick, by bodies of men who assembled in arms
by n'ght, adminibt-red unlawful oaths, prescribed laws
respecting the payment of rents and tithes, plundered
severathouses of arms, in various instances attempt-
ed, and in some committed murder; it was consi-
dered expedient tc issue a warrant for a Special Com-
. mission, to be held in the Counties before-mentioned,
and in the Cities of Waterford, Kilkenny, and Lime- j
rick, for the trial of such of Vse offenders as bad
been apprehended. From the evidence adduced at
the Special Commission, it appeared that many of
the outrages to which I have referred were committed'
by two combinations, very widely extended among
the losier orders of the Roman Catholic population,
which asouned the name of Caravats and Shanavests,
re•pectively, and between which a violent animosity
subsisted, the Cause of which was not very misfiled
torily accounted for. As feuds of the same kind,
not growing nut of religious differences, occasionally
exist (though seldom to the extent to which this ap-
" pears to have prevailed), I have inserted in the Ap-
pendix to this dispatch it portion of the evidence which
was adduced on one of the trials, from which some
information may be collected with respect to the
origin and object of the combinations by which the
peace of the country was at that time disturbed.
In the County of Tipperary nine persons were
tried: two for murder, and seven for attempts to
murder ; five were tried for robbery of arms ; and
twenty two indicted and tried under the Acts which
generally bear the name of the Riot and Whiteboy
Acts, for assuming the name of Caravats, and ap-
pearing is arms : six were sentenced to death,twenty-
sevetitotransportation, whipping, and imprisonment;
and three acquitted.
In Waterford twelve persons were tiled : seven for
attempts to murder', one for stealing arms, and four
fur burglary and robbery : they were all found guilty,
sad sentenced to death.
It was not thought' necessary to proceed to Lime-
tick in execution of the Commission; and there were
so trials of importance in Kilkeany.
Notwithstanding, however, the number of con-
victim's-in the Counties of Tipperary and Waterford,
'at the Special Commission, and the severe examples
which were-made, they do not appear even in these
Counties to have produced any lasting effect, or to
have materially checked the bad spirit -Which pre-

Veiled in them. •
in the early part of 1813. and during the whole,
of that year, many daring offences against the pub-
1k peace were committed in tbese and in. other
Counties, particularly Waterford, Westmeath, Ros.
cimitnon, and the King's County, the nature of
wisich Sufficiently Avowed that Illegal .couthi,natictus.
and glib same systematic violence and disorder against
which the Special Commission of 1811 bad been di-
ttoed, still existed.
The offences against the public peace, committed
in the Coontim which were the seats of disturbance,
partook of the same general character ; reports were
constantly received of attacks on dwelling.houses for
the purpose of procuring arms, and the frequency of
these attacks, and the open and daring manner in
*filch they were made. were Sufficient - proofs of the
desire which generally prevailed amongst those cm,
orned in the disturbances to tellect large quantities
arms, and that possess the means or prosatudas
dieir ulterior objects with a better prospect of success.
Several instances occurred, in which the hoesis of
inspectable individuals were attacked, even in the
even do."by large bodies of armed men; and otheri,
1 which the military, acting under the diatction of-
Vagigrates, met with considerable resistance. It is
y qf remark, that in the many successful knacks
were made upon bottles with the view of de-
privio the proprietors of their sink. it rarely oc.
nurra that any other species of property was nia.l
. tested bythe assailants. The principal objects of
kooky, or ratio Ile principal sufferers, on emir=
f Iler inadelflate means of defence, were those
persons who, en the expiration of leases, had taken
lam& farms St a higher vent than the late. occupiers
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