Star.
London, England, 1821-11-26 00:00:00

DISTURBANCES IN IRELANti

•ROll THE DUBLIN JOURNAL OF FRIDAY.
It is with feelings of huiror that we record the
struction of seventeen persons in the Barony of.
dlethird, county of Tipperary, by means the axe
cruel and savage that can be imagiuel A letter fmet
Clonmel, dated November 41, says,
fa Monday night, or early yesterday murnin„,
the
house of Mr. Erosions SUSA, an opulent farmer' at
Gurtnapish, near Clooneen, between Pethard
aad
Mullinahone, Barony of Middlethird, iu this comer.
and at the north-west foot of Slievnamau %anti
WAS destroyed by fire, with Mamma SHEA, hi%
vei:
(who was supposed to have lain in on that unhappy
night of an infant), five children, a fine young
who was on a visit at the house, five labouring me;
and three servant-maidsl An eye-witness, who sae
the bodies yesterday at noon, represents them ,1
having scarcely the resemblance of the human font,
but seemed rather like lumps of bog wood, as dee
lay near the door almost in a cluster, intermixed itita
the ashes of the burnt thatch. Scarcely a door
exists that the conflagration was felonious, and /he
consequence of a serious attack by murderous ban.
ditti. It appears there was a jealousy a„tairot the
SISRAS, regarding some ground they lately camp into
P°and it is supposed that this was the
causssesion of,
cause osfthehcrrid catastrophe."

We cannot trust out selves to write on this licniA
business, which disgraces human nature, and will%
main a black stain on Ireland fur ages to come.

The Clonmel Herold of Wednesday, in speakingef
this event, which it justly compares to the burning ei
Scullabogue-house during the rebellion, gives ;It
following additional pm titulars :—Mr. SHEA had re.
cently put out some under-tenaras at will, as titer
are called, who hold without lease, by civil bill pro.
cess, and had possessed himself of their lands. For
this he was served with a notice that unless he re
stored the old occupants, he should suffer for it; and,
being determined to preserve his property and tom
sist the attack with.which he was menaced, he pre.
vided himself with fire-arms, in sufficient 'lumbar*
good defence, and got into his house two or that
neighbours of resolute character, for his assistance,_
These precautions, it seems, were fatally reseed
useless ; for, at a late hour on Monday night, he aid
his numerous family, consisting in all of seventeen,
men, women, and children, found the divelling.bne
in flames around them. SHEA, the owner, appernt
have been the first to burst out on his assailants, bet
he was instantly shot, and thrown back into the flaw;
another, making a similar attempt, shared the use
fate ; and, before the murderers departed, evernenos
in the house was burned to death !
The conflagration, which continued to a late hour
on Tuesday morning, was seen in :various directions at
a long distance ; and one Gentleman, asking a masa
tryman whom he met on the road, two or three mile
from the place, what could occasion such a fire? vas
answered, with perfect sang froid, Nothing, I
suppose, but satisfaction they are taking for the par
people that were turned out of their hoax, t'ode
day."—We acknowledge, without shame, thatita
moment of this diabolical excess of faiq
being reported to us, we did not
language could afford, not to aggras
the horror of such a sanguinary glt
so large, and of whom so many, even
those savages, must be entirely free .
Lion in Saga's assertion of his property,
are represented to us as children
years ! three, or as some say, four were
him for their protection—all the rest •
and all—all mingled in one indiscrit
of the most hellish character, because
the land thought himself entitled to •
he had paid for, and refused sul
legislation of midnight assassins.
Last week the house of E. SEALI,
Kerry, was attacked, and plundered
On the same night, Mr. MILWARD,
was compelled to deliver up his
band also attacked the house of Gi.
Esq. of Bilbrough, and some other
neighbourhood, from which they
On Saturday night, the banditti assembled
numbers at Kilcow, near Castle
quence of the removal of the military
ters of the country. Early on Sunc
notice was posted on the door of Ball
pel, by " General Rock," saying,
commission at Mallow, and that
under his command. He threatened
all tithe and tax collectors, police-r
The Clergyman tore down this imi
tion, and seriously cautioned his •
such illegal p.roceedings.
Saturday night, Captain Rock, a
=an, entered the house of Mrs.
Dicksgrove, where he obtained one
worked that he possessed the gni
Goma, and that this one should
, patch similar characters. Several
Iwere sworn not to receive cattle
of tithes. So great is the alarm in
that several Gentlemen have ta!
towel, and, notwithstanding the
gistrates and Gentry in Kerry
everywhere spreading.
In the County of Limerick outrages
committed. A party entered the
Whitehall, belonging to Captain .
of the County of Limerick Militia, in swell
but without success. The lodge at Mr. T
Quinpoole, was also searched with a •
Major TOMLIN'S house, near Patrick's
visited a second time, and• one musket nballor
Sunday last, about two o'clock at noon,
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