Star.
London, England, 1803-01-25 00:00:00

V.Htllier 15.

Ye(erday morning, at ten o'clock, the follou
ing pet fon%, 'tied and convicted on the three pre-
ceding days, were conveyed from ptifon to the
Court to receive fentence : •

Daniel Ryan and Timothy HaMilan, for the
rape on Margaret Daniel ; John Supple and John
Londregan, for a burglary and felony in the hunk
of John Devereux ; and Chriflopher Londregan,
Edmund Londregan, James For, Matthew Mock-
ler, Edmund Dwyer, Michael Henna'', Denis
Carew, and John Croneen, for burglary and fe-
lony in the houfe of David Grady, in the Glyn
of Agherlow, on the night of the 3d of Septem-
ber lan.

Previous to palling fentence, the Hon. Mr. Ba.
ron GEORGE addreffed the prifoners in a moll im
preftive manner, on the enormity of the crimes for
which they were to fuller, and on the importance
of their employing the Ilion period which • inter-
vened between them and eternity, in the deepeft
refledion and ern:unit-so. To the convidts for bur-
glary, he reprelented the fatal confequences which
would refult to tho-commnnity, were fuch crimes
as theirs permitted to pals unpunifhed : where
property and life are infecure, even individual
prnfperity mutt be unknown; the land would loon
refume its original uncultivated afpeft, and its
inhabitants would be degraded to their former le
vel of vaffals and flares. In the prefent cafe, the
crime of burglary, at all times punifhable by death,
was aggravated by fome peculiar circitmllances. 4
fpirit of oppofition to the laws, and of contempt to
the Magiftrates,had produced a wickedand ruinous
fpeciesofcombinationamong a confiderable portion
of the peafantry of this and fome of the adjoining
counties ; and it was in furtherance of this delltuc-
Live fyftem that the prifoners had attacked the
houfes, with an evident intention of deftroying the
properties, and of at leaft abufing the perfons of
two honeft, peaceable and loyal men, from whom
they had never received an injury, or probably an
infult—thus at once outraging the ordinances of
their GOD and the laws of their country 1 44 Mi-
ferable, deluded men ! what have you done !"
emphatically afked his Lorellhip : 44 In*attempting
the deftruetion of others, you have brought down
an infamous death upon yourfelves, and forrow,
ruin, and difgrace upon your unhappy families !"
The Learned Judge, with almoft indefcribable
feeling and force, laftly addrefled the two prifoners
convitled of the rape. Prefumptuous indeed, it
would be, were we to attempt following his Lord.
Ihip in his own words ; and, were even that at-
tempt fuccefsful, it would be utterly impoftible to
reprefent to our Readers the penetrating irrefifti
ble ftrength which the dignity of his expreftion
added to every period. We can barely give a
(ketch of his Lordftsip's conclufien.
. . . . 44 But, enormous as is the guilt of your
fellow fufferers—your's, Daniel Ryan and Timo-
thy Hallinan exceeds it ; for your's are crimes
which mutt be abhorred by all who bear the name
of man ! At the dead hour of night you entered
the dwelling-hostfe of a poor indullrious man, then
abfent, and demanded his horfe ; after giving his
wife your folemn promife that no harm fhould be
offered to her, you feized an opportunity of being
alone, for the perpetration of an as, at the recital
of which humanity mutt thudder—you violated
her. In vain were her intreaties, her reprefenta-
tion of her fituation—that her day of deliver y of
the child of which the was then great, was at
hand, and that her death, and the death of her
unborn infant, would be the certain confequences
of your fulfilling your intentions: you perfitted—
you both, with more than ravage atrocity, effeeted
your diabolical purpofe ; and 'you both contami
nated her ! The predielions of the poor mother,
the wretched wife, were at leaft in part, but too
true : you added murder to your other crimes—
the innocent unborn perifhed through your bru-
tality and your uncleanlinefs ! 0! did you believe
that there exifted a Goo above, and yet hope to
efcape his vengeance ? Great and numberlefs are
the crimes of mankind ; but, till the awful hour
of your public atonement arrives, ceafe not Ti-
mothy Hallinan and Daniel Ryan to recolleCt,that
your crimes have exceeded them all ! To this
your prior guilt, you have added an outrage upon
juftice and the univerfal feelings of nature : find-
ing that the alone who could profecute you was
proteded from the influence of terror, you found
means to extend that influence over the minds of
Come of her nearelt kindred, and by threat and
artifice conjoined, the brother and filter were pre-
vailed upon to come forward to this table, to
commit bare-faced perjury, in order to invalidate
the teftimony of their injured finer! What depra-
vity 1 Never was it fo fhamefully, In unnaturally
difplayed in a Court of Juflire. The wretched
dupes of terror, in the confufion occafioned by
their confcious guilt, acknowledged the caufe,
which, before this confelfion, was difguftingly
evident.

" Unfortunate men ! Let not the fmallefl hope
of mercy in this life, ref! in Your bornms ! To
extend that mercy to you now, would be to inflia
a death wound on the tranquillity of the country.
At the throne of yonr It EDI PM t a, whom you have
fo heinoufly offended by your tranfgreffions, you
can alone hope for forgivenefs."

The Learned Judge concluded by pronouncing
the dreadful lenience of the law, which is to lw
executed as follows :

Tim'thy Hallinan and Daniel Ryan to be hang•
ed at Newcaftle, on Monday the 24th

John Supple and John Londregan. on Saturday
the tsith. at Clonmel.
Chrillopher Londregan, Edward Londregan,
James Fox, Matthew Mockler, Edmund Dwyer,
and Michael Hennelfy, on Wedncfday the 26th,
at the Glyn of Agherlow.
John Croneen and Dennis Carew. rcfpited till
further orders.
Immediately after paging (entente the Court
adjourned.
Ye gerday.fliortly after the Court was adjourned,
the I ion. Baron GIORGI and Mr. Jallicc Downes
iet out on theit taut' to Dulau.