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men for his protection, was killed in the day-tirde.
and his party disarmed, within a short distance of
the City .of Cashel.

In the early part of the month of September, in
consequence of the repeated acts of outrage which
were comm:tted in the Counties of Tipperary anti
Limerick, and the violent and open manner in which
the law was set at defiance, I directed a large tidal-
tion.al military force, under the command of Lieute-
nant General Meyrick, to march into these Counties,
with the view of aiding the civil power, and giving
that confidence to the respectable and viell disposed
inhabitants, which might induce there to remain in
the country, and co-operate with the Government id
endenifecring to maintain tranquillity.
On receiving on the 23th of Sentember, the me-
morial which T have above alluded to, proceeding
from an unanimous meeting of forty Magistrates,
lost not a moment in issuing a proclamation, with
the advice of the Privy Councifo.declaring six ( I) of
the Baronies of the County of Tiplielart-to be in'a
state of disturbance, and subjecting them to the pro-
visions of the Insurrection Act.

Another (2) Barony of the County was, in a fcw
days afterwards, included in this Proclamation, on
the application of the Magistrates.
In the course of the month of October, another
memorial was presented to me from thirteen Magi;-
trates of the County of Tipperary, assembled at an
extraordinary Session of the Peace, expressing their
opinion, that four additional Baronies (not included
in; he Proclamations) wrre in a state of disturbance,
and praying th tt they also might be proclaimed.
Not having had sufficient reason to think that the
Baronies last mentioned were in such a state asf dis-
turbance as to call for the application of any extra•
ordinary measure, I directed the Clerk of the Peace
to be called upon to furnish the sworn informations
of outrages committed, upon which the allegations
of disturbance rested.
• After a consideration of the cinc.uments with which
I was furnished, I did not think the necessity for a
compliance with the memorial I have last mentioned
sufficiently established. I entertained a confident
hope, that if the Act was effectual in the Baronies in
which it had been recently enforced, its influence
would be felt in those immediately adjoining them.
At the latter end of September, I received from
forty-seven Magistrates of the County of Limerick,
assembled at a Special Sessions on the 26th, a repre-
sentation that the entire of that County WAS in a state
lof disturbance, occasioned by a very general come.
deracy asnong the lower orders, and praying that the
County might be proclaimed under the Insurrection
Act. A memorial was also received, concluding
' with the same prayer, from the Magistrates of the
County of the City of Limerick.
Having had sufficient evidence that the ordinary
operation of the law was inadequate to maintain
tranquillity in this county, and that it was in a state of
serious disorder, it was proclaimed in Council under
the provisions of the Insurrection Act on the 33th of
September; anti the County of the City, with the
exception of such parishes as are within the City, was
proclaimed on the 3d of October.
In consequence of the number of prisoners in the
gaol of the County of Limerick, I deemed it eve-
dient to issue a warrant for a Special Cammission,
for the purpose of bringing the offenders to trial. •
In the early part of November it gave me great
satisfaction to be enabled to inform your Lordship,
that- since the Insurrection Act had been in force in
the Counties of Tipperary and Limerick, compara.
tively few crimes in violation of the public peace had
been committed in these Counties, and that they had
enjoyeJ a state of tranquillity to which they had been
unaccustomed for some time past : th tt those.provi-
sions of the Insutrection Act which give facilities to
the Magistrates to recover arms from persons who are
not entitled by law to possess them, had operated
very beneficially ; and I felt it due to the Magistrates
residing in the disturbed districts, to report to your
Lordship the great unanitbity with which they had
acted, and the strong disposition they had shewn to
give effect. by their personal exertions, to the mea•
sures 91 Government. At this period I received ad-
dresses from each of the Grand Juries of the County
and City of Limerick, assembled at the Special Com.
mission then about to terminate, expressing their
satisfaction with the measures which had been adopted
for the suppression of disturbance, and conveying
an assurance that they had been attended with success.
Notwithstanding the intimation which I had' so re.
cently conveyed to your Lordship► that the state of
the County of Tipperary was improved, at least
there had been of late fewer violations of
.the public
peace, towards the latter end of the month of No.
ember, Mr. William Baker, a Gentleman of consi.
derable fortune, ant, of the highest character and re.
spectability, was assassinated on his return home
from the Special Sessions at Cashel, where be had
been discharging his duty as a Magistrate. The
circumstances under which this murder was commit•
ted, and which were proved in evidence on tiro trial
of two persons concerned in it, are strongly indica.
tive of that depravity and sanguinary disposition of
which this County had preseuted so many lamentable
proofs. It appeared that in the month of September
a house in the neighbourhood of Mr. Baker's resi-
dence had been attacked by an armed body of men,
and, after considerable resistance on the part of the
inhabitants. had been burned. Mr. Bakerhad mined
himself with great activity and success in detecting
and committing to prison the perpetrators of this out.
rage ; and in consequence of his exertions a conspi.
racy to murder him was formed in the early part of
November. The murder WAS committed on the 27th
of November in the day-tiaie, by a party of five
persons.
It appeared that in consequence of an order which
had been issued (it has not been traced from whom)
(1) The six Baronies •were those of Middletbird, Kdoetna-
nagh, Ehogarty, Skwardagh, and Comport, Clanwilliant, and the
Eastern Barony of life and Offa.
(2) That of Iffa and Offa Wen.
(3) Upper and Lower Ormond, lkerrin, ()win)? atidsirm

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