The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-10-04 00:00:00

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Ma. EDITOR,—It has been said of the old Govern- I Ct.olasteLr., Seer. 27.-011 Senrky afternoon,
meat of France, before the Revolution, that, to feed i about three o'clock, the mansion of Denis M'Certhy,
Its patulers and parasites, it had its fingers in every ' Esq. of Spring-house, about three miles from Tip-
man's dish. Something of the same kind is making I petary, , was assailed by astrumbe;- of armed despe-
quick progress in a Court on this side of the waters ; redoes. • At the time there were but two women and
and the following instance shows that its fingers are'! la boy. in the house; besides.. Mr. M'Carthy, who is
sadly dirtied by the employment : . • much..advanced is years and totally blind. The wo-
I was in compausy lately at Hammersmith, whets , time and boy were much alarmed. hut the old gen-
the conversatitus tweed ow the extraordmarytineans ; tleman was coal and deliberate, and without saying
that had been used to procure a new Ale-house la word took his blunderbuss •to meet the assailants.
)Licence. It was stated, that a: Gentleman jesiding As we are lufernted, they had battered in part of the
at Shepherd's-bust had expanded a, large capital- in door, and were entering, when "Mr..MiCarthy le-
raising a new neighbourhood there; that he was in' welled his • piece to the direction from wheace he
fact the landlord of upwards of fifty houses at ther!.heard .the voices. proceed,-aed bring, shot. one of
place, and had,, nu the earnest Solioitotionof his ,them through thethead, the bell :mitering at the left
tenints and neighbours, some years since, erected, Ave,;. The assailants then fired in their torn, and
superior public-house for their accommodation. t, IEI wounded Mr. M'Corthy in the hip, the ball pro-
hid often noticed this house, as remaining shut ep,, ; gooding.to his back (from which it has been since ex-
year alter year, fei.th* went of a licence. hap-. leacted); they then fled hastily,• leaving the body of
peered to me to be a credit to the road, and. to be their companion behind them ; but returned in some
•built "in a situation of unequalled convenience for time afterwards, probably to take away the corpse.
• the neighbourhood and. the public." During the last ,In the mean time, intelligence of the attack having
•week, the annual licensing again came round, when ' 'Tubed Tipperary, a party of dragoons having come
ID! to the astonishment and dismay of the inhabi- to Spring-house in full'gallop, were time enough to
Lent's, the expected licence was- bestowed, net on prevent the party removing the body, and it was
this house, but on tie' nominal owner of a .mean brought Into Tipperary for ad Inquest. It appears
thatched buading, situated a, considerable distance to be that of a young man of the name of Hackett,
out'of the way of the principal part of the neighbour- who lived at no great distance tram Spring-house.-
-bond. -On what ground such a preference could be The transaction is related with some slight traria-
ivied* conjecture was enable to discover :--facts may , lions from different sources—but all agree in terms
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imply a solution. ; of admiration of the extraordinary courage and Cool-
- sit is proved on the boat evidence, tkat for several • ness of Mr. MiCarthy ' • and we are happy to learn
Months paste...mess' ges, reiterated, urgent mes-ages, • that the wound which this gallant old Gentleman
have been sent to the Police, the In-place and Ex- received -on the occasion is not considered-es very
pectant Magistrates, signifying that it would be ; dangerous, though certainly of a serious nature.
" eseegitattie at-Carlton-house for them to give their 1
:Since the short account -we gave in our last, re.
9dge,fir a !toe:tale a Mr. ft.," the seeming owner ! specting Mr. Lawless's brave and successful resist-
.,tif the thatched house. Strange discrepancy ! The iance against the attack of the insurgents upon him,
Coarcyto which Europe looks up for the arbitrament I we find, that it being late in the day when'Mr. JAW.
•Of Its destinies, to busy itself in -procuring •an Ale. ;-less returned to Ca' her, ha could make no fresh
house foicetsce! Of the Protege, we will say no i ground that evening ; bet on Saterday morning' he
more, Lissa that hi fills some subordinate employment I went out'again to the same place in which he had
=bout rearitoe-house. been attacked, attended by a, corporal and six ; and
Thus much I have said in deprecation of this in- -his appearance was anticipated by the -evacuation of
tesfevence of.Carltots.house. lam not so indiscreet' every. house, by if,-grown male inhabitants, of Whoa.
,their
add, that the Licensing Magistrates have shaptivA :he -saw various rdtlections assembling at distant*:
their decision. according to the interference, nor will!.around him. There were two shots *red bytheitt;
I asst for the reasons of their-decision. I know they' apparently as oignals—a notice which had been given'
are not hound to give any, and that against 'their 1 the day before to bring the refereteretagettter. But
deitision there is no appeal,--howeret much the pro- .he -kept his little body -steady together—regularly
liseity,of individuals and the comfort-and convenience' made his suture .at every hens, where he met a re-
Al a neighbourhood and the public may ;be injured foul, and returned 'emnolested. The fellows retch-
by it :-.-but if allefted reasons are not forthcoming, !tried his resolute conduct the previous day, and had
AleriOnaonesam7-ind upon these there can be *swim
gai
.Cis a Paso lab te usiallion.-ri gar, &c. Ino relish for a similar reception to that which he
then gave them. Mr. Lawlen's conduct ail through
CANCIENNM.US. 'entitles him to the highest praise, and we trust will
sir . ••I- I obtain for him the substantial 'flavour and considers..
wil.sgo; 2:11.E PED-EisTRLIN. ;•tion of Govertnnent.

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ir2 IN Pare aq4Billikt, tlacitim4th, signed tly " RO.
l Pday,'' clArli to *r. Bicknellt thstPiqrit of the
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'potato, in sTqu!o .fpel• 1144felf ez9n4ralte4. from all
ivrnierfat!fpclstneta. In eitif, clay the motor stood
yesterday • and WI? eapegAl thgir Worships will
this day decidac upog this, eatraprdigary case.,
Ntilion will be conveyed in,the carriage of Mr. Wlis,
the
.4arrister, aboskt 1,1 o7clPC,lii, to the seat of justice,
that geutletesin itite4liog le act as_ his legal a.deocetti
on.tha 0c9440,t.i.
It is not a little rent,arlisble, that the lames oftene
of the. MsAistrates embodied in the warrant• epee
wfikalk Wilsou eras arseeedl are, ikroved;te have Wes
fretted wit rat ter kpoielelige or Anocuersace,.....,
tpft,. A . ibejegtOtegtqt, only .sighed it, The cis,
c‘rakii,* toilmurio,v4.. wool difforeng, *4 weU as
4.ll4,lfrift •
1t is a AlgylivigOtagt WiLseo wos.bere• within a
few doors of the resicieues.of,t.helather,of limp/sweat
Lord CbawFaller, whpse,: feptiky were particularly
kin 4 to vvhso,f4s P'Seats• TilltPraseut Lord• Chan.
eallor,.then.John,Scott, Esq, wheu.a young Barrh.
ter; acted., as arbitrator . for .Mrs. %num, and hu.
ittfAcki.nygiecied .his ,more • haportaut ditties to. pro.
eagtpisniuterp.sts. 1
koet )ieqprg.wilether.the Beath of Morgistratea,
-*if ei1..t104 afg at, the Green Mao, ou Blaekheethi
fir. at the *PR Tltlete, Greenwich.

COlin 6 Pe!. P.MlllRet,

We recite the following accounts with leas regret
than we usually feel at the communication of out-

rage, because they prove a fact that cannot be too
'strongly impressed upon the public mind—the almost
uniform and unfailing success of every brave man,
who is prepared and determined to defend himself
'against midnight treachery, or mid-day violence:—
The house of oue Regan, not far from the town
qt Tipperary, was visited by a party, who pat him
ender contribution for money to buy powder for
killing the Proctors, which they commanded him
oo his allegiance to provide against the next applica-
tion, for which they appointed a time. Regal
provided a companion as stout as himself, and when
two of those freebooters came, and, sure of the levy,
knocked at the door, Regan admitting lase, and.
denly shut oat the door on the other, upon *boot
We compsoiou instantly discharged a htundethwits
opt of the window : the fellow was seen to stumble,
bat Regan and his companion were too much mew- ,
pied with the fellow inside to pursue him. On
shutting In the door, Regan had knocked him,
down, and the two men thee secured- him. The bet 1
pt th;other fellow was found outside the door, shot
tkcipagh in several places.
liar* -last week, a house inhabited by a faihily ,
Weed, Wallis, rather momitertkward than the reach
of the. present insurrectionary spirit, lying between{
Burrisoleigh and the Silvermines, was attacked for
arms by a banditti, of whom Wallis shot the ring.
leader dead on the spot. The party immediately
dispersed ; and the dead body was cartied'the en-
suing day into Thurles, where the Coroner's Inquest
found a verdict according to the above short state.
meat.
At attack on the house of a smith, named Golden,
at Drum, In the neighbourhood of Templemore,
ended more- unfortunately. Golden and his family
had defended the house with such determined resell:.
flow as to beat off their enemy. Golden's son, dated
at the victory followed the runaways, induckilynt
the instant when a party of the police under Mr.
Wilson were coming,to the spot; Golden mistaking
the constables for the banditti fired, but without
doing any mischief, when one of the men instantly
fired, and killed the brave young fellow on the spot. ,
Oft Monday night a party of armed villains &seem-
sembled near Two-mile Bridge, when they attacked
the houses of the following farmers in that neigh.
bourhood, whom they deprived of their arms: from
Caddihy they took one gun ; from Power, two;
from Prendergast, one ; from Burke, Conan, Phe-
lan, and another person, one gun each: the first
three persons live between Two.mile Bridge and
Kilsheehen, the last foot between Powerstown and
Kilmore. On the same night the corn and hay of
a farmer, named Tielney, near BillypatriclC; was
scattered abstht by souse of the nightly tolfinel And
rendered completely useless. In fact, the state of
the country is become tics diming, that nothing
short -,0f,, the severest. measemircan 'raid a holloa of
its being, reclaimed.

• The University of Cambridge has received from.
Goieinment, during the, last seven years, as, a
draWback for paper printed withits it, the sum of
3.f,0871. 7'i. 6d.; • the University of Oxford, the sum.
of 18,13551. 2s. 6d. -The n!mber of, iiiitise_priqt..,
ea st.eanytiritigi, datinag the feat. eine years,. pat
392,000 ; of, We' "l'estanseisist;44o,PCOl ; Prayer_,
books, 194,00_b.- At Osford the eitoher.ef,
printed of, all iikads,..iaitAte!,soo.;, of Titsfaeleßth,
380,000.;., of Coitiomi Prayer Books 4, lof
11141. Oh* _0(
to.'sd;- ifiattssa 14141,
ow 1.5 prima! -it'Qfjprd; 1443001 i,
IsiereliesterrCastli it to becoxast lisp fotgre.dent,
for the confinement of men condemhed serve m
regiments abroad, instead of the ships at Covet.

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111 ELANCRMA ACtiIAST.

•
1 On Monday evening an Inquisition was taken at
the Carpenter's Arms, in Adam-street West, Mary.
le-bonne, by G. Honosorr, Esq. one of the Coro-
ners for the County of Middlesex, on view of the
body of James Ilolloway, who was unfortunately
killed on Friday last, in the following manner :
The deceased was about 40 years of age, and a
man much respected in the parish; he was a master-
-painter and glazier, resitli-q; in Adam street, and had
undertaken To paint the Earl of Beverley's house, in
Portman-square, which job was nearly finished on
Friday, when the accident happened. After the men
came from dinner he ordered one of them to wash
the sky-light over the staircase before it should be
painted, observing it was very dirty ; this the man
refused to do—saying there was only a single plank
to stand upon, that the place was very high, and con-
, sequently dangerous, as there was not any thing to
hold by, and tat he would not risk his life in such
a manlier. The deceased said that it was well se-
cured, and as he could not get a man to do the busi-
ness he must do it himself; and-accordingly he took
e." pail full of water and a brush, and went upon the
plank, and in his efforts to wash the dome of the sky-
, light, he over-reached himself, and was precipitated
to the bottom, a very great height, his scull broken
i to pieces on the marble-flags in the passage, and his
brain's in a most shocking manner scattered about the
.place; in that state he was put on a abutter, and car-
tvied to his own house, in Adam-street, where a sur-
geon was instantly procured, but he could render no
assistance, sad he expired in a few minutes after he
was brooght home.
The Jay returned their verdict—Accidental
, Death.

Oa ittettday an Inquest' wit held before. GEORGIC
Hooasow,' Nag. at the Pension, a Room, Gray's In
lane,. on the body of a new been male child. From
,the evidence of two of the porters of Gray's Inn, It
rappearedi that soon after six o'clock on Saturday
merning, a small crowd of persons, standing near I
home iron'railing, not rar from Fulwood's-rentsoti•
l'tracted thelr7attention, and on. gag amongst them
ascertain the cattle of disturbance wlthitt pre-.
lends 'of the Inn, they saw some persons kickitig
about a basket, which, on examination, proved to
contain a dead child. Dr. Vincent, of Chancery.
lane, stated the child's death had been occasioned
by neglect at its birth, ittld the Jury's Verdict regii-
i tered its death 'as arising from itch neglect.
An Inquest was also held before the same Cora-
-1 ner, at the Greem . Man abd Still, Cow Cross, on
the body of ,names Bean.
The witness examined as tollteTatt of the death
'elated, that its he was going into aboie
'the dertetited was coming out of it, slid 'thiliirtibis
is arrived at the &serenity be fell Avow* enlist pate-
sent, and never spoke afterwards. He was" catch
into the public-house, and medical aid was immedi-
ately obtained, but all was vain ; he died io a very
shortiime after falling, rib consequence of spasms in
'lite stomach. Verdict—Died by the visitation of
God at a pablic-housc doom
I An Inquisition was. also taken at the Mansfield
Amos, lgensfield-placei Kentish.-town, upon viewing'
the body of Henry Robertson, who was found upon
hii knees by the side of the bed, in the attitude of
pitying, but quite dead, on his landlady going into
I the bed-room in' the morning to call him. Verdict—I
Died by the visitation of God.

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SERIOUS FLOOD.

Duniltsi, gulf. iB.—"During Sandriy, 'Monday,
and Tuesday lost, there was an uncommon fall of
vain, iracompanied with very high wind, in theneigh-
hourhood of Dumfries. The dersstation, on ac.
' count of the swelling of the different rivers and ri.
'Wets, in that neighbourhood, is incalculable; quan.
tities of grain have been carried away, embankment,
destroyed, &c. Oe the river" Nith, in particular,
within the morrelthinediate view of the Writer of thip
article, there was net an embankment for u'piersitt
of 20 miles, Which the river has not' entrenched
upon, sad, of course, seriously injured. The di.
rouge menet be estimated at less than 20,0001. At
the Dumfries bridges, it was truly distressing to see
the immense quantities of corn, and other property,
carried down by the flood. Bat the' dreadful effects
!irt these torrents of rain Were not confined to the
'river Nith, but extended to all the surrounding
couetry, in which rivers and rapid streams are very
numerous. At Newabbey, Stewartry of Kirkcud-
bright, the bridge which had stood the buffetings of
the winter storm for centuries, was carried amly.
It *so providential ail this happened in the day time;
If IV* been in the 'night, that bridge heirogibe ten;
Iteal cOmMunication froni Dumfries, mud
itrict of country, it might have been fatal in its con.
sequences tp many individuals, but as it is, no lives
have been lost. The elegant new bridge orer the
' Dee, at'New Galloway, within a month of being
finished, has bben swept away ; it' has cost 70001.
Several bridges a the neighbourhood of Moffat Ivite
also been carried off, and a number of farmers,
whose corn lay in the vicinity. of Annan Water, have
lest from one to five thousand stooks, or shocks. The
great flood on the 15th and 16th of November,
1807, was 'truly awful, both in the neighbourhood
of Carlisle; and in this district, bat we have had no-
; thingnf the Dottie be compared with 'the present,
since February; 1780.

A few nights .since the Raft of • Lonsdale's coach.
man was unfortunately killed.by being.throwo from
a horse as he was croising a bridge, between Penrith
and Lowther'. It is sup Posed that le 'Was going at
gilloP; and in tatting t< tlitire coiner he was
thrown 'ovel. the bridle, which wits of cOnsideinble
height. The' barly.wee found the following morning
On Tuesday last, abant four o'clock in,the after. under water. The horse was found in a field somb
,norns a vessel .was observed by the. time after.
at
,a
()wren oat the sea m 0,4410411, they . By en Act 53 "George{ 50, it,fs enacted,.
'cfeatte't mien! her any assistance, and -shalt five that frnm and -after the fiat dai of the' present
;O'clock she foundered. She provesi.irk b• the Mi. dinvithjalt firtind gretislOteperd oftAilatfelli iffy
64 packet, of Brighton, basing 9%60'4 °r._ll, owe Initittihr'eti:eittrivitei;tdMinitirrenf,'or'dlitteege,' to'
and two boys, who ware.. all (howled- Mt *ad: of held prison, Aim ebteletely cease, -end the same
dkuded her passengers on Sunday last at W4ebton t are hereby aboished sad determined. All fees usual.
the greater part of her bull has slime drifted lute ' ly paid to the Clerk of the Court, Alsia!, &c. are
Pagham buboes. else abolished.

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