The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-19 00:00:00

FRESH OUTRAdES.

About three o'clock yesterday. as Joseph Fitzgerald,
son of Edward Villiers Fitzgerald. Esq was riding on
the high road leading through Cahireeny, in the
Parish of Kildimo, he perceived a man with his face
blackened inside the road wall with a short gun in
his band; the man fired at him, but fortuns*ly missed
him. when be tintly rode ot The Polloo;oned
!at Paleame misinAnsediate seitecit itittlitte
could Pt lopitielligenee
YeStetdirall•oolo.4lbOtt six &cis& Lleitthait
Morris ail a party of the Ballylongford corps pro-
ceeded col farm in the neighbourhood of Ballybunios.
to distrait some cattle, under trarrant of' Magistrate,
and a report being circulated through the Fair at Tor-
bert, that this party were attacked and fired upon,
having reached Capt. Robert Leslie, who, arcom-
panied by Wm. Lindsay, Reg , Mr. Kittson, and a
party of the Tarbert Infantry. yet off instantly to their
auk ante, wl el they met them at Astee, returning
after boating off upwards of a thousand people, armed
with scythes, pitchforks and stones, killing two men,
one woman, aid wounding several others.—(Limerick
at-tweak.)
MURDERERS OF MAJOR COWS.
On Thursday last, Walter and Richard Coppinger.
(father and son), who ate charged with being two of
the principals concerned is the murder of the late
Ma* Coil es mr."4, spratpied twit.; 7-- There
are sow, airltrUo the portupt and persevering exer-
tions which been eo generally put forward on
this melantboly occasion, six persons in custody,
charged as being p irticipators in that atrocious outrage.
littatzsmv. Vac. 15.—The alarmists have been la-
bouring in their vocation in Dublin as well as in the
country. To the thousand and one rumours relative is
the disturbed state of this and tither counties, which
have all been proved to be fabrications in their turn, we
have to add, that Dublin was to have been sacked last
Saturday night by an invisible army of 80,000 men ;
but a trench three feet deep, and one foot wide.
having been dug at the site of one tf the intended
barriers, the formidable foe was so thoroughly terrified
that the night passed off in the usual tranquillity; the
trench was tilled on Sunday, and the order to erect
harriers has been countermanded. We are sorry to
leas. lortexect that iettettia3l46osMAitsiisei 44-
frightful beads in different parts of the country. As
, an efficient force they are absolutely useless. As an
irritating body of exclusive loyalists it will be a mira-
cle if they be not the cause of much affliction to their
country.—(Leinster Joornal )

NE WPORTS' L. 111; If.II'EtIFORD BANK.

IMPORT INT DECISION.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DrniaN, Dec. 13.
Before the Hon. Judge BURTON and a Special Jury.

JOHN HARRIS AND THOM IS 51F.AGHICR, JUN. ASSIGNEES OF
SA3IESI. NEWPORT, A BANKRUPT, AND JOHN NEWPORT,
PLAINTIFFS.-THOMAS PROSSOR AND JOHN PROSSOR,
DEFENDANTS.

This action occupied the entire day, and was brought
to recover 9411. 15s. 6d. being the balance of an account
due to the late Newports' Waterford Bank by the de-
fendants, to which they pleaded a set-off and pro-
duced the notes of the late Bank for an equal or greater
amount.
The Act of Bankruptcy of Samuel Newport, the Peti-
tioning Creditor's debt, and assigntnent to the Plaintiffs
of the Bankrupt's estate, were duly proved.
John Carroll, book-keeper to the late Bank, proved
the balance to be due at the failure, which occurred on
the 6th June, 1529 ; believed Bills were collected by the
runner of the house the day or two after the stoppage
never heard the defendants came to the Bank to offer
notes of the house in payment before the late Mr. Wm.
Newport was buried.
William Edwards was Cashier to the Bank, knows
defendants; they had an account with the Bank; saw
one of them on the Bth or 9th of June, 1820, two or
three days after the stoppage, at the Bank door; de-
fendant bad, at the time, a bundle of notes in his
hand, that appeared bulky, which he said were New-
ports' notes, and which he tendered i■ payment of his
account; witness did not feel authorised to take them,
until he had Mr. Samuel Newport's directions. Wit-
ness went in to Mr. Samuel Newport, and told him of
the circumstance; Mr. Newport refused to take the
notes, or let Mr. Prossor into the Bank. The runner
of the Bank, Mr. Galway, brought in Newports' notes
for three or four days after the stoppage, in payment
of bills : believes the notes could not be purchased in
Waterford for lees than full value, for several days
after the stoppage. If the death of Mr. W. Newport
had not occurred, believes the house would be kept
open, and the notes paid. Lodgments that were made
on the day of the stoppage were returned to the de-

positors.
Dennis Denny knows the defendants for nine years ;
they keep no clerk in their office ; occasionally they
keep one in their butter and corn stores.
Counsel fur the plaintiff relied, that there ought to
be positive proof of the notes having been in defend-
ants' possession at the time of the stoppage, and that
oxai probaddi of snch facts lay on the defendants, and
averred that no proot to go to the Jury had been wade

oat.
Counsel for the defendants cited several cases to
•hew that presumptive proof ;sae sufficient, and that

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