The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-10-26 00:00:00

Cornelius Moran examined by Mr. CAMPBELL.

Witness is a Bailiff to the Sheriff of the
.county,
of Dublin. Oh tite.2sth of zitiy
the house of General Buchanan, near Lucan, to
execute a writ. Mr. Fitzgerald (the .Plaintiff),. a
man of the name of John Colvin, and anothe'r
man, were with 'him—he got into the house easily,
by walking in through the kitchen door, which was
standing open—a lady was standing In the kitchen,
1-41 e lady asked what was his business there? The
witness replied, he had an execution againat the Ge.
neral's goods and chattles. That was not the
truth ; it was to try if the General' would come out
easily—the execution was against his person. The
Lady is one of the traversers ; she went into the
parlour, and in about two minutes returned, and
asked to see the execution; witness took it out of
his pocket, and said, 46 Here it is, and there is the
Sheriff's seal;" but he would not give it to her,
telling her she might burn it. The lady went into
the parlour again. Witness heard the General in
the parlour; he listened at the dour, and heard the
General desire her to bring him his pistols :, she
went for the pistols : she then said, " I have got
one pistol ;" the General replied, " I have the other',
in toy pocket." Witness- then turned the brass
butteM of the parlour.door, and Went into the room
—the General and the Lady were standing on the!
!floor talking. Thu General said, " I will blow
your brains out if you proceed further." Witness
did proceed—there was a window raised—the -Gk..
neeal .made a charge at the Window, and got partly
out—witness got hold of him by the coat—witness
had a stick—tile General made a rub of a knife at
him, which slipped down the stick and cut his
hand—witness bud seized the General by the coat
before he received the cut. Three women then et.
tacked the witness with, a. poker, a fire.shovel,
and a greasy cloth about the. eyes. At this lime
witness was endeavouring to hold the General. The
elder of the female Traversers had the dishclont7—
the knife fell out of the General's hand,—the eider
woman eudcavourcd to get it—the witness—let- the
General loose, fearing he would be injured by. the'
knife—the youngest lady opened the window, and
the General escaped. As -seen as the General hid
get off, the three. women : began to beat the
witness, ! who was 'struck. with the' poker. on
the head. At the time of making the' arrest;
the General was fast in the window, 'it' not he.-
ing sufficiently open. • As soon as he possibly
could, the witness followed the Generalr=
Mr. Fitzgerald and the other man, as wall as wit._
ness, saw the General running along his own well,
which-he crossed, and got into an Old mill on the
lands of Mr. Gaudon, one of the 'rraversers—Mr..
Gandou immediately came up, with,* shovel in his
hand, and without asking what they wanted, or
who they were, knocked the witness down—Mr.
Gatidon then said, 44 You robber, what do you
here ?" Witness replied, 6' Lam no robber, but
am an Officer of the Sheriff, following 'oty pri.
soner." Mr. Gander( then drew soother Now at
the witness, and tumbled him; and then called out
`tO a man that had a pistol, which he twisted out off
Ids hand, and gave.wititess • /Ist in the face; and
:said, if he would proceed further, he would blow
'his brains out. The witness then saw the General
on Mr. Gandon's ground, about one hundred yards
from them, with his hat waving over his head,
*crying out, " War.hatek ! War-hawk !"—that
was moaning ;that the witness was a bailiff—he was
'known to he 'a bailiff' in the county of Dublin—.
.Mr. Gantlets gave directions to the man to shoot
them—witness male! his escape from the ground,.
and went down to Str.John %Mite, and told him
the matter.—Mr. Guidon, with a party of above
fifty men, followed the witness toSir John White'e,
throwing stones at him, and pelted him before Sir
John, who said he would not permit witness to be
molested. Mr. Gandou said, witness's bones ought
to be broken, or any vagabond that came into his
grounds. Sir Joint White replied, "Mr. Gamlen,
take care what you do ; the man ought nut to be
molested ;" and then desired the witness to leave
the town, as his hie would not be safe. The wit-
ness took Sir JOhn's advice, because he had saved
his fife before in the town. All Sir John could do
did not prevent the mob from pelting stones. Wit-
•ness was afterwards followed by upwards of one
hundred person, who were running after him from
the fields—the. mob followed thew near a mile
and an half to a hill, user Ctirsis.ttream. When
witness -got to Dublin, he was bled by a Surgeon
—lle had 'no use of his arm 'fur better than a
month afterwards. There was a great pain id his
hip, and the blow of .a stone he gut in his back still
affects him.

•
The Traverser, M'Gauran, had a pistol, which
Mr. Gandon took from hint, and titre./ down- a
Sp*. be 1,44, with which the forinerstruek hiet.',
Cross-examined by Mr. GREENR.
Has meted in the_Mipaeity of .a of the coot.
ty of Dublin for upwards of two years. The war.
rant under which the general was arrested was' ori.
ginally directed to Magitutess and John Doe, but
the Sheriff did not like to hive Mitginness in the
warrant, and altered it with his own hand,, and
then signed it. 'The Plaintiff was brought to the
house to skew his man. It is the col:staid practice
to prevent mistakes. Never heard that half the.
disturbance and riots which take place on those on.
elisions is the consequence of the attendance of the
Plaintiff—because, when they chew us 6.6 our man"
they generally go away. "•John .Doe," hi the
warrant, is any man we choesa.to bring with us.
We thought, by saying that the execution was
against his goods and chattels,' that he would come
out to compromise, and to give us our fees not
to expose him, in the way of civility money—and
we thought by that means to get at him easily. if
•She General pleased, . he might hove made his

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about the
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escape Were stands Arent into th ••••
e -aw4,4t..-' •
there was a party watching him, aid h• L_
inn,ewe.. way
Witness a,
be pinned. He wall about Nee miouts*
totly. The three -women roolloppeti witness
dies. ‘Yitness was *o when he head
spvoakyesrt,olsdhtohveel;toluryldintinsfirselrecy to
pistols asked for—he had one himself it his btet''
but it was not loaded. Witness not fullowthe
General through the stititidw—he was obtige4 to
out through the kitchen. The. General es; thgt,
about six perches from him, running along 11:
wall. Mr. Gandon said, before the Sheriff and sit j
White, that tie had made the Witness feel the hard,
ness of his !suckles. Mr. Fitzgerald, the Plaindi
'was disguised by a great coat, which he touli
Mr. Gandon then said, " Fitzgerald, I know
you." He answered; " And I know you, ,„;4
ll
given
make
the por ou know
man." me, fur the treatment yeti loot
'Mr. Fitzgerald, in the course of his etalist;
tion by Mr. King, corroborated the testimony
the last witness, so far as the witness had stet,'
his being Present. Witness saw the General r
ning ; he saw the last witness, and said, 4( Thereil
your mark, what have you done ?" The reply
" I had him arrested, bill am not able, tome;
heating I got, to follow him." When they tit
got
Mr. Gaudon's ground, MiGanrato, with a listo
in his hand, stopped the witness. Ile kW Gand,;
give the last witness several blows and sly, lit
General on a hill, weaving his hat, and eryl4 su
War.huazk ! The Traverser,' McGaurau, i, ,„
honest mats. Ho saw Gandon endeavouring to get
the pistol from him, twisting and twining its 11,4
taking it from him ; and he believed !ol'Ost,„4
resisted to prevent persolal injury beitogdoue. The
General was Ito view of the town and neiglibinr.
hood of Lucan, when he waved his hat and nitl
Wur.harok!
Benedict Arthur, Esq. the Under Sherifier tie
county of Dublin, proved the writ of execution avi
the warrant ; and in the course of his examination,
part of which was by Colonel Vesey from tho
Bench, stated that the neighbourbool of Lucas
was so riotous, and determined to oppose the
cers of Justice, that he had made no less than three
attempts in vain to execute a writ of replevin—and
that his bailiff had been frequently beaten.
The Jury, after a most excellent and disrrimi.
natiug charge from Serjeant MOORE) NMI all t;.,.
_parties, except 11,l‘Gauraii, guilty of the rescue nil
assault, and acquitted them generally of the riot.
• By consent of the Prosecutors, sentence is not is
be pronounced until the 3d of next mouth, to itlui
day the Court adjourned.

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qWuFatheteßnErsaschuo Decreeußiaa
in arms, natural humanity persuaded many,
it was given merely in terrorem, and serer in.'
tended to be -executed; but we may rely upon the
following account, communicated by an English.
man, lately retnrned from his fang detention in
France. In •July, 1809, he was dirtitling upon
the Bourdeaux roatk' At St. Madre, he dined "with
the diligence fromtPayonese, in which several
cers were returning from Spain; one at 'Aiwa re.
listed, that in a late.affair, 1500 Spanish peanuts
having laid down their arms, were ordered by 0,
Trench general to cry, " Long live King Joseph!"
a universal silenCe—not a voice.
.obeynk Thl
were then deiired to cry, " Long titre Napoleon!"
one individual coMplied; when the peasant nest to
him drew his knife, and stabbed him to the hart.
Seeing that their loyalty was incorrigible, theta
tary Ilyrnsidosi ordered the MX) patriots to k
marched to the rear, where they were all shot sof
put to the sword. The company at the talk
d'Hote, far from expressing any sarprise, pity,*
indignation, seemed to think that the transmits
was perfectly en regle, and our countryinael*
insulated among' the satellites and slaves of skim.
ism, thought it prudent to abstain (rein any pin.
cular inquiries as to time and place.
Poggins, the Florentine, tells a story worthythr
attention of •our Cockney Sportsmen :—A phf Si*
elan, of Milan, be says, that cured mailmen, had
pit of water 'in his house, in which he kept his In.
tients—some up to the knees, some to the girdl;
some to the chin, pro motto insanite, as they sere
more or less affected. One of them, by avert
that was well recovered, stood in the door, and set•
ing a gallant ride by, with a hawk on his fief, sett
mounted, with his spaniels after him, .would needs
know to what use ail this preparation served:
answered, to kill certain fowl. The patient de.
mantled again what all the fowl might be W 6
that he killed its a year ? lie replied!, 5 or 10
crowns : and when he urged him further, what IS
dogs, horses, hawks, &e. stood him in, he al
him 400 crowns : with that the patient bid him be•
gone, as he loved his ;ife and welfare; for if 01
master come anti find thee here, he mill put thee'
the pit among madmen up to the chin!
140 NGIEVITY.—There is a woman in the pari,h '
Bullock, near Falmouth, who, if she lives to s
the Ist of January next, will nave attained thee
traordinary .age of 110 yearF.

On Wednesday last, Mr. John Cooke, of Dukessirert,t
Mho; Layman, ot Soipherd.
Yesterday, Mr. L)udon, of Gerrard street, to Alia
of, Ilicgact illy.
Same day, J. Lambert, Esq. of New'Broad-street, to 15
Katharine Phibbs.
On Thursday se'tinight, Edward Fawkes, Esq. of the 111
Light I)ragouns, to Mies Paterson.

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On the 23d inst. at Aveley,l)l Essex, of a typhus fever' 31'
Thomas Woodtkorp, jun.
Al sea, oo the `2titii ult. Willimn Milligan, Esq. late 0;00
lesiol„ South Carolina.
At his house, ill Lamb's Conduit-streets un Wedn'ad4l
V. 1V Esq..ir,,ed 69.
Oa the Ist of August. A. Oltisn, Esq. in flarbistlne%,
On the 19th instant, in Soho-square, in the 631 year °'
age, J (oral Deronder. Esq.. Lioriritin to Sir Joseph lig'
antl to the Royal Society, and a V irePlesidcnt dew
Society. his eminent attainments in that brunch of o'l'l
which he chiefy. cultivated, bull long p!nerd niui in the 61,
tononA the Naturalist.. of Europe; and his caudque
toe ilatiksinn Library which is before tae pnbllc,KilAl Irt
lusting monument tif erudition,- perseverance, and sustay".;,
went, surpt;
which has haver been equalled, mot mount be
On the ith August lasi, on Jft,ilaiCa CUP" "
Charlton, commanding hit Majesty's ship Garland. to 4-
mis,
On the 15th inst. Mrs. Hughes, c...hester, mother
Layton, Pentonville, and Mr.4lustseLl.3....Legrmegirliltf

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