The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-28 00:00:00

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Ache, sod ether missile Weems t 'the wretched worn'', I
was Dearly killed ; you, John Ward, with peculiar,atro-
oily, le this presence of I Peace Officer, inflicted many
blows open her, and it was no fault of yours if she was
not thee killed. What excuse can you offer for so daring
•an outrage ? None. What injury had this poor crea-
ture done to you ? None. And what was her offence ?
Her offence was that she came here at the last Assizes,
as a witness to take a solemn oath—to tell the truth.
Do you imagine that such conduct will be tolerated ? if
you•think so, the example that will be made of you, will
convince those astociates with whom you are connected,
that you are mistake°, and that they wise dare to offend
nroatrage the la ws,willmeet with the condign punishment
she law inflicts. Sorry am I to say, that your conduct has
'Wooly displayed the bad disposition that pervades the
toasty, bat your defence has, if possible, aggravated your
pat. I do not speak it lightly, when I uy, that the mass
'bf witnesses you produced, clearly chewed the demoralised
. Ittate of the lower orders, and when they came forward
lo prove alibis, were guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury.
•od God ! to whet a state are we reduced in this coun-
try, when miscreants are guilty of 'smelting witnesses
for giving lawful testimony in a Court of Justice, and
ethers can be toned ready to perjure themselves isomp-
,port of them ; if this state of things is to go on, the
,4oautry is not worth living in ; I trust and hope that
.- illiertslomle-srbkit will be made of you, will tend to
. Puce, good order, mul tranquillity; you, John
. no; I select as the worst. Yon have shelve a depra-
reater than any of your associates—you have been
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tray of more cruelty and violence ; I therefore sentence
you to 18 months imprisonment : and you, Thomas Lee
you, Morgan Cregan—you, George D'Arcey—you,
John Finn—you, Thomas Keefe—you, Daniel Keefe—
you, Patrick Enright—and you, Patrick Cregan, are to
be imprisoned twelve months, and all and each of you,
at the termination of your imprisonment, are severally to
and securities to keep the peace for seven years, particu.
lady to Catherine Ilassett and David Fitzgerald, your-
selves in the sum of 100/. each, and each to find two
'nettles in 251. each ; and should aoy one of you here-
after violate the peace, you shall not only be dealt with
according to the utmost rigour of the law, but your
Mends who shall enter bail for you, shall be incarcerated
for year future offences.
• Daniel Martin was then plated at the bar.
Baron M'Celland thus addressed the prisoner—Da-
ilia Martin, you have been found Guilty of a misdemea-
nour, for unlawfully and riotously assembling with
*noon the 9th of October, in the second year of the pre-
sent reign at Kilmeedy, in the County of Limerick.—
Daniel Martin, you have had a narrow escape, for had
the party with whom you were assembled, or bad any
dee enlist party proceeded, to a single act of violence,
1 would not have to sentence you now for a misdemea-
nour, but it would be my painful and imperative duty to
pronounce that 'sentence on you, which, in a few minutes
I will have to pronounce on seven others, and which
your unhappy associate, Timothy Shea, has drawn upon
biesselL The sentence of the Court. on yon. Daniel Mar-
*, is bat yon be imprisoned six eneelle, tiad ahat twice
ng that period, yes ire petit* ollipped—throagli
the town of Newcastle.
Martin Grady. John Grady,- Thomas Keily, Michael
Kelly, John Huston, John Mullane, and Timothy Shea,
were then placed at the Bar.
After calling over the names of the prisoners, Baron
145Clelland thes'proceeded :—Prisoners, you have been
severally found Guilty of crimes which the law punishes
with death. To me it is a melancholy duty to have to
pronounce that sentence, when already in this week have
four human beings forfeited their lives to the violated
laws of their country, and I am now called on to repeat
that dreadful sentence on seven more of my fellow-crea-
tares. You have been found Guilty on the clearest evi-
dence, and by a most respectable, a most intelligent, and
a most humane jury. Not a verdict of Guilty has been
pnononnied without the most mature coosideration,and on
the most satisfactory proof. Where it was possible for
hninanity to suggest a doubt, it has been turned to
the advantage of the prisoner, and some have escaped
throughlhe humanity of the Jury. (Here some of
title wretched men called out, " a long day, your be-
mlur, for the love of God.")—That feeling was most
honourable to them, they discharged their dal firmly
&Id faithfully. When I came down to this Comity, 1
hod but a faint notion of the nature of the conspiracy,
a °lore daring one never existed in any country. Men,
ectfederated for the purpose of exercising tyrannical
drinatiqn over the property of every man in the
cofuntry, extending their tyranny even over those
salcial ties, which bind the dearest and holiest con-
nexions of life together. Commencing in the same
proposed regulation of land, tithes, and taxes, and
when resisted, terminating in the foul and dreadful
crime of murder. You, Timothy Shea, were takes
PAsoner, after you had been seen with a party con-
sisting of $0 or 100 men, mounted. You were found
with a horse, which you had unlawfully takes for
your nightly depredations ; you were armed with
deadly weapons; a pistol was found in your breast, and
A potr4er horn in your pocket.
You, Thomas Keily, and you, Michael Kelly, in the
middle of the noon day proceeded to the house of the
unfortq nate Mrs. Sperling., and plundered it of arms.
That old and respectable lady, who was incapable of
res. islet:tee, you, Thomas Kelly snapped a pistol at,
twice; you snapped a pistol also at her maid, and
eventually plundered the house of that unfortunate,
-fileuitan.who bassinet fallen, perhaps by your hands.
lobs Huston, and John Mullane, persecuted a
\ tstrions man, not only by threats. but by open',
olence. You designed his destruction, and
that be should have Sperling's fate. as you
it. This case plainly chewed the state to 1
:iety had been reduced at Newcastle—when
tpy man called for relief, not a door would
be opened tolthe or to his children. Yon bad affixed
a notice oa his neighbour's door, prohibiting any one
from daria4: to associate with him, and you threatened
ourtindivietial. for holding any communication with
him, and what was his crime ? He was a Kerry wan.
That was an offence, according to your code of laws,
not to be pardoned.
lien. Mat tin Grady, and you, John Grady, have also
forfeited your lives to the Wrestled laws of your coun-
try. Thert• is something more appaling in your case
than in any of the preceding. Yorklarie net attempted
au prove ail alibi by the ordinary mode, but such hat,

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