Ireland.
The Times, 1824-01-31T00:00:00

*.: - tpFrnm th7 . ;. -; ilr. WAL.ACEti! yLerdsFhuve an 5Pplicatnfiusraetimnal stmrh-ation groundey aor afldavit, 'charginF gross abu'se-cif-r.a- ,gistei authorityu by Lordl Farnhiam.- During thelast tern I ap.i pl'e.to yoar Ltordship in this C2SO, but you were tdeased todeci'TeI thatt ItA ajgaanst the rule o' the .06ilrt to:receivethc application co. *late srnthe tsrm; but I 'prcstie'yoasr Lordships 'have not n- rule that contravenes-the English practice,wv;hich in:cases ef otii nature isquite lear,, iteithis-if aoaepplicatloi be made for acrinjinal information, upon the last day, for anofferice committed.. within the termn tbe Coart will hearsts b t-if tbeofibn~e .e couamitiued he term prevf6use.st, Xcill iaO6iV&ir it, bu'fWilr iii th&eb-iind termi, gainst a magistrate, provtdedit.bem4de vjllin .tli -adi'tappoint for-re- cenivng. applsc,atiols1Q>'iaisirxtifotmaio,nsha bdhesg the .Etig. lisfi practie and wlieri'.your .hordships shal haveheard the facts of this case, I have no ddu4lt that youa Hillreceive thenpplication wnich-is founded upon the affldavitof a man namedA?lichaei Ivhch. . Mr. 11Wallace thea preeged t'o state the o affidavit, by v;1lich ' 'pppcared the deponent had a - son' called Michael .aged about 12 years, thatsaid ho 'was summoned by uorli PFtnham's wood.rabger to appear at a Y.etti Sessions on the 3d of September, to be hld at' the Dispensary '(and v hieh DiSpen. sary was in hit Lordshpsip'O-Ui, at Frnhatn; coanty of Ca- van,) to answer for an offenceailleged to have been comntnitted by cutting dowis bTancheS of a tree on his Lqidship's estate; and that deponent and his son, the hoy suimmloned, attended at the tate- house; where there'aPpeared no magistrates but Lord Faratiam and the Rev. Air. Robinson-; tnd. that a person named WVil. son, a Wood-ranger-to Lord Fa-nham, charged..tne boy With having. been caught in a tree, and cutting dowvn the brandhes and which charge was not received upon oath, nor any other eviaeu-e off=ere than the parole unsworn testimnony of -Vilson; pfter hearing him '0 6n) Lord Farnhiam declared aloud that the boy, MUichaelLyn&h, should be whlipped, and whereupon the deponent entreated his Lord- ship's pity, as he was a very poor man, who, with his family, sften went to bed supperless for want of firing to boilpotatoes: thst as- fie season had been so verv wet, turf coutdrnot be had. Butin is iap- Peal to Lord Farnban's mercy, there wYas no admiss-on of thecy,ine c elargpd against the boy. The oy aisothrew himself upon his knees, aDed,!n tiears imdpl6r.A his Lordship's m.ercy ; but hisg lordship im- meaiatelystood u'p, saving ";it would not do, and' he shbuld be tucked up ;" and ordered the boy iuto the custody of a barony constable, named James AI'CIean. and commanded Wilson, the wood-Tanger, to prepare a bundle of rods to twhip the boy -with, ancd that neither before nor after the order was there any Jud'c al sentence or form of conviction of the boy Alichael Lynch; that after the business of the Court wats concluded, the Rtv.3Mr. Robinson, the magistrate, who sat upon the bench -Witel Lord Farnham, having seen the bunch of rods preparing by l1',soan remonstrated against its size, and saiil that it seas quite un- mefciffi, and to tvke out part of tt ; xpon which some bunchesi,were taken from it, and Lord Farnhaun, in the presence of Mlr. RobinsoIn, cornihauded AU'Clcan to strip the bov, which having beep done, an- other baronty constable, n3rqea Oles, then took him upon his back- while another proceeded tO fiog him; but afier some time Lord Farnm hlam stopped the constable, andl took the rod himself and floz,ged the | fhe Cisaur J7JSTICE.- r. WVallace, you have stated sufficient takes conditional order. MUMLAz. n -CQ.UIRT O'KILNGc*'S INH .7As .').4 ,CEl?G>SAL-lNiPOll5 xaTTst LOli rAqJiA