The Sun. — 1823-05-05 (London, England)

DARING ATTACK UPON A VILLAGE RYA PARTY OF IN  SURGENTS AND SPIRITED REPULSE OF. THEM BY THE  INUABITAN TS. • We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter, detailing.one of the most daring attacks that the history of the present disturbances affords:— " On Tuesday night last a most desperate attack was made about nine o'clock, by an immense party of Insurgents on the Palatine village of Glanasheen, on the Castle Oliver Estate, where four Policemen were stationed. SeVeral houses were laid in ashes, and it was the intention of the Rebels to have consumed the whole village and to have murdered the inhabitants. The Insurgents were distinctly heard to say, that not one should be allowed to escape. Two of the Police, with two of the Palatines, were on guard,who heard the Rebels approach: ing, and instantly challenged them, on which the Rebels fired a voley, fortunately without effect. The Police and Palatines re turned the fire, and kept it up for some time. Another party of the Rebels set fire to several of the Palatine houses, which, with the furniture,&c.were totally consumed. The small partyof Palatines, with the four Policemen stationed there, must soon have been overpowered, but that providentially that active and most zealous Officer, Lieutenant Lightbody, of the 71st regiment, was on patrole about two miles distant, who saw the flames and heard the shots, and arrived in sufficient time to fire a volley on the. Rebels, who fled ; -and in the pursuit, they found one man dead, and took two prisoners. As yet, the dead man has not been claimed. Mr. Lightbody still continued to pursue them towards the County of Cork, in the direction of Doneraile; but the difficulty of the mountain pass, and the darkness of the night, prevented any more prisoners being taken. A ball passed under the arm of one of the Police, without doing much injury, and no further injury was sustained by the Police or the Army. No doubt many of the Rebels are wounded, for the party of the 71st nearly expended all their ammunition. There has not been so premediated an attack, since the Churchtown business. The Rebels called on the Police several times to surrender their arms, and that no injury should be done to them; however, they were soon made sensible that the Police and Palatines were determined to support that character of loyalty to their King that they had evinced when tried in the year 1798. A Palatine School-master whose house was on fire, attempting to get out through the roof on hearing the Rebels declare that he was a Protestant Devil, and that not one should be spared. He had a miraculous escape, being fired at repeatedly. On Wednesday night the 23d instant, an out-house belonging to Thomas Mannix, tenant to Robert Sanders, Esq. close to Charleville, was maliciously set on fire; there were two horses and twenty barrels of potatoes in the house at the time ; fortunately by Mannix's exertion, with the assistance of his servants, it was saved.  Same night a large farm-house near Drew's Court, the pro, perty of Mr. Fitzgibbon, was consumed. Also a field of oathson the lands of Farthingville, the property of Mr. Bailie, was maliciously dug up, and a grass field, containing six acres, turned up on the same lands. On Friday night, the 25th instant, one cow was barbarously houghed. and two others had their tails brutally cut off, and a Rock notice placed under the tails, the property of Mr. Owen Sullivan, on the lands of Ballyncolig, near Charleville. Major Maxwell, in consequence of good information, succeeded in finding tbur guns, two pistols and one sword, on the nights of Friday and Saturday last, very artfully concealed.