The Sun. — 1806-12-09 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUEL/NT, DEC. 6.—The Thrashers still proceed with their atrocities; they take every precaution to disguise themselves when in arms, and also to murder every person whom they suspe& not to be stedfast to their cause. On this account, at the Commission held a few days back at Sligo, not a single man was conviEted, the evidence not being sufficient to support the indictment.  As an instance of their brutal caution, I relate to you the following circumstance, which I have heard from the very best authority : A poor farmer in the County of Mayo, being unwilling to reside any longer amidst so much tumult and danger, advertised his house and stock to be sold; having determined to iyiltake asn Afarm in the County of Dublin. Some cf. the ' hashers hearing this, suspe&ed that he perhaps was acquainted with some of th,eir transactions; and was ,about to inform against them. To prevent this, a- near relation of his, conne4ed with the, gang in the neighbourhood, under the mask of . friendship brought him to a public-house, and while they were there drinking in a room with several other men, a man with his head, body„ and all his limbs covered with ropes of hay regularly twisted round them, entered, and, with a hatchet which he held uplifted in his hands, absolutely split the suspected man's head in two halves. The relation of the deceased has absconded. Sever ral of the other men present have been apprehended, but there is no evidence to prove that they• were in league with the murderer, who is, of cow, as yet unknown... ~ . .  I have this day received a letter from Ballinalee, stating, that it is almost impossible for any man to live irr that part of the, country .who is not friendly to the Thrashers ; they are out every night taking arms from the Gentlemen„in the country, and burning the corn and turf„and houghing the cattle of all those whb are inimical to theth. - '  . In .Various places near Mullingar and neighbourhood., .nightly depredations continue .to be committed by the Thrashers, and oaths administered as to the quantum of Tithes and Priests'-Dues to be paid, or at least this has been the pretext for such nocturnal and unlawful associations. Two of .these deluded men were killed last week, and some Silken prisoners, near Granard, by a small party of thq' Cavan Militia. A few nights ago a large body of them entered the village of Ballinalee, in the Connty. of Longford, and immediately made the, hinabitants illuminate their windows, where they re,mained til near morning. They are of late very numerous; upwards of.a thousand .have been frequently seen. together in the County of Longford. We understand that Lord LONGFORD has caused a nightly guard to he placed' upon the bridge over  of Cool: which divides the Counties of Longford and Westmeath, thr the puiTr..;se of preventing the passage of the ThraThers into the latter County, which has yet remained undisturbed; The disturbance in Mayo and the adjacent Counties are sta►ed in the Moniteur of the 7th, in a Letter dated Leitrim, oa.  Thursday night; so early: as eight o'clock, a number of villains, mostly mounted, stopped at the house. of a man in the employ of Col. LEFROY, t his fields in the vicinity of Limerick, and rapping at the house,, obliged the man to: give, underneath the door, the key of the gate, where two of the Colonel's horses were; they took the horses and returned to the man, leaving the key and loCk. at the threshold, ordering him not to presume to open the door until: 'it least an hour would .elapse ; the fellows then trotted forwards to commit. depredations. Friday morning, about three o'clock, a number of. fellows -(about fifty or sixty) well mounted and armed, went to the house of William Cleary, a publican, residing in ,the South, Liberties of Limerick, near Ballyneety, and demanding to have the door immediately opened, when on Cleary refusing, they broke into the house through one of the windows, fired a pumber of bullets into the house, made Cleary. get out in his .shirt, . and supply them with whiskey and porter ; they then insisted he should give them a horse:out of the stable; which they took away.—The above-party had a Piper mounted, playing before them—and another man sounding a horn. (Limerick Chronicle)  PRIVATE LETTERS PthBLISHED- IN A