The National Register. — 1822-03-03 (London, England)

BOSTON, JAN. Is.—The navigation continues open ; the ice has been driven out of the river by a north-west wind ; all the outward-bound vessels have sailed. The friends of the late Napoleon Buonaparte, re• siding in New Orleans, walked in procession on the 19th Dec. to the Catholic Church, which was hung with black on the occasion, and a funeral service was performed.  We find from the Dublin Papers that the enormities in the South of Ireland still continue, and with unabating fury. Other murders have been committed, of a most inhuman and daring description. On Saturday sennight, so early as four o'clock in the evening, a mall, of the name of Shea, was murdered in the town of Tipperary, by four villains, who killed him with stones, and who escape& though pursued by the officers of plice. The servant of a magistrate was shot dead a few days ago, near Garrantrec Castle, in the county of Limerick, and it is rather remarkable that this is the fourth murder committed at the same place, and probably by the same parties. Fifteen Whiteboys were tried and convicted in Cork on Tuesday week, before the Special Commission, and on the day after three others were found guilty. A daring attack was made on Monday se'nnight on the barracks of Abbeyfcale, in the county of Limerick, by a numerous body of insurgents, who soon demolished the building. A meeting has been held by the magistrates, at which it. has been unanimously resolved to apply to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to place the entire of the county under the provisions of the Insurrection Act.—Sentence of death was passed on Friday night; at Cork, on 35 Whiteboys, convicted of crimes before the Special Commission. The learned Judge in:Muted to the delinquents that a selection had been made of their ease—that some of them were to undergo an ignominious death, at an early day, and that the existence of the others would be prolonged to a more distant period, and if tranquillity was restored, and there was a surrender of arms, they would be spared. from the precut temper of the deluded peasantry, we fear those to whom the learned Judge alluded retain their lives on a slender And uncertain tenure. The three men found guilty of the murder of Hugh Cologan, on the day the Churchtown barracks were burned, were ordere,l for execution on Monday last. At a meeting of the magistrates of the County of Cork, it was agreed to send a memorial to the Marquis Wellesley, for the extension of the Insurrection Act to the entire county. The city magistrates have agreed to make a similar request for the city. The Dublin Evening Posi remarks, that the accounts of outrages in the interior of Ireland are grossly and shamefully exeggerated. Saturday last the Special Commission in the City of Cork closed its labours, at least for the present, and the judges took their departure, escorted by a squadron of dragoons. On the same day a shopkeeper of the name of Heffernan was tried fur having sold gunpowder, knowingly for the t.se of the insurgents. Ile was convicted t.n the evidence of a witness employed for the purpose of detecting him, to whom he sold gunpowder and flints, as the prisoncr supposed, for the use of the Whiteboys. In the course of the cross-examination of the witness, Mr. Connel endeavoured to extract from him, that the whole was a plan to entrap Heffernan, in which the learned counsel had no difficulty. The prisoner was tried on the act of the 27th of his late Majesty, which makes it criminal to take arms or levy money, and equally criminal to supply ammunition to those who entertained such a purpose. It wad a crime punishable by death, us in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy. The Attorney General, however concluded with observing, that it might be contended that the prisoner's case did not come within the meaning of the statute, as the ammunition in question had not been in reality sold to the Whiteboys but to a person opposed to them. This had originally created some doubts in his mind, but they had been removed by his colleagues. The case being proved in evidence, the prisoner was found guilty, bat the court reserved the point fur the consideration of the twelve judges. The case of the unfortunate Heffernan was the first that bad been tried under the act.  •4