Star. — 1822-01-07 (London, England)

COUNTY OF CORK.  On the nights of the 22ciancli8ci of December several houses within three or four miles of Bandon, in the Pari,h of Temple Marlin, were attacked and robbed of arms in the most daring and systematic manrer. Thursday night last, a large Meeting of these misguided men was held at Quarry's Cron, near the Commons Mountain, four miles north cf Bandon, where they divided inta three parties, each taking a different direction. One of them proceeded to the house of a man name 4 Fleming, at a place called Knocknanirk, about two miles from where they had originally met, and beat him most unmercifully. The Kilkenny Moderator of Tuesday contains the following account of a rencontre between the military and the insurgents in the county of Limerick :  " A letter was received in'this city yesterday from Rathkeale, stating, that a detachment of the 42d Royal Highlanders, lately quartered here, came up a few nights since with a large body of the insurgent peasantry in the vicinity of that town, when. an engagement took place. The latter were defeated with the lost of five killed and seventeen wounded. Not one of the military, we are happy to say, was wounded in the action, of which we shall probably be able to communicate ample particulars in our next. This is the first engagement which has taken place between the King's troops and the peasantry in this still disturbed quarter of' the country, and its result will probably strike n wholesome terror into those infatuated marauders who hate so long been able to c..nduct their schemes of murder and spoliation without any effective check." EXECUTION OF FIVE MEN FOIL WHITEBOTISg.  Monday morning, at six o'clock, Thomas Kelly, Michael Kiely, Timothy Shea, John Histon, and John Mullane, who were convicted at the Commission. of offences under the Whiteboy Act, and ordered for execution, were taken from the County Jail on cars, to Newcastle, to undergo the awful sentence of the law. They arrived at the place of execution, a field of Mr. HARTNETT'S, near Newcastle, a little after two o'clock. When the platform was erected, the unfortunate men ascended, attended by their Clergy, who, having previously afforded them spiritual consolation, individually exhorted them to make open, free, and full confessions, to the surrounding spectators, and to warn them against the awful delusions which had brought so fatal a result before their eyes. After the unfortunate men had severally addressed the populace, whose number might be estimated at about 1500 only, The Rev. Mr. FITZGERALD, in the most solemn manner, exhorted the people upon the awful examples then about to take place—five human beings standing on the hi ink of eternity, brought to that ignominious scaffold by the vile counsel of those whose mandates they have fulfilled; and perhaps some of those very persons who have thus immolated their fellow mortals at the slain() of vicious purposes, are at this moment, silent spectators of those miserable victims. If such ate present, what must be their feelings, what reparation could they make to an offended GOD, and to upright laws so violently outraged ? Let them retrace their steps—let them give up their arms—let them bow with humility to the offended laws; laws which are calculated to puriue and punish the offender, and also to pardon the returning prodigal. Where are the mad conspirators? where are those who set the laws at defiance ? in whom, perhaps, the unfortunate men before you have more than once glorified in their growing strength Where are their associates now, who revelled in crime? Not one of them dare shew their heads—and there are their victims. Turn from your evil ways, or that mt.s. be your fate also.  The Right Hon. WILLIAM CONYNGIIAM PLUNKETT has been appointed his Majesty's Attorney-General for Ireland. The Right Hon. WILLIAM SAURIN (now Attorney7General), for the present, retires from office. It is said that he is likely to succeed the present LORD COVEY Justice of the King's Bench, whose age demands the'quiet of private-life.. The Marquis of DOWNSIMR:i arrived at Read's Hotel, Lower Grosvenor-street, on Saturday, from Berk., and left it again in the evening for Hatfield House, Herti, en a visit to the Marquis of