The Sun. — 1840-09-19 (London, England)

STATE OF CANADA.—MORE INCENDI .ARISM. The quiet of this unhapprovice every now and then disturbed by the Frency hp Canandians. The follokehag particulars have just reached us of an outrage committed at Hemingford, on Tuesday last, the 18th inst. : From the depositions taken on the inquiry which has been instituted, it appears that about two o'clock ' A.R., on the morning aforesaid, the barns of Messrs. Fisher and Mr. Atkinson, of Heminglord, were discovered to be simultaneously on fire. By the exertions of Mr. Wilsie, justice of the peace, who resides in the viejuitsr, the alarm was quickly given, and as soon as daylight appeared a search commenced, and there being heavy dew upon the ground, the footsteps of three Persons were distinctly traced across the lines ; and such had been the promptness of the pursuit, that they were soon apprehended and taken before Mr. Harden, a magistrate of Champlain. The names of the incendiaries are—Jean Baptiste Fournier, Pierre Monclos, dit La Tulippe, and Eustache Seguin. When befbre Mr. Harden, La Tulippe confessed he had participated in the outrage, and by his evidence clearly brought home to his accomplices, to Fournier in particular, the crime of setting fire to the buildings in question ; and stated, moreover, that it had been the intention of the party to set fire to other barns, which was prevented by the barking of some dogs. " The evidence was so conclusive that Mr. Harden decided upon convicting the villains, but, not wishing to take the sole responsibility of the act upon himself, he called in the advice of Mr. Hubbell, a brother Magistrate and a lawyer. The latter gentleman decided that the laws of the United States could not take cognizance of offences committed in Canada, and instanced the case of Dr. Holmes, the murderer, as one in point, and deeliecd, that the prisoners should be forthwith discharged acela4mawtaiosat once acted upon, amid the cheers and ns of the assembled mob. Amongst the Inest cons villain P.euotis of the mob for the release of the s were Mr. Bromley, the Custom-house officer, a Mr. Blakely, the road commissioner ; these gentlnedmen declared openly that the act was perfectly Justifiable, and the prisoners consequently guiltless in the eye of the law. Immediately after this summary disposal of the business, as if to add insult to injury, A_warrantstson7werielo ihssauded against the Messrs. Fisher and bets before stated line with all g whicho over obliged tto g give m evidence to o rec r ot ses theth e speed to avoid being arrested on the plea of having brought false charges against the miscreants, who have found so much sympathy on the south side ofci the line 43 deg. In the search, which took place at I,IY, light, one of the matches intended to be used by the wivains, and which La Tulippe confessed to have lost, found near one of the consumed barns. It consih of t, •_a long piece of twisted cotton-wick well steeped 1..Q0 turpentine, and terminating in a cartridge of gunP wder, to which is appended a roll of cotton similarly i~eePed. La Tulippe, in the course of his confession, ated that there would be more burning about the name time in the interior, alluding, probably, to the maatnbly and L'Acadie fires."  TRAOItDINARY