The Sun. — 1837-12-05 (London, England)

ORANGE PLOT DETECTED.—The following is extracted from a letter which we find in the Freeman's Journal:— About seven o'clock last night some armed ruffian came to the house of Mr. John Legg, of Lamagh, which is within a mile and a half of the town of Longford, and within half a mile of Newtotvn Forbes. This fellow, armed with a loaded pistol, instantly demanded admission into Mr. Legg's house. This demand was refused. Mr. Legg opened his door, very incautiously, t ) drive him off; the assassin immediately fired on him. The ball shattered Mr. Legg's hand, and wounded him on the breast. As soon as the assassin fired he fled, and, thaugh closely pursued by some countrymen, he effected his es ape. This, the Mail will say, is an alarming state of thing; I Here is a respectable and inoffensive Protestant farmer, living within a mile of two police stations, and of some troops of dragoons and a stipendiary magistrate, and at le ist four unpaid magistrates, and within a few Fees of the mail road—and whilst the same road is trodden by successive crowds of persons returning from the market of Longford ; his only crime his conscientious votes fur the Tory candidate' ; and yet a daring ruffian, at the early hour of seven o'clock, comes up to his house, and murderously assails his life, deliberately fires upon him, and wounds him mortally—for he is supposed to be mortally wounded—or maims him for life I Such a state of things is indeed awfully earning ; and if the supposed perpetrator had not been detected, the chafge against the poor Papists would be emblazoned in the Mad. But no Popish Agitator—no " Irish savage"—in accused or even suspected ; but a genuine Orangeman, from the very heart of an exclusively Orange district—Bobby Beatty—has been arrested, fully identified, and committed to Longliffd ganljiff the attempted murder—for this Rockite outrage-4ff this persecution, extermination, and attempt on the life of a loyal and unprotected Protestant of Longford. Contiguous to this Bobby Beatty's house is an Orange lodge, in which the members assembled, and were found by our excellent stipendiary magistrate, Captain Barnes, on the fifth of last November ; and a poor woman, who " plodded her weary way," and, tottering under a load of peat, was found on the public road near that lodge, on the same night; and for the mere crime of pressing on ground sacred to Orangemen, some ruffian approached her, and wantonly fired on her in the knee. Such is the man who disturbs in Longford the peace and tranquillity of the county ; and such are the persons who, from motives known to themselves and to their leaders, stigmatise, by their own outrages, of " ingenious device," the character of a loyal, peaceable, and persecuted people—such the rotten ground on which the 'l'ory faction build their plan of assailing Lord Mulgrave's Administration, and of propping their own tottering cause.  The Czar arrived et Moscow on the Bth of the present month. A serious accident had like to have occurred to him as he descended Mount Caucasus. The axletree of the vehicle ia which he was broke as he was crossing a hi idge, and the passengers were in consequence flung violently forward. The Emperor sustained no personal injury, but his mind, which had betrayed symptoms of wildness before, is said to have felt the effects of the shock. The remainder of his voyage to Moscow has rarely been equalled in point of celerity. tie travelled 104 leagues in 26 hours. lie intends to return to St. Petersburg about the middle of December.