Local Newpaper Extracts
Some Selected Reports from The Dublin Journal published by George Faulkner
Tuesday, October 20th, 1810
Game Licences.
A List of the Names of those who have taken out Game Licences at the Head Office of the Distributor of Stamps, for the County of MAYO.
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| Robert M.Crofton, Esq. | Crofton-Park, Mayo |
| Sir Thomas Chapman | Ballina, Mayo |
| Capt. Toby Kirkwood | Lasletown, Sligo |
| Robert Verschoyle, Esq. | Killalla, Mayo |
| Lieut. Fleming, Clare Militia | Ballina, Do. |
R.W.Gardner, Inspector.
Game Licences.
A List of the Names and Residence of the Persons to whom Certificates for killing Game have been granted, by the Distributor for the County Donegal, since the 25th day of March last.
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| Names | Residence |
| Moses Baird, sen. | Castlefin |
| Patrick Burns | Drumboe |
| Sir James Stewart | Fortstewart |
| William Stewart, Esq. | Ditto |
| John Spence, Esq. | Donaughmore |
| James Blair | Carmone |
Isaac Pitiairn, Distributor
Game Licences.
A List of the Names of Persons who have taken out Game Certificates from me, since the 25th March 1810.
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| John Short | Lisbeen, Tipperary |
| Anthony Parker | Castlelough |
| Standish G.Parker | Ditto |
| John Egan | Burris-a-Kane |
| Thomas Brereton | Rathinless |
| John Brereton, jun. | Ditto |
| John Burke | Cloneska |
| George Finch | Kilcolmam |
| Thomas P.Firman, jun. | Cottage |
| Rev. S.Jocilyn Ottway | Tomavara |
| Henry White Going | Violet-Bank |
| George Pepper | Lissinisky |
| Thomas P.Firman, sen. | Mucclune [?] Lodge |
| Walter Firman | Ditto |
| Richard Short | Ballinamona |
| Henry Short | Ditto |
| John Short | Pallas |
| David Joyce | Lissinisky |
| Lambert Pepper | Nenagh |
| Joshua Minnett | Aonabegg |
| Francis Palmer | Ballycollaton |
| Thomas Ryder Pepper | Loughton |
| Nath.Alt | Curraghmore |
Florence Macarty, Distributor for Nenagh.
October 4, 1810.
Game Licences.
A List of the Names, Places of Abode, &c. of the several Persons who have taken out Certificates for killing Game, agreeable to Act of Parliament, from the Distributor for the Town of Westport, between the 25th day of March, 1810, and the 3d day of October, 1810.
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| Sir Sam.O'Reilly, Bart. | Rose-Hill, County Mayo |
| Henry Sheridan, Esq. | Pheasant-Hill, Do. |
John Kelly
Dublin.- Saturday, Oct.20
On Saturday last the Right.Hon.the Lord Mayor and
Mr.Sheriff West visited the different Markets in this city, including the Hay and Straw Market, and seized a considerable quantity of blown meat, some butter, and about one hundred loaves, deficient in weight, &c. part of which was sent to the Four-Courts Marshalsea, and the remainder distributed among the Widow Alms Houses of St.Ann's, St.Andrew's, St.John's and St.Audoen's Parishes. And on Tuesday the above active Magistrates traversed the city, and took up a number of false weight at the several cranes. One crane in particular (which principally weighs for export,) had all their weights taken away, with the exception of two or three small ones.
A few nights before, the night of Friday the 5th inst.a large stack of hay, the property of the
Rev.Mr.Massy, of Clonbeg, was maliciously burnt. The outrage on
Mr.Bradshaw is of so common a cast that it would make animadversion insipid, and we know it is a species of offence committed daily and nightly without any purpose of further present atrocity. But the injury to
Mr.Massy is of a kind which is generally referable to resentment or antipathy; and no man could less suspect the operation of either feeling against him than
Mr.Massy: who, as a landlord and clergyman has been uniformly and singularly indulgent in respect to his tythes and his rent.
On Tuesday se'nnight, a large number of armed men attacked the house of
Mr.Butler, of Coolmore, co. Tipperary, during his absence, for the purpose, it is supposed as usual, of taking his arms; but we are happy to find they were disappointed in their object, being beat off by the determined resistance of
Mr.Butler's tutor, who fired two shots at them, one of which it is believed took effect. The villains fired several shots at the house, one of which struck a window, in which the tutor stood, but providentially without injuring him.
City Quarter Assembly,
Friday, October 19, 1810.
The business of the day commenced by
Mr.Giffard moving the sincere and affectionate Thanks of the Assembly to the late Lord Mayor,
Alderman Sir William Stamer, for his most exemplary conduct as a Magistrate, his unbounded hospitality as a Citizen, and his polite and complacent conduct as a Gentleman.
The motion was passed unanimously.
Mr.Giffard than moved that these Thanks be accompanied by a piece of Plate value One Hundred Guineas; to this there was some opposition, as without precedent, when
Mr.Craven reminded the House, that Sir William had, for his excellent conduct, been distinguished by his Majesty with the honour of a Baronetage, a thing unknown theretofore in the history of the Magistrates of Dublin - an honour of which he felt that every Citizen participated; and as it had pleased the King in this instant to make a precedent, it would be most becoming for the Corporation, at an humble distance, to follow the Royal example.
The Resolution passed unanimously.
The sum of £1000 was, upon petition, then voted to the late Lord Mayor.
Mr.Nugent moved the following Resolutions, seconded by
Mr.Giffard, which passed unanimously in both Houses of Assembly :-
Resolved unanimously, that the sincere and affectionate Thanks of this Corporation be and are hereby given to the gallant Officers and Soldiers serving under
Lord Wellington, for the discipline, activity, and courage manifested by them upon all occasions.
Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of the Sheriffs and Commons be and are hereby returned to our gallant Countryman
Field Marshal Carr Beresford, as a testimony of the high sense We entertain of the essential services he has rendered in bringing to a state of discipline the Portuguese Army, so as to enable them to take a conspicuous part in defeating the Army sent by the French Usurper to subjugate Spain and Portugal, and also on consideration of his former services to his King and Country in various parts of the World.
An intimation from the Lord Mayor, that he would be happy to have, in his year of office, a Jubilee in honour of our beloved and honoured Queen.
Mr.Giffard, in the Commons' House, rose, and after bestowing his most humble, but sincere and fervent, praises on her Majesty - the pattern of religion, virtue, and every female excellence - the guardian of our Sovereign in his hour of distress - his consolation and happiness in prosperity - the object of admiration and imitation to all good women; he proposed that in the course of the present Winter a Jubilee should be held in honour of her Majesty, who has just commenced the Fiftieth Year of her happy Reign :- The secondary, and not unimportant object of this festival would be, the giving employment to our Manufacturers, as his Majesty's Jubilee, which he (
Mr.Giffard) had proposed, had done; for the applause of the people he cared not - he was content to do them good; and he was bold to say that they had derived more benefit from the last Jubilee than from all the patriots from the days of Adam to the present hour.
The Resolution passed unanimously.
Mr.Giffard said, however highly he esteemed every part of
Sir E.Stanley's conduct, yet he considered the refusal complained of as the proudest act of his political life - in that act he had manifested a firmness, a wisdom, a spirit of independence truly becoming a Magistrate. Inflexible in the right, he was not to be intimidated; he was not to be cajoled; he was not to be bullied; he was not to be wheedled into a breach of his duty. - The High Sheriff was the conservator of his Majesty's Peace, and ill would it become him to act in defiance of law. Gentlemen seemed either not to know, or to have forgotten that there was a positive law, called the Convention Act, which prohibited such meetings as that lately held at the Exchange.
Sir Edward had acted in obedience to the law, and them who had violated it were obnoxious to all its censures.
A warm debate followed, which our limits will not permit us to insert at large; suffice it to say, that
Mr.Craven,
Mr.Sinnett,
Mr.Harty, and many others, denied the law affected such Assemblies as that holden at the Exchange.
The Question of Thanks to
Sir Edward was now put and carried - 40 to 39.
Thanks were then proposed to
Sir James Riddal, when
Mr.Giffard said, as it seemed agreed on all hands, that Sir James had acted to the best of his judgement, and with an honest intention, he would consider his calling the Meeting as a mere error of judgement, and would not as he had intended move a Vote of Censure against him, but be content with giving this Resolution a Negative.
A new debate ensued, in which it was proposed, that in addition to the general expression of Thanks to Sir James, his conduct in calling the Aggregate Meeting should distinctly be approved, and accordingly an Amendment was made to that effect. To this Amendment
Mr.Giffard proposed a further Amendment, in these words :- "The Act of the 33d of the King notwithstanding."
It was alledged that an Amendment could not be offered to an Amendment, and the Sheriff ruled it so, consequently the Resolution of Thanks to
Sir James Riddal for calling the Aggregate Meeting was put and carried - 60 against 26.
The Report of the Committee appointed to take the most effectual means to promote the Repeal of the Act of Union, was now called for, which was not immediately produced,
Mr.Ferral moved, that no business should be proceeded upon until the Board of Aldermen should send an answer upon that subject.- This Resolution being carried, caused an obstruction of all business; until at length the Board sent down a message to the Sheriffs and Commons to say that they had already disposed of that question. Upon which
Mr.Hutton moved that a petition be presented to his Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament, praying a repeal of the Act of Union; this was loudly seconded, when
Mr.Giffard rose, and begged for silence, hear me said he for my cause, which certainly is not that of the inconsiderable individual who addresses you, but of this great and loyal Corporation - of the Constitution of the country - if then there be in this Assembly any man who respects this Corporation, whose rights he had sworn to defend, on that man I call for his support; if there be in this Assembly any man who respects the Constitution in Church and State, under which he enjoys liberty and property, and the free exercise of religion, on that man I call for his support; if there be in this Assembly any man who loves our country, and with me is resolved to devote every faculty of his body and mind to her prosperity, on that man I call for his support. How has our understanding been insulted this day with vain declamation and groundless arguments.- All that the demagogues of Parliament uttered ten years ago, have been repeated in our hearing, certainly not in the original language, but let down and diluted to the weakest taste and meanest capacities.
The principal object is to separate us from Britain. Shall I suppose any man so ignorant as not to know that our early predecessors in these seats were a colony of Britons, and were we to call over the names of the present Members, very few would be found not bearing English names; Colonies were fixed here, and in the other principle towns of this Island, to maintain a perpetual connexion with Britain, to civilize, and if possible to Anglicize the rude inhabitants of this Island, so as ultimately to make us one great and happy people; great by a combination of our strength, and happy in the results of security which that strength must produce.
The very short time allotted to our debates would be idly spent in giving a history of the efforts made by the British, and by every wise and patriotic Irishman to bring about those most desirable effects. For many years a Legislative Union with Britain, though the obvious means, was not to be attained; England had not yet opened her eyes to the mutual advantages which it must necessarily have produced; she thought best to make the experiment by first uniting with Scotland, and surely there exists not a man so ignorant as not to know with what reluctance the high spirited feudal Lords and feudal Clans consented to this measure, which has now been about a hundred years in operation, which has strengthened England with a nation of men, brave, honourable, hardy, and industrious, - and has conferred upon those men not only wealth and prosperity, but a much higher degree of liberty and civilization than they before enjoyed.
The wisdom and benevolence of Government at length attended to the distresses of Ireland. To heal her wounds, fresh from the pikes of rebellion, Britain received her with the spirit of humanity and union into her arms, protected her by her power and enriched her by her wealth. From a paltry province she was elevated to become an integral part of the greatest Empire in existence; from having not a single ship she became proprietrix of her portion of a thousand men of war, of great armies, of immense and almost innumerable colonies, and of the commerce of the whole World. Shall we wish to go back to our degraded station, to become again the slaves of those who it is alledged have sold us ? Common sense forbids it.
When the Union was in contemplation the most grievous misfortunes were predicted by our patriots - the grass would grow in our streets, commerce would be abolished; look at the face of Dublin and its vicinity, instead of grass growing in the streets, the streets have invaded the grass lands, and extended into the country; the waste and idle farms are covered with great mansions and beautiful villas, and the imports and exports prove that our trade has more than doubled. To what then shall we impute the present outcry ? to the acts of disaffection; to the wiles of the Corsican, who always sows dissention where he means to destroy; by this the discontented at taxes, the man who feels a foolish regret for disappointed vanity, the enemy of the Throne and Constitution are all united in a cry against the Union. We certainly live in most perilous times. I know that Popery has its partisans, who by every act of intimidation try to overbear the state. I know that those partisans are aided and supported by men of desperate ambition, calling themselves "All the Talents of the Country," and who would as soon join a Mahometan as a Popish faction, if it could force them into power. I know that Buonaparts has his agents and abettors who are most active amongst us, and I see my country exactly in the state of some of those which, by dividing, he had already conquered - by dissention, by division, by every species of political misery and vice, he hopes to snatch her from the protecting arm of Britain. Hence the fury of the separatists, but should she like a maiden be inveigled from the guardianship of her parent, she will be violated, degraded, and destroyed.- Beauteous Erin, the loveliest Isle of all the Main, shall this be thy fate, shall the base Usurper, who has over-run the Continent, presume to violate thy happy shores ! Forbid it patriotism ! - forbid it loyalty ! - forbid it O ! Almighty God !
Mr.Harty replied to
Mr.Giffard, he considered the country as ruined, her commerce as destroyed, and her honour abolished.- She was now indeed in the situation of a paltry province; and so little regarded, that the Parliament of Britain, could not even deign to look at her necessities.
Mr.Cope said, he entirely agreed in opinion with the Gentleman who spoke last, that the Parliament in England had not time to attend to the complaints of this Kingdom, nor indeed to the distresses of the Empire, by charges and complaints, insignificant in themselves, but sufficient for the purpose of bringing Royalty into contempt. The whole of the Session before the last was employed in bringing into contempt one of the Sons of our most gracious Sovereign, thereby hurting and bringing into contempt Royalty itself; the last Session was occupied still more contemptibly with
Sir Frances Burdett. By these means drawing the attention of Parliament and the Ministers from the salvation of the Empire, to defend themselves from the attacks of a discontented Party, and leaving the Empire exposed to the arts of an unprincipled Upstart - an Usurper who had succeeded by such like means in sapping the grounds of the different States on the Continent; and if such enormities are permitted to go forward, we shall also fall a prey to the like misfortune, for by such means has the Tyrant Usurper succeeded in any State he has yet subdued. I therefore warn my Countrymen not to encourage, or give ear to complaints that it is impossible, in the present state of the world, to give attention to, without risking the loss of the best Constitution and Government in the World - I mean the British Constitution as by Law established.
Mr.M'Auley said, that corporate bodies derive all they enjoy by gift from the Crown. The very respectable Corporation of the City of Dublin has been largely endowed by the Crown with a very great estate and many other privileges, which cause it to rank among the greatest in the empire. The chief duty of every member of it, a duty inferior only to that of the glory of him who rules over all, is to support our King - George the good and great, and the Constitution, as bound by solemn oaths, gratitude and interest, and thereby promote and maintain the peace and prosperity of our City and Country as well as of the United Empire. We all profess that to be our design, but differ in the choice of the means to accomplish that end; on account of that imperfection of our nature which so universally prevails, as to justify the proverb, humanum est errore - man is prone to err as the sparks to ascend. Forgetting our natural imperfection, mean treat of Governors and Constitutions as if they had the power of restoring mankind to a state of Paradisaical rectitude and happiness; of realising the fabled golden age, or of anticipating the glories of the Millenium, when peace and love will universally prevail. Those who are restless and ambitious spirits will never lack cause of complaint, either real, or imaginary; but it may be found better to bear the ills we have, than fly to others we know not of.
The Act of Union has been of late adopted as a ground of very grievous complaining.
It has been stated, with great propriety, that some of the chief causes of this Act of Union, were - the abilities displayed in our Parliamentary market by learned Gentlemen to harrass Government. The tendency of many elaborate speeches was to the independence and separation of Ireland from England. It was found impracticable to manage the Government of this Island under the regime of imperium in imperio.
The disaffected in this Island, assisted by a French party, excited rebellion, and left the nobility and men of extensive property no alternative, but either Union with Great Britain or the pikes of United Irishmen.
Many who now excite and join in the outcry against the Union, did, from sinister motives, acquiesce in the measure being carried.
To secure a permanent connection between the British Islands, was a principal reason for the Union between Britain and Ireland, as it had been in the year 1707, for the Union between England and Scotland.
Now what are the direful effects of this Union to be ? Can you believe the supporters of the Petitions for a repeal when they tell you ? that "this is an enslaved country - her artificers starved - her tradesmen begging - her merchants become bankrupts - her gentry banished - her nobility degraded - her domestic turbulence producing from day to day open violence and murders - religious dissentions aggravated - credit and commerce annihilated - vexatious taxes imposed - the rebellion was fomented and encouraged to facilitate the Union - we are governed by foreigners - foreigners make our laws - the Imperial Legislation is a mere mockery - the Ministers are vile and profligate imps of legislation; this is the real state of this ill fated country. All sprung from the Union. They invite all to unite as on a former occasion, whereby they will procure an Irish King, Lords, and Commons." - Credat Judeus ! The simple repetition of such ill founded calumny, renders refutation almost unnecessary.
Let us take a glance at the state of our Island since the passing of the Act of Legislative Union.
We find it has ever since gone on in a gradual state of improvement in all things which constitute the wealth of nations, according to our natural climate and situation. The value of estates and rents of lands have encreased universally; but in the vicinity of Dublin above 50 per cent. Our general commerce is extended to all the world. - Our staples, the Linen Manufacture remains unrivalled in quality and extensive demand.- Our Victualling Trade is in a flourishing condition, and likely to improve rapidly as the useful improvements, and patriotic exertions of the Farming Societies. - Mechanical trades prosper, notwithstanding some temporary shocks they suffer by general calamities.
Although timber and deals are about three times the peace rates, yet building goes on, as is evident by the new houses in our City, and the innumerable beautiful villas which surround it.
What must we think of our condition when compared with that of the nations of Europe and the rest of the World ? How grateful should we be for the mercies we enjoy ! Our persons, properties, civil and religious rights and liberties, are secured to us by the due administration of our good and wholesome Laws; and a Constitution unrivalled in excellence. - Whilst the inhabitants of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Persia, and the East are suffering all the calamities of war, pestilence, and famine; involuntary contributions, conscriptions, burning, ravage, robbery, rape, and slaughter.
The distress and calamities exceed description, which the inhabitants of those countries endure who have been enslaved by the tyranny of Buonaparte, his Brothers and Generals. Those countries remind me of the fable of the Frogs to whom Jupiter had in his omnipotence given a log of wood for a King. They despised their King, and leaping upon his Throne and Government, petitioned Jove to grant them another King. He graciously granted their prayer, and gave them the stork, who daily preyed upon and destroyed the poor frogs.
A clamour has been raised against the late Window-tax, which may amount to from £2 to £6 a house more than formerly; a clamour much greater than any in Britain about the Property-tax, or 10 per cent on all Income. Our Army and Navy must be supported - they deserve it.
Our Navy, under a kind overruling Providence, maintains the empire of the seas; are Armies are crowned with conquests. A recent instance we have of the glorious victory obtained under the auspices of the Most High, and the direction and command of our gallant and noble countryman,
Lord Wellington, whose name will rank with the greatest heroes and worthies of our Empire in the page of history.
The rise and progress of the Anti-union Petitions deserve your attention. After the dinner of a late Quarter Sessions Grand Jury, and while the cheerful glass circulated swiftly, a Gentleman delivered a suitable speech and moved that the Chairman should put the Question, "That they should sign a Requisition, then ready drawn, to the Sheriffs to call an Aggregate Meeting." The sense of the company was, that the Chairman ought not to put that Question.- It was not put; but by personal and private solicitation, twelve Gentlemen only, and no more of that Jury, which usually consists of 23, could be induced to sign the Requisition; it was laid on the tables of the Commercial Buildings Coffee-House for many weeks; very great exertions were made to obtain signatures to it; and after all, out of the many thousands of Freemen and Freeholders of this great City, only 136 names were obtained to it, viz.- 12 of the discharged Jury; only 12 of the Guild of Merchants, which is the most respectable of our Guilds, and consists of above 600 brethren; perhaps the Nobility, Magistrates, Bankers, Clergy, Gentry, extensive Merchants, and Traders, will be found a very small minority in the rest of the catalogue; of most of these ranks there are none, and of the others very few indeed -- yet the Meeting was convened and held by the approvers of it alone, who agreed to certain Petitions - Nemine Contradicente,
It may be thought harsh to say, that the supporters of the Petitions Anti-union are persons hostile to the interest of both countries; they decry the successes of our armies and navies, and magnify those our enemies; they fasten on the appearance of a public calamity, and say that our commercial embarrassments have arisen entirely from the Union; they convert temporary distress to serve party schemes and purposes, but will not see, that Commerce is forced by the enemy out of its natural channels, by hostile regulations of America, speculations to South America, annihilation of commercial and capital credit on the Continent of Europe, and derangement of affairs with men highest in the scale of monied contracts. The failures have been considerable with us, which have been principally occasioned by persons possessed of very small real capitals, or none at all, entering into large commercial speculations on fictitious Paper transactions, and by extravagance and luxury soaring on the wings of Kites, which were unable to support them in the trying blast. But they dwindle into nothing when compared with those elsewhere, which they will not allege were caused by the Irish Union; - the London Gazette announces 671 Bankruptcies from the 26th of December, 1809, to 23d of June, 1810. Many might be added to the catalogue, since that time. Those on the Continents are innumerable. Surely the Irish Union cannot be the only cause of all these.
Let us consider a few of the expressions in the proposed Petitions, and their tendency. They say, his Majesty does not regard us in common with the rest of his subjects; - that an alienation of the affections of his subjects from his person, family, and government will take place, unless a Parliament is called in Ireland, and the taxes made light and agreeable to their ideas of finance; - that an appeal to Heaven must, in all probability, have been the inevitable consequence of the Act of Union, but for the preconcerted horrors of the preceding Rebellion; - that upon a removal of these evils depends the safety of Ireland, its future attachment to the Crown of Great Britain, and the security of the Empire are permanent connexion with Great Britain. The effects of such sentiments are, that the speeches and writings of the late
Theobald Wolfe Tone, and others of the same school, teaching the necessity and benefit of separating from England, are now revived and reprinted, with additions and improvements, evidently tending to excite discontent and disaffection to Government, to embarrass Government; to encourage rebellion, and invite invasion by our enemies. The French now represent the person of our King to be in danger and that the disaffection and distress of his subjects are extremely great. Our political, energetic, croakers speak and write as if they were French hirelings, employed to effect our defamation and subjugation. To excite discontent, defame the Government and its organs or Ministers may be made the scaling ladder to storm the Throne and destroy the King, as has been the case of late in France and other ill-fated kingdoms. The robbing and plundering of arms in the South and West, and secret cabals and meetings in other parts of our Island, have an alarming and ominous appearance. Sentiments of atheism, infidelity, and blasphemy were the preludes of the revolution in France; these now abound in our periodical publications.
Let us see what prospect there is of the object of the Petition being obtained. Our Representatives say they will support the Repeal of the Act of Union. One says, "You will please to observe, that a proposition of that sort in Parliament, to be either prudent or possible, must wait until it shall be called for and backed by the nation. "The other says," he will co-operate in all such measures as may seem best calculated to forward the object of your Petition, consistently with what the interest of Dublin, the general prosperity of Ireland, and the power and stability of the Empire may demand." They pretty plainly imply no hope; for how few have the meetings even in Dublin, and in the counties almost none, notwithstanding the many daily paragraphs in newspapers to excite them.- Where then is the call and backing of the Nation to be found ? In the opinion of the British Parliament and Nation, and in the opinion of the Irish, even the Petitioners themselves, it is a hopeless pursuit after an unattainable object.
The greatest evidence we can give, that we are loyal Irishmen, and love our country, will be by our most zealous and faithful support of our good King and Government, who are engaged in a warfare for every thing valuable to the subject; by our union for that purpose, and not by an union to embarrass and distract his Ministers about ideal reforms and changes of Legislators, which very rarely benefit the people. In our case, it is pretty evident the change would be for the worse.
Let us not flatter the King with a traitorous kiss while we pursue plans to betray him and his Government into the hands of their crucifiers.- "A House divided against itself cannot stand." During the last fatal siege of Jerusalem its inhabitants, in contending parties, retired from defending the walls, to destroy each other, so that they became easier victims to the conquering Romans, who totally sacked, burned, and destroyed it, and sold for slaves the few prisoners whom they spared from their slaughter, at the rate of thirty for a penny.
Would not the man be thought insane who would be engaged in repairing the palisadoes of his house while its roof was in flames ?
How base and foolish would the marines be, who, when the tempests raged and their ship was in the most imminent danger, would neglect their duty, prove mutinous, and inattentive to the orders of their captain and officers, and be more concerned about the rules of navigation or seamanship, than about the general safety of their lives, ship, and cargo.
Let all the inhabitants of the British Isles unite in a long pull - a strong pull - and pull all together, if they hope to arrive at the harbour of a lasting and honourable Peace.
Mr.M'Auley had just ended when the Lord Mayor entered and dissolved the Assembly.
Lieutenant John Nason - At the battle of Coa fell
Lieutenant John Nason, of the 43d regiment, not 18 years old. Had he survived that day, his conduct must have insured him rapid promotion. He fell at the head of his company in the hottest part of the engagement, and possessing the affection and respect of all his brother officers. Farewell, gallant youth, if the feelings of nature could be surmounted by the admiration of a glorious death, the tears of thy friends, the agonized hearts of fond parents, might find relief in the indulgence of a generous and patriotic pride. When we behold thee, undaunted in the tumult and danger of unequal battle, at a period of life when happiness is sought in the frivolous pursuits of pleasure, and rest is indulged under the parental roof, when accident, pain, or sickness, seek repose on the bosom of a mother - when we behold thee collected an undismayed in the midst of fire and carnage, infusing fortitude by thy noble contempt of danger, and invincible courage by the example of thy glorious death, thy memory is bound to the heart of every lover of his country, by ties of sympathy. Accept the tears of a veteran brother soldier who was witness to thy valour, and who laments the loss thy country has sustained, tears, which neither his own misfortunes, or a long acquaintance with warfare has extorted, by which flow repressed over the fallen hopes of a youth so promising.
On Tuesday se'nnight there occurred another of those outrages which deform so many of our Journals. The house of
Ben.Bradshaw, Esq. of Lowes Green, was attacked by banditti who came for arms, which they forced from
Mr.Bradshaw's servants, (he himself being at the time on his way from Dublin) and flogged his steward very severely.
Mr.Ogle's Birth Day.
Wexford, Oct.18
Monday last, being the Birth-day of the
Right Hon.George Ogle, was observed with the usual marks of affection and respect for that venerated and truly respected character. The Yeomanry of the town and neighbourhood assembled, and were inspected by
Major Beevor, and fired several rounds with great steadiness and precision.- In the evening, the friends of
Mr.Ogle, to the number of between fifty and sixty, among whom we recognized several of the first characters in the County,
General Grose and Staff, &c. dined at the Wexford Arms. The table presented every rarity of the season; the wines were excellent, and mirth and harmony were kept up until a late hour. The absence of their loved and valued friend was the only check on the cheerfulness of the company. The High Sheriff presided, and immediately after dinner read the following letter from
Mr.Ogle :-
Belle-Vue, Oct.12, 1810.
My Dear Sir, - I have had the honour and pleasure of receiving your truly kind and affectionate Letter. Allow me to express, in the warmest terms, such sentiments of gratitude as must naturally impress a mind alive and sensible to the repeated attentions of your and my other inestimable friends, and which are so interwoven with the strings of my heart, that death alone can separate them.
I trust I need not assure you and my friends how extremely mortified I am that the continued ill state of my health prevents my attending you and them, and acknowledging, in person, how great my obligations are, and how impossible to make any adequate return for their repeated favours. Let me again assure you, and my other friends, that though absent, my heart is with them - that to the latest pulse of its existence, the happiness, the welfare, the prosperity of the County of Wexford, shall be its best, its warmest, and its latest wishes; and that while I live I shall never cease to be.
Your and their sincere, grateful,
And attached Friend,
George Ogle.
Thomas Derinzy, Esq. &c. &c.
After which he gave the following among many other loyal and appropriate toasts :-
Right Hon.George Ogle - Three times three,
The King - long may he reign over his people.- Three times three
The Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family.
Glorious and Immortal Memory.
George Ogle, and Protestant Ascendancy.
Mr.Yorke, and the British Navy.
Sir David Dundas, and the Army
Lord Lieutenant, and Prosperity to Ireland.
County of Wexford, and its Representatives.
Marquis of Ely.
Mr.Nevill.
Captain Parker, and Town of Wexford.
Mayor and Corporation of Wexford.
George Ogle, and the Orangemen of Ireland.
Lord Wellington and our Army in Portugal.
Sir John Stuart, and our Army in Sicily.
Memory of Mr.Pitt.
4th of June, 1738 - King's Birth-day
14th of October, 1742.- Mr.Ogle's Birth-day
Memory of Sir Ralph Abercrombie
Memory of Lord Nelson
Memory of Lord Collingwood
General Johnston, and 5th June, 1798.
Memory of Sir John Moore, (deliverer of Wexford, and 21st June, 1798)
High Sheriff, and County of Wexford
Glorious Revolution of 1688; and may we never have another.
1st of August, 1714 - (Hanoverian Succession.)
General Grose, and District of Wexford.
Bishop of Ferns, and his Diocese.
Major Beevor, and Yeomanry of the Co.Wexford.
Major Moore, and Yeomanry of the Co.Carlow.
Memory of Captain Boyd, and 21st June, 1798, (Relief of Wexford).
Mr.Tottenham
Sir John Nicholls
14th of Oct.1768, the day
Mr.Ogle came of age, and since which he has never been twelve months together out of the Country.
The Protestant Interest over the Globe.
The health of all those who this day drink the health of Mr.Ogle, and the Protestant Interest.
May the Protestant Boys long have an opportunity of drinking Mr.Ogle's health.
Enniscorthy, Oct.18.
Monday a numerous and respectable assemblage of gentlemen in the town and neighbourhood of Enniscorthy, dined at Rudd's Inn, to celebrate the anniversary of
Mr.Ogle's Birth Day, amongst whom were
Colonel Longfield,
Colonel Beare, and several officers of the City of Cork Militia; whose Band attended on the occasion, and played several loyal and appropriate tunes.
Sir Frederick Flood, Bart. presided, and amongst other toasts gave the following : -
The King and Constitution.- Tune, God save the King.
Prince of Wales, and may he inherit the Virtues of his Royal Father.- Prince of Wales's March.
George Ogle, and long life, and may he ever be kept in grateful and affectionate remembrance.- Protestant Boys.
Lord Lieutenant, and Prosperity to Ireland.- Patrick's Day.
The Glorious Memory. - July the First.
General Sir David Dundas and the Army, and may our Imperial Laws always triumph over our enemies.- Grenadiers March.
The Wooden Walls of Old England, and may she ever stand superior to all her enemies.- Rule Britannia
Lord Wellington; success to him and our Armies in Portugal and Spain.- British Grenadiers.
The Memory of Lord Nelson, and may the Wooden Walls of Old England ever have a decided and victorious superiority.- Rule Britannia.
Peace, harmony, and prosperity to the County of Wexford, and happiness and unanimity among its inhabitants.
The pure, unaltered, and unalterable friends of Ireland in the Imperial Parliament, and may those who are not so, never reap the benefits of it.
Col.Longfield and the City of Cork Militia, and its Representative in Parliament.
The Armed Yeomanry of Ireland.
General Grose, and his District.
The Bishop of Ferns, his Clergy, and the Church.
Lord Portsmouth (the lord of the soil) and the Town of Enniscorthy, and prosperity to its trade, and to farming.
21st of June, 1798 - battle of Vinegar-hill.
Gen.Johnston, and 5th June, 1798 - battle of Ross.
9th June, 1798 - battle of Arklow
The Memory of General Moore
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and perfect Justice.
Horn, corn, wool and yarn, increase to them
May all his Majesty's subjects draw cordially together in support of his throne and empire.
May the return of the Irish Absentees be speedy and fixed, except whilst they are serving the empire.
The Wexford Militia
Mr.Carew
Lord Longueville
The Gentlemen who presided at the foot of the table proposed the heath of their worthy chairman, (
Sir F.Flood, Bart.) which was drank with three times three cheers. The greatest order prevailed, and the company did not retire till a late hour.
L I N E S.
Addressed to Mr.Ogle, on his Birth-Day.
The conquest-crown'd hero, return'd from pursuing,
Whose breast throbs ambitious of honours and fame,
For armies defeated, and towns laid in ruin,
Is hail'd by his country with loudest acclaim.
Yet how often, alas ! remorse, envy, or anguish,
The victors's proud bosom sting deep and severe,
Cause the flatt'ring illusions of triumph to languish,
And the brow-decking laurels deface with a tear.
But the patriots, or statesmen, who ceaseless endeavour
Of care-oppress'd mortals the lot to improve,
Reap the harvest of honour unblighted, which ever
Uncanker'd by envy, is ripen'd by love.
Like theirs, shall thy glories, lov'd Ogle ! increasing,
Swell the page of th'historian, the song of the bard;
While thy heart, proudly conscious of virtues unceasing,
In this foretaste of Heav'n antedates thy reward.
TO THE PUBLIC.
We the undersigned Parties, in justice to the Talents of
A.R.Nevill, City Surveyor, do return him our Thanks for the accurate and impartial Manner in which he surveyed, valued, and divided the Manor of Rothvilly, in the County of Carlow, in five equal Divisions, on which an Act of Parliament has been passed.
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Surveying and Map Drawing done in the most Careful and Elegant Manner, No.50 Camden-street. - A Lad who has a Taste for Writing and Drawing will be taken as Apprentice.
October 19, 1810.
NOTICE
The Commissioners of the Navan Turnpike Road will meet at the Board Room Navan, at One o'Clock, on Wednesday, the 31st October inst. to transact all Business relative to said Road.
By Order
R.A.Thompson, Treasurer and Register.
October 17, 1810.
The
Right Hon.Theophilus Jones, Plaintiff;
Harloe Knott and
John Johnston, Esqrs, surviving Executors and Trustees of
Patrick Carter, Esq. deceased
Thomas Carter, Esq. and others, Defendants.
Pursuant to the Decree of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland, made in this Cause, bearing date the 16th day of February 1809, I hereby require all Creditors and Legatees of
Patrick Carter, late of Drumlease, in the County of Leitrim, Esq. deceased; and all Persons having Charges and Incumbrances affecting the real of freehold Estates of the said
Patrick Carter, to come in before me, at my Office, on the Inn's-quay, Dublin, on or before Tuesday the 20th day of November next, and prove their respective Demands, otherwise they will be precluded all benefit arising from the said Decree
Dated this 18th Day of July, 1810.
W.W.Pole.
RIOTS IN GALWAY.
We are again called upon to notice the lawless and atrocious outrages of the piratical banditti of the fishermen who inhabit the Cloddagh, in this town. The determined and obstinate perseverance of these infatuated monopolists, in their attempts to ruin the very lucrative and abundant fishery in this bay, appears likely to be productive of the most tremendous consequences, not barely to those immediately interested in the prosperity of the fishery, but even to the community at large, and loudly calls for, and we conceive, well merits the immediate attention of Government.
We mentioned in a former Paper, the intention of
Captain Morris, of the Townsend, Revenue cutter, to afford protection to such industrious persons as may be disposed to fish for herrings. With this intention he went into the bay on the evening of last Wednesday se'nnight, when immediately upon observing his movement, many hundreds of the Cloddagh fishermen put out to sea for the purpose of opposing him, and in a most alarming manner threatened himself and crew with destruction.
Captain Morris, however, not intimidated by their desperate temerity, persevered in his purpose, and after having fired several shots, succeeded in dispersing them, thereby affording encouragements to such persons as were inclined to fish to do so. The opportunity they afforded, few availed themselves of, so considerable was the apprehension excited among them by the previous menaces of Cloddagh men; and of the few, one boat incautiously and without the knowledge of
Captain Morris, proceeded beyond the reach of his assistance. The boat was pursued and overtaken, and at midnight (
Capt.Morris having some hours previously returned to harbour) she was boarded, when, with characteristic barbarity, the Cloddagh men put a gag into the mouth of every person on board for the purpose of preventing any possibility of alarm. In this deplorable situation one of the unhappy men who had been attacked, was laid hold of by the heels, by one of his assailants, who intended, and actually attempted, to thrown him overboard ! In the exertion, one of his shoes, which the monster held, having been pulled off, providentially saved his life; a second attempt to drown him was defeated by the interference of the miscreant's associates in crime, who all declared in the hearing of the agitated victim of their cruelty, "that if he was made away with, they would be all hanged" - The boat whose crew had been thus ill treated had taken about ten thousand herrings, every one of which, together with the nets, &c. &c. on board, it must appear entirely unnecessary to add, underwent a most summary and discretionary mode of confiscation. - Such were the proceedings on Wednesday night; and reproachful as they no doubt are, they were not more disgraceful nor more infamous than the occurrence of the following day;
for, on Thursday, the disturbers not only manifested a reluctance to decline a repetition of the conflict, but advanced the entire way to provoke it, by having violently and unprovokedly attacked and ill treated
Captain Morris's men. He himself having accidentally been absent from the vessel at the moment the attack was made upon the crew, the men supposed it prudent not to retaliate the injury, and declined firing upon the assailants. Upon being informed of the assault which had been committed on his men,
Captain Morris immediately proceeded to his vessel, and went in pursuit of three of the offenders, three of the ringleaders of whom were identified to him, and spiritedly taken by him from among the collected crew of about 500 boats, and put on board his own vessel, where he kept them confined for the night.- The following morning he applied to the Mayor for a party of the army to convey them to jail, which, having been ordered, was marched to the beach in order to take charge of the prisoners. After the military had taken the delinquents into custody, and while escorting them from the Cloddagh to jail, the contest assumed a new shape. At the end of Dominick-street,
Capt.Morris, the guard, &c. were opposed by a phalanx of Amazonian heroines, from 4 to 600 strong, who, having upon this occasion laid aside the oratorical weapon of woman's warfare, which, though it often wounds, seldom kills, so beset the party with showers of lapideous bullets that they conceived it prudent to march in double quick time, until their retreat was luckily covered by the guard at the West-Bridge guard-room, who turned out for the purpose. During this short scuffle,
Capt.Morris received some severe contrusions, as did the soldiers, a few of whom, finding it impossible, notwithstanding their apparent danger, to divest themselves of the characteristic gallantry of Irishmen, prevailed upon some of the fair combatants to take the "Aromatic Lozenges of Steel." The prisoners are now in jail, and will, we suppose, be tried at the present Quarter Sessions. The manner in which they shall be treated, and the severity with which they shall be punished, if evidence be adduced against them sufficient to warrant a conviction, will, we sincerely hope and trust, prove the determination of the Tholsel Magistracy to repeal the statutes of the Cloddagh Legislators, as well as their intention to coalesce with
Captain Morris, in that Gentleman's spirited, becoming, and extremely praise-worthy exertions to benefit the poor, to enrich the town, to punish the monopolists, and to obviate evils of the most alarming magnitude,- Galway Chronicle.
A terrible affray took place on Sunday se'nnight, between two factions at Listowel, in which several persons were dangerously wounded, and one man named
Quirk, received such a dreadful beating that he died in consequence next morning.
Saturday se'nnight, a truly distressing accident occurred at the Deer Park, near Killarney :
Michael Connor, a child about eight years of age, accompanied by
Ellen Shea, a little girl of eleven, having gone into a room in which a loaded gun was incautiously left, the boy put his hand on it, and by some accident it unfortunately went off, the contents lodging in the head of his hapless companion, who almost instantly expired.