DISTURBED STATE OF IRELAND.
g bourhoodof his residence.
The Sovereign of Kinsale reports, that disturbance is Kinsale, Jan.
12, beginning to manifest itself in the immediate neighbourhood of that town and its *• Heard, ^liberties, by the posting of threatening and inflammatory notices.
The Rector of
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a Magistrate near Skibbereen, reports conversations with his tenants expressive of their apprehensions of a bad spirit existing in the county, of their hearing men on horseback every night, and of horns sounding and shots being fired in the night.
Lord Bantry states, that a report having reached him on the 1 lth, that near five Bantry-I'ost>>e, hundred men mounted, and partly armed, had attacked some houses in the neigh-January 13.
bourhood and robbed them of arms, he proceeded with five other gentlemen in pursuit of the offenders ; on coming up with them, the party under his Lordship's command was fired at, compelled to retreat, and pursued ; his Lordship adds, that he has since heard that the men in question came from great distances.
A very active Magistrate represents this part of the county of Cork to be pro-gressively more disturbed, nocturnal meetings more frequent, and vengeande threatened against those who resist their unlawful proceedings.
Another Magistrate reports several robberies of arms in the parishes of Skull and *** ^*^***pj* Kilmoe, and the burning of a corn store at Crookhaven; and another, in repre-" senting the alarming state of the county, adds, that the object of the insurgents, in one district at least, has not been confined to the lowering of rents and tithes, but extended to the refusal also of the Priest's dues.
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The Provost of Bandon, and seven Magistrates in the neighbourhood, transmit fiandou, 14,January, an account of eight outrages, attended with robbery of arms, in the immediate Provost, vicinity of the town; and state, that not a night passes without numerous meetings, which they find it impossible to prevent.
I request your Lordship's attention to the inclosed memorial addressed to me by B.
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Magistrates of the southern part of the county of Cork.
Although the particular outrages to which the report refers have been in some cases already -v.'
submitted to your Lordship, yet the general view of the actual condition of that ^ district, presented by so respectable and well informed a body, cannot fail to ^command the most serious attention of Government.
, Orders had been given, previous to the receipt of this memorial, for placing a military force at Bandon and Macroom, and for moving the whole of the 2jd -regiment into that district.
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i/o/zowra^/e *' * Sir, Thurles, 15th January i8d2*T* BEFORE I could have the honour of sending the inclosed letter of the 14th, J received information that a Tithe Proctor in the employment^ Mr-Going, Rector of the parish of Mealiffe, about five miles from this, was assassinated.
I instantly went there, and found that the poor man was not quite dead, as the shots fortunately missed him, but he was cut and bruised : I took his informations, and also those of a servant boy who was the first that gave him any assistance ; copies of which I have the honour to inclose.
Mr.
Going is brother to the late Chief Magistrate, who was assassinated in the county of Limerick.
He is at present examining wit-messes at a Commission, which was issued out of one of the courts, for ascertaining , the bounds of his parish.
The Proctor was to give his evidence yesterday, and it is thought would prove the parish of greater extent than it at present pays tithes for: this is one reason supposed for taking his life.
But I assure you that the lower orders are become so very depraved, that there is no one in* a .state
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