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Wexford, with the dates of their several conflagrations, amounting to thirty-three. And Mr. Plowden has cited an official list of upwards of seventy, damaged or destroyed by the said government boys.

SACRILEGE.

The following Fact is enough to stamp the English and their Adherents in Ireland, with everlasting infamy. It is from Mr. Hay's History of the Wexford Insurrection, page 301, where he truly observes, that no such atrocity can, at any period, be imputed to the most infuriated pike

men.

AT the summer assizes of Wexford, in 1801, James Redmond was tried and condemned for murder; and pursuant to his sentence, was executed on the 30th of July, and his body delivered to the surgeons; who, after dissecting it, permitted it to be taken away-and it was buried. The corpse was dug up out of its grave, and placed in the shed erected for the priest to officiate on the scite of the Catholic Chapel of Monamoling, which had been burned. This exhibition was not discovered until the congregation had assembled to hear mass on the Sunday following, the 3d of August, 1801.

GENERAL MURPHEY.

"THE rebel General Murphey, when led to execution was tauntingly desired to work miracles, and otherwise scoffed at and insulted by a young officer, who went the length of offering a most indecent insult to his person, which so irritated his feelings, that, though on the very brink of eternity, he doubled his fist and knocked down the officer in a blow; upon which he was unmercifully flagellated and instantly hanged."

IRISH LAW.

"IN the barony of Lower Orion, in the county of Armagh, one Birch, under a military escort, with his hands tied behind him, was cut down by the serjeant, and died of his wounds; the pretext was, that some countrymen, attracted by curiosity, came near them and intended to attempt a rescue; and on the night of the wake of the deceased, some soldiers, under command of colonel Sparrow, broke into the house, took out the corpse, and severely wounded and mangled those who were in the house.

"A party of the Essex Fencibles burned the house and furniture of one Potter, a respectable farmer, because his wife, who had seven infant children, either would not, or could not tell where her husband was. Another party of the same regiment quartered at Enniskillen, broke open the house of Farmer Durman, at two o'clock, murdered one and wounded another of his sons while in bed. The like outrages were committed at Coolairll, upon one Price an innkeeper, and his daughter, who were both dangerously wounded.

"The colonel was tried and found guilty, but he had the king's pardon in his pocket, which he produced upon the sentence being pronounced against him.”

I was present at the above transaction; and on the same Circuit at Carrickfergus, I was Counsel for Joseph Cuthbert, and a number of others, who, after a year's imprisonment, were tried and acquitted.-Immediately upon their acquittal, the public prosecutor produced a warrant under the suspension of the Habeus Corpus Act, and they were committed afresh to the hands of the gaoler, as suspected.

ANOTHER INSTANCE.

MR. WALTER DEVEREA UX.

"I cannot omit here mentioning the case of Mr. Walter Devereaux, who, having obtained protections from several

general officers, had gone to Cork to embark for Portugal; he was there taken up, tried, condemned and executed. Mr. Gibson, a yeoman and wealthy Protestant shopkeeper, and Mr. William Kearney, an extensive brewer, were summoned and attended at his trial, and proved that he was in Wexford, and even in gaol, at the very time some soldiers of the Wexford Militia were shot thirty miles from that town; and the principal charge against him was, that he gave orders and was present at their execution, which some men of that regiment were hardened enough to swear!!! I myself saw him in Wexford on the alleged day. He was also accused of aiding and abetting the abomination at Seullabogue, and this charge was similarly supported by the testimony of some soldier's wives! and yet it is an undoubted fact, that he was all that day engaged at the battle of Ross, where he displayed the most heroic bravery and courage, qualities inconsist ent with the odious crime it was falsely sworn he had perpetrated!!! But what puts the falsehood of the facts alleged against him beyond all question is, that after his execution, another Mr. Devereaux was taken up on the discriminating sagacity of the same witnesses, who prosecuted the former to death; but who now (as they said) discovered the right Devereaux. The trial of the latter has been published, and I would recommend its perusal to such as wish further information."

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"WE have taken particular pains to be informed of the sequel of the story of Michael and Thomas Egan, the father and son, who underwent so barbarous and brutal a persecution in the village of Dunlavin, in the county of Wicklow; being, as we have already stated, dragged naked from their beds,

in the dead hour of night; the father's bones broken by of ficers and yeomen; for, to the immortal honor of the poor Irish soldiers, they refused to take part in the atrocity; whilst the son was hanged three times, in the presence of his aged father, with every aggravating circumstance of bar barity; and this without any colour of legal authority whatever, but avowedly by the inhuman and illegal process of torture, to extort accusations from the agony of the sufferers. Upon the son's refusing a bribe, the father was violently beaten before his face.

"The young man was cut down senseless, his tongue hanging out of his mouth; but was nevertheless kept several days in the guard-house. In six days he was taken, with his hands tied behind his back, to Wicklow gaol, where he remained, in the most monstrous contempt and violation of the law, in a dismal cell, loaded with very heavy irons.

"He was then brought up to the quarter sessions at Baltinglass, and an indictment read to him, charging him with having spoken seditious words. He was then remanded, and not delivered till he gave bail in so extravagant a sum as five hundred pounds. The words, we understand, with which he was charged, were fitter to excite laughter, than to sanction any such persecution; and upon his appearance at Baltinglass, the prosecutor thought fit to quash his indictment; and Mr. Fowler, a principal party, was himself held to bail, upon the information of Michael Egan against him, and is to answer at the next assizes of Wicklow, when the whole will be brought fairly to light, for which reason we forbear from be. ing more particular at present.

"We hear that the friends of the poor sufferers, took down counsel especially to protect them, viz. Counsellors Sampson and Bennett,"

The above facts are stated short of the truth. When the defendant came into court, he found it filled with the very soldiery who had committed these barbarous crimes against his father and himself. He found those under whose

orders, and by whose help they had done those acts, seated on the bench of justice to try him. Between those military justices who had first tortured him, and were now his accusers and judges, and their guards, there was only a thin loose canvas. through which, for more terror, the bayonet's points were visible.

The court thought proper to quash the indictment, and we prevailed so far as to oblige one of the judges to come down from the bench and give bail to answer the charge of the accused. This effort was not without risk of our lives. Mr. Emmet and I had obtained a rule in the King's Bench for an Information; but before the case could be tried, he, Mr. Bennet, and I, were all put in goal.

BLOODY EXECUTIONS AT WEXFORD.

"THE entrance of the wooden bridge was the scene fixed on for the place of execution. The sufferers were hauled up with pullies, made fast with ropes to an ornamental iron arch, intended for lamps, and springing from the two wooden piers of the gate next the town. The large stature of the Rev. Philip Roche caused the first rope he was hauled up with to break; but another was soon procured, and his life was ended with double torture. The head of captain Keugh, who suffered along with him, was separated from his body, and conspicuously placed on a pike over the front of the court-house. Their bodies, together with those of others executed at the same time, were stripped and treated with the utmost brutality and indecency, previous to their being thrown over the bridge.

"Mr. Grogan was brought to trial, but the evidence, which he hoped to obtain of his innocence, did not attend, on account of the general apprehension which prevailed. His trial was therefore postponed, and he was remanded to gaol. Mr. Harvey was then put on his trial, which lasted for the best part of the day, and ended in his condemnation.

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