Longford, April 8o.]. This day a number of armed villains entered into the houfe of the Rev. Mr. M'Cabe at Mohill, in this county, and have ing fecured the family, robbed it of many valu able articles and near pool. in cash.

Limerick, April 30.] On Friday the 20th inft. Mr. William B. Swan, Surveyor of Excife, affifted by Mr. John Peppard, Gauger, and a party of the 8th Light Dragoons, feized a large private ftill, head, two worms and a large copper boiler at work, at Ballinahowe, near Glanworth, and Spilled upwards of five thousand gallons of por ale, and two hundred gallons of finglings. After deftroying this extenfive distillery, Mr. Swan repaired with the above party to Glanworth, where he had information of 600 barrels of private malt being concealed in a bolting mill; on apIroaching the mill,the windows of it were crowded with armed men, as alfo in a cattle adjoining it; Mr. Swan immediately applied to the Rev. Henry Bagg, a magiftrate, to affift him, who immediately took from his pocket the riot-act, and on approaching the caffle with Mr. Swan, they were fired at from the windows of the caftle and mill, which wounded Mr. Baggs in the chin and fhoulder, also wounded Mr. Swan in the leg; the villains had the audacity to repeat the fire, which wounded five of the dragoons flightly, and three of their horfes; to add to their villainy, they fractured the carrier's horfe's fcull which carried the still, in order to effect a rescue; fome of the Dragoons fired when one person was killed. The ftill, head, worms and boiler, were fafely lodged in the ftores of Charleville.

Trim, May 1.] This day four defperate vil Jains were taken in and near Trim, by fome genelemen of that neighbourhood; two of them made a running fight of near ten miles, fired fome fhots on their purfuers, who at the firft of the purfuit had no arms-they procured fome how ever, at a gentleman's houfe, as they paffed it one of the fellows would not give himself up, until there was a blunderbufs fired at him, which wounded him, but not dangerously; there were found on him 76 guineas, in a yellow and purple ftriped porfe, and two piftols.

Belfast, May 11 On Friday night last, at half after eleven o'clock, the chandling houfe of Mr. William Thompson of Lurgan, was maliciously fet on Are by fome evil minded person or perfons→→ The flames raged with great fury, and in a shot time communicated to the office houses and stores of Mr. Godfrey and Mr. Clarke, which, making thirteen in all, notwithstanding the most active exertions on the part of the inhabitants, were entirely consumed-happily however, the greater part of the goods depofited therein were got out, before the fames reached them-no dwelling houses were burned, and had it not been for the calmness of the night, and the wind fortunately changing to a more favourable direction during the fire, the quarter of the town in which it happened, must intall probability have been entirely destroyed.

Little doubt is entertained of the above atro clous outrage being committed by fome of the affociates of Kerr, lately committed to Armagh gaol, out of refentment against fome of thefe gendemen, for to laudably exerting themselves the apprehending of him.

Since the laft accounts from Lurgan, a third man died, in consequence of fatigue during thể chase of Kerr.It is remarkable, that those three young men left each a widow-and that the age of the men together, did not exceed 64 years!

Waterford, May 7] The house and offices of Parkstown, county Kilkenny, were maliciously fet on fire, last Tuesday night, by fome perfon er persons unknown; and the whole, with the furniture, entirely confurned.

Laft Friday night a house belonging to a farmer who lives near Williamflown, in this county, was feloniously entered, and robbed of four gold rings, thirty-one guineas in gold, and a guinea and a half in filver, by a number of vilains whofe faces were blackened.

DUBLIN, April 25, 1787.

This afternoon the Powder Mills, at Clondalken, belonging to Counsellor Caldbeck, by fome unknown accident, blew up. Two men who were at work in the mill were destroyed, and many of the neighbouring houfes greatly thattered; it also occafioned the sudden fall of a stack of chimnies near Meeting-house-yard, but fortunately no accident enlued in confequence of the fame.

The explosion was feverely felt in the most diftant parts of the county Dublin, and even in the county of Kildare for feme miles near the banks of the canal. The concuffion of the atmo fphere was much more violent than when a fimi❤ lar accident happened twenty-one years fince id the elaboratory of the Lower Caftle-yard.

May 1. The following perfons were tried and convicted at the Quarter Seffions, at Kilmainham: James Walth, for attempting to break the roof of the dwelling-houfe of Patrick Andrews, with an intent burglariously to enter the fame, to be whipped from the Circular Road turnpike-gate to Cork-bridge, and to give fecurity to keep the peace, belore Jof. Verfchoyle, Efq.

George Dalton, for fecreting himself in the hep of one Laurence Hynes, to be whipped from Kilmainham to Mount-brown.

John Byrne, for feloniously taking seven sheep, the goods of Henry Smith, to be hanged on the 19th day of May next.

James Mealy and Patrick Molloy, for taking out of the houfe of Patrick Locke, one brafs candlestick, one pair of boots, and a copper kottle, to be tranfported,

James Hickey, for taking one black gelding, the property of Jaines Segrave, to be hanged on Saturday the 19th of May next.

Margaret Savage, for ftealing one copper teakettle, the property of Thomas Lucas, to be imprifoned a week.

Sarah Neal and Elizabeth White, for fealing feveral articles of wearing apparel, the goods of Elizabeth Kearns, to be tranfported..

Mary Ennis, for ftealing a cloak the property of Peter Bagnell, to be tranfported.

Patrick Hore, for affaulting John Maher, to be imprifoned a week, and to pay rol, fine.

21 One hundred and seventeen convicts caft for tranfporiation were conveyed in carts from the New Priton to the lower end of the North Wall, and shipped on board a vellel "deftined to convey

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them to America. In their way two of thefe wretches found means to cut the cords wherewith they were tied, leap out of the carts, and like defperadoes forcing through the guards make their efcape; one of them was however retaken and put on board with his comrades.

3.] The women convicts, to the amount of 50, and about twenty more men were embarked.

One Dorothy Cullen was dreadfully torn by the explofion of a horn of gunpowder at her master's in Harold's-cross. This poor girl, with great fimplicity, imagined the could light her fire readily with the powder, and accordingly put a Small quantity into a paper; an explosion it communicated with the horn, which nearly fevered her thumb from the band in which the held it, and drove feveral fplinters into her neck.

4] Laft night feveral villains attempted to break into the houfe pi Mr. O'Meara, at New-, town Park. They had actually made fome pro geefs in forcing open the ball door, when a lady in one of the upper apartments was happily a larmed, who, with admirable fortitude and tea. dinefs of mind, discharged a pistol which lay in the room amongst them, and thereby fo effectu ally difconcerted their intentions that they retired with precipitation.

Lord Earlsfort in a moft feeling manner warn ed the grand jury of the city of Dublin, of the neceffity there was for their paying a proper attention to the state of the goals. The horrors of fome of them he declared to be shocking to bumanity; he himself had perfonally visited fome of them. The City Marshallen was an hovel dreadful to imagination, a number of perfons huddled together without even a little straw to lie on, furrounded by noisome ftenches, and acceffibly only at the hazard of a person's life yet even this was nothing when compared to the fate of their Bridewell.-His Lordship feverely reprobated the electioneering jobs which were practifed by the sitizens, and declared that there was as much folicitation used for the purpose of obtaining any city employment as would be fufficient to carry the election of a reprefentative for a great county.

In addrefling the grand jury on the above oc cafion, the Lord Chief Juftice difplayed all the Grmness of a judge, and all the tender fenfibility of a feeling mind-when fuch men as he quit the gorgeous palace and the fragrant gardens to vifit the dreary manfions of distress, and breathe the impure vapours of a filthy dungeon, it ma aifelts the innate goodness of the human heart, and fhews a regard for their fellow-creatures which must ever excite the admiration and gratitude of the public,

5.] This day a new fpecies of fraud was de tected by fome refpectable citizens of this metropolis A Swindler, who lately arrived here, being indefatigable in his applications to receive Subscriptions for a Directory of the Merchants of England and Ireland, imposed on many credalous perfons:―However, being accidentally asked, who was printing the work-which he promised fhould be finished in the courfe of a week--he teplied it was at prefs at a printing-office in Backlane, whither a messenger was dispatched, but fhortly returned with an answer that no foch Work had been even offered there. In confequence

of this the adventurer was carried before Mr. Alderman Exfhaw, who very properly recom mended the parties to take out fummonfes for the immediate appearance of this literary bird of paffage at the Court of Confcience, where he attended, and with the most unconcerned effrontery refused to return the money because he had given receipts for it. However, when Mr. Alderman Shiel had signed the orders for immediate payment or fecurity, the fharper declared the had no money about him; and begged the plaintiffs would go with him to his lodging, where he promised to fatisfy them in their full demands. To this they agreed; but having, doubtless, many prudential reasons against the admiffion of ftrangers into his place of refidence, he stopped in Effex-ftreet, and there produced a fufficiency of cath, (with which notwithstanding his former declaration he appeared to be amply supplied) and, having paid the contents of the orders, was fuffered to decamp.

12.] Counsellor Hutchinfon, third fon to the Provolt of the University of Dublin, called on Lord Moustmorres for an explanation of his fpeech in the House of Lords, on Monday, April the 23d. Lord Mountmorres faid, he meant no perional offence to the Provoft, and if the Provolt should ask him the fame question, he would return him the fame anfwer. Mr. Hutchinfon, on his fecond vifit, not seeming pleased with this anfwer, and leaving the room with fome warmth, Lord Mountmorres fent a gentleman immediately to Mr. Hutchinson, who was prefent at the whole of this tranfaction, to know if he was fatisfied at the answer and explanation; Mr. Hutchinson said that he was dissatisfied. Lord Moustmorres having refufed any other explanation or convery fation on the fubject, Mr. Hutchinlon feat him a mellage on Saturday evening laft, at feven o'clock purporting, "That in confequence of a libel appearing in the papers, as a representation of his tpeech, which his Lordship thought proper not to apologize for, he called upon his Lord. fhip for perfonal fatisfaction, and delired to mess him in half an hour." The parties met at Donneybrook according to the appointment of Mr. Hutchinton. The leconds having measured out the ground, they both fired at the fame time. Lord Mountmorres fell in confequence of a wound under the arm, The feconds then interfered to prevent farther bad confequence. Mr. Huichinfon was attentled on the ground by George Ogle, Etq, and a furgeon; and Lord Mountmorres, by Lord Loftus. The wound which his Lordship received, was nearly in the fame place, as that of the late Sir John Colthurit, but happily the ball took a different direction, and produced a violent contufion; however, not accompanied by any fatal conlequence.

Smuggling upon our coafts is no longer carried on in the fmall fcale it was heretofore, instead of yawls or fracks or small wherries, fquare rigged veffels with full cargoes hover round the inland for the purpose of landing contraband commodities to a large amount. One of this defcription being a large brigantine, was this morning brought into this barbour by the Townshend Revenue Cruifer, Captain Huddart; the has on board two hundred hogheads of tobacco, and one hundred puncheons of rum; he was captured in the las