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Saturday, November 8th, 1810




Game Licences

A List of Game Licences taken out from Samuel Crawford, Esq. Distributor of Stamps for the County of Longford, in the year 1810.

Mr.James Hutchinson to Patrick M'Cormick, both Killasher
A Deputation.
Earl of Granard, 1 Game Licence
Hon.Lord Forbes, 1 ditto
Hon.Hastings Forbes, 1 ditto
James M'Donnell, of Annaugh Wood. A Deputation by the Earl of Granard.
Patrick Goan, of Clonburgh. A Deputation by ditto
Connor Flyn, of Ballygar. A Deputation by ditto
G.Crawford, Arvaugh, co.Cavan, Esq. 1 Game Licence
Geo.West, of Foxhall parish, & Barony of Ardagh, 1 do.
Andrew Doyle, of Granard, 1 ditto
Richard Webb, of Lisryan, Parish of Stud, and Barony of Granard, 1 ditto
Michael Galligan, of Deraugh, Parish of Stud, and Barony of ditto, 1 ditto
Martin Connor, Castletown, co.Longford, 1 ditto
Thomas Pointon, of Cloontagh, Parish of Killasher, Barony of Moydoo, co.of Longford, 1 ditto
Edward Daw, of Balname, Parish of Lecklelea, Barony of Dennyfin, co.Westmeath, 1 ditto
Thomas Bound, jun. Edgworthstown, Parish of Mestrim, Barony of Ardagh, co.Longford, 1 ditto
Francis Tute, of Lakefield, Barony of Granard, 1 ditto

[This Account furnished to the 20th inst.]
Robert Bourke, of Templemichael, Co.Longford, 1 do.
Frank Lemon, of Liscormick, Parish of Killaglass, and Barony of Abbeyshrool, 1 ditto
David M'Chord, Sharavogue, Parish of Killashu, and Barony of Moydoo, 1 ditto
Verschoyle Crauford, of Newtownforbes, Esq. 1 ditto
John A.Robinson, of Lisglasick, Esq. 1 ditto.
Thomas William Crauford, Assistant-Surgeon, Down-patrick, 1 ditto
Arthur Gauslin, of Gassena, Barony of Granard, 1 do.
Lewis Mumfurt, of Killashu, and Co. Longford, 1 ditto
Edward O'Ferrall, of Lisard, Esq. 1 ditto.

September 4, 1810.
Sam.Crawford.




ADDRESS
Of the Inhabitants of Finglass and its Vicinity to the Magistrates
of the King's Inns Division of Police.

We the undersigned Inhabitants of Finglass and its Vicinity, take this public Manner of returning our Thanks to Sir William Stamer, Bart., William Turner, and James Blacker, Esqrs. Magistrates of the Inn's-Quay Division, for their great Attention to the Peace and Quiet of that Village and Neighbourhood, by the appointment of a well regulated night patrole; the good effects of which, and security arising therefrom, we have already experienced, and under the fullest conviction that the tranquillity of the City of Dublin will be much improved by such necessary and constant observance of the many public Avenues concentrating there, and the numerous nightly idle frequenters thereof, we beg to solicit a continuance of such Patrole.
Finglass, Oct.29th, 1810.

W.Dobbin, Vicar.H.S.Stokes
J.Sheppard, Church WardenD.Clarke
Geo.GriersonP.Callaghan
Wm.AllenJ.Cawdall
N.MahaffyL.Sensi
D.DickinsonS.Tracy
J.PowerThomas Loftus, and
B.ShewJohn Anderson
J.Henshall


To which the following Answer was returned.

Gentlemen,
We have received your Address of Thanks for the Peace and Quiet afforded to the Village of Finglass and Neighbourhood, by the attention of the Police Night Patrole lately established in the country part of this Division.
We feel equally sensible with you of the good Effects which must arise to the Vicinity of the Metropolis by the appointment of a well regulated Night Patrole, and we are highly gratified at your Approbation of our Exertions to promote the solicitude of Government, in devising a system so wise and salutary for your Protection and Safety.
Be assured our best endeavours shall not be wanting to merit a continuance of that Approbation in the discharge of our duty, which you so highly, and in such kind acknowledgements appreciate.
We have the honor to be,
Gentlemen,
Your very faithful humble Servants,
William Stamer.
William Turner.
James Blacker.
King's Inn Division of Police, Upper Ormond-quay, November 3d, 1810.




Game Licenses.

A list of the Names and Places of Abode, of the several Persons who have taken out Certificates for killing Game, agreeable to the Act of Parliament, from Andrew Johnston, Distributor of Stamps, for the County of Leitrim, since the 25th March, 1810.

NamesResidence
Richard Irwin, Esq.Drumsilla, Co.of Leitrim
Edward Lawder, Esq.Clover-hill
John Lawder, Esq.Mogh
Thomas Gore, Esq.Woodford
Duke Crofton, Esq. jun.Mohill
Hugh O'Beirne, Gent.Georgia
Wm.O'Brien, Esq.Brooklawn
Matt.Nesbitt, Esq.Derricarn
Marks Crofton, Esq.Clover-hill
Randle Slack, Gamekeeper, DeputationManor and Lands of Furmologh
Captain D.GroseCarrick-on-Shannon
Myles Keon, Esq.Keonbrook
Edward Simpson, Esq.Drumsna
Thomas Tenison, Esq.Castle Tenison, County of Roscommon
James Wat, Esq.Ruth, Co.Westmeath
Andrew Johnston, Esq.Lodge, Druma-hair


Andrew Johnston, Distributor.
Carrick-on-Shannon, 6th Oct. 1810.




On Sunday, 11th November, 1810.
A CHARITY SERMON
Will Be Preached In
St.Michan's Church,
By The
Rev.Wm.Bushe, A.M. Rector of St.George's,

For the Support of Eight Boys and Eight Girls, who are Lodged, Dieted, Clothed, Instructed, and Apprenticed.
The School having no Fund, and the small Sum arising from a few Subscriptions being greatly diminished, the Existence of it depends on the Annual Collection, which, without the utmost Exertions of its long tried Patrons and a humane Public, will not be adequate to the Expenditure of the ensuing Year, in consequence of the Rise on Provisions, and the advanced Price in every necessary Article of Life. Therefore, the Governors and Governesses of this most useful Charity, earnestly solicit the Liberality of the Public on this Occasion, particularly as the Treasurer is very considerably in advance.
It is hoped that such benevolent Persons as cannot conveniently attend the Sermon, will have the Goodness to send their Benefactions to any of the following Gentlemen :- Rev.John Rowley, Rector, No.13, Lower Gardiner-street; Rev.Thomas Gamble, Paradise-Row; Rev.John Jones, St.Michan's Vestry, Curates;- Mr.D.C.Elliott, No.41, Beresford-street; Mr.James King, Linen-hall, Church-Wardens;- Mr.S.Rosborough, No.27, Charles-street; Mr.William Smith, No.8, Brunswick-street, or Mr.William Thompson, No.49, Pill-Lane, Treasurer.
Mr.Spray and other Gentlemen of the Choir have kindly engaged to perform an Anthem on the occasion.




Dublin.- Thursday, Nov. 8.

In the Charge delivered by the Hon.Justice Day, we observed a direction to carry into effect the law, which enables the Barony of Rathdown to form and repair its Roads, without recourse to the expensive jobbing of Turnpike Roads, and we thought we heard the Judge say, that he supposed the other Baronies in the county would adopt the same measure. Certainly, it will be a mark of their wisdom and public spirit if they do; for it is manifest that the most sumptuous Mansion in the Barony of Rathdown, cannot be taxed for the Roads more than fifty shillings per annum, while we have innumerable proofs that very moderate Houses upon Turnpike Roads, pay from twenty to thirty pounds Turnpike.

Wexford, Nov.5 - In the violent storm on Friday, the sloop James and William of Dublin, Peter Sinnot, master, bound from Arklow home, laden with barley and oats, was totally lost on the North bank of our Bar; crew saved.

Michaelman Term.
Tuesday, 6th November, being the first Sitting Say of Term, Grand Juries for the county and city of Dublin were sworn in the Court of King's Bench, before the Hon.Justice Day, who delivered a short charge to the following effect :-
Gentlemen of both Grand Juries,
Nothing has occurred to my observation since my late return to town that could justify me in trespassing at any length upon your attention.- This you are aware is a Presenting Term; one of those Terms in which the Legislature has authorized the Grand Juries of this Court to exercise the proudest and most important, perhaps of all the Legislative functions - that of taxing the Land-holders of your respective Bailiwick, towards certain public works and other necessary purposes. Parliament, from time to time, has shewn an anxious concern, and taken peculiar care, that this sacred trust should not be abused in the City and County of Dublin, by enacting sundry regulations for the government of your Grand Juries unknown in other Counties. For instance, you Gentlemen of the County happily are limited to a certain acreable rate of taxation, which you cannot exceed; while the Grand Juries of every other County are left altogether unfettered, and at full liberty to tax at their own discretion; - a liberty which, Heaven knows ! is exercised in too many Counties with the most disgusting spirit of rapacity and corruption. So also every other Grand Jury is stinted to the short period of the Assizes for fulfilling their numerous and various duties; indictments, presentments, accounts, politics - all are compressed and crammed together in the narrow limits of three or four days; while here you have three weeks, a whole Term, for deliberating upon the single subject of your Presentments, and for making an honest and judicious selection from the multitude of applications which must crowd upon you. These wise provisions are eminently calculated to check abuse; but the established character and great stake of many of the Gentlemen assembled on each side of me, afford the best security that the great trust which you have this day undertaken, will be diligently, judiciously, and conscientiously discharged.
Since the last Presenting Term, a local Act has come into operation, relating to the Barony of Rathdown, to which it is my duty to direct your attention. The rate of one shilling an acre having been found utterly insufficient to answer the calls and wants of that populous Barony, and all idea of Turnpike having been run down and scouted by those absolute and despotic leaders of the Public opinion, the Newspapers of Dublin, it became necessary for the Barony to cast about for some other resource in aid of its share of the land-tax; and accordingly the inhabitants, procured the Act which I allude to, last Session, authorizing the County Grand Jury to impose a certain house-tax upon the Barony, namely one shilling in the pound upon every House of the yearly value of �10 and upwards, not exceeding in valuation �50 a year; to be expended in addition to its portion of Land-tax in the repair and construction of roads and footways in that Barony only. The Act, which, next to Turnpikes, seems to me to be in principle the fairest imaginable, you will be called upon this Term to effectuate. And it is hoped that the provisions of this Statute will enable the Barony of Rathdown not only to keep their roads, which hitherto have been proverbially bad, in a state of perfect preservation, but to construct commodious footways on the great main roads between village and village for the accommodation of the humble pedestrian.
Gentlemen, upon Prisons and the Prison Act of last Sessions, I have heretofore so much at large addressed Grand Juries of this Court, that I shall spare you for the present upon that subject, contenting myself, in obedience to the Act, which giving it in charge to you, and with expressing a confident hope that you will give it all the operation which the Legislature, and our benevolent Government, the Parent of this humane Law, intended, for mitigating the miseries of the most unfortunate of the human race.

County Grand Jury

Hans Hamilton, Esq. Foreman
George VeseyJ.Kennedy
F.J.FaulknerPeter Locke
Hon.F.CavendishSir H.Wilkinson
Sir.S.BroadstreetSir John Brown
Thomas BakerJohn Hamilton
Robert ShawRichard Verschoyle
Thomas FinlayP.D.Latouche
Charles CobbeThomas R.Needham
Luke WhiteLundy Foote
J.S.RochfordA.Crawford
R.AlexanderRichard Jones, Esq.


City Grand Jury

Sir William Stamer, Foreman.
Alderman ExshawWilliam Cope
Alderman ReadJohn Giffard
Alderman ThorpeJonas Paisley
Alderman CarletonNat.Craven
Alderman PembertonThomas M'Kenny
Alderman ArcherJames Blacker
Alderman KingA.Tudor
Alderman CashRichard Manders, jun.
Alderman AlleyLeonard Ogleby
Sir E.StanleyA.Montgomery
Sir James RiddallHickman Kearney


The Grand Jury is hereby called upon, constant to their oath, to present the filthy and abominable nuisance of vast heaps of scavengers soil and abominable odure manufactured on the North Strand, and also at the upper end of Leeson-street. The effluvia arising from these detestable collections is most offensive to the senses and injurious to the constitution. It certainly is not the principle of economy that those heaps are deposited in such public situations.- Whoever looks at the paving and cleansing will see twenty niggleing at what five could perform. If then money is to be so lavishly expended, why not hire some obscure fields at a distance from the city, and remote from the concourse of men, to deposit those mountains of filthiness.

Common Council
Monday being election day for Representatives in the Common Council of the Corporation of Bricklayers and Plasterers, or guild of St.Batholomew, the numbers stood as follow :-

Richard Halpin54
Charles Thorpe, jun.47
James Llewellyn23
George Stevenson7
Wm.Pemberton2
B.Pemberton2
David Johnstone2


Whereupon Messrs.Halpin and Thorpe were declared duly elected.

The following is the statement of the Saddlers, Upholsterers, &c.

Mr.M'Cready98
Mr.Palmer91
Mr.Cooper71
Mr.Evatt52


On the same day, the election for the Corporation of Joiners, Messrs.David Heiffernan and Lewis Morgan were chosen to represent that Guild.
Mr.Edward Stephens, of Bride-street, and Mr.Wm.Davis, of Duke-street, were unanimously re-elected to represent the Corporation of Chandlers in the Common Council.

Maynooth College.- Doctor Everard, the present most respectable President of that Seminary, who has been lately appointed to his situation, through the recommendation of that highly esteemed Nobleman, Lord Fingal, having been informed, that several of the Students of the College, were suspected of entertaining disloyal principles, determined to discover the guilty, and to punish them - he accordingly questioned those against whom he had received information, but they denied the charge made against them. A few days after, Dr.Everard ordered all the Students to assemble, at a very early hour, in the Hall, where he repaired to meet them, and having locked the doors upon them, he went with his assistants to their several chambers, and examined their drawers and boxes, and found a number of the most seditious books and writings in the possession of eighteen of the Students, all of whom he has punished by expulsion. This conduct of Mr.Everard deserves every praise and commendation; and we rejoice, that a Gentleman of his firmness and loyalty has been put at the head of the Maynooth Establishment.- Patriot.

On Saturday se'nnight, Mr.Thomazine's house, near the Scalp, was broken open by an armed set of ruffians, who, taking advantage of his absence, robbed it of all the beds, bedding, and a quantity of beef, &c. with which they made clear off.

At an early hour on Tuesday morning, a fire was discovered in Mr.Berney's straw hat warehouse at the end of Temple-lane. The alarm was communicated before the fire had gained any considerable ascendancy; and we are happy to state that it was extinguished before material damage was experienced.

On Thursday morning last, an alarming fire took place in a house occupied by a publican in Greek-street, which threatened destruction to the surrounding neighbourhood. Owing to the prompt vigilance of the Engine-keeper of St.Michan's Parish the premises were ultimately saved. The house we understand was saved.

For the honour of our country the following fact ought to be recorded. The gaoler of Enniskillen on Tuesday appeared in the Four Courts, with 14 insolvent debtors, whom he brought up from their prison, for the determination of their respective cases. Such has been this worthy gaoler's humanity and meritorious conduct to all the unhappy prisoners whose misfortunes had thrown them into confinement, and such a feeling of grateful honesty did it excite in their bosoms, that the whole 14 have accompanied him to Dublin, alone, without any other guard than their own honour. They were seen attending him closely in the Hall, and not one among them would quit him for a moment in a crowded place, where escape could not have been prevented.- We know not of this be more to the credit of them or of their guardian.

At ten o'clock on Saturday night, wind S.E. the brig Drontheim, of Drontheim, from thence to Newry, Hanse Block, Master, laden with deal boards, &c. struck on a rock off Ballyhasker, 4 miles southward of Donaghadee. Early on Sunday morning, Edward Hull, Esq. Port-Surveyor, Mr.Mulhollan, Riding Office, with the Revenue boatmen, and other assistants, attended on the spot, and have made every possible exertion to get the cargo ashore, which will be accomplished should the weather continue moderate. The Drontheim is a fine new brig of about 300 tons burden, and sailed from that port on the 23d October. The master and crew are all safe.

Galway, Nov.1.- Monday evening last one of the greatest takes of herrings remembered for many years took place from the road towards the entrance of Oran-bay and Ardfry, which amply paid the fishermen and others employed therein for their labour. They were the best and largest fish taken this season; and some boats caught 15,000. It is supposed they received about �4,000 for the night's toil, calculating a two shillings per hundred; and on the following evening a number of country boats proceeded to fish under the protection of Captain Morris, of the Townsend, who was accompanied by Walter Blake, of Oran Castle, Esq. a Magistrate, when they caught upon an average, nearly as much as the preceding night.
Resolutions have been entered into by the Magistrates, Merchants, and principal Inhabitants of this town, for the purpose of putting a total stop to that monopoly so long practised by the fishermen of the Cloddagh, in regard to the herring fishery, which they might have continued to practice for many years to come, had it not been for the manly and spirited exertions of Captain Morris.
They have also resolved to petition for a tender, to be stationed here; and have offered a large reward for the conviction of any person interrupting the fishery.- Connaught Journal.

London, Sunday, Nov.4.
The fever under which our beloved Monarch suffers, does not, we understand, essentially differ from that with which he was afflicted some years since, but that it was milder in its effects, and promises an earlier termination - it was undoubtedly excited by the solicitude and distress occasioned by the sufferings of the Princess Amelia, and it is characterised, we hear, by something of the sadness occasioned by it.
The Queen was entering Augusta Lodge, on a visit to the Princess Amelia, when she received the intimation of her death; although prepared for the event, the shock was so great, that her Majesty was for half an hour unable to bear removal to the castle.

Death of the Princess Amelia.

The sufferings of this amiable Princess have at length reached their termination, and she has been called to receive the recompence of her piety and patience "in another and a better world." It will afford some consolation to our readers to hear, that her last moments were entirely free from pain; she departed without the least struggle or convulsion : those who were in attendance upon her did not think her last moment was arrived - she died as one dropping gently and calmly to sleep. The great affliction of knowing that her beloved father was ill, had been spared her; she breathed her last in complete ignorance of it.
However we may regret the early death of this truly amiable Princess, every reflecting and feeling mind must derive consolation from the consideration that she at length been released from sufferings to which no human aid could afford relief, and which, from her patient endurance of them, the better prepared her for that heavenly abode which her virtuous spirit doubtless now enjoys.
Her Royal Highness was the youngest child of their Majesties.
She was born Aug.7th, 1783, and was from early youth of a very tender and delicate constitution, being frequently attacked with severe indispositions. In her person she was tall and slender, and her air was most graceful and prepossessing. Illness had impressed her mark on her countenance, and scattered lilies over her cheeks. In her manners she was so mild, elegant, and affable, as to win every heart.
The frequency of her indispositions prevented her from studying as deeply as her elder sisters, yet she cultivated the fine arts with great success. In music and painting she was a proficient. She met with few rivals on the piano-forte, and displayed a classical taste both in her selection and execution of pictures. A model of filial piety, her love for her father was revealed in all her actions, and was so tenderly expressed a few days before her death, as to occasion the unfortunate illness under which he still continues to labour.- Dignified, though condescending; benevolent, without ostentation; lively, though a prey to sickness, which usually quenches the spirit as well as the health of youth, she was beloved by all those who lived within the sphere of hearing of her virtues. Some symptoms of the illness which has now terminated her existence having revealed themselves early, her Royal Highness tried the effects of sea-bathing, and derived much benefit from that practice. Her favourite amusement was that of riding, in which she was conspicuous for her elegance and skill. Exercise, however, and all the resources of the medical art, could but delay the fatal hour. Her disorder began to gain ground in an alarming manner upwards of two years ago, and when the first Jubilee of his Majesty was celebrated, she was lying on the bed of sickness, with but little hopes of her recovery. Towards the middle of last summer, however, she regained strength enough to sit up in her apartments, and to take a short walk into the garden. About a month ago her Royal Highness was attacked by St.Anthony's fire, which brought on a relapse, which has afforded her an opportunity of displaying the noblest Christian faith and fortitude, during weeks of prolonged agony, uncheered by any ray of hope. During the last few days her strength had been rapidly waining away, and she closed her eyes, as we have already stated, as in a kindly sleep.
The remains of her Royal Majesty will be interred about the end of next week, and in the mean time the Theatres and other places of public amusement will be closed. A general deep mourning will commence to-morrow se'nnight, and be continued for six weeks, after which the usual changes for half-mourning, &c. will take place.