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scribed by the woman servant, whom the robbers bound on first entering the Bank House, that a brother of Mr., Redmond, in passing along Damestreet lately, was struck with the exact application of the description to a person whom he accidentally encountered. He resolved at once to put the suspicion thus raised in his mind to proof, if possible, and, with this intention, followed the man at a distance. The suspected person turned up a narrow passage leading from Dame-street into Dame-court, where he stopped, and took a letter from his pocket, which he had appeared to have recei. ved but a very little time, and which be read with great agitation. Mr. Redmond took the opportunity of approaching him, and glancing his eye towards the letter, he recognized it to be the handwriting of a person residing in Wexford, upon which he immediately seized the man, and brought him to the Head Office of Police, where he underwent an immediate and scrutinizing examination. He told some very inconsistent things of himself, which the sagacity of his examiners soon detected, and he was so unsuccesful in all his attempts to evade the rigour of the investigation be had to undergo, that he was.committed for trial without a question upon the propriety of the accusation. The letter from Wexford contained a bank-note, as it would seem to enable the person to whom it was addressed to quit Ireland. It was written in a mysterious manner, all the allusions it contained being written with a studied obscurity, and evidently to be understood only by a person familiar with the subject upon which it was written. The allusions to the attempt at the robbery of the Bank were not so dexterously made as to impose on the public Magistrates-they readily interpreted the tenor of the letter, the writer of which has been since lodged in Wexford Jail.--The woman servant at the Bank House, pe

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remptorily identified the person seized in this city by Mr. Redmond, since his committal to prison.

Extract of a letter from Clonmel, dated 30th January, 1811.

"I returned here yesterday from the city of Cork, and am sorry to say that the bad business has made considerable progress in that county. On Monday night, a poor man, named Reardon, was murdered in his house, which was beset by a number of miscreants within three miles of Cork; he suffered by many wounds. He was an industrious and innocent poor man. An inviolable attachment to his master (Mr. McCarthy) was his only supposed delinquency, to whom he was suspected of communicating passing occurrences.

"I passed by Doneraile. The Barony of Orrery has been much disturbed; a meeting of the magistrates was called to consult upon measures of public safety.

Our commission will open on Monday next. If the system of terror which has been menaced against many, does not deter witnesses from supporting the informations they have sworn, bloody indeed will it be. But it is not witnesses alone that are intimidated. Men of that rank summoned to attend as Jurors, have of late become extremely nervous in our county; many of them are known to have soothed, not suppressed, their turbulent tenantry. It is not alone the terror of burning houses or houghing cattle, that affrights them; a new fear has become prevalent, that of sustaining the vile calumnies, so universally disseminated against every individual of known loyalty, and whose exertions in former rebellions had signalized them. The approaching Commission is likely to reveal many circumstances, which will sur prise you in the metropolis.

Your's,

R. G.

BIRTHS.

kenny, to Sarah, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. the Attorney-Ge

In Clonmel, the hon. Mrs. Jeph-neral. son, lady of Lorenzo Hickie Jephson, Esq. of a daughter. On Monday, the 21st inst. Mrs. Wood, of Austinfriars, of a son.

MARRIED.

Joshua Yates, Esq. of Lismore Castle, to Miss Anne Foley, eldest daughter of Thomas Foley, Esq. in Limerick. Henry Evans Heame, Esq. to Eliza, eldest daughter of the late Frederick Minchin, Esq. David O'Brien, Esq. of Critton, county of Cork, to Catherine, youngest daughter of the late Robert Holmes, Esq. of Ballyadam, in the county of Li'merick. At Gibraltar, Lieut. M. A. Eades, of the 30th Regiment, to Miss Brown, daughter of Major Brown, of the 4th Veteran Battallion. Mr. James Haggin, of Laneends, near Doagh, county of Antrim, to Miss Sarah Brown, of the same place. Mr. P. Kelly, of Lower Ormond Quay, to Miss Eliza Butler, of Grafton-street. John Jones, Esq. of Philipsburgh Avenue, to Miss O'Beime,daughter of John O'Beirne, Esq. of Carrick-on-Shannon. At the church of Clonoulty, county of Tipperary, by the Rev. Robert Armstrong, Lieut. Thomas Moore, of the 38th Regiment, to Miss Hannah Price, youngest daughter of Thomas Price, Esq. of Ardmayle near Cashel. At Norton, Leicestershire, Lawrence Winsor, a noted fiddler, aged 86, to Johannah Skelton, of Coaton-in the Elms, aged 22. By special licence, by the Rev. J. Saurin, John Flood, Esq. of Flood-hall, county of Kil

DEATHS.

On the 1st of January, 1811, aged 71, Mrs. Jane Barton, of Castlestreet, one of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers. She bore her illness with the fortitude of a

christian, and quitted life with hope full of immortality. Supported and consoled to the last, by the duteous attentions of her son and his wife, she expired in the bosom of her family, who in the fulfilment of their sacred obligations to a parent, now experience that alleviation from the

sorrow, human nature must feel for the loss of so dear and valuable a relative. At Conbridge, Hugh Walthe 16th foot. In Cashel, James lace, Esq. formerly Lieut.-Col. of Grace, Esq. At Castleknock, Mr. Wm. Bryan Captain Shaw, of the Aukland Packet. At Newport O'Donel, Bart. In Mercer-street, House, aged 72 years, Sir Neal Mrs. Elizabeth Blacker. Mr. Sam. Huddleston, sen. of Ballymacarrett. At Cork, Thomas Hewett, Esq. At his residence at Walmer, Kent, in the 74th year of his age, Sir Henry Harvey, Knight of the Bath, and Admiral of the white squadron of his Majesty's fleet. In Great George's-street, Rutlandsquare, Mrs. Wallace, Lady of Tho mas Wallace, Esq. Barrister at Law. In Grafton-street, Mrs. Disraell. Mr. Hugh Coffee, of Greggs-lane. At Ballyleeson, near Dublin, Mrs. Lamb, aged 106, she retained all her mental faculties till the day of her death.

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HIBERNIAN MAGAZINE,

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Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge.

7

FOR FEBRUARY, 1811.

With this Month's Publication, we give an Elegant and Correct
Likeness of the late Rev. Dr. BETAGH,

THE REV. DR. BÉTAGH.

passage in this vale of tears, in the hope of the joys of an happy eternity. He by strict attention to distresses, nas left a lasting monument of his zeal to promote virtue and knowledge, by the establishment of an Evening Free School, where 330 boys receive instruction; and from this seminary many youths have been drawn by their superior talents, and received from his hand a classical education, and being sent to Colleges abroad, will one day return home, we hope an ornament, an honour to their na tive country. But for his fostering hand those abilities might ever remain dormant-"For many a rose blows unseen."

This venerable and virtuous man died on Saturday the 15th instant, at the age of 74. For many years he filled the station of Parish Priest of the United Parishes of St. Michael and St. John, and also Vicar-General of those Dioceses. After completing his studies abroad, he was appointed instructor in one of the public schools of Paris, where he remained 11 years. After leaving Paris he became Professor of Philosophy in the city of Metz, but he was shortly after ordered by his superior to return to his native land, to accompany his apostolic la bours. How far he has endeavoured to sustain that arduous character, the citizens of Dublin can best testify, together with the tears and sighs of his beloved flock. In him all ranks have to deplore his loss—the rich and vain he kindly admonished-the or phans wants he relieved the widow': tears he dried-the poor have lost their father, instructor, who soothed,gifts of Providence. Not a spot of by his pious exhortations, their dreary

This venerable minister of the Gospel has been as such seldom equalled in the christian world, and scarcely ever surpassed. With a mind, whose conceptions were as quick and comprehensive as it were possible for man to possess, his researches had been commensurate with those rare

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