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Monthly Chronicle.
dern ! il y extended itself , and hath broken out into afts of open violence ancl rebellion we have , therefore , by and with the advice of his Majesty ' s Privy Council , issued the most direct ancl positive orders to the officers commanding his Majesty ' s forces , to employ them with the utmost vigour and decision for the immediate suppression thereof , aud also to recover the arms which have been traitorously forced from bis Majesty ' s peaceable and loyal subjects ' , ancl to disarm the rebels , and all nersons disaffected to his Majesty ' s government ,
by the most summary aud etffiftuat nv-. ' . ns . A-id we do hereby striftly charge and command all his Majesty ' s peaceable and loyal subjects , on their allegiance , to aid and assist , to the utmost of their power , his Majesty ' s forces in the execution of their duty ; to whom we have give :: it strictly in command to afford full protection to them from all acts i .-f violence which shall be attempted against their persons or properties . ' Since the issuing of this proclamation a grdat number of disaffected
persons have been apprehended , many of them of considerable property in the country . Already upwards of one thousand are commmitted to take their trials . Great depots of arms have also been seized , and frequent contests have taken place between the military and the United irishmen , under Which title all the disaffected are classed . On the 3 d of April the Commander in Chief distributed 12606 copies of the following notice throughout the kingdom : — ' Whereas his Excellency the
Lord Lieutenant in council has , in consequence of the daring acts and depredations committed in this country , ordered and directed by liis proclamation , bearing date the 30 th of March last , and by his particular orders thereon , that the military should use the most summary nteans to repress disturbances , and to recover all arms taken from the yeomanry and well affected j and other concealed arms and ammunition ; all the people concerned in taking or concealing these arms are required to give them up within ten days of the
publication of this notice ; which if they do , they may be assured no violence whatever will be done to them or their properties ; but if" they do not , they are informed , that tiie troops will be quartered in large bodies , to live at free quarters among them , and other very severe means will be used to enforce obedience to this notice . And those who have knowledge where arms are concealed , are called upon to give information , which they m : \ y do in any private manner , to the nearest civil magistrateor commanding officer of
, his Majesty ' s forces , or of the yeomanry corps . Secrecy shall be observed with respect to them , ancl they shall be rewarded when their report is proved to be true . Should the deluded and evil-disposed among the people in this country still persevere in robbing ancl murdering , and committing other acts of violent insubordination to the laws of their country , they are informed that the Commander in Chief will be obliged to have recourse to those powers with which he has been inveseed , to bring them to immediate punishment . '
Notwithstanding these threats , and vigilance of the military , the United Irishmen continue to hold their meetings ; and although closely pursued , commit innumerable acts of p illage . One of thisbody , lately cast for death at the assizes of Naas , exhibited in his air and deportment something which bespoke him to be different from what he seemed and while under sentence of death , not merely an offer of mercy , but large promises of reward were made him ; a present of 500 I . and a commission were offered , if he would
say who he really was , from what part of the kingdom he came , and what were his designs . He resisted all these temptations with disdain ; he said they might take his life , but th-iy had no power over his honour—he would tell them nothing—he would live and die Captain Fearnought , and so accordingly he met his fate . , ' A correspondent , in a letter from Cork , dated April 7 th , gives a summary of the proceedings in that quarter , which exhibits a picture of the whole kingdom .
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Monthly Chronicle.
dern ! il y extended itself , and hath broken out into afts of open violence ancl rebellion we have , therefore , by and with the advice of his Majesty ' s Privy Council , issued the most direct ancl positive orders to the officers commanding his Majesty ' s forces , to employ them with the utmost vigour and decision for the immediate suppression thereof , aud also to recover the arms which have been traitorously forced from bis Majesty ' s peaceable and loyal subjects ' , ancl to disarm the rebels , and all nersons disaffected to his Majesty ' s government ,
by the most summary aud etffiftuat nv-. ' . ns . A-id we do hereby striftly charge and command all his Majesty ' s peaceable and loyal subjects , on their allegiance , to aid and assist , to the utmost of their power , his Majesty ' s forces in the execution of their duty ; to whom we have give :: it strictly in command to afford full protection to them from all acts i .-f violence which shall be attempted against their persons or properties . ' Since the issuing of this proclamation a grdat number of disaffected
persons have been apprehended , many of them of considerable property in the country . Already upwards of one thousand are commmitted to take their trials . Great depots of arms have also been seized , and frequent contests have taken place between the military and the United irishmen , under Which title all the disaffected are classed . On the 3 d of April the Commander in Chief distributed 12606 copies of the following notice throughout the kingdom : — ' Whereas his Excellency the
Lord Lieutenant in council has , in consequence of the daring acts and depredations committed in this country , ordered and directed by liis proclamation , bearing date the 30 th of March last , and by his particular orders thereon , that the military should use the most summary nteans to repress disturbances , and to recover all arms taken from the yeomanry and well affected j and other concealed arms and ammunition ; all the people concerned in taking or concealing these arms are required to give them up within ten days of the
publication of this notice ; which if they do , they may be assured no violence whatever will be done to them or their properties ; but if" they do not , they are informed , that tiie troops will be quartered in large bodies , to live at free quarters among them , and other very severe means will be used to enforce obedience to this notice . And those who have knowledge where arms are concealed , are called upon to give information , which they m : \ y do in any private manner , to the nearest civil magistrateor commanding officer of
, his Majesty ' s forces , or of the yeomanry corps . Secrecy shall be observed with respect to them , ancl they shall be rewarded when their report is proved to be true . Should the deluded and evil-disposed among the people in this country still persevere in robbing ancl murdering , and committing other acts of violent insubordination to the laws of their country , they are informed that the Commander in Chief will be obliged to have recourse to those powers with which he has been inveseed , to bring them to immediate punishment . '
Notwithstanding these threats , and vigilance of the military , the United Irishmen continue to hold their meetings ; and although closely pursued , commit innumerable acts of p illage . One of thisbody , lately cast for death at the assizes of Naas , exhibited in his air and deportment something which bespoke him to be different from what he seemed and while under sentence of death , not merely an offer of mercy , but large promises of reward were made him ; a present of 500 I . and a commission were offered , if he would
say who he really was , from what part of the kingdom he came , and what were his designs . He resisted all these temptations with disdain ; he said they might take his life , but th-iy had no power over his honour—he would tell them nothing—he would live and die Captain Fearnought , and so accordingly he met his fate . , ' A correspondent , in a letter from Cork , dated April 7 th , gives a summary of the proceedings in that quarter , which exhibits a picture of the whole kingdom .