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Monthly Chronicle.
yy COMMOTIONS IN IRELAND . ^ CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST . ] ^ DUBLIN ' , MAY 4 , I 797-The House of Lords have adopted the measure taken by the House of Comin of the-Lord Lieutenant ' s Messagerelative to the
mons consequence , united Irishmen apprehended in Belfast , and have appoinied _ a secret committee to consider and report their opinion to the House on that subject . May S . Accounts were received in town of a skirmish having taken place between the Devonshire fencibles and the Kerry militia , in Londonderry . Several persons have been apprehended in the neighbourhood of Dublin , on treasonable charges . The Lord Mayor has issued a Proclamation to prevent large assemblies at funerals . " Castle ancl the Coach
there are four howitzersplanted in the Lower -yard ; - house in Little Ship-street has been converted into a guard-house . The sentinels are doubled , and strong iron pallisadoed-gates have been erected on all the outer gateways . . . . . Great dissentions prevail in the south of Ireland , inconsequence of the rigour with which the tithes are exacted .. io Pelhamin the of Commonsbrought the report ot the
se-. Mr . , House , up cret committee appointed to consider of the papers seized in Belfast , and to report their opinion thereon . This report , which consists of 6 9 folio pages , was read at full length by the clerk : we must content ourselves with giving a general summarv of its contents . The committee began bv stating , that they considered it to be a proper discharge of their duty to examine into the princip les and motives of the society ot
of united Irishmen ' at its first formation ; they assert , that in consequence this examination , they find that the society , under the pretext of promoting a Parliamentary Reform , and what they called Emancipation of the Catholics , harboured a design to disunite this country from Great Britain , to overthrow the present constitution , and establish in its stead a Republican form of Government . The committee rest this opinion , in a great measure , on a letter written by-Theobald Wolse Tone , a very active member of that society , to his friend ; in Belfastin which there number of expressions which seem to indicate
; appears a that Mr . Tone considered the British connection as the bane of Irish prosperity . Another ground of this opinion of the committee is the declaration published by the societv of united Irishmen in Dublin , in lhe year 1791 , when Mr . Rowan and Dr . Drenan were chairman and secretary , in which the prominent principle is , that none but the people can speak the will of the people . The committee then proceeded to the papers . They state the manner in which these papers had been seized in the house of a John Alexander , at Belfast , by Capand in what
tain Barber and Mr . Fox ; they recite in what rooms , company they had been found ; and infer that they were the papers of two committees of united Irishmen . By one it appears that the society is organized in a very perfect manner ; the lowest constituent partis the Baronial committee ,-or the committee of the members who live in one Barony . When this committee becomes numerous , it is split into two committees . When a certain number of these committees are formed in a county , they elect a county committee ; when a certain number of county committees are formed they elect a provincial committee ; and again , when two or more of these committees are created thev elect members who form the highest number of the society , a national
committee . They are , among other things , impowered to raise money in certain proportions , and to distribute it in certain ways , such as providing arms and ammunition ; supplying the members who suffer for the caiue with necessaries , and with the means ' of defence ; providing for the families of those who may fall in anv way for the common service ; and they ' are enabled to regulate the - « lection of military ollicers . There is a particular provision which fixes the VOL . 15 .. N n
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
yy COMMOTIONS IN IRELAND . ^ CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST . ] ^ DUBLIN ' , MAY 4 , I 797-The House of Lords have adopted the measure taken by the House of Comin of the-Lord Lieutenant ' s Messagerelative to the
mons consequence , united Irishmen apprehended in Belfast , and have appoinied _ a secret committee to consider and report their opinion to the House on that subject . May S . Accounts were received in town of a skirmish having taken place between the Devonshire fencibles and the Kerry militia , in Londonderry . Several persons have been apprehended in the neighbourhood of Dublin , on treasonable charges . The Lord Mayor has issued a Proclamation to prevent large assemblies at funerals . " Castle ancl the Coach
there are four howitzersplanted in the Lower -yard ; - house in Little Ship-street has been converted into a guard-house . The sentinels are doubled , and strong iron pallisadoed-gates have been erected on all the outer gateways . . . . . Great dissentions prevail in the south of Ireland , inconsequence of the rigour with which the tithes are exacted .. io Pelhamin the of Commonsbrought the report ot the
se-. Mr . , House , up cret committee appointed to consider of the papers seized in Belfast , and to report their opinion thereon . This report , which consists of 6 9 folio pages , was read at full length by the clerk : we must content ourselves with giving a general summarv of its contents . The committee began bv stating , that they considered it to be a proper discharge of their duty to examine into the princip les and motives of the society ot
of united Irishmen ' at its first formation ; they assert , that in consequence this examination , they find that the society , under the pretext of promoting a Parliamentary Reform , and what they called Emancipation of the Catholics , harboured a design to disunite this country from Great Britain , to overthrow the present constitution , and establish in its stead a Republican form of Government . The committee rest this opinion , in a great measure , on a letter written by-Theobald Wolse Tone , a very active member of that society , to his friend ; in Belfastin which there number of expressions which seem to indicate
; appears a that Mr . Tone considered the British connection as the bane of Irish prosperity . Another ground of this opinion of the committee is the declaration published by the societv of united Irishmen in Dublin , in lhe year 1791 , when Mr . Rowan and Dr . Drenan were chairman and secretary , in which the prominent principle is , that none but the people can speak the will of the people . The committee then proceeded to the papers . They state the manner in which these papers had been seized in the house of a John Alexander , at Belfast , by Capand in what
tain Barber and Mr . Fox ; they recite in what rooms , company they had been found ; and infer that they were the papers of two committees of united Irishmen . By one it appears that the society is organized in a very perfect manner ; the lowest constituent partis the Baronial committee ,-or the committee of the members who live in one Barony . When this committee becomes numerous , it is split into two committees . When a certain number of these committees are formed in a county , they elect a county committee ; when a certain number of county committees are formed they elect a provincial committee ; and again , when two or more of these committees are created thev elect members who form the highest number of the society , a national
committee . They are , among other things , impowered to raise money in certain proportions , and to distribute it in certain ways , such as providing arms and ammunition ; supplying the members who suffer for the caiue with necessaries , and with the means ' of defence ; providing for the families of those who may fall in anv way for the common service ; and they ' are enabled to regulate the - « lection of military ollicers . There is a particular provision which fixes the VOL . 15 .. N n