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Monthly Chronicle.
COMMOTIONS IN IRELAND . [[ CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST . ] DUBLIN , MAY 4 , 1797-The House of Lords have adopted the measure taken by the House of Commons , in consequence of the Lord Lieutenant ' s Message , relative to the and have secre t committee
united Irishmen apprehended in Belfast , appointee ^ a to consider and report their opinion to the House on that subject . May 8 . 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 tlie neighbourhood of Dublin , on treasonable charges . The Lord Mayor has issued a Proclamation to prevent assemblies at funerals
large . There are four howitzers " planted in the Lower Castle-yard ; and the Coachhouse 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 , in consequence of the rigour with which the tithes are exacted .. io Pelhamin the House of Commonsbrought the report of the
se-. Mr . , , 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 summary of its contents . The committee began bv stating , that they considered it to be a proper discharge of their duty to examine into the principles ane ! motives of the society of
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 friends 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 society of united Irishmen in Dublin , in the 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 , they 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 , ancl to distribute it in certain ways , such as providing arms and ammunition ; supplying the members who suffer for the cauoe with necessaries , and with the means ' of defence ; providing for the families of those who may fall in any way for the common service ; and they are enabled to regulate the - ( flection of military officers . There is a particular provision which fixes the VOL . IX . N n
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Monthly Chronicle.
COMMOTIONS IN IRELAND . [[ CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST . ] DUBLIN , MAY 4 , 1797-The House of Lords have adopted the measure taken by the House of Commons , in consequence of the Lord Lieutenant ' s Message , relative to the and have secre t committee
united Irishmen apprehended in Belfast , appointee ^ a to consider and report their opinion to the House on that subject . May 8 . 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 tlie neighbourhood of Dublin , on treasonable charges . The Lord Mayor has issued a Proclamation to prevent assemblies at funerals
large . There are four howitzers " planted in the Lower Castle-yard ; and the Coachhouse 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 , in consequence of the rigour with which the tithes are exacted .. io Pelhamin the House of Commonsbrought the report of the
se-. Mr . , , 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 summary of its contents . The committee began bv stating , that they considered it to be a proper discharge of their duty to examine into the principles ane ! motives of the society of
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 friends 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 society of united Irishmen in Dublin , in the 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 , they 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 , ancl to distribute it in certain ways , such as providing arms and ammunition ; supplying the members who suffer for the cauoe with necessaries , and with the means ' of defence ; providing for the families of those who may fall in any way for the common service ; and they are enabled to regulate the - ( flection of military officers . There is a particular provision which fixes the VOL . IX . N n