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Monthly Chronicle.
manner in which the tribunal shall be chosen , who , when a Revolution , begins , shall decide on the property and even the lives of accused individuals ; and there is another provision , which declares what description of suspected persons shall not be suffered to enter the ranks when the conflict shall begin ; The other papers are minutes of the proceedings of sub-committees of united Irishmen , and reports on a variety of subjects . " They contain , in the first place , accurate returns of the numbers of men who have at different periods become members of the body ; also returns- of the sums subscribed by each respective place , and the for which
purposes the money has been expended . The returns of guns ,, bayonets , swords , pikes , cannon , powder , ball cartridges , and of bullets , are all reported with equal accuracy , and always accompany the returns of men and money . The society has risen ( a a number truly formidable—not less at this moment than 100 , 000 men ! the amount of their arms appears to be very considerable ; and they reckon among their ordnance eight peices of cannon and one mortar . . In their money accounts are found accurate statements of their expenditure
for assisting prisoners and purchasing arms ; and in one return , it is remarkable , that the officer who remits it , says , ' this money has been paid some . vhat before the usual time , because it is expected our friends will soon arrive at Bahtry , ' or words to that effect ; and several instances occur in the papers of allusions to the expected arrival of these friends . The report being read , Mr . Pelham moved , that a copy of it be sent to
the House of Lords , and that it be printed . Both these motions were agreed to . " 11 . Military waggons , chests , boxes , whecl-barrows , intrenching tools , with several articles necessary for laying out encampments , are still getting ready with the utmost expedition in the Ordnance-yard , and as soon as a proper quantity are finished , they will be immediately dispatched to different pans of the kingdom . In short , the most indefatigable efforts are exerted to put this country in such a formidable state of defence , that it may bid defiance to the machinations of internal
attempts or or external enemies . 12 . A few days ago , four carts loaded with arms , which had been seized in the - neighbourhood of Belfast , were brought in under an escort of the 2 zd light dragoons , arid lodged at their artillery barracks . Two regiments , consisting of one thousand men , have arrived in the north from Scotland . The number of troops on their passage , or within a few days arrived from England and Scotland , amount to upwards of 8000 . 13 . On Wednesday niht the houses of MrCommitMessrsDrakeMoore
g . , ,. , , Halt , Gorey , Earth , Halfpenny , all within two miles of Trim , were broke inte by a party of Defenders , who carried off all the arms contained therein . 15 . Lord Castlereagh , after a speech of much violence against the united Irishmen , moved , that the Commons should agreee with the Lords in the Address to his Majesty , founded on the preceding report relative to the papers seized at Belfast . Mr . Grattan opposed coercive measures .
Mr . Smith moved an amendment , to request' that his Majesty would use conciliatory measures to remove every pretext of discontent from tlie well-disposed , as well as measures of coercion for the prevention and punishment of conspiracy and treason—urging the necessity of correcting abuses , as well as adopting strong laws to repress disaffection . ' A warm debate ensued . Mr . Fletcher asserted that he feared the people would be led to look on the report of the committee as fabricated rather lo justify the past measures of government than to state facts ! and that if
coercive measures were to be pursued , the whole country must be coerced ; for the spirit of insurrection badpervaded every part of it I These observations produced much contention . Mr . M . Beresford ordered the clerk to take down the words . Mr . J . C . Beresford thought himself called on to defend the secret committee . Mr . Toler moved an abstract resolution , declaring that the imputation conveyed in those words ( of Mr . Fletcher ) was an unfounded calumny on the report . He was at length , however , persuaded to withdraw his motion .. The
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Monthly Chronicle.
manner in which the tribunal shall be chosen , who , when a Revolution , begins , shall decide on the property and even the lives of accused individuals ; and there is another provision , which declares what description of suspected persons shall not be suffered to enter the ranks when the conflict shall begin ; The other papers are minutes of the proceedings of sub-committees of united Irishmen , and reports on a variety of subjects . " They contain , in the first place , accurate returns of the numbers of men who have at different periods become members of the body ; also returns- of the sums subscribed by each respective place , and the for which
purposes the money has been expended . The returns of guns ,, bayonets , swords , pikes , cannon , powder , ball cartridges , and of bullets , are all reported with equal accuracy , and always accompany the returns of men and money . The society has risen ( a a number truly formidable—not less at this moment than 100 , 000 men ! the amount of their arms appears to be very considerable ; and they reckon among their ordnance eight peices of cannon and one mortar . . In their money accounts are found accurate statements of their expenditure
for assisting prisoners and purchasing arms ; and in one return , it is remarkable , that the officer who remits it , says , ' this money has been paid some . vhat before the usual time , because it is expected our friends will soon arrive at Bahtry , ' or words to that effect ; and several instances occur in the papers of allusions to the expected arrival of these friends . The report being read , Mr . Pelham moved , that a copy of it be sent to
the House of Lords , and that it be printed . Both these motions were agreed to . " 11 . Military waggons , chests , boxes , whecl-barrows , intrenching tools , with several articles necessary for laying out encampments , are still getting ready with the utmost expedition in the Ordnance-yard , and as soon as a proper quantity are finished , they will be immediately dispatched to different pans of the kingdom . In short , the most indefatigable efforts are exerted to put this country in such a formidable state of defence , that it may bid defiance to the machinations of internal
attempts or or external enemies . 12 . A few days ago , four carts loaded with arms , which had been seized in the - neighbourhood of Belfast , were brought in under an escort of the 2 zd light dragoons , arid lodged at their artillery barracks . Two regiments , consisting of one thousand men , have arrived in the north from Scotland . The number of troops on their passage , or within a few days arrived from England and Scotland , amount to upwards of 8000 . 13 . On Wednesday niht the houses of MrCommitMessrsDrakeMoore
g . , ,. , , Halt , Gorey , Earth , Halfpenny , all within two miles of Trim , were broke inte by a party of Defenders , who carried off all the arms contained therein . 15 . Lord Castlereagh , after a speech of much violence against the united Irishmen , moved , that the Commons should agreee with the Lords in the Address to his Majesty , founded on the preceding report relative to the papers seized at Belfast . Mr . Grattan opposed coercive measures .
Mr . Smith moved an amendment , to request' that his Majesty would use conciliatory measures to remove every pretext of discontent from tlie well-disposed , as well as measures of coercion for the prevention and punishment of conspiracy and treason—urging the necessity of correcting abuses , as well as adopting strong laws to repress disaffection . ' A warm debate ensued . Mr . Fletcher asserted that he feared the people would be led to look on the report of the committee as fabricated rather lo justify the past measures of government than to state facts ! and that if
coercive measures were to be pursued , the whole country must be coerced ; for the spirit of insurrection badpervaded every part of it I These observations produced much contention . Mr . M . Beresford ordered the clerk to take down the words . Mr . J . C . Beresford thought himself called on to defend the secret committee . Mr . Toler moved an abstract resolution , declaring that the imputation conveyed in those words ( of Mr . Fletcher ) was an unfounded calumny on the report . He was at length , however , persuaded to withdraw his motion .. The