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Monthly Chronicle.
' General orders from Adjutant-General ' s Office , zotb May , 1797 . In obedience to nn order of the Lord Lieutenant ancl Council , it is the Commander in Chief ' s command , that the military do act , without waiting for directions from the civil magistrate , in dispersing any tumultuous assemblies , or persons threatening the peace of the realm , and the safely of the lives and properties of his Majesty ' s loyal subjects whatsoever . ' , On lhe 23 d ' there was a great disturbance at Belfast : information having been received thai arms were hid iu a house belonging to a glazier in town , every officer there
military , accompanied by a strong party of the Momighan militia , went at mid-day and searched the house , where ' they found 1 mortar , 1 swivel , a quantity of shot , slugs , and cartridges , a box full of flints , and several pikes . Besides this , they also found a number of coats for soldiers , on the buttons of which is a harp , and round it these words , ' Belfast National Guards . ' On she box which contained the flints was painted a Crown reversed , with the tree of liberty on each side . The soldiers took the furniture into the street , and burnt it ; they then walked in procession through the streets ing the coats with
, carry tbem . The owner has absconded . On the 23 d John M'Clure was apprehended on a charge of high treason . . 26 . On the 25 th inst . Colonel Barber , and Mr . Fox , Town Major of Belfast , caught a smith and his assistant forging pikes . On threatening them with immediate death , they produced 16 they had secreted in an adjoining house , newly forged . The troops were so much incensed at seeing these instruments of destruction , that they levelled the forge lo the ground . The pikes were
hung round lhe villains , who were brought prisoners to town . More of theSe weapons have been since discovered . Another blacksmith , James Adams , from Island Magee , was brought into Belfast , by a detachment of the artillery . Some pikes were stuck through his hat , and others hung round him . 31 . On Monday , several ladies were rudely assaulted by the soldiery in Castle-street . . No female , with any thing green about her dress , was suffered to pass . Ribbandsbonnetsand handkerchiefs of that colour were wantonly
, , torn from their persons , with the greatest rudeness and the foulest language . June 1 . Sixteen persons , charged with being united Irishmen were yesterday taken up , and committed to Newgate . Four men , of the names of Reiley and Kelly , were also committed to Newgate as defenders . On Monday last , a party of soldiers repaired to Clonard Bridge , in the county of Meath , to apprehend two defenders . They took up one , set fire to his habitation , and left him in the care of two , of the parly , while they were in of the otherThe "
pursuit . captive dreading the consequences , madean effort to escape ; but was instantly shot by the sentinels . We are informed , that his body was afterwards hung up in ierrorem by the road side . ' 8 . Yesterday the whole garrison inarched out to witness the punishment of two men of the Kildare militia , condemned to be shot for breaches of the articles of war , and of their allegiance . About two o'clock the sentence was executed by eight of their own regiment . The troops were afterwards marched bv the dead bodies .
12 . In several parts of the north , the great quantity of arms which has heen recovered has so dispirited the malcontents , that all opposition has ceased . At Londonderry , last week four ' persons , viz . Pat . Gramsev , Oliver Blackburn , Robert Kilpairick , and James Craig , were sent on board " the tender now lying in the River , for making pike heads . 17 . Accounts were yesterday received in town from Kinnegad , in ( he . county of Westmeathwhich statethat on Thursday morning party of the military
, , a having received information that arms were concealed in lhe house of a Mr . Dod , a person eminent as a distiller at Multifarnam , in that neighbourhood , proceeded thither , and upon their arrival were fired upon from the windows ; the soldiery thereupon broke in , killed one man , and having seized twenty-one stand of concealed arms , reduced the fiouse to ashes .
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Monthly Chronicle.
' General orders from Adjutant-General ' s Office , zotb May , 1797 . In obedience to nn order of the Lord Lieutenant ancl Council , it is the Commander in Chief ' s command , that the military do act , without waiting for directions from the civil magistrate , in dispersing any tumultuous assemblies , or persons threatening the peace of the realm , and the safely of the lives and properties of his Majesty ' s loyal subjects whatsoever . ' , On lhe 23 d ' there was a great disturbance at Belfast : information having been received thai arms were hid iu a house belonging to a glazier in town , every officer there
military , accompanied by a strong party of the Momighan militia , went at mid-day and searched the house , where ' they found 1 mortar , 1 swivel , a quantity of shot , slugs , and cartridges , a box full of flints , and several pikes . Besides this , they also found a number of coats for soldiers , on the buttons of which is a harp , and round it these words , ' Belfast National Guards . ' On she box which contained the flints was painted a Crown reversed , with the tree of liberty on each side . The soldiers took the furniture into the street , and burnt it ; they then walked in procession through the streets ing the coats with
, carry tbem . The owner has absconded . On the 23 d John M'Clure was apprehended on a charge of high treason . . 26 . On the 25 th inst . Colonel Barber , and Mr . Fox , Town Major of Belfast , caught a smith and his assistant forging pikes . On threatening them with immediate death , they produced 16 they had secreted in an adjoining house , newly forged . The troops were so much incensed at seeing these instruments of destruction , that they levelled the forge lo the ground . The pikes were
hung round lhe villains , who were brought prisoners to town . More of theSe weapons have been since discovered . Another blacksmith , James Adams , from Island Magee , was brought into Belfast , by a detachment of the artillery . Some pikes were stuck through his hat , and others hung round him . 31 . On Monday , several ladies were rudely assaulted by the soldiery in Castle-street . . No female , with any thing green about her dress , was suffered to pass . Ribbandsbonnetsand handkerchiefs of that colour were wantonly
, , torn from their persons , with the greatest rudeness and the foulest language . June 1 . Sixteen persons , charged with being united Irishmen were yesterday taken up , and committed to Newgate . Four men , of the names of Reiley and Kelly , were also committed to Newgate as defenders . On Monday last , a party of soldiers repaired to Clonard Bridge , in the county of Meath , to apprehend two defenders . They took up one , set fire to his habitation , and left him in the care of two , of the parly , while they were in of the otherThe "
pursuit . captive dreading the consequences , madean effort to escape ; but was instantly shot by the sentinels . We are informed , that his body was afterwards hung up in ierrorem by the road side . ' 8 . Yesterday the whole garrison inarched out to witness the punishment of two men of the Kildare militia , condemned to be shot for breaches of the articles of war , and of their allegiance . About two o'clock the sentence was executed by eight of their own regiment . The troops were afterwards marched bv the dead bodies .
12 . In several parts of the north , the great quantity of arms which has heen recovered has so dispirited the malcontents , that all opposition has ceased . At Londonderry , last week four ' persons , viz . Pat . Gramsev , Oliver Blackburn , Robert Kilpairick , and James Craig , were sent on board " the tender now lying in the River , for making pike heads . 17 . Accounts were yesterday received in town from Kinnegad , in ( he . county of Westmeathwhich statethat on Thursday morning party of the military
, , a having received information that arms were concealed in lhe house of a Mr . Dod , a person eminent as a distiller at Multifarnam , in that neighbourhood , proceeded thither , and upon their arrival were fired upon from the windows ; the soldiery thereupon broke in , killed one man , and having seized twenty-one stand of concealed arms , reduced the fiouse to ashes .