Dublin Corpers and Mayoral Quiet Amid Outrage
Fragmentary report recalls outrages tied to rebellion debates and calls for calm as winter fouls pass. Three suspicious men are seized near Cardiff's Bridge and linked to theft from Crown Solicitor Kemmis, with a servant identifying a gold watch and pillar. They are jailed at Kilmainham. Also notes a duel in Armagh where Captain Blair killed Mr. Mitchell after a dispute.
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Dublin
Cardiff's Bridge
Bothel
Nethercross
Swan
Kemmis
Maynooth
Kilmainham
James Kelly
Patrick Walsh
Thomas Reilly
Belfast
Armagh
Bratz
68Th Regiment
Mirchert
Monaghan
Blair
Me. Mitchell
Downpatrick Assizes Guilty Verdict For Murder Of M Kee And Servant
Twelve men including Wen McCaw Wm Shaw James Breeze Thomas M Keever Samuel Hewitt Jones Collins Hugh MMullen Andrew Morrow Charles Morrow Robert Glover Daniel M Kelvy and James Hamill convicted before Lord Kitw arpen for the murder of Mr Hugh McKee and his servant John Boles near Saintfield. They aided by rebels in a grim attack and arson at the McKee residence, destroying the house as the family perished. The martyrdom was described with stark detail as the rebels celebrated the conflagration. The wounded servant survived after a 24 hour struggle to recount the tragedy. Guilty verdict returned.
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Downpatrick Assizes
Lord Kitwarpen
Hugh McKee
John Boles
Saintfield
Wen. McCaw
Wm. Shaw
James Breeze
Thomas M‘keever
Samuel Hewitt
Jones Collins
Hugh M‘mullen
Andrew Morrow
Charles Morrow
Robert Glover
Daniel M‘kelvy
James Hamill
Ship News from Milford and Plymouth Ports
Milford reports the gun vessel Flamer with four transports carrying the Pembrokeshire Militia bound for Waterford. Plymouth notes the Defiance of 74 guns sailed from Cawland Bay with Lord Hucy Seymour aboard, plus other ships of the line and cruisers, as Rear Admiral Beaxevey’s fleet failed to join. The Indefatigable sails west, and Yarmouth crews report cruises off Holland while Greenland-bound fleets depart from Portsmouth amid a west gale.
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Milford
Flamer
Pembrokeshire
Bristol
Waterford
Plymouth
Cawland Bay
Survers
Hucy Seymour
Saguns
Brest
Shis
Beaxevey
Keats
Hind Revenue
Admiral Duncan
London
Jesse Watson
Jamaica
Valiant
Crawler
Ceres
Pearson
America
Yarmouth
Holland
Greenland
Irish Yeomanry officers face mutiny trials in Dublin
Lieutenant Partiers of the Coote-hill Corps of Irish Yeomanry is acquitted by a Court Martial in Dublin of mutiny and disobedience. Sir Rupert Baxter, Captain of the corps, faces trial on various charges. Colonel Sir George Tomas and Lieutenant Colonel Teaspacre of the Sussex Fencible Cavalry are acquitted of charges by Major Weat Hinchon.
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Partiirs
Coote-hill Corps
Dublin
Rupert Baxter
George Tomas
Teaspacre
Sussex Fencible Cavalry
Weat Hinchon
Union with Ireland debated as Militia exemption debated
In the Lords a debate on Militia exemptions and delaying a committee on the bill is followed by an address urging Union with Ireland. Viscount Grenville argues delay. Lord Grenville and others press Union as beneficial for commerce and security. Lord Auckland and the Bishop of Landaff echo support, outlining commercial gains and independence concerns.
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House OF Lords
Tivsesay
Lord Sydney
Y Cott
Lord Grenville
Volunteer Corps
Caermarvon
Ireland
England
Lord Grengisle
Cawdor
Sydney
Romney
Grenville
Caernarvon
Commons
Great Britain
Peard
Auckland
Wis
Theaune
Badeee
Lenore Oie
Holland
Gamipating
Aschev
Beenden
Arade
Tadour Satan Tedandy
Great- Britain
co-Ireland
Great-Britain
Union 24
Audi
Machi
Widlohg
Landz
Britain
Duke of Rutland
Nant
Atsuhat
Rathly
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Ship News
Portsmouth
Lord Bripport
St. Helen’s
Parliamentary Intelligence
Triland
Union
Aé&T
Townsend
Grattan
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