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LORD BYRON TO MR T. MOORE.

My boat is on the shore,

And my bark is on the sea:

But ere I go, Tom Moore,

Here's a double health to thee.

Here's a sigh for those I love,

And a smile for those I hate,
And, whatever sky's above,
Here's heart for any fate.

Though the ocean roar around me,
It still shall bear me on;
Though a desert should surround me,
It hath springs that may be won.

Were it the last drop in the well,
As I gasp'd on the brink,

Ere my fainting spirits fell,

'Tis to thee that I would drink.

In that water, as this wine,
The libation I would pour

Should be-Peace to thee and thine,
And a health to thee, Tom Moore !

VOL. XIV. PART II.

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX.

No. I.-REMARKABLE TRIALS AND LAW

PROCEEDINGS.

TRIALS UNDER THE SPECIAL COMMISSION AT

LIMERICK.

Limerick, December 16, 1820. THIS day, at two o'clock, the Honourable Baron McClelland and the Honourable Justice Moore arrived in this city, from Dublin. They were met near Bird-Hill, county Tipperary, by the city High Sheriffs, accompanied by their bailiffs, Mr Drought's police, and a party of cavalry; and by the county High Sheriff and his bailiffs, and a detachment of Major Wilcock's police, from whence they were accompanied to their lodgings in George's Street.

December 17.

This morning, at eleven o'clock, both the Judges entered the County Court, after which the Lord Lieutenant's direction to hold a commission for the trial of such persons as were in custody for offences recently committed against the public peace, was read, and the Grand Jury were sworn in.

The learned Baron M'Clelland addressed the Grand Jury, in a luminous

and constitutional charge. He took a review of the dangerous and wicked associations which disgraced the county, and cited several acts, framed for the suppression of Whiteboyism. The first of those acts was passed in the year 1776, when it was enacted, "That any number of persons associating together, under any particular disguise, with fire-arms, &c amounted to a high misdemeanour, subjecting them to imprisonment and corporal punishment, under the discretion of the Courtbut that when such a party should proceed to any operative acts of violence, each and every one in such an unlawful assembly, was subject to the high penal punishment of death.

"Also, threatening letters, denunciations, placards, of an insurrectionary spirit, against loyal and peaceable subjects, was capitally penal.

"The slightest trespass, after sun-set, by any such party, though in other occasions but a trespass, yet in this case of a Whiteboy system, is capital.

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"Any one giving countenance or protection to any person or persons associated for any illegal purpose, are considered conspirators, and are equally guilty."

By another act passed in the 27th of his late Majesty, denominated the Riot Act, "threatening magistrates in the performance of their duty, and which were too common and well known in this county, was capital in the eye of the law."

His Lordship then referred to other sections, enabling the magistrates to call upon any of his Majesty's subjects to aid and assist in putting down all tumultuary proceedings, and that in case of any one refusing, said refusal was indictable. He then referred to the prudence of arresting any person or persons who may be in the secret of the insurgents; that the magistrates were bound to swear such person or persons; and, in case of refusal, to commit them to prison. All suspicious characters who may be roving, and strangers in the country, and likely to diffuse the wicked spirit now afloat, should give bail, and, in case of refusal, ought to be committed until the ensuing assizes.

His Lordship then implored the Grand Jury to co-operate with the police magistrates; to concert together by baronial meetings, and advise upon the most judicious means of arresting the progress of disaffection; to stay all other avocations, except that of promoting the peace of the county, in order that a deluded peasantry might be restored to habits of loyalty, peace, and industry, and rescued from designing, factious demagogues, holding out popular subjects to ensnare the unwary-and he sincerely trusted, that the effect of this Special Commission would be salutary in restoring the peace of the county.

Murder of Mrs Torrance.

Limerick, December 17.

John M'Namara and Thomas Molony were then placed at the bar. The prisoners were arraigned for the wilful murder of Mrs Susanna Torrance, on the 10th of June, in the second year of the present reign, at a place called Mondella, in the county of Limerick. The indictment charged Thomas Molony with being an accomplice, aiding and assisting in said murder.

The Solicitor-General then rose, and addressed the Jury as follows:"Gentlemen of the Jury-The two prisoners now at the bar stand charged with the wilful murder of the late Mrs Susanna Torrance, and it is my duty to lay before you a detail of the evidence to be adduced, which is of a circumstantial character.-This I shall endeavour to do with the strictest impartiality. It is usually the case that the counsel for the Crown gives his observations to the Jury as far as they may be supposed to have a general bearing upon the case in which he may be engaged; and perhaps it may be thought that I should account for this extraordinary visitation of public justice. Gentlemen, I shall make but few observations; sorry am I to say that in this county they are necessary. You are aware, gentlemen, of the necessity now, in the middle of winter, of holding a Special Commission in this county. Three times, in the course of twelve years, has a desperate confederacy outraged and violated the laws of the country; it is now fifty years since the Whiteboy Act has been enacted; that time might serve as a faithful history of later days, and the state of the country is still such, that you are once more assembled upon a Special Commission. The common people have once more confederated against

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