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in the neighbourhood of Corkei- 

 raouth, when he canae up with a 

 party of gentlemen, in chase of a 

 stag, which had been started at 

 Dalemain, near Penrith, from 

 whence the animal made off with 

 extraordinary speed. After pass- 

 ing through the streets of Carhsle 

 and Cockermouth, considerably in 

 advance of his pursuers, whose 

 horses were much fagged, Mr. C. 

 being on a fresh horse, soon came 

 up with the animal near Eagles- 

 ford, where he had taken refuge 

 in a corn-yard, apparently so worn 

 out that he thought he could make 

 but little resistance, and was ac- 

 tually about to seize him, when 

 the stag made a fatal spring at his 

 adversarj-, and pierced him with 

 his horns near the groin. Upon 

 the gentlemen coming up, they 

 did every thing to rescue him, 

 but not before Mr. C. was a life- 

 less corpse. After having secured 

 the stag, it was with considerable 

 difficulty they even got his antlers 

 disengaged from the man's body. 



Outrages in Ireland. — On the 

 evening of the 1st inst. was com- 

 mitted a most audacious robbery. 

 Immediately after Robert Pren- 

 dergast, esq. of Greenmount, and 

 his family, had dined, and as the 

 servants were going to dinner, the 

 house was surrounded by a gang 

 of plunderers, of whom six en- 

 tered, and hustled the domestics 

 into the dining parlour with their 

 master and mistress, and their 

 children, and Mrs. Hefferman 

 (Mrs. P.'s sister). They placed 

 a guard on the door, and the rest 

 went to the kitchen, where they 

 regaled themselves, taking care to 

 relieve the centries, and give them 

 their share of refreshment. The 

 whole then re-entered the parlour, 



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and one of them putting a pistol 

 to Mr. P.'s head, demanded his 

 keys and property, promising, if 

 he would give them up fairly, that 

 they would not injure any one. 

 Mr. P. gave them his keys, and 

 the villains continued ransacking 

 the house for above five hours, not 

 departing until nearly one o'clock 

 on Wednesday morning. Many 

 of the jewels were valuable, and 

 a great quantity of wearing ap- 

 parel of every description was 

 taken, every thing moveable and 

 wearable that they could convey 

 away. The property lost cannot 

 well be estimated much short of a 

 thousand pounds. They offered 

 no further violence. On rum- 

 maging the drawers, they delibe- 

 rately rejected several bank re- 

 ceipts of Mr, P., but took the go- 

 vernment debentures and bank- 

 notes ; and, upon guess, took also 

 some documents of government 

 stock. One of them left in guard 

 of the family below, while the 

 ransack was making, indulged his 

 taste for music, and trying a couple 

 of flutes, on one of which he 

 played a tune or two, not at all in 

 the style of a vulgar musician, he 

 gave the preference to that which 

 had four silver keys to it. Com- 

 plaining of being fatigued, and 

 wishing for some liquor, they 

 declined doing any mischief in 

 the cellar, and were satisfied with 

 a glass of good old whiskey. 

 Three only of them were dis- 

 guised. The memory of Bren- 

 nan's gang is pretty recent : and 

 many are living who remember 

 Frency's. 



A Cork paper states the follow- 

 ing attack on the Cashel mail : — 

 A daring outrage has been com- 

 mitted upon the coach which left 



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