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25. On Thursday night week 

 last, in the evening, as Mr. Brani- 

 gan, of South-lodge, in Tipperary, 

 was going from his house to his 

 stable, three men, who had lain in 

 wait, presented their pieces at him, 

 and desired him to deliver his 

 arms, Mr. B. who had no arms, 

 returned into the house, pursued 

 by one of the ruffians, who com- 

 manded him to quench the candle. 

 Mr. B. obeyed, and instantly locked 

 up the villain on the inside. Feeling 

 his danger, the fellow dischargta 

 his blunderbu's. The muzzle was 

 so close to Mr. B. that his clothes 

 were set on fire, and his shoulder 

 miserably lacerated ; but Mr. B. 

 seized the ruffian. Mrs. B. hearing 

 the shot, ran out of the parlour 

 with a candlestick in her hand, and 

 struck the villain three blows on the 

 face ; which so stunned him, that 

 she and her husband were able to 

 drag him to the kitchen. The 

 robber was beginning to struggle, 

 when an unexpected auxiliary ap- 

 peared. A house-dog seeing his 

 master attacked, secured the rob- 

 ber by the arm which held the 

 blunderbuss ; and he was so per- 

 fectly crippled, that Mr. and Mrs. 

 B. tied him and locked him up in 

 the cellar. Mr. B. then hearing 

 the fellows abroad firing shots, 

 loaded the blunderbuss, and guard- 

 ed the house until morning, when 

 he sent for a magistrate, who 

 eame with a military force, and 

 took Michael Wall, the fellow 

 thus secured, and another named 

 Cooney. 



Nottingham. — The outrages in 

 thi« town and the counties adja- 

 cent are continued with as much 

 activity and malignity as ever, and 

 may be said to have assumed a 



more decided character than at any 

 period since the commencement of 

 the malpractices. A letter received 

 in town yesterday morning states, 

 that between 30 and 4-0 frames 

 were broken on Sunday night, and 

 several the following evening. The 

 most turbulent spirit is strongly 

 manifested in all the proceedings 

 of the Luddites, which have been 

 extended to Yorkshire. They 

 have destroyed by fire, a crop-mill 

 at Leeds, merely because upon a 

 new plan, it was found to do the 

 work of a number of men, conse- 

 quently was a considerable saving 

 to the proprietors. Catmankey, 

 Basford, New Radford, and Lidley 

 were scenes of the most daring 

 depredations in the beginning of 

 the week. 



28. The spirit of insurrection 

 which has so long disgraced the 

 county of Nottingham has been 

 rendered doubly alarming, from 

 the secrecy with which it has been 

 conducted, and the dispatch with 

 which the objects it embraces have 

 been carried into execution. In 

 most of the villages where so many 

 frames have been broken, parties 

 of the military have been stationed, 

 but their exertions have been in- 

 adequate towards the apprehension 

 of the offenders. Such is the re- 

 gularity with which their plans are 

 laid, and the dexterity with which 

 they are carried into effect, that it 

 has been found impossible to detect 

 them. They assemble and disperse 

 when their object has been obtain- 

 ed in a moment. They are mar- 

 shalled and disciplined like a regu- 

 lar army, and are commanded by 

 one particular leader, under whose 

 banners they swear to conquer or 

 die ! at the moment of my writing 

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