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face during the whole of the trial 

 with her handkerchief, and most 

 of ihe time reclined her head on 

 the front of the bar. Throughout 

 the whole of the awful proceed- 

 ings she preserved a sullen un- 

 moved hardness. We understand, 

 that during her examination by the 

 matrons, she shed tears. She does 

 not appear, from the time of her 

 imprisonment, to have entertained 

 apprehensions of being convicted. 

 Last week, it seems, she purchased 

 some articles of wearing apparel, 

 and spoke confidently of going 

 home as on Saturday last. Lomas, 

 from his first being taken into cus- 

 tody, to the period of trial, openly 

 and unreservedly confessed the 

 crime in all its circumstances. 



22. Bristol. — The following 

 most disgraceful and inhuman 

 conduct was witnessed last week 

 in this city. On Wednesday, as 

 one of the serjeauts of the Leitrim 

 militia was walking, between eight 

 and nine o'clock, through St. 

 James's church-yard, he was ac- 

 costed by a man, who asked him if 

 he belonged to the Irish militia 

 regiment quartered in Bristol. His 

 answer was, that he did. He then 

 asked him how he liked this coun- 

 try ; he replied very much. He 

 then began to abuse the serjeant, 

 by damning him and every one 

 from his country ; when a second 

 man came behind him, and with a 

 carving knife, or some similar instru- 

 ment, cut the sinews of his right 

 leg in so dreadful a manner, that 

 the poor fellow has not been able 

 to be removed from the public- 

 house to which he was immedi- 

 ately conveyed. The serjeant re- 

 collects well the face of the man 

 who spoke to him. His deposi- 

 tion as to the iacts stated, has, we 



understand, been properly taken 

 down, and we trust that the mis- 

 creants will be soon discovered. 

 The Serjeant bears a most excellent 

 character in his regiment; indeed 

 the conduct of the whule regiment, 

 since they have been among us, 

 has been truly exemplary. 



25. Dublin. — On Monday morn- 

 ing last, as Pierce O'Brien Butler, 

 esq. of Dunboyne-castle, and his 

 family, consistingofMrs.Butlerand 

 their two daughters, were proceed- 

 ing on their way from Caher to Mi- 

 chaelstown, on the road to Mal- 

 low, they were stopped withia two 

 hundred yards of Tincurrygate, 

 and within sight of four or five 

 cabins (some of whose inhabitants 

 were looking on at the transac- 

 tion), by a single footpad, armed 

 with a blunderbuss, who demanded 

 their money. Mr. Butler per- 

 ceiving from the fellow's manner 

 that he was no veteran in the busi- 

 ness, parlied with bira to gain 

 time, not being armed; when the 

 fellow called out to a colleague to 

 come forward; and, on Mr. But- 

 ler's looking round, he immediately 

 saw the second freebooter in a 

 ditch, armed also with a short 

 blunderbuss on the rest, and le- 

 velled at his (Mr. Butler's) person. 

 Mr. Butler then gave the first as- 

 sailant his watch, with which he 

 thought to satisfy him ; and the 

 ruffian looked at and examined it, 

 during which his comrade saying 

 semething to him, he threw back 

 the watch, and swore vehemently 

 that he would lodge the contents 

 of the blunderbuE'? in Mr. Butler's 

 body, unless he instantly gave up 

 his money. Mr. Butler, however, 

 escaped by giving up eight guinea 

 notes which he had loose in one 

 of his waistcoat pockets: very 



luckily 



