274 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



turned their anger on the land- 

 lord, and beat him so that he died 

 in about seven days. — Guihy. 



Lord Ellenborough, in passing 

 sentence on the six Irishmen, con- 

 victed of murder, observed: — It 

 was a most melancholy spectacle to 

 see so many men, in the flower of 

 youth and health, who, from the 

 turbulence of unruly passion, had 

 forfeited their lives. It was a case 

 of the most atrocious sort, and 

 which he found himself bound to 

 leave to the severity of the law. If 

 the laws were suffered to slumber 

 where they had been so grossly vio- 

 lated, the country would justly have 

 to dread that such sort of turbulent 

 riot would end in the more formi- 

 dable crime of rebellion, and we 

 should perhaps beexposed to mise- 

 ries which had been suffered by 

 other countries, to which he would 

 rot now more distinctly allude. 

 The prisoners all protested they 

 were innocent, and seemed to think 

 that nobody could be guilty but the 

 man who actually killed the de- 

 ceased. They wereexecuted, with 

 the exception of Sullivan, whohad 

 been recommended to mercy. 



SEPTEMBER. 



]. A meeting for the repeal of 

 the union, took place at the Royal 

 Exchange, Dublin. At half-past 

 twelve o'clock sir James Riddall 

 took the chair. Mr. Hutton, after 

 an introductory speech, moved 

 that a committee of nine gentle- 

 men be appointed to prepare the 

 petition to the king for a repeal 

 of the act of union. 



The following gentlemen were 

 then named :— 



Mr. Hutton, Mr. MDonnell, 

 Mr. Ashenhurst, Counsellor 



O'Connell, Mr. Ambrose Moore, 

 Mr. Abbott, Mr. Farrell, Mr. Ni- 

 cholas Mahon, and Mr. M'Bride. 

 T(i the Right Hoiu ilie Commons 

 of the Uiiiled Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, the Peti- 

 tion of, Sjc. 



That your petitioners feeling, as 

 they have ever felt, the warmest 

 attachment to British connexion, 

 and (from a conviction of their ex- 

 cellence) to the principles of the 

 British constitution, in support of 

 which they have shed their blood 

 and exhausted their treasure, and 

 anxious only that those sacrifices 

 shall not have been made in vain, 

 most humbly present themselves 

 before this honourable House, be- 

 seeching it, as the constitutional 

 guardian of the British empire, to 

 take into its most serious consider- 

 ation the consequences resulting 

 from that legislative union which, 

 in the year 1800, was enacted be- 

 tween Great Britain and Ireland. 

 And your petitioners the more 

 earnestly beseech this honourable 

 House now to enter on this inves- 

 tigation, because it was an increase 

 of the great, solid, and extensive 

 benefits which " were promised to 

 this country, and an immense ad- 

 dition and consolidation of interest, 

 strength, and affection," to the 

 empire at large— a measure which 

 was to counteract the restless ma- 

 chinations of an inveterate enemy 

 — to calm all dissensions, to allay 

 all animosities — and dissipate all 

 jealousies — which was to commu- 

 nicate to the sister kingdom " the 

 state of the capital and industry of 

 England" — and give to her " a 

 full participation of the commerce 

 and constitution of Great Britain." 

 Your petitioners consequently 

 entreat i\w honourable House to 



