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charged with this outrage, Thomas 

 Stubbins and Darby Fennell, are 

 lodged in gaol by David Roche, 

 Esq. — Water ford Mirror. 



From the Westmeath Journal. — 

 On Saturday the 1 1th instant, at 

 six o'clock in the evening, the 

 house of the Rev. Mr. Serjeant, 

 curate of the parish of Castlera- 

 han, and an active magistrate of 

 the county of Cavan, ^vas entered 

 by a party of ten persons, who 

 tied the servants, and collected all 

 the property worth carrying away ; 

 after which they deliberately boil- 

 ed the tea-kettle, and passed the 

 evening In drinking tea and punch, 

 waiting the arrival of Mr. Ser- 

 jeant. On Mr. S. returning he 

 heard a noise, and on asking, 

 " who is there ?" two men imme- 

 diately fired at him, wliich he at- 

 tempted to return, but his pistol 

 missed fire. Fortunately the arms 

 of the robbers were so injudi- 

 ciously loaded, that five slugs 

 which hit him in the body, and 

 perforated his two coats, waist- 

 coat, and shirt, did him very little 

 injury. On ISIr. S. falling, the 

 fellows supposed he was killed, 

 arid immediately joined their party 

 in the dwelling-house, and carried 

 off all the clotlies, house linen, 

 and 301. in money. The same 

 party then proceeded about three 

 miles to the deer-park of Lord 

 Farnham, and entered so quietly 

 through the thatch of the house of 

 Robert Morrow, permanent ser- 

 geant of the 1st Ballyjamesduff 

 corps of yeomanry, as to be at his 

 bedside before he was apprized of 

 their being in the house. He then 

 seized a firelock which was near 

 his bed, and knocked down two 

 of the party, and his wife gal- 

 lantly tumbled another, when he 



received a shot which broke his 

 left arm near the Avrist, and the 

 same moment it was broken above 

 the elbow by a blow with a fire- 

 lock ; he also received a shot in 

 the other arm that quite disabled 

 him. Both he and his wife were 

 then so dreadfully beaten as to be 

 left for dead j when the villains 

 proceeded to plunder the house, 

 and decamped, aftei' having robbed 

 him of more than 80/. in gold, 

 besides much other property. 



Drogheda, Jaii. 18. — Our feel- 

 ings are again outraged, in being 

 under the painful necessity of re- 

 cording a transaction of the most 

 diabolical nature, which took place 

 on Thursday evening near Ardee. 

 The following particulars we have 

 learned from a gentleman. Mr. 

 J. Rath, a respectable and wealthy 

 farmer, and an excellent member 

 of society, returned on the above 

 evening, from the quarter-sessions 

 of Ardee, to his house at Irisli- 

 town, on the Dunkald road, and 

 about a mile and a half from tlie 

 former place. Having sat down 

 in his parloui" with two friends to 

 dinner, the table lay in front of 

 the window ; one of his guests sat 

 a little distance on his right, the 

 other on his left ; it was then be- 

 tween seven and eight o'clock, and 

 the shutters were not closed. In 

 this situation some hellish mis- 

 creant discharged the contents of 

 a blunderbuss loaded with slugs, 

 which cairied oif the upper part 

 of his head, and scattered the 

 brains of the unfortunate victim 

 about the room ; neither of the 

 other persons, we understand, were 

 injured. One of his friends short- 

 ly afterwards went to Ardee and 

 informed the police, who, with 

 the military, were in pursuit of 



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