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ANNUAL REGISTER, I8I7. 



[Aug. 



being allowed to remain here a- 

 bove 24 hours, she proceeded, on 

 the 1st of August, to Iloubin, u 

 canton of ThurgoAia. Hhe there 

 awaits the answer of the govern- 

 ment of St. Gall, from which she 

 had solicited peruiission to estab- 

 lish herself in that canton. Wliilc 

 expecting it, her missionaries 

 preach at Houb, sometimes from 

 the windows, sometimes in tJie 

 fields, calling the baroness a pro- 

 phetess. She herself preaches 

 with ;dl the enthusiasm of an ar- 

 «lent aud fanatic spirit, ^>he dis- 

 tributes everyday bread, and.Vime 

 hundreds of measures of cc9no- 

 mical spup. Pier adhexent? re- 

 ceive them on their knees like a 

 gift f^-omGod. Her ordinary buite 

 is composed of aboui. 40 persons ; 

 among Avhom are remarked, Ma- 

 dame de Berekeim, two Protestant 

 ministers, aad a Iqnie woman, 

 who has brought her a coatribu- 

 tion of 10,000 florins, Her ad- 

 haents arc in the habit of saying, 

 -:-•■' We call no one ; but those 

 Avl^o arc the elect of God «ill 

 follow us." 



EiUaordiuary Contempt of Lnw . 

 -rrFiom tjie Cork Southern Hc- 

 por(cr.—.\ dutl took place in Kil- 

 larncy on Tiiday last, between l\^o 

 young gentlemen residing in the 

 neighbourhood of that town, 

 Messrs. Lawlor and Dumas ; the 

 former attended by Mr. William 

 Power, of Cork, the latter by Mr. 

 Edward Orpen, of Konmare. Tl-.e 

 alTair terminated without personal 

 injury to eitlier party, but it has 

 been tlie means of placing sonie 

 of the relatives of bolli in very pe- 

 culisu" circumstances. Boi'on Smith 

 was, on the day the duel was 

 fought, and had been for some 

 preceding d-:y.% in Jiillarney. Oil 



his way to visit the Lidces on Fri- 

 .day, he first heard of the intended 

 rencontre ; and the house of Mr. 

 Dumas, father to the young gen- 

 tleman of that u.ame, who was 

 iu^•olved in the afiair, lying in his 

 way, the Baron called there, and 

 laid his couunands on Mr. Dumas, 

 that he would take immediate 

 measures to prevent the meeting, 

 which was promised. At the same 

 time, the Baron dispatched a note 

 to Mr. Lavrlor, brother of the 

 other principal in the intended 

 dufil, to the effect, that he shovdd 

 immediately bind him over to keep 

 the peace, under heavy penalties. 

 This note, we uiidcrstand, reached 

 Mr. Lawlor almost at the instant 

 his brother was going out, aud 

 notwithstanding the high autho- 

 rity from which it pj oceeded, he 

 declined, situate as the afiair then 

 was, to interfere. The parties met, 

 and fired two ^hota each with the 

 most determined coolness, when, 

 princip-jliy through the judicious 

 interference of John O Connel, 

 Esq. of Grenagh, and Lieutenant 

 Meredith, of Dicksgrove, late of 

 the Royal Navy, an accommoda- 

 tion look place. On the return of 

 the Baron to the hotel, in the 

 eveniiig, he i!ien learned, that not- 

 withstanding his instructions to 

 the persons already named, the 

 duel had taken place; immediately 

 upon whicli, tliough it was then a 

 late hour, he wrote letters to all 

 tlie i)artics, ordering them to ap- 

 pear before him the next day (Sa- 

 turday), with which mandate they 

 of course complied. The inter- 

 views i)eing in the Baron's private 

 chambers, we are not otherwise 

 ac(}uainted with what occurred 

 than through jeport, which states, 

 that the principals and seconds 



were 



