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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



Limerick. — Last Saturday night, 

 about the hour of ten o'clock, a 

 party of ruffians, twelve in num- 

 ber, and all strangers, attacked 

 the house of a respectable farmer, 

 named Hogan, living not far from 

 Jessefield, which they broke into, 

 and after beating Hogan, liis 

 wife, their sons, and brother-in- 

 law, in a savage manner, forcibly 

 carried off this industrious man's 

 only daughter, for whose pi-ovi- 

 sion he was known to have laid 

 by a fortune of 100 guineas. In 

 cai'rying her away, the direction 

 they took led them to a Mr. Fitz- 

 gerald's, of Jessefield, whose 

 daughter hearing and instantly 

 rtcognising the screams of Ho- 

 gan's daughter, who was her in- 

 timate fi'iend, rallied all the men 

 of the family, her brother, and 

 the servants ; and they, getting 

 fresh succour from Mr. Fitzge- 

 rald's tenants, pursued the party, 

 whom they soon came up witli, 

 and, after a a ery sharp conliict, 

 routed completely, recovering the 

 girl from them, and bringing her 

 back in safety to Fitzgerald's 

 house. When we consider tliat 

 these brave and loyal fellows had 

 no fire-arms, nor any weapon 

 better than the cudgel, Ave cannot 

 too highly applaud their conduct ; 

 nor can we dismiss the subject 

 without congi'atulating the coun- 

 try^ from this and several pro- 

 minent recent examples, on the 

 improvement which is gradually 

 and manifestly working in the 

 conduct of the farmers, since 

 they have experienced the efficacy 

 of that assistance which the go- 

 vernment afford 5 them, in shaking 

 off their terrors, under the pre- 

 valence of a profligate banditti, 

 and throwing themselves on the 



protection of the law and the go- 

 vernment. — (C'loniiiel Herald. J 



The death of Kotzebue is con- 

 firmed by the foreign papers. He 

 was in the 55th year of his age, 

 and had, since the expulsion of 

 the French from Germany, re- 

 sided at Koningsberg as Russian 

 consul. Perhaps, since the days 

 of Lopez de Vega, no author has 

 been more remarkable for the 

 number of his dramatic produc- 

 tions. It has been usual for a 

 volume of new plays from his pen 

 to appear annually at Leipsicj 

 besides which, he published every 

 year a collection of pieces intend- 

 ed to be adapted to music, in one 

 volume, under tlie title of the 

 Opera Almanack. The last work 

 which has appeared under his 

 name, is one to which he has 

 performed only the office of edi- 

 tor. It is a curious narrative, 

 written by one of his sons, named 

 Moritz, who was taken prisoner 

 by the French d uring Buonaparte's 

 campaign in Russia. Though a 

 German born, (he was a native 

 of the city of Weimar), Kotzebue 

 had become a Russian by natm'a- 

 lization, and his children are 

 Russians by birth. 



Yesterday, in a scuffle between 

 a Mr. Brookes and Mr. Thomp- 

 son, in which a pistol was used, 

 the latter was shot in the head, 

 and little or no hopes are enter- 

 tamed of his recovery. The affair 

 having taken place in the city, 

 Mr. Brookes Avas brought before 

 the Lord Mayor at the Mansion- 

 house to explain the transaction. 

 Several witnesses also attended, 

 who were present on the melan- 

 choly occasion. The following 

 patticulars transpired before his 

 Lordship : — 



Mr. 



