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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



of the Two Sicilies, is specially 

 charged with this publication. 

 " Caserta, Dec. 12, 1S16. 

 (Signed) " Ferdinand. 

 " The Minister of Grace 

 and Justice, 

 " Manhese Tommasi. 

 " The Minister Secretary 

 of State, Chancellor, 



" TOMMASO DI SOMMA." 



Copy of a Dispatch from his Ex- 

 cellenaj the Lord Lieutenant of 

 Ireland to Lord Viscount Sid- 

 mouth, dated 5th of June, 1816, 



A Statement of the Nature and 

 Extent of the Disturbances 

 which have recently prevailed 

 in Ireland, and the iVIeasures 

 which have been adopted by 

 the Government of that Coun- 

 try in consequence thereof. — 

 Ordeied by the House of Com- 

 mons to be printed, 14th June 

 1816'. 



To the Eight Hun. Lord Viscount 

 Sidmoiith: Dublin- Castle, 5th 

 June 1816. 

 My Lord ; — I have had the ho- 

 nour of receiving your Lordship's 

 letter of the 27th day of April, 

 enclosing an Address from the 

 House of Commons to his Koj'al 

 Highness the Prince Regent, 

 praying that his Royal Highness 

 will be graciously ])leascd to di- 

 i-ect that tiiere be laid before the 

 House a statement of the nature 

 and extent of the disturbances 

 which have recently prevailed in 

 Ireland, and of the measures 

 which have been adopted by the 

 Government of that country in 

 consequence thereof; and I pro- 

 ceed to obey the conmiands whicit 

 your Lordship has signified to me 



in that letter, that I should ena- 

 ble his Royal Highness to comply 

 with the Address of the House of 

 Commons. 



Though I have, as your Lord- 

 ship is well aware, apprized 

 you from time to time of such 

 events connected with the in- 

 ternal interests of Ireland as have 

 been most worthy of notice, and 

 of the measures which I have 

 adopted with a view to restore 

 and maintain the public peace, it 

 may be satisfactory that I should 

 (instead of referring your Lord- 

 ship to the detail of my separate 

 letters) embody the substance of 

 them in this general dispatch. 



It is not, I presume, wished 

 that I should extend the state- 

 ment vvliich is required from me 

 beyond the period at which I as- 

 sumed the administration of the 

 affairsof this country ; and I shall, 

 therefore, only shortly and gene- 

 rally refer to events which oc- 

 curred during the government of 

 my predecessor, or to the mea- 

 sures to which he had recourse. 



The Insurrection Act was passed 

 by tlie Legislature in the year 

 1807; it was not enforced on 

 any occasion during the three 

 years for which it was at that 

 time enacted, and the state of Ire- 

 land was considered to be such in 

 the year 1810, as not to lender 

 necessary tlie continuance of this 

 act, and indeed to admit of its re- 

 peal a, very short period before 

 that to which its duration was 

 limited by law. 



In the early part, however, of 

 January 1811, in consequence of 

 the numeious outrages conmiitted 

 in the coiinties of Tipperary, W'a- 

 terford. Kilkenny, and Limerick, 

 by bodies of nien who assenible<l 



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