40S ANNUAL REGISTER, I8l6. 



cil, on the 6th of September, to 

 be in a state oF disturhance, and a 

 magistrate who had long been 

 confidentially employed by the 

 Government was appointed the 

 superintending- magistrate, with 

 an establishment of .SO constables. 



In two other districts of the 

 county of Tipperary * similar po- 

 lice establishments have been sub- 

 sequently placed, on the applica- 

 tion of the magistrates of the 

 county. Yovir Loidship is aware, 

 that the officers attached to these 

 establishments jjossess no powers 

 whatever in enforcing the execu- 

 tion of the laws beyond the ordi- 

 nary powers of magistrates and 

 constables nominated in tlie usual 

 manner ; and 1 have alieady ob- 

 served, that the expense incurred 

 by their appointment is borne by 

 the district in Avhich they act. 



I shall now proceed to mention 

 the several instances in which ap- 

 I)lications have been made by the 

 magistrates for the enforcement 

 of the Insurrection Act, and the 

 measures which have been in con- 

 sequence adopted. 



In the month of November 

 1814, I received a Memorial from 

 the governors of the fourteen ma- 

 gistrates of the county of West- 

 meath, stating, that the recent 

 outrages committed in that county 

 proved a continuance of the same 

 lawless conspiracy which had 

 existed for some time past, and 

 which rendered the lives and pro- 

 perties of every ])erson in the dis- 

 turbed district insecure; and [iray- 

 ing for the enforcement of the 

 Insurrection Act in certain dis- 

 tricts of that county. 



* Tlie baronies of Kiliieiiianagh and 

 Eliogarty, and the baronj of Clauwilliiini. 



With this Memorial I did not 

 comply, still indulging a hope 

 that the continued exertions of 

 the magistracy, aided by a consi- 

 derable military force Avhich had 

 been detached into this county, 

 would preclude the necessity of 

 resorting to any extraordinary ex- 

 ercise oF authority. 



On the 23d of March 1815, a 

 meeting of twenty-eight magis- 

 trates of the same county took 

 place, summoned by the clerk of 

 the peace, in the mode pointed 

 out by the Insurrection Act ; and 

 a ^Memorial was addressed to the 

 lords justices, who administered 

 the Government duiing mv ab- 

 sence for a few weeks in England. 

 The magistrates observed, that 

 the ordinary powers entrusted to 

 them were totally inadequate to 

 ensure that secvirity which every 

 subject has a right to derive from 

 the laws of his countiy ; that the 

 punishment of criminals led only 

 to the murder or banishment of 

 those who had given information 

 against them, and that protection 

 was only to be found in the vici- 

 nity of the military posts ; they 

 concluded by calling upon the 

 lords justices to enforce the In- 

 surrection Act in several baronies* 

 of the county of Westmeath. 



On the 18th of April, a Memo- 

 rial, concluding with a similar 

 prayer, was received from twenty- 

 one magistrates of the county 

 of Clare : they mentioned, that 

 houses were frequently plundered 

 of the arms contained in them by 

 disorderly persons, who came from 

 parts of the county remote from 



' Brawny, Clonlonan, Kilkenny, West. 

 Rjithcondra, JMo^cashel, and parts of the 

 barony of JMo^-gosh, &c. 



that 



