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that in which the offence was com- 

 mittedj mounted on Iiorses seized 

 from the owners for the occasion; 

 and that other outrages of tlie 

 same character were committed 

 in two * baronies of the coimty 

 which they wished to have pro- 

 claimed. 



In the same month an applica- 

 tion to the same effect was re- 

 ceived from a meeting of thirty 

 magistrates of the county of Li- 

 merick, contained in a Memorial 

 representing the continuance of 

 disturbance in certain districts of 

 that coimty t which were speci- 

 fied ; and from magistrates 



of the county of Meath, who urged 

 the necessity of enforcing the In- 

 surrection Act in certain baronies]: 

 of that county in whicli distur- 

 bance was alleged to prevail. The 

 lords justices did not enforce the 

 Insurrection Act, in any instance, 

 in consequence of these Memo- 

 rials 5 but required the magis- 

 trates by whom tliey had been 

 preferred to send depositions on 

 oath of the several outrages which 

 liad been committed in their re- 

 spective counties. Depositions on 

 oath were accordingly transmitted, 

 in consequence of this requisition, 

 by the several gentlemen who had 

 presided at the meetings of the 

 magistrates. 



Inmiediately on my return to 

 Ireland, I took into consideration 

 the several applications which I 

 have before mentioned, and though 



• Tulla and BunraHi. 



t Tlic baronies of Pubblcbricn, Cosbma, 

 Kenry, witli tlie excfptionot'some parishes, 

 parts of the barony of Lower Connellan, 

 Costlea, and Small County. 



i Deiuifore, U|)per and Lower Kells, 

 aud some adjoining [>arts. 



I found in them strong proofs of 

 tlie spirit of disturbance and law- 

 less combination which the ma- 

 gistrates had complained of; yet 

 being naturally reluctant to have 

 recourse to measures of extreme 

 rigour, till all hopes of producing 

 tranquillity by other means should 

 have failed, I conveyed to the ma- 

 gistrates my intention still to 

 postpone the enforcement of the 

 Insurrection Act. 



The first instance in which I 

 deemed it expedient to call into 

 operation the provisions of this 

 law occurred in the county of 

 Tipperary. A meeting of the ma- 

 gistrates of this county took place 

 on the 25d of December 1815, for 

 the purpose of taking the state of 

 it into consideration ; and I re- 

 ceived from that meeting, at which 

 forty magistrates attended, an 

 unanimous application, that six 

 baronies of the county might be 

 proclaimed under the Insurrection 

 Act. This application was accom- 

 panied by 58 depositions on oath 

 respecting various outrages com- 

 mitted, for the most part, with 

 the view of procuring arms. 



I did not hesitate to give im- 

 mediate effect to this application. 



The provisions of the act, which 

 enabled me to appoint an extra- 

 ordinary establishment of police, 

 had been in operation in one dis- 

 trict of the county* upwards of 

 a year, and in a second f about 

 four months. Tlie exertions of 

 that police had been unremitting, 

 and many daring offenders had 

 been apprehended. Among the 



• The barony of Middlethird. 

 + 'I'he baronies of KilnamanagU and 

 Eliogarty. 



resident 



