STATE PAPERS. 



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has been enforced in the county 

 of Limerick, the county of the 

 city of Liiuciick, in several baro- 

 nies of the county of Tipperary, 

 two baronies of the county of 

 Westmeath, and in a district of 

 the King's county : and that in 

 certain districts of three counties, 

 Tipperary, Louih, and Clare, 

 special magistrates and constables 

 have been placed, having the or- 

 dinary powers given to civil offi- 

 cers, and the expences consequent 

 on their appointment being levied 

 from the district within which 

 they act. 



I shall now state to your Lord- 

 ship the general result of the mea- 

 sures which have been thus 

 adopted foi" the pieservation of 

 the public peace, in aid of the or- 

 dinary operation of the law ; and 

 it gives me great satisfaction to be 

 enabled to assure you, that tran- 

 quillity has been completely re- 

 stored in some of the districts 

 which were the seat of disturb- 

 ance ; and that in three of those 

 districts in which the insurrection 

 act was enforced in the course of 

 last year, it has, in consequence 

 of the improved state of them, 

 been withdrawn since the com- 

 mencement of the present year. 



In the month of February last, 

 I received from the magistrates of 

 the King's county a memorial, 

 expressing their acknowledgments 

 for the additional powers which 

 had been given to them under the 

 insurrection act, and for the judi- 

 cious distribution of the military 

 force ; stating the good effect to 

 the peace of the county which 

 had resulted from those measures, 

 and giving their opii.ion, that the 

 additional powers entrusted to 

 them might be safely withdrawn. 



From the magistrates of the 

 city of Limerick, s.ssembled at an 

 extraordinary sessions of the peace 

 on the 15th day of April last, a 

 memorial v\ as transmitted, stating 

 their opinion that the circumstan- 

 ces which induced them to apply 

 for the provisions of the 54th of 

 the King to be put in force in the 

 county of the citj of Limerick no 

 longer existed. 



1 have also received a memorial 

 from the magistrates of the coun- 

 ty of Westmeath, assembled at a 

 special session of the peace held 

 last month, expressing the deep 

 sense which they entertain of the 

 benefit which their county has ex- 

 perienced from the measures 

 which had been adof_3':ed ; attri- 

 buting the tranquillity they now 

 enjoy to the successfi.d operations 

 of the provisions of the insuirec- 

 tion act ; and adding their wish, 

 that the powers viith which it in- 

 vested them might be withdrawn, 

 and the ordinary courseof law re- 

 stored. 



1 gave immediate effect to their 

 several applications, and the pro- 

 clamations enforcing the insurrec- 

 tion act in certain districts of the 

 county of Westmeath, King's 

 county, and the county of the city 

 of Limerick, have been severally 

 revoked by the Privy CounciL 

 The only counties, therefore, in 

 which tliat act now remains in 

 operation are the coimties of Tip- 

 perary and Limerick. 



I have annexed to this dispatch 

 a report of the proceedings of the 

 special commission held for the 

 county and city of Limerick in 

 the month of November, 1815, 

 and in the county of Tipperary in 

 the month of February 1816' ; and 

 a return of persons tried at the 



special 



