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interview with Mr. Anderson before Mr. Drummond? Mr. 

 Tredennick told Dr. Shell that Mr. Anderson's letter (which 

 is published at Mr. Tredennick's desire,) has been submitted to 

 the Lord-Lieutenant^ : and it seems from his Excellency's de- 

 termination, that it did not alter his judgment. Does Colonel 

 MacGregor, the Inspector-General of Police, approve of 

 Mr. Hayden's conduct ? Assuredly the continuance of Mr. 

 Hay den, as Sub-Inspector in attendance on the magistrates of 

 Ballyshannon Petty Sessions, after this eaposS, would be a 

 censure on them ! A stipendiary magistrate, Mr. Savage, has 

 been sent to Ballyshannon this week ; and there could be no 

 gentleman better qualified, by his respectable character and 

 reputation, to allay feuds and restore peace, if any disturbance 

 or excitement prevailed, or if there was any necessity for 

 others than the resident magistrates of the country to decide in 

 Petty Sessions cases ; but it is notorious that there is no district 

 in the kingdom more peaceable than the Petty Sessions district 

 of Ballyshannon. The grand jury of the County Donegal have 

 come forward to express their opinion of the total absence of 

 all occasion for the large police force employed in the county, 

 and which is a very heavy tax on the landholders. They say, 

 that if Mr. Tredennick requires police, he ought to pay out of 

 his fishery for their maintenance ! How far the testimony of 

 the Bundoran fishermen goes to sustain the case, the reader 

 may judge for himself; but these fishermen swear that they knew 

 nothing of a memorial sent for them to government; and it will 

 be for the reader to say who it was sent the memorial. Whoever 

 wrote it took a liberty with the government in imposing such 

 an unfounded charge against the Ballyshannon Bench of 

 magistrates ; yet, even this fabricated document was laid before 

 the Attorney-General, and his time occupied in giving an 

 opinion on the rnisstatements it contained, 



In publishing this pamphlet, Dr. Sheil is anxious to submit 

 to the tribunal of public opinion the questions it involves. The 

 Rector of Kilbarron has an ample support from glebe lands, 

 and no difficulty about tithe, and should confine himself to the 



