the individual remained unsubdued. Some of Mr. Treden- 

 nick's cattle were cruelly destroyed by night. The perpetra- 

 tors were unknown, but a man of the name of Mac Cowley, 

 several months afterwards (from motives hitherto unexplained) 

 came forward, and swore that the outrage was perpetrated by 

 some of the fishermen in the employment of the Skeil family. 

 On his single unsupported testimony, several of the fishermen 

 were arrested in the midst of the fishing season, brought in hand- 

 cuffed to Lifford Gaol, and kept there for several weeks. Some 

 of them were never arraigned, but discharged without trial ; 

 and the only one brought to trial was arraigned on a different 

 charge, viz. of Ribbonism, and acquitted. The informer, 

 Mac Cowley, is still retained in custody, and even at the last 

 assizes was produced before the grand jury of the county of 

 Donegal, to prosecute other people on a charge of murder, 

 but his testimony was not believed. Endeavours are still 

 made to make it appear that a large police force is required at 

 Keldoney for the protection of Mr.Tredennick, and the county 

 is obliged to pay the expense. 



Having given this sketch of Mr. Tredennick's previous pro- 

 ceedings, I may now state the cause of the public investigation 

 held in Ballyshannon on the 20th and 21st of July, 1841, a 

 report of which I republish in this work, as it excited great in- 

 terest at the time, and as the edition which I printed of five 

 hundred copies has been long since bought up and exhausted. 

 An attempt having been made to fish for salmon within the 

 bar of Ballyshannon, by some of the Bandoran fishermen, and 

 they having taken salmon with a net within the limits of the 

 river fishery, were prosecuted under the Act of Parliament be- 

 fore the Petty Sessions bench at Ballyshannon, and convicted 

 of the offence. Mr. Atkinson was one of the magistrates on 

 that occasion. An appeal was made to the Quarter Sessions, 

 but the barrister refused to go into the case, as no right of 

 appeal existed. A memorial was sent for these men to govern- 

 ment, without their knowledge or consent, but the government 

 finding that the representations in the memorial were false, 

 refused to interfere with the decision of the magistrates. Some 



