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'ou to call the attention of his Excellency to the subject. I am induced to make 

 his request, in consequence of a pamphlet having been recently published by a 

 Dr. Slieil, containing a garbled statement of the evidence adduced, in which 

 he charges me, in conjunction with Mr. Hayden, with having conspired to injure 

 the character of Mr. Atkinson, and implies that the testimony given by Mr. 

 Hayden was false. This foul imputation he advances upon the authority of a 

 letter, alleged to have been received from Colonel Conolly, which purports to 

 *ive the decision, with a declaration of his Excellency, as conveyed to Colonel 

 Conolly and" Mr. Atkinson at a personal interview. I do not, my Lord, presume 

 to offer any opinion as to what the actual decision of his Excellency may be ; but 

 as my character and veracity have been thus publicly impeached, 1 request, nay, 

 I entreat his Excellency will be pleased to communicate the result of his own 

 decision, whateyer it may be. I beg herewith to forward a copy of the pamphlet, 

 at pages 4 and 25 in which this foul calumny is implied and at page 24 the 

 letter of Colonel Conolly will be found ; the motives of the author of this pamphlet 

 are known to his Excellency. Your Lordship will, I feel assured, pardon my 

 urgency, under existing circumstances. 



" I have the honour to be, 



" Your Lordship's very obedient servant, 



" GEO. N. TREDENNICK." 

 ' ' To the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Morpeth." 



(A. 11160.) 



" Dublin Castle, 6th Sept. 1841. 



" SIR, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3d instant, 

 referring to the investigation of certain allegations made by you, regarding the 

 conduct of Mr. Atkinson, J. P. ; and I am to inform you, that the Lord-Lieu- 

 tenant felt it his duty to submit the whole case to the Chancellor for his final 

 decision that decision was in favour of Mr. Atkinson, so far as to give him the 

 benefit of the doubt, raised by the contradictory nature of the evidence. No im- 

 putation whatever is intended to be cast upon the evidence or conduct of Sub- 

 Inspector Hayden or yourself. 



" I have the honour to be, Sir, 



" Your obedient servant, 



" N. H. MACDONALD." 

 ' ' To the Rev. G. N. Tredennick." 



Extract from the Ballyshannon Herald of September 17th, 1841 : 

 " To the Editor of the Ballyshannon Herald. 



" SIR, In your last publication, you gave us a lengthened epistle from Mr. 

 Tredennick, on the subject of the late investigation held in Ballyshannon, to which 

 i-s subjoined a correspondence between that Reverend gentleman and the late two 

 secretaries of Earl Fortescue. Although my name is frequently made use of in 

 those letters, I would have passed them by unnoticed, were it not that I feel 

 called on, in justice to Dr. Sheil, whose report of the evidence taken at the 

 inquiry is stigmatized as a false and calumnious publication, to state that having 

 myself taken copious and accurate notes, and having compared them with the 

 manuscript copy of the Doctor's report, I even assert, that it was perfectly 

 correct, and agreed with mine almost to the letter. The printed copy is not quite 

 as full as I could have wished ; much of the evidence of Head Constable Macartney 

 and Constable Brachen is withheld, Dr. Sheil not thinking it of any consequence, 



