1796. | 
Ireland. The. Pigeon-houfe, at the 
entrance of Dublin harbour, was ftruck 
with lightning on the night of January 
the zoth, and completely d demolithed., 
Lately, in Dublin, john Frayne, a’ 
bankrupt, under the ftatute for not mak- 
“Inga full difclofure of his effects, and 
fecreting part of the fame, to the value 
of 1o6l. 11s. 6d. with an intent to de- 
fraud his creditors, was found guilty, 
and received fentence of death. 
The iron-works, near Carrick-on- 
Shannon, in the variety and excellence 
of the articles manufactnred, bid fair.to 
rival the celebrated eflablifhment at Car- 
ron,-Scotland, or any other in the foun- 
dry line, within the Britifa dominions. 
The Royal Irith Academy have of- 
fered sol. fterling to the writer of the 
beft effay on the following fobect:” “el G 
-what manufaétures are the national in- 
terefts of Ireland bef fuited, and what 
are the beft modes of improving fuch 
manufactures ?” Alfo a gold medal to 
the writer of the beft eflay on “¢ The 
variations of Englith Profe Compofitio Dy 
from the Revolution to the prefent time: 
and another gold medal for the beft eflay 
on “ The authenticity and value of Irith 
manufcript hiftories, of ages prior to that 
of Henry IT.” 
A fleet of men of war and tranfports, 
failed from the Cove of Cork on the goth. 
inft.\ They amounted to ninety. fail, 
and were deftined for the Weft Indies. 
—The fame malignant fortune which 
fo long hovered round, and at length 
defeated, the) ex pedition under admiral 
ree purfued and overtook this 
fleet alfo. It had f{carcely been at fea, 
when a violent gale arofe, difperfed the 
veflels, and, after a ftruggle cf three 
days, compelled them to return for thel- 
ter, to whatever harbours they were 
feverally enabled to reach. ; 
In the. Irifh Houfe of Commons, on 
Thurfday, the 18th ult. Mr. Curran, 
after a fhort introduétion, moved, that a 
committee be appointed fo enquire into the 
- fiate of the poor, and the price of labour in 
that kingdom. ‘The Chancellor of the 
Exchequer oppofed the motion, as tend- 
ing to encourage the fyftem of anarchy 
fo generally prevalent, and theretore 
“moved the queftion of adjournment, 
which, after a debate of. fome length, 
was carried 127 to 16, 
pA general affociation is forming, as 
well of Catholics as Proteftants,. Sach a 
view to put a ftop at once to the growing 
Spirit of infurreétion and depredation. 
Provincial Occurrences.—Irelaind. 84 
¢ 
DuBLin. Feb. 13. Thurfday nights 
a horrid murder was committed at Lut- 
trelftown: two brothers of the name of 
M‘Cormick, who were bound to give 
evidence again{ft a principal defender, 
had been lodged by lord Carhampton in 
a mill-houfe, tthe corner of his lord~ 
fhip’s bern: in order to prevent them 
from being feduced from. giving their 
tefimony. At the hour \of midnight, 
twenty men, armed and habited in brown 
clothes, page -eded to the room in which 
voile unfortunate brothers lay, the 
youngeft of whom (a lad about fourteen 
years old) they fhot through the heart, 
and the elder, ‘through different parts of 
his body. The unhappy victims died 
before morning. 
The privy council of Ireland have 
offered rewards of 200]. and rool. for 
the difcovery of the murderers of Pa- 
trick and Jol in Cormick, at Luttrel- 
fiown, and of James Hy land and his 
Wite, at Killeale. 
IAarried | At Waterford, the Rev. Mr 
Wallis, to Milfs Moore, aires of Mr Al- 
derman Moore. 
Lately at Dublin, T. B. D. Sewel, efq. to 
Mifs Beresford, daughter to the Archbifhop of 
‘Tuam. 
Feb. 15. At Dublin, W. A. Minchin, efq, 
of London, to Mifs M. Ferrary of Dublin. 
Jof. Swan, of Knocklow, efq. to Mifs Euf- 
tace, of Caftlemore. 
James Fitzmaurice, of Dublin, efg. to Mifs 
Gole, of Afhfield. 
Feb. 6. Revs Mr Buckley, of Bruff, aged 
89, tathe widow Roche, aged 64, eing his 
fifth wife. 
G. Beamifh, efq. of Lake Mount, to Mifs 
Byanfon, 7% © 
Thomas Barry, ‘of Leightbrook, efq. to Mifs 
Evans, of Dublin. * 
Died.| At Kilkenny, the Hon. Robert Fitz- 
maurice Deane, eldeft fon of Lord Mufkerry. 
At Dublin, inan advanced age, Charles 
Coote, D.D. Dean of Kiltenold,.and chanter of 
Chrift- church, Dublin ; eminenily diftinguifhed 
in early life, for tafte, acumen, and _ claffical 
learning: and beloved and revered in riper years 
for the exercife of generofity, hofpitality, and 
every focial virtue. He was an ardent lover of 
his country, having, in a fingle inftance, fur- 
ninithed a loan of £10,000 (to Mr. Bradfhaw) 
in order to introduce the cotton manufactory in- 
to the Queen’s county, wKere he himfelf re- 
fided. He alfo lent out slarge fums to the 
towns of Montrath and Maryborough, free of 
intereit, for the benefit of poor tradefmen. His 
_ public and private charities were numerous. In 
fine, the death of this really worthy man has 
been, 
= gentle wafting to iurno}tal life?" 
: : “AGRICULURE. 
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