T DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. HE Fly, capt. Hogan, from Liverpool to Limerick, was taken off the Tusker Rock, by a lugger privateer of 18 fix pounders and 140 men, belonging to Dunkirk, commanded by Patrick Dowling, and ran fomed for 150 guineas. Sept. 24 The Eagle privateer of L'Orient, carrying 28 twenty four pounders on her main deck, 4 eighteen pounders on her forecattle, and 10 twelve pounders on her quarter deck, burthen about 600 tons, and 350 men, on the 9th of Sept. took the floop Picton Castle, Michael Campbell, mafter, in lat. 56. 21. North, and Jong. 13. 30. bound from Londonderry to Norway. She failed from Londonderry the 8th of - Sept. and was fent for L'Orient, but on the 18th inft, was retaken by his majesty's fhip Eurydice, captain Wilfon, Old Head of Konfale, bearing N. E. dittance 30 leagues, and fent into Kinsale. Laft Saturday, being the anniversary of his majelly's coronation, the troops marched to the grand parade, where they were reviewed by Sir John Irwine, and the other general officers; after which, they fired a feu de joye, in honour of the day. Oct. 1. Yesterday the following troops of ca. valry arrived in this city, viz. The Bandon cavalry, Samplon Stawell, Efq; colonel; the Doneraile rangers, right hon. lord Doneraile, colonel; the Duhallow rangers, the hon. Percival, colonel; the Imikilly horfe, Edward Roche, Efq; colonel; the Kilworth volunteers, John Hyde, Elq; major; and the Glanmire uni on, Henry Mannix, Efq; colonel. They were received on the grand parade by the Cork union and the Cork cavalry, where they got billets; and this morning they, together with the True Blue light dragoons, Blackpool and Cork cavalry, marched to Blarney, where they were exer cifed by col. Stawell, preparatory to the review. 02. 15. Saturday his majesty's frigates Monfienr, captain Phipps, and Minerva capt. Packenham, arrived at Cove, and brought in two very fine privateers, which they took to the weftward of Cape Clear; one of them is called the Hercules, of Boston, carrying twenty long twelves and 6 fix pounders; the other the Jafon, of SaJem, 22 twelves and 8 fix pounders; they had been fix weeks from America and took nothing. Limerick, Sept. 24. Laft Friday Edmund Flyn was tried in the city court before Mr. baron Power and a refpectable jury, for entering a boule at Pennywell in company with fix others, and forcibly taking a woman from her husband, who came to town that day to do fome bulinefs, who they knocked down and cut, and though the woman was with child, took her to the ramparts near John's gate, and the seven men, with a drawn fword over her head, treated her in a manner too inhuman and too shocking to relate, Flyn was found guilty on the clearett evidence, and was brought up to court on Saturday morn ing, when Mr. baron Power exhorted him most affectingly to prepare for eternity, expatiated on the enormity of his crime, and paffed fentence of death on him, to be hanged next Saturday. Flyn is only 27 years of age. 08. 1. Lalt, Saturday Mary Walsh for the murder of her husband, and Ed. Flyn for burgla◄ ry and forcibly carrying away Catherine Kennedy, were executed at Gallows-green; they confeff. ed their guilt, and behaved in a very penitent and refigned manner. Waterford, Sept. 22, Waterford may juft'y boaft of being the first city in this kingdom that has railed a body of men to act in garrifon in e of an invafion, or any other emergency that may call the army and volunteers into the field. The corps now raifing will confist of five companies; the uniform is to be a plain blue coat with git buttons, buff waistcoat and breeches; and to be named the Waterford Loyal Fencible Men. They are to receive their arms on Tuesday next, at which time the officers will be cholen. Happy are we that there re citizens amongst us no ki anxious to preferve the dignity of the city arms, than their ancestors were to acquire them. Galway, Sept. 27. Yeflerday was commit ted to the co. jail, by Thomas Browne and Czar French, Elqrs, on the information of Michael Quin, that on the afternoon of Sunday the 23d of Sept. inft. returning from a farm of his ma ter's, in the co. Mayo, with ten cars and horis, and other articles to the value of gol, he was at tacked on the high road, near Clare, in the co Mayo, and forcibly and feloniously robbed of the above cars and hories, by George Robert Fitz gerald, of Rockfield, in the co. of Mayo, Efi; and his gang anu flociates, of which faid party, John Hamilton, David Shawly, John Scott, Joha Pring, Henry Conway, Joseph Clerk, and Mathew Redington, now prifoners in the above jail, were principally concerned in the aforefid robbery; and the said Michael Quin, the infor mant, making affidavit before us, that he dare not attempt conveying them to Castlebar jail, he verily believed, that any party that would go there would be waylaid and murdered, and the prifoners rescued from them by faid George R bert Fitzgerald, or fome other, of his party; having forcibly taken away Hugh Concanton, John Kelly, Patrick Laugh, Thady Mannion, and Patrick Mannion, on the aforesaid day, and them or either of them have not fince been heard of, fave only the faid informant heard, and there fore verily believes, that faid Hugh Cencanoes has been murdered by faid George Robert Fit gerald, or fome one of his gang. Oct. 11. Last week ended the fair of Ballina. fle, being the best known for many years, tar the fale of theep and horned cattle. Sligo, Sept. 28. We are forry to be informed that on Sunday laft, in the equinoctial fort, the brig Eleanor, of this port, captain Bell, w unfortunately driven afhore at Polliheeny, on the Tireragh coaft, about 24 miles westward of this town, and her bottom fo much damaged by beat ing against the rocks, that it remains doubt whether the can be got off. She is loaded with kelp, which he had taken in at this place, we hear, was bound for Liverpool, whither had been ready to fail for fome days before, be was unluckily detained by contrary winds. Ha” pily none of the crew were loft. Last Wednesday a poor woman in a drop was tapped, when the amazing quantity of thirs ty-four quarts of water was extracted fram her. Dublin News, and Lifts, in cur nexis Memoirs of George Robert Fitzgerald, Efq; with a striking Likeness of that Gentleman. TH HE following is a flight sketch of Mr. Fitzgerald's life, in which, if we find nothing worthy of imitation, yet the neceffity of correcting and regulating our paffions may be pointed out. Mr. Fitzgerald is defcended from the Fitzgeralds of the county Mayo, a collateral branch of the Leintter family. His mother, maid of honour to the princefs Amelia, is fifter to the bishop of Derry, earl of Bristol. As he was born to a confiderable property, and defigned to move in no profeffional line, he received a fuitable education, spending the most part of his juvenile days in hunting and other country amusements, except cock-fighting, to which we will do him the juftice to say we never heard of his attachment. While his reafon and judgment were thus left in a manner uncultivated, every paffion had a full indulgence; and yet, in the end, his fenfibility and goodnature rofe fuperior; as the chace gave him frequent opportunities of beholding the diftreffes of his father's tenantry, he never failed to carry up their complaints, relieve their diftreffes, or indulge their reasonable requests with whatever lay in his power. As he had made fome progrefs in Claffical learning, to finish his education, it was determined that he fhould visit the continent, which he accordingly did, with a greater portion of cafh than prudence; Hib. Mag. Nov. 1781. of the former of which he was fo lavish, that many letters from the father, filled with maxims of the latter, fell to the lot. of our hero. His impetuofity of temper, nice fenfe of honour, and the irregularities of his appetites, drew him here into many imminent hair-breadth deadly 'scapes, from which his perfonal courage only could extricate him. At length it was determined that he fhould return to his native kingdom, and having landed in Dublin, he drew the eye of the public by wearing an uncommon muff, which fell from his chin to his toes. His first wife was a fifter of the present Mr. Conolly, who brought him, it is faid, thirty thousand pounds fortune; by ber he had a daughter, who at prefent lives with lady Louifa Conolly; and who, it is faid, much refembles her father in perfon. It is but juftice to fay, that he treated this lady, when living, with uncommon tenderness, and her memory with that affection, which a heart infenfible to worth could never feel. The many apparently advantageous matrimonial overtures he rejected fince her deceafe, is, in fome degree, a proof, until he at length met with one whofe difpofition and virtues refembled thofe he lamented. We cannot afcertain the fortune his prefent lady brought him, but certain it 4 B is, that the hope of procuring a fuitable keep himself concealed in the country, and competent fettlement for her was the went to Dublin, in hopes of effecting his eaufe of his late tranfactions in Mayo, efcape by fea, but fortunately for fociety, tranfactions that were carrid on, and fup. has been apprehended, and is now lodg ported with refolutions that could only ed in the New Gaol, from whence we he fuppofed to originate from a fpecies of imagine he will not be fo likely to break, defpair. As the following letter contains as he lately did from the gaol of Caftlean account of the late and laft expedition bar." to the county of Mayo,* (wrote by a gentleman of that neighbourhood) we hall lay it before our readers. Mr. Fitzgerald is about thirty-two year of age, rather low, with a keen, penetrating, indignant eye; affable, eafy in con"Every body has heard of the late daring verfation, and extremely well bred; in attempts in this county, to oppofe the ex- courage, though not always confiftent, ecution of the laws, and to disturb the yet, as a confiderable portion of it falls public peace and fecurity of the kingdom. to his fhare, it is no wonder that he is In confequence of which, a representation the favourite of the fair, who are his adbeing made by the Lord Chancellor to his vocates in general on every occafion; and Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, that the who, as the Spectator obferves,-esteem civil power was not adequate to the pro- courage in man, as man esteems virtue in tection of the country; and that the in- them. furgent, Fitzgerald, had thrown up works As government, the evening before he which were impregnable, but by cannon, was taken, had figned a proclamation for a detachment from the troops on Dublin that purpofe, offering three hundred duty, confifting of fifty cavalry, one hun- pounds to whomfoever fhould apprehend dred and fifty infantry, and thirty-five ar- him, Mr. Hall, the town-major, from his tillery, with two howitzers and two fix. activity, became entitled to that fum, oa pounders, was ordered on this fervice, which he received a challenge from a Mr. the command of which devolved on Ma Fenton, who was tried on the charge at jor Longfield, the officers commanding the commiflion of Oyer and Terminer, the firit and fourth regiments of horse, and acquitted; as it appeared in evi who were feniors to the major, being, dence, that the letter was left at Daly's as we are informed, indifpofed.-On the chocolate-house, and was written by fome 24th of September, the troops marched incendiary, no proof whatever appearing from the royal parade, and on the 2d of that it was Mr. Fenton's hand-writing, or October, arrived at Caftlebar. During that he was any ways concerned in fend the whole of this march, the difpofition ing or fabricating the fame. made by the major evinced marks of a very fuperior military genius, and afforded to the officers and men under his command, the most flattering affurances of fuccefs. But Fitzgerald, from his fcouts, having learned the ftrength of the army, and well knowing the perfonal bravery and conduct of its commander, thought proper to make a precipitate retreat in the Right, having firft fpiked his cannon, and carried off his ftores. We are happy to affure our readers, from the very beft authority, that no irregularity happened during the whole of this expedition, as the major had formed his line of march with fuch critica! military exactnefs, and the officers under him were fo alert in the execution of every order, that no foldiers, had they been fo inclined, could have poffibly fraggled from the main body. "We have the fatisfaction to be able to add to this short sketch of an affair, which has made fo great a noife, that the infurgent, finding himself unable any longer to NOTE. Under the command of major Moun. tiford Longfield of the Carbiniers. As the fubject of our memoirs is at prefent emerging from a dangerous fever, which, it is probable, the agitation of his fpirits brought on, it is hoped that a more placid train of ideas will fucceed, the refentment of his father fubfide, and a happ py reconciliation enfue. Memoirs of Mrs. O'Malley. PRIVAT RIVATE character we confider # private property; but as the con miflion, or fuppofed commiffion, of aɛ enormous crime, from custom, makes it public, we fhall only then plead prefcription for giving the out-lines of Mrs. O'Malley's, which the reader may fill up agreeably to his own feelings and conjec tures, declaring that herein we would only with to gratify curiosity, which we fuppofe, on this occafion, is not a little excited. Mrs. O'Malley is the daughter of Mr. M'G-gh, lately a confiderable mer chant in Newry, who, from a great de gree of credit and apparent wealth, not long fince took the benefit of the act of bankruptcy-We cannot, nor do we be |