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VOL, XXI. : EW-YORK, SATURDAY, MARCIL 8, 1845. Leet tac. whee NO. °10. 2
Poet's Corner, formed his confidential friend, Mr. Cooke, that he would | had succeeded in arresting the leaders of the Union ; and wish for.” Whilst he was thus imposin g secrecy on the
ve tag . . enter into no particulars, Granting that he had done so| they justly thought that the eacrifice of two men * of unfortunate young man, he was conveyity his mass of
winmilare + —_ - in his written communication to Mr. Cooke, is it likely, conswlerable talents, and learning in the law,”* of great | mingled truth and falsehood to the ears of Captain Clib- <
fSepine’ BRIGHIDIN BAN MOSTOR*” on such an important subject, that 1 rabeegend par nal | popularity, unblemished reputation, and adequate forkine, | bong and Lord Cast
Inch ine 2 te wit gamiannication w ould have been t by tl secretary? would be a fit commencement to the career of bluod upon | » There is no Soubt that John Sheares was at this. time ~ , t
eo : Air Melty Astor.” : @ could not, surely, have received a letter dis- which they were entering. With such an object in view determined to attempt a revolution ; but this statement is
coe : © 2} closing circumstances which involved the peace of the] —to strike the gentlemen of Ireland, whose loyalty was given to the reader to enable him to judge of the foul and
1 ‘ama wanding “cual man, i} . country, without’ gratefully chrome the timely | suspected with awe—1 ‘no means were too foul, no agent disgusting means by whi miscreant who wi lect~
eA warning, and learning from th rter from | too infamous for the Irish government, And had they | ed by the Irish government, led. his and their victim to
Prestay'd “boede eee pleasant Bann, hie! was to be apprehended. , aS Jonah’s | wished to amaze the world by demonstrating the extent} that full and dangerous confidence which ended in’ his
Shannon's at ith respect to withholding names, are but the | basencss to whieh cupidity, broken fortune, shattered destruction, and the death of a brother. most fondly and
‘Ive Tiotd and playa to wife and mai novices, in a line of industry or} reputation, and religious unbelief, can drive’ a man, | devotedly loved. .. If we could conceive Johi 8 to
Spam Pe oR Rad to and me business they uy have undertaken. ‘Their feelings af the | they could not have selected a fitter subject for the de-| be altogether innocent of the treasonable intentions impu-
ame Bas wat yarrow, Say and Morey ay at the notoriety of their disclosures; but | monstration, than Jobn Warneford Ariston ted to him, there would be some colour for the. supposi-
ike i iin Dan mostor! estas s sat they are not so much afraid of consigning their associates ja man had heen in the habit of dealing with Byrne, | tion in the unreserved confidence of his communications
8 5 .3,/ }to death, as they are ashamed of. being found ¢ out to be } the bookseller, in Grafton-street, He was a purchaser of | with Armstrong, and the open-mouthed candour with
. - instrumental to their ruin, republican and atheistical works ; and frequented Byme’s| which he dealt w a him, But there is ‘no ground for the
“It was the duty of Sir Jonah Barrington, as a | shop for the double object of effecting his purchases, and | idea. . He was a traitor in the legal sense of the word ;
“5 “ “J aubject, ifhe suspected his friends and relatives of d indulging in gossip jinon ‘the events of the dy. The | and he layed i aie game badly i in the transactions with his
fection, to have cteruninedly and strenuously remonstrat- | Sheareses knew this Byrne, “whose shop was pular | wretched beta ut asked for no Promise o!
lov m; and if he found his remonstrance of no rendezvous, and therefore to: him did armstrong apply | erecy, and te obtained one
‘And when she moves, in § Sandy sheen, 5 Javail, before he quitted their society, if he really appre- | for an intruduetion to the men he had marked out for de-} Iaving thus opened his way, the blood. honnd steadily
‘ ind our cottage doo: “ | hended danger to the state from their designs, as an up- | struction.- There was no "pre ious acquaintance between | followed t ‘pon his victim. For in ithe evening of the same
By Heaven I'd scorn the Saxon queen fo right man, faithful to his friends as well aa foie country, | the Sheareses and Captain Armstrong, and there could { day, when John returned heme, h somewhat to - foe.
For Beghidia ban mo stor. he shoul told these persons frankly and fearlessly, | not, consequently, have been any animosity. In fact, } to his snrprise, Captain Atmstrong with. his brother Hen-
. he fas no tary to he views, he reprobated their designs, ther e operating with Armstrong, to com-| ty. e latter was cautious; Armstrong suggested the
1 UH oe : they persisted in them, he should be compelled to | pass the death of the two brothers, but to renovate his | facility with which Lehaunstown camp might be attack.
“iti at that thy smile ie sweet, © °° denounce them to government, But SirJonah tockavery ruined prospects by the liberality of the government. I| ed; dwelt forcibly on the cruelties of the Anticnt Britons a
soit thy Voice of song— . different course, for he hal two reputations to keep up,| have seen no document which correctly sets forth the| near Newry ; and earnestly expressed his hopes for the >
hi & not that thou fleest fo meet « : and he could not afford to lose a jot of either. He mixed| purchase money of their lives; but there is no doubt | success ofthe pop ular movement. He romied | another
My comings lone and engi : in society with the ultra liberals of this day; he joked|—remembering the sums expended on Reynolds—that | call next day, in The dusk of tie evening—t his
. But dhat dot rest beneath 4 y bret, with sonte of them about treason at Lady Colclough’s| the valuable services of Captain Armstrong were not left character—and retired, having added another Link to the
x table ; he shared in the festivities of that «joyous assem- | unrewarded. chain
Ww hose pulse is known to me alone, Vara e blage’ he speaks of, under his school-fellow's roof; en. yyme the bookseller was himself an United Irishman, The next evening at nine the punctual Armstrong was *
in on? Brghidin | bana stor! i and his fidelity to the cause remains unsuspected. He is | degging his prey. , More loose, and some dangerous con-
lege andy « Nati ’ justy, | represented by Arm strong as having proposed to effect the | versation ensued ; and Joha stated that he expected on _—.
TR: e had known as the editors of a ‘seditious paper—the | introduction to the Sheareses. This, howver, is not the | the following day to see a gentleman who was to aid him
lestual al” + Brighidin ban mo stor i is in Boglish fair yrung bride, Messrs. Sheares—and whom he designated as rebels, in| case, , Armstrong, seeing in John Sheares a fit object for| in his search for disaffection in Armstrong's regiment, and
ge avdlie OF t Bridget my treasure. ‘The proper sound of this phrase speaking of his interference on their half with the At-| his designs, continually threw himself in his way ; and | mentioned the name of Fannan, a serjeant, who he had
is not easily found by the mere English speaking Irish. | torney-General ; not till he meets them at Harvey’s| on every occasion gave utterance to the most ultra-liberal | heard was an United Irishman. Henry was not’ present .
une he following is the best help I can afford them in the.| table: does he expres any alarm at the freedom of their| and republican opinions. He begged of Byme to make] at this me Armstrong expected anotlier victim in a
apguagest Case :—“ Brow dheen- aton-maesthore” "God forgive them | jiscaurse ! ‘ im acquainted with the Sheareses ; and Byrne having| the gentleman alluded to by! John, and much as he cove- os
theie neglect of a tongue compared with whose sweetness | - «je then was convinced that they were destined to be | mentioned his often-expressed desire to the une wis ted seerecy, promised to call next day at one o'clock. - He a
Tenth mincing sibulations of the English are as the chirp~ | hanged, and he felt himseli.imperatively called on tq dis: | tim, it was at once aseented to. lenry was the first to | came duly at the aprointed hone. John was notat home ;
ek-sparrow on the house-roof of the soft close his apprehensions to government. Strange to say,| obtain the fatal honor “of Armstrong's acquaintance. Henry sat with him, and he managed to engage him in -
a 1 So of the genile cushat by the southern Blackwater! | in the whole of his conversation, he amis that not one | They retired into aback room in Byme’s shop, where | conversation on the same dangerons salject. fohin's
‘oh ‘The proper name Brighit , or Bride, signifies a fiery ee inva commited himself in the slightest degree,’ or| the conversation was general. Armstrong inquired for | arrival more discussion took Place, and Mr. Lawless, a
agasgent'and was the name of the godess of Poetry inthe Pagan | sooke in terms of approval of the rebellion’ which the ey | John, and was told that he was expected every minute. | surgeon, was announced. After some desultory conver
7 days of Ireland. * considered would be the consequence of the outrages that Henry, ho however, went away before. the arrival of his | sation, Armstrong took his leave. . Some other interviews.
we : were then 1 committing on je people. rother. On John’s arrival he was introduced to Arm-| followed, and Arinstrong received an invitation to dinner
' - National Gall Galler “This d is a strange admission, and hardly seems: ene and they also retired into the inner-room? and in{ for the Sun lay following—the last meeting. so
- MUCTY | in accontanee vith the latemnent of the ground on which { comparing the accounts given by both parties of thatin-{ During dinner, whilst this fiend j in hua form was ~
‘ he had fo rmed the opinion that they; ‘and the majority of | terview, itis impossible not to conclude. that John was | sittin; “tmongst his victims, and meditating the ruin his
“MEMOIR OF JOHN SEARES.. wt the company, were destined to be banged. If he had this gaily af rest indiscretisn ¢ and that the artful wretch, | bruta! teacher ‘ery was about to make, the most perfect pic- ~
“+ :/ impression, it was a cruel act to joke with one of the un- whom he was seduced into the disclosure of his opini-.| ture of domestic happiness was presented in the tami :
ne conciupen.: : fortunate men he knew doomed to such a fate—his own ons, most grossly perjured himself asto the topics then | then collected. It consisted of the moth ‘
ined by i ‘There isa very extraordinary insination—to call it by relative Capt, Keogh—on the probability of his approach- | discussed; or at least as the mode of discussion John and Henry, and the wife and three children of Hen
no stronger name—in the and Times of the United | ing end, of his hanging from a lamp:post, without solemn- | credible that, at a first interview with man- therefore un. {| on whom « he doated with the tenderest affection.”* Yi . .
ty Wested'Irishmen, with reference to ‘Sir Jonah Barrington, and re- | ly adjuring him to avoid the “webs .avprehended, to re- known, or uly known -as an unprincipled debauched | could not the scene of affection and .
Zye m5! lative to his connection with the two Sheareses. . There trace his steps, andr return to his alles’ “ heist, John Sheares would. have deliberately proposed | move the obdurate heart of the villain from his meditat é
emilierwere | traitors enough in Ireland during the existence of «Tt was, in the last degree, unfeeling, ms sit in the pres- | 0 him the seduction of the army for the purpose of over- | treachery ; he seemed to enjoy the ruin i ‘
F tending Fthe Uni ions abundance of men members of that society | ence of the venerable + Grogan, hi old acquaintance, “whom throwhg the government. That he uttered rong and | When the female portion of the eo .
Fens’ whilst in the pay of government, and carr ying their se- {0 ne “be as loyal as himself? and not to apprise | Vehement opinions—such as he foubtless] ’—is | and the wine was circulating freely, Armstrong, true 2
t information daily and hourly into what was then a | iyot hoor Pam gentleman of the dangerous company (as | only what we should hove expected from his hot incan- | his own sava age inteutions, incaps pable of forgetting even in
ost infamous receptacle, the secretary's room in the Cas- | he rereacnts, mect of thoce resent af Tay Colclough’s) | tious temper ; but that he mate his own acquaintance fa-| the hoitr of ocial enjoyment his diabolical scheme, intro- .
tle. , There were many, too, in both howsesof parliam by whom he war surrounded on that necasion miliar with his most dangerous cele, isa sn n | duced the same subject of disenssion, ‘byw ich he ex ect :
anparent en of the people, realy en “tw foul Xi t and drink at th very difficult to entertain. There was much discussion | ed to procure fresh appliances for the Fort te a
ote, i Vand countenance of all the board. with t oul proceed gt fis on rin a mn hia as fo the sentiments of the soldiery then in camp at Le- | confiding friends. His said that he fondled the luldren
ei nbumanity and legalised oppression of the day. But it | boar wih t ‘ ys men 0) chu own proi ession, ss haunstown, and Armstrong begged of Sheares to cendens whose orphanage bis foul mind was planniny ing, and which >
vo tainly comes on the reader with surprise to find some- | intimate vents wi ‘te private such evid le stat amet r to discover whether there were any United Irishmen his foutes tongue effected. He denied sis latter fact toa =
ra, Seol Hike a direct charge, and by no means unsupported uinexceptionable, and tow witness such evident mane amonget them, and who e latter in his] very accomplished member of our tar; and denied it—- _ :
viet Jeiliby plausible evidence, against 80 forward a_ professor of | 0! ht on his mae ‘os ther tion oti ' or parts, ‘dina ti left evidence swore that this was te facilitate seduction ; the | not for its turpitude, but for the rake of historical aceite .
ExT te doctznes of pa Sir Jonah | Barrington. The} doubt on his mind of t ci inspend SET an ait ne | Sormer givesano' ther version of the matter : after_havin racy. Acall events, the “technical monster} saw ther . ts
Is are shortly thes pril, 1798, met | made one effort to rescue then Mh then ruins vneus nt | expressed his # regret that the new syetenn of coercion and i re him? eard their mother sing, hung over so
® a dinner ia Bargay Castle | in the county Weslord the wot reason and femonstrate wit then caine mauness 0 military tyranny had rendered many ‘men advocates: for wched the harp, ‘and inteoduced the ‘atmos- oP
wise of, Begenal Harvey, Keogh-and Colelongh (who {the projects he imputed to them foo) born ests in tance by force, who iad before confined their, views phere st hal into the heaven of the domestic afections. .
9 of ea vere haugeton Wexiord bridge.) Tlay, who waa 8 hanged rele ot that we hence presentiments, he da momings to conatituions il opposition, and stating his conviction By the assumption of treasonable views—by throwing
erica it also, the two Shearcscs, and some others, ; He says that | '8 all that we hate the ‘subject. 0! 'Hemey Sin Jonah | (htt readtul carnage would ensue, aud friends and foe: out various eugresno eas to taking the Coste, reizing the
‘of treason was {alked--so mich so, that he opinion with these unfort tunite gentlemen. Sir Jonah | be a dreah in commion ruin, he aid that thece vrotate tard Lieutenant, and carrying of the Trivy Couned he: .
ade up his mind as to the probable fate “most of | proceeded to Dublin, » be gave his ee wiat wien eh ties were rendered greater ja evan reliance ¥ the | obtained from the two unfortunate men spfiicient material, :
ber offs anys” und himseif in the niide ever wae given—or su art y hae pa a vk people had on the Yeomanry and military, an the part} in addition to thowe already, in his notes, to enable the
ibe hf absolute but, vnavowed conspirators, Ie was as-aap- | ne communi cation pected pe Se ee te ne tana | which they mi ein the e: expected srigale. Amongst! goveanment to “ e :
allo od at the position, ant turned the rebellion of the con- the panies + the sw pected parties were 0 raine wnties | the Test, John Sheares raid ghat he had’ tumours |” On the 2Ist Nay, the day after the dinner party af :
county Be + He and Mz, Keogh entered into | a” be Lut qe = Gaubt but ery one oF the parties | of the | loyalty of Armstrong’? own Tepiment, *shereupon Henry Sheares's rrant was entrusted for exe~ 1
othe Ue) arranzensene as they were Bkely, to take opposite rides, mentio re te eae ar belle sand cert ame Armstrong replied that he liad been at some gains himself | cution to Ald iomon “Mesander, When the latter had oat
sen York" hereby the successful arty was to. pres previously f thao ith the the rebellion Fevicb ee he to discover who the disaffected were, but that the saldiers | mancenvred himself into the house, he found lenry Sheares
meieriret from execution by court-mav ia bic H Seas [85 that al ree ee three o eeeetione,F Tee ae commit themselves; that it would “be an | j iby " .
# assumed would probably iltow defeat 0 On cos that Mevsrs. Grogan, Col Seen areys Ways) ay auvantage to know who they were, ne be might thereby
se sont Yonal's retuen to Dublin, he ssrote to Mra ‘Seeretary Keog' rank ra tre Heatenes, amet their fate iv the ful-| je enabled to uve them from the people who otherwise *
zis oke; a he up, without mentioi names, places or filment of Sir fonah’s prophe might injure theinown friends in case of rebellion; and -
Peony particular rc owleilge, ‘bat simply tonssure | "It would have been unnecessary tohave mentioned this |that. the soldiers interested for’ the popular liberties
re that fan ineurrection wo} ‘ould break ont sooner than the | subject so much ait large, hut that itis tolerably clear that might be taugtht a certain signal, which would l¢t the .
" sovermment expected, ‘This prophecy, with regard to the | the governinent had some Ne good in intelligence with regard to} people detect their military alhes during’ an engagement, ;
yi oarty at Harvey's, .was fulfilled —ihey were nearly all | the Sheareses, which enal hem townby oranightattack. On this Armstrong pressed John to ir shni was artested at the house of Surgeon Lawless, ‘in
nged, Now, with the exception af the letter ta Cooke, } their blood-hound Armstrong ; and the inferential rea- | undertake the discovery of the disatlected colliers in the} French-street, by Major Sirr. Taw less had escaped, took
ier inerely ‘profess ing to eGhvey general information, | soning of Dr, Maiden be right, the clue is here discovered ; | Lehaunstowa camp, which the latter was foolish enough | refuge i in Franeo, where he serve with. _istinetion, and
ovis apparently a very needless communication to’a gov~ | and on the other hand, if bis seepticism, as to the purity | to momise that he would. about leaving | died with honcr. Surgeon These an eminent eurgeon,,
LAN, pieninet then nthe ‘alert, and keenly scenting the blood | of Bu e misplaced, it is but justto direct the rea-| Byrne's, he was addressed yf ‘Armstrong ‘ina etrain of | who had heen implicated in the Tranenctions of the da
fn is if the people ther is nothing very suspicions s about this | der’ fo, the subject, that the character of a man in Ld Simulation which it would be difionst to pare fangs of the Castle by. cot punting suicide.
by bdepatte er, den, whose opinion, irom the great | whose works have done some service to Ireland, nay be| el. « * Mr, Sheat ares, I have long had a desire to he ac-} Ma‘or Sirr " foun Jolin Bree before him in tl .
yatou sinduntiting “zeal with, which he has rescued the | altogether rescued from suspicion... se. 4 20 om | quainted with you and your brother 5 ye ‘thou gh I have told bi he was his prisoner; met with no resistance, or
ive ot Be haracters ( of the | ea ailing United Irishmen from contumely By wha ver Fagency 1 the government were directed to} now procured that satisfaction, Imus st acknowlelge to rehuetance to go with him. He left the teny
nee Mid en fon, descr the highest respect argues thes heareses, after John’s Janetion wih the Ditectory, ‘ow that from the troubled nature of the times, your wel's ious captor unrufileds and ‘to the bes -
yh tpn t a very critical Views 1 + Marche 1798, it’ ig at all events certain, that.a plan—| known opposition to the measures ot government, and recollection.” he handed him his papers nen .
«“ Sis, Jonah re that on r immodiately coming: to town, one more .teplete in dishonotn turpitude, ‘and eliberate my silnation as an. officer, I. wish as much as possible}. John was cattied to ae €astle; and o1 ‘
sh of cu We, wrote to ary Cooke, informing him of the crue'ty, than any of the most gross frands by which. bu- | that our acquaintance may not be publicly known,’ lest | hear that the reprobate who had dogged ee to that
coun eManger i in which - Wertiedw as placed; | but, giving no | man infamy achieves its ende--vras formed ke the govern- | it might injure me in the 6uspicions minds of the govern: | of infamy, made its habitual horrors -more se et uM he
etn declining, ia fact, to come foreword asa pul Mig ment for destroying the two: Sheareses. : They: had ‘suc- ment 3 and I therefore exact: from youa perfect secrecy presence: Armstrong, the wretch who kad stole into hia.
pia te (ros .- But why didnot Sir Jonah give a 2p ceeded the imprisoned members of the poyular-exectitive ; | concerning our present interview or our “acquaintance. | intimacy the better to steal away his life, the coulless.
» rao qat letter in his work? Theze ean be only cone reply te theaebellion was, as the gov erament, even swithont Bar- However, as I ain soon going ont of Dublin to edmp, and | atheist, the informer peryurer, and epy, visited him ia the
informa cefat queation—it did not suit the purpose of the writer to Fogo mor well Kne nit breaking ¢ outs they as your house lies in my way, I shall tail on you to know } ————. tae
done sani] there is but too Much reaton, $o,bolieve, |~——— if you shall have nequired ite information I eo tiuch Theseare the simple'a ratte morakot the ines "
«poste si soul ot Rave gurvel hin character to haves contents Sir Jonah Battington married a Bfiee Grego, of Dub-| ———~ vs = ven by Zohn Sheares to : . y
‘nee i, He boasts, indeed, of having i in; in “ihe daughter of a Wealthy silkmerce * See “oleranpeech in n poscutng them, Pos _f Memoir of Curran; Cu
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