Графични страници
PDF файл
ePub

Hamilton Gorges, Esq of Kilbrue, county of Meath, and with her received a very hand some fortune, but in a few years after Mrs. Sandys, or Sands, like her sister Mrs. Cooke, abandoned the bed and house of her hus band, for a life more suited to her taste and liberal notions, than what a brutal and drunken husband could afford. Captain Sands, through the influence of his brotherin-law, Mr. Cooke, then under secretary of State, was appointed Brigade Major to the Garrison of Dublin, a place then of no great emolument until the Major became one of the Triumvirate of Majors, who in the years of 1797 and 8, whipped, plundered, butchered, and dungeoned the unfortu nate people of Dublin. The Major, like his compeers in devastation, spread his pros, cription in every direction, and every hour the victims of his brutality and avarice were seen entering his prison, the prevot of Dublin Barracks. Our interesting publica. tion could not contain one tenth of the atrocities which we could enumerate, that were hourly practised within the wails of the Barracks, by the monster Sands, or Sandys, and his executioners; besides hanging and torturing any poor person, whose friends were not able to purchase a mitigation of punishment, others were nearly suffocated by foul air, and devoured by vermin, until they could purchase a change of lodging, which was no other than an open yard, in which stood tents, where the released wretches often perished by the inclemency of the weather, or by the effects of famine or putrid provision. The Major sold his mercy for every kind of marketable produce; fathers have bought their sons from the prison and the triangles, for hy oats, flour, boots, whiskey, wires, linens, pictures. horses, cows, &c. and sons have purchased heir parents on the same terms; for the crowds tha: filled the prison were so beaped together, that the fear of losing a good transferable body, often made the Major empty his warehouse on reasonable terms. He flogged or strangie generally such as were unable to deal with him. The character of this monster may be justly known by the following facts, which we have selected from the numberless atrocities

he committed.

A young man of the name of Carroll, a prisoner,under the care of Sands, had been tried by a Court Martial in June, 1798, on charges of Rebellion, and was waiting the josue of the deliberations of whoever had his destiny in their hands, when one day as he was at his dinner with another prisoner, William Houston, late of Mercers Hospisa!, but at present in Philadelphia, Sands abruptly threw open the door, and flinging a right-cap on the table where the dinner was placed, called out " Carroll, come out unil I hang you!!" The poor fellow laid down

[blocks in formation]

Just published, by James Bernard Express, at the Conclave office, an elegant edition of Letters, for and against the Veto; the former addressed privately to Sir John Hippesley, in 1805, showing the blessings Ireland should receive from the adoption of the measure; the latter were published from the same press, in 1808, and brought the author, by the activity of Taileyrand, little Pompous, and other friends, seven hundred and sixty-eight pounds, four shillings, and ten pence farthing; the sum obtained for the former, it be ing a private transaction, may, perhaps, be ascertained, by enquiry, at Secret Service-office, Melville-strect, London.

the

readers with a view of the Couclave In our next, we shall present our sitting in Francis-street Chapel.

ADVICE.

We advise Mr. French, of Porters town, who, we understand, is a tenant of Luke White's, that if he continues to insult and beat our hawker, Smith, as he did a few days since, to abstain from his outrages on our property, or we shall try an experiment by law with him. He is a coward of the meanest rank who would beat and trample on a poor bay, on the calcula, tion that our confinement precludes us of chastising the ruffian.

Another ruffian has commited similar acts of depredation towards the same boy; the fellow's name is Wm. Gorman, of Ballymaglasson, in the neighbourhood of Luke's estate.

[graphic]
« ПредишнаНапред »