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The Enniskillen Newspaper, on our noticing the outrage offered to the subdued Catholics of that town, by the sacrilegious profanation and robbery committed in their Chapel, was pleased to say, that every Protestant Gentleman, in that town, so far from employing any agency to insult the Catholics, by robbing and destroying their Chapel, expressed such an abhorrence at the perpetrators, that they took every pains to have them brought to justice. The following report of the Trial, taken from the different pers of Ireland, will best explain the kind of abhorrence the Protestant Gentlemen of Enniskillen entertain for the offence. The Erne Packet has properly panegy rised its patrons, by puffing off their liberality; but the trial of the Gentlemen, its friends, give the lie to the Editor, for instead of instructing us by their own ac count of the attributed liberality, they have justified our character of them, as the twelve who were casually selected as Jurymen, unanimously acquitted the culprits, against the evidence of their own

confession.

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SACRILEGIOUS OUTRAGE.

John Hall was indicted for forcibly entering the Chapel of Enniskillen, accompanied by two other persons, William McMullen and John Kelly, (the latter a Revenue Officer) on the night of the 23d of June last, and taking thereout the Vestments (the ornaments worn by the Priest when offering the sacrifice of the Mass), which they carried to a sewer or drain adjoining and there deposited; he was also charged with aiding the above mentioned persons in taking down and destroying the balls from the piers at the entrance of the Chapel.

The first witness produced was Mr. Thomas Quinton, a respectable inhabitant of the town, who swore that on the day following the outrage, he met the prisoner Hall in the street, to whom he expressed his surprise that he would be concerned in the outrage committed in the Chapel. Prisoner confessed to him that he was one of the party who entered the Chapel on the preceding night, and told Mr. Quinton if he would go to a certain drain adjoining the Chapel, he would find the Vestments where he (Hall) had buried them. Mr. Q. accordingly proceeded to the place described by the prisoner, accompanied by two others, Mr. Wm. Kernahan and Mr. C. Maguire, (the latter a Roman Catholic) where they found the

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Vestments exactly as described by the prisoner, and which they carried to the house of Mr. Maguire, where they remained until the curate arrived, who identified them as the Vestments left in his charge by the Parish Priest, who was

then absent.

The next witness was the Rev. Mr.. Kernan, the Roman Catholic curate, who said, that hearing of the outrage committed in the Chapel, he proceeded thi ther, and found that the back-door had been forced open, and the Vestments car ried away; that it was the custom to leave them on the Altar, and that he had seen them there on the Sunday or Monday preceding the outrage.

Wm. Stewart, Esq. Provost, was next examined, and swore, that the prisoner, Hall, confessed to him, that he was one of the party concerned in the outrage at the Chapel, and said he was sincerely sorry, and willing to repair any injury the Chapel had sustained, as far as it was in his power. Dr. Stewart was asked for a character of the prisoner, but replied, that he could not say much for him.

Mr. Adam Nixon next deposed, that' he was present when the prisoner declared, that it was the first offence he was ever charged with; and on being asked whether he considered it an admission or a denial of the facts, he said, he rather considered it was an admission, but certainly

not a denial.

The lease, which was made to several persons by the Priest, in trust for the parish, was produced, to shew the prosecutors had an interest in the possession, and the Priest proved the Vestments to be his private property, and that he had left them in charge with the curate at his leaving home. Here the evidence for the prosecution closed.

No evidence, whatever, was produced on the part of the prisoner.

Judge Fletcher addressed the Jury in a very clear and concise manner, explained the law in such cases, and exhorting them to discharge from their minds all prejudices and distinctions, and to consider the present as any ordinary case. Mr. Quinton, the first witness, seemed to have been actuated only by a sense of duty, and acted as an honest man should do, between the King and the subject. He dwelt particularly on the fairness of Mr. Q.'s evidence, and remarked that the confession of the prisoner, he conceived to be strong evidence, when supported by the persons before whom he made it, and, indeed, from the situation of the place where the outrage was committed-being a house of

worship,

worship, and consequently not inhabited and the outrage committed in the dead hour of the night, when it was not likely that any person should witness the transaction. If the Jury believed the testimony of the witnesses they would find the prisoner guilty, if not they would acquit him; it was a matter entirely for their consideration, and he had no doubt they would do their duty, as became honest and conscien tious men.-The Jury retired for about half an hour, and returned a verdict-NOT GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!! to the great surprize of a very crowded Court.

McMullen, one of the persons concerned in the above-mentioned outrage, came forward some time subsequent to the transaction, and made a public apology at the Altar.

GENERAL SARAZIN.

The following was the Speech of that Officer on his return from Ireland, when presented to the Directory, on the 11th Frimaire, year 7, and which is alluded to in his answer to Bonaparte. It should have been added among the other documents, to his letter. We translate it from the Moniteur:

"CITIZENS DIRECTORS-Unavoidable circumstances prevented the junction of the troops from Brest and Rochfort, although a small number of them would have been sufficient to separate Ireland from England. That Epoch is, however, only deferred, and if it is written in the book of Fate that the French legions should not again have the happiness of combating for Irish Liberty, it may also be read there that ancient Hibernia will soon see a second Sicilian Vespers irresistibly provoked by the vexatious atrocities of the English Government.

"On our arrival and during our stay in Ireland, we heard with sensibility this generous people heap benedictions on the French Nation, and thank the Executive Directory for the interest which it took in their truly deplorable situation.

"The battles of Killala, Castlebar, &c. the passage of the Shannon, and a march of 55 hours, although attacked on all points by 10,000 men, commanded by Lord Cornwallis, guarantee to you that we have made every effort to continue to deserve your confidence," &c. &c.-The speech concludes thus:

"I pray you to receive the standard which I took with the Officer of the Staff, &c. as a pledge of the ardent desire of all the officers of the expedition to be, by their prompt exchange placed in a situation to contribute all in their power to

deliver the unfortunate Irish from their barbarous oppressors."

OBITUARY.

He was a

Of a few days illness, in the thirtyeth year of his age, Mr. FRANCIS ANDOE, formerly of High-street, Dublin. young man of amiable manners, and mild disposition, possessed of a feeling heart, he promptly contributed to relieve distress, and whilst it remained in his power to he stow, a real object never solicited in vain. If integrity of heart, an ardent love of country, and liberality of sentiment, are characteristics necessary to constitute the noblest work of God, an HONEST MAN-he then was one.

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When Europas Lord, on Estings sanguind field,
Blazon'd new feats upon his crowded shield,
Whilst envious fortune, impotently tried,
To bound his genius, by the thundring tide.
Felld in the fiercest raging of the strife.
Great Montebello, lost his glorious life.
Adieu, my Country, and my Chief he cries.
Lannes dies content and triumphs as he dies;
His guardian glory, caught the parting breath,
And fill'd her clarion, with his gasp of death.

Engravd for the Irish Magazine

IRISH MAGAZINE,

OR

Monthly Asylum

FOR

NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY.

FOR OCTOBER, 1810.

With this Month's Publication we give an elegant Engraving of the DEATH OF LANNES, DUKE of MONTE-BELLO, from a Medallion in our possession, executed by command of the French Emperor.

REPEAL OF THE UNION.

Tus important queftion is warmly taken up by the entire Irish nation, and as fuch, we have no hesitation in faying-IT MUST BE REPEALED.

No longer has the British minifter the advantage of party to counteract the general fentiment, now fo uniformly diftinct. It is no longer an abftract queftion, that misleads the public mind, or agitates the nation. It is not this, or that form of government, this, or that form of creed, this, or that alliance, or the minor and comparatively trifling question of Catholic Emancipation, that moves through out the land, and to the extremities of the civilized world. It is the fate of fix millions of Irithmen that now comes before Europe: the queftion is-are they, and their pofterity for ever, to be deprived of every benefit VOL. 111. October, 1810.

which the foil and fituation of Ireland offer to industry and enterprize? is Ireland to be only a draw-farm and a military depot, where our children are to inherit defolated cities, empty granaries and military barbarifin ?

Does England reflect, that if we inherit any of the ufual feelings of men, or entertain any talte for the comfort and protection which men appreciate, in focial or political life, that no fophifm can reconcile us to a condition of existence which reduces us in the loweft fcale of moral and phyfical existence-that her pro. tection (as the terms the connexion) isnot fo very valuable, that the entire of our population thould be deprived of the first articles of life, and a valt proportion of them engaged in her armies and navies-our gentry emigrants, and our industry diffipated? We fay, that the most barbarous con

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