ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Production Note Project Unica Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign 2015 THE TRIAL OF Mr. John McCann, FOR HIGH TREASON. Dublin, Tuefday, l'jth July, 1798. John M'CANN was put upon his Trial upon a charge of High Trea-lhn. The following Jury was, after a number of challenges, fworn: Patrick Bride, William Thompfon, Frederick Kilpatrick, Thomas Hendrick, Richard Hewfon, Richard Jackfon, Arthur Stanley, Archibald Hawkiley, Thomas Black, Michael Culloden, Peter Roe, _______ _______^ Richard Quin tin, Efqrs. The indidlment^contained two counts, one charging the prifoner with compnffing the death of the King, and the other with adhering to his enemies. To fupport each of thefe counts, the following thirteen overt-ads of Trea- fon were fpecified: . The iiril overt-ad, aflembling and confpiring with other traitors to ftu* up rebellion and procure arms, ammunition, and men for that purpole. 2d, Confpiring with other traitors to depofe the King, 3^>_ Confpiring^ w ith, other traitors to overturn the Government.—4^» Confpiring and coniuUing with other traitors about the means of railing rebellion, procuring arms and armed men to overturn the Government and Conftitution by force, o'h, Confpiring with other traitors to depofe the King by an armed force. - 6th, Becoming a Member of the Society of Traitors, called United Irilhmen, with defign to raife rebellion and overturn the Government by force. —7th, With fuch defign keeping and receiving accounts and returns of arms, men, and money for the purpoies of rebellion. — 8th, Caufing and procuring armed men, to the number of 1000, to affemble at Clondalkin to levy war againft the King.—9th, Aflembling to receive returns of armed men, &c.—10th, Obtaining and procuring a chamber in the houfe of one Oliver Bond, in order that certain traitors might meet for thofe purpofes.—1 ith, Giving notice of fuch meeting, and iummoning divers traitors to attend the fame.—12th, Colleifing money to purchafe arms for rebels.—13th, Procuring a chamber in the houfe of Bond for traitors to meet in, aud devife the means of itirring up the rebellion. To this indidlment the prifoner had pleaded not guilty. The Solicitor General [Mr. Stewart] in a ihort, fimple and concife manner Hated the cafe againft the prifoner, which being little more than an anticipation of the evidence, we lhall not attempt to' follow; the obiervations which he made were few, but forcible. It would be found, he faid, that on the very night on which Lord Moira was making an attempt to conciliate (as it was phraied) the agitators of the country, thofe very agitators were reviving that nothing ihort of the entire leparation of the twq countries, and Jhe’ eftabliihment of a Republic in Ireland,, would fatisfy their furious ambi-ttion. Ile alfo obferved, that the old complaint, that though by the Eng-lilh law two wjtnefles were neceifary to an overt-aél of treafon, one only was neceifary here, could not now avail—two witnefies would be produced ; it was true, both were in the light of accomplices—but who eife could give information of fuch dark and defpérate confpiracies as exifted in this country? One of them would be found to be a man of fenfe, property, and education, unhappily feduced by a wretched young nobleman, who had already fallen the vidlim of his diabolicalambition ; who, though born of the firft family in Ireland, had, to forward thofe ambitious hopes he had conceived, entered into fraternity even with an iron-monger’s clerk, the prifoner at the bar. The Solicitor ihortly iketched the miferabie fate to which this country had already been reduced by the practices of fuch men ; and in order to prove the deliberate guilt and confidential fituation of the prifoner M‘Cann, read a number of papers taken on him when arrefted, written in his own hand, and evincing that he was indeed a very principal agent in the confpi-raey which has laid vvaile this country. Thomas Reynolds, Efcj. fworn—examined by the Attorney General.-------- Witnefs had formerly been a refident of Dublin ; had lived in Park-ftreet, in the Liberty, his houfe of bufinefs was in Alh-fireet; he was a filk manufacturer ; he believed the moil extenfive in Dublin—had acquired a confi-derable property in the county Kildare, and lived in Kilkea-caftle in that * county. Witnefs has been an United Irifliman, was fworn ihortly afterthe French left Bantry ; he knows the prifoner—faw him at the houfe of Olivet-Bond; the prifoner refided as clerk with Mr. Jackfon in Church-ftreet, the iron founder; was an United Iriihman and ailed as fuch; witnefs had been in baronial meetings with him. A baronial meeting is compofed of delegates from the fimple focieties of each barony; the gradations of the fociety differ in Dublin and in the country; in the country they are from fimple focieties to baronial, thence to county, and thence to provincial meetings by delegation ; in Dublin, on account of the baronials being numerous, there is an intermediate fociety between them and the county fociety, called the diflriil committee. Witnefs has heard of the executive committee in thefe focieties; he underftood it to confift of the heads, who fent orders, and regulated the bufinefs of the kingdom at large; he does not know whether they were eleited or not. Ihe general object of thefe focieties was to overturn the Conilitution and the prefent Government, and eftablifit a Republican Government infiead of it, and to favour any landing of the French to forward thofe view's. Witnefs knew of the meeting of the 12th of March at the houfe of Oliver Bond, when the prifoner was taken; he had converfations with the prifoner on the fubjeil; witnefs had been directed by the county meeting of Kildare as their treafurer, to attend a former meeting at Bond’s houfe, and to apply to the prifoner who would introduce him ; witnefs had gone to the prifoner ihortly before the iath of March, and aiked him. when and where the next provincial meeting would be held ? Prifoner aiked witnefs if he had his county returns (of men, arms, money and ammunition ?) Witnefs faid he nad not. M'Cann then faid, he could not give information of the meeting until thefe returns were brought by witnefs to be laid before the provincial meeting. Witnefs never attended a provincial meeting himfelf, but at the baronial and county meetings, bringing and receiving fuch returns always made part of the bufinefs. On the Saturday after, witnefs went to the county Kildare to procuré the returns, and called on Mr. Daly, at Kilcuilen, for them ; Daiy is for, to a_man who keeps • » Bond ' fnd'priL« SrSttd up the ware-room and whtfpered together, and • fhortiy after witnefs retired. Edward Fitzgerald—not much Edward did reftde Edward railed at Ida honfe in P»h- ^’[Here the^rUhnei-s Coonfe! i»BM riecli^S" ^itsfsssst^ Sl~^»»rdaasofb0,h'B,hUt',eI“dses aifented, and the examination continued.] ;foner fald he was a fine fel- f **•£■***«”,icm *“ ** at witneis’s houle in Park-ilree Moone—witnefs hetfiated—witnels Colonel for the barony of kilkea and Moo ^ ^ ^ in the fame county, had a property in that barony—Lord a d with witnefs, and about eight miles from witne s s -' ^ Gonverfction Lord Edward told perfuaded him to accept it. . ^ before the election — witnels ex- him that one Kenna would call on witnefs before the ^ preffed doubts that the U■ Ir^men ■ could ftand^ » neceffary_that troops —Lord Edward replie t a tbat fome of the United Irifhmen a landing of the French was ’hat ¿e great body would only have would certainly fall into their ran > enemy’s country, by attacking to make the King’s troops eel «vem «enenj „ - Witnels their convoys, cutting their detachments ioragj^n^p t> fon> called went to Kilkea in January. Matiew ’ in February a Colonel was upon him and told him that at the fiift meet! ^ ^ tQ b a to be chofen and aiked witnels v-ou. pnefs told him he would, for that meeting of the Captains of the barony- “ fid he knew that-that ¿! Lord Edward had been fpeaking to him.-Kennawould be neceffary for witnefs to hold a civil employment in tv* • * «he U„,,ed Irilhuien would he chute ,o he fe”^ or, “aW Zeft fa;d trealurer, aa lead rtfponiible, a»d lead trouble. Kenna (aid he I.Z S ol..: that he would go forward hhofelfaa feeretary. About the terhl'l Tre“fh,er?ga,° W“"rfs ,ha‘ he “«»nimoufly choien Colonel and 1’adapplied‘°'™nrfs' andhe 1,adc°nr“t«d> w^lfl°r.r,lal0O“”rel °bj'aed “ any £Vid““ “ncet"ing Bo,ld’ *>» Witnefs was ftrengthened in his determination by another terion KPnna came about the, 5th ofFeb. (he was an United IrilhL“ Se of whnefrt Capta,ns) and told witnefs that himfelf had been chofen Secretary tW a county meeting would be held next Sunday at the in mile hold/ that hP womd ,„,e, witnela on the road, and ride with him to & mee,lng ^ fp ltnefs went with him to the meeting- each member firft took an oath of ■ 7'anil ^ey ^en went to the ele&ion of a new delegate to the provincial meeung and fecretary and treafurer for the next three months. ? £'U£; who L abten, b„.C Loru Edward to fay, that being a marked man, he wiihed for a while m dron dkid-i ‘00k I’1““ lb,'da)’ afier M'Cann breakfafted with the witnefa and ir obaiged m eave town tl A al^rm> toaPP]7 bim for ball-carfndge; and tnctofing an i„ju„aion on anX^pitSof'SUi «'to v“* w“?’” feeret." Witnefa ihewed this paper ti Lord filrd S¥ °rde,r’ agitated on reading it, and fidd h/» L >Td di who kerned greatly Pint, and that he wiihed he could get off §to FranceTT ”lten<^ed.t0 arreft vvmch he could do by his intimacl with T ,, ance to ha.fien the invafion, French Miniftry;" belaid “he would nn fTlle?rand Perigord, one of the firft, but that the French had W fine fhft a g™eral invafion at be w ould put as many Engiiih and Inih Office" “f he ?ould °“ b°ard Which bom Prance, and as many nerfons ranahi a d Procure to come ^ith fores, ammunitioned miliuryP^andfufthol ^he C0U!d ?et* kingdom— be thought Wexfo-d is ,hl n n , ofei]nto fome port m this being amongft t eir friends if ¡hi f 1 ^ ^ ^fufpefted-and point until other help ihould’comeX £ ’ h* d eftabhih a rallying- with the priioner, had forth,!,' living returns oi men, arms, and ammunition. Ar. for d,P CP._tieral caufe : prifoner aéted as fecretary to baronial meetings, where witnefs was prefent — witnefs wasffieiegated along with Johii Cormick, of Thomas-ftreet, to attend a Baronial Committee at the Strugglers’ in Cook-ftreet ; when they went, M'Cann came out of one room, and took them into an adding one, and there fwore J. Cormick, that he had been duly delegated to attend the meeting, and alio to anfwer for the due delegation of witnefs. He then brought Cormick and witnefs in to the committee ; Mr. M’Cann was then re-chofen fecretary : this was in. March twelve month, witnefs has known him ever fince perfe&ly well. Witnefs has heard that M‘Cann was taken at Bond’s—the officers taken there made a number of vacancies. Witnefs faw Lord Edward the Wed-nefday after in his place of concealment in Aungier llreet, who bid him come to him the.next night —which he did ; Lord Edward faid he had money as^ treafurer of the county of Kildare, and allò as treafurer of the barony of Ophaley ; that he would have thefe lums fettled. He gave witnefs a paper, which he delired him to give to the county committee as his addreis to them—“ not to think any thing of what had palled—it was a trifle— that “ they ihould fill up their vacancies as fpeedily as poffible ; that they would « be very loon called upon” [This paper was afterwards burned at a meeting ofwitnels’s Captains at Athy, becaufe it was in Lord Edward s hand; it had been firft read at a county meeting at Bell’s on the Curragh; the Tueiday after, being market day, at Athy ; witnefs met his captains where the paper was read and afterwards burned]—“ and that they might rely upon his “ being in his place in the day of need.” In confequence of this a new election took place in the room of Cummins ; Michael Reynolds was elected-— witnefs knew Michael Reynolds from meeting hinu-—he is a little dark-coloured man ; Cummins was an apothecary in Kildare, ot a tain countenance, rather tall, with dark iank hair. Witnefs firft difcloied the United Iriffimens’ bufinefs to Mr.’William Cope, with whom he had confiderable connexion ; witnefs had mortgaged a property to him for 5000I. and on the death of the late Sir Duke Gifford, they went together to Calile Jordan, to take poiTeffion ot it ; they diued there ; Lord Wycombe and other perfons were prefent, and the converiati-on ran on general politics ; returning to town next day, Mr. Cope renewed the fubjeéì of politics, and reprefented in ilrong colours the horror or a revolution-----the murders, robberies, and devaftations - the overthrow ot all relipion---government-------property, of every thing near and dear Jo man, in fuch a way that witnefs was ihocked at the delcription. Witnels then told Mr. Cope that he believed he knew a perfon who was not faiigiu-nary, and did not wilh for murder, who would defert the United Ininmen, and to make amends for any crime be had committed in being one of tnem. would give Government iucli information as he poflefled, which w line's lieved was very confiderable. , . Mr. Cope feized on this, and faid that fuch a man would be and ought to be placed higher in the country than any man that ever was in it -witnels told him neither honours nor rewards would be de fired or accepted it t .is man came forward, and that he, the witnefs, would call upon him in two or three days on the fubjeft. , , . Witnefs did call, and faid he had feen his friend, and prevailed -on him to come forward on certain conditions, and that he had confiderà J.e inijrma tion to give ; Mr. Cope faid the man ought to have greater conditions than he could wiih for; a feat in Parliament and ioool. a-year, witne s rep « -fhatthp. rondiricitvs were naifiinderitood » that all that was require_WassaBByay,'; ( 6 ) the perfor. ihould not be profecuted himfelf, or be forced to profecute any othei perfon, and that the channel of information ihould be kept a complete fecret ; and that as the perfon would be in danger oi affailination it the thing tranlpired, he would be obliged to leave the country for a time, and therefore required that his extraordinary expences ihould be paid. My. Cope, deiired to know what they would be ? Witnefs faid, a liberty to draw on hint for any fum under 500 guineas would be required. Mr.Cepe preff-ed greater rewards, and expreffed his iurprile that they ihould be reiuied : at length he acquiel'ced, and received the information which witnefs gave him as from another perion. Witnefs told Mr. Cope of the meeting at Bond’s before it was bad ; witnefs had heard of it from Daly about a fortnight before, but Daiy could not give him precife information ; on Sunday, however, after M’Cann had told witnefs, he told Mr. Cope decidedly of it. Witnefs has incurred Ioffes to the amount of 600I. and has received 500 guineas, Witnefs never told anyone, even his wife, of his communication with Mr. C ope. Witnefs went afterwards to Kilkea, attended one county meeting and one meeting of captains ; fnortly after Kennan came to him and told him it was faid he was the man who betrayed the meeting at Bond’s ; that he had heard it as a rumour, but if he heard more oi it he would acquaint him. On the 15th Apr. the delegate of the barony of Narra and Rheban, one whofe name witnefs does not know, came to him from the county meeting, and laid he (witneis) mull attend this county meeting at Bell’s on the Curragh, to hand h.s trial on accuiations brought from Dublin from the provincial meeting by M. Reynolds, for having betrayed the meeting at Bond’s ; he faid he was lure, and fo w ere ail the reft, that witneis would be acquitted. Witne.s had beiore determined to quit the county but had been delayed by Airs. R’s being ill—he intended to have fet out on the Monday after, but on Saturday captain Erikine and a party of the 9th Dragoons came to live at free quarters at Kilkea, and put witneis under arreit — they ftaid eight or ten days and dciiroyed much of his property, eat his provifions and drank his wine; after they left him, witneis fet out for Dublin ; at Naas, be met A'li. iaylor, oi Athy, who told him he had intended to write or come to witnefs to let him know that he (witnefs) was the public talk oi Dublin, as .tr.e perfon who had betrayed the meeting at Bond’s, and that if he w ent there lie would be murdered, and the houfe in which he was, pulled down; witneis then went back to h s own houfe, and the next morning as he flood at the poll office in Caille-Dermot, he was arrefted by a party of the 9th Dragoons, and lent to Athy gaol on information iworn again!! him by one of his own captains. . ^ itneis does.not fuppofe that Government knew him to be the perion giving iniormation, for he deiired Air. Cope not to mention his name, and he has reafon to believe that even Air. C. did not know that the information came irem the witnefs himfelf. . Crois-exaruined by Air. Curran. Said he was married to a Alifs Wither-ington. the 25th Alarch, 1.794; was not more than 16 years of age when his ather cited; had two fillers; his mother carried on bufmefs for fome time alter his lather’s death —does not recollect any charge having been made on him oi healing trinkets belonging to his lifters, nor of healing his mother’s cam ; knows that a charge has been made on him by his mother of having procured a iksleton key to an iron cheft, where the kept her papers, but nucafn, “ her partner, Mr. Warren, having taken care that Jhs Jhould not have muc of the latter to encumber her" Is confident his mother was a woman incapable of making any charge which ihe did not believe true, as ihe was a woman of truth, though paffionate; was charged with Healing trinkets belonging to his mother, and a piece ofluteftring (during her partnerihip with Mr. Warren) to give to a girl,which charges he acknowledged was well-founded; denied having had a ikeleton key. Beihg aiked how long his mother-in-law, Mrs. Witherington, was dead? replied, about twelve months laft April; ihe lived at his houl'e in Alh-ftreet ten months previous to her death; complained of being ill a few days before ihe died ; recollects he had brought her medicine; explained this circwqftance, by faying that a Mr. Fitzgerald, who was an apothecary! and tr friend to his family, on quitting bufinefs had left him a cheit of medicines, compofed of caftor oil, tartar emetic, rhubarb, &c. that he himfelf was fubjedf'to a ficknefs in his itomach, and that Mr. Fitzgerald made up fome papers of tartar emetic for him to take when indifpofed, which he frequently had occafion to do, and never failed to experience inftantaneous relief from the dofe ; on one occafion recollects this medicine had faved his life. Mrs. Witherington having complained violently of her ftomach, he recommended to her to take a paper of the tartar emetic, which had fo often relieved him in a fimilar complaint; file confented, and it was adminittered to her. Being aiked if ihe did not expire in 18 hours after having taken die dofe? replied, “foe did not," ihe lived from Friday to the Sunday following, and then expired to his borrow. Acknowledged to have paid her jool. a few days before her death, for which he took her receipt ; the money, he laid, was not found after her death. Being aiked if he knew he had been charged by any of her family with having purloined this money ? replied, that he certainly never had been charged to his face with iuch an ail, but^ believes his brother-in-law, Capt. Witherington, capable of faying unkind things of him. Accounted for the money not having been found after her deceafe, by expref-fing a confidence that her fon Edward had taken it, for whom the meant to purchafe a commiflion in the army, and aifigned that as her real’on for calling it in fo precipitately, as well as iool. for which ihe had his bond. Being aiked if he knew a woman of the name ol Cahil ? aniwered in the affirmative. Did execute fecurities to her feveral times for money ihe lent him, particularly a bond for iool. and a note for 2$!. Mrs. Cahil having drawn 5I. of the latter before it came due, he executed a part note to her for the remaining 20I. cannot fay whether he gave her any other note or not; owed her 50L befide; executed the bond to her fhortly after his marriage; faid Mrs. Cahil was an old woman, who palled the principal part ol her In? in his family, and became, latterly blind and infirm. After his marriage, Mrs. Reynolds had her brought to his own houfe, in which there was a room allotted to her; fhortly after her becoming an inmate in his family, Ihe con-fulted with two ladies, friends of her s, one a Mrs. Molloy, his grand aunt, and the other a Mrs. Fitzgerald, his immediate aunt, whether ihe had not better fink the 170I. with him for her life at 14 per cent, as ihe laid ihe intended the principal at all events as prefents to his children. He always paid her the intereit as ihe called for it, and when ihe demanded a iettlement he confented; but on receiving his former bond, inilead of giving her a new one in return, he by miftake gave her an old bond and warrant filled Up, but not executed, which lay in his office- as a precedent for him ei and c.er cs > paid her part of the money, and gave her notes for tne remainder ; 1a em in the country when he received a letter from a Mr. Sullivan, acquainting him of the miftake in the bom?, which he angered immediately laying, He(.« ) would fhortly come to town and rectify the miftake; received afterwards a letter from an attorney on the fame fubjetft. When became to town he went to Mrs. Moiloy, who he knew was in the confidence of Mrs. Cahil, and he believed might have had the bond in truft. The note he acknowledged to have antedated to the day he received the money , cannot charge his memory with having antedated it within the period of his minority ; was of age in 92, and the tranfadtion of the fettlement was in June 93 received an angry letter from his aunt, Mrs. Fitzgerald, touching this bufinefs, but does not recoiled! that it contained any charge againlt him of having deceived ap old, blind arid helpleis woman. Mrs. Reynolds fome time fince brought him the bond and note, telling him that Mrs. Cahil had given them to her to deliver to him as the right owner. Mrs. Oliver Bond, he faid, w ent to Mrs. Cahil to get up the papers from her, he fuppofed, in order to injure him ; offered her, moreover, a bribe to profecute him for an alledged fraud, and threatened her with a gaol if fhe did not comply. Mrs. Cahil anfwered, that he, the witnefs, had always behaved to her like an honourable gentleman, andrejeft-cd her bribe. Mrs. Bend then offered to give her a conliderable fum of money to deliver the papers, which fhe again refufed, alledging fhe had given them to the right owner. In the courfe of the crofs-examination, witnefs afferted he had paid the money to Mrs. C. and difeharged his obligation by pafimg negotiable notes for the demand, part of which he had taken up as they had fell due, and part remaining out, not having become due. When he received the fidxitions bond and the note from Mrs. Reynolds, he burned them. Being a iked if Mr. Cope did not threaten to profecute him as a fvvindler for taking double credit for 1000/. in the courfe of their dealings, replied m the negative, and explained the circumftance to which it referred, by adverting to the tranfadlion of having given him a mortgage for 5000/. on Purtf°t ,tk^ ProPerty ef the Prefent Sir ^he Gifford, which witnefs pur-chafed durmg his father’s life time. With this mortgage he palled his personal fecurity, continuing ftill to deal with him, and incurring a debt on ba-iance of account 1100/ befide. Wiihing to refeue his perfonal fecurity, he ottered Mr. Cope 1000/. to relinquifh it. But he muit confefs that on Mr. Cope fhortly after demanding a fettlement of the balance due to him, he, the witnefs, attempted to ftipulate that on paying him the 1000. due on account, iwr. Cope ihould relinquifh his perfonal fecurity connected with the mortgage for the 5000/.—againft this Mr. Cope very ftrenuoufly expoflulated, and at length became dilpleafed, offering him, however, one \veek, and no more, to confider on his condutf, and come to a fair fettlement. The week having expired before he could fatisfy Mr. Cope, being then in the county Kildare, the latter wrote a very earneft letter to Mr. Valentine O’Connor, ij iien , on the fubjedl, which Mr. O Connor tranfmitted to him in the country, Uigetner with a letter of his own, in which he reproached wdtnefs very roundly for ingratitude and milconduft to Mr. Cope. When he re- S;e ^rieW3VJr^fr0m a journey to his houfe in the county Kndare where he would have relied, but initead of alighting he purfued his tmn °Wn’ W€IU llraiSht to Mr- CoPe> whom hie fatisfied without hefita- fromnMr?,2- aiied if he 7er denIed t0 one that Ae bond which he got when he Vwas n°t the real one-, replied, he did not On being aiked O Wnb VCd Ae b°lld? ReP1!ed’ about fourteen or fifteen days ago. the Court - «7 °r- M Zi' U n0t Prevjous to y°ur receiving a Summons to attend ; ai a YUIi€ls ™ ‘fats trial, Mrs. Reynold’s received the bond fromjHti.Cah!l?-A. I cannot fay; but 1 a” Cahi!”' .tgta about then »Yon, Me, bur„,d the W e he our»", of injuring him. Actnowledged he took £*>m\T„71lto,»nl an?d aVrwardfihe oath of an United In,„man; the Gath oi Aiiegia folemnity than the former; he ,hai •heS7ih^tf:^“o1 United Iriihmen Wide. When l°ok anv thefe oaths he^knew the extent of the views which the parties had m w ?°k Semfelves being no lefs than to deftroy the Government and fub-binding them. ^ ^ ^ ^ oath of allegiance before he took the I"' W becomea yeoman, but took no oath in confequence. look oath», he f “ttdiftVTiWfoi W „'StTatftcS adeed i'" 1h,rd°kft Noeemb.- did Toknow of «hat difeafe, and never Rep ted (he dt=dft November dtd n , Mr. Rrendergaft, and ilfni&nyd^aluity periea.d to beet knows of a certa.n • . Identified the prifoner, whom he law on the 12th ot Marco wi, 1Sw™ffl”.k-“thi.heUcrp^dhy ‘three ferjeants of the army deeded m ‘^«‘■ed 'WAsj ™° ° ¿““„’„l the ,d in diSerentFencihes, who aifo ac-h0 ed him To fta“ Son entering the room faw a cert»» ferjin at a „ eletfied ” When witnefs entered the room, he tound the pe^io MiTinoiran having by his direftions, approached thefire-piac , .° fhr^papers iherelse d Covered a bundle with a memorandum-book, winch he brought to him. In this room he found the followmg peribns, of whole names and places to which they acknowledged to have belongc , lift, which he read : Mr. Ivers, from Laurence Kelly, ——— George Cummin, -------- Edward Hudfon, —— John Lynch, * Samuel Griffin, —— Thomas Reynolds, ------ „______, Prifoner,----- Patrick Devine, ------- Thomas Trenor, -------- William Byrne, _------- ChriftopherMartin, -— Peter Bannon, -------- James Rule, *“ Carlow, Queen’s County, Kildare, Grafton-ftreet, Mary's-abbejy Tullagh, county of Carlow, Clonmelton, Church-ftreet, Bally manner, county Dublin, Poolbeg-ftreet, Summer-hill, Dunboyne, Portarlington, Windy-harbour. ( 1° ) Richard Dillon, Bridge-flreet, who faid he only followed the army into the houfe, and was in a few days afterwards difcharged. He arrived at eleven o’clock exailly, and entered by a pals-word which the Serjeant procur-ed, which was, “ Where is M‘Ca»n ? Is Ivers from Carlow come ?” Crofs-examined by Mr. M'Nally, as to the fituati&n of the Jtoufe and the rooms therein, which he faid he had reconnoitred the night before. It alfo came out, that Oliver Bond, Henry Jackfon, Hugh Jackfon, Dodlor M‘Nevin, and others, were found in another apartment, Serjeant M'Doogan corroborated the tsflimony of Mr. Swan, as far as related to himfeif, with the addition, that along with a bundle of papers found near the fire, he alio found a green ribbon knotted in the form of a Shamrock, with the device of a Harp ddthout a Crown worked therein in gold letters, and the words Erin go Bragh worked in the fame manner over it. Arthur GuintieJfs, jun. fworn, and examined by Mr. Mayne—Depofed that he knew the prifoner at the bar, and is acquainted with his hand-writing; believes the paper, No. i, prefented to him, to be the pril'oner’s hand-writing; to the paper, No. 2, he could not fwear; a part of No 3 was the prifoner’s hand-writing; No. 4, a letter addreiled to Edward Ratigan, Efq. he proved to be the prifoner’s hand-writing; all of No. 5, 6, and 7 ,he proved, except the fignature of Mr. Sw an. No. 1, was a letter direcled to M. Byrne, Efn. Crumley’s Hotel, addrefled thus: “ Brother, enciofed you have a letter to Citizen F. (i. e. Lord E. Fitzgerald^ w ill make enquiries to know if L. E. F. (the fame) is in town, if not, you may fee him at the Rock. I am to organize a new fet this evening, and' t° atter|d my B. C. (Baronial Committee) which may detain me longer than I tnought; but it is probable 1 may fee you at ten o’clock. • at , . ... (Signed) J. M‘C. Uo. 2, letters and lilts, on which appeared returns of armed mqn from dif-icrent counties of the province ol Leinfter, amounting in all to 67,295 of whom Wicklow returned 12,095, Queer’s co. 11,689, Carlow 9,414, Meath 14,000, Ri dare 10,863, and the co. Kilkenny but 604, This lilt and two duplicates thereof were dated the 18th and 19th Feb. laft; the amount of money received did not appear to exceed 40I. 18s. 3d. At the foot of No. 2. were certain refolutions, which appeared, as Hated by the Solicitor General! to have been formed on the.very night [Feb. 19,1798] when the Earl of Morn, moved the queftion in the Houfe of Lords, to enquire into the caulk oi tie mfiraded ltate of this kingdom. The refolutions ran as follow : ‘ Kelolved, I hat we will pay no attention to any meafure which the Par-Jiament of this kingdom may adopt to divert the public mind from the grand objed we have in view, as nothing lefs than a complete emancipation of our country oan latisfy us. ^ _ “ Reiolv ed, -That it is the opinion of this committee, that if the other Pro-inces be in the ,ame ftate of forwardnefs, as to men, arms, &c. as Leinlter aftTnVihT.rVh131"1^,01'1113'1011 therecf’ we wiU immediately proceed to’ ,o ,ake ** ",erfures >s m b tartTeftfto^i?ftfWaS,u committee of Five do prepare a mili- taiy left to pelaid before.the Provincials at their next meeting.” r^S£™10nrmm^d lhe appmntmcnt of an Adjutant-Gene-1 from tl me Officii, from each Reg.mem, whofe names ffiohld be lent in to or L * * directory by their refpetftive Colonels, and the proper officer j 3 ^eBt f be/rom thence fefefled by the Directory. Another ”Ueoii went to order 16 guineas to -...t -m _ * r ^ -dfeI,t „Mr orders from <*■f"ra rftoy s""“1' with which they were c5'ar2^a p^d ancl ran as follows: “ I, A. B. do fo- The military Teft was alio Ioub , all lawful commands of lemnly fwear, that I will Pe^°™ Jbord^alion t0 Ac law ful committee.” my officers, while A , « in fubftanCe what Reynolds related of IVilham Cf^ J touching the informations which he prevailed the mtercourie between ^ ’ communication to Government, touching on him to give; alio his ' „xcetfed to defray the extraordinary , reftitulion of 5°° g“1““- • „TL Sm, from the kingdom. Mr. C. «pence, of hi, Mend, to be Ston on the lubjeft with Key- «Srhe'didhi, o.n brother that he tva, an United “IBS. United Inihmen, and ag ___________faw the prifoner frequently, whom he to the Coombe in the Lib y_ ___ faw him for the firft time in a identified, having met im Church-ftreet, to which he was fecretary ; county committee at Jac on Miles Dignam, of Grafton- r r L?l«.ng composed Of feme,a- llreet, there alio, and a \ 1 ial and diftria committees; they were refries aud treafurers from the b of meI1) aTms, and ammunition, /“"Trf t”e d» might be known ; witneft depofed that he was that the ftrength ot the city m g fix meetinRS at leaft ; at all of at feveral meetings in the fam . ' At thefe meetings it appeared to be which the prifoner afteda. rntber , general account of the city, the priioner’s duty to deliver d dif ri& aommunicated to him taken from the parncul.r, of, “l^SmemK, on .heir return to their by the members, which acco r edlive meetings. From the con- own committees, were to lay before P arrive in this kingdom verfation in thefe meetings he when witneis in June or July laft.--7™e g™t0Pfeize the Barracks and was told it. Fie was alio tol ‘ ^-nrptintr where the priioner was not the Caftle ; was never at any coun y ;nftru<5ted to exert themfelves to prefent; at the meeting the mem ers baronial committee only for bring over the foldiery was tiea ur pjafier people came into place, three months-, was obliged togive wayw Jdat tbe wbnefs was one On crofs examination hy Mr. ur>a > PP j on tbe TOad to Rath- of 14 men taken laft week by apt. e teftimony to fave his neck, farnham, five of whom were hanged 5 that he K*ve te which, however, he was not yet certain w P cafe of the prifoner The profecution being clofed, Mr. M ffialty ttatea at fome length. -r ovamined was Eleanor Dyer : ihe Firft witnefs on behalf of th®PT1 ° g lds and Mrs. Cahii, wherein the depofedto a meeting between Tv . y r, w of affediion, and obtained former embraced the old woman wit ^ g nolbing of Mrs. Bond's tam- the papers ihe iought for from her ihe * occurred, he thought, pering with Mrs. C. to get them-, this circumltanc within a fortnight or three weeks „ „ -Depofed, that he was a Thomas Warren examined 7 • manufacture, previous to her ionknowledge of the witnefs, Reynolds, he did not believe him a man worthy of credit on his oath. On crofs examination it appeared, that on quitting the phrtnerihip he retired to the country, where “he has lived thefe four years, and never Jince entered into any political fociety—that on going to the country he carried with him duplicates of the accounts belonging to the partnerihip, which he loft on the road, and never iince entered to any l’ettlement about them, nor was there any demand made on him. Peter Sullivan, an United Iriihman, with a protedlion from Government in his pocket, having come in on the proclamation, depofed that he was clerk to Reynolds, and from his knowledge of him wouid not give credit to hisoath. On crofs examination by Mr. J. O'Grady it appeared that he was the advi-ier of Reynolds to enter the aifociaton of United Iriihmen. Mr. Cwran occupied two hours in fpeaking to evidence; our limits will not permit us to notice his fpeech, or Mr. Saurins addrefs to the Jury in reply, which occupied nearly the fame fpace of time.—In the intervals between both fpeeches, two Gentlemen, Mr. Cope, and Mr.. Eurlong, of Aungier-ftreet, depofed to the charadier of the witnefs Reynolds,' that notwithftanding any public rumours to his prejudice from their long acquaintance with him, and the iatisfaftion they had with him as worthy of credit on his oath as any other man in the community. This they re-aiTerted with the approbation of the Court, after an ingenious crofs-examination. Mrs. Mollcy was previouily brought forward to difcredit the witnefs Reynolds—ihe could fay no more than on having been applied to for Mrs. Cahil’s papers which ihe had in truft by Mrs. Reynolds ihe thought proper to avoid the inconvenience of being troubled with their litigations, to give them to Mrs, Cahil herfelf to difpofe of as ihe pleafed. After Mr. Saurins very able addrefs to the Jury, Mr. Baron Smith laid down the law of High Treafon in his charge to them, and re-capituiated the evidence with a variety of candid and pertinent obfervations, and a ftrong remark that whatever degree of turpitude might appear generally to have fway-edthe principles and conduct of Reynolds through life, the Jury were not warranted to rejeft the teftimony folely on that ground, the moft they were entitled to do was, to weigh his teftimony with due coniideration of the corroborating circumftances contrafted with the fufpicion of his veracity; which the witneis’s conduit or character might excite. The Jury retired, and in two minutes returned a verdift—Guilty. The unhappy culprit addreffed a few words to the Cout, to exculpate him-felfirom the ltigma fixed on him by the witnefs Harris, whom he folemrily declared he never faw at any meeting whatfoever. He begged all the indulgence from the Couit which the nature of his fituation would allow. Baron Smith, after an awful and impreifive Charge, pronounced Sentence of Death on him in theuiu u form.—Court adjourned until Friday. This day, the unfortunate M‘Cana was executed at the front of the New Pnlon.