Low; I did not, at Duane's tent, or at Rathclare fair, hear him say any thing about Low; I did not swear on Friday that he did. The tent was an open one; I heard Leary say, that Patrick Daly ought to be turned out of the tent, he was so drunk; I have often attacked houses and fired into them, to frighten the occupiers. I could not tell how many. There was a more determined ruffian than I was amongst them, but I was bad enough; I am confident I am a respectable witness; I met Sheehan but one day in Doneraile; he was not sworn to do any thing in my presence. It was about six years ago I was sworn first; I can't say how many times I swore to commit murder; I swore about fifty; I can't say whether I may not have sworn one hundred times to commit that crime.

Dr. Norcott and his servants then deposed to the attack upon his family as they returned in their carriage from admiral Evans's, in the same manner as on the former trial.

Patrick Daly, the informer, also gave evidence, which implicated the present prisoners.

Owen Daly sworn-Examined by Mr. Serjeant Goold.-I was at the fair of Rathclare; my business there was to look for sheep, the property of my master. I went into Duane's tent, where I saw a good many persons. I knew John Leary, who was in the dock on Friday; one Conners, and James Barrett; I knew them all on that day. [The witness here identified Edmund Conners.]-I have known Conners for a long period. They were all drinking. I saw Barrett writing, and hand a paper to Daly and Conners. This happened at about one to three o'clock in the

day. Pat Daly is a first cousin of mine. I have not seen him since that day, except on Friday last.

Cross-examined by Mr O'Connell.—I have appeared as witness in game prosecutions; I once swore against a Mr. Low and Mr. John Freeman; I was accused of stealing wheat, but it was my own; I was a witness also against Mr. Grady. I can't tell how many prosecutions I was a witness on.

Mr. O'Connell.-Such a drilling of witnesses I never saw.

Mr. Bennett, K.C.-What is it you say, Mr. O'Connell ?

Mr. O'Connell.-Unequivocally, since I have been put to it, that I never witnessed such a drilling of witnesses. But I request I may be allowed to proceed with the cross-examination.

Solicitor-General.-Those observations of the learned gentleman, though intended, will fail to affect the jury, I am sure.

Mr. O'Connell was about to resume the cross-examination, when

Judge Torrens begged the learned gentleman to abstain from throwing out observations calculated to excite a repetition of unpleasant remarks.

Mr. O'Connell. I have not, my lord, thrown out uncalled-for observations. Good God! four men upon trial for their lives, and with such evidence!

Michael Creagh, esq. deposed as to the firing of the shots which entered Dr. Norcott's carriage. He knew the prisoner Barrett, to whom he had refused to let a mountain.

Thomas Murphy.-I remember the Mallow fair day, where and when I saw James Magrath, his brother, James Roche, and Pat Lynch. [The witness here identified the prisoner Lynch.] Having

got into their company, we went to a public-house, where we had a pint of whiskey. We had not been there long when an oath was administered to me, binding me not to divulge what I should hear, and I took the oath accordingly; upon which they told me that Mr. Low, who was then in the fair, would soon leave it, and that they would be before him at Mr. Glover's shrubbery their object being money and arms - where they would shoot him. They soon after left the public-house, and I don't know what became of them afterwards-particularly Lynch and Magrath. The latter had a pistol about him at the time. What I should have stated awhile ago was, that they professed to want money and life-not money and arms.

Rev. J. Gavan.-I lived in March last in Mallow. I knew Lynch. He was employed both before and after March by me as a labourer. I recollect the fair-day of Mallow, on which Mr. Low was fired at; and I saw Lynch that day between the hours of eleven and one o'clock. He was at my house that day for money due to him, which I gave him. The amount was 21. I often paid him pounds before. I saw him a second time twenty minutes after his first visit. He then returned to me to endorse the notes. I saw him the following day, and asked him if he had purchased the hat, and gave the note to his brother. He said he did neither, nor did he drink. He had not returned from the fair, he said, till it was late.

George Bond Low, esq. deposed to the circumstance of his having been fired at returning from Mallow fair in the same way as on the former trial.

After some further evidence, the case for the Crown closed.

Persons were called to impeach the character of some of the wit

nesses.

At twenty minutes to eleven o'clock the jury retired. All was deep suspense, until twenty minutes past eleven, when baron Pennefather inquired, through a bailiff, if they were likely to agree? The reply was in the negative.

Four constables were then sworn in the usual manner, and placed at the jury door.

At twenty-five minutes past one, the jury returned into court, and through their foreman, Horace Townsend, esq. returned a verdict of acquittal as to Timothy Barrett, but professed the utter impossibility of agreeing as to the others.

Baron Pennefather.--Then, gentlemen, you will retire.

Mr. H. H. O'Brien.-One gentleman says there are eleven very obstinate men on the jury, and that he does not credit a word of the evidence.

After a short colloquy, the jury were, at their request, allowed the use of the grand-jury room for the night.

Tuesday.

At a quarter past ten o'clock, baron Pennefather directed the jury to be conducted into court.

Clerk of the Crown.-Gentlemen, have you agreed on your verdict?

The foreman, handing down the issue paper-"We have not agreed, my lord, except in the acquittal of Barrett."

A Juror. One gentleman seems indisposed to give credence to any thing.

Justice Torrens. His mind,

then, must be differently constituted from all others.

Juror. We are all disposed to give the prisoners the benefit of every doubt, and discussed the evidence with that view; but one gentleman held out against the opinions of the others.

Another Juror.-Perhaps, my lord, if your lordship would throw out some suggestions, his mind might become enlightened.

Mr. Justice Torrens recapitulated some heads of the evidence. The jury retired.

After some time the jury sent to say they wished to explain something to their lordships. On their appearance,

The Foreman said, that there still continued obstinate one gentleman; he says nothing can convince or move him; he will give no reason, and will not allow his mind to be convinced on the subject.

Mr. Morrogh. My lords, I am the individual who differs from his brother jurors on this trial. I cannot agree with them; for the character given of themselves by the witnesses for the prosecution, was such, that I would not believe a single tittle of their evidence.

The Court.-Gentlemen, in cases where approvers or accomplices come forward to give evidence, and where there is a corroboration between them as to facts, you may give credence to them. If they tell you a story, connected together by a chain of facts, which facts are in part substantiated by the evidence of others not implicated, then it is for you to believe them or not. Having given you our opinion as to what the law is, you may retire.

Juror.-My lord, we are starved

alive.

Juror. I suppose your lordship will allow me a draught of water. I would not get it last night, and I have been recently very ill. There is another gentleman who has the gout, and I therefore hope your lordship will do something for us.

After the jury had retired, the sheriff informed his lordship that one of them was extremely ill.

The Solicitor-general, on the part of the Crown, and Mr. O'Connell, on the part of the prisoners consented that the jury should receive accommodation and refreshment.

In the afternoon Edw. Townsend, esq. M.D. was sworn to confer with the jury on their health, but not to speak with them on any other subject. The doctor accordingly retired, and in a few minutes returned into court, and stated that four of the juryMessrs. Allen, O'Brien, Burke, and Townsend, were very ill, produced by long confinement, loss of rest, and want of sustenance, which had reduced them to exhaustionand the former gentleman was then labouring under an attack of the gout, which rendered his situation worse than that of the others.

George Howe, esq. M. D. was sworn, and conferred with Dr. Townsend and the jury. He was of opinion it would be dangerous for Mr. Allen to be detained another night, and deprived of necessary comforts.

The jury were again conducted to the grand-jury room, and the Court was adjourned to ten o'clock. At that hour Dr. Townsend stated, that Mr. Allen's attack of the gout had continued to increase, and that his life would be endangered by longer confinement. Dr. Howe concurred in the same opinion.

Thursday, October 29.

John Bourke and John Shine were placed at the bar, charged with having conspired to murder George Bond Low, Michael Creagh, and Henry Evans, esqrs.

The Solicitor-general in a long and eloquent statement, recapitulated the evidence which was intended to be brought forward against the prisoners at the bar on the present trial, and which amounted to nearly the same as on the former trials.

Nowlan and Daly were examined by the counsel for the Crown, and cross-examined by Mr. O'Connell. The former identified Bourke, but said, he forgot the other man's name; but he was an honest man. In the course of his examination, he addressed the bench, saying, my lord, there are many in for this trial that are innocent," and going off the table he repeated the assertion. Daly identified both, and swore that Bourke was a committee-m an During his examination, baron Pennefather called Mr. O'Connell, with whom he conversed for a few minutes, and gave him the in

the day after the alleged occurrences in the tent at Kildorrery fair; they did not contain a syllable relative to the paper, which he said, in his evidence on the trials, was handed about by Leary, one of the men convicted on Friday.

Owen Daly was next examined, and deposed to having seen the paper signed by Connor, Leary, and Murphy; but not by Bourke, that he saw.

Mr. Creagh was the next witness examined. His evidence was generally a repetition of that given by him on former trials. On crossexamination, Mr. O'Connell handed a paper to Mr. Creagh, and asked him, whether the signature attached to it was his; Mr. Creagh said it was, and that the signature of Daly was by Daly himself.

The jury retired, and after a deliberation of about twenty minutes, returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

None of the other prisoners were put on their trial; and the special commission terminated on the following day.

The four men who had been convicted, were subsequently respited.

WHEREAS by various Acts of Parliament certain restraints and disabilities are imposed on the Roman Catholic subjects of his majesty, to which other subjects of his majesty are not liable: and whereas it is expedient that such restraints and disabilities shall be from henceforth discontinued: and whereas by various Acts certain oaths and certain declarations, commonly called the declaration against transubstantiation, and the declaration against transubstantiation and the invocation of saints and the sacrifice of the mass, as practised in the church of Rome, are or may be required to be taken, made, and subscribed, by the subjects of his majesty, as qualifications for sitting and voting in parliament, and for the enjoyment of certain offices, franchises, and civil rights: be it enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the commencement of this act all such parts of the said acts as require the said declarations, or

either of them, to be made or subscribed by any of his majesty's subjects, as a qualification for sitting and voting in parliament, or for the exercise or enjoyment of any office, franchise, or civil right, be and the same are (save as hereinafter provided and excepted) hereby repealed.

II. And be it enacted, that from and after the commencement of this act it shall be lawful for any person professing the Roman Catholic religion, being a peer, or who shall after the commencement of this act be returned as a member of the House of Commons, to sit and vote in either house of parliament respectively, being in all other respects duly qualified to sit and vote therein, upon taking and subscribing the following Oath, instead of the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration:

I, A. B., do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to his majesty king George the fourth, and will defend him to the utmost of my power against all conspira'cies and attempts whatever, which shall be made against his person, 'crown, or dignity; and I will do