houfe, which I had fcarcely, done, when on watching from the window what they were doing, faw them speaking with George Anderfon, Efq. a juftice of the peace, and thinking that by his fpeaking to them they would not attempt to break my windows I went out to him, and immediately Mr. Bargainy damned me, faying are you come again to affront an officer by speaking to him, and on my telling him that if he or any other officer thought I had affronted them they knew where I lived and would be at home in the morning. They took me prifoner and one of them of the name of Jones fent for the guard, and notwithstanding Mr. Anderson politely told them he would be anfwerable for me in the morning I was taken to the guard houfe by Mr. Jones, and on the way, when I told him he need not take me to the guard-houfe as I would give him any fatisfaction he wanted in the morning. He anfwered that the only fatisfaction he wanted was to kick me. I was confined till the next day between one and two o'clock, and then discharged by an officer faying, Major Wardle had not any farther business with me.

About fifteen minutes after I was in the guard-house, Major Wardle and Mr. Bargainy came and Major Wardle enquired what prisoners were there, and on being told that I had been left there by Mr. Jones; Mr. Bargainy told me, I might be very thankful, he had not cut off my head, which he certainly would have done for my speaking to him; had it not been in cold blood, and for the future at my peril not to dare to speak to one of themand that officer of his regiment would give or ask from me any fatisfaction. Major Wardle then told me, he had juft come from leaving Mr. Jones in confinement, for being drunk but that he would go and enquire from him what charge was against me, and return fhortly, which he did about half an hour afterwards, and then told me I had been confined for infulting an officer, by fpeaking to him -but, that I was not to confider myself any longer confined by Mr. Jones, but by him, that I fat there with great audacity because I knew I had faved my neck from

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the gallows, by taking the oath of allegiance under the proclamation, and on my telling him he was miftaken, as I had not taken any such oath, said he was glad of it-for that there he had me, that I was one of the greatest United villains in the town, and that my father (although he has been dead these fixteeen years) was a leader of them and that all my name with many others, (mentioning the names of the most respectable families in the town were fo) - but that I was the worst of all, and on my attempt. ing to speak to him, told me, if I fpoke another word he would twift my neck, and that he would take me the following morning to his guard houfe (alluding to a dungeon which is preparing in an under ground floor of an house in the low ground) and that as the Lieutenant Colonel was going away in a few days, he would have the entire command and if I should attempt to get out by any of my ATTORNEY'S TRICKS, or that I or any friend for me fhould attempt to take any proceedings against him, he would keep me in the dungeon on bread and water till I should rot, and would bring me fome of my friends to keep me company, and work us every morning. That he did not care about any law, nor would he know any but his own will, that he would make the inhabitants of the town obey him and put out their lights when he pleased -and any house a light was in after his orders for putting them out, fhould not come off fo eafy as my mother's had done. And if my perfon was found in the street after eleven o'clock, without the counter fign, the troopers should not take him prifoner, but difpofe of him in a fhorter manner he then defired the corporal of the guard not to allow me any thing but bread and water, nor pen, ink, or paper, nor any person to speak to me, not even a magiftrate.

Finding I could not get any perfonal fatisfaction from these officers, on Saturday I applied to three magiftrates in Newry to fwear examinations againft them for an affault and falfe imprisonment, and likewife againft Dutton for breaking the windows and affaulting and falfely imprifoning me, but they would not receive them; I fhall there

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fore take another mode of proceeding, and hope the court. of King's-bench will teach thefe Magiftrates their duty; and having now, Sir, done my duty, so far as concerns me individually, fhall inform you of a few of the acts of this Mr. Dutton, which came within my knowledge-the firft night I was confined, about half paft eleven, he brought in two men, who had just come with a car from NewtownHamilton, and unfortunately for them were rather late coming into town, owing to the car having broken on the road, and who I believe ftill remain in a place adjoining the guard-room, quite open to wind and rain, without fire or candle, or even a wifp of ftraw to lie down on; and about three o'clock in the morning of which I was firft confined, he broke the windows of the houfe of Mr. Munroe of Canal-ftreet, and took him out of his bed and brought him to the guard-houfe; the night the town was illuminated, he broke all the windows, and cut the fafhes in the under part of the house of Mr. Patrick M'Cawley of Newry, notwithftanding it was one of the beft lighted. houses in the town, and had the infolence to tell me in the guard-houfe, if I fpoke he would put me in irons, but thefe are only a few of his wicked doings, which I am forry to fay he seems fanctioned in, by being allowed a guard, and not any person daring to take any proceedings againft him for fear of being worse treated.

A number of the moft refpectable inhabitants have left, and are now preparing to leave that unhappy town, one of the largest and most respectable in the kingdom, and I affure you if government does not interfere and put a ftop to fuch acts, no one will remain there that can poffibly

remove.

Before I take leave of you, I beg leave to mention the cafe of an unfortunate man who has been confined thefe fifteen days, and was in the guard-houfe while I was there his crime mentioned in the report handed by one officer to another when they relieved guard, is being fufpected of being tried, and committed by Savage Hall, Efq. a Magiftrate

giftrate for the county of Down. I fhould think if there is any charge against any perfon, that the Magiftrate fhould fend him to the county gaol, and not to a dungeon. Hoping to fee better times, and that people will get leave to follow their bufinefs, and live quietly at home, without being in danger every moment of lofing their lives, and that fuch acts will not go unpunished, I remain

Sir,

Your humble fervant,

GEO. OGLE.

N. B.-This infamous Dutton, who has now the command of a guard, and does as he pleases-lived fervant with fome families in Newry, and was discharged for various mal-practices.

GENERAL HOCHE.

Speech pronounced by General Jourdan, in the Conftitutional Circle, on the Death of General HOCHE.

IN a defpotic government, the man of war is a danger

ous and terrible inftrument employed by the tyrant to prolong the flavery of the people: a warrior is but the oppreffor of nations, a flave who rules over other flaves. In a Republic, the citizen who devotes himself to the defence of his country, is a fupporter of the ftate-a protector of public Liberty. The first receives, in recompence of the services he has rendered his master, titles and decora tions, which, in the eye of a philofopher, are but the liveries of thraldrom: he is feared and detefted by the people, who fee in him nothing else than the agent of tyranny. The second, on the contrary, is recompenfed for the ferices he has rendered the ftate by the efteem and admiraion of all his fellow-citizens: it is chiefly when he falls defending the cause of Liberty, that the people honour is memory with regrets that are fincere, and that ema

nate from a fentiment of gratitude. It is to perform this doleful duty, citizens, that we are now affembled. Hoche is no more! This young hero, who had not yet arrived at the age of thirty years, and who, nevertheless, ranked amongst the firft Captains of Europe, has terminated his career. His afhes repofe at Coblentz, befide thofe of the intrepid Marceau. Without doubt, they will one day repofe in the French Pantheon, as their memory will live in hiftory for ever.

Lazarus Hoche was brought up in the ci-devant regiment of gens-d'armes, which firft declared in favour of the Revolution: his conduct, his morals, his ftrict attention to duty, his military talents, acquired him the esteem of his fuperiors. On the 14th of July, 1789, the tocfin of Liberty founded. At this terrible fignal, the French people started from their fleep, rofe in a mass, and demanded what right an individual had to keep them in flavery. The reFrom that moment the Throne began to totter. presentatives of the nation proclaimed the Rights of Man, and abrogated those diftinctions of birth which excluded from the firft military stations those who did not belong to the clafs of the nobility. Then every Frenchman was a citizen, and had a right to pretend to thofe places which he was worthy of occupying from his virtues. and his talents.

In the mean time thofe French cavaliers who thought it an honour to be the fupporters of the Throne, and who were accuftomed to regard regiments as herds which they were exclufively to lead, confidered themselves outraged; and, too cowardly to rally round their mafter in order to defend their pretended privileges, they fled at the approach of the dawn of Liberty, and took refuge with the neighbouring Powers, which they excited to come in order to avenge their quarrel. They had the folly to believe, that, by their retreat, they would not leave our troops in a condirion to combat: they had the vanity to think, that it was neceffary to be noble, and that it was fufficient to be noble