rough, efquire, Roger Dalton, efquire, the reverend Jaber Henry, feveral others, and of all informers. Anne Connor fwore an information before Thomas Garde, efquire, that her husband Richard Connor, a police conftable of the county of Waterford, and parish clerk of the parish of Temple Michael in faid county, was mur dered about the nineteenth of November, 1797, and was buried in fome place unknown to informant; and that fome of his clothes and other articles belonging to him were found foon after in the houfe of Michael Smyth of Garryduff in faid county. Sworn the eighth of December, 1797 By informations fworn before John Keane, efquire, thirtieth December, 1797, John Landy, alias Landers of Dromore in the county of Waterford, blacksmith, alleged that on the night of Sunday the twelfth of November, he faw the body of Thomas Scammadon of Cappoquin, in the county of Waterford, yeoman, lying dead in the road between Aglifs and Clafhmore; and that Thomas Roche, and James Hickey, who had murdered faid Scammadon, were standing near the body; and that they threatened to murder informant, unless he would affift them in removing faid body into an adjacent field, with which he complied; and fwore him by the crofs to keep fecret what he faw. A police conftable in the county of Waterford, depofed before the author of this work the third of December, 1797, that the united Irishmen affembled often in the barony of Decies tumultuoufly and in great numbers, and deprived him of his arms on the tenth of November, 1797; that they had refolved to murder many gentlemen in the country, and to level their houses; and that he heard them fay, that John Mufgrave, efquire,+ of Ballyin, Richard Power of Clafhmore, efquire, and Pierce Power of Affane, efquire, were to be ferved fo; that he heard fome of the United Irishmen say, that a Roman catholick would enfure falvation by killing three protestants.‡ Michael Morrifey of Ballykarroge, farmer, fwore an information dated the twentieth January, 1798, before JohnKeane, efquire, that a number of United Irishmen fired many shots into his house, and compelled him to swear to be true to their caufe, and to kill all informers, and they threatened to murder him inftantly if he refufed; they fwore him other oaths which he did not recollect. * All magistrates and men of fortunc. James His name and place of abode are concealed left he should be affaffinated. James Parker of Killvogue in the county of Waterford, farmer, fwore an information dated twenty-firft January, 1798, before William Kirby, efquire, that Daniel Killiger, alias Cox, fwore him the United Irishman's oath; and that he would keep his fecrets, and that he would inform him. if the gentlemen of Tallow would take any fteps against him or his friends; that faid Cox owned he was fworn to be true to the French who would land in Ireland in December, and he recommended to him not to pay his debts, or any rent; and that when they landed he advised him to go to him, or fome other friend, to be fworn thoroughly, as it would be neceffary for his protection. An information of Mary Burke, fworn fecond January, 1798, before L. H. Jephfon, efquire, a magiftrate of the county of Waterford; that a number of men whose names are fet forth, entered the house of Walter Wall of Mafs-hill in faid county, on Wednesday twenty-fecond November, 1797, and fwore him, his father, and brother, to be just and true to them, to keep fecret what he faw and heard, to pull down taxes and petty landlords; to be true to the French when they would land, and to weed out protestants as they would an ear of corn. William Flynn fwore an information dated the second day of January, 1798, before Michael Keane, efquire, a magiftrate of the county of Waterford, that about the eighth day of Auguft, 1797, Maurice Power, attended by other United Irifhmen, fwore him in the town of Dungarvan, to be true to the French convention, his God, and his brothers, which words he read out of a paper. Michael Heffernan fwore an information before Henry St. George Cole, efquire, the twenty-feventh January, 1798, that about the night of the feventh of November preceding, Thomas Quealy and others went to the houfe of Michael Morriffy of Ballykarroge, broke his windows, dragged him out of his houfe, and fwore him to be true to the French convention, and extorted money from him; that some time in faid month, the faid Thomas Quealy held a meeting near Cufhcam, of feven or eight hundred United Irishmen, for the purpose of going to Dungarvan, to take cannon out of the Vulture privateer, with a view of levelling the marquis of Waterford's houfe at Curraghmore, and of murdering colonel Uniacke, captain Cole, and others. Patrick Fling fwore an information the fecond of January, 1798, before the reverend Jabez Henry, that Thomas U 2 Quealy Thomas Quealy fwore informant in the town of Dungarvan, an oath of fecrefy, to be true to the French convention, and to have a brotherly love for each other. Morgan Fowlow of Dungarvan, fwore an information the fourth of January 1798, before Roger Dalton, esquire, a magiftrate, that John Drifcol, and David Bohan, fwore him the first of November preceding, to love God and his brothers, to be true and faithful to the French and their convention, and to put all traitors to death. Laurence Collins of Dungarvan fwore an information the thirty-first of December, 1797, that John Drifcol, and many others, on the twenty-eighth inftant at Dungarvvan, fwore him to be true to the French, and to cut and hack all his majesty's true and loyal fubjects, and to join the French whenever they fhould land. William Sheehan fwore an information the thirty-first of January, 1798, before Roger Dalton, eíquire, that a party of United Irishmen entered his houfe on the night of the feventh of October, 1797, and that his left ear was cut off by Michael Quinlan. Richard Cahill fwore an information the first of January, 1798, that Patrick Heavy, carpenter, fome time in the month of November, 1797, agreed to fhoot Henry St. George Cole, efquire, and that a subscription was made up for that purpose. John Goolding and John Keys fwore to the fame purpose. Michael Heffernan fwore an information the fourth of January, 1798, before Michael Keane, efquire, that Patrick Tagly of Abbey-fide, fhoemaker, went to him four times. in the month of November, to concert measures for taking cannon out of the Vulture privateer, for the purpose of leveling the marquis of Waterford's houfe; and that he asked the confent and affiftance four different times of informant, to murder R. Uniacke, efquire, Richard Power, of Clashmore, efquire, John Mufgrave, efquire, Pierce Barron, efquire, Richard Barrett, efquire, Roger Dalton, efquire, Pierce Power, efquire, H. St. George Cole, efquire, and the reverend Jabez Henry. Many affaflinations were committed in the county of Waterford, in the autumn and winter of 1797. The most noted was that of one Colclough, a publican, within three miles of Youghal. A numerous body of ruffians broke into his houfe in the night, murdered him, his wife, and fervant maid, and mangled their bodies in a most favage favage manner. They were led to do so by a fufpicion that he had given information against some of them, who had houghed his cows. It was proved that a neighbouring priest who has been fince tranfported, gave the perpetrators of this horrid crime abfolution, for having committed it, and for other murders intended to be perpetrated. It has fince appeared, that many of the farmers and labourers in Colclough's neighbourhood were concerned in murdering him and his family. John Brown, a farmer, depofed before John Keane, efquire, a magiftrate, the fourth of January, 1798, that the object of the United Irishmen, in the county of Waterford was to murder all the proteftants as foon as the French fhould land, and to join them. All thefe informations are in the crown office. The confpiracy in the city of Waterford. THE confpiracy at Waterford was as terrifick and as general, as in Dublin or Cork, in proportion to the number of its inhabitants. The confpirators were to have rifen, to have fet fire to the city in different places, and to have maffacred all the loyal fubjects in it, if the rebels had fucceeded in taking the town of Rofs. The confpiracy was difcovered in the following manner; A perfon who happened to be in a publick house at Johnstown, a fuburb of the city, overheard, through a thin partition, a number of the confpirators conferring in the next room on the plot which was to be carried into execution, on the eruption of the rebellion. They were, in the first place, to fet fire to Mr. Alexander Alcock's houfe, which is about a quarter of a mile from the city; and as he was a member of the corporation, and had numerous and refpectable connections in it, they knew that the most confiderable perfons in Waterford, their retainers and depen dants, would fly to his affiftance, and that the fire engines would be carried there. During their abfence, occafioned by this wicked device, they were to fet fire to the city in different places at the fame time; and fuch was their malignity, that, for the fake of concealment, and the better to carry their treasonable designs into execution, they meant to have fet fire to their own houfes* in the firft inftance. The • The rebels did so in Enniscorthy and Ross, The perfon who overheard the confpirators repaired directly to counsellor Paul, and revealed to him what he had heard, but under the strictest injunction of secresy. Mr. Paul conducted him fecretly to Humphrey May, efquire, collector of the revenue at Waterford, and a magiftrate for the city and county, and he gave full information to him upon oath, of the whole of what he had heard; on which Mr. May took up many of the confpirators, and among others one Bohan, a baker, who, though enrolled in a yeomanry corps, and had taken the oath of allegiance, was one of the leaders of the confpiracy. As the mafs of the people of Carrick-on-Suir, and most of the yeomen there were deeply concerned in the confpiracy, and as they were to have repaired to Waterford, to co-operate with their fellow traitors there, on the general infurrection, Bohan used to go there three or four times a week, to concert measures for their future operations. One Sargent, a publican, was alfo deeply concerned in the plot. As the yeomen officers, and fome of the principal gentlemen of the town, dined frequently at his house, and usually left their fwords in an antichamber, he laid a plan of cutting them off while at dinner. Carey, a ftone-cutter, deeply concerned in the confpiracy, was taken up, and on being examined, infifted on his innocence; but on receiving about a dozen lafhes of a cat-o'nine tails, he acknowledged that he was engaged in the plot, and confeffed all the circumftances which had been difcovered and related by the perfon who overheard the confpirators at Johnstown; and at the fame time, he difclofed the names of his principal accomplices, who were immediately arrested. The confpirators had feduced a great number of the Clare militia, quartered fome months at Waterford, who were to have acted with them on the general infurrection; and it appeared that their artillery-men were to have fired on the city, with their battalion guns, from a hill which hung over it. It is to be lamented that there was a strong fpirit of difaffection among the Roman catholick yeomen of Waterfor d, for which many of them were difmiffed; and it was pro ved, that they had entered into the fervice for no other purpose but to acquire arms and a knowledge of military difcipline. The plot was conducted with fo much fecrefy in Waterford, that a very refpectable inhabitant of it, and a member of |