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was adjourned for a fortnight, it not being deemed precedent
to adjourn for a longer period, and in that short interval,
such was the increased audacity of the rebels, for he could
designate them in no other manner, that upwards of 70
Gentlemen's Seats had been attacked and plundered, and
there were actually not five five seats in the whole district
lahick had either not been entered, or defended and saved
from the depredators, after an obstinate engagement.
Government which had refused 60 men in November,
in the middle of February were ready to grant
a military force of 3,500 men. The rebels. who had before
confined their outrages to the night, now marched in
parties of 12 and 1,500 men. in open day. They attacked
the police Barracks, and thirteen of the police were
dangerously wounded, in a desperate engagement,
which lasted from half past nine in the evening
till three in the morning For above five hours was
this band of rebels engaged with his Majesty's organized and
veteran troops. He would ask whether this state of
things did not demand the interposition of his Majesty's
Government, and whether the country was to
be left exposed to a renewal of those atrocities upon
the return of winter? Memorials had been presented
to Government by the Magistracy, but his Majesty's
Government had not thought proper to take
any notice of them. There was an armed and organized
force from one end of the country to the other;
some measure therefore such as the Insurrection
Act or some Act modified as to the most objectionable
parts of the Insurrection Act, was imperviously
demanded to insure the public peace. It might be
said that when the Assinges came on several examples
had been made; that some of these men had been hanged,
and others transported; but so little effect had
these punishments had, in subduing the spirit of
disaffection, that her could state from his own knowledges that on returning from the funeral of one of these
criminals, a meeting was fixed by the leaders of the insurrection,
and was actually held upon the spot where the execution
took place. Several shots were fired upon the Magistrates
on this occasion, and one of the witnesses, was shot at his
own door. In this situation of the country, it was not
very satisfactory to reflect upon the preferable renewal
of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings	Parliamentary Reform
Folio number	163	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C2
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	35818
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