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    1. 31-3-1825 From the Times.
    2. Mary Heaphy
    3. 31-3-1825 Lord Donoughmore appears, from a report of the proceedings which took place at the late Clonmel assizes, under colours which, so far as yet can be judged of, reflect no credit on his Lordship, either as a magistrate or a man. Am action was brought against the noble Lord by a Mr. Beere for an unjust and malicious exercise of his magisterial power, in employing it for the purpose of entailing on the plaintiff the penalties due to felony and Whiteboyism. Beere had detrained upon one Mr. White for rent-the cattle had been rescued. An information as to the rescue was sworn before Lord Glengall, and a warrant issued against White. To execute this warrant, the plaintif went. accompanied by constables and yeomen, in the night of the 7th of Jan. , White was missing but the horses which had been rescued were found in his stable; and they were seized by plaintiff's orders, as his property. White went with his story to Lord Donoughmore, which his Lordship turned into a charge of felony, and wrote out an information to that effect with his own hand; on which Beere was captured and thrown into prison, bail being by his Lordship refused. The bill for this felony being thrown out by the Grand Jury, another for burglary, in breaking into Whites house at night was preferred, and found by the Grand Jury. Beere was tried on this, and acquitted; and now brought his action for these acts of alleged violence and malice. It was said by the counsel, that on the face of the transactions, Lord Donoughmore knew the real merits of the case, and yet coloured them against the plaintiff, to suit some unjustifiable object. It is, at the same time, justice to add, that we have only seen the speech of the plaintiff's councel and the documents produced on his side of the question.; we are therefore not at liberty to say more than that the jury found damages against the defendant of 250? (Don't know if its shillings or pounds). But those who are acquainted with Ireland will be aware, that against a man so powerful as Lord Donoughmore, damages are seldom given for nothing. Mary

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