Date: September 10 1840

THE CONNAUGHT JOURNAL
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1840

ADDRESS
OF THE NOBILITY, GENTRY, CLERGY, MERCHANTS AND INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF GALWAY.
TO
JOHN L. REILLY, ESQ.

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We, the undersigned, the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, Merchants, and Inhabitants of the Town and County of Galway, avail ourselves of the opportunity of being assembled at our Assizes, to tender to you the expression of our sincere regret at your having ceased to reside amongst us.
For the last Twenty Years you have dwelt here, and many of us have had the pleasure of your intimate acquaintance-many have known you in your official character and all have had opportunities of observing your conduct in the different relations of life, and willingly do we hear testimony to your active benevolence in founding and supporting our Charitable Institutions, as well as to your general usefulness, and the zeal invariably manifested by you to promote the interests of the Town, the improvement of the Port and the increase of its Trade, to which you gave peculiar facility by the courtesy and affability of your manner towards every person who had business to transact.
Uniting in cordial aspirations for the happiness of your truly amiable Family and yourself, we beg to assure you that you will bear with you wherever you go, our sincere respect and regard, and we trust that of all classes of the community by whom their absence and yours is and will continue to be deeply lamented.

Wallacourt
James Lambert, D.L.
A. Lambert, D.L.
Dudly Persse, D.L.
John Burke, Bart, D.L.
George J.P. Browne, R.C.B.
James Smyth
John Martin, J.P.
Robert Henry Persse, J.P.
Robert Power
Robert Martin, J.P.
Richard M. Lynch
Andrew Browne, J.P.
Mark Lynch, J.P.
Roderick O'Connor.
Nicholas Lynch
Lachlan Maclachlan, J.P.
William Kelly, J.P.
James Browne
Michael McDermott
James Kirwan
Michael Blake
Patrick O'Connor, J.P.
C. French Lynch
Robert Gregory, D.L.
E.C. Hunt, J.P.
A.F.St. George, D.L.
Charles Filgate
W.H. Handcock, D.L.
James C. Mahon
Denis Daily, D.L.
Thomas Seymour, J.P.
Anthony O'Fisherty, J.P.
George D. Hearne Kilkaldy, J.P.
Christopher St. George
Thomas M. Persee, Amercian Counsul,
Walter Laurence, J.P.
D.H. Kelly, J.P.D.L.
James H. Burke, J.P.
Denis Kirwan
Robert Burke
John Kirwan, J.P.
John O'Hara, County Treasurer
John Blake Ardfry
Michael Burke
P.J. Burke, J.P.
Daniel Desmond,
R.P. M'Donnell
John Burke, Clk
Mathew Eaton, Clk.
Robert Fisher
John Lopdell
M. Staunton Lynch
Henry Comerford
A.W. Blake, D.L.
Thomas E. Blake, J.P.P.
Walter Joyce, J.P.
Burton Persse, J.
G. Staunton LynP, D.L.
John A. O'Neill, ch, J.P.
Bernard Browne, J.P.
Richard Croker
W.S. Persse, 2nd, or Queen's Bays
John Dennis
Samuel Wade
Thomas Wade
William Seymour
Henry Martin, Clk
Robert St. George,
James Bell
Thomas Lancaster
William M'Donogh, J.P.
Samuel Barrett, D.L.
M.B. Mullins
P.J. Comyn
George Dwyer, Clk.
Robert Bodkin, J.P.
Pierce Joyce Blake
Pierce Joyce
Henry Clements
Edward Eyre Maunsell, Clk.
Michael J. Burke,
J. Browne, A.B.
Walter Lambert
John Chapman
P.M. Lynch
W.B. Burke
A.M'Dermott, Clk.
Pat O'Halloran
Martin Carroll
Denis Clarke
Edmond Killeen
John Blakeney
John Ireland, J.P.
Edmond Blake, Mayor
William O'Hara, Recorder
Martin Morris, J.P.
Robert J. Ivers
Owen Martin
James Stephens
Charles Howard
John F. Blake
Henry Townsend
Francis O'Shaughnessy
James Fynn
Isaac Comerford
Michael D'Arcy
Patrick Tiernon
Michael J. Nevin
Patt Hughes
John Redington
Lambert Mahon
John Atkinson
Patrick Moran, M.D.
Arthur Ireland
Thomas Palmer
A. Rush
Charles Costello
Peter Daly, P.P.
John Moore, R.N.
James Rush
Francis Fitzgerald
J. MacSweeney
James L. hughes
J.T. Moore, Clk
James Costello
John Bradley
John M'Grath, O.S.F.
Edmond P. Costello
James P. Burke, Editor, Galway Advertiser
Thos .Connolly, Proprietor, ditto
John Mahon
Michael J. Conelly
Benjamin Thomas
John Wheeler
Thomas J. Costello
Myles Coon
George W. Costello
Patrick Regan
Philip Boyle
William Coleman
Mortimor Kealy
Thomas Kealy
James O'Dogherty
Charles Verdon
Patrick Rooney
James M'Donough
William Blair
Michael Fitzhenry
James Fitzgerald
Bryan Cunniffe
Robert Langford
H.F. Blake, M.D.
Patrick Staunton
D. Corcoran
Daniel Murray
Luke Dodgeworth
Patrick Clayton
William Bull
James J. Bull
Michael J. Finnerty
Andrew Lovelock
Anthony J. Greaven
Patrick Bermingham
James Davis
Nicholas J. Burdge
Henry Clare
Patrick Crean
Patrick Martin
Edward Fitzgerald
James Hossack
Joseph H. Bath
Edward H. Donelan
John Deehan
William N. Alley
Stephen Reilly
Patrick Burke
John O'Connor
Wiliam Hynes
James Lynch
John Tierney
Martin J. Tierney
Patrick Newell
Michael Walsh
Richard O'Connor
Denis B. Potter
Patrick Nolan
Richard Sloper
james Hogan
Michael Betagh
James Duggan
Thomas Kyne
Richard J. Lynch
Michael Kineavy
John Goldon
Patrick Malone
John Nevin
Michael M'Donnell
Patrick O'Neal
A.R. Mullins
Edward Staunton
Walter Staunton
James Martyn
Constantine Sloper
Thomas Mahon, J.P.
Robert R. Gray, M.D.
John Harrison
B.O'Flaherty, Connaught Journal Office
John O'Flaherty
John Conolly
Patrick Stephens
Edward Bermingham
Patrick Commons
John Gunning
Peter Madden
John Costello
Peter Traynor
N. Burdge
Patrick Keating
A.J. Veitch, M.D.
Samuel Shone
Robert D. Persse
N. Colohan, M.D.
James Hardiman
Joseph M'Dermott
Mathew Berry
John Stephens
Joseph Evans
Valentine Blake, Bart., D.L.
T.N. Burlington, M.F.D.L.
Michael D. Bellew, Bart., D.L.
Thomas Whistler, M.D., T.C.D.
William Evans
George Farquharson
John Kirwan
John Kilroy
John O'Loughlan
Goerge M'Namara
Michael Clogherty
Thomas Commins
Florence Purdon MacCarthy, A.B.
Andrew Blake
James Walsh
William Burke
Michael Hall
Patrick Coghlan
William Clarke
T. Halloran
Michael Perrin
John Morris
Richard Feeney
Patrick Feeney
Daniel Considine
Alexander Grant
Redmond Commens
Charles Kain
Terence Evans


THE ANSWER.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
It is with feelings of deepest emotion that I acknowledge your kind and complimentary Address-at any time it would have afforded me the highest pleasure, but at this moment its value is inestimable, because it proves to me beyond question, that in the sad reverses of my affairs, I have lost none of my reputation, but shall be able to transmit that-the most precious part of what I inherited from my Forefathers-unimpaired to my children.
Your allusion to the numerous Charitable Institutions that have been established in your Town, during my residence, is extremely gratifying to me, for I did, indeed, feel deeply interested in everything that tended to benefit the poorer part of your peaceable, kind-hearted, and proverbially loyal population, but how could I but be zealous in my endeavours to promote such objects when I saw all around me active and ardent, or how could I sit still wrapt up in selfishness, while the Great Being who saw fit to chastise thousand by the famine and pestilence, with which we were more than once visited, was pleased, in the merciful exercise of his power, to preserve me and my family in abundance and health.
I thank you for the credit you give me for my exertions in promoting your Trade and improving your Port, as well as your Town - a great impulse certainly was given to both while I was officially connected with you, and my name, I am proud to say, will be found enrolled amongst the first Commissioners appointed by act of Parliament for these purposes.
The exertions of the one body are testified by the splendid Dock which is about being completed and which will be a Monument of their labours as imperishable as the rock out of which it is hewn.
The attention of the other is seen in every quarter of the Town, and the brilliant manner in which it is now lighted with gas, its efficient watch, improved pavements, and the handsome Square, which I trust will be shortly finished, will tell to posterity what has been achieved by their zeal and prudence.
Your aspirations for the welfare of my family and myself are fervently responded to by us, and ardently do we pray that the richest blessings may be poured out in abundance on you all. We owe you much for your courtesy whilst we resided amongst you, but the debt that is entailed by this expression of your sentiments never can be repaid. My Children and my Childrens-children will acknowledge it when ages shall have rolled over and generations passed away, and if in time to come my name should be mentioned or my memory recalled, proudly will they turn to this Address and say- "This is a proof of the regard and estimation in which he was held by the Men amongst whom he lived and to whom his actions were known."
Believe me,
My Lords and Gentlemen,
Ever faithfully yours,
J. LUSHINGTON REILLY.

An inquest was held a few days since, near Ballinrobe, on the body of a woman named Lardner, who died suddenly. It appeared that she was subject to epilepsy, and the medical gentleman deposed that "she came by her death in a fit of epilepsy."

Doctor Phelan, poor law commissioner, has given up the care of his districts to assistant poor law commissioners, preparatory to his setting out on a tour of inspection of the medical charities of Ireland, under the 48th clause of the poor law.

MARRIED.

On the first instant, in Ballinasloe, Arthur Ireland, Esq. of this town, to Maria, daughter of the late Patrick Keogh, Esq. of Figh-hill, county Roscommon.
In Tuam, Robert Devere Hunt, Esq. Surgeon to Margaret Anne Bridget, daughter of the late Captain Loch, of Youghal.

THE LATE PETER LYNCH, ESQ.

It is with unaffected sorrow, we have this day, the painful duty of recording the death of Captain Peter Lynch of Ballycunin Castle, which melancholy event took place on the 5th instant.- Captain Lynch was in the 64th year of his age, and for many years a magistrate for this county, and endured a painful and prolonged illness with fortitude and resignation of a christian.- Through life he was a gentleman of the most tender and charitable feelings, one of the kindest and most indulgent of landlords, ever ready to assist the poor.- As as parent and a husband, the most sincere love and affection endeared him to his wife and family, while his loss, as a true Sportsman will be long felt in the neighbourhood in which he lived.- He is gone, it is hoped to a better world to enjoy the reward of a virtuous and pious life, deplored and sincerely regretted by his family and a wife circle of friends and relatives, who followed his remains (carried by his tenantry by his express desire) to the Abbey at Ross, where they were deposited to the family vault.

NOTICE
POISONED BOGS

The following Bogs on the RAFORD Estate have been Poisoned, viz: Realyars, Cappannot, Gurtrush, Gurtnelun, and Cappanashruane.
Dated this 7th day of September, 1840.

BELFAST PETTY SESSIONS- Sept 1.

An Uncle Poisoned by his Niece.

Mary Moody, a female apparently not more than from nineteen to twenty years of age, was charged with administering arsenic to her uncle, Alexander Boyle, thereby causing his death.
Hugh Cairns- I saw deceased on last Saturday morning at his house in Market-street. At that time he was in perfect health. I saw him on the evening of same day, taking his supper of porridge, when he appeared to be in very good health. I went in again about 12 o'clock. When I went in he was sitting at the fire, with his head resting on his knees, and was vomiting. I asked him what was the matter? He said he could not tell, that he was sure he could not live. I then left the house, and did not see him the next morning, Sunday, when he was dead.
Ann Clarke- I was awakened, on Sunday morning, about half-past six, by the prisoner knocking at my door. When I opened it she said her uncle was dying, as he had been vomiting for a considerable length of time. I advised her to give him a glass of whiskey, with some pepper in it. I went into the room in which the man lay, and found him quite cold. On looking at him a second time, I saw that he was dead. I then told Mary Moody to call for a doctor.
John Nevin, a boy of 12 or 13 years of age. - I know Rosanna Maguire. I met her in the street on Saturday. She told me that Mary Moody wanted to see me. I went to the prisoner's house about seven o'clock. When I went in she cut a penny roll in two, put butter on it, and gave it to me, together with a halfpenny. When I had eaten the bread, she asked me if I would go for you now (meaning the poison). I said I would. She then gave me twopence, desiring me to bring it to her as soon as possible. I left her, and went into the house of a woman named M'Mullan, and inquired if she could direct me where I would get the arsenic. She asked me what I was going to do with the poison. I told her that Mary Moody was sending me for it, to give to rats and mice, with which she said she was much annoyed. The woman told me I would probably get it in High street. She also send a little boy along with me. We went first to Dr. Bryson's but he would not give it without a written line from some person. We went to Dr. Marshall's and he refused it, for same reason. WE then came to Mr. M'Allister's and the boy who was along with me went in and asked for the arsenic. When I saw that tome of the young me were going to weigh it I went in, and inquired how they sold it. The person behind the counter said, that it was only one penny per ounce. I then told him to give me an ounce. We bought apples with the other penny. I took the paper to the prisoner, and was in the act of saying "Here's this for you, now" when the prisoner put her hand on my mouth, desiring me to go away, and say nothing about it, but to come back in the evening. When I came back, she gave me some more bread, and cautioned me not to tell anyone that I had been buying for her.
The boy who accompanied this witness to purchase the poison corroborated his evidence.
Doctor Aicken - I analyzed the contents of the stomach of the deceased, and found a quantity of arsenic- I would say about an ounce. This was amply sufficient to cause death. I could not discover any appearance of disease on opening the body of the deceased, either in the stomach or intestines. I have no hesitation in saying, that the poison was the sole cause of the man's death.
The evidence was corroborated by Dr. Andrews.
Mr. M'Allister's young man was then called and deposed to selling this poison to the two boys-putting two covers on it, and marking each of them in the usual way.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.