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From: Dennis Ahern <>
Subject: Re: Excerpts from Irish newspapers
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:25:02 +0000 (UTC)


From The Freeman's Journal, 9 August 1803 -

Besides the assassinations absolutely effected on the fatal
evening of the 23d July, there was one attempted which has not
hitherto been mentioned. A Mr. Leech (we believe of the Custom
House) was going through Thomas street in an hackney coach,
when he was stopped by a band of those hell dog reformers ; they
dragged him out of the coach, without preceding their violence by
any enquiry--it was enough that he was a respectable man and not
of the mobile order ; he fell on his knees, imploring their mercy, but
all in vain ; they began the work of blood, and gave him a dreadful
pike wound in the groin, when their attention was directed from this
humbler business by seeing Lord Kilwarden's coach. Poor Mr.
Leech, then succeeded in creeping to Vicar street watch-house,
where he lay a considerable time for dead, in consequence of the
loss of blood, but we have the pleasure to learn that he is now in a
state of recovery.
Thus, it is seen, notwithstanding the professions and promises
contained in the rebel manifesto, affecting moderation and
humanity, that the first action upon this Provisionary system of
Reform and Freedom, was marked by a series of the most base,
cruel, savage, and cowardly assassinations that ever degraded
humanity, or ever excluded from the heart of man "the
compunctious visitings of our nature."

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