We noticed, in our latest edition last week, a rumour
that "mar- tial law" had been proclaimed in Clare and the other disturbed districts of Ireland ; which we attributed, it appears, to its true cause—the proclamation of the Insurrection Act. The following is the document on which the rumour of the Limerick Chronicle was founded.
"Y THE LORD-LTEUTENANT AND COUNCIL OF IRELAND. "A PROCLAMATION.
" ANCLESF.Y.—Whereas, by an act passed in the 54th year of the reign cif his late Majesty George the Third, intituled 'An act to provide for the better execution of the laws in Ireland, by appointing superintending magistrates and additional constables in counties, in certain cases,' it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the Lord-Lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of Ireland, for the time being, by and with the advice of the Privy Council of Ireland, to declare by proclamation, that any county, county of a city, or county of a town in Ireland, or any barony or baronies, or half barony or half baronies in any county at large, to he therein specified, is or are in a state of disturbance, and requires, or require, an extraordinary establish- ment of police :
"And whereas it bath sufficiently appeared to us, that the county of Clare—the baronies of Leitrim, Loughrea, Athenry, Clonmacowen, Longford, Killconnell, Killyan, Ballymoe, and Kiltarton, in the county of Galway—the baronies of Moycarne and Athlone, in the county of Ros- common—and the baronies of Upper Ormond and Lower Ormond, in the county Of Tipperary—are in a state of disturbance, and require extra- ordinary establishments of police : "Now we, the Lord-Lieutenant, by and with the advice of his Ma- jesty's Privy Council, by virtue of the said act, and the powers thereby vested in us, do, by this our proclamation, declare that the said county of Clare—the baronies of Leitrim Loughrea, Athenry, Clonmacowen, Longford, Killconnell, Killyan, Ballymoc, and Kiltarton, in the county of Galway—the baronies of Moycarne and Athlone, in the county of Roscommon—and the baronies of Upper Ormond and Lower Ormond, in the county of Tipperary—are in a state of disturbance, and require extra- ordinary establishments of police. "Given at the Council-Chamber, in Dublin, the 10th day of May, 1831.
" PLUNKETT. JOIIN RADCLIFF, C. GUILLAMORE. H. JOY.
CHARLES BUSFIE. F. BLACKI3URNE, WILLIAM WM/mos. E. G. STANLEY. "God save the King." The act will extend, it may be seen, only to certain baronies in Galway, Roscommon, and Tipperary ; not to the entire counties, as some of our contemporaries have assumed.
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