missioner to Mononia from the Provisional Government.

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Hewitt (or O'Hanlon) was tried at the ensuing Tipperary Assizes, and,
notwithstanding the extreme severity of the law at that period, there were
so many palliating circumstances pleaded in his favour at the
trial--particularly a popular, and we believe a not altogether unfounded
eulogium, (since grown into an apothegm in that country,) that "He robbed
the rich to give to the poor," and so many persons of distinction, who had
known him at one time as a performer on the Dublin stage, came forward to
interest themselves in his behalf--that he escaped with transportation for
life. He ultimately conducted himself with such propriety at Sydney, that
he obtained a free pardon--and lived to amass some property, and settle in
that colony. Previous to his quitting Ireland, he conveyed to Miss Tyrrel,
by the hands of her father, a few lines explanatory of portions of his
conduct and career, and which concluded with the assurance, that, next to
_one_ nameless and bitter regret, he most deeply lamented the injury he
had, were it only in _her_ estimation, inflicted on the cause of brave and
unfortunate men, by passing himself as an adherent of Robert Emmett's, and
the affair of 1803--with neither of which, he declared, had he had any
connexion.

Katey Tyrrel recovered so rapidly from the shock and illness that
succeeded the appearance of Hewitt as a prisoner in her father's parlour,
that it is more than probable her wounded pride and convicted folly
annihilated at once that affection for a highwayman which she would have
had no scruple of bestowing on a Major of the Republican Brigade. Her
father, grateful that, before it was too late, he was afforded an
opportunity of atoning for past severity, no less than former indulgence,
restored her speedily to favour. Katey profited largely by the lesson her
giddiness and obstinacy had received. She became a steady and domestic
character, and in due time saved herself the trouble of looking out a wife
for Lysaght Osborne among her neighbours, by marrying him herself. They
continued to reside with her father, who survived to such an extreme old
age as to see all feuds between himself and his parishioners extinguished
by the Composition Act.

Sally-the-tin, as often as her vagrant disposition admitted of it, had
always a corner in Katey Osborne's kitchen; and it would be an injustice
to woman's h