§ MR. LEAHYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If the report is true which appeared in the "Freeman's Journal" of the 19th instant, that the 20th Hussars, when passing through Athy, whore they were billeted on the night of the 18th instant, 1737 committed a number of outrages on the unoffending inhabitants; knocked down a child, and pitched a man into the street, and marched through the streets uttering a peculiar kind of yell, and wanted to get their guns to clear the streets; and, if so, whether he would order steps to be taken to bring the offenders to justice?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERSir, I have road the report of this occurrence in The Freeman's Journal, and I hope the hon. Gentleman, if he has not already done so, will read the letter which appeared subsequently in the same paper from the acting adjutant of the regiment in question, who gives an entirely different version of the occurrence. I have written to the Inspector General of Constabulary to obtain information on the subject; and the fact that no reply has yet been received by him, I think, proves that the affair must have been exaggerated by a local correspondent.