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ihkLiikA t)IE Anth TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR: LETTER VII; _ .00106.11ao: aaar aaleasaa.• ' I fear not treciiiintif. 4 ' And hi itiother Pari s he atici!:a "Let me proceed to suppose, that a Commanding - Officer, from whatever motive, may be base enough to desire the ruin of an Officer. It may be, as oc curred with the unhappy livso on a_ wider theatre; Ito cover his own faults by th e sacrifice of a suborn ; dinate per:on ; it May proceed from private enmity; ' from opposition given to his nieetirbs by this Officeri' !!. , in snort,fiont as ntany Cattses bs thei - e rare 1148SiOnS iin Me human heart. Let us examine what facility the compOsition of Courts Martial - willafford him, in the execution of his scheme. When the. plot is meditated, the object against whom .it is intended Imust be extremely prudent, dr rather astonishingly fortunat, if he does not give the chew of an occai sion for some charge or other ag,ainst him. This will be 1)a...1 understood by those trio see most of the prqfession." - If this has been `said of that-solemn tribunal and court of honour—a Court Martial, how much more justly must it apply-to a self-constitutedand extra judical, its well as ex parte tribunal, such. as that on whose most invaluable " concurrence And ap probation" I have j ust taken the liberty; of ani- madverting. After the impression which the dark insinuation contained in Colonel MA nt, A Y'S Letter was calculated to make on the minds of strangers, it will, I trust, !•e admitted that I had no choice left me but to refute it by a frank, open, candid, and I fear tedious detail of the whole circumstances which bear on the events of the last three years. No man is bound, or can be expected tc.,sit silent, while his reputation is sported away by a shake of the head, a significant shrug of the shoulders, or even by a well-bred wink, accompanied with a tardonic grin across the room. No! Sir, having no concealments, I felt instanta neously, on reading Colonel MARLAY'S Letter, that my best justificirion lay in exposing the very inner most recesses of the whole of this hitherto seemingly mysterious affair, to the broad and refulgent blaze of noon day, The balance may be as easily biassed by withholding from the one scale, as by adding to the other. • I have now shewn, I trust, to the conviction of the most sceptical, the existence of a jaundiced, but a most preponderating and artful influence, on the councils of the voters ; and, therefore, that the ." una nimous concurrence and approbation" so vauntingly displayed in Colonel MAnt.Ax's Letter, has just been fully and fairly ascertained to amount to plus, one shilliog ! Accept. of my very sincere thanks for your kind n2.ss and attention. I art,, Sir, your's, &c. &c. W3l. TA IT,. Lieut. H. P. Canterbury, Feb. 7. The Dumbartonshire Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, consisting of betwixt 70 and SO men, under the com mand of Captain DENNISTOCN, of Colgrain, was re viewed on Thursday last at Dalmnir, by the VICE LIEUTENANT, in presence of a number of the most respectable Gentlemen of the County. They were allowed on all hands to be a fine body of men, and the performance of their sword-exercise and ma nceuvres, gave universal satisfaction. They are im mediately to be augmented to three Troops. Four Companies of the 55th Regiment, consisting of abcut 150 men, and the Staff, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel FREDERICK, .marched into Shrewsbury on Monday. Six Companies are to be stationed at Bridgnorth, NVenlock, and Wellington. The Regiment has been in hard service in Fiance, and afterwards in Holland and Flanders. The Duke of WecuscroN has written their Royal Highnesses MONSIEUR and the Duke of ANaout.EatE letters of condolence, on the frightful event which has plunged the Royal Family in despair. The pregnancy of her Royal Higlmess the Duchess of BERRY will immediately be officially pu blished. Tuesday arrived at the St. James's • lfoyal liOtel, in two chaises and four, the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM STANIER, Bart. Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin, MT. Sheriff NEVILLE, MOLPSWORTH GREENE, Esq. and his Lordship's Private Secretary, fur the purpose of presenting a dutiful and loyal Address of Con dolence and Congratulaton to his 'MAJESTY. The second Concert of Ancient Music took place yesterday evening, under the direction of the Earl of DERBY, fur his Royal Highness the Duke of CAM BRIDGE. Bank Tokens of five shillings and three-pence, and one shilling and sixpence, many of which are circu lating in some parts of the country, are receivable at the Bank until the 25th inst. at their full amount, but no longer. ANOTHER SURPRIZE!—A Gentleman of Noble Fa mily, and high fishion, has called a meeting of .his creditors, to whom he declared that all the reports of his repeated losses at play were unfounded; that his great pecuniary embarrassment arose solely from the sudden demise of his principal agent, who had left all his affairs in such a perplexed state,- that nothing could retrieve them but the most rigid economy.— He Added, with tears in his eyes, that he had called the claimants together, not with a view to compound with their claims, but to make over estates of thirty thousand pounds per annum, until the whole of their just demands were liquidated. PARISIAN FASJHONS.—Some spencers are now made to represent the Spanish corset, with points or straps all. round : this kind of spencer, formed of white or coloured satin, may he also worn at balls ; some of black velvet are studded with small steel beads or tags, in imitation of the dresses of the Ama zons. Dresses of silk or figured gauze are much worn ; and, what had been long in disuse, short aprons, of the same material as the dress, have also made their appearance. The sole ornament at the bottom of this dress is a single flounce of muslin or lace ; .the little.apron is also similarly trimmed. A GREAT PERFORMANCE.—A young farmer, near Farnham, undertook, on Monday, to go on foot 100 miles in twenty-four hours, for a wager of twenty guineas only. His ground was a branch of five miles out of the Andover road. He did tw-enty-five miles in three hours and a quarter, before he halted ; and fifty miles were accomplished in ten hours and a half, when the pedestrian ate heartily and started again. He had thirteen hours for the performance of the' other fifty miles. lie did the next twenty-five miles in three hours and fifty minutes, and had more than . two hours to do the last mile, in which he fell a little lame in the knee, Is hich increased; but he won by . 10.11 minutes. - FEBRUARY se; Major.denetal D'Eiereut has named Lofct burry, Mr. Cuthbert, and Mr. O'Golinan as the Genz tlemeo tiafrfiom he is pi-Opared to submit the exami natie 4 his authorities and conduCt; and he calls upo i n jbe Gentlemen who have returned from Marc mit? to name an equal number of Gentlemen to act on seir part for the same purpose; that the inuesti. gat' tin.may prcceed with the least possible delay: ..it is said that General L'Everenx has given bail td a f lame avnount at the Sheriff's Office, to meet 'ant demand that moy be brought against him. STATE OF IRELAND. At a.conference held between the ilfagistrates of the count of Galway, who had recently assembled at Athenry ..ccounty Galway); and Majm-General O'Lous c h,lin, commanding the troops iii Ciat of the couiitry, it Was resolted, - • • " That it bepame highly n .ces,ary, for the restoratics of the peace and tranquillity of that county, that parti?s of military be ittintediately stattone..l in the following places :—Turlisur!in'ere and ileadford, blkony of Clare; Ballynakill, barony of I;itrirn; Kintner. barony aLongford; Craughwell, Ardracin, and CI - an.; more, barony of Dunkellin; Kilvarra, barony of Kiltarton; Kil eurren,barony of Tyaquin; Miltown, barony of Dunmore : . That an Officer's party be immediately sent to the honk and mills of Newtown, to aid the Magistrates and well-clisposild peasantry of ' that part of the barony of Tyaquin in their laudable exertions to preserve the peace of thf-ir neighbourhood; and that the garriz sons of Loughrea and Athenry be reinforced." Major. General O'Loughlin Was requested to take the necessary steps to. carry the proposed arrange.: ments into effect. There were thirty-two Magistrates at the Meeting above alluded to, We have been informed, says the Dublin Itenink Post of Thursday last, that the Ribandmen have abandoned theit agricultural occupation, in the pur suit of plunder. fhe houkes of the following Gen tlemen have been plundered : Messti. Lambert, Castle Latnbert ; Athy, Renville; Blakei Frenchfort ; Burke, Strongfort ; Browne, Rockville; Lambert; Aggart ; Lewin, Ballimena, with many others. Mr; St. George is, we are told, prepared Lb contest his premises at Tyrone. The Deputy,Mayor of Galway left that place for his seat at St. Clerans, which has been threatened.—The houses of Mr. Higgins, Mr. A. Blake, Btc. have alto been visited. Government have withdrawn the soldiers from the Revenue duty, for the purpo,e of leaving the whole military force at the disposal of the civil power. COUNTY GALWAY.—The following are the most recent advices from the County of Galva ay : TUAM, FEBRUARY 24: On Tuesday night last, we are informed, a numLci of Ribandmen had the audacity to vi.4it the tenantry of John Bodkin, Esq. of Anna (situated within six miles of this town), for the purpose of linking these industrious people to their present chain of misfor.; tune by an oath. They determined on making a resistance to them, in which they so completely sue.; ceeded as to beat off these a►►emles to reace, alter a long and determined engagement. We hear that one of the Riband patty was killed, before they fled, and a number of them wounded. Very little injury was suffered by the villagers, who all sustained and evinced a great degree of coolness and courage. A similar attempt was made last night on the villagers 'of Corofin, within a short distance of the above place, by another party of Ribandmen, and who came well prepared for resistance, being fully conscious that they would get a warm reception ; no sooner was their arrival made known, than the villagers were in readiness for an attac*which'soon commenced ; the conflict 'was desper. on both sides, and continued so for some time, until some of the Ribandmen fell badly wounded.' This circumstance, together with' the determined perseverance of the villagers, soon put an end to the battle, and caused a sudden retreat on the part of the Ribandmen. Two men of this village, who evinced a praiseworthy zeal on this oc casion, are, we•are sorry to state, wounded, one of them dangerously from a ball, and the other slightly from a bayonet. They, we have heard, have alsd committed some excesses in the neighbourhood ti Dunmore, within the last three nights, and broke open the doors and windows of those houses which were shut up by their owners, who were obliged to seek shelter in the town. We think that the activity of the Magistrates, aided by the party of horse stationed in that town, should be sufficient means of putting them down.—Tuam Gazdte. It has been thought necessary to countermand th 4 movements of a ba t talion destined fur Scotland, and to direct its march to this county.—Aids A report is prevalent in town this slay, that an eri‘ gagement took place between the Ribandmen and a party of the Military stationed near Holymount, in which the latter killed three of them, and made nine prisoners. .~. xecoamoon. " lour otheers searched my premises had a Court i Martial acquitted me (which was thought no longer. yesterday mornieg, Sir, and my landlady, as I live gagement took place between the Ribandmen and a improbaole), still it was obvious that such acquittal ANOTHER SURPRIZE!—A Gentleman of Noble Ta- ; Nvitli, says they left word that you wanted to see me. and high fishion, has called a meeting of his party of the Military stationed near Holymount, in The la., l istrate assured him that he must have been could mishits , . mei, fur he did not want to see him : and which Lavender, who happened to be standing by said, India . ' that no such message was left with his landialy.— not have enabled me to pay off those debts milt', I had been led to connect in my outfit for creditors, to whom he declared that all the reports of Here was the r ub. I was, in fact now c on- his repeated losses at . .plat were unfounded; that his P i I cheque ina*cd The onl alternative le ls ete y , . y ft me great pecuniary embarrassment arose solely from the being, to apply to be allowed to exchange on half- sudden demise of his principal agent, who had left which the latter killed three of them, and made nine Prisoners. NEWRY, FEBRUARY 24: On the 20th instant, a division of the Sth Royal ter Waddington ieplied, that he had kelown his• Veterans marched from this town to Dundalk, and pay, receiving the difference. There appeared no all his affairs in such a perplexed state,- that nothing landlady a loae time, and, he could not think thateconomy.— yesterday the remainder of the Regiment proceeded other way by which 1 could pay those d e bt s; and in could retrieve them but the most rigid • she would tell him an untruth ! The Magistr ateon their route to Connaught. doing this, it will be plainly perceived, "it was my -le Added, with tears in his eyes, that he had called again assereJ him, that he had no charge whatever ' • pot e! ty, and not my zeill consented." the claimants together, not with a view to compound GALWAY, FEBRUARY e 4; ...es....ton against him, but Vs iiaseemed vet y unwilling These circumstatices will give some idea of the with their claims, but to make over estates of thirty The residence of Mr. Athy, at Renville, within to believe this ; he evidently had a great hankering general complexion of affairs in the Royal Staff thousand pounds per annum, until the whole of 'their about six miles of this to an, was visited by the Ri- o) keep up his political cunseauence I and it was not Corps for the last three years, in so far as they re- just demands were liquidated. bandmen, at the hour of two o'clock, on the morning till the Officers had repeatedly reiterated in his car is ailed me • and it will be found difficult to account PARISIAN Yessoloses.—Some spencers are now of yesterday, where they demanded arms, and in- that he was " not wnted," that he could prevail ripen . n .' i ' tor some of them, but by admitting the existence of made to represent the Spanish corset, with points or sited on Nlr. Athy sending out his servants, fot the 3.ineif to turn his lace towards the dour ; nor did he ' a faction behind the vete , ;:s, infinitely more power- straps all. round : this kind of spencer, formed of rurpose of administering to them their illegal oaths. withdraw at last without ialerming the .Nlagistrate, than the inters themselves. This will indeed "e/u- white or coloured satin, may he also worn at balls; To their derminds Mr. Athy gave a pertmptor ) • re- ti e provided he did hap w pen to ant him, he should cidate " the statement. some o f bl ac k ve l ve t ar e s t u dd e d w i t h sma ll s teel f use l. T Lim,sa the noose hey then thitatened to e ' if net be out of the way. I . was enspeded, it would seem, of having written beads or tags, in imitation of the dresses of the Ama- he did not comply, but ss itheut efret, as Mr. Athy, Ile Earl and Countess of ILsrtnownv continee i " rLmAt.E INFLUENCE IN TILE ARMY, which Mr. zons. Dresses of silk or figured gauze are much having received previous intimation of their visit • dells - to receive the congratulations of the Nois'iit•• . ~"attacks the heads of the Corps."— worn; a n d, what had been long in disuse, short had himself and his domestics •l' • • • ' • i I Pnene says ace le•epars s i to give i • ale. (sentry, on their providential escaee from the • I Well had an • °dicer - aprons, of the same material as the dress, have also them a warm reception. They at length departed,. atrocious plot in Cato-so sued. The Coue•ress enter-i . : sosteu at these solemn mummeries, attempted my made their appearance. The sole ornament at the without doing any injury, declaring That Mr. 1 h ' . t y 1 tu ns, every evening, a select party of her di ,tin- i eicetion or breathed a whi •er to "t 1 • nit effect, bottom of this dress is a single flounce of muslin or humanity as a landlord was his surest protectio euished friessels, at her house in Grosvenor-,quote. I ' List ' . ' ' ' whisper can it be doubted, that he might have had strong lace ;.the little.apron is also similarly trimmed. Connaug,ht Journal. Couur OV l lIANCEItY. The LORD CII A NCIA.LOR ! to atleod t rcesons for appreheaditig, from what had been so A GREAT PERFORMANCE.—A young farmer, near ENNIS-, FEBRUARY 24: eese a little beiltre melee this morning, • recently seen in my case, that in his turn he would Farnham, undertook, on Monday, to go qn foot 100 I 7 Y .. Cl i ill:Cii held thie day several of the Co:;-ll'b d • lan men from Galway have approached to- ./ , , have been exposed to all those accumulated mortifi- miles in twenty-four hours, for a wager of twenty s a iretors hai Mg Seen taken to %,‘ hitehall, to undergo • - . wards this county : we regret to say that there is canons and insults which I and my family had ex- guineas only. His ground was a branch of five miles "aiinatiun. Ili is one of the number. • little doubt of the fact ; but we feel confident that perienced for the two preceding years ? out ief the Andover road. He did twenty-five miles our Magistracy and Country Geralemen will, by a The Editor of the Edi,:burgh Correspondent was, It has keen remarked by an anonymous, but ele- in three hours and a quarter, before he halted; and spirited exertion of authority and i el .n..aence, prevent cut Aimiday last, fined by the Court of Justiciary, in gnat writer, on the inadequacy of Courts Martial, fifty miles were accomplished in ten hours and a half, their establishing a tooting amongst us. n.e sum ef £3, for a amagraph contained in that lin their pieseat form, to purposes of justice, " that when the pedestrian ate heartily and started assaio. o _.— .. . Paper, Which was calculated, in the opinion of the I the members es' • give their votes under the eye of the lie had thirteen hours for the performance of the • Ceuta to prejudice the case of Gilbert 3PLeod, re- 1 t President President—the ,yo a our -gist first. In such a situation," other fifty miles. lie did the next twenty-five milei Tuesday - , Mr. Aldermen dosnoss 5141174 . . , av b e a . 0 ceatly found ge ilty of libel, while nudes trial. Alex- ;he says, "if they perceive that it is a • • • • in three hours and fifty minutes, and had more than grand dinner at his Villa (formerly the residence of eedee Munay, compositor on that Paper, and ++ ho : prosecatinil, will most men hesitate between the sacri- two hours to do the last mile, in which he fell a little ady HAMILTON), on the banks of the Thames, at wis Cie author of the paragraph complained of, was at fee of their profcs.4onal prospects, their consequent lame in the knee, which increased; but he won by Richmond; and in the evening, his Lady opened the the bailie time wacuced to one month's imprisonment. ruin, and a desire to do justice to are indil - ideal.'— lo al minutes. hou e for a Ball and refreshments ala fou Ghel ie.. . . • . ' • - . . . ._ . . _.. • • „, ._ _ . • _ ........or.s.-• -.-----?-y• - . . • . ------ . _ ..' . I • . • - , VIE CONSPIRACY. BOW-3TRlDET.—there were no fresh apprthens;ons veiterday, nor did any proceedings take place at Bow-street, or at the Secretary of State's Office for Sts--In regard to the exercise of a discreiOnaPy power, which certainly appears by his Majesty's re gulations to be vested in a Commanding Officer, it may not perhaps be improper, nor will it, I trust, be considered presumptuous in me to state here, that about the time I was so ordered to allow My self to be commanded by a Junior Officer, I had been upwards of nine years a Lieutenant, including the two years granted to Waterloo Lieutenants by authority, and that I had previously had the honour of serving under the. Duke of WELLINGTON, during the latter and most glorious petiod of the Peninsular War—doling that splendid part cf it when the British army, Assisted by its Allies, suc ceeded in expelling its invaders from the Spanish dominions, and terminated the contest by planting the British irandard on the once "sacred' tel of France. It was Burin e this memorable campaien that .I had the .herour of being entrusted with the' very important and confidential detached command of that armament which was destined for the re establishment and keeping open the important pass and communication across the Tagus, at Almera. The detachment which I had here the honour to command, was of such magnitude as to require a Deputy Assistant Commissary-General, am &c. to be attached to me. And lastly (though it may perhaps l , be too trifling to mention it), only three days before the said 7th of June, I had the honour of command ing the Royal Staff Corps, at a Review of the Garri son at Shurncliff, being in commemoration of our late most venerable Sovereign's birth-day. \Then these circumstances, which I have submit ted with great deference, are considered, combined with the very zero situation in which I had for some time previously been placed in the Regiment, by the evident operation of an 44 Ityluenee" existing and operating somewhere, it may not probably excite a great degree of wonder, that being thus suddenly taken by surprise, I should, under the impulse of the moment, have acted as I did. It is one thing for the allele of the Officers, in a body, keeping each other in countenance, submitting to be manieuvred in line. by a Junior Officer, under the eye of the Com manding Officer ; and it will be allowed that it is quite another, and a very different thing, for a single Officer to be picked out and marched alone, round the parade, in the presence of the Garrison, under the corn wind ifa aroior Officer, even supposing the Command ing ()I,7cep to he present. But let it be here distincly understood, that it is not my intention to justify my having declined to obey the above order. No I only mean to sax-, that an Officer so situated as I have just represented mvself to have been, might per haps have expected a little delicacy to have been observed towards him, in the exercise of that dis e cretionary power with which Commanding Officers are invested. But to return to my narrative.—The affair of my exchange into a regiment of Dragoons in India, which I had been confidently led to expect, fell at last to the ground. After the lapse of nearly twelve months of the most anxious state of suspense, it was discos !red, for the first time it seems, that my ex change could not take place! This was found out after I had been induced to incur debts, in my outfit and equipment for India, little.short of two hundred pounds. And it is highly illustrative of the feeling which had- been excited against me, to state here, that the very next morning (Sunday) after my return from London to my family in Ilythe, almost broken hearted at this most ruinous termination of all my Indian hopes, Sir BENJAMIN D'URBAN (so justly dis tinguished for the suaeity of his manners) was plea%ed to send his Adjutant to me, before breakfast, with a message, saying, " that if I did not find some person to exchange with in a month, one would be found for me, or more vigorous measures would be resoi ted to to put me on half-pay, or get me out of the Corps r And in a Letter which Sir B. D'URRAN did vie the honour of writing to me, immediately subsequent to the above message, he plainly told we, " that to exchange on half-pay was now no inner left with me as a matter of choice, but of necessity." To be brief, Sir, I was threatened with a Ccinrt Martial, on declining the very "HUMANE" propositions which were about this time made to me. I was again put under arrest ; and kept, once more, for a month or two longer, in the old purga tory of suspense. •I found, however, that there ap peared no intention whatever of bringing me to a Court Martial. Indeed I was well aware, that even had a Court Martial acquitted me (which was thought improbable), still it was obvious that such acquittal could not have enabled me to pay off those debts l which I had been led to conti act in my outfit for India. I lere was the rub. I was, in fact, now come! pletely cheque mated. The only alternative left me being, to apply to be allowed to exchange on half pay, receiving the difference. There appeared no other way by which 1 could pay those debts; and in doing this, it will be plainly perceived, " it was my' potetty, and not my all/ consented." These circumstaarces will give some idea of the general complexion of affairs in the Royal Staff Corps for the last three years, in so far as they re garded me ; and it will be found difficult to account tor some of them, but by admitting the existence of 4' a faction behind the eaters, infinitely more power than the voter s themselves." This will indeed "elu cidate" the statement. I was i7usiectcd, it would seem, of having written FLM.II.E INFLUENCE IN TILE ARMY,' which Mr. Penne says, 44 attacks the heads of the Corps."— Well, had any Officer in the Corps, who had as sisted at these solemn mummeries, attempted my justification, or breathed a whisper to that effect, can it be doubted, that he might have had strong rcesons for apprehenditig, from what had been u recently seen in my case, that in his turn he would have been exposed to all those accumulated mortifi cations and insults which I and my family had ex perienced for the two preceding years? The Editor of the Edi,tburgh Correspondent was, It has lasen remarked by an anonymous, but ele on Aimiday last, fined by the Court of Justiciary, in gees writer, on the inadequacy of Courts Martial, tee sum if I:5, for a paragraph contained in that lin their present form, to purposes of justice, " that Paper, which was calculated, in the opinion of the I the reembeis give their rotes under the eye of the Cem t, to prejudice the case of Gilbert M.Leod, rc- President—the youngest first. In such a situation," ceetly found geilty of libel, while nude.- trial. Alex-; he says, "if they perceive that it is a • • • • 4.:der Munay, compositor on that Paper, and who prosecution, trill most men hesitate between the sarri xi. is be Au tl,or of tile paragraph complained of; was at dice of their profcp,ional prospects, their consequent /LC bailie time sentenced to vac month's imprisonment. rum, and a desire to do justice to ax indil•idual?— the Home Department: , Yesterday was the day ap- yoi.lted for the second Cabinet dinner to take place, dace the demise of the late King, at the house of Fttl BA-ru uncr, in Mansfield -street, Portland-place; I .t - , as a measure of precaution, Lord SlDNleunt, as Principal Scere:ary of State for the Horne Depart.. went, ordered several of the principal Officers, con snsl-inz of Lavender, Bishop, ltuthven, and ethers, to aq..2ntl. It is stroiv,ly suspected that most of. the wretches esr: , pe.l from the back preinises. The occupiers Of th , ,n!inining house ref used to lc t the villains through inemises, except they would say who they rCI ;;li d v4.hat was then Object in escaping. The banditti, . . ).e.!uz no reasonable exclox, endeavoured to pass b• force, and ts::e upper hinges of the hack were'b:oken off; hut they did not wait to fioi,ll it Je,t; 'action upon the door by for;.ing the lower is es off, but, fiadiag they were clo.:ely pursued, ra.u!e their way, it has been iitsce; tained, over a slicd €.l.itair to those Ith!ch are at the back of all the small :Relses in that low neighbourhood. From the shed, suppohed, they en:ered t! - ,e nne-pair of stairs of a respecta:)le hou-c in John-street, and • t'ley made their way through the house, out at the I:.ont-door, wwbserve,i, inhi without disturbing the y.iet inhabitant ,z. \Vestcott was the Officer who apprehended Ings, the b 'teller, who was one of the sentinels at the door el the stable when the Officers entered it. Westcott saw Thistlewood discharge a pi.tol in the stable at random z and Oleic is no doubt but that he was then armed with two pistols and one sword, which his black cloth'belt was made to contain. There were then several candles but Meg in the stable ; and al though Westectt had lugs in custody in a corner of the so:hle, yet, as 11;i:4:mood discharged a pistol on COOling, jOW-.1 the ladder, his attention WAS fixed upon Line :v.J, az.. soon as he saw his face, he had no doubt C IA ., it wal Thist'moo.] ; and he has every reason to kntex him, for he taw him pre seat Ili; second l istol at hint ; and, at the instant, f; cm the' aim ta,cn, the in:pressinn open his mind was, that l:e shea4f shot dead, induced him sto-p down, and hold up his I.lt arm-and hand to cefLed his head. The ristol w ei:t off, and he 0b ,.e.;-ved Thistimeod e.: ape oat of the fi ont-door of the •tabie i:'to Cato-stre...t. .lie did not discover the . i;:jary he had t;otaii.ed till he Idled his left hand Lleeding, and, on examination, he diicovcred that a shot ha.t parsed thrlogli the ci.fr of his coat, aad also t'.e fleshy pa:: LT his hand, between his ti:amb and forc-fil.ger, R!ld aftei. he received a most ti leLa blew on the kft side of Lis temple, the effects i oo! swelling of which a:e still visible, hut by whom, or ft oft what instilment he received this blew, he is not able to desc; the. A fie) Js daft ee pi iol-hots passed through the clown el* his hat, but by whom the histois were fired, he cannot tell : his escape from being murdered is almost a miracle. During this altack upon a Peace-officer, who WAS unarmed, his Ings, the butcher, made his escape out of the stable into Cato-street, where, however, he was st:l,pped and seei:red. he examination of Preston on Tuesday, lasted al;out half an hour, after 1N illeh he was committed t• 11 11 11-field Bridewell, in the custody of two of the Bow-street Officers. When he returned from the Council Chamber he was almes , : Meatiness, and gasped out to those abet: him, " Iliess tae, how I perspire! but I always do W hen I ha ve anyt hi ng like a siffjec, to speak upon." Whilst his commit ment was making out, he requested to be Insisted ith a little ranter. Some pot ter was given to and. whilst he was drinking it, Lord Castlereagh r Assed thiough the Ilan, when Preston observed, . Aye, thei ehe goes ! l lis Lordship will remember what 1 have said to him as loag as he lives. I have talked mere treason, a; they call it, to-day, than ever did in my wholelife belore." The porter seemed to inspire him, and he was proceeding with more re marks, when the o,licers received his commitment, and he was led to the coach which was to convey him to pfiscr.. A number of Gentlemen were assemhled in the Ilall ; and, as lie passed through the midst of them, he bowed and smiled on all sides, repeatedly saciag, Gclo bless you all." Yes:crday maninT , „li . ttk IradditVon, the placard. bearer, ile-ented himself before Mr. Ilinxtr., and atcr several profound congers, he said—" Sir, I am olio to Woddin e olon."—The Ma gistrate VC a nod of . • recogniLion. " Your Officers searched my premises yesterday morning, Sir, and my landlady, as I live with, says they left word that you wanted to see me." The Magistrate assured him that he must have been misinloi mc.l, fur he did ant want to see him : and Lavender, who happened to be standing by, said, that no such message was left c..ith his landiaiy.— /t/Lter Waddington replied, that he had kasown his landlady a long time, and he could not think that • she would tell hint an untruth l The Magistrate again assf:red him, that he had no charge whatever against him, but Waddington seemed vet y unwilling to believe this ; he evidently had a great hankering to keep up his pa is itical cweauence ; and it was not till the Officers had repeatedly reiterated in his car that he was" not wanted," that he could prevail upon ► 3.ine.eif to turn his face towards the door ; nor did he withdraw at last without iaforming the Magistrate, that provided he did happen to want him, he should net be out of the way. The Earl and Countess of Hannownv coreinne daily to receive the congratulations of the Nobility • add Gentry, on their providential escai:e from the atrocious plot in Cato-street. The CouNress enter t iota, evening, a select party of her di ,tin ;;eished frienl , , at her house. in Grosvenor.oluare. Count. or t H.INCERY.—The LORD CH A NCrI,LOR rose a little beiore melee this morning, to attend t r:vy Cf‘al:cii held this day, several of the Co:1- s r eators has ing been taken to ‘ , N hitchall, to undergo e...aafination. 'Ae.ton is one of the number. NEWRY, FEBRUARY 24: On the 20th instant, a division of the Bth Royal Veterans marched from this town to Dundalk, and yesterday the remainder of the Regiment proceeded on their route to Connaught. GALWAY, FEBRUARY e 4; The residence of Mr. Athy, at Renville, within about six miles of this to .v n, was visited by the Ri bandmen, at the hour of two o'clock, on the morning of yesterday, where they demanded and in sisted on Mr. Athy sending out his servant!, fot the purpose of administering to them their illegal oaths. To their demands Mr. Athy gave a pertmptory re fusal. They then, threatened to derne,!:sh the house if he did not comply, but without etfat, as Mr. Athy, having received previous intimation of their visit, had himself and his domestics wcil prepar s i to give them a warm reception. They at length departed,. without doing any injury, declaring that Mr. Athy's humanity as a landlord was his suiest protection.-- , Comic:az/It Journal. FEBRUART 24. • Ribandmen from Galway have approached to wards this county : we regret to say that there is little doubt of the fact ; but we feel confident that our Magistracy and Country Ge.itiernen will, by a spirited exertion of authority and influence, prevent their establishing a tooting amongst us. Tuesday - , Mr. Alderman Josfrow SulTit gave a grand dinner at his Villa (formerly the residence of Lady IlariftLToN), on the banks of the Thames, at Richmond; and in the evening, lris Lady opened the hou e for a Ball and refreshments a la /Guardia..