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`ATE• CO; FDENCE. DUBLIN UP?. 10. hi Tee BRITICII Parts of the 6th, I read a pa rag: a ph, copied from another Paper of the preceding Javos hich ppearsto meunwarrantableand improper. The writer of the paragraph assures the Public, up on the best authority, as he avers, that the emissaries of France still continue to praCtise upon the credit lity of the lower classes in Ireland, and that a great many of the soldiery have been recently cut off, par ticularly in the North, while on their post, by private assassination. Now, as to the former part of this piragraph, it is impossible for me to colitradisq it di redly. I will only say, that the best informed amongst the inhabitants of this country have no snow edge of any circumstance to warrant such an ass. ition ; and that the tranquillity, that prevails so universall..• in every corner of this island, renders it elttemeiy improbable ; but, as to the assassination of the soldiery, one of the most diabolical crimes of which a nation can be accused, I have no hesi tation in pronouncing the report a false one. I call upon the writer of the paragraph, or that excellent authority to which he refers, to name a single in stance of assassination of any of the soldiery, er cf . any kind of violence lately committed upon them in tbu Noah of Ireland. I have. been lately in that part of the ccuntry myself, and I am in the daily habit of meeting and conversing with gentlemen from almost every county and town nt it ; and therefore can decisively pronounce that paragraphaft unwarrantable libel on the ceantry. On the North-east Circuit there were but two capital convidions for murder ; and, on the North-west, not a sinkle capital conviaion for any crime whatsoever. ‘Ve are then to suppose the laws, as well as the government, are asleep ; for, certain it is, that no proclamation has been is sued, o ff ering a Tea ard for the detedion, of those Bmkram assassins. This is a measure which, upon such occasions, ;he Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council uniformly ad. pt. This last instance of it, and of the crime that occasioned it, was in the case of Masters, one of the Liberty Rangers, who, abolit twelve months ago, was shct in the leg, by a person unknown, in Patrick's Close. GENER4L roma MARTIAL. The following official letter from the Judge A ♦vale General to the Duke of Yi rk, with the opi. nion and sentence of the Court Martial to which it refers, by cc:mum:a of His Royal Highne4s, has been circnlated through the army, and read at the •...yad of every regiment in the smite, and caned in :heir several orderly books : SIR, -. • /faint! hail the honour of hying bets.? the King the pan. needing* of a General email It lttial I.li4tlell at Col liester, on the 17th last July, for the trial of Captain Eiloar : Chiltern of tie Seventh Battalion of the Rural Army of Reserve, upon t re f..llorring charge, pret-rre4 ag Men bin. by Colonel John T. I`.arvey Lwes, coot it iodine t le soot Rvirnent, namely, s lin. proper and disr. speafill coricho in 1•011( la..guarei onveying a throat to his Commanding tJtfieer, wi.eti reprimanded for in a•tzatimi to Ili , duty at the eriting pantie of Mi• reetinent, nn t .e 6th Of June last, in the presence of several ofF.zars anal tion-cornotission:d officers of the ri goner:lf I a.n to ac quaint Your Royal 11 , glint..., that His lA,' •sty his thought tit to confirm use wntcnce of ih. Court Martial, whelety the said Captain Cll/11Cfy i. aJjodeed to be suspended from rank and pay for six months whites beisteuce i. cotteeieed in the following Arms " The Court Mania', having duly weighed the es'ilence gisen in support of the charge pr •ferred Aga tho prisoner, CaS. Edward Chinery, dish that whlch he has at lace I in hit iseience, is .4 opinion, that he in ; though not to the Suit extent of the charge trAttliited apinat him; but, in can . derationuf hissincere peanence., and of hie having wiehed to 11, , olugoe ie most ample manner to his Commusiling &tiff to iir•vinno to the asontibtsig of Vie court, and further. In CJIISISCIIIMICS i 4 his •• If high and excellent character, an fully expresset in the I•itter of Midler Robertson, do wily sentence him to oz suspended from ran'', and pay for Inc months." (Signtd) Ca.‘RLLS MORGAN. The Moe, Wry Lie, from Quebec, for Clyde, is lost on Labradors ; crew saved. A letter horn Dover, dated September 13. says, 4 ' The Chu:apron frigate and the Admiral Ari!rAtil cutter fell in with. yesterday morning, off Grave lines, thirteen sail of vessels under Prussian and Danish colours, and, after minutely insperaing the papers of all of them, they detained, and have sent into this harbour, the following vessels, via.— Marie, Capt. Aiwa days, from Dunkirk for a market ; the gallint Baton, of Stettin, Captain Kes t ; and the Flora, Capt. STACK; both laden with coals, &c.; the Dm Konink'n, VON Persil A (of Embden), laden with cheese and empty casks; and the SI. Johanner, ('a t. &Dos, laden with empty casks. They all sailed together from Dunkirk, and were bound to Bourdeaux." We are happy to announ;e, that the Leeward Island homeward-bound fleet passed Portsmouth Thursday afternoon, under convoy of the B.'edirerr of :74. guns. The rr.leS of the Police at Paris has published Ordorarancc respeefing the carriages, carts, and tains, that pass neat the residence of ROI% APART It, at St. Cloud ; it strongly indicates the suspicions and apprehensions which haunt the gloomy mind r f t' e Tyrant. No carriages or carts from the neigh bourhood of Paris are to pass the Bridge of St. Cloud before mid-day. The passage-boats are not allowed to tal.e up any passengers by the way, nor Are they allowed to carry more than twelve persons. On Tuesday last. a lady dressed in the m st ele gant style, and affeaang the woman riflashiner, went into the shop of a jeweller. in Oxford -street, and being without a hat, she appeared as if ju s t s tepped out of a carriage, which, in gaff, was the case ; she asked to look at some rings, and s; vcral were shewn to her; presently a servant in livery cruise in, and, with his hat off, said aloud to bet, " Sir Robert is an the carriage, my lady." " Very well," she re plied, " I will - be with him in a few minutes." She then paid for two rings, left the shop, and got into a postchaise that was standing at the door. and the servant followed her into the chaise, which iffilne - L;ately (hove off; this latter circumstance some what surprised the jeweller, but on his returning Into his shop, he soon found other CAWS for surprise; for, co examining his stock. he found, to his very rel! regret, that ' her Lady s hip' b a d dimini s h e d i t v•ns.derably, by taking five rich diamond rings, Ind several other articles of value, which, in her beery to attend Sir Ruben, she bad fergoWn to Pay fee. 14 . . MRS. LS FEN% DIAMOND RING. • ' Netildom was capitally indiEted kcal ing a diamond ring, value 501. and o)her articles, the property of Mrs. Harriet Esten. . . The case, on the part of &e prost.cution, was opened by Mr. ALLEY, and stated by Mr. Cow. The prosectitt ix was the celebrated at:tress. Mrs. Esten, who gave her testimony from the Sheriff's box, in the oust sa:isfa&ory, delicate, and humane manner. She stated, that she principally resided at her own hou:t., in lialf-moor.- -seer, Piccadilly, but was occasionally on a visit to het mi•ther, Mrs. Ben net, at Nutting-Bill. On the 9th of June last, she left her mother's to go to the Opera, and dressed at h-r own house in Half-moon-street. She wore her diamond ring as a broach ; on her return, being ap prehensive of danger on the road, she stopped at her own house, in Flalf-moon-street, and gave the ring in care to her own maid, lit-len Russell. She did not come to town for some days after, and then, en quiting for the ring, she discovered that it was lost. She had :mother servant in the house, called Marv, whom she dismissed from her service, but would not discharge her, till some account should be given of the ring. IVhen she attended at the Magistrate's Office, in Bow -street, she saw the prisoner, and then recolleaed to have seen him at her own house. She had a has containing a bead-necklace, somelpose mock pearls, and a cross. She was present-at a 'con versation betw'en Mr. GlAll A as, the Magic:rate, the prisoner, and Helen Russell, when the prisoner pre tended to be very much astonished at the charge made against him, and declared his innocence. Ile admitted he had slept in her house for a week, while she was out of town. In aliont a fortnight after, she saw the centre stone of the ring, at a jew eller's, in Coventry -street; but, being then out of the setting, she could not identify it. She after wards saw it at Bow street, witit the setting, and knew it to be her's. Cross-ermined 6), Mr. KNA PP. It seas impossible fur her to know the diamond without the setting. She had two female servants in the house, Helen Russell, and Mary, the cook; she dismissed the !awr for admitting strangers to sleep in her house. The other articles that were taken, lay in a drawer in her wardrobe, the key of which had b:en lost o•slie had a man servant of the name of Edward Hughes, but he had left her ser vice at that tim.r she did not know that the prisoner had the ring advertised. Mr. GR 111 x, the Magistrate, stated, that in con sequence of information - he received, he called at Mrs. Est;m's, and examined Helen Russell; the next day tie made some vicinities, and again called on Mrs. Esten, and saw tie Prisoner thcr:•,nho seemed much surprised at the charge, anti denied it ; he had previously called at thejeweller's ; who toll him he had got the ring on Cie 23.1 of June, but, on mentioning the name, the Priamer aPpeated totally ignorant of what he meant. Upon his cross-exami nation hy Mr. GURNEY, he admitted the Prisoner came by appointment voluntarily to hii °free the first time; hut, when the articles were discovered, he sent an officer for him. The Prisoner always de nied any knowledge of the ring, and constantly as serted his inns-nee. Helen Russell stated that she was servant to the Prnsacutrix, and remembered that her mistress gave the ring in question into her care on the night of the 9th Of June last ; she put it into a box in a drawer of the wardrobe ; when she afterwards went to look for it, she could not had it. The red beads, .the meek pearls, and cross, wet e in a black shagreen box lying to the same drawer, which was the one she afterwards fouad in Bow-street ; she had often seen the Prisoner in the hottae ; his visits were fre quent, s nnetintes long, sometimes dicta. On her cross-examination, she said, that she knew the Pri soner was paying his addresses to Mary the cook, and has since been married to her ; she and Mary were en very Read tc•ms, they slept in the next loons to each other ; she had never seen the Pt isoner in the room. Mr. John Hawley. silversmith and jeweller, in Coventry-street, deposed, that on the 15th of June list, the Prisoner came to his shop with a dia mond set in an enamelled border, and told him he had found it ne-r the Bell Savage yard, Ludgate hill, abontht days before, when he went to sea the children coming from St. Paul's ; it was Holy Thursday. He told the Prisoner it was of great value, and advised him to advertise it ; he said he bad looked through all the news-papers, but could not find any one inquiring about it ; he said he had no objeeion to leave it with the witness, who might Advertise it if be thought ptoper. lie did so, and made inquiry in all the jewellers shops to nu pur pose. Some time after the Prisoner again called, accompanied by his lather, and asked what success ? being told none, he went away, and some days after called agaia with his father, and said he would either tale it away, or dispose of it. Witness then offered him twenty guineas fur it, which he considered to be about the value, and which he agreed to take. He gave him a gold seal, and some other small articles, as part payment. Mrs. Esten called on him, and he ;hewed her the dia mond; hut could not at that time find the enamel la wlsich it had been set ; he soon after found it, and waited on her. On his cross-examination, he maid the Prisoner had certainly given him a right address ; he told him his father was a tailor in Stanhope street, which he found to be the case. He had the diamond near a month before he paid the Prisoner for it. illiam Anthony, a Bow street Officer, stated that he went to the lodgings of the Prisoner's fa ther, who gave him the black shagrcen box, con taining the beads. mock pearls, .ind cross. Mrs. Esten was then called to id 'miry the arti cles t she " From the several circumstances, I have no douSt on my mind Ina- the di-iniond he longs to met as to the box and otiu:r articles, I can swear positively." Sergiol witnesses were called on behalf of the Prisoeer, who give him a most excellent character. Burnt Huy str, As. in summing up the evidence, observed, that it WAS a doubtful case ; the property bad not been traced to the Prisoner, and in all such cases, the evidence as to char-after should have its due weight. _ Tb: Juts, after a short cma4uhAtion. strutted the Prisouer. As soon se Mrs. Esten pve her evidence si:e withdrew.. She re'as elegantly dre:sed in a vilite muslin robc and a white bonnet. . Damsel Mrs was indi.fted for acaling a porerble desk, containing a box, with a purse of sizte..n.gui- Ilea!, and a number of other article., the property of Captain William llotham. It appeared, that, on the I.lth of Augnlt last, the prosecutor arrived in town by the York Mail, at five o'clock in the morning, and took the Prioner's coach, at Lombard street; several articles ware put out of the mail, into the coach . ; but the desk in question, the pro;ecutor took in his own hands ; he drove to the Nev. , Hommums, Covent-garden, and from thence to l)uke-,treet, St..lames's, where he trmk a chain. ; ou rerm,ving the article; into the chaise, he missed the desk, and found it had not been taken out of the coach. John White stated, that he knew the Prisoner: he was a hackney coachman, and lodged with the Witness; he saw the Prisoner the same morning bring a box into his room, which he tried to open with some keys, but not succeedin: . :, he then got a chissel, and forced the lock: he saw a medal, guineas and half guineas, an two seven shilling pieces; the Prisoner took the box, and went away with it. :lames Gilmore, a Police Officer, went to the lodgings of the Prisoner, at the Armoury, West minster: he there apprehended' him, and found on his person a purse, coot:tilling twelve guineas, five half guineas, and two seven shilling pieces. Hannah Figgs proved the receipt of the other articles out of the coach, from the Prisoner, but not the desk. Captain f kitham identified the desk, box, &c. and the Prisoner WAS found FORGER Y. - • - • - .f.rAh Lloyd was caPita:l; indiaed for uttering, as hue, a certain forged note, purporting to be a note of the Dover Bank, of Messrs. Muiet and Fe tor, for one pound, No. H. 8,323, dated Dover Bank, t2lst Oduber, 18(13, ki.owing the same tu be forged, with intent to defraud Henry Marks. He was also indiaed upon two similar charges on two other notes. Henry Marks, a Jew, stated, that he was a sales man, resisting in High -street, Holborn—arid, on Sunday morning, tho Bth of April last, between nine and ten o'clock in the morning, the prisoner, in company with another person, came to his shop, and purchased a waistcoat from him, which he had made up for himself ; the pike was 136.6 d. and the prisoner offered him a one-pound ilover Bulk-Note in payment. Suspetging the validity of the note, he asked the prisoner some questions, who told him he had received the note at Deal Barracks, where he worked ; he came to town vety late the night before, or i.e would • have got the note changed at the Bank. Not having sufficient change, he desired the Prisoner either to leave the waistc , at, or call for his change the ne:.t room ing, the latter of which he agreed to ; he then asked his name, and place of residence, which he told him was William Williams, et No. 14, Pitville- Street, Tottenham Court Itoad. The next morn ing be went to the aink, and the wste wa, a for gery. After making every inquiry, he could Mid neither the person or streA the Prisoner had de scribed. He t.ok particular notice of the Pri soner's person, and was pOtilive he was the same. lie had seen the waistcoat at Bcw.strect, and knew it to be the one he had sold to the Prisoner. Henry Morris, a clerk in the bank of Minet and Peftor, proved the names of the firm of the house, RS stated in the indhflment, and swore positively as to the signature cf the note not being the hand writing of any of the partners. William l)o nell, a constable., from Birmingham, proved that he had searched the lodging of the Pri soner at Livery -street, Birmingham ; his wife gave him a duplicate of a waistcoat and pair of breeches, both of which he released, and produced in Curt. The former was proved by the tailor who made it for Marks. 'l'h• Jury found the Prismler Guilty—Dens/J. Witham Simon 4 was indided for stealing five shirts and other articles from Ceorge Hollings. It appeared that the Prisoner had been for some time servant to the Prosecutor, who lived In Park-street : when about to discharge the Prisoner, he missed these articles, and having procureda search warrant. he found them in a bna belonging to himself in a lodging the Prisoner had taken at the back of his house. The Prisoner being called upon for his defence, stated that he had buughe the several articles from one Sarah M.Croatii, a fellow -servant, who lived with the Prosecutor. The Jury found him Gially of stealing to the value of 39:. CUTTING AND MAIMING Milian. Car, egias was capitally inJined for making an assault on Thomas Dounleday, and with a sharp instrument striking and cutting him on his two fore fingers of his left haridi with intent to disable him. It appeared that on the I sth of January last a funeral was ploceeiling down Holborn towards the Pantheon Chapel, which was attended by the charity girls. In passing Gray's Inn Lane, the Prisoner in sulted the children, and conduCled himself in a very indecent manner. Some gentlemen, who saw the transaction, interfered, and assisted the undertaker, who happened to be a constable also, to take the Prisoner into custody; he mad:: violent resistance, and used every effort to make his escape. On some persons crying out " He's got a knife, take care of him," the Prosecutot, Doubleday, perceived the two first fingers of his left hand cut to the bone : the Prisoner at the same moment was observed to throw a knife away. Justice CNANIBIE, in summing up the evidence, observed, that the Ad of Parliament, on which the indielment was framed, was a very recent one, and made the crime, with which the prisoner was charged, a capital offence. To support the indiA ment, it was necessary to satisfy the minds of the Jury, that the aft was .tone with intent to disable, or do sortie grievous bodily harm. In the present in stance, no such case had been made out, and there was another error also in the indiftmcnt ; it called the prosecutor, in one count, by the none of Tho mas, and, in the others, by the name of William ; upon the whole if the case, he thought the Jury should acquit the prisoner. He was accordingly emitted, but was remanded, to be tried for a felony the ma Sessions fir the colrity if Slimy. - • e'rn.o,;4:nis Iyv riki T. A ciraintttance, which we cannot 'this much lament, caused an inquisition to be held yestcria7 at the Swan Inn, at Stratford. in Essex, on the holy of Mr.Josepli Biggs, who died on Wedncsday morning Mr. .11.sitor, the Coroner, in a very feeling way, explained to the Jury the cam; thcl were met upon, and tile case they had to determine, and then pro ceeded to call the evidence. Mr. Islanby, who. three Teats ago, ',erred the of fice of High Sheriff of Esser, some time since W al instrumental in raisiiig a Corps of Volunteers at Stratford, who, on tlier bci3g e'mlsodied,cle&S hint to he their Major. The Corps exercise weekly, on Thursdays; on the 50th of August,. they had In.ert out, and about six in the eveninp, were returning home : the Corps had to pass the Swan Inn, where the deceased was standing. He was reckoned one of tire most facetious men in the tos T e, and could blin..-10. as the coachman's phr: se a rum sink. lI used some etpref.sionit at which Corporal Smith took offence, who struck him in the tia ahead with the butt-end of his musket. The deceased being oh: viously much hurt, one of his four sr ns in law sent a cLaisc for Sir William Wizard, who,. on the first view, declared the patient could not live long ; the OS frantic was completely fractur ed, and so driven in, as to produce a c ineussion of the brain; the extravasated blood from whirls would inevitably lodge in the glands, and cause mortification. The event proved his juigment for, after languishing under the most excruciating pain, for thirteen days, he died on Wednesday morning, without a groan, leaving a son, four daughters, and fourteen grand children, to lament his lots. The Jury, under all the circumstances, brought in a verdia of Alawhiug/icr against Corpo ral smith. PONTEFRACT RACE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. I?. Sweepstakes of 30 gs. 10 gs. forfeit ; co!ts Rst. 21b. fillies 7,t. 151 b. th.n tyre : year olds—The last mile and three quarters. -Sir 55' G:r br col:, by Chatioy . . . . 1 Lord FA4...lli.mn's bay hay. Maiden . . . . 1 I to 5, the field against Chariot. TUB SAMS DAY. The Gold Cup of 100 gs. value, a Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each, with 20 gs. added—Three. year olds 84t. 2 1b. Four-year olds 7st. lei& Five year olds 13 , t. 51h. Sir-year old, Bct. Pill. Aged 9a. 'Wires and Geldings allowed 31b.— Four miles. Marc:s . , ..... t Isonl Ds,,o3r.i•i•s Ifl:thatar.l i and S to 1 on Haphazard. llig SAME DAT. The Macaroni Stakes, a Sweepstakes cf lOgs. each,. for horses. ilcc. not thorough bred, Ivit each; and to be rode by Gentlemen.—Two certificate of their pedigree to be produced be- fore starting. Nu. L. W iartliWs horse, C .96-yer Mr L. 1.. li*dirsQn s colt, Olynspot 2 to 1 on the Grey. . . LITCHFIELD R. , IOES, Gut. 1!. King's. Plate of I.oogs. by 5 yrs old; three mil^ heats. :At It. h Wa't,n I 1 Su W W. Wy mw b. h . 2 dr Mr. Dyolt% b. mby Joe Andre... . 3 2 SAME DAY. A stake of I Gag. An ages ; one two•n.ge hear. I.d. Grey. vc. Sur Oliver, 4 yrs old. . Str C. B elury% b. h. mold 2 Mr. C,.ventrv. Laura, 4 yr. old . . 3 Mr. Kellerman'. ;Vary, 4 yrs old . . 4 A very excellent heat for the stakes; Sir Oiivet won by only half a neck. Mary was not more than two lengths from the winner. A Coroner's Inquest has been held at Southend, upon the body of the late Mr. I tremor.. %erdi.l, eq the v;sitoltun of God." The Grand Jury, on Thursday at twelve, :brew orit the Bill of Indiarnent which was prefer ..c1 against THoM ss M•r.ert.L tl .s4NAt.t., fora felony ; in attemp:iri to discharge a p;stol at Mr. J seine, near the Crown and Anchor Tavern, du.ing the law Eleaion. 21 dreadful fire happened on Thursday evening, Sept. 6 : the castle ct Sir Ta•acrss LiSSIM AN, at Yeasley Moor. Hilhngdcn , Middlesex, was entirely consumed to ashes, together with all his valuable live stock, estimated at a considerable amount. lie was a staunch friend of Sir FRANCIS r . It requires but little calculation to shew the ad vantages in favour of adventurers in the ensuing Lottery; they are more considerable than have been for nr.nr Toms. A bare perusal of the scheme is alone sufficient to justify this assertion; and, if com pared with the last Lottery, in propertion to the number of Tickets. there will be found an addition of 32,0001. in Prizes in favour of the present one, and the Tickets selling only at the same price. tin der such circumstances, it is almost needless to uts serve that I ickets must rise considerably before the drawing, though the time is short, as it commences on Mon lay the . .3th instant. Messrs J. lots:. ore and Co. ever grateful for the pre-eminence with watch the public have Distinguished their Cifice, particu• larly recommend an early purchase, and respedfully inform their numerous Frienjc and the Public, that _ the Tickets and Shares arc on sale. in , t groat variety of numbers, at their truly fortunate Lic.nted State Lottery Office, No. 3, Pope's Head Alley, Corn hill. London, remarked far more than thirty years in selling numerous Capital Prizes. In consequence of the very great Demand for Tickets and Shares at the old established State Lot tery Office of Ho lINSBY and Co. they beg leave to recommend to all those who purpose having a Chance in the present State Lottery for either id the three 20,0013 L three 10,0001. three 5,0001. or any other Capital Prize, not to delay buying the same immediately. N.B. Orders, by Letter or Carrier. for Tickets and Share., executed ezaaly on the same Terms as it present. *.• All Prizes, whether of 201. or 20,0001 paid on I)cmand at the old established State. Lottery Ckic: 4314 Cu. e,Curobill.