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IRELAND. (From The Dubhn Correspondent, March 1.) TRIAL OF THE RIBBONMEN. ROSCOMMON ASSIZES, MARCH 1. The Crown- t , rosecutinus commenced this day. The first person put on trial was Stephen U' Garry, charged with burglary, with intent to commit a robbery ; 2d indictment, for demanding money - ;- 3d India went, tor breaking into the dwelling. house of Michael lianuully, after sun -set, and in juring the same 4th indictment, for forcibly ex acting money ; sth indictment, for demanding_ sarti, with intent to rob; 6th indictment, for ap pearing by night, armed. A most respectable Jury having been sworn, Mr. VANDELEUR, ICAding Counsel for the Crown, addressed t h e Court in an able Speech, of whicll the following is the substance:- - He said he was pleased to find that, at this awful moment, lrben the peace of the county was at stake, a Jury of so great respeetability had been selected. They tang be, one and all, aware of the critical situation of the county. The Gaokr's Calendar was rcpiete with crones of the deepest die,-• tendin4 to overturn the Constitution, and to throw the country into a state of anarchy and confusion. At such an eventful pe riod, the state of the country depended on 'i manly and . zealous discharge of the fluty which devolved upon Jurors.— Every thing that was dear and valuable in lite was cottiigned to their protection. L e t not those spoliators, said the Le:tined Counsel, seize upon your properties, and devastate the county. Tou all have experienced the benefits of social order in, tia.es of tranquillity, and lain certain you must now feel the reverse, owing, to thy diabolical machinations of those disttabers of your county's peace. That county demands . justice at you ] bands —discharge y our d uty consc i eui iouily, and with wanly fitrairless. The prisoner Brought bef o r e y o u stands charged with a s. fits of ei noes, alini{st all of which are of an in surrectiimary nature. Accurately and niiiintely inteeti gate the case; and %%Ali all due lenity towards .the pri soner; but let ❑ot prejudice or terror affeiglit you from an upright discharge of your duty—the influence of terror, in deed, Must be foreign to your minds. From what motives those crimes have been multiplied in this County, is to me quite inexplicable. Why were they out in theiraufancy ex tinguished by the Magistrates It is strange how any wau could have skulked.from his dirty, When outrage was so pre valent. Apathy must have gut the better of that duty, which the Magistracy at large wet e bound to adhere to. It is to this the increase of crime is to be imputed. But the arm of the law is too strong fur those nuctorrial disturbers of your peace; and, as long as the Juries of this county shall be auxiliary to that law, those crimes will he put down. Outrage in the sister Kingdom was promptly put down—why out also in Ireland? The Irish, taken' in the aggregate, are as loyal as the English ; but from the apathy and supineness of the Magistrates, outrage has made such nead in this county, that an auxiliary force was necessary to be sent down, for the pur pose of exterminating its baleful inritacirce. It .must succeed in putting down crime, if you lend your aid, a nd peace and j - good order will be once inure restored. In the sister King doni outrage has been most promptly put down ; why is it not likewise put an end. to here?—Want of surficieat energy is the cause. The consequence ts, a hideous . catalogue of crimes appear on the calendar of the County of Roscoairoun. In the discharge of • your duty, you will bare the zealous co-operation of the Government, who ace determined-to put down these disturbances. What ohj e et can these deluded wretches propose to themselves ? • delusive prospects have they in view? Some examples are necessary to recal them to their duty, and to render them amenable to the law. Let thrill ilivassionately search their own minds—let theist pause tor awhile, and consi der what they could propose to themselves by the perpetra tion of such crimes, and the result will be, that all is visionary, and that nottinig could he achieved by the conumsdon of such outrages. Tue Learned Couriset concluded by saying, that he should .not trouble the Jury any longer on the subject, conscious, as lie w As, that they would zealously and faithfully discharge their d u ty, w i t h out fear, favour, or affection. The evidence. on the part of the Crown here commenced, end fully supported the indictments. After a recapitulation ot h by the Learned Judge (DALY), the Jury, without quitting their box, foitud the prisoner guilty upon all the indictments. • The Learned Judge had the prisoner then called' up for sentence, and, after a most energetic and feeling appeal to those present, on the extent rind enorwity_ot .the crimes, which appeared so preva lent in the County of Roscommon, Ise passed the awful sentence . of the law, but has pot yet ap pointed a day for his execution. The next .trial which took place, was that of Patrick Freelrily, John Coyhe, John Flanagan, Patrick Conlan, anti Hugh APNatnara, Charged, under the 15th and 16:h of the King, with assem bling by night, and wearing badges, and assum ing the name of Ribbonmen. TO support this case, it was proved, on the pate of the Crown, that those- p'ersons, in company with up wards of fifty mote, were tnet,.at 4 o'clock on the morning of. the 30th of 'lli:cember last, by Omen Young, Esq., a Magistrate of this County, who had pteyiuusiy received information of their in tention ; and before they could proceed to any acts of outrage, he, with a small party, consisting of 12 persons, attacked this gang of nightly ma rauders, luta -Soc.c.octied iii - appreitendng the pri soners. The prisoners wt-re all . jOynd . ..Guilty ; •i nit sentence has -not brew s. yet passed:: !flats trial lasted until eight o'clock ip the evening. Mr. YOUNG 111 ,, 5t zealously and actively die. charged his duty as a Al agistrate upon this occasion. —w hat Government are determined to render every assistance to the resident Gentry of Connaught, to put down the serions disturbances that exist there at present. The following regiments are on their march to the counties,of Galway, Mayo, and Roscommon :—The Bth Royal Veteran Bar. talion, one thousand strong, from Dundalk ; an d the 93:1 Highlanders, from Naas. Four troops of the 30 Li'ht Dragoons were . to anise from Newbridge at BaUlna, on Wednesday last. Thomas Gelscon, Esq., Co►unhissary itt the Lime rick District, proceeded on Monday afternoon from Limerick to Bal!ilia, to provide forage, &e., for the cavalry ordend to be stationed these. An .t,iTray took place on Wednesday last, in Ilaloe, in which the usual Gladiators of that place were the actors. Fire-arms were exhibited iu abundance on both sides, and - used with effect ; one man, named Francis M`Namara, received two balls in his body, and there .are but little hopes of his recovery. FOR TIIE SUN. The foul crime in a neighbouring Nation I have no doubt is mainly to be :Ott United to what are falsqytermedliheral Doctrines. Doctrines detestable, which like those of Wooler and Co. in England, aim at the annihilation of all just moral feeling—rendering at once the unhappy wretches who be come Proselytes to them, meet Artificers of Treason, Murder, and Pillage. • O ! C&BBETT, thou bast much to answer for. fithniimte in a weekly appeal addressed to the worst passions of the lower orders, thou bast, I hesitate not to say it— sown the seeds of Treason and Assassination ! Without making thee absolutely .shat the Law terms a Particeps minis, in the eye of reason thou must ever stand identified with the foul proceedings which have just issued in Wood and . treason, and which so painfully arrest otir attention at the present moment. Nothing but discontent and crime, in its worst of forms, could be the harvest of the corrupt seed sown with such diligence in the public breast. It is impossible that the tenets of Sedition can be innocuously disseminated.: nor, if the higher classes of the Community be invariably held up as the proud oppressors of their inferiors, and the cause of their stifle, inns, is it possible for such monstrous ca lumnies to have any other tendency than to encourage a dis position to hatred, ending, Perhaps, in bloodshed. Once unsettle the mor:al principles of 'mankind, and you open the Hood-gates to the mcst savage and inhuman atrocities. The The first to Irssoos of contentpt, too, as We'l as hatred of that riecessirry contruul which Governm e nts must exerc i se , , c;truili,..:::k*e ue9- canted upon in the way they are in the factious Journals,' without produci g► effects. highly injurious - to the public peace, anti to good order, If, therefore, three he any'trut in the previous observations, it is the buithden duty of every . • . . friend to his country to assist, might and malt', in plati ng down thitse engines iof misehief—the inflammatory Presses— that they way no longer. scatter streams of pOisoli throogltuut the land. It is evident, that the humbler classes of Soci, ty were much happier when they had no contact with a polluted press . They understood, and indeed performed.their duties:better, and —I repeat it —were, hi every-sense, happier beings than they are now, under ihe false glimmering of light --a - vt. of uggler's light—let out ur' their in the tile imprints of in .ereAe4 knaves, whose only object .is the filling et their own purses. At a crisis, then, like the present,' our - Country has the highest claims upon our public spirit and patriotism. Anew Parliament is about to he convened. It is imperative upon us, therefore, to elect, such individuals as Representatives, who are known to cherish a proper respect for the LaWs',— and fur the Government that administers those Laws. Men who could stand up in the House of Commons, as they did a few weeks ago, and prate about the sound and healthy state of the Nation, should now have an instructive lesson dealt out to them. They should nut - be• again entrusted with powers they have shown themselves so ill qualifiej ; to use, What—let me ask—might have been our actual condition this day, had Ministers listened to the Galimatias of a err. tain Party. The face of our fair Country might have been reeking in blood ! One shudders, indeed, to think what might have been our fate, but for the firm front and energy of Ministers. From the foul Conspiracy of Treason Heaven protect 'lss! . . But, while we invoke the God of our Fathers, let as notch's— regard the sage counsel given In the fable by Jupiter, to the Cartman. Arouse, then, ye true Patriots ; and to the hallowed work before ye, with the Spirits of Men, of Eu lishmcu'. Be firm : choose fur your Representaii'vei indivi duals, who you know will execute tht sacred trust reposed in them, to the honour of God, and to the satisfaction of their Country. But reject—steadily reject all those who have, by their stubborn devotion to party, or their short-sightedness, well nigh subjected their native soil to Massacre and Ruin. Mardi 4, lEiO. ANGLICUS. CORN , EXCHANGg, NAliCtl S.—Although there was but little fine Wheat at nooket this morning, the salt of it was far from being brisk,' but 0 - hat was disposed of was on the same •terms as on Monday. Fine Burley supports Monday'S Rites ; we have had none fres.h in since that day, but he inferior qualities were very heavy. sale, yet• not cheaper. Oats were dull safe, but not lower. In Beans and Peas there is no alteration. The celebrated Scolipot CANOVA, has been com missioned to execute a pedvstrian statue of Itovs sEnu in white mat irk, at the expellee of a nume rous bode/ yof Genoese subscribers. This mono. 'tient is intended to decorate one of the public buildings of Geneva. Si tihi vOra videtur, Dcde menus, et si false est acciugcre contra.--Lucn. MR. EDITOR—A well-wisher to my eounrry, 1 take up my pen to,,offer, through the medium. , of your loyal and patriotic Journal, a few remarks at this Tremendously important crisis. God knows words can but ill depict the general feeling in the country, produced by the fortunate discovery of the hors rid plot, whose avowed object was the assassination of hi- Majesty's Ministers. What will the sceptics now say ? Wilj they still boldly affirm that there is no revolutionary spirit at work in the country, threatening not only our safety, but oar very existence Wilt the Party still arraign those at the helm, those truly profound Statesmen, who have steered the State, and indeed the Nation in safety, amidst daggers, treason, and incipient rebellion. Dare they have the hardi hood to insin!atte that there was no danger, that all was trick on the part of the Ministry? No, I will not believe there can he any intellect so perverse, as to stand out against the facts, — the damning facts,—disclosed by thd murderous confederates of Cato-;street. Praised he Heaven I that the hut plot, was timely (fi'scoveted; and that the vile wretches were frustrated in their career of blood. Malignant, as undoubtedly some of the plats are that stain our annals, I really do not think any one is more so than that of which TritsrLEwoon is the head and leader. But that the fiends were pounced upon in them den. reflects the highest credit on the public:counsels. Is it not now self-evident, how much succes s h as a tt en d e d the efforts of, those wretched Scribblers and Factionists, the ConamTs—the: Wooic us—the &c. who have la boured by their pestilent 'publications, to make th e people believe that all ' public men were equally Cornipt. ;and that being thus corrupt, they deserved to he'll eatcd as arrant foes to the State. Hints of the fittest nature were given as plain: ly as language could convey them: and sorry alit I, that the lenity of Government so long suffered slid, infamous Writiugs to circulate, unrestrained, throughout the Country;--fur not only had they the most. evil tendency to the Government direct, but, what was by no means of inferior moment, 40- gion itself was sapped by the poisonous streams that issued front the impure fountain. r illlE SUN. SOLES' QUIS DICERS FAI.SUM AUDEAT ? LON DON , WED NES I) A 111.1 RCH 8,, 1820. Among the Cdrti‘date s for the Representation of the of London, it must be gratifying to see .Sir Wrt.Cimi - CURTIS fake his stand. The tt car by Baronet tvas ct;ived by all good and to fleeting men tvith the applause which his public 'and private charmer well deserve, and we trust, that he despises those who nitwit - est ed towards hire different sentiments. He a(!ell essed the people with manly spirit and firmness. Mess; s. WOOD and WArrnm-kN also addressed the Meeting, atm were not sinning in cowtnendation of their own conduct, principles, and intenfions,. Messrs. WILSON and TaoaP spoke with a degree of mo dest respect, which indite a vely ditlerent hopres sion upon the people. The slim of hands was in favour of the tour late Menthe's, but the Poll is the test, and we sincerely hope that the great issue of it will restore the Worthy Baronet to that seat which he u ell &serves by his iiregrity, Ids principles, his at teotion to the honour and interest of the City, and his info atrachntent to our gio- riuus Consfilutioh iri Church dud State'. IVe have given in our Paper this day, a brief, but fully sufficient account of the Meeting whiCl► tot,l, place }'e , tetslay at ti►e Free Mototas' ltivern, for the purpose, of adopting meas.aes to secure . the I : eturu of. S. C. WHITBREAD, 1.11-q as one of the Rept esentatives of the County of Middlesex. The chief Spokesman on the occasion was Sir FRANCJS RuEDeTT, who, in the course of a long barangue Upon all the common-place topics su repeatedly taged by the HUNTS, the - CoBBETTs, and 'other quoiidarn ft tends of the 13. it otter, iu Spa, fields, Stni!htield, Palace-yard, and other places, we might Pr! iJaPs say factious Meetings, poured out yest - etclay a tt.ll portion of a bo.e against Go vernment, 'Ministers, the late War, &c. &c. In the course of his speech he said the ele rice power wa3 too confined, by which he must evi dently Mean to recommend Universal Suffrage, if not Annual Election. The Bar , net openly de clared that he came forward more in opposition to Mr, MELLISH than to support MI.WHITEREAD, of whom, he said, he knew nothing. lie re marked on the youth of that Gentleman, but said that he gave him credit for tight principles, and re presenting Mr. Matt.ign as the niece tool of Mi nisters. The People must be disgusted with this personal attack on a Gentleman of independent principles, esiintable private character, long ex perience, and a fortune equal to that -of the young. Gentleman whom the Baronet thought proper to recommend to the choice of ,the Freeholders, though ,avowedly unacquainted with him, and therefore most probably whiiily ignorant of his principles and capacity. Such a recommendation is . disgraceful to the Baronet, instating to the Freeholders, and indeed spews a contempt of public opinion, and a total indiffer ence-to his own clkaraeter.. Another of the Party Speakers at this Met.Ttingtas the Rev. Mr. DRAPER As we know nothing of this Political Divine, we'shal not say with the Poet, " ill befdl theme meddling Plints," but we cannot help regretting that a Minister of ihe,Cospvl sliouhl thus discegatd his sacred function, anal, instead of mixiog himself with Party Meetings. and giving a stimulus to '?adical Dbetrines, does not rather endeavour o difluse the truths of our Holy Faith, and to ustruct his flock in such a manner as may render hem vit !nous and happy here, and prepare them for a better world,' where he himself will be called upon to answer for his conduct on Earth, and where his political principles seem not to he very well calculated to recommend lrirn to the God of Peitce. As there is something peeidier in the Deptita.7 lion from the Corporation of DAlio, in older to prrsent an Addiess of Condolence and Congriint- Icion to his :NIAJE"ITY on the De alt of his TII EATRIC 411, ItEGISTE l'erforated Last Night. THIF.A tRE ROYAL, DItIIRY-LANTE:.—The flrbrel,v; Principal CliarActers by Mr. Kean and Mrs. W. West. after which, Frightened to Death. • TH EATLI . F. ItnYAL , COVE:VT-GA Rrn:N.--The Antiquary: Love', Mr. Oulmset : Miss Isabella Wardour,Misstiteiiliens., After which, Tlui Mariaeur itfpistress ; to ou Late, foF Dinner. - No.. PRICE OF STOCKN 1413 IIA Y AT rr/F.l..vi-: o'cLocti. 3 per Cent. C0n5..... ~.68ifi India Bonds .... 14s. Iss. pr. 7i fierCt. Nary Ann. tOli 10-1 Exch. Bills, 9d.... Is. its. dis. Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann..... 634 Cons. fur Account ....Gel ti 9 • NIA ILS. Atuct vEts—l Dublin-2 Waterford. Dug—l Waterford, 2 Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Gottenburgh, Lisbon, I flaniburgli. • •lIICH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-NloltltOW. Alurnitsg, 52 minutes atter 8. I Evening, 34 minutes attar 9, 'fl►e Paris Papers of Sunday' last, I% bleb tvet lue this morning, have not arrived.. . able Father aria his consequent Accession i n j Throne, the snbit et - seems to be entitled t° P, cidar notice. 1 7 t is, we believe, nnprecedd ihat a Lord Mayor of Disblin should be pitted in parson to :his Couritcy 4l ,o, sk; ,4l l' s a p 'ose., i t i s; therefore, higies,ki aura c o Present Corporation i,f that anc i ent City, an d more so as they have selected Sir WILL STAMaR, Bart., a Gentleman of the higli gst spectability, anti who is un i versa ll y est eenle ti his•Fellow-Citizens. This worthy Baronet, " g' derstand, has taken the office wholly at fa° 9 : expence. He is at present in London, waiting i i return of his MAJESTY hum Brighton. Si (ice arrival o f th e L ord Mayor of Dublin, the o porai ion of that City, in consequence of the ti cent horrible Conspiracy, aSsenibled, and s°o , _Resoluti ons re l at i ng to that transaction unanimously * passed on the occasion, °d i Lave been transmitted to, his LordshiP' o older th at t h ey may be presented to bi 9 issTv's Ministers. We have - inserted itesolutions in our Paper . , this day V I I are su c h as m i g h t b e expected from all Subjects, and men of ssisdom and- hntriani!P, may not be improper to present some acco° ° the LOR D MAYOR, AIM, with such a 10:01 , he diNioter este d sp i r i t, has come forward on ( caSioil. Sir WILLIAM STAMItR, Bart., 4`lP ow a second time serving the high Dike 0 Lot d M a y or o f D u b lin, is the only , the kind its the Annals of Ireland, an office, he supports gratuitously, as well as the Or r !, of the Mission which be has undertaken by 11e ' l zi ' , of the Corporation, His LordAip, we find' ir High Sheriff o f D u bli n i n the trying period ()ft,' Irish R e b e lli on. H et hen com mandril, and does'il,f w e believe, a corps of Yeomanry, the only o ne l ' cl of embodied in that City. Having said thus inoc li t , ibis meritorious Representative of a truly re s P e i,, able Corporation, it is but just to metstioo honourable manner in which he has been rec' ive tl in this Country. Hi s M AJESTY ' S Ministers 114 c treated him kith all the respect d ue to his 4:1 1l 10 character. His Loldship has been invited dinners purposely to receive hint, particularlY b ' Lnrd SIDMOUTH and Mr. VANSITTART• I.llr. PEEL has also paid him the same complimeat' v , His Countrym an , Si r M. "I'IERNEY, We ° , l lO derstand, • stro4ly pressed him to vi=ii eat 13r1 - ghtort. The season of the year bac'' : pre vcre t his Lords l,ip from brin g i ng ro Country any part -of his dornestk establishnie ° and being only accompanied by the Gentica le : officially c onnecte d with the present Lo ll ; , Alavoit of Lond on h as of f ered his cat riAge to IVILLt tint only Inc the day when his MAJO I. will receive the Address, but rdso during his '' 3l in ari, City. Sir-WILLIAM bud Mr. Sheriff 1%° 1 : ViLLE Dublin) di ne d on S aturday last the Russia Company at the City of Loudon 'J'' vern, where s om e o f hi s M AJESTY ' S Minisre . •ve were present. As our PMper h a s_ an extol° circulation in Ireland, and as we entertai" tt high respect for our loyal fellow-subjects of Countty in general, as well as for the Corporaii ° : of Dublin, we have thought it necessary to W ei' , these partic u l ars , f or t h e purpose of shewing esteem and regard iu which the Sister Island :t held, by the att ent i on which hos thus been, p6 l' to its tenTorary Representative, the Right f - lo n LORD MAYOR of its Metropolis. SPIN. Mra, it has been already 'stated, entered Spain, O beil numbers a re sa id to have been hastening to join h, ourney of that Chief through France was not effected witbolii considerable difficulty, as he had been fur some time reOr de , • with s t i s pi c i on, and all his motions during his residence t 0 Paris were strictly watched. Ile contrived to elude the A i/ lance of the Police, by pretending to have received a severe itj' jury by the overturning of a cabriolet, arid voluntarily O m jeding himself to a dose confinement to his apartment, f ' _quitted Paris late on tfrr evening of the 18ili ult. with great Se' .ciecy, and arrived at Bordeaux before day-break on the IWO , jug of the baying Si, arranged his plan, of travelling; to enter tire principal towns on his route at a very calif very late h our , i n or d er to avoid observation. At Bordea a Mina was -recognised by.sume one who knew him, and th e event of his arrival there was transmitted to the Span ° embassy f:t Pa l i' s , w h o were h ot aware till this intelligen-et M cracked th em , th a t Mina read quitt e d th e F renc h ca pita i,. Still', however, he had difficulties to surmount, as a gene t ' order bad been re n t to Bayonzie to detain and examine strict if nil Spaniards passing the frontier. At 3 o'clock. in the rrOfir im; of the 24: h, entered St. Esprit, a suburb of Bayonl' ff with two gentletNea .whO had accompanied him from Paris' and the suspicions of the -police being excited, on the i n/ spection of their passports, an attempt was made to p l ac e Or in confinement. Their mode of escap e i n this . histance " ( : 1 known ; th e y su dd en ly di sapp e are d , however, leaving.hebiTig sonic valuable proletty, and all traces of them were I °s till the when adrices were received at Bavonife that !dina had h< en seen at a . <.illage in. Navarre, abv,ut 9 leag ue ; distant, at tke head of 500 followers. At ; Potuplona, 3" • other towns in that part of Spain, a spirit of disaffection t) the present Cinvenuoent was believed to exist. In advi ce ! , ,ftota Cadiz, of- the 19th ult., received yesterday, it is stat e : that the troops in the Isle de Leon had determined on a ag' f, tte attack on the Cortadura, and that no less than 4 6 .1) ficers had • voiunt e ered' to 'ser ve i n th e a tt em pt, .which'ss,. N it consid,red as a sort of forlorn hope, in which, many lives sacrificed.—'Times.)be