The Sun. — London, England, 1803-09-10 00:00:00

Slog foi t Nam Sko oto 00 : od co Y; le ni to a A, month 16'43 as ago the weekly return .off the Army iolluw6 Cuar4 IN ENGLAND. Cavalry (Regial:rtl " . lo,oro Artillery, ( t i 7 ‘" " - 17,000 A e Pla,lis Infant ty i t ; i ,,,,.. -, - 1 raised 3 ' l ' tor tile A rm k - - ,, rigaaout2o,coo t ict) YOt )4,4ilitia e • ""ve . ..4-c' . XClusive of the Supplementary - 4Mo° IN SE,E.i.AND. ' Mi Xe Li arsgul alto et he ' - li4 • t ' • - 34,ec•0 . .. . , 20.000 . , . The Regular Force now in Britain is not less tharl 100.000 men, the Militia nearly the same number, lanti the Volunteers almost a million. reland 'The Force in has been greatly augmented. The Volun. Ittts th ere are v ery strong. In and about Dublin alone, there are ro,octo Yeomanry. ,Dl3patches were yesterday rec e iv e d at t h e Ad ' rn , n !ralty tram Admiral CORNWALLIS, ciateCl the Ist , . 1 ' t' They bring n o news of importance. The &t. " e nlY's Fleet liad shewn no disposition to move, at the time those Dispasches left the Fleet. We understand 'that EovVAAD GOLDING, ' Esq. Mekber for Fowey, i s to b e the new Lordof the i'r , i reasury, n t h e room of Mr. pysthia Mr. GOLD. Is° i' the intimate friend of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHIqUEIt. The 66th and Star Regiments, at presertt at jer 7 . , l eY and Guernsey, are-to be relieved immediately tthe 3 1 st and 91st .' Th e T ransports will be 4 next wetk.. Thase Regimuts arc chiefly totoposed of the Army of Reserve. fo rmer OLU Witucittr, Esq. is app o i n t e d to his t 4, si otlan,i.tLatiQo of Agent of Prisoncrs of War in " As soon as I shall be enabtel to rlartint with more particularity the ofFers which have been trans , muted by your 'Lordship, I shall have the honour of communicating) His Majesty's special dirctlions on the subjlet. In the mean time, I cannot omit this opportunity of informing your Lordship that it is dearly to be understood that, under the genuine construetion and meaning of the late AOs of Parlia ment, all Volpnteer Corps and Companies to be accepted subsequent to their passing, should be form. ed with reference to the general ,Militia System. It follows that no Company ought to consist of less than Sixty Privates, and that no Body of Infantry can be c. , nsidered as a Corps which consists of less than three such Companies; and that all smaller assemblages of Volunteers, under the above.men tiOned Acts, within any County, Parish, or l)istrici, shall be thrown into Independant Companies of not less than sixty, nor more than eve linnbed and kventy Privates. The Establishment of Field and . Company Officers, as well as of Serjeants, Corporals and Drummers, is to be axed by the same rule. 4 " In the Yeom an ry C ava l r y, h owever , a dif ferent arrangement will continue to prevail ; single Troops may be accepted as Corps, not being less than Forty Rank and File, though it is much to he wished chat in ull cases they should be carried, if possible, to sixty or eighty effettives per Troop ; and that two or more Troops, wherever local cir. cumstances will 'permit, should be joined together for.the purposes of discipline, and interior arrange. ments. • " I take leave to makeit my earn es t request to your Lonifilip_that you, -Will favour me, at your earlies(convenience, with an exact return of the dif.• fethit Corps heretoftire accepted, or which are now transmitted for consideration, or which you may hereafter think'proper to recommend for acceptance, speCifying the particulars of their establishment ac. cording to a form which you will receive herewith. I Cannot sufficiently impress upon you the necessity of furnishing me with this document, with the least pos t sible delay, as great embarrassment is found to :rise from a want of sufficient precision upon these• points. gg Should it have happened that the number of persona:'who have offerer! themielves, up to this pe riod, to serve in Volunteer Corps or Companies, has exceeded the proportion limited, in the first in, stance, by,Lord HoDmiz's Circular Letter of the ath inst. for the County of . , and should your Lord s hi p b e of opinion that it would contribute to the satisfadion of those who might by such tation be prevented from manifesting their zeal for. the public fervice, I have the honour to inform your. Lordship, that there will be no objection to a certain number of such persons, properly sele'ted, being at. 'ached to the accepted and established Corps, as S upernumeraries, in such a proportion per Troop or Company as shall be 'hereafter fixed upon. "' It is, however, 'important, that i t s h ou ld b e clearly understood ? . that no.expence is to be i ncurre d by the P u bli c 09 account of the arms, pay, or cloach. ing 'of such Su,pernumeraries ' • and that t h ey w i ll . not be consid ere d as 'entitled to any exemptions from the Militia or other Ballots. I think it proper ro take this opportunity of communicating His Majesty's commabils to your Lordship, that measures should be taken without delay in communication with the General Officer commanding in the Distrid, for fixing upon - such pneral place o r pl aces o f assembly, for the different Volunteer Corps and established Companies of men within the County of ,as may be deemed most expedient in case of.lnvasion, or the appear. ance cf the Enemy in force. upon the Coast ;—and I am further commanded by His M;ajcsty to desire Your lndship, in communication with the General of the Distriet, to distribute such provisional or ders to such Volunteers Corps and established Co nt . panics of men as aforesaid, with respsd to -their. assembling togetlier and moving upon the general place s of a , ssemhly, so to he upon in theevents above alluded as the nature of the•caie'ruay'ap. fear tq.require. ". Your Lordship will likewise be pleased, in communication also with the General Otlicet com manding' , to make such arrangements, if not already respeCting Beacons, and other indications of alarm as May be thought necessary within the County , either with a view to the conveyance of Intelliviice upon points merely local, or in connec tion the other neighbouring counties toward s the sea`cOast.. I have the honour to . " 'My Lord, Your Lordship'ilmost obedient humble Servant, (Signed) 41 C.' YORKE." Th e . Lieutenant of the County of puBL Set r. 6. eUMNIISStON INTELLIGENCE. Felix Ro, rla was• this morning put to the bar, on the usual charges .of High, Treason, before the lowing Jury, viz. William Moore, Esq. Foreman. lamei Brush Francis Warren ,john Stanley Hickman Kearney Luke-Stock Alexander Clar;;.e, James Kiu►; john Kearns„ Benilinin Simpson . - Luke Connor John Wootirot The Prisoner at the Bar challenged nineteen of to pannel peremptorily, and the Court set aside fuurteen. The ATTORNEY GENERAL gave a very brief statement of the cage, of the Crown. In addition to the accustomed evidenCe'to prove the fad of an Insurredion on the night 'of the 2.3 d . of July last, Dopie/ M'Craith, Esq. was adduced, who depos ed as follows, vii, that he arrived in the City of Dublin on Saturday evening,, the 23,1 July ; came in the canal boat from the County Kildare ; arrived at the Canal Harbour two or three and twenty mi . mites before ten ; walked direelly to, James's_ street, from thence straight . to Thomas.street ; saw signs of great confusion on his way. Witness asked some whom he met what was the matter ? Many ran past without answers: others said they did not know--when Witness came near the narrow entrance et Thomas.street—was surrounded by five..ot six persons armed with - pikes—they asked him from whence he came, where he was going, and what his business-was, without waiting for a reply... Witness Made answer, that he-was a coun. try gentleman, who came to town on law busi ness, that he had just landed at the Canal ha/. bour—after this converaation one man struck him with the handle of a pike, while others appeared armed with blunderbusses, swords, and pistols, but much the greater part were armed with pikes ; they asked him if he was a friend, to which he re plied in the affirmative, then putting a pike into his hand, told him to fight his way ; after this they forced him to the head of their party ; had ,been a considerable way with them on their way to Thomas.street Church, where he saw .numbers of them help themselves to pikes. When be ap. pr'oached the Coin 'Market in Thomas -street, ' Witness saw a Dragoon piked on the flag.way a man then put a pike across the Witneq's breast, and desired him not to stir—the dragoon lay mo. tionleas in -the kennel, and each pike.man as he paased 'gave him a' prod—they seemed anxious about getting his sword, and asked much about it— the Rebels were not i n on e b o dy—they were in groups—after Wards the Witness saw a man on foot with a military hat and scarlet jacket—then saw a horse wounded, with a bridle and saddle, but could not discern whether it was accoutred or nut. The man whom he saw in scarlet was very adive in encou. raging the Rebel party, but observed that their rear was ‘ not sufficiently well ebrineCied with the front that if the King's Army came up they would be cut off; on which they replied, d—n the Aiiny, we are , not afraid, we will fight (lied.' 'Thin- per. son continued to animate the party, and said the Castle of Dublin would be their own in less than balk An hour , —there...were' 3 it) 50Ci men, as Witness believed, in the: diirerens arn.ed groups. A carriage drove up about the middle of Thomas.street ; it appeared a Gentleman's car riage, and the mob used violent threats to the potil_ lion, it he, did not keep Ma' hotses quiet, they would massacre him ; could, see twin Gentlemen and a Lady in the carriage ; horses took head , and they assembled round them, on which be, Witness, took that oPpOrtunity to escape ; had often attempted to make an escape before, but - found all the avenues by' Which he could efred it &tided, and the party around him Crying out -to watch the .fellow in the boots— Wi t iseas wearing military boots—while repeatedly driving hint into the centre of 'their body, the bet. ter to securetim.,Witness at length effeeted an escape and ivent up to ehe Castle. Prisoner's Counsel declined cross-examining him. Mahe) identified the Prisoner at the bar ;[ was in Dublin on the 23d of July; had remained in`Dublin continually previous to the 23 d day of Joly ; hawked goods generally, and 'lodged in Dirty:lane, at a Mrs. Doyle's ; had a comrade . with him, by name ,Ryan,. who on Sa, turday the 23d, had acentnpunied him in his usual occuputio.n ; returned to their lodgings about eight . o'clock ; left their goods there, and went out again, on the idea of consulting what goods to buy ; Ryan wished Witness to go with him to a woman who lived at some distance ;, Witness thought it toct.late, and was about returning to his lodgings when he met the Prisoner at the Bar, who stopped him at the corner of Dirty-lane : put a blunder-. buss, which he drew from under his coat, up to hien, and said if he did not go on quickly he would blow his brains our ; accosted Ryan in nearly the same manner; another man about 5 feet 6 . inehei high, .armed; with a blunderbuss also, useil gunge to,Witness and his comrade to the same ten. dency ; Rourke took . hold of Witness, and drove Ryan forward, who was seized with a vomiting, and was obliged to support himself by the .wall in Dirty-iatte ; •was subject to the Falling-sickne4s ; :Witness perceived numbers piking two filen ; saw the body . of, one man . and the head of another ; at this crisis the Prisoner, called, out to his party to do Ode duty, nod. free their . country ; saw the faces of John Killin and John M'Can. When Prisoner let ,the Witness loose he. saw John Killin "dart ,his pike into the' body of one of' the men whom he saw stritcbed'; and he saw John Nl , Can fire a )alunderbuss 'at the head he before described. Witness and Ryan were compelled to take pikes ; Rourke was dressed with 'an outside whitish coat, anti inside that had a dark-coloured green coat, with plated buttons quite new from the needle ; was ac companied by a man dressed in a scarlet coat, with a hat and feather ; Rourke appeared to have equal conimand with the military looking man ; some of the mob called him Captain, and the country.. ,men called him General ; 'saw a horseman, whom Prisoner accosted ; he was dressed in a dragoon's uniform ; but made no reply to the Prisoner's questions, on which. he ssemed to grow furious, fired his blunderbun, and killed the horse : the r; rlwr e.fl rile rid by the mitt_ . . , man, Vslttttgs Ariti Rpm stilt htta the piki3; i ng ; close to each other: Ar lentil they- found .in opp..nt`unity to escape ) with four. other. 3, a, they approached - Mva st reet - -Rya!) aod • Witnesi went to .the country near' Tallagh ; Wi t nes s an d Ry an stiii..keot their pikes, heing . afraid of the four men who -aveompanied them in their eseape, two rof Whom patted With them at the .end of the town, two inure went with them jnto The field until the dawning of the morning ; they then threw away their pikes ; ,Made a progress- through the country, not knowing where to go ; but found themselves near Tallagh ; were afterwards taken at Moan. trash ;• and examined before LOrd Castle-Coote, to whom they both told the whole ttutb. 4,...roo.eXaminea J ety • Jur. ....uitttAti—When the murders which 'Witness described hid been com mitted, he himself and his comrade had been armed with pikes; told every thing he swore this day from time to time to Lord Castle-Coote ; under. went examinations before 'his Lordship at different times, but cannot exadly say bow often he was examined ; when Witnesi was taken on suspicion at Mountrath he was committed to prison : his comrade and he were examined separately. The first day Witness was examined by Lord Castle- Coote, he believes his Lordship sent for him again to examine him ; could not then recollect whether he had been eremined by his Lordship two or three times, but if he swore that, it must be true ' • ; named. the Prisoner Rourke to Lord Castle-Coote on the first -day ; also mentioned Hays' name, the- Man who came to Rourke's assistance ; told his Lordship. he was taken at an ambush; ‘and. could not call' all The met's names to his recolledion. His Lordship seemed not content with the impeded account he gave at the first examination, and on Witness's next examination before him, mended his account with giving in the name of Killin ; is a pedlar; had been formerly ifs the Kildare Militia, ' where he was permitted to sell things. Q. Do you believe it to have been part of the Regimentals of the Kildare IVlilitia, to . , have their heels equipped with logs of 41 , 00d A. In resped of not keeping myself clean, .J was logged once at, LehauostOwn Camp, and another time at .114lbriggati ; heard he was sneer. ingly called Mahaffy the ting.dropper, because he sold pinchbeck rings ; he sold them only for what they were, but the people surmised he used' to sell them for gold ; the reputation of .that nature he received in the Regitoent was ralSe ; there was no general aspersion on birn,; some pt' the .men ,par. boured that opinion of him .through spite, because he bad More money than they had, and would not 'tan them : took an on!ii. against drinking ; he kept .his oath ;. his oath Was on his pocket_ hook, and he told same of his companions that he did not keep . it ; left himself -an . allowance of two pints of porter: antl,two glasses of spirits ; twice he broke Nis oat') ; his allowance wis too large, and he got drunk ; his pocker.h6ok contained nothing bus little bills of merchant;(; can neither read nor write; Al::tr he ,carne from Mountrath to Dublin ) be was convey e 4 io the Castle by Majoi .§wan. • Ryau, the associate 'of last Witness, corrobo rated all parts of his testimony, except .theidenti. ty either of the Prisoner at the bar or the two per. sons besidt , s, nginst whom Mahsffy swore—his ineapocky to • identify these persons lie accounted for bv• asserting,. that shortly after he was intimi. dated by the address and manner of the person who put a blunderbuss to ftis breast—;he was seiietl with a n e inpty, straining, which obliged it him.to turn to the Wall for 'support, and adually,' from the violence of the straining, his stomach having been empty of alt.solid loud, his eyes, were, a ffected , and his - sight for the moment became impaired. With re. sped to• his progress on the, wad with his comrade and partner, in trade, the last Witness, he did not • know, where' he was going until he "fouhk hiinself„ by the 4awning of the day, on Sunday morning, ; frOm thence they. pursued their route through the fields and bye paths, not known, ing whete• to go, and being in perpetual, apprehep., sinns of being. massacred, until they reached the Gaol Town of the queen's County; did not knoW whether Maryborough or Mciuntrath ; his purpose was to turn towards .1 4 ;nniS, where his wile lived, who carried on the confedionary buSiOess. Wary /11(c/enna#, a decent looking woman in . !ttiep mourning, was adduced on behalf Of the... Crown ; 'lon having the Prisoner particulatly, pointed out to her, she after viewing him earnestly for some ments, protested solemnly She could not poitirt;ely identify him as a person she had ever seen before. 'l he of her testimony was of course 'not mentioned.: Mr. CU RRAN for the Defence, spoke with his usual energy, in reprobating the .charaCter which a Common IVOrmer, meaning IYANaffy,. had given of himself, whose unsupported tes.timony he depieted in a light ,peculiarly. odious. , was - conscious that a kind of sneer perhap t s ,too generally pre. vailed against a species of*pvi&nce, that of 41i41, which in the present case, as in many others, might prove indispensable, on the common pririciiple, that it is impossible to prove a negative, except by collateral or analogous Inference. It would be impossible, of course, to prove' that the Prisoner at the Bar, whose blood the miscreant whe swore against him, was intent to offer up to the violated laws of his Country as a substitute for his own, unless it was proved, that instead of healing or being contrded with au armed mob on the tught of the InsurreCtion in Thomas -streets he was proved incontestibly to have been on his lawful avocations elsewhere. To prove that circumstance he was instructed to assert, that certain unim. peached Witnesses would be adduced, and he hoped the Jury would exercise their judgments, and give , way in sonic degree to the feelings of the heart, in drawing ftom such evidence an impartial and fair conclusion. • Seven witnesses were adduced on behalf of the Prisoner, to' support an alibi. The general cor►. text of their depositions amounted to is detail, that the Prisoner had about a quarter after eight o'clock, on Saturday evening, the 2 3( 1 of July, left his brother's house, who keeps a public-house in Thomas-street ; took leave of his sister-in-law to go off to his father's near Rathcool, and was ap. parently in such haste that he could not wait to 4. - 1 Ante A -r gobtil'tniiet;'Wht) !tad ;116t..tOtti hitn iat n befote", The - Orcuas - tante of the Prisoner's rkiparturt. that hour Was corroborated by the Prisonerls-sisiet,z in-law, of whom he took leave as ileposed ; h y .ilstl forrner witness.—it appeared, h o w e v er , th at - no; s withst4nding . , • the haste he professed to be in. Et took a Circuitous toad through Dolphin's and waited for 26 minutes to drink at a place tii , Ae ' Job's-town, within three miles of Rathenoh.---- , ' The witness who drank with him there did not, - see, the Prisoner's brother, ih company, wh o posed that be accompanied his bother Felix frtn thiir brother John'sbotise it: 'thomas.streer, throur:n Dolphin's Barn and Whire's.town, wh er e theydr4o;--,- ; some porter at the house of one .person,- a - publican near Job's..toWn.—The brother, who:e nathe Mathew, deposed, that he came from their house, near Rathcool, on.. the morniog-, of the 7 3 t July, influenced by;two. very principal motives one was to ease the anxiety of his mOther abou t fate of the Prisoner, as a rumour of insurreaior t in Dublin did partially prevail the neighbourhood., another, , very essential motive was to consult 4;4 apothecary about a disease which he found con veirient to conceal from his parents, He patted his brother at a cross road going towards rSaggarr, and went home himself to comMunicare . the intelligence of the Prisoner's ufly to their mother; The I'6- soner found himself incapable of walking forward -to their father's 'at Rathrool, and turned tip is sleep at the house of a friend, by mom Grimes, whose house was a mile and a half from the iVwrt „ where the Prisoner parted with the •Witneis, who proceeded to their tther's house, about two miiel and a half distant from the place where they parred. He assigned a ,reAson for taking a route in pieference to that way, because it was the most private wily, and one where * , from the kind Of commotion which prevailed, they would of course be less liable to in, stilt. The Prisoner did not go to their father's on the nett Sunday, nor fur a week after..—saw Grimes . at Mass'on the next day, asked for his brother, who • said he was well. Grime, corroborated the . depositions respeaing the Prisoner's reaching his house about r r or 11 o'clock' at night, bat dcnied having seen,any of the Rourkes at mass on the following morning. Four WitneSses 'were adduced to discredit the charader of nihafry. A soldier who knew Wei for four years in the Kildare: Militia was adduced to support it—he never kitew any thing dishonest or disloyal attributed to him in the regiment—he Was 'censured and punished only few nut keeping himself clean.. Mr. GEORGE "PONSONBY ,spoke, 119 the Crown Lawyers confessed, with distinguished ability'fot near an hour and a half. . He was replied to by .the Stit.torro,a Gaivt who:animadverted strongly on the palpable' con tradiCtion betiveen all ,the evidence adduced to prove - the except Grime's. , It becomes unneces s a r y to remark, thilt Baron GEORGE in his charge, took a review of the sub. jet;, clear, ekquent, and. perspicuous in the e' C_ to which the •Prisoner addressed the Court and'Jury, 'from, notes, asserting the ov • deviating truth advanced by his Witnesses,' a 4 .0.1 attributing the apparent inconsistency in their 're. speCtive depOsitions . tii 'tliiiiikw.ardness and agira. lion incident to per,ions of }stain manners int; ,110 not, hearts, in an awl'ul situation before-a •Court,.. ocene. • to whit!) they were never accworned-14 returned , thanks to the Court and Jury for the impartial, in.: • vesti,sation of , the evidence by 'the noe, the tient attention Hof the other, 44 reiic,l,un a verdia influenced alone by a rigid sense of: justice-,Whi,:h ,vas returned iiva - few minutes after tlit+ Jury retir e d —Gniity;—Court adjourned till to.m , Jrrow. • Redmond, who shot himself yesterday in New., gate at the moment when he was ordered out fur ttial, had on Saturday , cffered to give inform::_ tion t v Govern peat .of all persons concerned the late horrid .finasrredion, togethar with their plans and connexions.' :This proposal we. basic reason to think, after having been 'well weighed, was, rejetled. The charges 'against the Prif,oni?r, who was not one of the deludtd Mob, being of coeh a nature as to make him, if fo'undguilty, a pecti.. Hatt/ fit sohjeft for an example ; and it is appr‘e.: hended that Government was already in possession of all that' he could possibly disclose, which it was material for.tbein to know. The double shame of guilt and trekthery hastened, the commission of this rash at, .which drew a veil between him and the publication Of his crimes. On Sunday forenoon, a man charged' with being one of the murderers of Lord KIL/ARDEN and his Nephew, was brought . in from RoscuMmon, to which he. found means to escape:, he Avis wounded by a musket bail in the courbeDf the evening of the 13d of July, 'UNDER lIIERCIES OF 171 E. GRE.47' FIRST' CO Isi'SUL. 'Wort the late visit Of BONAPA:II.TO to some i of his subjetis ventured most htimbly ,to re present, that they and, their Families were ruined and starving in consequence of the intercourse with this Country being. stopped, and:prayed that , in Ida wisdom and goodness he would be'graciously pleased to do something for their relief. Tile greti,t man condescended to give a gracious answer, that he would give orders—The klushing men were re joiced. The Fl ILST CONSUL, on his departure, lett sealed orders, to be opened_ at the expiration of nine hours. .These orders were pundually obeyed, :and they were, to take oat I , Eveno of the Pet;ti*ngrs and shoat them through the bead for their prerav fit' The fad can be verified by, the oath of a person, then a prisoner at Flushing, who escaped 11V a small ',open .boat, and.. is now. at . Deal, wh o says, That if the rood and paciqat FlitsT CO NS U L should ever again be rash enough to visit Flushing, his Guards of Honour atidhis..Mamelt4kes wou l d ry a be able to prated him :against the, just vengeance of his own-Miserable subjeds. - HATTON GARDE N.—The further ex:volution or .7afob Sebastian Kock, the Dalielaccused of drown. tug Mrs. , Smith, sa the him Thatne9), whi:2ll w:tv fixed for yesterdAy, was again politpougd to a tee_ cure ti d y, on account of the absencei thrdugh inch _ •