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t o•rk f was aprisoner a t fame ; be is one year-a:title - et 'Chan sal.; we weetacared and educatrai to et lrec ; 'never one day ar nioht apart far 18 . years. The 'thought at him banished every othac . idea from my 'mind,: I act off to him that very 'Main, and arriv ed in London in four days, as quickly as I could travel. I wrote to the Duke of Portland for per mission to be adtaiteed to my brother ; I received his answer at five O'clock next morning, by four s Messengers, with a warrant to arrest me; and from tnybed was I taken to the house of Mr. 'Sylemten., and that evening, was I taken off for Ireland. We landed about 10 miles from Dublin, at 'night ; I saved Mr.• Sylvester and the Bow-street constable, my companion, from a watrry grave., and conducted them safe to D u blin, where we ar rived at 3 o'clock in the morning. I flow, for the 'first time since I left Londou, lay down, and had lost been in my.bed more than three hours, when Mr. Sylvester awaked me, to tell the that another Cane's messenger bad that moment arrived from . the Duke at Portland, to take me back instantly to tgordon. This was about seven o'clock in the morning: shout twelve, Mr. Sylvester informed uce, that Mr. Cooke 'desired to see me at the 'Castle. Mark else.' instability of fortnue.—eße- O'Ciaisnoi brought by a Coustabley to have tree :liberty of being admitted to the presence of Mr Ed word Cooke 1 4 did see him ; the ititeeview was not of tong duration ; the conversation was not of many words ; hut it - is important. .1 asked him the meaning of these proceedings; what post-haste treason I had . -com mitted in the fair daya that I tvavelled from C- to London, above 400 miles ? Hear his ;ins wet " We ds. trot pretend to have any charge against " you but we /MOW 'out power, and suspect " your inclination ; had my advice been taken, • " you should not have been brought to trial in " Covk. -My opinion was-, that you should have been kept in confinement tinder the suspen " stria' •of the habeas Corpus Act ; aati it " now appears I was right." Well, that of-, ternoon, about two o'clock, I was obliged to set off back again towards London, where we ar rived on the fourth. 'naming, having been forced to perform journies of nearly 1200 miles, and across the Irish sea three times, in thirteen days and nights; .daring the whole of which time I • never was permitted - to take off my clothes, nor to lay (tonal for . more than seven hours ! I was kept in caste►-Sv at the house of Mr. Sylvester till my brother's - acquittal at Maidstone, when we were both taker to Dublin, where we wets: lodged in the same prison room, on the 2tl of June, 1798. Its July 'a • Special Commission was opened in Dublin for the trial of all those against whom any elsatgee , bad been exhibited ; amongst whom neither my brother nor 1 were. Three had been executed. Mr. Byine, a relation of the Marchioness of Buckingham, Wils condemn ed, and was to be executed on tha 24th of July. Ott Sunday, the 22d, some negociation was set on foot, in a way never yet ascertained, between the Government and some of the State prisoners in Tho,lin, of which it appears that 'wittier my brother nor I had any intimation till Tuesday, when Mr. Dobbs and the Sheriff of Dublin enter ed out apartment, and showed us a paper, pur porting to he an acquiescence, on the isn't of -seventy-three of the prisoners, -to give ins formation of any arms, ammunition, and plans of warfare; and to emigrate on condition of a general amnesty ; and of pardon for Mr. Byrne, 1010 was to die that day ; and for Mr. 0: Bond, - who was at th a t moment on his trial, if he should lie condemned. My brother and I declined entering into any agreement. Mr. Bryne was ordered- for instant execution, which instantly took place ; Mr. Band was to die 011 the Friday.- We heard no mare of the paper till Thursday evening late ; when the same Mr. Dobbs, accompanied by Mr. Samnel Nelson, one of the prisoners from another of the prisons, - came to that where my brother and I lay. All the prisoners were called together; Mr. Dobbs produced a letter he had just received from Cooke, stating, " that if my brother and I " would enter into a treaty with the Govern " went, by which we should engage to give a' every information in 'our power to all mat " tens relating to the rebellion, and - partieolarly " our relations with foreign States, there , should " be a general amnesty ; Mr. Bond should he par .' doped, nod we should be permitted to emigrate " to any country, not at war with England ; but " that if we persisted in our refusal, military " commissions should be issued in the north, for " the trial of the prisoners there, the Courts should proceed. in Dublin, and the yeomanry sl u re " main on active duty?" We both refused. We said, If there any charges- against us, proceed upon them. Why proceed against others, because we will not enter into any negociation ? We went to our own room, whither Mr. Dobbs presently came. He represented to us the dreadful scenes of slaugh ter and devastation that would follow close upon our declaration. It appears that any brother was influenced by these Considerations ; and, to, save an unarmed people, he consented to sacrifice himself; but I heard these proposals and threats with a very different ear. My answer was, that I set at defiance all their machinations ; that I was ready to meet any charge that - Could be brought against me; but that I never would enter into any agreement with the Castle of Dublin during my life/Nothing now was left unattempted to induce me by vet y fair promises, or to intimidate me by the most alarming threats, to sign this agreement. All were unavailing. At length Mr.Marsden came, as if secretly and as a friend, to let me know what, by chance, he had heard at the Castle. That it , a as determined to seize my estate, it I did not com p!y, . My ans wer was, that I was prepared against every thing ;' that I was absolute, never to•com ply. In consequence of which, orders were dis patched to the officir commanding at Bandon, o send detachments of horse and 'foot to take possession of my house, which they . did, 'to the nntount Of bet ween two and three hundred men; they expelled four of my infant children, and 711 V servants ; the officers broke open my cellars, and drank all my wine ; they ordered the men to kill my sheep and oxen, on which the whole. party subsisted; they converted my iron gates jet° shoes for their horses ; they made bring of ‘vindows,' doors, and frames of the house and offices ; horned all my farming utensils, destroyed my gardens and the wall trees, the hot-house, treen-house, and all the plants; turned all their /Itorses not into young plantations, wli;ela were all ruined ; stole every tiring moveable ; and com mitted every species of devastation fur eight or nine weeks that they remained there; for eight or nine weeks that they remained there for 'which I never received one peony as remunera tion) from that day to this. After this visitation, it was again demanded of me to sign the paper. My answer was always the same. Still was I kept a prisoner; and when those who bad entered into the agreement were sent to Scotland, I was forced, by Justice Atkinson : and a company of Buckinghamshire militia, at the very point of the bayonet, into Coach, conveyed on board a tender, and conducted to Fort George, in which niili;ary garrison I was kept for a year and ten months, where, by the lenient treatment I received, I lost the use of my limbs, and Was reduced to the very verge of life; at the end of which time I-Was brought to London, and let go on the 24th of • January, 1801, upon a dreadful recognizance to some immense amount, not to return to treks d; and to resift,: in such part of lingland - as the Ring of England should from time to time appoint (and Middlesex was sauced). during the then war.. I took a house at Southgate, io:Middlesex, where I re sided for half a year ; but haring no land there, I looked out for a place with land . , to occupy my tulle. I found one to suit - me at Elstree. As I was a stranger, and as the rent amounted to 5001, a year, I applled to my old friend anti companion, Sir Francis Burdett', who immediately became my security There I lived for one year, when the treaty of Amiens taking place, I va& desirous of returning to. my own counts y, and applied to Sir Richard Ford, the Magistrate, before whom I acknowled the recognizance, to get it Up, let vain. Atter many fruitle ss efforts, he at length inlOrtlietl' me, that it was drtermineiftterer to give it tip, as tong as I retained the power of thin in the South of Ireland. 1 j•pdged it better to pall with Con nor-Mlle than he shut out from my county. got a been,e t. , go to Ireland, and, on the Ist of May, 1803, I le , a lease for ever of the place of my earliest days, IViimenpoil, I got up my recog nizance immediately. I purchased, for linty . thousand - pounds, from Lord Wellesley *, the castle and estate of •Datigan, within a few miles of Dublin, where 1 have resided -with my family ever sihce, coming over occasionally to visit Sir F. Burden and a sew ffiher friends in England, Where, though I !tile estates, I have never been known, &teeny or indirectly, to -interfere with any concerns of the country : I'never attended a , public meeting or a piinlic dinner ; thougtri 'lave many friends, I seldom associate %villa any one but Sir Francis Burdett and his family. My fortune is ample ; and neither I nor any one of my family ever are one alorsel that was not produced frum our own estates. - IVe oever receive(' any of the peo ple's money in the shape of pensions and places; nor was any man's meal or comforts ever distil -Dished by one of us. Surely, then, 1 must be tt most aisioyat traitor ! In fine, many, very many, of Inc sit Ireland love me ; the militia was attaci,cd to me. I s ukuendered on the. solemn faith of a Proeiamation, which faith, towards tire, was broken ; I protected Captain Roche ; I de tended t ;Be Judge; I saved . .11t. Sylvestertand theE liow-street constable. There is no kind of place , hat has not been my prison ; toy own house, Camps, guard-houses, taverns and hotels, castles, wherries, packet-bOatsonessengers' houses,courr linttses, bridewells, state prisons (as Ohl are called), tenders, garrisons, 'whet:l; stud as a pri saner,- have I been travelled about from nay own house in the South, to Canicktergus, he. the North of Ireland ;.It-urn the western extremity of Wales, to Maidstone, nearly dog ehstern extremi ty of England t from Dublin to Fort St. George, in Scotland, within f o rty miles (if Julio o . (jitit's [Mist', to London. lii mail- coaches, hackney- Coaches, post-c,aitiages, and carts ; on foot and on horseback : and all becanse (tor I know of no other cause) that, ten years be ore the French Revolution, I saw the ahsoluie necessity of a Re form in the Continua: in Ireland, which was ac kuraw:edgen atiemards by the factions of Eng land anti Ireland ; and btcanse I would not con sent to a Legislative Union, hid, I regarded as equally ruinous to both pat is of the kingdom. O n the whole, then, let the people of England, now that they are in possession of their sober senses, decide between my accuses and me, whether the laws were infringed by MB, who have gone through every ordeal; who have always courted investigation and inquiry , who for years never ceased to demand trial ; or by them, who sough:. the protection of a Bill of Indemnity, passed by au assembly of which they themselves made a part. *This fact is inaccurately stated. Mr. O'Connor could not have purchased the castle and estate of .- Datigan from Lord Wellesley, because Lord W. who was then injudia, had sold the castle and gruatieds of Datigansereral years be fore to Colonel Burro Wes; principally. we believe, to pay hi s father's debts. Nor could Mr.O'Connor have purchased what is properly termed the estate of Datigen, inasmuch as that estate is still in the Marquis Wellesley's posseFsion ; and has, very recently, if we are not mistaken, been advertised fur sale his Lordship. NAST OF BEGGAR 3.-01) StitUrdliy morning a Gentleman, who is an overseer of one of the parishes in the city, brought a child before the LORD MAYOR, whom be had found going to Gen. tlenten's houses asking alms, and also begging in the street. The boy, though dressed in .rags, was remarkably pretty. He was asked how old he was, be replied, " 1 am five." Being asked his name, be said, "I am Joey Valley being fur ther interrogated, he gave the following answers : His father lived at Smith's-gardens, -Hackney road, Shoreditch. He had no mother ; a woman came to see his father sometimes. He had six sisters and three brothers : they went .out beg ging, and so did he; and if he did not take money home every night, his father used to beat him and send him out very early next morning. Sonic of his sisters bad run away : they all took money and victuals home to their lather, who was-a hay maker, but he had nothing to do. He (the boy) sothetimes got a shilling a day, besides what he spent, and sometimes even more. ,The LORD MAYOR ordered the child to be taken care of till the father could be found. His Lordship observed, that it was a most shocking thing that children should be bred up to thieving, as no doubt they were, by the fellow whom they were instructed to call lather. The overseer took the boy to the workhouse. FRENCII PARIS, AUG. 14.—The King held a Council of Ministers yesterday, which sat from one o'clock till five. The Duke of Feltre was not present, in consequence of indisposition. " ORDONNANCE OF THE KING. '• Louis, &c. " Art. 1. A full and entire amnesty is granted to those of our subjects who nave been prosecuted corm ionally t or condemned to correctional punishments for offences which they have been led on to commit in consequence of the high price of articles of subsistence, between the Ist of September, 1816, and the present day. " Those who are detained in custody in execution of arrets m judgments, or who have been arrested in the exe cution of niandats respecting these offences, shall, by virtue of the present amnesty, be immediately set at liberty, unless there shall be detainers against them for other causes. The placing under surveillance shall remain as it is where ordered by a judgment. . . . . " All — prosecutions shall cease with regard to those who would Hot have been placed in the bands of justice but fur being accused of these offences. " Art. Excepts persons prtcedently condemed fur crimes or offences. " Dated Adg.t.l, ISI 7. (Signed) The Archduchess Charles of Austria was deli vexed of a Prince on the 3d inst. LOUIS." A letter front New York of the .sth ult. states, that M. Regnault tie Saint Jean d'Angelr was de cidedly mad.. He had committed several acts of violence upon a niece (so called) who resided with him, and after having been twice in an hospital for lunatics, a Jury was 41mmoned by ;lie Chan cellor of the State, who rctutned that he Ought to be interdicted from the administration of his property. MM. Chiriot and Real were appointed his curators. The latter has become a distiller. ' 11. , ..cent intelligence from Rome states, bat the health of the Pope has been much ameliorated in the course of a month preceding. There is every reason to hope, that after having happily com pleted the arrangements regarding Ole Church of France, his Holiness will complete his work by giving Prelates to those Sees which have been so long vacant, and those which ha►e been lately re established. In the Consistory on the 28th ult. besides the three French Cardinals, the Pope nominated to the same dignity M. Francis Cesaret, Dean of the Tribunal de la Rote, and M. Antoine Lante, Dean of the Clerks of the Apostolic Chamber. This promotion makes the number of the Sacred Col lege 63. There are only seven hats vacant. The allocution pronounce►! by the Sovereign Pontiff on the 28th nit. and the papers published With it, have been addressed from Rome to several persons at Paris and in the provinces. A consi derable number of copies have been circulated. It is stated that others :rave been written to all the Bishops nominated by the King, to inform them of the choice made by his Majesty. These letters are, however, confidential, and theßishops are desired not to make use of them before the Bull for the-ratification of the Concordat, and that for the circumscription of dioceses, have been pub lished by Gc a rvernment. A Hamburg!' Journal states, that the kingdom of Hanover has been invited by the Emperor of Austria to accede to the Holy Alliance.. • The , King of Prirssia, it is said, will arrive here on the Mir, under the title of Count de Ruppin. The Count de Blacas, the King's AMbassador Extraordinary at the Court of Rome; gave on the 29!h and 30th nit, on the occasion of the signa ture of the New Concordat, - two grand dinners. To the first were invited, to the number of 34, several Cardinals, Prelates, and Ecclesiastics of the highest distinction; and to the second the Members of the Corps Diplomatique, accredited to ;,is Holiness, and to several other eminent per sonages. VIENNA, AvG. 2.—We learn from Constanti- nople that in consequence of satisfactory explana tions between the Russian Ambassador and the Ministers of the Grand Signior, the Baron de Stiogonow was making arrangements to rebuild the palace for the Russian Legation, for which the Emperor Alexander had granted the requisite means. NUREMBERG, AUG. 4.—The Duchy of Saxe Coburg is to have a Representative Constitution. The Ministry of the reigning Duke arc occupied with a new organization founded upon this basis. This is the gift which the Duke proposes to make to his people on the occasion of his marriage with the Princess of Saxe Gotha. NUREMBERG, Auo. 3.—The 22d ult. the Cha teau de. Mulishoff, in Saxony, was burnt to the ground, with the church and eleven houses. The fire is supposed to have been caused by an incen diary. The ci-devant Prussian Chamberlain, the Count Otto de Kospoth, known also as a COm - . poser, lost his life in the flames ; he -regided in an • upper: story of the Chateau, .and he did.not at-. tempt to save himself till it became impossible to . render him any assistance. 11ASTADT, Ano.9.—The Germanic Diet before their keparating invited the Courts of Vienna and Barlin to declare what Provinces of their Monar chies they wished should form part of the Ger manic. Confederation. The Ministers of those two Courts have promised that this declaration be•made immediately-after , the .termination. of the summer vacation. • it is of considerable im portance to the Diet to know their determination, 'ail account of preparing the matricula of the Con- ' federation, by which the contingents in men. and motley to be furnished by each state of Germany, in the event of war, will be precisely fixed. The most recent letters from Stuttgard state, that several orders had been transmitted to the Grand Bailiffs of different districts, supposed to relate to a new meeting of the Bailiwick Astern- . blies, who are to give their opinions respecting the new project of Constitution, which it is supposed will be adopted. LEIPSIC, JULY 31 —A number of foreign orders have, been received here for some time past for considerable quantities of Saxon iVool. The greater part of these orders come from England, and from the manufacturers in the Prussian Grand Duchy of the Rhine, particularly in the neigh bourhood of Aix4a-Chapelle; several also come from the interior of Germany. The English now prefer our wools to all others, with the exception of those of Spain, which they only use for articles of the finest quality. There is a.so a considerable export dour silks, particularly. to Russia and Poland: • FRANKFORT,' AvG. Y.—According to our letterk, from 'Vienna, it iF Qertain that Lord Stewart, the- English Ambassador to the Court of Vienn,i,'who has gone to England, will return to Vienna in October. MAYENCE, AUG. unfortunate result of the deliberations of the States of Wurtemberg had been very unfavourable, to the establishment of provincial States in several parts of Southern Germany, where the representative system was about to - be introduced. It is said, than in some - of these territories it has been determined to let affairs remain in slate 'quo. In Vtrurtemberg, ill the contrary, there is a well founded hope of shortly seeing a Constitutional Session of the two Chambers. The Convocation of them twill take place as soon as the majority of time Bailiwick Assemblies shall have accepted the Constitution. The Elections will then be pro ceeded in, as prescribed by the Constitutional Act. THE ATRIC A L REGI'S'TER. Peiformed on Saturday Night. TI4EATRE ROYAL, HAYMAREET.—Teazing Made Easy : Prin— cipal Characters by r. Trrry and Mss Matthews, Alter which, The Actor of All Work. To which was added, Thc Follies of a Day. NEWTHEATRE ROYAL, EN01.1511 OrertA-Honsc.--The Pet - sian limiters : Principal Characters by Mr. Hors.' and Miss M. H. Buggins. Alter which, The Padlock. MAILS. ARatvEn-1 France, I Holland, I Hamburg.li, I Flawless, I Watertoid. Dur.-2Guticnburgli, 1 Hainnurr f ,ll, 2 Dub : lin, 1 Waterford. , PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWLLVI: o'CLOCIC. 3 per Cent. Red. 80 79i &oil : Imperial Ann. for 25 years, I i 3 per Cent. Cons... .. ..79 giii India 80w15,... I 225. pr. 4 per Cents .. . 97iii Excb. Bills, 30s. 365. pr. 5 per Cent. Nat y Ann. I .',4 i Cons. for Account, ...79iiigi Bank L. Ann. 2I il.) lb- 16tlis Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed front the Returns made in the Neck ending the 13th day of August, ISI , is 525. Sid. Iwr cwt. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BILIDGF. TO-MORROW. sSniinutes after I I , :veitili t , „ 2 t umiutes atter 6. THE SUN. SOLEI I S DI CEItE FALS(JM AUDEAT. LONDON, ' MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1817. We have observed with indifference, bordering on contempt, the disputes in some of the P . blic Prints, and the endeavours of Party, to excite an apprehension that, this Country - was likely to be involved - in the War between SPAIN and her CO LONIES, because we knew, and indeed have con tradicted, front AUTHORITY, all the silly rumours which have been so industriously circulated els the matter. The Morning Chronicle, and a re spectable Evening Paper, have beed-ingaged in a controversy on this shhiect, to our surprize, as we should have thought that the latter was bet« ter informed than to enter into a dispute so ut terly destitute, as we have before contdently stated, of all foundation. Far from being upon ill terms, as the Chronicle asserted, with any of the Continental Powers, we are upon the most amicable footing with them. all ;. nor is . there the slightest ground for apprehension that any event will arise which can tend to shake the present harmony among the several, 4,",owers of Europe.— Our sources of intelligence are so sure, that the Public may rely on what we say. It has been well observed in a Morning Paper of this day, as a proof of the folly of the rumours in question, that Government is actively employed in reducing our military force, and nothing can be more obvious than the impolicy of such reductions, if there were,any probable danger that the peace of the World .would again- be disturbed. No,—we are in amity with the Continental Powers—we hare a wise, provident, and patriotic Govern. ment, and we , may bill defiance-to BUONA. PARTE'S restless agents, and all the revolutionary Spirits who are at ,work abroad, as well as to factious Writers,itntl rebel Reformers at home, and the continuance of Peace, with the blessings of an abundant harr,est, will, we doubt not, in a short time meliorate, the condition of all classes ) and diffuse happiness, over the Empire at large. It may be observed in answer to the Spectt- lations of the Opposition 'Writers, who so con fidently assert that RUSSIA is going to assist SiPAW in the reduction of her Colonies, that Russia is at this time very much in want of money, and the eagerness with which it is attempted to .raise bOAN in this Country is a full proof of that want. It is also prObable that this is not the only Coun try in which Russia is endeavouring to strengthen her finances by a similar measure. lii such a si tuation of affairs, therefore, it is by no means thatshe sho u ld be disposed to engage very likely in a War, whatever ulterior advantages may be proposed to her. Spain, in point of financial e mbarrassments, is nearly in the same condition with Russia, and therefore can offer her no assist. once in this respect. But as we do not pretend to h e a s well acquainted with the Cabinet Secrets of ei►her of those Powers as the Morning Chronicle, we shall leave the profound Politicians of that Paper to balance the Probabilities of War and