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IpK'ii’SHH'iii ■ I'in■> .
>lr. Sylvester and the Bond street con
stable, iny companion, from n watery
^grave, and conducted them safe to
T)ublin, where we arrived at three o'
clock in the morning. I now, for the
first time since. I left London, lay
•down, and hatf-not been in my bed
mere than three hours, when Mr. Syl
vester awakened me, to tell me, that
another king’s messenger had, that
moment,anived from the dukeefPort
land to take me Lack instantly to Lon
.lion. This was about seven t/qjpek in
the merning ; about twelve. My. Syl
vester informed me, that Mr. Cooke
• desired to see me at the cattle. Mark
tire i s aliilify of foiture. Behold
0 Connor, brought by a con&ta' le to
h .ve the liberty of being admitted To
the presence of Mr» Eihoaril Cooke l
1 did see him ; the inte rview war not
of long duration ; the converse ion
was not made cf mahy words but it
is important. I asked hi n the mean
ing of these proceedings; what post
h see treason I had commitcd in the
few daw. <hat. I travelled from Cork to
Lomiou, about 4r0 miles. Hear his.
answer, 44 ffie do uot pretend to have
“any charge against you; but vvt
“ know your power &c surpcctyour in
“ clination ; had my advice been taken,
“ you should, not have been brought
44 to trial in Cork. My opinion was,
“ that you should have been kept in
“ confinement under the suspension of
*' :he habeas corpus act, a-d it now
44 appears I was right.” Well, that
afrtmoon, about two o’clock, I was
<ddigrd to set off back again towards
London, wlure wo arrived on the
fourth morning, having been forced to
perform jonrnies of neailv 1200 miles,
%nd cro3s the Irish sea three times, in
. 13 days and nights, during the whole
»cf which t'mt I never permitted to
t ike off ~m\ cloihes, nor to lay down
J°r more than seven hours.
1 was kept iu custody at die house
of >1 »•. Sylvester till my bj other’s ac
quittal t Maidstone, when we were
both taken to Dublin, where we were
lodged .n the tame prison room, cn the
second day of June, 1798.—Iu July a
special coraiaiv ion was opened in
lijllin, for the trial of ail those against
whom any charges had been exhibited,
amongst whom neither mv ncr
1 were. Three had bren^BBcuted.
Mr. Byrne a relation of the marchio
nt&s of Buckingham, was condemned,
and was o be executed on the 24th of
July. On Sunday, the 22d, some ne
gotiation was srten foot, in a way ne
ver yet ascertained, between the gov
ornmetit aud some of the state prison
ers in Dublin of which St app-ars that
nri htt mv brother ncr I had any inti
mation ti t Tuesday, when Mr. Dobbs
the sheriff‘d- Dublin entered our apart
ment, and shewed us a paper, purport
ing to be an acquiescence, oa the part
of seventy-three of the prisoners, to
give information of any ar.r.s, ammuni
tion and plans of warfare ; and to emi
grate, on condition cf:t gen. rd amne#
t), a d < f purdon for Mr. Byrne, who
w.is to die that day, an i hr Mr. Oli
ver Bond, who was, at that mo . ent, on
hin in..!, if he should be condemned.
My brother and I declined entering in
any agree.Mr. B.rne was or
dtred for i stunt execution, which in
stantly to..k place; Mr* Bond was to
die oh Friday. We heard no more of
*ku nlT.,'I'Knru/! it? 4 trPitir./v 1*1 a •
• — r-r ---g..c, —• - “
v when dot c Mr. l)ob!'.*, accompa
nied by ?»Ir. Annuel Nelaon, cne of
the prisoners h *m another Cf the pri
bons, came to that v.’h»re n.y brother
and 1 lay* All the prisoners were call
ed cov cther; Mr. O'ittM produced a
letter he had just received fr.un Mr,
Cooler, stating, ** that if my brother &
1 would enter in a treaty with the g- \
errnnent, bj v/t.ich we should engage
40 g'Ve e/'. ry information in odr p >w
er o. all Watt rs relating to the rebel!.
op, dr.d particular!/ our relation^ whh
fureign utatea, 4!tere should be a gen* -
ltd amnesty— Mr. Band should be
pardoned, (t..d v/e should be permitted
to errvgr.tte to >my Country not at war
v‘th Brtglund ; but that, il we persist
ed in our refusal, mili'ary cointtftai
o'.'iZ bhoul! be issued in the north fr.r
the tru-i of the pri-oners there, the
tdhrfs fihci: id fractal in Dullm, and the
vromav.y should remain on active du
ly ! ’ We both r.-fused. VVe said, if
lit,:re arc eimj charges again*t un, pro
ceed up„n them.
Why proceed against others because
,*/e w id not entt r intoanv negotiations ?
}Vr v; ux t<i our own rpO n, whither
jdr 1/ l»: s presently can... ilr r pre.
I to us the dreadful scene of
JV r and devastation thaf would
se upon our declarat oti. It
my brother win ir.fhion
' r -t'c i h-r-ti- i.:, a . l to
■wi.,1,-^ cons* *• t—fI
mt [ heard sur.h
1 a vei dil
fhI %(.»
H that1
1 never would enlcr intokny kgrec
: nient with the castle of Dublin during
1 my life. Nothing now was left unat*
teoftpted to induce me, by every pro
jmiac, or to intimidate me by the most
J alarming threats, tosign this agreement.
I All -were unavailing* 'At length Mr. j
| Marsden came, as if secretly and an a
friend, to let me know what, by chance,
I he had 'heard at the castle. 3Thu» it
j was determined to seize my estate if
! I did not comply, My answer was,
that I was prepared against every* thing;
that I was resolved never to Comply.—
Ia consequence of which, orders were
dispatched to the officers commanding
at Bawdon, to send detachments of
horse and f oot to take posses*ion of
my house, which they did to the a
mount of between 2 and SCO men ;
they expelled four of my infant chil
dren and my servants; the officers
broke open my cellars, drank all my
wine ; they ordered the men to kill my
sheep and oxen, bn which the whole
party subsisted ; they converted my
iron gates into shoes for their horses ;
they made firing of windows, doors, 8c
frames of the House and offices; burn
ed all my farming utensils; destroyed
all my gardtns, aud the wall trees, the
hot house, green house, and all the
plants*; turned all their horses out into
young .plantations which were all ru
ined'; stole c?vcry t’ning moveable ; and
committed evciy species of devastation
for eight dt nine weeks that they re
mained theVe '; for which 1 never re
ceived cne penhjr as lrr muneration,
from that day to this. After this vi
sitation, it was again demanded cf me
to sign the paper. My answer was
always the same. Still was 1 kept a
prisoner; and when tho’e who had ;
entered into the agreement were sent;
to Scotland, I was forced by justice i
A tlr inenn uiwl n mmntmr rvf
hatnshire militia, at th« very point of
die bayonet, info a coach, conveyed
on board a tender, and conducted to
fort George, in which military garrison
I was kept for a year and ten months,
where by the lenient treatment! receiv
ed, I lost the usc-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 ou the 24:h Jan*
uary, 1801, upon a dreadful recogni
zance to some imrtie'nce amount, not to
return to Ireland, and to reside in su^h
part of England as the king cf England
should, from time to trme appoint (and
Middles x was named) during the then
war. I took a house at Softtbgate in
Middlesex, v here I resided for half a
vtar ; hut having no land there, I look
ed out for a place with land, to occupy
my time. I found one to suit me at
Elbbree. As I was a stranger and as
the rent amounted to 500// a rear, I
applied t-a mv old friend sir Francis
Burriett, who immediately became my
security, there I lived for one ytar,
when, the trea*yof Amiens taking place,
I was desirous of returning to my own
country; and applied to sir Richard
Ford, the magistrate, before whom I
acknowledged the recognizance to get
i:Up. In vaiiu After many fruitless
effort*, he, at length informed me, tha?
it was determined never to give it up,
as long as I retained the power of liv.
ing in the south of Ireland. Ijidg
cd it better to part with Connor-Viitc
man be shut out from my country. I
got a licence to goto Ireland, & on the
1st of May, 1803. I Ict a lease forever
of the p’are of my earliest ds-ys.
Whereupon, I g t up my rvc<»g >i.
zance tmm< diatHy, 1 nurcnasetl, toi
forty thousand pouud*, from lord Wel
lesley, «h*i castle and estate of Dun
can, within a lew milts of Dublin,
where I hav-.* resided with my family
ever since, coming ov r occasionally
to vi-it Sir I1' an- is Burbtt and a f w
I other friends in England, where, though
1 have estates; 1 have nevrr been
known, d;rcc;ly or indirectly, to inter
fere in anv concerns of the co- ntry. I
iit ver attended a public meeting ora
public dinnrf ; though I have many
I friend-, I pcTJotn associate with
I anv one but sir Francis Burdett and
j his f ijnily—My fortune is ample; 8c
neither I nor anyone of iny family,
lever cat one morsel tint was not pro
[doced from our own estates. We
■ never received any of the people’s mo
, nry, in the shape of p> r.sicn3 and pla
Ices, nor whs any man’s meal or com
if ns ever diminished by one of ns.
Surely, th' ti, 1 must be a most dit
loyal traiior! In fine, many, very
many, of the people of Irclaori
love me; the militia was attached to
me. I surrendered on the solemn
1 faith of a proclamation, which faith,
towards me, wnsbroJceo; I protected
leapt Roche; 1 drknded the judge;
j 1 saved Mr Sylvester and thif Bow I
I street constable. There is no kind of
place that has not been my prison ;
| iny owr. houve, camps, guard houses,
taverns and hotels ; c-sties, wherries,
, packet boats, tnessengei’s houses, court
tonics, bridewt-ll*, s'ate prisons (as
j^nrvare called^ tender on»,pa!
, as a pr siiit., have l been
travelled about from fey bvrtt "hot 1C
in the south to Carrick Fergus-M-the
north of Ireland; from the western
extremity of Wale*, to Maidstone,
nearly the eastern ex remity of Eng
land ; from Dublin to fort George in
Scotland; within fortv miles ol John
O’Cirot’s house, to -London. In mail
coaches, hackney coaches, post carta
ges, anti carts ; on foot and on horse
back. And all because (for I ki.ovv
of no.other cause) that, ten'cars b .
fore the French revolution, I taw the
absolute necessity of a reform in the
commons in Ireland, which was ac
knowledged afterwards by Ihe factor*
of England and Ireland ; and l»* cause
I would not consent to a legislative u
nion, which Itegard-d a* equally m
inous to both parts of the kingdom.—
Oft the whole, then, let the people of
England, no cv that they are in posses
sion of their sober sente*, decide be
tween my. accusers and me; whether
the laws were infringed by me who
have gone through every ordeal, who
have always courted investigation and
enquiry; who -for years never ceased
to dfeinand trial; or by them, who
sought the protection of a bill of in*
demfcity, passed by an assembly of
whfch they themselves made a part.”
Such, reader, is the political history,
sltch are the ctimtfsol Mr. O’Conftor:
silch is the person, to have had whom
in his house, at the time when the ar
my stormed was, if the public had
been still fcols enough, to be set down
to the account of sir Francis, and as
proof presumptive, at least, that he
had wicked designs against the peace
and safety of the country ! Reader, if
you be an Englishman, and have nei
ther job, nor contract, nor plkce, nor
unmerited pension, nor defalcation in
vour accounts with the public ; in short,
if you profit from no species of public
ronb<Tjrt sav* now sueufrJ you. lice to be
treated as Mr. 0’Coav*or was i How
should you like this sort of treatment i
How should yeulike to have your house,
your gardens, your fields, your planta
tions laid waste and destroyed, as his
were? How should you like to be hur
ried from prison to prison: to be
thrown into dungeon after dungeon :
and when you demanedd trial, refused
that irial i But, 6urdy, I nted not ask
these questions. Well, then, 19 there
to be no feel.ng for him because he is
an Irishman ? Are we ready to avow
this to the Irish people? I trust not;
I trust that we shall prove to that un
fortunate people, that we feel for them
as for ourselves; that we are as ready
to resent their wrongs as we are our
own ; that, in a word, we regard them
as our countrymen; and that we are
resolved to consider their enemies as
cur enemies. This is the way to pro
duce an union with Ireland; a real u
nion of the hearts of the people of the
whole kingdom ; and this sort of union
it is that (he boiough mongers and
their hirelings would wish to prevent
Hitherto, indeed, they have prevented
it. They have never mhsed an oppor
tunity of misrepresenting the people of
Ireland. They have caused the ped*
pie of England to believe, that those t>f
Ireland were bent upon a surrender of
their country to France, and that all
their demands relating to political and
civil liberty, were mere pretences.
V/hat evils have not sprung from this
accursed source J 1 beseech the rea
der to consider, that it is not in nature,
that the people of Ireland should not
hate us, if we presist in our credence
to these calumnies.—It is, on all hands
agreed, thar. Irtlind is ©ur vulnerable
part. Does it not, then become U3 to
strengthen that part; to use all means
in our power of regaining the good will
of the Irish people, and to induce them
to make common cause with us against
tho common enemy ? And, what can
be more opposite to this than reviving
the memory of those cruel times, to
which Mr. O’s nar.ative refers; tnnn
tearing the skin from the hardly heal
ed and hardly hidden wound ? What
he has said, he has been compelled to
say. He has been calumniated in the
most foul and infamous manner. To
remain silent might have been constru
ed into a consciousness of guih. His :
calumniators, therefore, are answerable
for the revival of the memory of that,
which he was willing should be forgot
ten, and which nothing but borough
inongrring malignity could have induc
ed any one to attempt to revive.
Wm. COdUETT.
Botleyt May 9, 1810.
— mmm
Boston, Oct. 2.
Diving Bell.—The proprietor of the
Diving Bell, will, on Friday morning
next, make* submarine excursion from
Hancock's Wharf to Fort Indepen
dence. He will descend at 8 A. M.
and proceed to the FoTt, where he will
rise and taka some refreshments. Af
ter which he wifi again immerge, and
return as he went, on the bottom of the
cb'inn-l, reaching Boston about 2 P.
M, A distinguished gentlemhn, real
debt *n towfr, has proposed to accom
pany him. The rt ward to the ptoprie- »
tor ol this ingrn ou* and important in- \
vcntion,jan j his assistants, will dep.nd
on v. luntary liberality. Subscrip;ion
papers will be lett at the custom house,
and the Tespec ive Insurance Offices.
By ihu invention* any thing can, at a
ny time, b obtained from the bottom
ol a bay, harbor or river.
Nkw.Yorx, Oct. 6.
mertso sheep.
The srtl'" of 153 or tbit valuable race of
animate. imported in tne K.ird.ude from
L»soon, look place at thobklyn yesterday,
ny public auction- Tory consisted of rams
■tud ewes of different ages, of ibe A^uirTr,
Ncgreti. aud Paular breees. A large
•lurnuer of genti'tuen of the first rr^prota.
odi y from different parts of the city at
truE'rt, and evinced u very laudible d is pro.
nit.on to promo'e so important a branch
•’f.ti e resources of he country. The pn*
Ces varied from £20 dollars p.r head down
wards, te 150 m 160, for the lowest in
s.ze and ooi dtn'.Q.
WiLmington, October 6.
bE»WAUE ELECTIONS
The election m this latate has even
tuated in the choice of a republican go_
vernor, Col. Joseph Haslet, by a tun
jority over the ftderal candidate^ Mr.
Rodney, of 71 votes—and in the choice
of a federal representative to congress,
Mr. Ridgrly^i^a majority over the
republican curMSstte, Richard C. Dale,
of 17 votes. The majorities for go
vernor stand thus:
County of New Castle, Hnstlet 657
Keir, Rodney 172J .
Scasex, Rodney 614 j ' a”
Republican majority* 71
Kent and Sussex have again elected
fedeVal representatives to the state le
gislature—and thus although an actu
al majority of the voters throughout
the state afe republicans, yet the elec
tion by counties peryje uates a federal
predominancy in dtf fegitlaturei
In the election of Col- Haslet, with
out depreciating the tnerits of h:s op„
poneot, the republicans have just cause
for etfljltation. He is a son of one of
the hJ^es of the revo!ution**-one of
the fa^:rs of the American empire ;
his character remains uusullied ; aud
his principles were inculcated by the
example of valor, the lesson ol inde
pendence, and the impulse of patriot
ism. In his electioo, republic m prin
ciples have exhibited anothet trophy
of triumph ; in his election merit is
rewarded with success ; and his elec
tion has changed the political com
plexion of our restricted little state.
«• O catch it* high import, je winds at ye b.ow,
O bear it ye wave* as ye soil,
From nations that feel the sun’s vertical glow.
To fhe farthest extreme* of the pole.”
PniLADELPtllA, Oct. 1.
From, the Washington f ra.) Reporter.
Charter’s township contains 1761
inhabitants :
Domestic Manufactures as follows :
Value.
Flax linen 11,718 yds. 8 4,737 20
Tow do. 5,854 do. 1,463 50
Cotton 1,877 do. 1,877 00
Linsey & flannel 3 822 do- 2,293 20
Total 23,271 8 10,370 90
Cloth filled 6,000 yds. {6 7, 500 OO
Iron, 18,500 lbs. 2,763 00
Whiskey 17,928 gals. 7,171 20
Sawmills 217,500 feet, 1,740 00
Gristmills 108,500 bushels, 5,425 00
Tfflffierics 1,000 00
Total S 35,970 10
Horses, 807—ncatcatde, 1,715—
common sheep, 2, 424—mixed sheep,
4—spinning wheels, 424—hand cards,
233.
Philadelphia, Oct. 6.
Letters from London of the 22d
Aug. informs of Bonaparte’s determi
nation to restore to the proprietors the
property sequestered at Sl Sebastians,
on the payment of the new duties.
Jackson’s Register. '
Washington-City, Oct. 8.
• The President of the United States,
arrived in this city on Saturday even,
ing.
From the Motional Intelligencer•
ON A NATIONAL UNIVERSI
TY.
Amidst the salutary advice lately
given the public through the mertium
of the public print®, it has been a mat
ter of surprise to me, that an object,
transcending all others in importance
has been totally neglected. I mean a
National University.
Loudly called upon by every eon
! sideradon, that ought to influence a
! community, to render ourselves as
| physically and morally independent as
! possible j taught, by a calamitous ex.
j perience, that the political maxims of
; the p!t| world ar? destructive of hu.
man hH.’f and that long as
they are practiced upon we shall con
tinue to feel her tyranny and injus
tice through all the tics that connect
us with her; we shall not have placed
cur liberties upon a safe foundation,
uotil the intellectual as well as pin steal
power of our citizens shall be drawn
into free, vigorous and independent ex
ercise.
We may talk as we please, but it is,
after all, mind that decides the charac
ter and destiny of nations; and whii*
we are compelled to draw on fortigi**^/
ers for this commodity, we are in face
dependent upon them. * , •.
Wha- father commences the educa
tion of a son, in the hope ofhis becom
ing a useiul and distinguished member
of society, who does not regret the
complexion of the works he is compel
led from \necessity to put into his
hands, which go so far to shape h»3
future character ? Is it uot a tact, that
the most celebrated moral and histori
cal performances extant inculcate prin
«!->.l..- _____ — ^___ _» r
tal maxims of our political institutions,
they powerfully tend to their subver
sion? flow can this be otherwise, so
loug as monarchy, with-all its trappings,
is considered as the only 'practicable
system devised by man ? Is it not no
torious, that this sentiment U at the
bottom of every written performance
that receives the appljusc of the hu
ropeau w orld ?
It is through this corrupted medium
that our young men in this country
are constrained to receive that in
struction, fthich too frequently irrevo
__ r .1 • • • 1 * -
v.autj U1W uiur prillLipiCS. Ani3 1»
soniournfuUy the case, that it has
8QWtj*wes*b«rt:n contended, on both
snTR of the Atlantic, that a majority
of the men of education in the Uuiied
States is inimical to the republican
system.
Are We not then imperiously call
ed upen to reflect on the»e circum
stances, to look at their probable e£»
facts, and to search for an antidote to
them 2
The oflty effectual antidote, that can
be found, is the establishment of a Na
tional Univerrity on a broad scale,
commensurate to the intellectual
Wants of our country. This, if your
readers have patience, 1 hope to de
monstrate in a few subsequ-nt nu.n*
bet s. SOL JN.
Norfolk, Oct. 8.
We learn that important dispatcher
from Mr, Pinkney* \£ere forwarded bf
Satuiffify's mail to thereat of Govern
mewj^y Mr. Ellis of Richmond, la Hi
ed here from Liverpool, which plac4
he left the 27th August.
Norfolk, Oct. 8.
A gentleman landed from the ship
Sally, captain Webber, in 38 days frem
Liverpool, bound to Baltimore, and
came to this place on Saturday, he has
favored us with London papers to me
25th August, from which we have
made some extracts.
This gentleman is the bearer of Jig
patches from AV. Pinkney, a* London, *
and£eneral Armstrong,at Paris, for
the Pferetary of State.
understand that Mr. Pinkney
had made an official communication of
the revocation of the II trim and Milan
decrees, to the British government,-&
a dispatch whmli was forward-. d to Li
verpool, after thia gyKleman left Lon
dodPis supposed\c/:ontain the answer
o^Jparquis Weiyfrft^.
The Lisbo^^paperswhich we
spoke in our last, contain but little
which will not be found in this day’*
paper, copied from New-Yook papers.
There is a very animating proclamati
on of Lord Wellington’s, calling on the
inhabitants of Portugal to persevere in
thei^efforts ; representing the enemy
as wttting provisions, and without re
source to continue much longer in the
country.
In a general order of Marshal Be
retford, dated at Lageora, 14th Au
gus:, he sats “great credit is due to
the militia ofTarlos Montes, and their
commander MarechnlSeloiera^ in mak
ing prisoners the S.fiss battalion No.
3, to the amount of 400 in the castle of
Puebla Senabrifl, where they had fled
lor safety.” A detachment of the e?
nemj’ under General Srrrat advanced
to relieve the Swiss, but ouly in time
to have the mortification to witness
their surrender.
On Saturday arrived in Hampton
Roads the United State’s frigate Con
stittdbut, Captain Hull, fiom a cruize*
Natch**, September 10, ^
COMMUNICATION, “
On Thursday, the Gth lost***, the
hon. GEORGE POINDEXTER wia
iuvited- to diac with his Republican