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long coach, we understand, they son;ewts• maltreat-
ed, because he did not readily submit to chair depre-
dation. The 'alai'ss, we are intorneel. had ra'ce'r a
better apperostace •than might be expe.:ted of such.
offenders. N's bile they stopped the long coach, the
post-office mail-cart. with its dispatches and guard
came np ; bat seeing the man armed and ready
for action, they opened right and lest to let hint
p‘ssr and when he had got a few yards off, fired
some shots at him, and the guard fired his blunder-
buss at the villains ; he might have killed some of
the villains as he came up to them, was he able to
determinate the jobbers from the passengers, it
being then dark.—The Superintendant Magi".
trate immediately dispatched the Peace-Officers in.
every direction, if possible to trace nut any of the
offenders. A young man of suspiciou character,
who resides near Ringsend, and was absent from
his lodgings that night, was taken into custody, and
underwent a very long examination en Thursday,
before the Superintetafant Magistrate, in the pre-
sence of some gentlemen of the post-office. From
the aftivity which is using, we have no doubt. but
the de:iamients will be shortly discovered and
brought to jcstice.
;swot use A CC')UNT, PROM • VIIIVATR LZTTLIt.
A most extraordinary roe Wry was effefted here
tit night. As the long coach was going down to
the palm from the Hotel, in Dawson-street, it was
stopped on the South-wall. between fling's-end and
the pigeon-house, by a gang of robbers, ten or
twelve in number, who sere dressed as sailors or
fishermen. A. no Attack of the kind was Apple.
'melded, especially at so early an hour, it not being
more than half past nine o'clock, the passengers
could nice: nn resistance. lard were plundered to a
considerable amount. Lord Cabir loot four hue-
died gat-ese, and Mr. Latortche a very large sum
in cash, besidieother saluaqe property. As soon.as
the villains had completed their -purpose, they took
to their boat, which was in waiting, and wer,t
out to sea. As passengers are known, wh-n going.
to F.naland, to furnish themselves with hard
cash. this circumstance, it is supposed. was a prin-
cipal temptation to so daring a 'robbery.
DARING ANTERPRISa.
- Daring the wag which Henry the Fourth, of
France, maintained against the League, when be
was King of Navarre, many small towns, and even
citadels, were survelied by very extraordinary
means. At..cnest others, the following so prising
achievemeet, for fidelity in the adherents, as well
as for the vigour and boldness of the aiventure, de-
serves particularly to be recorded
j The manner in which Fescamp was surprized is
sib remarkable that it deserves a particular recital.
When the fort was taken from the Leagne by the
Duke de Biron, in the garrison that was turned out
of it, was a gentleman called Bois Rose, a man of
cause and towage, who. making an exact observa-
tion of the place he had left, and having concerted
his scheme, contrived to get two soldiers, whom he
had hound to his interest. to be received into the new
garrisere which was pest into Fescamp by the
League That side of the fort next the sea is a per-
m-ridiculer reek, tie° feet high, the bottom re which.
for Assiut the height of twelve feet, is continually
washed by the. sea, except foer or five days in the
year, during the utmost recess of the sea, when for
the space of thiee or four hours, it leaves fifteen or
twenty fathoms of dry sand at the foot of the rock.
Bois Rose, who found it impossible, by any other
way, to surprise a garrison who guarded with great
care a place iat:ly taken, did not doubt of accent-
plisaing his design, it he could enter by that side
which was, thought inaccessible ; this he endeavour-
ed by the following contrivance to perform :
He had agreed upon a signal with the two sol-
diers he had corrupted, and one of them waited
continually for it on the top of the rock, where he
posted himself during the whole time it was at low
water. Bois Rose, taking the opportunity of a very
dark night, came with fifty resolute men, chosen
from among the sailors, in two large hosts, to
the foot of the rot'*. He had provided himself
with a thick cable, equal in length to the height cf
'the • rock, and, tying knots at equal distauce, ran
'short sticks through to support them a; they climbed.
The soldier whom he had gained, having waited
six months for the signal, no sooner perceived
'it; than he let down a cord from the top of the
precipice, to which those below fastened the
!cable, by which means it was wound up to
!the top, and *lade fast to an opening in the
battleniett, with a strong crow run through
an iron staple, made for that purpose. Bois Rose
giving the lead to one of the serjeants, whose cou-
rage he was Well convinced of, ordered the fifty sol-
diers to mount the ladder in the same manner one
after another, with their weapons tied round their
waists, himself bringing up the rear, to take away
all hope of returning, which indeed soon became
impossible, for, before they had ascended half-way,
the sea rising more than six feet, carried off their
and set their cables a-float.

boats
The impossibility of withdrawing front a difficult
enterprise is not always security against fear, when
the danger appears almost isrvivabie If the mina
represent to itself these fifty men suspended between
heaven and earth, in the midst of darkness, trusting
their safety to a machine so insecure, that the least
want of caution, the treachery of a mercenary sol-
dier, or the slightest fear, might precipitate them
into the abyss of the sea, or dash them against the
rocks; add to this, the noise of the v. arcs, the height
of the rock. their weariness, and exhaused spirits;
it w;11 not appear surprising that the boldest amongst
them trembled, as in effeEt he who was foremost
did; this Scjeant telling the next man he could
mount no higher, and that his heart failed him.—
Bois Role, to whom this discourse passed from
mouth to mouth, and who perceived the truth of it
Iby their advancing no Luther, crepe free the ifediev
of ante Met sore before oisru, advising each to
Ikeep firm, aid got up to the foremost, whose
spirits he at first endeavoured to animate; hut
finding that Readiness would not prevail, he
obliged him to mount, by pricking him in the
back with his poignard, and doubtless, it he had not
obeyed him, would have precipitated Lim into the
sea. kt leogth, with incredible labour and rAtigtse.
the whole troop got to tine top of the rock, a loth:
before the break of day. and were introduce‘by the
two soldiers into the castle. 'which they completely
surprised, and gained possession e(.