The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-12-17 00:00:00

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IRELAND,

COuIITY OP IllOPlAOltalt.
inut Ont,ty nr m.anithan biyeng on fttoolty the 7th
Sy •• Deer:idiot, 1301, pursuant to notice iro•ta the
'Shen/.

WILLIAM HENRY, EN High Sheriff, in the Chair;
.Altar' do.. K.•r, Eve Chairmen of the Crm mittee, appointed
on the 18th Nave ober la.t, to tako into consirleratrou the
many amiable and transcendent virtues of the tare RICHARD
WSUN, of Daseesto-grove, Esq. made the following Re.
port
.• Your Committee having taken I. to their consideration,
the many am'able arid trinteendent vit,aoS of the I,te Richard
F.:q. are deeply impressed with a juit of bit oz.
shed chat,ctcr.
By his death the county has been deprived of one of it.
brirhiest nroram..nte, an honest, uprlght, and independent Re.
presentative. an 'Rive, kberal, end en.ighienert Country Geo.
tlernatt, whose benevr..lerit mind was ever uncut UPOII. wel-
fare and iruproven.ent of hit country, and the happineos of his,
fellow-creatures.
" As i pirate gentleman, he was belov.d be all who had
thllleiteny of his acettai.vtauce; hie kind dnposition, his happy
t..igier, In. coeciliating manner, toe unriorm sad Heil
r-titudsitt,essdeer-il Inn, to sll rank{ and classes of itoepity.
Co perpetuate the mirinory of inch a cherseterr, oilman' to
riot Cittemittee et be roost desirable, u it tend. to pay a just
Woos. to &patted worth, and h,,lde riot a *sing incitement so
espies to emulate stark a br gist example.
Your L: emitter, the,en.re, beg leave to sugzest for your
chat they contrive to be the moat proper and
sff.ctual mid,. of paying d lasing tribute to lilt: 11/Ulloly of
Der.Daw•enw-Thst a
COLUMN OF STONE
*mad be erected is mine conspicuous part of the town of
Eto;oCholl (being the vrelity lime) erell • ,41111104111 Inscrip-
tion, enor,asiie of Mt. D411101.'4 malty and transcendant vita
too:, awl that the fond for erecting said column, stiou!d* be
Mimed by voluntary subscriptiont from the county."
The Repent having been read and annoyed of—
k was orninimo,sly resolved, 'Chit a Column of Stone shall
be et. ele4 tau rh- town of M,naghsto. as a lasting milese to the
seashore r I the late Mr. Daesen, • maned univerally beloved
by the county. 1614 that a suitable Inwrlpa n ho engraten
time* WILLIAM HENRY, Sheriff.

• Duette, arc. P 2.
On Wednesday night last, the Right lion. I lent y
sailed from this City for Holyhead, in ol-
d r in site rd the ensuing Sessions of the Imperial
pa, ,i • rue ro .
Airy from Holyhead, Right Hon. George
Kat a I min family, and Miss Staples.
7. . mor:-ieg t etc was a field Joy in the
Phe. ix . the Infantry regiments which ere
now on b eu y 'l nose field drys are now
very freq .:ad the perfection in military skill
and obeli ‘• ch the several regiments evince
were those ais high.) creditable to them-
selises se.. fa- • :y to the root:try.
The Court .1 &mei. ha• been necopl...l
for sots.. days pas:, the trial of a cause beet'
the Lord Chief Aisne. and a Special Jury, wherein
the 101 of ownership to 'tit &rand, fr.sts Riagseud
td Merrion and Bleck-xick. sztithward tit the well
leatfisig from the es a ecn-t.onse to the Ligiit-house,
by Lord Viscount k yew' ham, is contended ageinst
by the Corporation or the of Dublin, who have
Claimed it as their property.
The proceedings of the General Court Martial,
whiels sat lately ir Dublin Barracks fur the trial of
two Officersot sth Garrison Battalion, upon the
iharge of if.e•i Is virig been found drunk upon their,
guard at Kurnaualam, on the morning of the 23.1
of tiLISVAsSI.IaLf last. are closed ; last the verde% or
result to tr.e deliberations of that Court of Honour.
cannot he known until it be laid before the Com.
wander in Chief, and be approved or disapproved
by the Lord Lientessant or His Majesty.
Ttie accounts from the Counties of Limerick and
C dway are of the most distressing kind. he
rouse face of the country is deeply buried in snow,
which fell most beaten), for some hours ou the 7th
lasting.
'I be mail coach from Enn:sitillen broke down,
a few nights since, between Cavan and Vir-
ginia. The bags, containing the letters, were
towerded by the ;plaids on horseback. Some of the
passengers were enabled to get to Virginia by 'nuns
el a return chaise, while the remainder were obliged
to stop in a cabin all night. Fortunately,none of the
passengers sustained any personal injury.
Nio preparation has hitherto, or is likely soon to
be made towards carrying the intention of the Ad
torte-building the intended Bridge over the River
Liffey, on Ormond-quay, into execution. The ex-
peitie of s-ilaciting and procuring the Aft of Par-
liament !or building that Midge, amounted to near
100 e. an experts!, which has hitherto proved unpro-
duaive, in consequence of the difference of opinion
between the Ballast • Office Corporation and the
Grand Juries of the City and County of Dublin,
res +tote to the plans proposed to them.
We have been informed by a Correspondent, that
as an Officer of a Militia Regiment was shooing
near the Shannon, on the let inst. on his return
home to Banagher, he Suited a woodcock near
Colonel O'Mnors's park, which he marked, and gave
()Niers to is man that was with him to go and put it
up for him, at the same time desiring the mall would
not shoot, but notwithstainding the precaution given,
he fired, and lodged the contents of hi, piece in the
Officer's Ince, whirl has deprived him M one ev,
and mangled him in a most dreadful wanner—had
it not beers for the very thick hedge, his head mu.t
have been blown from his body.
Thursday se'nnight, Mr. Dennis Kennedy, en
npulent farmer, of Donohcr, within four miles of
Tipperary, returniag from that town towards home,
happening to fall off his horse, was smothered us
Lite scow.

Last week, Jams MACILANESS, Esq. was, by the
Cctporatiou; unanimously eleeted Recorder cat the
Botoogh of %Vallit:Word, in the 10001 of FHOMAS
MILLS, Esq. resigned.
A 'limber of clergymen and other respedable in-
habitants of Greutovic and Port Glasgow, have
totmed themselves into a Society for assisting the
Briudl and Foreign Bible Soci,tr.
A cow belonging to a farmer at Steyning, that
had been for a long time in a state of gradual de-
cer, was list week killed. by Mr. You're, butcher,
cf that. place, when it appeared, carat a complaint
in the lever was tie cause of her indisposition. as
it had grown t 4 such an enotilloos tie:, as to weigh
eft woo Hiner This may appear almost incredible w
'Qum. as by far esscrlng any thing of the kind
ever seen before ; bat as all the gentlemen of the
eeeee is the reightrourhoud have been to see it.
they CM vouch for me authent:city ; and Mr. Youvo
P:tettlds to preserve wow sswe far the trtsint.W..
et 42.0 sedans.