The Sun.
London, England, 1801-05-26 00:00:00

QUICK.

See, where Anarchy around us.
Pours on ev'ry side her host,
Scatters poisons to confound us,
And proclaims her Trait'rous boast.
Hark ! her trumpet, loudly sw‘aling,
Breathes destruction on our isle ;
See her, future woes foretelling,
Plant her Tree on England's so►l !

SLOW.

Gallant Comrades.! loOk around ye,

Your domestic bliss survey ;
Think, oh think, what joys surround ye,
While you GEOR r.z's rule obey.
Who shall dare invade your treasure ?
Who shall curb your honest will ?
Be but just, and at your pleasure
Nature's bounteous Law, fulfil.

QUICK. •
But our Foes, who seek your ruin,
Urge you to subvert the Throne ;
Bid you, Gallia's course pursuing,
Rel►gion and your Law d►sown.
If, not mov'd by her example,
You obey her fatal call;
Your destrudion shall be ample.
Dreadful shall be seen your fall.

SLOW.

But refle6l, how long our glory
llas adoni'd th' historic page : "
Britain ever fam'd in story,
Still with Traitors war w►ll wage•
Would we have our King victorious ?
Have we Wife, or Child, or Friend ?
Would we have Old England glorious?
Let us all our succour lend !

As for Frenchmen, need we deed 'em ?
Here's " Confusion to their arts !"
We, already blest with Freedom,
Own her empire o'er our heats.
Liberty and bliss enjoying, ,
Hail the source from which they spring;
And, our jovial hours employing,
Drink, " Long life to GLoa E our King

On Friday the zzd inst. was held the Annual
Exhibition of Midhurst School. Two excellent
Prize Poems were composed, and spoken by Messrs.
jertittikrs and TWYFORD; one in Latin, on " Samp-
son in servitutem redaetus ;"' the other in English,
on " The Infant Hercules." The two Prizes for
Oratory were adjudged to Mr. METCALFE, for a
Speech of Cicero, and Mr. SMELT, for Lord Arun-
del's Speech from the History of Henry H. The last
at of Caratacus, in which Mr. LEAR particularly
distinguished himself; the parting of Heaor and
Andromache, from the 6th Iliad of Homer, and the
Discovery Scene, from the Eleara of Sophocles, were
most adMirably and correctly performed. Two
Scenes from Macbeth and Hamlet had, likewise
great merit. The exhibition closed with a very
lively and pleasant Latin Epilogue, by Mr. MAX-
WELL, and si‘hich we understand came from the
pen of the Master. The company consisted of about
sixty principal Gentlemen of the County, the Offi-
cers of the Sussex Militia, &c. &c._ The Trustees
of the School were afterwards entertained at the
School-house by the Master.
Married at Llanedwan Church, County of Angle.
sey, North Wales, on Tuesday the t zth instant,
JOHN MACDONALD, Esq. late Captain Ist Foot, or
Royals, presently of Lord Macdonald's Regiment
of the Isles, to Miss MARGARETTE HUGHES,
youngest daughter of WM. HUGHES, Esq. of Ms-
.
coch, County of Anglesey.
M. Born ate, of Weimar, has published a
learned Dissertation on the Costume of the Furies,
as invented by ESCHYL,S. Several coloured en.
gravings are added, as well as accounts of ancient
monuments representing the Furies, ,

FROM THE COMMITTEE OF SECRECY

OF Tll2
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

(Contirved firm our l'afer Saturiay.)

Your Committee have next directed their :then.
tion to the present Situation of Ireland, both as
disturbed within and threatened from without,, par-
ticularly with reference to the necessity of those
measures, adopted by the Parliament of that Coun-
try before the Union,. for the suppression of the
Rebellion there, which have since been renewed fur
a limited period by than of the Voiced Kingdom ;
and also of the manner in which file powers thus
given have been exercised, and the effect prodwed
by them: It appears, that though the efforts of the
disaffetted in that Country have happily long ceased
to assume the aspect of Rebellion, arrayed in the
field against the Arms of their Sovereign, and
though the organization established by the United
Irishmen may not have been kept up with any regu.
lathy, and that many parts of the Kingdom preSent
the usual appearance of peaceful industry and loyal
subordination ; yet, that at no time 11.!ye there been
wanting in others, demonstrations of the same sys.
tematic plan of Insurrettion, and marked with the
same charaders of unexampled atrocity. The prin-
cipal Traitors in Dublin continually send_ their
Emissaries through the Country, to keep up the
spirits of the disaffeaed, by the hopes of support
from Foreign invasion. About a year since, a new
system of association was about to be established,
and a new Executive Diredory formed in Dublin.
This was to originate in a head Committee, who
were to appoint those on whom they could depend
to form regiments, of which each Colonel was to
provide the Major and Captains, each Captain his
Subalterns, and they the private men. The com.
munications were to be verbal, and the buSinest
conducted without elections, debates, or Commit-
tees. This plot, however, being deteded by Go-
vernment, its progress was checked, if not en,..
tirely stopped. It affords a remarkable coincidence
with the intelligence above detailed,- of what has
been passing in England, that it appears to have
been lately held out to- the disaffetted in Ireland,
that whenever an Insurrection shall take place in
that Country, which it is intended shall be univer.
sally on the same day, a similar explosion is to be
made in several of the principal Towns in England,
particularly in London, where they are told the
disaffeCted are acting on -the same plans and 'prin-
ciples as the United Irish. The manner in which
the Rebellion was originally organized, the secret
springs of the ConfederaCy, which set. in motion,
and directed to every enormity of private and pub-
lic outrage, to la'rge a mass of the inhabitants, have
long been familiar to the House and to- the-Public.
j The object of it being. to disunite that Country

from this, by the co-operation of a Foreign Enemy,
it may be imagined that the cause will never appear
desperate to those engaged in it, while the continu-
ance of the War still keeps alive the hope of that
assistance, encouraged as it may be from time to
time by assurances of support from their Ally, or at
least from those Traitors to their Cuuntry who still

form, in the Capitay,pf that Enemy, a central Com-
mittee of Rebellion, io instigate Invasion on the

one hand, and prepare Insurrection on the other.--7.
Their Emissaries are continually passing into Ire--
land for this purpose, where two of them are sup.
posed still to be concealed. The views of this Com.
mittee, and the means by which they are not asham-
ed to endeavour to accomplish
.them, will be suf.
ficiently obvious from the Address to the Irish
Sailors in our Fleet, which has "been printed in their
name, and prepared on the Continent for extensive
circulation. Emissaries; on the other hand, have
not been wanting. froth. Ireland, to interest the
French Government in support of their cause—one
particularly has lately passed over to•the Continent,
'and opened a clirea.comintmication with the Enemy,
accrediting himself with them as being deputed by
a great body of the Landed Interest of his country,
whom the represents as being, like himself, so dis.
satisfied with the. Union, that they
,would engage
in any concert with France to ptocure the means
of establishing, under the guarantee of that
Power, 'some new - form of Representative'Go.'
verninent. With this view he affords them all
the information in his power, of the state of the
country, and Of the force employed to protel it ;
and suggests the amount OF that which he recom-
mends , to be sent against it. He stipulates how.
ever with his proposed Allies, for the assurance of
their property to all the present possessors, in op-
position to any claim of the Catholics, whom he
states still to look forward with }topes of establish.
ing a Popish ascendancy ; and it appears that he
has been given to understand, that- both the late
Direnory and one of the principal MinistCrs 'of the
present Government of France, bad coincided in the
justice and propriety of that stipulation.
The peculiarity of this sittratton of Ireland, both
in its internal and external relations, would un_
douhtedly justify extraordinary measures of pre..
caution, which seem called for, not more by atten.
Lion to the security of the Government at large,
than to the happiness and even existence of the loy-
al part of the Community. The system of Terror
originally adopted' by the Leaders of the United
Irish, who first publicly recommended assassination,
and then formed. Committees for the purpose of
concerting and direling it, has been continued to
the present hour," sometimes, as will be seen here-
after, with the same enorinities ; at. others, with
the less fatal, though scarcely less cruel, excesses
of inhuinan beating's and floggings. The ostensible
°Nes% to which these outrages were direded have
' been different, and are now more frequently in the
first instance, those of lowering• items, abolition of
Tithes, regulation of Wages, and Price of Provi-
sions, than those of an alteration in the form and
Constitution ,Government. This system could
only be counteract ed by the apprehension of prompt
and efficacious punishment for the guilty, and . the
sense of security and proteaion fur the innocent.—
The regular.course of law affording only peiltxlical
occasions.of trial, and providing in the interval no
effetlual means for ptote6tipg the witnesses.from
seduaion or intimidation, or the Jurymen from out-
' rage, was found inadequate to the pressure of
,the
case ; while theextension of the mischief, and dr.

tincerta my where it might. next break out into
action, required a remedy equally prompt and uni-
versal.
It appears .from the Minutes of Courts Martial
held at Rathdrutn, Limerick, Clonmell, WextOrd,
and Leixlip; that during the year tBOO, the Coun-
ties of, Wicklow and Wexford were_infested by
lindies of rebellious banditti, ading• under the or-
ders of regular Leaders, and perpetrating from time
to time, with
.every circumstance of aggravation,
the, crimes'of robbery, burglary, and murder
That in the Counties of Tipperary and Limerick,
the practice of breaking into houses, 'and cruelly
beating...or flogging the, owners with rods made of
thorns, in order to fix an arbitrary and inadequate
price on' the_neeessaries of life, frequently ending
in, or accompanied with premeditated ;leis of mur-
der, was very prevalent ;' and had spreadsuch ter-
ror over the whole Country in which, it prevailed,
as would have baffled all the exertions of the ordi-
nary Magistracy, if not counteratted by-the Vigour'
and energy' of the new furisdiftion: 7 The peculiar
situation of that district, and the effea of the mea-
sures adopted to tranquillize it, are so fUlly and sa_
tisfadonlydetailed in the evidence of Mr. OrMsby,
a very eminent 'Barrister, who was ileptited by the
Lord Lieutenant to preside at the Courts Martial
which were to sit at Limerick, and from whom
your Committee have been enabled to proctire a de-
gree of information, which no other per Son was, so
competent to t.upply, that they wish rather to refer
to his account, than to impair the precision of it' by
incorporating parts of it in the body of their Re-
port. They have also added in their Appendix,
the evidence of Captain BloOmfield, Assistant Quar-
ter-Master-General in the same distria dining that
.period. Some particulars howtver arising out of
those seem so peculiarly chargieristie of the
spirit which still unfortunately prevails in that
Country, that they are desirous of submitting them
to the attention of the House.

It appears established by satisfatiory proof, that
when a desperate conspiracy was formed, for stir,
prizing and massacring a I)4tachment of llis Ma-
Jesty's Troops stationed at Cappaghwhite, a princi-
pal inducement avowed by those engaged in it, for
.undertaking so hazardous an enterprize, was to de-
monstrate the readiness of. that part of the Country
to engage in Rebellion, as a pledge to others, with
whom they Itati*.
.not
.before co-operated, ,of their
'readiness to join them, when they,should have re.
sumaid 'their former treasonable proceedings ; for
they thought, as
.they themselves expressed it,
", That Leinster would never rise till Munster
Would be up, as Munster did not rise when
Leinster was. up." On another occasion, the
;mode by which private assassination is planned and
direded,. was clearly developed. The personS con-
cerned, to the number of 4 or 15, who from their
alts must be considered as principal tonduelors, of
these enormities, are found meeting in midday, as
if by accident, at some Public-house, where they
occupy a room upstairs, rind without suspicion eater
:upon their consultation of Proscription. One of
them presides as Chairman; and each is called upon
for informations against any loyal Sut;jefts, for acts
which may have incurred, their displeasure. The
Chairman then puts the ,question, which is deter-
mined by holding up of hands,, and Sentence, of
Death is regularly passed, if the verdia of Guilty is
pronotmccd. The mode of. execution is then dis-
cussed, whether by a, large number to be. colleeted
from the 'neighbourhood,
.or by '4 select body,,of
•

twentY.one, to be colleCted iu partJes;of seven, each
from distant' and
_remote parts of the Country:—
Other circumstances ilave occurred, e4ressive of
tlieterror produc4l by the apprehensiOn of such or,
the. like outrages, and of the impediment neces_
sarily produced by it to the cogrse of legal investi-
gation: The information of a person, who- had
bit= died the severe beating, be. had, received
from one of illese no4urnai gangs, was produced in
evidence against them. It was proved by the Ma-
gistrate before Whein it was taken,, that nothing.
could induce him to give ,any, account of the persons
concerned, till (at the end of some weeks) he was
convinced of his approaching death; and then at the
risk of the same Janet. to
.his wife-and 'children,
who did all in their power so prevent it, made the
disclosure. In another instance, the person beat,'
not only at the, time prevented his daughter from
naming. the man concerned, putting, as she expr6s-
ed it, his ".bloody hand on her mouth, and bidding
her hold her tongue;" but on the trial itself ap.
peared so much under the influence of the same ter-
ror,
.as to contradid, with respell to the identity of
the person concerned, the positive testimony of two
of his daughters, whok.general veracity neither he
nor any other person impeached. The motives
which lead to the adoption of this System of Terror,
as well as the effeut of it,. may indeed be easily con,'
ceived, when it is Considered: that 'in ,many in-.
stances the outrages are committed Without any dis-
guise, t y persons perfedly well known to The suf.
km', and frequently'his immediate 'neighbours.

(To de comtinued.)

SHIP NZIPS.

GRAVESEND, MAY 24.

Patsed by--the Johanna 'Elizabeth, Maliite, Rose ;
and j ttifow.Borlal, from Hambro'.; IVrow Alaria, John-
son, front Dantzic ; front. Baltimore ;.Tryal,
froM.New,Yorit'; Rose, from Charlestown ;
John and' jai-06i, Lindegreen, from Soutlt Carolina ; and the
Alliance Man of War, from Gibraltar.
Sailed--the Diana, for Hamhro` ; Rising. States,
-, for Boston ; Harmony, I.ov, for I..abradorc ; Wright,
'EOM, for. Venice Kit* Ceorge, f and Prince of
Wales, Turna,- tar Hudson's Bay.