The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-01 00:00:00

DUBLIN, MARCH 2S.

. Sunday night last, an assemblage of armed mis-
creants: siirrounded a farm-house of Mr. George
Read,: of Lemenstown, near Kilnaganny, in the
Cowan of Kilkenny, vOCiferating that Captain. Poe
and his friends were come to visit the place; .they
intmediately set fire to the: premises; and entirely
consumed, the dwelling-house, barn, stable, and
cow•house, with
fanning utensils. Theyinhumanly
beat Mr. Read's:steward, and shut him up in the
burning house :until he was nearly sutthcated; at
the same time they denied having any personal
hatred to the owner of the farm ; they allowed him
to be a proper man, but sald w4.:nid not permit
any person to take ground at a distance Iruin home.
A dairyman' in the ueighbo..rhuod eluded their vett,
geance only by being conceded in a cupboards and
on the same night they plundered several farm-
houses in that part of ~the country of arms,
likewise carrying: off sevei<ll horses, which,. how,.'
ever, wereluuna the next day at Nine-mile ;house.
An attack was made on Friday night, the,l tth
inst. by several ruffians, on-the house of Jelin Blake,
Esq. of wiss,„ocar VBrieWs Bridge, in the county
of Clare ;: but ahhough the villains entered,
Wert; preceeding to the bedrooms, the yigilance of a
terrier alai-Med its master, and'ensbled him and the
Rev. Mr. IWCortniek, Parish Priest of Killaloe„ then
in the house, to he on the:aieM They .roadea de-
fence, with two guns, one of which only was loaded,
nor w:is there more i.thttunitio in the house; the
felniwo seeing them determined„: after firing, a shot
Mr. Blake, wiitcl, lunged in .the wall near him,
theught,bettsl to retreat.; hut atteri.varls, 4eliberatiNg
vti a second aitdck, fired; .:and shattered o:le ut the
windows. . A seyvant itOhe lower part-of the house
gave one of the assassii4 a stab with a cane sword,
which he conceives broke- in. his body, and probably
11).1, lead to a discovery UriOnfe, of the party.

AIA °ROUGH. STR EEr.--Yesterday another of
those dvipraved women; Who entice the unwary into
,their abode 4 and rob them, was charged with lob-
big young; man, aged 17, of eight.shillings and
biz wawit. it ppearexf that the Prisoner, skilled in
-tier biNinecs, and stricken io years., had Cornieyed
the complainant into a court or entry to her subtcr-
raucous abOtle at the. hack or Crown-street, where
the put him in fear, and robbed him of his property.
'I he Prosecutor was hurried into the street, by atio-
-1: er passage, but he obtained and returned
tu, the spot, when the ,Prisoncr was secured.--She
as ce;s4M,itted

__T DALY V. LoLLES,

I :We. have received the following corre& statement
joti 11,t e6denve given in this case, and oftheJudgtisk
'stutiming up to toe Jury, which we lay btAbre ot.r
with , the view of removing truui their
min- .1; ally mistakeu predediees- (should any. tit
41ave arisen) from perusing the imperie4 sketch of
the trial ,aocatly given in most of the Daily Papers :
On beivatt or the Plaintiff, Mr..Pearsan, a :.`,lidsliip-
man of the. Lion, deposed; that about the sth or tith
lofMa -last (the Lion then lying near the Island of
Lintin, at. the Mouth of the Canton River, and about
to return to England with a considerable convoy of
ji,ast India ships, which lay at anchor near her, and
Capt,,Rolles having just arrived on board from Can-
ton) he (the witness) was directed by the aating tirst
Lieutenant, Mr. Peed, to take Mr. Daly, the plain-
tiff, and his che,a, in the jolly boat, and convey him
On board any,ship in the convoy,he chose townie.
He accordingly put otf with Mr. Daly, but the latter
saying he knew of no ship, and bad neither money
or friends, he returned with him on board the Lion
thr further orders, when on iicenainting Capt. Rolfes.
and Lieut. Peed (who were
.walking the qaarter--
deck) therewith, Daly was sent for, and Capt.
Bolles addressed inn), saying he should not'remain
in the ship, and gave the witness orders to take hiM
again into the ,boat, and carry him to any ship he
thought et. Daly expressed a dislike to the idea of
being discharged in this manner, and the wituesti-
asked Capt. !tulles, in case lie (Daly). refused to
mention a ship, what he was to du with hint, who
answered, he must in that casts take, him on shore :
that be put otl with Daly a second time, and desired
him to mention some ship to which he chose to go,
but he he knew of none, and lie (witness) said
he must obey his orders ; that he accordingly-took
'him on shore and left him on the i RA, and that
they each 'shed tears at parting ; that Daly took
with hint a pair of pistols, which he-loaded in the
boat ; that the Island of Lintin is inhabited by
Chinese, but he bad heard it had been visited by the
Ladrones, a sp. cies of pirates. On his cioss-exatnina-
tion, he said, that as Daly was going over the gang-
way the first time, he said to Lieut. Peed, " this is
an unpleasant business, Mr. Peed," Peed said he was
sorry for it. Daly replied, "he hoped they'should
settle It in a handsome 'manner." These words
the witness understood to convey a challenge, but
he knew nothing of his having challenged Lieut.
Peed before. , '

Mr. Charles Matson, Purser, stated, that the
Plaintiff objected to being turned on -shore on the
Island,olLintin, and that tie understood he bad been
sent out of the ship for miseondud ; he also deposed
to a conversation he had with Capt. Relies on the tub-
jett of the Plaintiff's discharge-ucket,which he,Capt.-
Roiles,Objetted to, on the giound oftts'expressing that
he was sent aihore at Lintin. On his croSeexaminas
hop, he said, that his certificate was a certificate of
servitude, in'-order to. entitle Daly to • his wages;
and it was altered or made out afresh, that he had
been discharged for contemptuous behaviour to his •
superior Otficets.
Thomas Master at Arms, stated, that he
heard Capt. Relies tell Daly ,that he might go
on board any ship, or goon shore; iu reply to which,
Daly said, he hoped the Captain would lecollett
about turning bun out ut tne ship, as be did hot
know what he bud done to deserve it that Capt.
Rolles replied, " young gentletnan, you have said,
enough, and out of the ship you must go." " 7
Mr. Duncan Murphy, Master- of the Lion, heard
Capt. Runes tell Daly that his conduot•waS such
that be could not think of keeping biM in the ship
on which Daly said he had no friends or money;
but the Captain told him he must nut stay in the
ship.
The t ath Article of the printed instruaions:lo
Captains in the Navy was then read, which directs,
I"lhat Oki Captain is not to 'discharge any man btu
" for one ot the following reasons preterment in
" some-other of his Majesty's ships, unfitness for
" service, officer's servants rated, or by order froth
" the Admiralty or his Commander in Chief; and
". that he is to express the cause upon every ticket."
Ou behalf of Capt. Runes, Lieut. James Peed de-
posed, that • one day about the middle ot, Alarch,
going on the quarter-Jeck, he heard Daly; who was
mate of the watch, speaking in a high and disre-
spettful tone to Lieut. Eaton, the chief. officer of
'the- watch,- on which' he ordered him-to be silent,
and implied ot Lieut. Eaton the
,cause of so much
noise, who answered, that he was speaking to Mr.
Daly for being oil the deck contrary to his duty, mid
that he had received a great deal of insolent
lan-
guage from him, notwithstanding his having been
ordered three different times to be silent ; that Daly
thereupon crossed over from the larboard to the star,
board side - of the deck, and inierrepting Lieut.
Eaton in an impertinent manner, said; " he had a
right to answer when spoked to; and that he Would
tin se;" that the witness again ordered him to be
sileht, at the same time repritnanding him for his
Insolence towards Mr. EatOn and hiMself,' When he
replied in these Words—." that be hoped the witness
was A Gentleman that lie was one, and he hoped
Ire should have' an opportunity of meeting him at
some future time ashore." This the witness under-
stood as a challenge; -that he again ordered him to
he silent, and had cOnsiderable trouble in enforcing his
.orders. That at another time he ordered Mr. Daly to
take a boat and go ashore for fre.ll provisionsion which
he went down uelow,as lie thought, ter his side-arms,
but staying a considerable time, he Sent tor him, hitt
he did nut Conte; he sent a second;and he believed
a third time, When, at length, he caine up very
slowly,-.and walked in a most careless lounging way.
The witne,s desired him to move fabler lie said it
was impossible he could, This tl-e witness (upon
a luestion front the De;endatit's Counsel) said was
fillse• That the-officer of the watch ii3LI himself.
both observed upon las disrespeard Wanner; that
he went down the-ship's side as sloW as possible, and.
in the most careless way. That one evening, in, the
latter end of April, he ordered Daly to rook out km.
a boat that he expected ftom the snore.. Seeing' Mai-
self a float approaching a-head, and about a shii)!s
lcngth off, he asked Daly if he saw the boat : Doty
was' thee lying with both arms -ever the now 'of the,
ship, ain't, as it appeared to the witness,- not looking
out ; he ins ered in a disresp.,ctful Way, with

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