The Sun.
London, England, 1806-05-14 00:00:00

sbUITLIAV, 'MAY 8..

(EXTRACT OF A LETTER.)

In your Publication of last Monday, you have
mentioned 't hat DWYER, the Irish Rebel, had mur-
dered the Captain and Crew of the Transport in
which be.was embarked, and bad' with his associates
eife6ted his escape on the Coast or Brazil.
Some account of that daring.- offender may be
pleasing thyou.—Michael Dwyer is the son of an'
Irish Peasant, who was not able to give him any
education, for he could neither read nor write. Young
Dwyer: was cow-boy to, More . than one Farmer in
the County•Of Wicklow. When the Rebellion of.
1798 broke out, he had the- rank Of Captain among
the Rebels; and persisting in his treason when the
other Rebel Leaders had .been, put to the sword,
banged, or pardoned,' he constituted himself a Ge,
neral ; and strange as it may appear,. the fitEt was
that he had for years undisturbed dominion of 2
tra& "of mountainous
_Country extending 40 Irish
miles, from the Northern parts of the County" of
Wexford to within' six miles of the Castle of Dub-
lin; the Seat of Government. •

The Loyill Inhabitants Of these Mountains were
compelled by necessity to enter into a Treaty with
him not to give information against. him, and he
engaged not to molest them; and although at the
commencement of the Rebellion of 1798 he had
murdered Several unarmed peaceable Loyalists, this
agreement was stri&ly observed. When Emmet's
inSurreaion broke out in 1803, Dwyer had marched
his men, to the amount -of many hundreds, from
the County of to the mountains neap Rath=
farnham, whence he could hear the firing of inns-
quetry in Dublin ; but when he arrived at his sta
tion, the Dublin Rebels had been dispersed, and,
as he heard no firing of any kind, concluding rightly
that Emmet had failedin- his enterprise,• be did riot
advance to Dublin.

The Irish Government, in 1803, convinced of the
inefficacy-of conciliatory measures, ordered the Mo—
naghan and Artnagh Regiments of Militia, and • se-
veral Corps of Volunteer Yeomen, to occupy the
distri&s particularly infested by Dwyer and his ban-
ditti-7-and after some months perseverance, this ma-
rauder, seeing no chance of escape, in the midst of
winter, surrendered himself to CL-11.:HUINIE, M.P.‘;
-for the County of WickloW, on condition that his
life should be spared. •
• Lord POWER-SCOW:I' had nothing to do with Dwp.
ee§ surrender. Mr. HumE ;and his Troop of Ca-.
valry escorted Dwy-er, to •Dublin„ from whence- he
was transported. Whatever country he maTinha
bit; I am inclined to think that Providence will not
suffer him to escape with impunity for his manifold-
murders and.Tapines. Mr. HUME, to whom he de-
livered himself up, -was in no less than twPive en-
gagements with Rebels, at the head of his Troop of
Yeomen, and in some of them with his arm in a
sling, it having been fractured immediately before
the Rebellion broke out:

Advice has been received by C. 17:.wcErr and Co.
of thiS City, Merchants, -of the hiss of the Ship
Edward,- of New-.York,-..D.ULEY BADCOCK,
Mas-
ter, from Dublin,' bound .to New-York, oh the
night of the 20th of March last;, about sixty mile 4.
East of Sandfr Hook :.the Crew, and „Passengers-
were allsaved. They were in hopes of getting out
all the linens if the 'Afeather moderated;
.140 boxes
'of.Which had been landed in a daniaged .state on
the Beach, South side of Long Island—the Letter:-
lost.
Friday, a Countryman,
.whose brother bad been'
loded in gaol on suspicion of horse-stealing, seized
a man-in Grafton-street, whom he accused of hav-
ing sold-to hisJ)rother the horse for which be was:
apprehended. The fellow at first endeaiouted to
escape, but in vain: A-Gentleman, who Came up
at the time, observing,that endeavoured to con-
ceal a Letter, , which he held in -his. hand, with
some difficulty forced it from him. It was acl-
dressed to a respe(table Citizen in Grafton-street,'
and contained theSe- words, "'The inclosed" will
do—work away.".;- There was no enclosure. He
was taken before the Superintendant Magistrate and
underwent examination.

A Banking, House has. stopped payment at 1‹:11-•
kenny, in Ireland, with a collateral branch of the
same in Dublin, which has occasioned considerable
embarrassments. The two Houses have pUbliShed
an Address,- stating, ". that the late malignant run
upon them, aided by the innumerable counterfeits
of their Notes,- circulated pver,Mpst parts of Ireland,
have, for the present, obliged them to suspend pay-
.
.

. Two Frenchmen landed-at
_Brixton, in the Isle of
Wight, on Saturday, from a small boat. They were
immediately arrested, and afterwards underwent an
examination. The reason for: their quitting France'
in so perilous a way, the boat they came over in
.being only of about three tons I)w:then, has not'
transpired. Sortie say. it was to avoid the etfeA
of Imperial proscription denounced against them-=
-others, that their business is with this Government..
EDMUND DARBY,' Esq.. draper THOMAS FISH,
Esq. armourer and brazier,; and WILLIAM GEORGE
SIBLEY, Esq: mercer, Who had been nominated by
former Lord Mayors to be publicly put in nomina-.
tion for the offices of Sheritialty of London and
Middlesex, have paid into. the Chamber of London
4001. andalso 20. marks more, towards the main-
tainatice of the Ministers of the. several Prisons in
London.; which, by an order, of the Court Of Com-
mon Council, of the 3d of April last, discharges
them from the said. nomination; and exempts them,
.from being eligible to the said office for ever' here-
after, unless' they shall tape upon themselves the
office of Alderman of, London.

The footman of Sir Join LOWTHER bad 'his leg
broken yesterday in Parliament-street, while behind
his master's carriage, in the procession to Westmin-
ster Hall. Two carriages were-attempting to-force
into the van, and the eagerness of the coach Man in
the rear of Sir JouN'scarriage, as well as others, in-
duced hiatto keep close. The horSe suddenly sfart-
ed at the whip, and with the pole forced the leg of
Sir John'i footman through the pannel of the car-
riage, by which it was broken, as was,also the pole,
which was driven with violence 4,:;ainst the preceding
carriage. .