The Sun.
London, England, 1814-01-28 00:00:00

DUBLIN, JAN. 22.

• CARAVATS.
We lament to state that 'the Caravat system,
which has so long disgraced the interior of the
county of Waterford, , has at length reached the
bounds of this county. Last Saturday. night an
an attack was made by a set of armed ruffians on
a woodman of/ Mr. Smyth's, of Temple-Michael,
for a gun entrusted to him., Timothy Sheehan,
a poor man who lived in an adjoining cabin, wens
towards the place attacked; when one of the
lains instantly fired a pistol, and shot off a great
part of his skull. The poor man was next day
brought to the Youghal infirmary, and expired in
great agony on-Twestlay night last.
A few nights ag,o,-aluAinaber of Con,nty Water.
ford men came into the town of Youghal, and
took foreible possession of a large piece. of ground
used as a military and yeomanry parade ; theyar
pe.ared as masons, with large trowels, and at day-
break had the walls of a small house raised some
feet. The novelty of the scene, and the smell•of
whiskey, brought numbers of idle people to the.
spot, so that on Mr. Green, the owncr-, going
with a few friends and labourers to possess him-
self of his grouted, he was resi&ted-by-a-siolent-
limpb, was pushed.and struck by some of the party,
. and if the Mayorhad not erit.eally arrived with
a guard, and read the Riot Act, there is little
doubt but many liyes would have been lost.. Se-
.yerat of those persons have been taken into cus-
t•ody: _

ROBBERY.—John Bru,7e, a highway robber of
gigantic stature, being 'six feet three inches high,
was arrested on Wednesdaysnorning, under the
following curious circumstances :—On Tuesday
night he went out,on asobbing -excursipt, be.-
Sweet) the Bleeding Horse and the Circular Itoad,
an ominous neighbourhood, where Tuite so lately
murdered Mr. Goulding. He met a Mr. Taylor,
from whom he took his pocket-hook; he fortu-
nately happened to have -no money about him,
nor did the pocket-book contain any thing but
memorandums. Our Rambkr proceeded on to
Harcourt-street, and met Mr. Benjamin J. Sisson,
of Clare-street, ,whbm he knocked down, Jumped
on his body, and took from him a silver watch
and gold seal. The night being very severe, he
met no other preyiand being tired of strofling, he
finished Ills excursion by retiring to one of
.the
Hotels in Pye-corner ; there he staid all night ;
next morning he sent tile watch by one of the
maids 'in the house 1.0 pledge at Mr. Stevenson's
in. St. Andrew's-street. She'not giving satisfac-
tory answers to certain troublesome questions, be
put her in the watch-house, and had her sent to
Duke-street Police-Office to account how she got
the watch. In a short time after, in comes Mr.
Bruce ! Ile told Mr. Stevenson, that upon his ho,
hour he sent .the maid with the watch, and re-
quested him to give it back and liberate her.. Me.
Stevenson, not liking the appearance -of Mr.
Bruce, told him to go to Duke-trect, and. if
proved his property to the satisfaction of the Ma-
gistrates there, that his watch would he returned;
and the woman set at liberty. He had, the asto-
nishing foolishness or hardihood to go there ; and
on examination by the Magistrates, he neitl;er
could tell the name or number of his watch, nor_
what was the inscription on the gold seal att4ch-
ed to it. A strong suspicion arose in the minds of
the Magistrates that he had robbed some person
‘of the watch, and they ordered him into dole
.custody for further examination. In a little time
after, , Mr. Sisson called at the Office to mention
the circumstance of the robbery, and haVing de-
scribed the watch and robber, Bruce was ordered*
up, when Mr; Sisson instantly recognised, a.nd,
lodged_ examinations against him. He now lies
in Newgate to abide his trial at the next CoM-
mission.

On Sunday last, a man named William Quillle,
by trade a tailor, was buried at Priiir's Bush, the
place of interment chiefly adopted by persons of
the. Roman Catholic persuasion. The deceased
having been 4 Yeoman, and, as we are informed,
also an Orangeman, he was buried with military
honours. Whether this had the effect of irritat-
ing the opposite party, we cannot say ; but we
are sorry to state the fact, that the 'coffin, with
the body, was raised from the grave-yard, amt
conveyed to the new Bridge near Ormeati, where
it was left on one of the arches. This is 'S T 1 out-
rage of such disgusting atrocity, and so tepug-
nant to every decent feeling, that no pretended
cause of offence can palliate its enovnity.t--,testfat