The Sun.
London, England, 1809-01-17 00:00:00

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Dui31.1,7; JA K. i o.—Thnrsday we mentioned the
seizure of 16 private stills in the City and County. of
Dublin, by E. Wilson, SurreOir, and Messrs.
A.. Murphy and John Witson, L'xcise Officers ; they
have since discovered three more still. ; one it:
Francis-street, anralitT at Ward's-hill, and un. StUf=
day morning they Junrid oneiat tun work in R'oss-
lane, of a cry large size, all of which have been
locked in his Nlajesty's stores.
On Tuesday night last, or early neat morning,
some Mains cut the throat, and otherwise mangled
a cow, in the Long-lane, near Kevin's-port, and
tool: out the fat, with which they escaped, leaving
the remainder of the carcase behind this atroci-
ous deed ,is the more to be lamented, a, the cow
was the property of ail honest and industriiAts dairy-
man of the name of ilythe, .who resides in that-
ton-lane.

BELFsir,'ltN. 7.—The snow which fell in such
qu.nnines on Wednesday night and Thursday, now
lies sever4l feet deep in some parts of the country,
and has completely oi,strutted all intercourse on
many of the roads. The Mail tram Dublin, due
here on Thursday afternoon, did- not arrive until four
o'clock in the afternoon yesteiclay ; it was brought
foliward on horseback, the'Mail Coach being obliged
to .stop at Newry, owing to the' -immense tall of
snow. The Mail Coach that had been dispatched
from this town on Thursday was not able to proceed
beyond Hillsborough.
On'Ttnirsday night or Friday morning a• carman
perished on Belfast mountains. We have not heard
his name; but understand Lc was coming to' market
with pigs.

'D1,4141:1; J. 12.-111 the -storm on Thursday
last, the Brig F, nces , of Whitehaven, hurt hen, per
register, Wu tons, Josit.en flout:tut Mabter, sup-
posed to have heen.ladett with coals, wax loit 00 the
locks tear Caine, Wexford the Crew, coniistin
of the Master and him: ntco, Itl.l are sorry to say,
tntlUrnatiately perished. The Maw, we are inform-
ed by a Gendetnan !ruin NV hitehaven, had ft wife
and ten children, one of whom (an appentice t,tt ;
board); perished with his father., The bodies'ot
.)iiaster and two of the hall& came on shore; Ott the
clveniog ut the above, dyy. The bout, some of the
rigging, umsts, &c. are saved with suing of the ships
papet.s._

' On Wednesday Dight lasi there.. was a great 'fall of
snow in Clonmel, and on Thursday almost -incessant
rain, )vhich caused such a flood in Ilia Suir, as Ea;
not heen.remembercd for many :;!-;irs.• hosts were '
plying up and down the quays, and adniittariecinlo
any of . the stores. was impossible. Ali the iields'ijh
the banks Of the river were completely eoVeted,..and
scarcely the vestige of a ditch or -wall to be seen.-,
The river inner was so. swelled at Two-Mile-
bridge, that the ,Dublin Mail Coach which 4hould
have left that place .on Sunday morning at nine
o'clock, .Wa3 obliged to entrain until. past two.
Tiie house of Corker Wright, .Esq. near itoacrea,
was attacked by a gangot robbcrion Saturday night
last, but Mr. Wright being oppri,ed, war ptepawci
for the visit, and having had a party 'of
.the Leituitn
Militia mOtioned pi irately that er,:ning in the
the tirst three men Who entered" wro shut cle:ee3-~-
the rest *led.

Weductalay se"maight, between the hours of two
and three o'clock, a number of armed teen broke
into the house. of the WidowrAyres; on the landi of
Curraregh,.barony of Glandes 'County of Clare,
and took away, by force„.herdaughter,. a young girt
of about ,t 4:years old, and after coot eying her sumo
distance, information Was given to the Kihnore cif-•
valry, on duty at Kihnurray, who immediately went,
in pursuit, and.having nearly- come up with tprip,,
they tied, after leaving the girl; and all their horses
itt possession of the Yeomanry. 'lie principal has
been since taken and committed to Ennis gaol, by a
detacluitent of the above corps,

The produce of the Custom-house of Belfast for,
the year ending the. wilt Odober, 1.808,. wait
,305,4 I 01. ss. educe of the preceding yelif
328,A961. •
Saturcity se'nnight, between nine and ten o'clock,
John Nlaluwuy, .0 private soldier of the Jodi regi-`
pent of loot, was kt a 1 (:?i) lyattacked, on his punt, at
the Commissariat Stores, in Athlone, by four ruf-
fians, who, after beating. him in a most inhuman
manner, lett him on the. high road in a state of in-
xensibility, with one of his arms so fractured h se-
veral places, that his existence is very uncertain.
reward of two hundred and filly gni:teas tias.bftti)
offered foritto discovery of the pei petrinors of 'big.
horrible outrage.

Errfosouptt4Anv nitßAM.—On Thurs&ty
,even,
ing Mr. Parkin, of Grimsby-lane; Llull, ship-broker,,
and his wire, retired to test about eleven o'clock :
between one and two the latter awoke, in conse-
.qttence of dreauvirg that a mail had got into the
hotise and stabbed her husband. She awoke hitu„,
and tad her dream. In „about three quarters Of an
hour alter, while she was yet awake, her surprise '
and net For may be imagined, when, looking tip, she
saw a stranger standing at the bedside with a light in
ids hand. On her shrieking out the. light instantly
disappeared, and the limn ran down stairs; and out '
into the lane. On getting up and searching the
house, they &OW that the villain lthd carried off
Mr. Parkin's breeches, and his wire's pockets' tvlrich
were .atterward3 found by the watchman in Gritns-
by-lane, Wit rifled of a cOnsiclerable quantity of
money, in notes,, &c. The robber, it appears, runt
have been Secreted in- the house factors: the fatuity
wart to bed.

Saturday morning a Committee .or the Privy
Council met at the Council-Uttice,
the Prize Appeals, which 'was attended by tlie'Latio
PussIDENT Of the COUNCIL, Sir EVAN NE;riiAti,
and Sir WiLLIAst WyNsit. Just as, their Lord,
ship were about to„proceed to busineSs, 3 Letter Was
receiyed, and, by their I.orhiltiptt! periati%sion, read,
It stated that Dr. LA
tvIttNCIZ 'load biNti suittle*
taken itl ; that his htu wps.despaireil of, and lie-Was
net able to appear before their
.Lordships.
Learned Dn'tor being n m ost':retained i or the catviei
appointed to conie'on behire Alert.
wen) in consequence pleaivd to
wit li..tit proceeding upon any busnies, uQ,0,1).
to tinoant, .

111 rya:>ll.ltletikbY WILLIA WI :1).111,;VP 4,11 th
Dr the i'ater•
flivrs I•,t the Edittiri (bust-Pata) ittltil 1.11

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