The Sun.
London, England, 1815-04-14 00:00:00

IRISH "Nt WSPAPEtt ACCUItACV.

PLACARIi,

The .roliowing Placard was ekbibited at the
base of " William's" Statue, for two hours on
Saturday setnnight

" FREEMAN'S JOURNAL.

" SECOND EDITION, THREE O'CLOCK.

"Most important French Papers, exclusively, to the 27th
flit —Brilliant Affair at Lisle—Macdonald taken Prisoner—
Nfarmont's left arm amputated—All right to the French
Throne resigned by the Bourbons—Retirement of Louis and
Family to the interior of Heligoland for ever, on an An-
nuity of Thirty 'Thousand Francs—His decided refusal to
go, to any part of Scotland—Affecting interview between
the Emperor and Ex-Kind• at Antwerp—Arrival of. Maria
Louisa and the King of Rome at Paris Address
to the Legion of Honor, in full—Mr. Finnerty's Speech
on the Corn-Bill—The men taken from his chair, with
cries of " up with Mr. Finnerty, down bloody Castlereagh,"
as Mr. Finnerty passed through Dyot-street—Dreadful Riots
in St. Giles's, about the Incomeefaxlierenger shot in a
Duel by Lord Cochrane, who fled to Wapping, as it is
thought—Joanna Southeott has appeared to Mr. Words-
worth, &c. &c. &c.".

What was the result ?—Certain folks that were
not aware of Ileligoland being little more than a
light-house, and that a franc was .only ten-pence,
chuckled at the news and went to the Freeman's
Office to buy the paper--" It's all a Sham," said.
the man at the counter ;- " Aye, but I' hear the
Lord Mayor was •in this shop, and it must be
true besides, it's like all your placards !"----
" But I tell you again," said the cthintcrman,
"-it's all a .Shaun—and to prove it."—
And what, think .you, reader, did they do to
prove it was not their own placard ?—Brought it
home to their own Office.

Now, the fact stands thus it was the Free-
man's Placard, it was very erroneous in its state-
ment, as the Freeman's Placards always are :
" their wish is father to the thought" that they
raddle on their Board. If it %Vas not their Placard,
a robbery has been committed on some innocent
person that owned a Placard, and he ought to tell
his story at the Police Offices, and regain his pro-
perty.- Perhaps, however, the kreeman got into
good spirits in consequence of Napoleon's having
again seated himself on " four pieces of stick
covered with Aelvet," and thought fit to.. give it
to the Public on the first-of April: this, to be sure,
may be very pleasant to the Freeman, ,but what
will certain of the Gentlemen at the Dublin Li-
brary say to it, who cried, " lo triuntphe," at
the talk of Louis going to Heligoland ! They have
been woelnlly disappointed, thanks to the Placard.
—(Hibernian Journal.) - •

The sloop Dunvegan Castle, bound frqm
Do-
naghadee to Portpatrick,,was driven, by a severe
gale 'of wind, on ‘Vednesday se'nnight, to the
coast of Arran, and would have been inevitably
lost, had it not been for the assistance of six brave
men, Daniel Shaw, Robert" Shaw, Alex. IVl‘Niel,
John Stewart, Ronald NPNiet and W. APKilvee,
who, at the imminent hazard of their lives, ven-
tured through a heavy surf, in an open boat, and
succeeded in rescuing from a watery grave up-
wards of forty of their fellow creatures. Three
mails were also saved by the 'exertions of these
men.