The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-06 00:00:00

.I.REL AND.

DUBLIN CORRESPONDENT 014 ICE, Fou o'CLocx.

'We stop the press to state, that the Grand Jury of the Com-
mission of Oyer and Terminer for the City of Dublin have
ignored the Bills of Indictment which had been sent to them
against seven persona, for a conspiracy to create a riot in the
Theatre Royal, on the night in which an outrage was coin.
milted against the Lord Lieutenant. A Bill of Indictment,
however, was round by,. lbw Grand Jury against Thomas
Graham and Henry Ilatidivieh, for a riot in the Theatre on
that night.—When it was announced2in the Court that the
Grand Jury had ignored tits Bills which lutd been sent to them
against the other five persons, the Attnnuty,„Generai rose and
said, that he would not make any observation on the Grand
Jury, but would leave them with their conscience I to their
God. He would suppose that they had, according to their
conscience, performed what they conceived to be their duty ;
but that he was determined to perform his duty. He said that,
with such a feeling, he would instantly file er.o.fficio informs.
tions against the seven individuals, as he considered that a clearer
ease never had been submitted to the consideration of a Grand
Jury or. more necessary for the investigation of a Petty Jury.
Counsel on behalf of the seven persons moved the Court for
their discharge; but the two Judges refused to comply with
the application, in consequence of the declaration which had
been made by the Attorney-General of his intention to prosecute
hem by information ex-ollcio.—Jan. 2.

The Committee of the Portuguese Cortes, ap-
pointed to consider of the documents relative to
the Queen's refusal to take the oaths to the Con-
stitution, have reported that, in their opinion, the
Cortes have no jurisdiction in the case.

The following is ati extract of a letter from the Agent to
Lloyd's at Youghal, dated the 30th December :—" I fear the
sloop Hope, of this port, has been lost off the coast, with all
the crew, as a boat., marked ' Hope of Youghal, Alichael
Cashman,' was driven on shore yesterday at Ardmore. When
the boat was first seen in the oiling, four men were, observed In
her, but the heavy surf on the shore washed them out. Two
bats, and part of a compass, came on shore with her. I. have
just heard of a large ship's boat. having been driven on shore
near the same place. Several pieces of wreck are strewed along
the coast, and it is much to be feared the losses at sea have
been great, from the heavy gales of wind we have had at South
to S.L. on Saturday, yesterday, and to-day."
AMERICAN COIN.--The first money- struck by
the Congress in America. is now become exceed-
ingly scarce : in fact it is only to be found in the
Cabinets of the curious. They coined several
pieces of pewter, of about an inch and a half
in diameter, and of about 240 grains in
weight—on one side were- inscribed, in a cir-
cular ring near the edge, the words " Continental
Currency, 1770 ;" and within ;the ring a rising
sun shining upon a dial .with the word 4; fiegio" at
the side .of it; under which were the. words,
44 Mind your business." On the reverse were 13
small circles, joined together like the rings of a
chain; °beach of which was-inscribed the name of
some one of the Thirteen States. On' another cir-
cular ring,-within these, was inscribed " American
Congress ;" and in the central .space, 44 We are
one."—ln 1785, then American Congress intro-
duced a copper coinage ; up one side the copper
halfpenny bears a circularinscription--Libertas at
Justilia, round a central cipher U. S.—on the re.
verse is a- sun rising amidst Thirteen Stars, Cir-
cularly, inscribed_, Cons:el/alio nova.-.-It is , re-
markable, that the Austrians were , reduCed to
the necessity of coining leaden money in
when Vienna was besieged by the Turks.—King
James IL also made use of that practice to pay
his army in Ireland; in the year 1690.