The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FEB. 4.—ln the Court of King's Bench,
this day, Mr. BURROWES rose in behalf of Philip
IV. Harvey, Esq. Ploprietor of the Freeman's Jour-
Nal, to spew cause why the rule, granting an at-
tachment against him, should not be -made abso-
'tue. He argued at great length, and was followed.
on the same side by Mr. GOOLD. The ATTORNEY
GENERAL replied, when the three 41.idges, DAY,
DALY, and OSBORNE, (the Lord Chief Justice not
sitting in this case), delivered their opinions seriatim,
and all conceived that a libel more unequivocal in
its object to influence the .fury not to take the law
fror the Court, on account of the insinuation that
the Chief Justice was a party concetned in the con-
struaion of the Convention AL-t, they had never
before known. They accordingly declared the Rule
made absolute.

Mr. FINLAY then rose on behalf of Washington
Greville, Proprietor of tie Evening Herald, to shew
cause why a rule should not be made absolute for
granting an attachment against him. The publica-
tion appeared to be very contemptible, being de-
clared to be nothing but a farrago of nonsense. The
Court made the rule absolute, but did not think the
Crown Lawyers would bring the Proprietor up for
judgment on such a contemptible article.
Mr. KEMMtS, on behalf of the Crown, moved
the Court for leave to substitute a service on the
house of Robert Conolly, PrOprietor of ThelVeekly
Messenger, instead of personal service. He lead an
Affidavit, which stated, that a person had several
times called at the house of Mr. Conolly to serve
him with the notice, but that he was denied to
him, and said to have been in the country.
The Court said, that the affidavit did not
.go far
enough to warrant them to go out of the usual
mode of service in this case.

Leave not given.
The following is what Mr. BusROWES said yes-
terday, when the Attorney General declared that it
was not his intention to proceed to trial against any
of the other Catholic Delegates :
" I cannot doubt that the Attorney-General
wishes well to the tranquility of the country, and
that to relinquishing these proceedings he wisely
promotes it. For the Roman Catholic Delegates,
and particularly for the Earl of Fingal, I shall only
say, that their uniform wish has been to conform to
the law, and their uniform effort in these proceed-
ings has been, without entertaining any disrespea
to this Court, to refer the question to law to the
Bernier resort. The Earl of Fingal aced under able
_advice:in asserting a constitutional right, and was de-
termined to submit to the decision of the law, but
felt himself justified in having that law decided in
the most solemn manner authorised by our Consti-
tution. In this spirit, at the head of the Catholics
of Ireland, he gave up what he conceived to be his
right at the first approach of a Peace Officer_; in this
►pirit he has instruacd me, upon the trial which is
now relinquished, to admit all the fads of the case,
and make no other struggle than that the Jury
should not, by a general verdia, preclude his right
of appeal. He is happy, however, that the transac-
tions which have occurred, leave it still in his power
to compel a discussion of this great question, and
that the Attorney-General will not always lave it
in his power to prevent it."

We understand it is in contemplation to establish
regular packets between' Canton and South Ame-
rica, there being no obstacle to the navigation of
there seas. The measure, it is calculated, would be
produaive of much advantage to the Company.
The Hungarian Diet continued its deliberations
so late as the sth January. Their discussions,which
relate solely to the finances, were kept secret. The
Members, it was said, thonght the Court required
too great sacrifices on the pan of the nation, and
did nut theretere sufficiently approximate to the
plans proposed by the 'Ministers.
On Wednesday, or early on Thursday morning,
the mansion-house of Johnson, Esq. at
Welling in Kent, was broke open, supposed by
forcing open the coal cellar and letting a boy or
slender person down by ropes. The Butler was
awoke by their noise fs etween three and four
o'clock : he thought it was the female servants who
had got up to work, but not being able to satisfy
himself, he got up and took a loaded blunder-
buss with him. When he got up to the pas-
sage leading into the sitting parlour, on bearing
some persons there, he supposed they were the fe-
male servants, and exclaimed in a joke, he would
blow all their brains out. Upon which three per-
sons rushed upon him, seized the blunderbuss, and
in the snuggle it went off. The robbers then attacked
the butler very violently, no doubt, fur the purpose
of muelering him. They made a blow at his head
with an iron Crow, but he being a tall powerful
man, it onls struck him on the neck under his chin;
they got him down, knelt on his stomach, &c. ;
hos'ever, he struggled bard for his life, and got his
hand to the bell-rope, and pulled it with great force,
and called murder : this alarmed the family, awoke
a footman, who came instantly to the butler's assist-
ance, and on his al ptarance the robbers ran out and
made their escape. They bad found the keys with
labels on them of the locks they opened, but only
carried off between .50 and (so guineas. The jewels
and other valuables were packed up in a green
gloth. The butler thinks one of the robbers was a
great girl, who held the dark lantern, as, when he
was down, he observed two strings behind the waist,
which induced him to think it was a pelisse, and
not a great coat. He has been confined to his bed
ever since, expeEtorated blood, and is very bad.
A pig, the property of a poor man, at Downham
Market, having fallen into a well, a person named
Samuel Hall, a chimney-sweeper, c ffned his .ser-
vices, and descended the well by meat s of the cre-
vices and interstices of the surroundinglorick-work ;
or getting below, the whole ponderous masstinstantly
gave way, and immured him therein. No sooner was
it known, than a vast concoutse hastened to the spot
and by the assiduous and ene:getie endeavours of
about twenty men, the objet of their sea ch was
extricated from his subterranean prison, and, except
some slight bruises, (the consequence of the ptes-
sure which hedged him in) unhurt. He was found
in elect posture inclined to the side, and so slight
seas the injury, that the attendant surgeon deemed
even unnecessary to let him blood.