The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-16 00:00:00

DUBLIN, FEB. 11.

ON Saturday evening last, about half pit seven
o'clock, the Post-boy from Banbridge, with the
Mail from Dublin, was stopped about a quarter of
a mile from Lurgan, by three men with blackened
faces, and robbed of the Mail, in which ivere all
the bags from Banbridge to Ballycastle, &c. In
making the necessary search after the perpetrators
of this crime, the Mail was fortunately found, on
„.,unday Afternoon, under the arch of a bridge called
the Flush, where it appeared to have been in the
water all night. The teals were unbroken,' and the
bags seemed w have sustained no other injury than
what arose from their being wet.

frritrrrb HUMANITY.—In a- former paper we
mentioned the lost of the sloop Johanna, Tate, from
Selby, in the Humber, near Brough, during the
late dreadful gales ;- by which melancholy 'accident
three men and one woman were drowned. -The re-
mainder of the crew and passengers, six in number,
were rescued from the same fate, by the uncommon
exertions of Mr. -- Ellis, of Brough, Whose
generous' and humane conduct on thit occasion de-
serve
the highest encomiums. Perceiving the clan-
gerous situation of the vette!, whiCh had gfbunded.
and lay on her beam-ends, while tremendous waves
broke continually over her,- and no resource seemed
left to the crew, who were hanging in the shrouds,
nearly perishing with cold, Mr. Ellis took a horse
and cart down- to the water-side furnished. with straw ,
and blankets, 'and sent to procure medical assistance
in -case it should be wanted. He then boldly en-
tered the water up to the neck, reached the vessel,
and ettritated one of the almost exhausted sufferers,
with whorn he made for the shore. This'perilous
service he repeated six times ; on the sixth visit,
while endeavouring to release an old man suspend-
ed in the shrouds, and in great agonies, are hand
of the latter,. which he had just set at liberty, seiz-
ed him with a convulsive grasp, while the other
arm was entangled in the rigging : in this danger-
ous situation, unable to extricate himself, he was
for_succour._ which was _haoA, af-
forded rum by one ot the spenttort rrorn thE-6eliCni-
througli whose assistance he. reached the land with
the old man in his arms, to preserve whose life he
had so boldly
.ventured his own. Another of the
crew now fell from the rigging, but Mr. Ellis was
too far exhausted to permit his making any further
attempts. Those whom he had brought to shore
were immediately taken to Brough, where four of
them' soon recovered ;. the means recommended by
the Humane Society were employed on the
case,
Thus, wasse .
ing two some hours-before the desired efie
produced, which, at last, was happily the
Thus, -by the aftivity and generous exertions of one
man, the lives of six of its members were preserved
to Society.
INFERNAL MACHINE.-The diabolical spirit of
private malice has just produced in France another
atrocious and melancholy instance of infamy in the
use of an Infernal Machine. On Wednesday last
the carrier from Le Bonk to Bourgtheroale in the
Pays de Caux, 'received from the. widow Duval,
innieeeper at the Boole, a box with a letter directed
to Citizen Ballicorne, watch-maker, at St. Pierre,
an adjacent village, to be left at the inn of Citizen
Mon; till called for ; the box was deposited in
Pillbn's hall, and the letter sent to Ballicorne, who
immediately came down to Bourgtheroale to exa-
mine it : the account stated it to be a clock sent
to him to repair; curiosity induced him to exa-
mine it in the house, and he proceeded, in company
with a friend whom he had brought to help him to
carry it home; and in presence of Pillon's wife,
daughter, and a woman from Dorival, who, then
lodged in the house, to open the box ; when meet-
ing with some resistance from a staple driven into
the lid, as he was forcing it with a piece -of iron,
it went off with a dreadful explosion, destroying
every thing around its course, and causing in the
whole village a most violent and alarming, commo.
tion. Ballicorne and the unfortunate stranger from
Dorival were so sadly maimed that they survived
their torments but two hours. Pillon's daughter
was dangerously wounded, and the wife likewise,
who, if she recovers, must however suffer amputa-
tion of her right arm. The other man was least
injured, though sadly hurt by the explosion ; the
whole apartment was battered into ruins, and some
time .elapsed 'before the affrighted neighbours, 're,
covered from their alarm, had presence of mind
enough to disengage the unfortunate victims of this
horrid :fa of villainy from the wretched situation
they were involved in amongst the fragments.—
Vigorous irapiry is making after the foul perperra-
- tors ; and it'Ts the intention of the Prelea to bring
them to speedy and condign punishment.
'A few days -ago, a man employed in digging out
rabbits upon Hanford Warren, near the Holt road,
diseOvered a liftman skeleton, and from the sound-
ness of the teeth and freshness of the bones, it is

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supposed to have been a young person, and not to
have lain many years there. _ There is great pro-
i_bability that the unfortunate man'.had been mur-
dered, and buried there by-his assassins.

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