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A, month 16'43 as ago the weekly return
.off the Army
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Cuar4 IN ENGLAND.
Cavalry (Regial:rtl " . lo,oro
Artillery, (ti 7 ‘" " - 17,000
AePla,lis Infantty it;i,,,,.. -, - 1 raised
3'l'
tor tile Arm k - -,,rigaaout2o,coo t ict)
YOt
)4,4ilitia e • ""ve
. ..4-c'
. XClusive of the Supplementary - 4Mo°
IN SE,E.i.AND. '
MiXe Liarsgul alto et he ' -
li4 • t '•- 34,ec•0
.
.. . , 20.000
. ,
. The Regular Force now in Britain is not less tharl
100.000 men, the Militia nearly the same number,
lanti the Volunteers almost a million.
reland 'The Force in
has been greatly augmented. The Volun.
Ittts there are very strong. In and about Dublin
alone, there are ro,octo Yeomanry.
,Dl3patches were yesterday received at the Ad-
' rn,
n!ralty tram Admiral CORNWALLIS, ciateCl the Ist
, .
1 ' t' They bring no news of importance. The
&t.
"enlY's Fleet liad shewn no disposition to move,
at the time those Dispasches left the Fleet.
We understand 'that EovVAAD GOLDING,' Esq.
Mekber for Fowey, is to be the new Lordof the
i'r , i
reasury, n the room of Mr. pysthia Mr. GOLD.
Is° i' the intimate friend of the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHIqUEIt.
The 66th and Star Regiments, at presertt at jer7
. , leY and Guernsey,
are-to be relieved immediately
tthe 31st and 91st.' The Transports will be
4 next wetk.. Thase Regimuts arc chiefly
totoposed of the Army of Reserve.
formerOLU Witucittr, Esq. is appointed to his
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otlan,i.tLatiQo of Agent of Prisoncrs of War in

" As soon as I shall be enabtel to rlartint with
more particularity the ofFers which have been trans-
, muted by your 'Lordship, I shall have the honour
of communicating) His Majesty's special dirctlions
on the subjlet. In the mean time, I cannot omit
this opportunity of informing your Lordship that it
is dearly to be understood that, under the genuine
construetion and meaning of the late AOs of Parlia-
ment, all Volpnteer Corps and Companies to be
accepted subsequent to their passing, should be form.
ed with reference to the general ,Militia System.
It follows that no Company ought to consist of less
than Sixty Privates, and that no Body of Infantry
can be c.,nsidered as a Corps which consists of less
than three such Companies; and that all smaller
assemblages of Volunteers, under the above.men-
tiOned Acts, within any County, Parish, or l)istrici,
shall be thrown into Independant Companies of not
less than sixty, nor more than eve linnbed and
kventy Privates. The Establishment of Field and
. Company Officers, as well as of Serjeants, Corporals
and Drummers, is to be axed by the same rule.
4" In the Yeomanry Cavalry, however, a dif-
ferent arrangement will continue to prevail ; single
Troops may be accepted as Corps, not being less
than Forty Rank and File, though it is much to he
wished chat in ull cases they should be carried, if
possible, to sixty or eighty effettives per Troop ;
and that two or more Troops, wherever local cir.
cumstances will 'permit, should be joined together
for.the purposes of discipline, and interior arrange.
ments. •
" I take leave to makeit my earnest request to
your Lonifilip_that you,-Will favour me, at your
earlies(convenience, with an exact return of the dif.•
fethit Corps heretoftire accepted, or which are now
transmitted for consideration, or which you may
hereafter think'proper to recommend for acceptance,
speCifying the particulars of their establishment ac.
cording to a form which you will receive herewith.
I Cannot sufficiently impress upon you the necessity
of furnishing me with this document, with the least
postsible delay, as great embarrassment is found to
:rise from a want of sufficient precision upon these•
points.

gg Should it have happened that the number of
persona:'who have offerer! themielves, up to this pe-
riod, to serve in Volunteer Corps or Companies, has
exceeded the proportion limited, in the first in,
stance, by,Lord HoDmiz's Circular Letter of the
ath inst. for the County of . , and should
your Lordship be of opinion that it would contribute
to the satisfadion of those who might by such
tation be prevented from manifesting their zeal for.
the public fervice, I have the honour to inform your.
Lordship, that there will be no objection to a certain
number of such persons, properly sele'ted, being at.
'ached to the accepted and established Corps, as
Supernumeraries, in such a proportion per Troop or
Company as shall be 'hereafter fixed upon.
"' It is, however, 'important, that it should be
clearly understood?. that no.expence is to be incurred
by the Public 09 account of the arms, pay, or cloach.
ing 'of such Su,pernumeraries ' • and that they will
. not be considered as 'entitled to any exemptions
from the Militia or other Ballots.
I think it proper ro take this opportunity of
communicating His Majesty's commabils to your
Lordship, that measures should be taken without
delay in communication with the General Officer
commanding in the Distrid, for fixing upon -such
pneral place or places of assembly, for the different
Volunteer Corps and established Companies of men
within the County of ,as may be deemed
most expedient in case of.lnvasion, or the appear.
ance cf the Enemy in force. upon the Coast ;—and
I am further commanded by His M;ajcsty to desire
Your lndship, in communication with the General
of the Distriet, to distribute such provisional or-
ders to such Volunteers Corps and established Cont.
panics of men as aforesaid, with respsd to -their.
assembling togetlier and moving upon the general
places of a,ssemhly, so to he upon in theevents
above alluded as the nature of the•caie'ruay'ap.
fear tq.require.
". Your Lordship will likewise be pleased, in
communication also with the General Otlicet com-
manding' , to make such arrangements, if not already
respeCting Beacons, and other indications of
alarm as May be thought necessary within the County
, either with a view to the conveyance of
Intelliviice upon points merely local, or in connec-
tion the other neighbouring counties towards
the sea`cOast.. I have the honour to .
" 'My Lord,
Your Lordship'ilmost obedient humble Servant,
(Signed) 41 C.' YORKE."
The . Lieutenant of the County of

puBL Set r. 6.

eUMNIISStON INTELLIGENCE.

Felix Ro, rla was• this morning put to the bar, on
the usual charges .of High, Treason, before the
lowing Jury, viz.

William Moore, Esq. Foreman.
lamei Brush Francis Warren
,john Stanley Hickman Kearney
Luke-Stock Alexander Clar;;.e,
James Kiu►; john Kearns„
Benilinin Simpson . - Luke Connor
John Wootirot

The Prisoner at the Bar challenged nineteen of
to pannel peremptorily, and the Court set aside
fuurteen.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL gave a very brief
statement of the cage, of the Crown.

In addition to the accustomed evidenCe'to prove
the fad of an Insurredion on the night 'of the 2.3 d
. of July last,
Dopie/ M'Craith, Esq. was adduced, who depos-
ed as follows, vii, that he arrived in the City of
Dublin on Saturday evening,, the 23,1 July ; came in
the canal boat from the County Kildare ; arrived at
the Canal Harbour two or three and twenty mi-
. mites before ten ; walked direelly to, James's_
street, from thence straight
.to Thomas.street ;
saw signs of great confusion on his way. Witness
asked some whom he met what was the matter ?
Many ran past without answers: others said they did
not know--when Witness came near the narrow
entrance et Thomas.street—was surrounded by
five..ot six persons armed with- pikes—they asked
him from whence he came, where he was going,
and what his business-was, without waiting for a
reply... Witness Made answer, that he-was a coun.
try gentleman, who came to town on law busi-
ness, that he had just landed at the Canal ha/.
bour—after this converaation one man struck him
with the handle of a pike, while others appeared
armed with blunderbusses, swords, and pistols, but
much the greater part were armed with pikes ;
they asked him if he was a friend, to which he re-
plied in the affirmative, then putting a pike into
his hand, told him to fight his way ; after this
they forced him to the head of their party ; had
,been a considerable way with them on their way
to Thomas.street Church, where he saw
.numbers
of them help themselves to pikes. When be ap.
pr'oached the Coin 'Market in Thomas-street, '
Witness saw a Dragoon piked on the flag.way
a man then put a pike across the Witneq's breast,
and desired him not to stir—the dragoon lay mo.
tionleas in -the kennel, and each pike.man as he
paased 'gave him a' prod—they seemed anxious about
getting his sword, and asked much about it—
the Rebels were not in one body—they were in
groups—after Wards the Witness saw a man on foot
with a military hat and scarlet jacket—then saw a
horse wounded, with a bridle and saddle, but could not
discern whether it was accoutred or nut. The man
whom he saw in scarlet was very adive in encou.
raging the Rebel party, but observed that their rear
was‘not sufficiently well ebrineCied with the front
that if the King's Army came up they would be
cut off; on which they replied, d—n the Aiiny,
we are, not afraid, we will fight (lied.' 'Thin- per.
son continued to animate the party, and said the
Castle of Dublin would be their own in less than
balk An hour,—there...were' 3 it) 50Ci
men, as Witness believed, in the: diirerens arn.ed
groups. A carriage drove up about the middle of
Thomas.street ; it appeared a Gentleman's car-
riage, and the mob used violent threats to the potil_
lion, it he, did not keep Ma' hotses quiet, they
would massacre him ; could, see twin Gentlemen and
a Lady in the carriage ; horses took head, and they
assembled round them, on which be, Witness, took
that oPpOrtunity to escape ; had often attempted to
make an escape before, but-found all the avenues by'
Which he could efred it &tided, and the party around
him Crying out -to watch the .fellow in the boots—
Witiseas wearing military boots—while repeatedly
driving hint into the centre of 'their body, the bet.
ter to securetim.,Witness at length effeeted an escape
and ivent up to ehe Castle.

Prisoner's Counsel declined cross-examining him.
Mahe) identified the Prisoner at the
bar ;[ was in Dublin on the 23d of July; had
remained in`Dublin continually previous to the
23d day of Joly ; hawked goods generally, and
'lodged in Dirty:lane, at a Mrs. Doyle's ; had a
comrade . with him, by name ,Ryan,. who on Sa,
turday the 23d, had acentnpunied him in his usual
occuputio.n ; returned to their lodgings about eight.
o'clock ; left their goods there, and went out
again, on the idea of consulting what goods to
buy ; Ryan wished Witness to go with him to a
woman who lived at some distance ;, Witness thought
it toct.late, and was about returning to his lodgings
when he met the Prisoner at the Bar, who stopped
him at the corner of Dirty-lane : put a blunder-.
buss, which he drew from under his coat, up to
hien, and said if he did not go on quickly he would
blow his brains our ; accosted Ryan in nearly the
same manner; another man about 5 feet 6.inehei
high, .armed; with a blunderbuss also, useil
gunge to,Witness and his comrade to the same ten.
dency ; Rourke took . hold of Witness, and drove
Ryan forward, who was seized with a vomiting,
and was obliged to support himself by the .wall in
Dirty-iatte ; •was subject to the Falling-sickne4s ;
:Witness perceived numbers piking two filen ; saw
the body
.of, one man
.and the head of another ;
at this crisis the Prisoner, called, out to his party to
do Ode duty, nod. free their. country ; saw the
faces of John Killin and John M'Can. When
Prisoner let ,the Witness loose he. saw John Killin
"dart
,his pike into the' body of one of' the men
whom he saw stritcbed'; and he saw John Nl,Can
fire a )alunderbuss 'at the head he before described.
Witness and Ryan were compelled to take pikes ;
Rourke was dressed with 'an outside whitish coat,
anti inside that had a dark-coloured green coat, with
plated buttons quite new from the needle ; was ac-
companied by a man dressed in a scarlet coat, with
a hat and feather ; Rourke appeared to have equal
conimand with the military looking man ; some
of the mob called him Captain, and the country..
,men called him General ; 'saw a horseman, whom
Prisoner accosted ; he was dressed in a dragoon's
uniform ; but made no reply to the Prisoner's
questions, on which. he ssemed to grow furious,
fired his blunderbun, and killed the horse : the

r; rlwr e.fl rile rid by the mitt_

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man, Vslttttgs Ariti Rpm stilt htta the piki3;
i ng; close to each other: Ar lentil they- found .in
opp..nt`unity to escape) with four. other. 3, a, they
approached- Mva st reet --Rya!) aod • Witnesi went
to .the country near' Tallagh ; Witness and Ryan
stiii..keot their pikes, heing.afraid of the four men
who -aveompanied them in their eseape, two rof
Whom patted With them at the .end of the town,
two inure went with them jnto The field until the
dawning of the morning ; they then threw away
their pikes ;
,Made a progress- through the country,
not knowing where to go ; but found themselves
near Tallagh ; were afterwards taken at Moan.
trash ;• and examined before LOrd Castle-Coote, to
whom they both told the whole ttutb.
4,...roo.eXamineaJ ety • Jur. ....uitttAti—When the
murders which 'Witness described hid been com-
mitted, he himself and his comrade had been armed
with pikes; told every thing he swore this day
from time to time to Lord Castle-Coote ; under.
went examinations before 'his Lordship at different
times, but cannot exadly say bow often he was
examined ; when Witnesi was taken on suspicion
at Mountrath he was committed to prison : his
comrade and he were examined separately. The
first day Witness was examined by Lord Castle-
Coote, he believes his Lordship sent for him again
to examine him ; could not then recollect whether
he had been eremined by his Lordship two or
three times, but if he swore that, it must be true ' • ;
named. the Prisoner Rourke to Lord Castle-Coote
on the first -day ; also mentioned Hays' name, the-
Man who came to Rourke's assistance ; told his
Lordship. he was taken at an ambush; ‘and. could
not call' all The met's names to his recolledion.
His Lordship seemed not content with the impeded
account he gave at the first examination, and on
Witness's next examination before him, mended his
account with giving in the name of Killin ; is a
pedlar; had been formerly ifs the Kildare Militia, '
where he was permitted to sell things.
Q. Do you believe it to have been part of the
Regimentals of the Kildare IVlilitia, to., have their
heels equipped with logs of 41, 00d
A. In resped of not keeping myself clean,
.J was logged once at, LehauostOwn Camp, and
another time at .114lbriggati ; heard he was sneer.
ingly called Mahaffy the ting.dropper, because he
sold pinchbeck rings ; he sold them only for what
they were, but the people surmised he used' to sell
them for gold ; the reputation of .that nature he
received in the Regitoent was ralSe ; there was no
general aspersion on birn,; some pt' the .men ,par.
boured that opinion of him .through spite, because
he bad More money than they had, and would
not 'tan them : took an on!ii. against drinking ;
he kept
.his oath ;. his oath Was on his pocket_
hook, and he told same of his companions that
he did not keep. it ; left himself -an
.allowance of
two pints of porter: antl,two glasses of spirits ;
twice he broke Nis oat') ; his allowance wis too
large, and he got drunk ; his pocker.h6ok contained
nothing bus little bills of merchant;(; can neither
read nor write;

Al::tr he ,carne from Mountrath to Dublin) be was
convey e 4 io the Castle by Majoi .§wan.

•
Ryau, the associate 'of last Witness, corrobo-
rated all parts of his testimony, except .theidenti.
ty either of the Prisoner at the bar or the two per.
sons besidt,s, nginst whom Mahsffy swore—his
ineapocky to • identify these persons lie accounted
for bv• asserting,. that shortly after he was intimi.
dated by the address and manner of the person who
put a blunderbuss to ftis breast—;he was seiietl with
an einpty, straining, which obligedithim.to turn to
the Wall for 'support, and adually,' from the violence
of the straining, his stomach having been empty
of alt.solid loud, his eyes, were, affected, and his
-sight for the moment became impaired. With re.
sped to• his progress on the, wad with his comrade
and partner, in trade, the last Witness, he did not
• know, where' he was going until he "fouhk hiinself„
by the 4awning of the day, on Sunday morning,
; frOm thence they. pursued their
route through the fields and bye paths, not known,
ing whete• to go, and being in perpetual, apprehep.,
sinns of being. massacred, until they reached the
Gaol Town of the queen's County; did not knoW
whether Maryborough or Mciuntrath ; his purpose
was to turn towards .14;nniS, where his wile lived,
who carried on the confedionary buSiOess.
Wary /11(c/enna#, a decent looking woman in.
!ttiep mourning, was adduced on behalf Of the... Crown ;
'lon having the Prisoner particulatly, pointed out to
her, she after viewing him earnestly for some
ments, protested solemnly She could not poitirt;ely
identify him as a person she had ever seen before.
'l he of her testimony was of course 'not
mentioned.:

Mr. CU RRAN for the Defence, spoke with his usual
energy, in reprobating the .charaCter which a
Common IVOrmer, meaning IYANaffy,. had given of
himself, whose unsupported tes.timony he depieted
in a light ,peculiarly. odious. , was -conscious
that a kind of sneer perhapts ,too generally pre.
vailed against a species of*pvi&nce, that of 41i41,
which in the present case, as in many others, might
prove indispensable, on the common pririciiple,
that it is impossible to prove a negative, except
by collateral or analogous Inference. It would be
impossible, of course, to prove' that the Prisoner at
the Bar, whose blood the miscreant whe swore
against him, was intent to offer up to the violated
laws of his Country as a substitute for his own,
unless it was proved, that instead of healing or
being contrded with au armed mob on the tught
of the InsurreCtion in Thomas-streets he was
proved incontestibly to have been on his lawful
avocations elsewhere. To prove that circumstance
he was instructed to assert, that certain unim.
peached Witnesses would be adduced, and he hoped
the Jury would exercise their judgments, and give ,
way in sonic degree to the feelings of the heart, in
drawing ftom such evidence an impartial and fair
conclusion. •

Seven witnesses were adduced on behalf of the
Prisoner, to' support an alibi. The general cor►.
text of their depositions amounted to is detail, that
the Prisoner had about a quarter after eight o'clock,
on Saturday evening, the 23(1 of July, left his
brother's house, who keeps a public-house in
Thomas-street ; took leave of his sister-in-law to
go off to his father's near Rathcool, and was ap.
parently in such haste that he could not wait to

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gobtil'tniiet;'Wht) !tad ;116t..tOtti hitn iat n
befote",

The-Orcuas-tante of the Prisoner's rkiparturt.
that hour Was corroborated by the Prisonerls-sisiet,z
in-law, of whom he took leave as ileposed;hy.ilstl
forrner witness.—it appeared, however, that -no; s
withst4nding.,•the haste he professed to be in. Et
took a Circuitous toad through Dolphin's
and waited for 26 minutes to drink at a place tii,Ae
' Job's-town, within three miles of Rathenoh.----,'
The witness who drank with him there did not,-
see, the Prisoner's brother, ih company, who
posed that be accompanied his bother Felix frtn
thiir brother John'sbotise it: 'thomas.streer, throur:n
Dolphin's Barn and Whire's.town, where theydr4o;--,-;
some porter at the house of one .person,- a -publican
near Job's..toWn.—The brother, who:e nathe
Mathew, deposed, that he came from their
house, near Rathcool, on.. the morniog-, of the 73 t
July, influenced by;two. very principal motives
one was to ease the anxiety of his mOther about
fate of the Prisoner, as a rumour of insurreaiort in
Dublin did partially prevail the neighbourhood.,
another,,very essential motive was to consult 4;4
apothecary about a disease which he found con veirient
to conceal from his parents, He patted his brother
at a cross road going towards rSaggarr, and went
home himself to comMunicare .the intelligence of
the Prisoner's ufly to their mother; The I'6-
soner found himself incapable of walking forward
-to their father's 'at Rathrool, and turned tip is
sleep at the house of a friend, by mom Grimes,
whose house was a mile and a half from the iVwrt „
where the Prisoner parted with the •Witneis, who
proceeded to their tther's house, about two miiel
and a half distant from the place where they parred.
He assigned a ,reAson for taking a route in pieference
to that way, because it was the most private wily,
and one where*, from the kind Of commotion which
prevailed, they would of course be less liable to in,
stilt. The Prisoner did not go to their father's on
the nett Sunday, nor fur a week after..—saw Grimes .
at Mass'on the next day, asked for his brother, who •
said he was well.

Grime, corroborated the. depositions respeaing
the Prisoner's reaching his house about r r or 11
o'clock' at night, bat dcnied having seen,any of the
Rourkes at mass on the following morning.
Four WitneSses 'were adduced to discredit the
charader of nihafry. A soldier who knew Wei
for four years in the Kildare: Militia was adduced
to support it—he never kitew any thing dishonest
or disloyal attributed to him in the regiment—he
Was 'censured and punished only few nut keeping-
himself clean..

Mr.
GEORGE "PONSONBY
,spoke, 119 the Crown
Lawyers confessed, with distinguished ability'fot
near an hour and a half. .

He was replied to by
.the Stit.torro,a Gaivt
who:animadverted strongly on the palpable' con-
tradiCtion betiveen all
,the evidence adduced to prove -
the except Grime's. ,
It becomes unnecessary to remark, thilt Baron
GEORGE in his charge, took a review of the sub.
jet;, clear, ekquent, and. perspicuous in the e' C_ to which the •Prisoner addressed
the Court and'Jury, 'from, notes, asserting the ov •
deviating truth advanced by his Witnesses,' a 4.0.1
attributing the apparent inconsistency in their 're.
speCtive depOsitions.tii 'tliiiiikw.ardness and agira.
lion incident to per,ions of }stain manners int;
,110 not,
hearts, in an awl'ul situation before-a •Court,.. ocene. •
to whit!) they were never accworned-14 returned ,
thanks to the Court and Jury for the impartial, in.: •
vesti,sation of, the evidence by 'the noe, the
tient attention Hof the other, 44 reiic,l,un a verdia
influenced alone by a rigid sense of: justice-,Whi,:h
,vas returned iiva -few minutes after tlit+ Jury retired
—Gniity;—Court adjourned till to.m,Jrrow. •

Redmond, who shot himself yesterday in New.,
gate at the moment when he was ordered out fur
ttial, had on Saturday , cffered to give inform::_
tion tv Govern peat .of all persons concerned
the late horrid .finasrredion, togethar with their
plans and connexions.' :This proposal we. basic
reason to think, after having been 'well weighed,
was, rejetled. The charges 'against the Prif,oni?r,
who was not one of the deludtd Mob, being of coeh
a nature as to make him, if fo'undguilty, a pecti..
Hatt/ fit sohjeft for an example; and it is appr‘e.:
hended that Government was already in possession
of all that' he could possibly disclose, which it was
material for.tbein to know. The double shame of
guilt and trekthery hastened, the commission of this
rash at,
.which drew a veil between him and the
publication Of his crimes.

On Sunday forenoon, a man charged' with being
one of the murderers of Lord KIL/ARDEN and his
Nephew, was brought . in from RoscuMmon, to
which he. found means to escape:, he Avis wounded
by a musket bail in the courbeDf the evening of the
13d of July,

'UNDER lIIERCIES OF 171 E. GRE.47' FIRST' CO Isi'SUL.

'Wort the late visit Of BONAPA:II.TO to
someiof his subjetis ventured most htimbly ,to re-
present, that they and, their Families were ruined
and starving in consequence of the intercourse with
this Country being. stopped, and:prayed that, in Ida
wisdom and goodness he would be'graciously pleased
to do something for their relief. Tile greti,t man
condescended to give a gracious answer, that he
would give orders—The klushing men were re-
joiced. The Fl ILST CONSUL, on his departure, lett
sealed orders, to be opened_ at the expiration of
nine hours. .These orders were pundually obeyed,
:and they were, to take oat I,Eveno of the Pet;ti*ngrs
and shoat them through the bead for their prerav-
fit' The fad can be verified by, the oath of a
person, then a prisoner at Flushing, who escaped
11V a small ',open .boat, and.. is now. at . Deal, who
says, That if the rood and paciqat FlitsT CO NS U L
should ever again be rash enough to visit Flushing,
his Guards of Honour atidhis..Mamelt4kes would ry a
be able to prated him :against the, just vengeance
of his own-Miserable subjeds. -

HATTON GARDE N.—The further ex:volution or
.7afob Sebastian Kock, the Dalielaccused of drown.
tug Mrs., Smith, sa the him Thatne9), whi:2ll w:tv
fixed for yesterdAy, was again politpougd to a tee_
cure tidy, on account of the absencei thrdugh inch _
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