The Sun.
London, England, 1803-10-27 00:00:00

DUBLIN, OCT. Zi.

A LETTrK has been received in Town this even.
ing from sir NEALt 01C)0101t LOA Newport Pratt,'
in the County of Mayo, stating, that on Tuesday
last a very heavy firing was heard off the COM,
which lasted the greater part of the day. This
Letter was immediately laid before the Right Hon.
Mr. WICKHAM. For a considerable part of the
forenoon the public mind was much agitated, in cpn.
sequence of the above Letter, until the following
Official Communication was made by the LORD
MAYOR to all the Banks and Public Offices through-
out the City,

tliansion.floute, Dublin, Saturday, oa, u, Ih3.

Titz Right Hun. the LORD MAYOR, wishing to prevent
the Citizens of Dublin from being deceivied or alarmed by
Reports circulated by the designing or disafFeeted, Joao no
time in acquainting the Public, that he has this moment re-
Ceived the following letter from the Ss aft ILTARY of ATS.
By Order, ARCH. HAMILTON, See.
COPY OP A LETTER PROM THE RIGHT 119 N. MR. WICKI(AM
TO Tilt RIGHT HON. 181 LORb MAYOR.
Dublin-Castle, Swgrclay, 017. at, 1803*
" Mir LORD,
" At Letters have probably been reeeiyed in Dublin by
this Morning's Mail, stating, that three french Frigatcs had
anchored in Muilow-man Hay, near Sligo, I ICU no time in
inforrning you, that the Vessels that have Come to anchor
there arc British Men of War, that have been. Cruiziiig for
sonic tune 011' tbc North Western Coast of Ireland.
" I have the Honour to be, my Lord.
" Your Lordship's most faithful,
" And obedient •Serv.int,
" WM. WICKHANI."
The Right IPm.. It'e Lord Mayor.

This morning Afiehad Quigley Nicholas and Sig..
ford were brought from Kilmainham Gaol, undar..an
escort, before the Right Hon. Lord NOR Boxy and
Mr.- Baron DALY, when they were informed by
the Deputy Clerk of the Crown, that Bills of India.
merit were found against them for High Treason,
and they were asked what Counsel they wished to
have assigned sham. Rach of them mama/ Ms,
scmaY And Mr. M‘NALIX, and Mr. L. MNALLY
Agent. Mr. TowNsitin and Mr. RIDGEWAY)
together with the Crown Solicitor, attended on the
part of the Crown.

Tit E Tit Artt .--,The Comic Opera of The Ca.
bbset, drew a very numerous audience last night to
Covent Garden Theatre. BRAHMA and STOR4CE
were again received with a very fervent greeting.
The former was finely in voice, and excited the
warmest applause. He was particularly animated in
<< the Forest echoes," and was encored. INCI.E.
DON'S (sold tfrOttS were also highly applauded.—
MUNDPN, VAWCETT, and BLANCHARD, enjoyed
their full share of public attention, and the piece
went of with great spirit. The house was very

The Navy Board are about to carman for the
building of six Frigates, of 3z guns each, and six
Sloops of \Var ; to he completed, the former in
eighteen, the latter in fifteen months.

Ponsonby and Conerfritb, the two persons ap.
preherded at Portsmouth, were in possession of a
complete set of Lord Howes Signals, with the dif.
ferent alterations which have taken place
down to the very last, and which Admirals Moss.
TAtm a and Hot.r.owAY having examined maturely,
considered to be of very considerable importance.
It is supposed Ponsoliby procured them 'of a person
in Wellclqse.square, s%,ho has lately served as a
Master in the Royal Navy. On a stria examination
Of the papers in the possessiUn of these persons by
GoLnsoN, Esq. one of the Magistrates of the
Borough, such information was obtained as will
most probably lead to 'the deteaion of many others,
as an especial messenger was sent from the General
Post Office to the Secretary of State's; Office imme.
diately. on the arrival of the mail, and othre any
letters could t.nc delivered to the parties implicated.
Pousokby was Afting Lieutenant in the Navy last
War, and for sonit• time commanded a Privateer
called the Kitt Skrue. They were also in posses.
sion of a complete list of the diff rent rendezvous
from Leith, No. t, to Port Royal, Jamaica, No. ”.

Died on Monday the 24!h inst. of a fever, at
Blatchington Park, the Seat of ARTHUR ANNBSI, CY.
Esq. in the azd year of his age, Mr. DASH WOOD,
eldest son of Sir HENRY WATKI v DASH w ooD, Bart.
of Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire.
On Monday there was a true bill found against
Thomas SCott for wilful and corrupt perjury, in con-
sequence of which a Judge's Warrant was issued,
and Scott was apprehended, after a very severe re,
sistance, between ten and eleven o'clock the same
night, in a house in the Cloisters, Smithfield. He
is now in Newgate in irons.
An alteration is CO take place in the mode of exe-
cuting criminals in the Old Bailey. In lieu of the
cumbrous macjiine brought on these occasions before
the Debtors' roloor, a platform is to drop from the
front, and thinugh a new door, the culprit will pass
immediately from the chapel gallery to the place of
executions

IRE 4Np.

tWe yesterday gavd the substance of thetrial, Convie.
tion,of*xi likisel4 at Dowttpatrick, on the 19th inst:
we nowlivc the Evidence in deuil.j

• SPECIAL COMMISSION.

DOWNPATRICK, OCt. 20.

Edward Ihbon, Chief Constable of Police,
sworn.

[Here it was observed by Messrs. Jor an ,1 BELL,
Counsel, for the Prisoner, that Mr. Wilson should
not give'evidenct of, the insurrection in Dublin.—,.
Over.ruled by the Court.)
Upon which Mr. Wilson gave evidence of the
insurreition in the same tunnel as on the trials in

Lienterart Camharan sworn, to prove the taking
of the depot of arms, as on the trials in Dublin.—
Lieutenant Brady proved the rebels in arms in Tho.
massstreet, as on former trials in Dublin. Serjeant
Rice proved, as on former Trials in Dublin, identify.
ing the Proclamation found in the depot in Marshal.
alley, Dublin.
William Corky, of Saimfield, County of Down,
sworn. Is a Yeoman in Captain Price's Corps ; re.
collefta hiring a horse, on the Friday of the last
races, 22d July, to James Drake to go to Annadorn,
Or the Cross Roads • identified the Prisoner, saw
him same day ; Drake promised to pay hiM ; Russel
paid him for the hone it was about ten o'clock in
the morning.—Cross.examined. Ile thinks it is
dots Prisoner who paid- 31. 34.—Juooe. Are you
Certain as to the Prisoner? He thinks he is the man
who paid him, hut is doubtful.
Robert Adam sworn. Is. acquainted with James
Drake ; he saw him on the Friday of the races com.
ing on the Balfinahinch Road ; knows James Smith's
house at Annadorn ;Fit was about 4.00 perches from
Smith's house ; he saw Drake riding with another
Man ;—,Drake's horse was brought back by a little
buy.
John Keenan sworn. Lives at the. Winniag Post
on the race.ground ; he recolleds the Maze Races ;
heard that there was to be a rising ,on the- 23d
July ; on the Friday of the races heard of a meet.
ing to be at Smith's of Annadorn ; was at
the meeting; saw some he knew, there were
about nine men there drinking whiskey ; he saw
James Drake there, James Corryeand Hugh M
ben ; M'Mullen told him of the meeting ; saw sonic
he would not know ; be saw, the Prisoner there ;
sat down there ; the Prisoner asked him what lie
could di) in respell to rebellion ; -he said that •there
were about ten men in his village, that if he spoke
to them about rebellion they would hit him in she
face ; the Prisoner then said that he ;believed lie
might go out of the country as that w;ts the case, but
that the rebellion must go on in other places, as he
could not stop it. The Prisoner said that he did not
doubt the French were fighting in Scotland at that
time. be saw a uniform of green cloth, with epau.
lets and lace ; the Prisoner desired Drake to,put
on the uniform; he refused ; then the Prisoner put
it on himself for a few minutes, and then took it
off, and thinke it was tied up iu a cloth. He- re.
coiled& a stranger coming in at that time .to the
room, and the Prisoner asked the stranger what be
could do about raising men for rebellion? The strati.
R.! atticl,. he wc,u4d- rasmalscut 150 men; recoiled,
Cony .saying, on leaving the room, that he would
go and try to do what he could do in Downpritriek.
The Prisoner wanted a Map of She County, and he
thinks Corry alluded to the map when he said ,he
would do what he could in Down ; recolleets a boy
named Harry Smith, bringing in spirits; he is son
to Smith the owner of the house.
Cross.examined by Counsellor BELL.—Recol.
lefts drinking whiskey, about five half pints ; he
has told all he knows about it ; was about twenty
minutes drinking there; did not know all the per.
sons ; he thinks there are some he would not know;
lives about four miles and a half from the house- of
Smith ; Smith keeps a house, or did at that time;
at Annadorn ; never saw Russel until that time ;
he may thank a little whiskey and went astray;'
there might something more be said or done with.
out his knowledge. Mr. Hawthorn aentsfor him;
has been in coefiaerneor two nights ; it was about
tight days 'ago he was sent to by Mr. Hawthorn ;
he raised no men, nor did he attempt it ; was at
Maze Races : did not tell any one at the races of
the rising ; he did tell some neighbours of the
rising. Mr. Hawthorn was the first 'Magistrate
he communicated it to, and slid it when he
sent for him, Hawthorn told him that he heard he
was with Russel ; he told him he was, and told him
all he knew; he took care to have evidence of his
heing in led when the rising was to be on the aid
July; went so Smith's to hear what was going on ;
would have assisted in the Rebellion if he had such no.
Lions; knows it was treason to be ill she company of
conspirators; it is-not the part of a good aubjett to
hide treason; knows he was not a good subjett ;
was never threatened with alsrasecetiten ; thinks he
would not be prosecuted; did not hear of any harm
done at the meeting more than was done ; does not
believe he would be prosecuted if he did not give
evidence ; thinks he was imprisoned for fear he
would not come forward; was two nights in gaol ;
slept in a little room in the gaol, it was rather a
good room ; does not believe that he would be pro.
secuted, but that he might be imprisoned for some
time ; says, that he thinks they could not hang
him, for he thinks there was no evidence agatest
him. He was told he would be confined if he did
not come forward, bet not until after he gave infor.
minion ; he thinks that he' will be liberated ; that
he would not, he thinks, be liberated if lie had not
given evidence ; never saw Russel before that day;
he might know the other strangers who were at the
tneetitig if he saw them.
Juror—Did M'Mullen tell you what the meeting
was for ?—He did; it was for rebelliim, and that
there was a stranger 40 be there ; is sure that
M'Mullen said the meeting was for rebellion.
Henry Sl7th being sworn, says, tleit he lives At
Annedern, about four miles from Downeatrick, at
James Smith's, his father's; he keeps a public. houSe
there, and is about nine miles from Ssiecueot
members the last Maze races ; there was company at
his father's; the Prisoner and James Drake were`'
there ; they went there on horseback, about ten
o'clock on Friday morning of the races ; his father
is a caventer, and was pot at mthe I) •
; Prisoner

Mule bake tided For flair a pint isf spiritseeeliten'
cal/aloe' another half fine, and he reenalnerlS with
them,' and sat &WA. lad drenk •seith themes beer,e.
them talking of a thing of the people; • there visa*S..„
to be a general insorrettion over Ireland on 11.$-.7
. of July, Saturday night following, about nine
ten o'clock. Prisoner asked Witness if there e4ie
arms in the country I he said there was, the V.lteee_
men had them. Prisoner Bahl every Parish was tee
take their own arms from the Yeomen and Loyalists,
or Orangemen ; 'Witness told Prisoner that they
h. had arms e Prisoner said that • the Cat hulks were
abused by Orangemen, and that they sheirld rise to
redress themselves; that 'they should take Mr .F rd,
the Sheriff, prisoner, and Mr. Worselsy ;' they should
go round by Clough and Seafoid, and„hriog in the-
loyal Gentlemen prisoners.; that P, isomer said there
were plenty of good fellows at Belfast. Witness
asked Prisoner if -the French were to come ?'
answered that they were nor, but that they were
to send 30,000 arms to he landed at ; they
were joined in this room by others ; lie sawKeertan,
Curry, Doran, and Maguire there ; similar cone
versition took place when those persons came in ;
Doran got. up and observed, that none but madmen
would join them ; Russel then got np and said,
a passion, " this won't do." He saw Russel take a
green militaty coat with epaulets and lace, and
put it on, and said it was the dress of the French
Generals; that he told him, that he and eleven
others came from France upon the husinehs—that
he was to •be General, but if better wont' conic
forward, he wduld resign and walk as a I) eson
!•niart that tieNi tn. be -taken ether. sfeeet r.
that there we ae many in Ddbfieeettiesot4rtVtr"o"."'"""''
' it ; that there were eo,obiel:in some 'Punk ineDuh.
' lin to carry on the War or Rshellion. • Says that he
went and listed on the Mon day' after 'for tear of
lesing concerned more in thiebusiness. ,Knows Mr.
Ford, the Sheriff, went to him of his own accord,
but there had been a guard looking..for him in his •
absence, and he there disclosed the matter to •Ms.
'Ford. Heard threats held on', 'that if the Kiere
party killed any of them they woted retaliate ; -thee
the people were threatened and forced to rise like.
wise. Saw Prisoner take out a case of: pierols, ur
three pistols. Prisoner lefi his father's 41;ntit three
o'clock ; a boy came for the horse Russel rude from
Seintfield,' and Witness's brother took away Drakes
horse ; Prisoner .went towards Downetateielte with
James Drake. Cross-examined. Never saw /3.essel
before that day with Drake; was the boy, who ate
tended and brought in liquor ; he did disclose the •
plot to Witness ; did tell the Prisoner where the arms
:were, and that they were in the country ; was not
willing to join Prisoner until he spoke to him me
about The business.; thinks the Prisoner was aware
of the consequence at being a traitor; prisoner.
seemed not afraid to tell of the rising, and told him
(the Witness) freely ; asked bins to join him 'a he.
refused td- go ; he got afraid, which induced him
.to comply with the Prisoner's demand ; Prisoner
asked him where the arms were ? Witness told him
the. Yeomen and Orangemen had arms ; it was fear
induced Lim to tell this. Says he eaid the stnarte
money after he enlisted; that Mr..Loslet gave 'the
money for it ; that the first „ time he saw Priionet
after, he did not recolleet him. Saw him after in
Kilmeinhain gaol. No one endeavoured to make him
swear egainst the Prisoner ;• no inducement was
held- oti—never was threatened to be confined, nor
wa's he promised liberty if he swore against hint ;
but he expected liberty after evidence, as he yokl-
teeted to go and see the Prisoner ; 'went without a
guard ; went to Dublin in, a coach, which was paid
by Gevernment; Mr. Brown gave him ese
when gain ; he got some money from Mr. 13hteke
wood ; was kept in gaol since he came to Dow'',
as an evidence.

Q. by a Jutur.—Dia you know the Prisoner the
second time you h w him in Kilmainh.im gaol ?
A. I did pert my well.

Hugh *Celina's sworn.,,-Rememhers Saturday
the 2AJoly last, was in the house of James Fitz.
pattiek that day, and thinks the Prisoner wa, there,
and asked fur his breakfast ; the 110111 e is on the
Island of Loughin ; it was about nine o'clock in
the morning; he went away and left the Prisoner
there ; has no doubt of the Prisoner's person.
, Rev. Pat. 14-4Cartott sworn.—Says he lives iii
the parish of Loughlin Island, is a Roman Catholic
Priest in that parish. He was on the 223 July in
his chapel with his pari.hioners ; his chapel is about
two perches from Fitzpatrick's house ; that about
three o'clock in the day (Fillay) he saw, be thinks,
the Prisoner about two minutes. He saw and heard
murmuringsamong the people that day, and thought
from it that the French were on the Coast.. He en.
deavoured to quiet the minds of the people ; •but on
Saturdey he heard of the intended rising ; the Pri.,
Boner went into Fitzpatrick',; Witness went there
to inquire about the stranger. He saw Jas. Drake
with the. Prisoner or stranger ; cannot swear posi.
tively as to the Prisoner, but, front eireernstances,
he thinks it was the Prisoner; has na reason to
doubt him being the man.
Patrick Lyttrh'lwom.—Saya he is a Professor of
the Irish Language; that he did reside nine years
ago in Belfast, and for the two last years has tt !loose
in Loughlin Island, where his family principally re.
side. He kyiew the Prisoner, and is sorry to see
him there in the dock ;. he met the Prisoner. often at
the Library in Belfast :she seemed to have the care
of the library : taught the Prisoner, some lessons
in the Irish Language. On Saturday before the In.
surrettion, he came to Down, and next day he
want to Loughlin Island, and saw Prisoner there
on Friday evening, July 2z, about sunset ; his
house is near Fitzpatrick's ; saw a horse, and s.ive
Prisoner take the horse : Prisoner went to him ale'
offered to Shake hancis with him, but he declined
it, knowing him to be an outlaw, and nor wishing
to hurt him: told Witness he was a horse. jockey,
and that Witness was to consider him as such, and
to let him pass 'as such: he declined speaking to
him, except at the house, where he told Prisoner*
that all he wished to know was, if .he could go in
'safety to Belfast, as he heard it rumoured a rising
Wilf to be ? He told Witness he might not go for
two or three days : that. Prisoner said he AVMS going
to Beirut, and asked Witness what would be th
s.ifest way for him, ,and if there would be any clan.
ger Of him ? Witness told him' there was danger
they then separated ; saw Prisoner on Saturday the
2338 in a small room at Fitzpatrick's; be thinks

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