The Sun.
London, England, 1804-02-10 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, FEB. 10.

WE have today very large supplies of Wheat,
far exceeding the demand, which causes a fur, her
reduction -of is. and 29. per quarter; the arrivals
of Barley are uncommonly numerous, and sell at lull
Is. less, as does Malt ; Pease and Beans of both kinds
cheaper ; Oats also in large arrivtls, and is. lower ;
'Flour 2s, per sack cheaper, and fitie American fur-
ther declines in puce.
Wheat 3os a 4os a 51S Cd
Fine ditto 52s a 54s od
•Rya -2.8 s a 3ts od
Barley -17 s a zzs of
Malt - -48 s a 5.4 s od
White Pease 3os a 37s oct
8r -

Tick Beans 24s a ;is od
oats - us a 19s a zis oa
Poland ditto 23s a 24s oci
Rape Seed - 351 a 381
Fine Fionr 38s a 435,0 d
Seconds 3.0 a 38s od

The ,present mild administration of His Majesty's
Government in Ireland, having graeiously recalled
me from a painful and humiliating exile, to liberty
in my native Country, I avail myself of the earlith
opportunity to solicit your attention, while Tin-
deavour by a plain statement to remove from your
minds that odium which misrepresentation, and
obloquy have long excited against me; 'and which,
unremoved, must render my exi-aence here eqiially
painful to you and to myself. Were this obloquy
and misrepresentation confined in its eff,sas to
my own individual person, however desirable the
reinstatement in your good opinion must be,, I
should hardly presume to intrude tiptin you; but
rrty charaCter affeas, in some degree, that Of the
body to which I hove the honour to belong;, it
interests the reyutation of many respedable per.
sons who have humanely interfered in my behalf;
and what is still of far greater importance, it may
possibly interest the reputation of His Majesty's
Government in Ireland, which with ti,iscrirninatifog
imear iali:y bath looked down upon me, enve..
loped as I was in a mist of calumny ; bath stretched
forth a parental hand to release me from impriSon.
talent, to break my chains, and to expunge, the
hasty sentence which consigned me for a time to
shame and suffering„ I shall be particularly care
ful while you condescend to indulge me with a
bearing, to confine myself to what is absolutely,
necessary for my exculpation. To express or even
to harbour resentment, would ill become me at
any time, but particularly now. I forgive, from my;
soul, ever injury I have received, and every per.o
son concerned in infliaing it ; not only religion;
requires this at my hands, but common sense and.
justice.
When I was arrested and punished, it was doubt-,
.less in the supposition that I was deeply engaged
in the hOrrota which diSgrace many parts of this.
Kingdom a.t that distressing period. To have been
pointed at, as an United Irishman ; as con-
cerned in the shedding of blood ; as an abettur.of
treason ; as assenting to, and encouraging murder;'
was naturally 'a death-warrant in that moment of
irritation If it were allowed me to complain,el
should only find fault with the precipitancy of the
proceedings which then afilieted me. Had I been
favoured with a regular trial, or even a calm in-
vestigation, the error would have been discovered,
and my misfortunes would have been obviated; but
though the measures were 'precipitately adopted,
they were so, under the. full convi'aion of my fla.
gitious guilt.; and, however painful tome, were cer-
tainly much lighter than, such guilt would have de.
served. Hanging were too mild for it : and did my
conscience charge me at this moment with what I
'as accused of then, I should think myself favoured
by transportation : I should hide my head during
the remainder of my ignominious days from the
sight of the most atrocious fellow-criminals : but
no proof of these enormities ever has, or ever can
be adduced. My Lords and Gentlemen, I am now li-
berated : not through a pardon solicited for, or grant,
ed me ; hut on the merits of my, case. To volun..
leer in perjury is an excess of wickedness so vile as
not to be attributed to the most abandoned without
the strongest proofs. Under a full conviecion that an
appeal to the God of Truth in support of known,
falsehood, would be nothing less than to call upop
him to expunge 'my name for ever from the book
of life; to with-hold from the all participation in
the merits of my Redeemer; to., doom of its own
nature my soul to never-ending misery; I now
most solemnly swear, iu the presence of Almighty
God, upon his Holy Gospels, first, that I was never
an United Irishman ; that I never took that oath;
that I never encouraged, advised, or permitted
others to take it ; but, on the contrary, that I dis-
suaded others from taking it, some of whom have..
had the generosity to make affidavit of my exertions ,
in this behalf; and there are who have candidly
added 'that they would have taken it, had I not pre7
vented them. Some of these affidavits have long
since been laid before Government, together with
the other documents of my exculpation. Secondly,.
I do declare, upon my oath, that I never signed
the death-warrant of any man ; or an assent to the..
murder or to the death of any man; and that I
never was asked to sign such death-warrant or as
sent. This declaration is further strikingly corm.,
borated by the following circumstances : no such
paper has been ever produced against me. It would
have amounted incontrovertibly to conspiracy' of
murder; it would alone have condemned me to the-.
gibbet ; and there can be no doubt, if you con-
sider the temper of my treatment, that such an im.
portant paper would not have been kept back
through,lenity. There
.are some Gentlemen of this
country, who have declared to others who will at-
test it, that they had this paper in their hand ;
that they knew my signature : I now call upon
them most respeafully, most earnestly, and with.
out intending the slightest offence ; I challenge
them, I defy them to produce it. When these
Gentlemen were asked by my friends, during my
banishment, why this paper was not brought for-
walk! previous to my punishment, or before the
Court of Inquiry, which- was held upon me. in
Youghal, some could give no answer, while others
asserted that it was subsequent to that inquiry this
paper was discovered : again I call for it; let it be
produced ; and if it cannot, let common justice
remand it for ever to its source--malignant calum-
ny. It was my peculiar misfortune that the charges
then made against me were not only with-held from
myself, but even my friends had no intimation of
them, except by common report, which then was
busily employed in disseminating the various atro.

Another respeEtable Gentleman is represented in
these minutes to hate said, that immediately after
my punishment, I acknowledged to'him that I was

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