The Sun.
London, England, 1804-09-04 00:00:00

BELFAST, Ave. 27.

Oro Friday last Her Excellency the-Couotess of
ilmtowicxx and Suite arrived at Donaghadee. on
hoard the Hill:borough:. Packet from Portpatrick.:
Part of the ,Sea Fencibles manned the Revenue
Boat, and put off to meet_ the Packet: with :Her 'Ex-
cellency, which having reached the Quay; Col.
ledor AR BUCKLE conducted Her Excellency ashore,
under a
,Royal Salute from the ordnance. of •the
Downsh;re, Hills6re, and Wu/Nor/and: Packets.
'At the same timeihe DDnaghadee Yeomanry, COM--
in:lndeel by Capt. ARBUCKLE& were drawn up on
the Pier, and received her with due honours. The
Colledur's carriage 'was waiting, and imnr.
'diately conveyed Her Excellency to his house, where
she was received by Lady Surit IA ARBUCKLE.
After remaining some time,-she set off. lunder a si_
milar salute of ordnance) with her Suite, in three
carriages, for this town, where Her 'Excellency ar.
rived in Donegal-place, ',about eight o'clock in, the,
evening; and the Must Noble the Marquis of 'Do.
REGAL handed her from her carriage, and conduit.
ed her into his house, in front of which the two
Flank Companies of the 631 Regiment were drawn
up, and when Pier Excellency alighted they pre.
sented arms,,&c. • ,
Saturday morning, at • fiep O'clock, ,His. Ex.
cellency the LBRD LI EUTENANDatid Suite left Dub.
lin for this town, where he arrived, abotit• eight
,o'clock in the evening, escorted by'the Belfast Troop
of Yeoman Cavalry, which had gone Out of town
to meet him. The Flank Companies of the 631
Regiment, drawn up in Donegalllace,, received
'His Excellency.
.with all' the hollow's due to his. ex_
-aired rank arch station. When he alighted from
his carriage, the Most Noble the Mlrquis of 130.
NEGAL waited upon'him, and introduCed him into
. .
his own house. .•

On Sundiy morning, Their Excellencies, accom.,
pilled by the Marrinis and Marchioness of 13 'NE*
CAL, went to Church in an open where _they
heard an excellent Sermon by the Rev. Vit 1.1.1 AM
BR i IT.IW, from these words-,--Grurth,clßip.i,,z). 27,
" So God created man in his own Image : In the
image of God created he him."
• On Monday. His Excellency reviewed the Garri.
son. The line was formed in Donegal.place and
Higli.street, and consisted of
The Royal Artillery and Belfast'Cay. airy.
The' 631 Regiment of Foot on the right.
The Dublin Militia on the left. . •

The Belfastlnfantry Battalion right on_the centre.
l'he Belfast Merchants' Infantry, Belfast ,Volun.
teer, Bdfast Royals, Belvoir Infantry, and Holy.
wood Infantry, left of the centre.
After the general silute, anti His Excellency hail
passed along rhe front and rear, the Ilattalimi broke
into open columns, right in front, And passed by
divisions.' in ordinary time. .

Excellency was pleased, through the.. Gene..
rat, to express' his wartn.rapprobation ut the,.itppear_
ance of ihe troops.
We oltiervest, with much sati.fatlion, that the
several Yeomanry Corps had lull musters, anti that
they acquitted themselves in a manner that did
them much credit, and procured general admiration.,

DUBLIN:

TRIALS BEFORE THE •RECORDER.
TUESDAY. AUG. 27.

7ohn Barker stood indktcd on the Combination
Aet, for havitig, on the It9th of'July last, confeder.
ated with other journeymen shoemakers, to regulate
their trade, and raise. the price of their labour.
Samuel Hughes, examined by Mr. GREENS, de_
'posed, that he was, a 'master shoemaker, living in
Damestreet ; he went on the rOth of last month,
accompanied by Major Sirr and other persons, to a
poblic.house in Essex.street, where he perceived
the l'riSOner at the Bar, With eighteen jfiurneymen
shoemakers, as 'he believed, in a confederacy, re.
speding tegUlations of their, trade ; he saw a book
of rules With them on. a -table in the room where
they were assembled. This witness further de.
posed, that in consequence of his.adivity in pro.
securing othercumbinators of his tra.le with effetl,
he was formally 'read out of their meetings, and
Obliged to employ such workmen from the country
as hecoUld find.

Mr. MINALLY, on crosc.eximining the Wit.
nessi asked if he did not believe the Prisoner tube
drunk when lie saw him at the public-house alluded
to, and was therefore incapable of c ,mroitting, any.
ad of Combination in his trade which the Law
&
renrs penal ?—Witness replied, that the Vrisoner
took pai.:l to corcral ltim,e:f under the.tab:.e,
that he -appeared to be in"some, degree intoxicated.
S: ir examined :by Mr. BETH 1? L, deigns. d,
that he acoampanied 'the last Witness. to a pubic.
house in Essex.itreet, w!,ere he saw., the Prisoner at
tie. Bar, 'in company w .several otheri; that h..,
apprehended the Prisniter as,a.combitiator, with thi:
rest of his party, and had seivd the hook of ,rules
which lay 'befole them. • ,
On cross.exaMination by Mr.. M NALLY, te.
speatOt the state in which the Prisoner appeared—
the' Witness replied that he seemed to affal
enneiS.

The RPColtoßlt, in charging the Jury, exratiated
with'rnich energy on the evil Oit'sequences result.
ing in a trading c:',untry from illegal prattices of the
nature which now came befre them. Respetling the
snare of intOXFC.IIiOn, WlllOl had been ingeniously
dwelt upon* by Mr.
,M‘NALLY, the Prisoner's
Counsel, it was certain it had vouch force, if the
Jut), believed that the Prisoner was in 'the•state
described. Intoxication, in.almost every other cri,
minal case, instead of operating as.a palliative, the
Liw justly consi.lerect a high aggravation of the
efr:nce cotnmitted ; but in cases of CoMbination,
the WI must be decidedly prOved--.therefore if the
accused party •Hppened to be. bereft of reasons ,
and incapacitated 'from perpetrating any aft,
however criminal his 'intentions might be, w.his:h
the Act of Parliament provided.. in this case could:
reach,' the duty of the Jury would be incontestibly
1,1 acquit the Prisoner ; if, an the other hand, the
Jury believed that the: .Prisoner only „feigned
drunkenness, their good ..•ainse would ,suggest to-
them the necessity of pronouncing a verdia, Guilty;
which was without much hesitation returned, and
the Prisoner, sentenced to imprisonment fUt twelve
months in New gate.

. .
About one o'clock on Saturday 'morning, .the
fl Imes were discnvered issuing from the stables be.
longing to the King's Arms Inri, Lancaster ; the
drums immediately beat to arms, the.Nolunteets
with a number, of' the inhabitants,. assembled 'with
the greatest alacrity, and the' engines belooginglo
the Royal Excliange'and 'Phoenix Fire Offices,..being
procured, the fire was got under by four o!clock,,but
.
not till it had consumed a quantity of hay, with the
interiorot the building, and five horses. Seventeen
horses were with great difficulty extricated from the
flames, though not without injury. The cause Of
tht fire could not be ascertained.
On Saturday night, about twelve o'clocki.a bed.
room in the liouse.Of Mr. BARl:tits, of Salisbury.;
square,' was discovered to be on fire: the 11 utir's
for a time, threatened the destruertion of the whole
house ; fortunately, a maid servant, sleeping in
the next' room, was awoke by the. rage and.smel)
of the fire, and gave the alarm. At was supposed
.to. be occasioned by servant negleding to put out
her candle with care ; and on her first sight of the
hed curtains, &c. being on fire, she fainted with
fright it Was with difficulty she at length unlocked
her door, and was. taken out of her room amidst the
flames, by the eteitions of a neighbour, *but burnt
from head to foot in so shocking a manner, as to
leave little hopes of her recovery. By the exertion
of the family and neighbours, the fire was fortu.
riately'extinguislied, without doing further damage
than in the room in which it hvgan.
Saiurday morning, about half past four, a fir.:
.broke out in the Laboratory of Messrs. Bush and
Howard, Cannon.street, three or four doors from
Walbronit ; it first appeared io a shower of apalks,
which fell in Sal ters.ilall Passage and St. Salthin'a
Lane, and threatened extensive damage, as nearly
half an hour elapsed after the arrival of- the en.
gines before' any water could be 'obtained
great exertion, however, on the part.9o4e Volun. '
teen and Firemen, the filmes were nearly,confine.d'
to the Laboratory, which, by Seven o'clock,- was re.
duceti to ruins. The promptitude of the
teens in 'assembling on the occasion 'was
creditable. .

On Saturdayseannight a 'melancholy event took
•
place, of which the 'following, as far as can be ga.
there'd from the:evidence laid before the Coronet's
Jury, are the particulars :7-limes Brooks, a glass:
maker, resident in Pyle.4treet, Bristol (crvant to
Messrs, Ricketts, Evans, and P.G, Co.), in order to
punish his son, a boy about nine years old, foi
a mistake committed in en errand, seizf.d. It knife
by the blade, with the intention of striking him
on the head with the handle ;. but the mother
getting between them, the knife fell.from Brooks's
hand over her shoulder, in such a direction that
it entered the boy's side and pierced the kiilnies.
Mr. Godwin, surgeon, was instantly .applied to,
who dressed the wound, but the boy died on Mon-
day morning. The unhappy slave to lawless pa.
sion vohmtarilrappeatediur examinition before the
Cordnerls jury, who sat on Tuesday, arid brought
in a 'verditt of iliandagghter.