The Sun.
London, England, 1804-10-06 00:00:00

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OCCASIONAL rroas.—" On Sundaypct Mr:
COURTENA Y, son of the late llishop of Ey
and cousin nf.Lord Viscount-CotraTS2lAY, arrived,
Dublin, at Newcastle, County Limerick: As
none of the COVRTENAY family have been in the
Country, or to visit their extensive estates, for
more than tss o centuries past, it was not to he won..
defied that the must lively sensations svere raised
in the breasts of the numerous and respectable te-
nantry ; the consequence was, that he was met on
the -road, and, his carriage drawn by the l';oputace
to the Castle, the residence of Mr. LocKe. At
night the town was brilliantly illuminated, and a
very large bonfire eretfied in the square, the Yeo-
manry and the inhabitants firing musketry ; and
uninterrupted..mirth s.!llity kepi up till the
dawn of the ensuing day."—" 1--laN easy would it
be; .by a few"oceasionn/ wits of this kind, to 'nsure
to the higher orders the afredion of the lower
classes of society, Here we have an instance of
the extraordinary afFettion of the radrjoge Irish for
any thing which can render them happy, by securing
to them 001T11013 and reward. The presence of the
member of an ancient family, which had not beer:,
represented in Ireland, except by proxy, for to,ire
than two hundred years, was wurii,:ient to create
very liovely sensations indeed ; and it might h: a
fresh means of associating the minds and bullies of
the people in a determined allegiance, and is resolute
opposition to all innovators,.- were their flocilntals,
or their landlords' cousens, to come onc,t, in six of
seven years among them, ro inspire them with re—
ska and veneration, by rewarding. virtue .and
dustry, and to remove those interlopers tcotri their
estates, by whose mischieviot and oppressive act.
rice 'so many thouiands are rendered wretched in
many quarters of the glebe."—Dakin Evrtzirg
Port.

EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER FROM DUBLIN,

OCTUB ER 1.

" Merits. Sjr. LPGER M•CAN, two of the
Land.waiteit on the Custom. house gnay, fusre' he -n
examined on oath. before the Cninmissinner4 of In.
quiry, as to the nature of their Offims, Fees, /v., &e,
as also Mr. HAMMERTON, Clerk of the And
Entries, in the Loll Ro,mi. Their exarninain,n
took up several d.iys, and was as mi.,ute hs 11,e
crosi.exiirninition of a Witness in a Court nt
Lice.

" Alderman MERV MTH JI.I3KIN, the new I,,td
Mayor, was sworn into ..tike thts d r, bt,fote
Excellency the Lord L etit..nant.
HAM and I'HORP, the nem Sher ,vote after .sr.trds
sworn before the Recordrr M 01,
The liveries of the Lott; 111 cyrtr and Melia'. .i.e
very elegant : supetlioe 'scarlet cloth, with itc!i gold
epaulets, and gilt buttons. The ntw 'earrt.age, tire
very neat and genteel ; the L ttl ttslayorts and.
riff BLOXFIAM'S arc very dark, with silver truaint.:'•
ing; and Shelia* Tuna P's a light tea green,
" The house of and. A rMy AgenrQ,
have this day stopred.payttint.' They were eon.
sidered one of the first and most respedable howes.,
in Dublin, in that line, and were of more than
forty years standing.
"The Poor of this City have suffered consithr.'
ably for want of water, but there is now a prospeA
of relicf; the Grand Canal C%;ropany. !raving, at,„
the request of Government,,orderrd the City
to be filled. Even in the trigh'r order.i the want
of water was severely felt. dined a few days agti
with a Lady, in. the nei3.libourhond Mounijny.e
square, who assured me the water which ihC„
leg of mutton she had on her table 'cost het eighi,..„,
pence.

" You are anxious, you say, to he made acquaint-
NI with every particular concerning the Jett:Ralein
Wheat, the Manner in which it has been introduced
into Ireland, and in what reqreet it is superior to',
the different speciei, of that grain already, in use.
The following information as to those p;ints You
may.relynn as corre;:t ; they are in part drawn from
my own observation, and partly taken from the re.:
port of others,. to whose. veracity I can initAicitly►
trust. About three years
,ago Mr. Do emus, a re-
spedable Citizen of Dublin, who rents a small farm,
from Mr. LUKE WHITE, in passing throti.gli Thirmas.
street, observed a sheaf ofieruSalem '4 seat, neatly
hound Op, artrl, snspenderas a sign over the dont of
a little ale:lit:Mgr. The owner of this home, he
found, upon inqUiry, had been a diimestic of the late:
celebrated., THoisuss WHALFYst• and had aeentp;,'
panied him, about fourteen years ago,, to jerusaim,..
from whence he hail brought this Wheat merely as,
an objet'' of suriosity. 1-14yit,ig purchased it for
few shillings, he carefully picked Out the few graini',
it still contained, and which, as might be fuplo
from the use to which it had been applied, were
much damaged and-decayed by, the weather. The
produce of these, having first ascertained its quali.
ty, he sowed the en.ui,ng year on a ; iece of ground
which he had carefully prepared for that purpose ;
and was rewarded with • a cry) so abundant, as to.
enable him to extend the benefit of his diocuvezy to
the neighbouring Geniletnen and Fartnzts. The
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average produce of one grain of this VS, heat is Ervin
fifteen to twenty stems, -each stein branches our at
top into three beads, each of which contains more
grains thanao ear of common Wheat usuallyckes.
Four stone Will sow an Irish acre, the average vo.
duce of which is eighteen barrel, of twenty 'atone
each. The stems are of the thickness and strength
of a small reed, and effeaudly resist tl:e heaviest
rains and most blowing weather, su that it cannot
be hidged ; quality, by the bye, very necessark in
a wet and variable slim ire, The grain is in itself
of the very best quality, thin skinned, full and fount',
and makes' great quantity of flour."

The Brun DIAKETIN, LibratiAn of the F.:!ealt.
Of BAViiriA, c Munich, has mole a curious disco.
very in the Library of that City. An ancient La.
tin Manu,cript of the this teenll. century hay fornisn.
ed'hiln with Treatise, on the Greek Fire. It not
only gives the,receipt for it, whi.:ll sctentific men
supposed to be lov, hot itkewise contAins a, pro,.
fur them,tking glippoivAer, Conforivable
that employed At orseni. 'vl.D'Ait STV4 has pi' .
',she,' `fric,itie, with an Ilis:urisal Introduc.,
tior, in his j-,urra, '