The Sun.
London, England, 1803-09-19 00:00:00

COMMISSION INTELLIGENCE, Salt. 14.

Robert bnmet was this day put to the bar, and
arraigned on an indieltnent for High Treason. • The
particular charge against the prisoner at the bar, was
fdr conspiring and imagining the death of the King,
&c.' by providing arms, ammunition, powder,
pikes, ilte. for .the rebels who had assembled in
Dirty-lane on the nigh; of the *3d of July, in the
traitorous insuriellion heretofore described , also
for aiding in composing and procuring to be printed
the Manifesto or Proclamation of the Provisional
Government, found among other. matters in the re.
bet depot, on the night of insurreetion 6 and this for
the purpose of having the traitorous project, toluiv-
vert the -Conaatutinn and destroy the Government,
,by ,substituting a Republic,. disseminated among the
traitors who had 'embarked in the rebellion, es Aye,'
as among others, in order to gain proselytes to
their iniquitous cause, and warp them from the al
legiance they owe to the best of Sovereigns.
lhe prisoner pleaded, not-godly, and for trial put
himself upon God and his country-. On being asked
if he was ready for trial, he rrplied, nut until Mons
day. Being ordered to"withdraw, the gentlemen
who attended for the petit Juries were discharged,
but, their attendance at nine o'.clOck on Monday was
neremptorily required -

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The following prisoners, found guilty''isn'cifie
preceding days, were ordered into. the dock to re.
reeve sentence, viz. Walter Clare, JAI: Way,
otherwise Hayes, Thomas Donnelly, Nicholas Far-
rell, otherwise Tyrrell, Laurence Begley, otherwise
Baylv, and Michael Kelly. Clare and flay, Obsti.
nately denied having been at the Scene of anion on
the night 'of Insurredion ; the four others still
pleaded having been forced into the rebel ranks.
Baron G•ortor, previous to pronouncing sen-
tence, made an atreding appeal 'to these' unhappy
people, observing how laMentable it was, Alt nes-
;her the examples which necessity had compelled
the Government to make disring thelast rebellion in
thiccounkry, nor the lenity which had been shewn,
had 'estranged the deluded people of this day, from .
the base Projeo4 into whiih they had been, through
theirsimplicity, seduced by artful and designing
innovators, having no purpose in view but their
oAvn, fancied exaltation to that sank and considera.
tion7in the state which had been attained to by
virtue, and sought to be demolishettby unparalleled
crimes and Murders of the most atre.dious dye. • It is
still more lamentable to relied, that the recent:ex-
amples which have been made, or that system .of
mildness so ConapiCuOusly exercised by the present
Government, have hitherto failed to operate to any
salutary effed. But when the strange infatuation
under which they had commenced their traitorous
niathinations on the night of the last insurredion
wits 'considered, the folly and weakness of•• the at.
tempt could Only be equalled by the magnitude of
its wickedness in point of design, with chef sgelA
ciency and contempt attached to the scheme in point
of execution. It is not possible to conceive that a
despicable rabble could be so suddenly excited to
dots own palpable destrudion, by the nefarious in.
cendiari s who have been'so lung goading- them to
scenes whith Must nitirnately terminate in that ig,
nominions punishment Which the prisoners at the bar
are shortly to suffer ; if any one of Mein entertained
the idea of art Omnipotent Beihg as just as he is
merciful. Btit what species of delusion could ex.
reed that which impelled them to the vain and im,.
pradicable notion of seizing on the garrison of
Dublin;guarded as it was by 3doo well disciplined
military troops, under the conduit of veteran and
experienced officers, wilco a party, consisting of

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tin i'han iad, of *fit illitips, headed by tia gal.
Lint Subalterns, Liencenatirs Bltaor arid D'oubLAs,
had ditcomfited.their views, rooted their Rebel
Bandss driving them like 'chaff Write the wind,
while they resoled -their Country froM scenes of
hortor, which it bedtimes painful, if not disgusting
to conceive, and which no language is st4cientky
strong to express. - What could impel them, but.
the miserable alicentiancy gained over minds deploy_
ably weak, by those instigators, who would corn_
menee their career with massacre, that anarchy
might proceed from it, while they should become
despots and tyrants „,to rule over that. Country",
, which, if their prciedi had succeeded, would have
descended from a-station of Pre-eminent happiness
and liberty, to the vilest degradation, and most
merciless slaverys 'When these bands of Insurgents,
armed as they were with various weapons, failed in .
making any impression on a single watch.booset
what expedations can they in future conteivi of
their prowess or their rapacity against a State,
supported by wisdom in its. Cabinet, by ardour and
heruisM in' its armed forces,' by loyalty among its
brave and well.affeded citizens ; in short, by the
obvious hand of Heaven, in direding the cool and
benign operations of the .virtriaus malty, against the
attacks of the vicious few. In vain do they perse.
vere in blindfolding their intelleCts, and hardening,
their minds at that awful moment, when, .by.sins"
eerily of tepemance and etrodour, as well ofst/ing
of heart, they should prepare to- meet that Illitit.''
potent Judge, from whose ail seeing and scrutinizing ,
eye, no human power can conceal the most secret
thought, or cover the most ,complicated designs.--s•
In vain du they set ay the wretched equivocation
with which they seed to reconcile falsehood to
themselves, and propagate the specious btu delusive
doctrine among those criminals of their party,
who, perhaps, might not .have a long period to sur.
vivo them, an equivocation as weak and illusory,
as it is wicked and detestable, amounting to a prin.
ciple, that by embrewing their hands in the blood
of their fellow-subjects to a cause, masked as it is
by Treason and atrocities, under the feigned pre-
text. of patriotism, that they do not counnit tbur:.
der, by infliding death- on, their opposers, while
massacreing their feliow..subjeds,„ and their unlit
intimate friends, and neighbours, whom they Mere-
ly consider to have died in war. . .
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The crime of murder+ all_horrible as it is; can
still be aggravated, but tyre is no degree of Mr.
pitude of which circiamstances could make it sus.
eeptible, beyond the treacherous design of taking
the good, the loyal and the virtuous unawares, and
immolating them under that infottate spitit which
knows no boundary when once permitted to stifle_
the stings and reproaches of on accusing conscience,
but never to be tranquillized in this , world or the
'next, without a full and unequivocal atonement and
expiation, by a sincere 'detestation. and- abhot tenet
of those enormities they had been guilty of, added
to an open and ingenuous confession of them—
without the influence of these principles .on, their
minds, the exterior ad of prayer. or 4ctriblance :of
chriitian preparation is no WM than a profane,
mockery, and an impious presumption to fly into
the presence of their Maker, with minds sullied
in all the impurity of conscious guilt.
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After an eloquent and most pathetic exhortation,
of which' the aboire constitutes scarce nr,re Thaw a
faint outline, „the Learned . Judge sspressed. smile
pityjnr the youth of Donnelly.,and Yawl', who he
lamented-, instead of_ pursuing that track of humble
and honest :labour,. befitting the lot originally cast
' fiits them, had preinaiurely.snapped the. thread of,
life, tby meriting nothing beyond the fatal.punish.
'liicrie which awaits. them. But. the caw 01,1-layis
was aggravated to every possible pitch of deprayis
tv.--=Enrolled amoing the military ranks of his
King, 'as he once waS, receiving as lie did Roy:a
bounty, and continued pay in the Dublin, Militia,
traitorously to withdraw himself from, that duty, ,
'and that allegiance he owed his Sovereign, if pos..,
.sible in a paranfount degree, I..rohtainit'lg from him
his immediate bread, to withdraw himself in order
to join the rebel hordes who would depose his
benefador ft-owl-11s throne, and sacrifice his life, for
nothing less could havebeen designed by the mer..
ciless, the dowatlllY;Aurtc.uortal stab he gave a
fellow.sohlier WitiCa pike, while lying defenceless ,
in the kennel, was a species of murder and,, treason.
which no sophistry or equivocation could palliate.
the final-Sentence of Death was pronounced on
these six Culprits, after which the Court adjourned.