The Sun.
London, England, 1803-08-29 00:00:00

Litlll.l4lN,
AUG. 25.

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Lk,A,MISSIOII.
YESTERDAY the Special Commission for the Trial
of person, accused of High-. Treason and other
crimes, was opened at the Sessions house in Green_
street. It was direCted to Lord NOE BURY, Judges
DOWNES and'FINUCANt, with the Barona GEORGE
and ITALY : Lord NORDURY and Baron GEORGE
Were absent.
The following Grand juries for the County of
the City, and County of Dublin, were morn :
CITY GRAND JURY.
Abraham B. King, Eq. Foreman.

Arthur Stanley " Godwin Pilsworth
'lath. Craven Mark Bloxarn
Hon. Hans Blackwood John Hone
loshua Pounder
oseph Ashley
Arthur Guinness Witliain Walsh
George Carleton ames Hamilton
• William Colville, jun.' ohn Oldham
Mark Magrath tichard Wilson, High...street
Viitiarn Srarrow William Leer - !
kbhuii fioltneS Francis Hamilton
ichard Speer Roger Horner, Esquires.
COUNTY GUANO JURY.
Fred. john Falkiner, Esq. Foreman.
lohn Findlay, Rich. Evans,
Thomas Baker, Wm. Cowley,
Robert Alexander, Win. B. Swan,
Sir John White, . John Carleton.
Alex. Kirkpatrick, George Grierson,
Thomas Connor, P. H. Godfrey, ; ..
Christopher Clinch • Win. Rawlins
ioshtia P. Meredith James Williams
ohn Garnett • Intabert Leigh
Wm. Exsliaw' Wm. Long
Wm. Monk Mason Charles Thorpe, Esqrs: - •
, . Judge Dowkes, in an excellent charge, in discri.
urinating between Special Commissions and the
ordinary ones of Oyer and Terminer, observed,
that, with respell to the line of duty which
Grand Juries were to pursue, there existed no
difference ; and, as he retogeized most of the
Gentlemen whom he then addressed, as composing
former Grand Juries on the usual Commissions, he
would flunk it superfluous to 'offer any observations
to them in the way of instruelions, did not charges of
offences of a most uncommon and atrocious nature,
"here the public peace was violently disturbed, and
the laws trampled upon, as in the late Insurrection,
stained with so many flagitious and unprecedented
Crimes, call upon -him to mark transactions of that
description with the utmost. and most indignant re.
probation. Yet, in the midst of all the commotion
which massacre and rebellion might justly have ex-
cited, perhaps the moderation of the Government
•of the Country, in waiting until . the public mind
should he. composed, and the dispositions of OUT loyal
tellow.citizens tranquilized, before they would pro-
. teed to the necessary judicial measures, would, in it.
'self, constitute a perfedeulogium on the Constitution,
which those deluded and unhappy beings would alter
for anarchy, bloodshed, and insubordination, on the
model struck out by the French, who faliely deno.
mime., their Government a Republic. There lay
on Ate. Bench documents which. gave 'him room to
suppose that the Grand Juries must necessarily
transmit indlltments grounded on charges of High
Treason, 'against numbers of persons apprehended
in the commission of crimes which bear that
construftion. This, however,, was a species of of, fence unknown in this country until the period of
.the last rebellioarovhen that rapidprogress we were'
leaking to the attainment of, the most coniplete•
success in arts, in manufaflures, in commerce, in
.short the wide extending system of national pros. ,
petits, beyond any other nation in Fairope, was
arrested by the wicked interposition of those
infatuated innovators, who in suggesting fancied
schemes
_of political reformation, had nothing
less in view than the utter abolition of every vestige
of law, government, tranquillity and good order.
After the Government which presided .it the last Re..
bellion, had tried the several expedients of lenity and .
srMitess, in their exertions to put down Insurrection, -
and prevent those calamities which invariably enstie
from it;
,an aft of general pardon .was granted, of
which many culpable persons had availed them-
selves, and from
,a thoit-ugh ennviation of the
delusion praflised on them, and from observations of
the baneful effefis resulting froth
their corduCt, were
now perhaps, ready to give effective aid to the Go.
,i.ernment in restoring tranquillity ; but it
would appear from certain informations laid beforstille •
them, that there still were persons who obtained His 'l'
Majesty's'' mercy,- capable of exciting a furious
Multitude Cter alts of outrage ; it would thereforell
be a fit suejea for the consiileration of the Juries, to mark whether any and which of the Priioners
came within this. description.—Here his Lord,
ail.lip entered into a, learned but -clear investiga".
101 l Of the Aft as Edw. 111. constituting High
Treason : it contained three material clauses, the
first, sour . •
King; the assing or imagining the death of the
witgin his
s sreecuoizil,, levying war against the King
Kin , and the third adhering to the,
g 3 el/CraieS : these several offences were ,to
bP Proved by elf overt Ails
a certain species of evidence call.
and eflaaig of
ws'i .on the naetare, circurnaraill:6
tinted, In afl .11° his Lordship very fully expa. ,
exalted charaeiu:/°ll to the. sad catastrophe of that
mory, he
tiai -r.• Lord KiLWARDEN, whose me.
La
ws,
in the •
good heart .us must lore renetin dear to every
tor the Country, and Whose veneration
life, had 5, in the pratlice of a long and unsullied.-
been further illustrated in his last mo-
. here
enu--
those Struggles which decorum, in that
situation, would e *citesuppress sensibility, gave
va,.. _ , _ to
ved, and excited an equal sympathy
Inlbnk a
• cs-crowded auditory. Lamentable, however,
;!that cyclic was, his Lordship observed; it atford-
tiome coel. ola r kat), when we renal that it called
't" the energies and the effeCtive strength of the
hiolluint.try, which were daily increasing, and daily ex.. ,
kui 1..")3 themselves in matchless numbers of loyal :
10".lects, rallying round the standard of Government,
tiobetll'Port their exertions in re.establighing good
however, not to permit any sentiment of' confidence
Y may entertain as to the efficacy of those mea.'
lures which '
aft Government either have, or may here.
ended.,
e' adopt, to relax the vigour of their own
roe'
in detefting delinquents of ell descriptions,-
4611.v,1n5. a view to the subversion ofout Constitution,
~ a With that It, • the aeizing of property, -the •cle--
qi ton of l•f princi.,,_ i .e, sandalte diserganization. of eVery, -
r,t! and system on wlueti peace and good
het, ' " ik Civilized community,. ever depend. ,He
—me," i •
ueo to the Grand Juries a cool and iispas.

sitrate progress or inqutry into one uarure LUC
Charges which should come before them, and not to
permit any heat of temper or indignant feelings,
ensuing front a recurrence to those Calamities which
the Public Mind has recently witnessed, and been
afFeded by, to supersede a duty paramount to. all
others, that of temperate and impartial investiga.
don.

The following persons, on return of Imiiaments
for High Treas. on against them, were severally ar-
raigned, Coumel, and an Agent, were assigned to
them, at their own elettion ; they cwere promised,
conformable to Law, copies of the Indiaments on
which they stood charged, for a limited number of
days previous to trial, and a rule made that their
Counsel and Agents should have acCess to thert-afall
convenient times.

Felix Rourke,. • Mich: Kelly,
John Killin,• . Martin Burke,
J,. M'Can,otherwise M'Kenna Edward Kearney,
fames Byrne, John Begg,
Walter dare, Thos. Maxwell Roche,

Thomas Donnelly, Pat. Maguire,
N. Farrell, otherwise Tyrrell, Joseph Doran,
L. Begley, otherwise Bayly, Owen Kirwan.

These persons generally seleded Mr. MINAt LY
and Mr. BITHELL, as Counsel i • and Mr. L. MAC.
NALLY as Agent; a few seleaed Mr. CURRAN and
Ms. G. PONSONBY, with Mr. FRANC IS FLOOD as
Agent.
'The most remarkable in .person and charaler of
these Prisoners was Fehr Rourke, who' has the
,ippearanee of a -smart- merchant's clerk ; the rest
seemed of the meanest 'class of society.
"I he Prisoners received notice that they would be
tried on Wednesday next the 31st ; and the Court
adjoutned to Monday next.

Last night a man of the name of Laufer was
apprehended, anti informations lodged against him,
for using seditious language at a public-house near
Temple. bar.
Yesterday Mr. lames Dickson, of Kilmainham,
tanner, was apprehended at his house, and lodged
in the New Prison of Kilmainham. Mr. Dickson
is a very wealthy man ; he was arrested in the year
1798, and confined for many months in the gaol of
Ennis, in the County of Clare.
Denis Redmond, in whose house on the Coal Qnay
a large quantity of pikes were found some time ago,
and who was apprehended at Newry, thin day un-
derwent a long examination at the Castle. It is
supposed that some very important discoveries have
been made by him.
Every day adds fresh strength to the Yeomanry ;
it is supposed that they are above 8000 effeilive
men ; they pay an unremitting attention to acquire
that degree of discipline which is actually requisite
to enable them to at with utility; they are a very
fine body of men, and will, if ever it is wanted,
prove that they are as capable of curbing the rest-
Jess ambition of the Corsican as they have been in
crushing Rebellion.
This day a search for arms took place throughout
Great Ship-street : a few were token and carried to
the Castle.

We receive every morning fresh accounts of the
peace and tranquillity of every part of the King-
dom, and that the utmost diligence and adiviry is
using to put the Country in the most perfeti state
of security.

This day a Notice was served at every house in
this City,..requiring the Proprietors to make a re.
turn'forthwith to the Lord Mayor of the name and
occupation of every inmate:

A curious circumstance occurred yesterday even.
ing, the authenticity of which you may rely on.—
A person above the Common order, and apparently
from the Country, went to a lace shop between
eight and nine o'clock, purchased two pair of gold
epaulets and a considerable quantity of gold lace,
after which, s'
he went to a woollen-draper', and
bought fine green cloth sufficient for two long
skirted coats—the purchase of the epaulets, lace, and
green cloth, coupled together, does not admit the
remotest doubt but they were intended for the Uni-
form of Rebel Officers.

The circumsiance coming to the knowledge of
Governmenr, stri4t search was mute after the per-
sOn, and all the Mail Coaches as they went nut were
stopped and examined,. This she.VS. that gebellitin
has not relinquished its purpDse. • •

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The celebrated Dr. BRAME, Professorof Moral
Philosophy and Logie,in Dilarischal College, Aber..
deer, died at that place on the t Bth inst. in the
68th year of his age,
The measure of reducing the numbers of the Vo..
lunteer Corps, excites a great and general dissatis.
- faCtion, and the more so, .as no reason appears upon
the face of it fcr its adoption. Ministers ought
undoubtedly to have. decided in the first instance,
as•to the.number of Volunteers to, he kept up in
each county : to say • that the immense voluntary
force which has arisen from t!i.e patriotic exertions
of the people, impedes the formation of the Army of
Reserve, or the filling up the Regiments of the
Line, is in the highest degree absurd, as .a very
large majority of the Volunteers now in arms; ate
of that class of persons who would neither go into
the-line, nor serve personally in the Army of Re.
serve, and who,at the same: time are not exempted
as volunteers from the ballot for the latter. Besides,
Whatever inconvenience may result, Ministers ought
to have foreseen it, and provided accordingly. To
carry:into effect now their measures of redulion
must necessarily, and will inevitably have the ef.
feet Of damping the ardour of .the country, and dis.
gusting numbers. of the' most patriotic" and loyal
men, who havechierfully come forward, and given-
up a large portion of their time; 'tins equipped
themselves at a great eXpence, and•Wlin!aftithialing
been accepted by Governtnent as' Volunteers; are
now told that they have away 'their time
and their money, and heir', services are not
wanted ! Thipfslatioa":l-unaecountable measure,
certainly. klyiiiMstroin die Ministry a full and clear
explanatiorfatAbc'reasOns which could induce them
to adopt it at'thi=piesent crisis, ao unseasonably and
so pregnant as it is with the most mischievous con.
sequences.

• .•
A Leicester two.3heer weather, belonging to
Mr. 'RErroN, of Oiliead;'was lately slaughtered
at Buxton. Ir.; wejght,w,is. lost. ilb. tallow t sib'
Its food had been turnipi and gra;,s-voli.