The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, AUG. 9.—Mr. VANSITTART, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, arrived at Dundalk-house,
the seat of the Earl of RODEN, yesterday, front
Donaghadee, having taken a northern route on
his visit to this country. He is expected to arrive
here to-morrow or Monday.
Some of the London papers recently had a pa-
ragraph, which was copied into the Irish papers,
stating, that the Earl of 13Emidona was at Damas-
cus—but the fact is 'not so. His Lordship had
gone to Janina, the seat of ALI PActiA's govern-
tnent in Albania, from whence he was to proceed
to Athens.

DUBLIN, AUG. 11.—An order having been re-
ceived on Monday last from the LoRD LIEU—
TENANT,- in consequence of a representation made
to his Excellency, sixteen prisoners in confine-
ment in the North Gaol of Cork, who were sick,
were removed on Tuesday to the new Convict De-
pOt, formerly the Old Barracks.
TRIM, AUG. 7.—This day, Lord BECTITE,
ac-
companied by 'numbers of the Nobility and Gentry,
assembled :It the Assizes, hid the first stone of the
very beautiful Corinthian Pillar now erecting in
honour of our countryman—the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON.

His Lordship made a very animated and appro-
priate speech or) the occasion—paid a just tribute
to the character of the illustrious hero, which was
highly gratifying to the assemblage, who gave
three most hearty cheers.

THE BoxtNG Rocc.—The whole of the stake-
money, one hundred and fifty a side, for the Com-
bat between Turner and Scroggins, was made
good at the Waterman's Arms, Stangate, on
Tuesday evening. The combat is fixed to take
place on chat day eight weeks. Turnur is backed
freely at 6 to 4.—Purcell and Lancaster are also
matched for 20 guineas a side, and Lancaster is
the favourite.—Reynolds, who so recently beat
Belasco, tile Jew, is matched ,by Colonel Barton
against Church, who was defeated by Scroggins,
for 30 a side. Reynolds is a decided favourite.-
Ihe match between Stringer and Spring is not
made —Jack, the Butcher, fights the Moulder on
Wednesday next for 20 a side, and a subscrip-
tion purse.

SINGULAR WAGER.—On Monday a person in
the employ of Mr. Marks, coach-maker, in the
New-road, undertook, for ki wager of 40 guineas,
to run a coach-wheel the distance of 30 miles in
six hours. The ground fixed on fur the perform-
ance of this arduous undertaking was the Regent's
Palk, the circumference of which is about three
miles and a quarter ; he started at half-past one
o'clock, and completed the wager at 24 minutes
pest seven in the evening, being six minutes within
the time, with perfect ease. He performed 14
miles the two first hours. and then rested about
ten minutes. Great bets were depending, and an
ituniense number of persons assembled on the oc-
casion. He was so fresh the last mile as to be
induced to chnileoge a lad, who had been some
time running along with him, that he would make
the winning-post first. He was so completely
master of the wheel, that he never let it fall to the
ground during the whole distance.
Monday afternoon a child about 18 mouths old,
belonging to a waterman living in Victualling Of-
fice-alley, Chadian), strayed from its mother,
whilst she was engaged, and walked into the river,
which flows up a part of the alley at high water;
the little helpless creature soon lost its footing,
and was carried away by the tide. A man, in the
vessel, who saw the body floating, following the
undulation of the water, and with the head im-
mersed in it, got into a boat, proceeded to its as-
sistance, piched it lip, and took it to its terrified
parents. Medical assistance was immediately pro-
cured, and in a little time the, cLlci was so far re-
, covered as to be out of ciao-ger,

TII E TI-; 'LATH E:L.

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HAN MARKET.—After a very well siipported
representation of Rale a and hare u Wife,
Leon, by *fanny, the Copper captain, by jc)NEs,
and Estifania, by Mrs. GLovErt, a new Piece of
one Act, entitled The Actor of all Work; or, First
and Second Flour, wits brought forward last night.
'File following is a brief account of the Hot :
Itlscuiplr, a stroller, wishing to get engaged at a country
Theatre, the Manager of which had rejected him, first pre-
seats himself as Mathew Styr!, a squinting superannuated
prompter. Civilly dismissed in this character, be returns as
a French actor, and gives specimens of his powers. He next
comes on as Robin Scratchy, a pawnbroker's apprefatice. To •
conceal him front his uncle, .lndrew Mac Sitlergrip, he is
sent into the fi:•st flour. Thence he descends by a back stair-
case its the last mentioned personage, and pennitted to go uy
stairs in quest of Robin, he again tricks the Manager by
assuming the character of Mix. Mac Sittcrgrip. He subse-
quently enters as a coachman, seeking-the Mae Sillergm'pr,
-his-fare; and then discovers himself, and the several farts hak
had acted, to the. astonished Manager.

We are informed by the
" That the thought on which the above Piece is founded,
is borrowed from a well-known eamedFr Proer" de, produced.
in the year 1779, at Paris;. but it will be evident, to those
who take the trouble of comparing the Characters and Din 7.
logue of the two trormas, that any further hint which unt7
have been obtained, is too slight fur acknowledgment."

The -intention of this piece is to give a new
proof of the extraordinary versatility of MATHEWS,
who plays the part of Multiple, and who appears
in all the different shapes mentioned in the plot,.
and who was equally. excellent in each. But the
chief design see► s. to be to .sheW the. frantic ex-
travagance -of the French style of tragic acti ig, ag
manifested in artimitation of TALat'A. The incita-
tion was- indeed admirably faithful, and is -a full
proof of the essential difference between the
English and the French • manner. A liberal
apology was introduced in the course of the
piece for this imitation, as well as for a Lull
encouragement to talents of all countries.---
The part of the Manager, Velinspick, derived of
course from the old stage motto, Veluti in specu-
lum, was well performed by Mr. CoNNoa.—The
piece is too whimsical and diverting for criticism,
and they who wish for many a hearty laugh, .
should witness tile performance. It is said that
this truly comic sketch was written by Mr. Cot.-
MAN, and it displays such marks of original whim
and humour, as cannot but identify him as the
Author., ft was received throughout with very
great applause, and its popularity Will doubtless
extend through the season. _

ExGusti (jpsak.—The novelty at this place
last night was a .serio-comic opera, entitled The
PersinwHunter, or The Rose of Gargistan.—We
subjoin an, outline of the fable -
It is founded on the divisions between the Tartar hordes on
the borders of Georgia, and their Persian conquerors. Ora
the one side, we have a tribe of Afgans, driven into the fast-
nesses of the land, and still sighing and fighting fur the touts-
tPe which they have almost. entirely lost ; and, on the other,
the Sultan of 7:tilis Hamel! (Mr. HORN) hunting at once the
hosts of the forests-, the lowly beauties of the hamlet, and the
enemies of his power. Disguised as a common hunter, and
wonidcd in the chace, he is relieved' by a voung girl (Miss M.
H. BunotNs), who falls in loge with .irhe unknown wan-
derer, who is not slow in returning her passion. From that
moment he leaves the principal management of the desul•
tory warfare to his Commanders, and employs himself its
trying, under every circumstance which his concealed Tower
can create, the sincerity of his mlEtress's hire. Though under
the semblance of an outcast, he gains from her the Rose which
all the youth .of(i.grgiston struggled 'Main,
and-which is 'a public avowal of heittauton. He then catisess
her to be carried away by his guards, and himself chained,
and in that state finds her equally attached to his fate. After
many other attempts equally satisfactory to his heart, he Sub-
jects her to a last grand trial. It has been discovered .that
she is the daughter of an Afgan Chief (Mr. BARTLEY) who
has been taken in arms, and to whom, in his quality of Sultan,
Haunt promises his own liberty and that of his country, if
he can persuade his daughter to abandon her outcast wanderer
in order to fill a throne. Even this trial fails to separate her
from her lover, who then throws off his disguise and receives
her as the partner of his power. The Afgans are pardoned
and their country declared free.

There are two underplots, which are not essen-
tially interwoven with the main story, but which
relieve the more pathetic incidents, and, by diver-,
sifying the whole, heighten the interest of the
Piece, and afford more varied gratification to the
audience. There is a better species of writing in
this Piece than has appeared in most of a similar
kind that the public have witnessed fur some time.
There is sonic of the lofty imagery which might
he expected in a Persian Tale, as wcll as poetical
flights equally suitable to the supposed scene of
action. The music is by Mr. Hoatv, who has dis-
played extraordinary improvement as a Composer.
It is well calculated to impress the sentiments, and
throughout exhibits taste, feeling, science, and
expression'.—The scenery, costume, Ikc. &c. was
correspondent in beauty and spleptionr,
.and with
the nature and locality of the subject.; and the
whole strength of the Company, with the excep-
tion of Miss KELLY, who is on u theatrical ram-
ble, was employed in' the.representation, which
was in all respects.well entitled to high commenda-
tion. The merits of IJoRN, iIARTLEY, ISAACS,
!BARMAN,' W. S.CII%TTERLY, Mrs. W. S. CHAt-
TRRLY, Mrs. GROVE, Miss J. STEVENSON,. and
Mist HvGatits, were'-conspietiOus—The house
was full, and the applause was warm and reiterated
during the whole of the -performance. - The over-
ture, of a-martial:and spirited character, i 3 ascribed.
to Mr. PARRY, ,'cif Norwich.

An Anecdote of TECUMSEH, the Gallantindian
Chief, Friend (f the Immortal BROCK.—Li 1811.
at the Council which the American General HAC.
BISON held with the Indians at Vincennes, tlu
Chiefs of some Tribes had come to complain of
purchase of lands which had been made from the
Kickapoos. It is generally known that this
Council effected nothing, and broke op in contusion,
in consequence of 'TECUMSEH having called Go-
vernor IlAantsor4 a liar. It Was in the progres-
sion of the long talks that took place in the con-
ference that TECUMSEH, having finished one of
hi: speech::s, looked round, and seeing every one
seated, while .no seat was prepared for him, a
momentary frown passed over his countenance.
instantly Gen. HARRISON ordered that a chair
should be given to him. Some person presented
one, and bowing, said to him, " Warrior, vont
lather, Gen. HARRISON, offers you a seat." TB-
comstH's dark eye Lished. "My father !" he
exclaimed, indignantly, extending his arms to-
wards the heavens, " The sun is my father, and
the earth is my mother. She gives tne nourish-
ment, and I repose upon her bosom." As he
ended he sat down suddenly, cross-legged, upon
the ground,

IRISH CATHOLICS.

(Cohcluded from our P6per of Thursdav 1041)

The Earl of DESMAND (whose progenitors of
English race, as Mgrgson observes, had long be-
haved t)temselves valiantly, in subduing the Trish)
incited by Pa-al Atiolls,.and the exhortations of
his ghostly advisers, raised a dreadful rebellion,
itt -Consequence of which he lost his life, end he
and his relations forfeited 574,623 acres.—Morg-
son's Itinerary, p. 4, folio edition. Daring the
al-hole of Elizabeth's long reign, 'lreland Was agi-
tated and laid waste by rebellions raised by Papal
Bulls, and the agency of the Romish Clergy ; and
the reader, by examining Morgson's. Itinerary, the
Pacata Hibernia of Sir George Carew, and
Spencer's excellent'Work on the-state of Ireland,
will find, that the nobility and gentry of English
blood were materially concerned in them.
-.Tames I. in order ,to strengthen the English in-
terest, settled numerous Colonies front Great
Britain, in Ulster, in the extensive estates which
had been forfeited by Tyrone, Tirconnel, and
O'Dogherty, of Irish race,. for repeated acts of
rebellion. He was strenuously opposed in this
salutary measure by a numerous party of Lords
and Gentlemen of English blood, whom the Lord
Deputy, Sir Arthur Chichester, observes, " Re-
,bad united with the former against the
British Goverument."—Desithrata Curiosa
p. 210. Among the Deputies who waited
ot, King James, to remonstrate against this wise
measure, :were the fallowing persons of English
blood :Barry, Viscount Buttevant, Preston, Vis-
count Germanstown, Roche, Viscount Formay,
Pliniket, Lord Thilleen, Nugent, Lord. Delvin,
Barnewell, Lnrd Trimblestoon, Pimlico-, Lord
Lonth, Butler, Lord. Dtinbayne, Sir Walter But-
ler, Sir Christopher Nugent, Sir John Everard,
.Sir Wm. Bourke. Sir Arthur further observes,
thtit most of the remonstrants had been rebels,
and that the -expeoce of their journey had been
defrayed by money raised on the mass of the
Irish Papists by priests and Jesuits.—ldem. Ever
since the establishment of the Reformation in
Ireland, the natives of English and Irish blood
have united for the purpose of effecting two ob-
jects,—the separation of it from England, and the
extirpation of heretics ; and for their accomplish-
ment,- they have uniformly solicited the etsemies
of the British Empire. Hugh Oge MacMahou,
a leader in the Rebellion of 1641, %vim was ar-
rested in Dublin die night previous to its explo-
sion, confessed upon oath, " that all the Lords
and Gentlemen in the kingdom that were Papists,
were engaged in the plot."—Temple's History
thereof, p. 35. " And that all the Protestants
were to be killed on that night."—lttem. His
evidenCe Was verified by subsequent events, for
of that Representative Assembly, which met at
Kilkenny in the year 1642, for the purpose of-pro-
moting that destructive Rebellion; the Popish
Nobility and Gentry of English blood, who had-
been formerly defenders of the pale, were mem-
bers ; and took. an active part in effecting a sepa-
ration from England, and in the extirpation of
Protestants as heretics(l). For-the attainment of
theseobjects, they recommended an onion between
the old Aboriginal Irish and those of English
blood (2). Like the United Irishmen,- they were
bound by an oath of association, which the titular
Prelates required all parish priests to administer
to•their • congregations; and to receive subscrip-
tions- from them (3). The Earl of Orrery.ob-
serves otobis oath, which was framed for the pur-
pose of cementing their treasonable combination:
" This oath evidences, that nothing is so power,-,
fill with the Irish Papists, as to destroy his Ma-
jesty's Government, since the uniting the old .risk
Papists and the English Papists, which the Pope
himself could. not effect, the dethroning his Ma-
jesty has accomplished. They who could never
agree in any thing else agree in this, and it is the
very bond of their iniquity" (4). The Popish
Lords spiritual and temporal, and CommonS, -.u-
der the designation of the Confederate Catholics
of Ireland, offered Ireland to the kings of France
rind Spain, and the Pope ; and their missionaries
fo:. that purpose were Nicholas French, titular
Bishop of- Ferns, and Nicholas Plunket, whom
the Pope knighted for his good services ; and they
were both of English blood (5). It appeared,
that in the course of this destructive rebellion,
the insurgents robbed and despoiled none but
Protestants, leaving both the English and Irish
Papists untouched (6).

On the arrival of James 11. in Ireland, in the
year 1689, he convened an assembly similar in,
every respect to the Confederate Catholics, and
of which ail the Popish Nobility and Gentry of
English blood were members. They passed a law
for repealing the Act of Settlement, the,preamble
of which contained a justification of the horrid
Rebellion of 1641. By this they deprived all the
Protestants of their estates. By another Act
they declared Ireland to be independent of Eag-
land. In the fullness of their triumphant inso-
lence and intolerance, they passed an Act of PrO-
scription, by which they attainted of high treason
every Protestant whose property was such as to
Inake him known'to them. Its tiiis Black Act, 2
Archbishops, DUke, 17 Earls, 7 Countesses'',
28 Viscounts, 2 Viscountesse3, 7 Bishops, 18
Barons,, 33 Bafrinets, 51 Knights, 2182 Esquires
and Gentlenien, were declared traitors, and were
ad fudged to suffer the pains -of death and confisca-
tion, withisut a hearing.
The Irish Papists incurred the following 'for-
feitures fin. treason in the! 17th century, ift the
reign of James
Acres.
The wholc of the ri-nkince of Ulster, containing 2,5aq,537
Jo the 'II e hel pf:1641 7,8:'0,000
Au that of ItlBB ,c1;0,7V2

. ' • Total 11,697,6P9
.
Thtit.-th•e• Trapiitt''fOireited sinnist-the whole
snpertirie-of IretAnd In less ttran''A cent try, ai;cl'
it is well worth- tibsci•i•inkt; Onitilltiinst't he -I"yirole
Of ,tbelnuneitsi•likitiertrkihicti of IJnglislt
blood bait acquired previous to the Reformation;
were afterwards confiscated for popish treason.—
For the following reasons, therefore, the Irish
l'Jpists differ materially from those of any other 1

country. • the'y will altvit'y's 'el.:batOil!. rcrover
the forfeited estates, and 'ltchr unmet kill strength,
their insular situation., and the weakness and vac-
cination of a Vica'r4MB government, trhicl► are
commonly iftteiamt on it, inspire them. with a
hope of accom-ph.shing 'it by separation. To thi3
may be added, the unbounded indaence of the
"Clergy over the Peol'ie, who are the most bigoted
Papists in Europe.

. .
That judicionS writer. Mr. Carte, observes on
the •tare of Ireland, " But there are two eonsi-
derahle bodies Of men Still dicontented, both of
gre,At pow er among the 'people ; yet. it is impossi-
ble to'gratilfy either iti their desires. without en-
doli;,,eriirg • Vic Cronin., or throwing the whole. king. dada
into'confusion. It is easy to see that I Mean
.the
Itornish Clerty and the old lri'h Fatuities. The
former have au nuboonded power over the bulk
of the Irish Papists (who being ignorant, super-
stitious, and bigoted, are blindly led by them at
their' leasure), and no little influence over the
Gew y of their communion. The other body
‘eere the leaders of the Irish Septs, •dispossessed
of their estates, which they had forfeiteJ 14 re-
bellion."—Carte's Life of Ormond, vol. i. p. 155.
It appears that Mr. Carte spoke prophetic truth ;
for a repeal of the Penal Laws againit the Irish
Papists, in 1793, and the concession of the Elec-
tive Franchise to them, were immediately fol-
lo-wed by dreadful scenes of anarchy and blood-
s hed, and instead of conciliating, led them to
form a conspiracy to deprive our gracious Sove-
reign of his Crown.
CRANNIER.

(1) The Reader will find all this in norlase on the History-
of the Irish-Rebellion, from page 130 to page 140.

(2) Idem. (3) Idem.
Answer to Peter Walsh, in his State Letters, Vol. 11.
page 402.
(5) Idem.
(6) Temple's History thereof, page 50: the same took place
in the Itche Ilion of 1793.