The Sun.
London, England, 1810-05-18 00:00:00

MR. R. O'CO.NIVOR & SIR F. BUIst.DEZ.T.

Concluded from Wednesdiy.]
In consegeence of iheSe letters he was sent for
and brought in custody to Dublin. During the time
he was in Dublin,new informations bad been lodg-
ed against hint. A french Officer named Hebert, a
prisoner of war on his parole, gave information to
General Coote, that a ,wicked conspiracy was going.
forward . in the country;. that Mr. R. O'Connor
was at the head of that chnspiracy, and he did po-
sitively swear that Mr. O'Connor had. Solicited him
to go to Frapce with letters from him to`the Direc-
tory, and this was.eorroborated by the evideoce of
a man named Cullinan ;. but on Mr. o"Connor's''';
trial, the French Otlicer knowing he would be ex-
changed, and apprehensive of being called to ac-
count in France if be should be known to give
evidence to the.convieticin of O'Connor en such a
subjec'f, belted to be excused, and therelgre did
not give evidence on the trial ; and Cullinan's evi-7
deuce was fOund insufficient of itself to .his comic-
Lion.

At the 'time Mr: Pelham, had an interview with
Mr. O'Connor, .he did not know of elle new infor-
mJtions Judged against him ; Mr. Pdham at that
time consented to his liberation on the solemn and
express condition of his -immediately quitting the
kingdom, which he solemnly promised -he' would
do,_ expressing much gr Allude for the lenityhe ex-
perienced, and only asking permission to return for
e few days to settle his affairs, and prepare for his
speedy deprture. 'Butwhen did he next appear ?
In 'two months afterwards, at the assizes Colk
(though not usually a practising Barrister), aalitig itA
a professional capacity,- for the 'defence of twelve
notorious traitors, then on their OW for high trea-
son, his own tenants, and as well known by the
appellation of. O'Connor's gang ! through the whole
county, nay, much better than by their own names.
So true it is that
•` A littlelearning is a dangerous
Dangerous, indeed; when it gets lino the head of
such a man as Mr. O'Connor, to be perverted to the
most mischievous purposes. He succeeded in his
objed ; the chief witnesses were spirited away, and
by his presence and his influence he obtained the
acquittal of this -gang; in consequence of which
he was huzze'd and 'carried in 'a sort of triumph
round the city by the mob of Cork. The exami-
nation of Cuilinan and Hebert were returned in due
coarse -to the Grand Jury, without the knowledge
of Government 3' bills for high treason were found'
and O'Connor arrested 'towards the close of the
Assizes. When. Mr.' O'Connor was apprehended
upon this new.charge, be demanded an instant
The Government of the country knew nothing of
the circumstances, but if it did, was the Govern-
ment of the country summarily to interfere,' and
snatch not of the hands of the Court the bits of
indittment to extricate a favourite tra.tor front the
due course of law ? _Ha demanded trial ; the learn-
ed Judie who Presided did not think hinfself war:-
ranted to Proceed to trial under the circumstances of
the case; hut when he was brought to trial in the
spring of .1798, froM the circumstances of Hebert,
declining to appear, he was acquitted, not through
any proof eif• his lent:wet-lee, of failure of testimony
adduced, but for want of prosteet,ien,- Add then a
mob bore him.off in 'triumph through the wreets,.
nultooiit %kith Cat Ale ,xllsation. =.,1
insulting the" Court by their conturnacous clamour
There' was .another circumstance, which, if any
clOubt could exist of. this man's gult, after what
had been read from his own letter, must 'place
the fact of his a compliceship in the late re-
bellions conspiracy beyond doubt. WI en the
late Lord Edward Fitzgerald had .absconded from
justice, his papers were seized at Leinster House,
and among them were found a letter from Ar-
thur ,CYConner, who had quitted the country, and
was then in England preparing for his depar-
ture to France, which relates to the pu'olica.-
tion or another paper similar to " The Press,"
which had been published in Dublin, • to for-
ward the purposes of. Rebellion; the paper' was
called, "-The Harp of Erin.," which was designed
to play in unison with " The Press" the same trea-
sonable concert. The seditious paper, ailed:" The
Harp of Erin," was set'on foot at Cork, in combi-
nation with a man of the named Sweeny, who is
now in prison for High Treaien, and' who was de-
clared by the-dying confession of the Sheares, to be
one of the Rebel Executile Dire&Ory. • •

FROM ARTHUR TO ROGER O'CONNOR.
London, Feb. 13, int

•I have sold all my property In Burdett, yet it
may still go on it, my name, and the rents are to be
to Hugh Bell, Esq. '4O, Charter-house,.
square. Mr. Bell has been for some time past coll,
tined in England on a charge of High Treason."
" Sweeny"—[This is the person who has been:
most partieularly active as a traitor in the City of
Cork—the man who appeari by the dying confes-
sion of the Sheares to love been one of the new Ex-
ecutive Dire6.tory].
Sweeny said he would uncicrtake to receive the