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STERLING MONEY LoTrimY.

JendJ. WJ. SIVERIGIIT reque,t the attntioo
• of the Public to the SMALL L.,(ITTERY whielr is to 5,
all drawn in One Day, the lOth of SEP P1?.:111;KR,
as there are only ?,±)!i0 Numbers, and TWO PriAes of 20.0
the odds arc less than were evcr before knoWa against g:tio-
in..; the immense Suitt of 40,0u01. Sterliag, b purchasing Two
Tickets-of One Nunit er. The Scheme emir:tios Twenty Ca-
pitals, hieluding the 'l'u Prizes of 4 ,•)001. which are to he
annexed to the Prizes of "16,0',+01., these is also the Sttrling
attraction of Tickets and Shares being once wore sold to the
Public at Inoderate Prices.

• .1. and J..sl-11EWILIcal71' hope the Public will ex perlepee
rrpetitioii of that ;:ood Fortune which has so uniformly th.s.
tinguished their Old-e•tahlished O6icess No. 37, ;
11, Holborn; 38, 1-layinarlet ; and 141, Oxford-street.

To GENTLEMEN nnd •FAMILIES from the COUNTRY.
TEMPLE COFFEE-HOUSE, TAVEI\4 nod F:1 EMILY
norEL, neu St. Clements Chneeli,'Strand.

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HEtuoTE anti Co. retiiri. their sincere
• Thanks to their Friends, and the Pill)lie in gcncral,
for the liberal support, they have experie•n'c•ed since opening'
the .chore House, and. beg leave to inform them that they are
itArtic'ularly anxious to e.tahlish it Lt. the ,accommodation of
Gentlemen and Families front the country, which from its
central situation„and being contiguims.to the .places of Public
amusement and inns of emir:, it is so well adapted. A table
D'Hote of Fish and Joints of meat, at live o'Clock, at is.
each-Gentleman. - •

EI..LICYI'L and Co. beg to add, that those who honour
them with their sopport,will find the greatest. attention and
moderate charges.
Places and Parcels hooked for the Leith Smacks; a plan of
the Cahill nay be seen, and any particular bed engaged the
same as at the Wharf, Elliott:. being the sole Agent for the
West end of Londim.

MONDAY AUGUST Is !;17.

AIR. O'CONNOR's

(!"coiiz Cte Times.)

From a. cue ire to ut.r,e the people of, F,ngland
acOainietl erith,, Ireland, of whit;h they know
‘vorse thah reeeiving,as they do all 11
accounts through the medium of 'a description„o
persons in the constant habit of calumniating
people ; and trout a wish to give the people of
'England ,the means, of
,forming a judgment be-
tween the Govern►uentt of Ireland (during the re-
sidence there of Lords Camden and Cornwallis)
and nte; it cannot,,especially at this moment, be
thought obtrusive in me to lay before a just but
prejudiced public, a faithrid narrative of those
facts which took ;dace in my particular case, com-
mencing on .the 27,th tqlkeember, 1796, and end-
ing on the -8-th of May:, 1803 a space of nearly
seven years, during the whole or which time a con-
tinued fire t f persecution was kept lip at

. -
Connor-vine, the former place of.my.resideoce,
is Sitnatedabout 14 miles from, Pantry-bay, where
a French fleet made its appearance on the 23d of
December, 1796. To oppose a lauding. of the
troops on boord thiS fleet, about 50(10 of the Irish
Militia had advanced, and • occupied the villages
about. me. For the manner in which toy tenant's,.
my triends, and myself, treated these men, 1 re-
fer to the panegyrics iu the Houses of Parliament,
in England and Ireland, at the thne. We cheered.
them in their distress; we adntinistered to, their
wants, of which they had no ordinary shore. On
the 27th of December,' about 9 o'clock at night,
such a hideous night as my remembrance cannot
parallel, I was informed that my porters' lodges
o ere full of soldiers in quest of gloaters. I went
to them. They were in a sad plight. I found
them to be two companies of the Wexford Mili-
tia, with set en or eight'officers. Day or night,
mug!l or smooth, my countrymen were welcome
io nie •I bad then a large house, well
:stored. I
was in the midst of plenty : full of ,happiness ;
I brought all the !nett to my house. My mind
'oas, no register of the time they remained with
ate, nor what I did for them. i\ly tenants were
very 000 d to those 'vi' h then). My friends (that
was the whole cottony, far and wide) open-
ed Ilo•ir iotors to this native army ; let them twat
for •:ot Lino ; and eveo when the terror of inva-
sion tool sabsided, my tenants and myself present-
the p• oor fellows with the billet-money, to
',talc tt were entitled, to buy them shoes and
stockings. I did my 11113103 t to make the situation
ot the Officers as comfortable .as possible ; and
this'l will say, that 1 received from all more
thauks than were due, and experienced their gra-
titude tar exceeding the ithligatioo. I learned af-
terwards, Boar these Officers (strangers heretolote
to me) had been directed by some agitators to my
house, in the expectatioti of my not admitting
them, which w‘as the opinion also of all the Offi-
eers tin that army. I dare sa), such of them as
live at this day will acknowledge that they re-
cetved a more hearty welcome at Connor-ville.
than at the house of the most "loyal" 11141.1 io Ire-
land ; that is, the man that has the largest pension,
or ratiost lucrative sittectireoa post,in the kingdom.
Whilst this division of the army was in their can-
tot:merits, in my neighbourhood, when theineo
lost their muskets, bayonets, and ammunition,
whico frequently happened, they came to me ;,1
lead The things 'restoied to them. The soldiers
became attached to me. Long, indeed always;
before these events, I had been an object of great
jealousy and hatred; I had ever been in the habit
cOmmitting a crying sin in Ireland. I had
borne myself so to all the people, that they were
greatly.attached to me. I had appoiuted arbitra,
Ors in every parish, throto:h an immense district,
who decided, all controversies ; the occupation of
the petty fogging lawyer was neat ly gone ; I corhed
the vice of drunkenness ; I prevented riots ; I did
all the good 1 could, It will not, therefore, stir-.
prise any person, in the least conversant with the
character or .complexion of the ruling factions in
Ireland, that I was an abomination to' them ; and
when to these vices, in their eyes, the thanks of
the poor soldiers were superadded, niy cilmes were
not to be endured, amid lobecame an object of sus-
piriou and distrust.
lu this state of things (the French force having
long left the coast) a young man from my neigh-
hourbood had gone in the beginning of March to •
sic sonic friends 'of Iris at Bantry, wherefte was
arrested for administering the oath of union. On
being questioned, he acknowledged that he had
received it fi con my steward, a lad not more than
18 years of age, who was also arrested ; and both
were conveyed to the pl'ison of Cork, where every
means were used to extort confessions from them, •
to implicate mite. They declared, h 0..% ever, that- 1
was the last person to whoin they would disclose
any thing of the kind. Their honesty and pet--
sist ence in truth were called treason 12 their coon-
try, and attaclimeto to ; and a Council was
called together, in Lublin, at which it was de-
termined, that I was very dangerous, and a war-
raot was issued to arrest Inc on suspiciono-sthe'act
of habeas Corpus beiog at the time suspended.
The secret, however, was not well kept. I dis-
covered the plot. Hay down it, toy house the night
On which 1 knew that au attempt was to be made to
seize on time by a lam ge detachinvot of horse (at-
tetoied by Lards, Esquires, and Generals, and the
Staff) ; and before they had marched halt a mile
from their instillers, I was (at the distance oj-
miles) ;apprized of their having set out. They.
made their seatch for me, and a considerable de-
pbt of alms, o bleb they were infOrined were se-
civic(' in the lottS amid cellars of my house ; nei-
ther were there, and they marched back. The
next day I wrote to the' Jtidge, who was than
holding the :Assizes at Cork, sayiog, that " it
'' he Wosold giVe ore assurance of a trial then, tor
" any Ojai; that could be alleged oiaiust intosl

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[PRIC 7.; SEVEIvi,ENCT

" would 'go to hint ; otherwi,e,ethat I wthial nut
" surrender.". As he waenot eitihorized t 0 glee me
the assurarsee demanded, and as„l eterred,the
li-
b.:rt,y of the,einutimil,air, and the useeof my
.own
limbs, to todiuritert imprisonment. 1. Stood out till
thelatter end of. April-; ,when, Hinting my healilt
somewhat hurt from the menner of soy tieing, pat-
tiehlarly trout damp, 1 lett hottre, and came to
yigland. on the 27th of, April, where I remained
till, he , middle of June, wheis I received advice
from. home„that several of. way tenants, and others
of .the poor people,_ to tltic amount. of 51, had been.
Hung ilteo prison ; and that two nnhappy men had
been induced, to skvear against them. . The same
packet also eirotained a proclamation that had been
issited by Lord Camden ,on the 17th of May before,
inviting every ;person to come its am'
.s.ortender,
and give •security fur -the peace, on stn assurance of
brink ad farthr fivestioned. Very happy at tire oppot'-
tuin v this prod a met jolt afforded use, to develop
the-conspiracy against the people in prison, and to
aid them in their defence, returned to Ireland,
surrendered myself at Mallow,
,to Lord Kinsale.
and ,Sir James Cotton, on the fait'} of. the procla-
mation ; and performed the terms required of, me,
which was to give bail to be of the peace for seven
years ; of all which I apprized Lord ~Camden and
his Secretary, and Mr. ,Pelham, noW Lord Chi-
chester, tlie'lBth of June. From 11iallow I went
home, on the sth of July ; and on the. 14th was
arrested by Brigadier General
.Eyre Coote, ac
his camp, whither he- had invited me. Before he
detained sue,, be looked; for greater certainty,
into his orderly. hook, and there 'found, as- to
said, an Order, dated the Ist of July, to. -ar-
rest me. On his having done so, he was at a loss
what to do with ate, and attended me to Bandon,
where I was to, remain till he should hear front
Dublin. On the third day of my stay. in Bandon,
I received a letter
.from Mr. Pelham; dated in
Dublin; the saute day I was arrested at the,carop,
near Monfort, 180 miles from town, saying, that
Lord Camden wisher' much to see me at Dublin
and that, it I would comply, I might depend upon
my person being perfectly safe front arrest ;aunt ditit
I should be pet milted to return home immediately:
This letter 1 communicated to Mr.Coote, who said
that as Government did not It 00%v of My arrest at
the tithe Mr. Pc lb tin tvrote, he could not let tire
go till be received au answet trout Dublin to his
letter, apprizing the Government of my being itt
custody. In a few days he received his orders, which
were to send a Military Officer to attend the ;' and
Capt. Roche and 1 set out for Dahlia.. The Cap-
taia lied a sword, and. he had on his toPISh and
gory et.. There is a high hill between Bandon and
Cork; %ve alighted trout oor carriage; it is it
place of rendezvous ; some 20- or 30 carriers were
assembled here ; they had not seen me since ,my
return from Eagland. Captain Roche first sal7
his danger ; its sword could nut defend him ;
sash and gerget could not protect hint. I per-
ceived the %voi kiegs of his iniad.; it look of kind,
ness from me to bins would save his life ;. I sn-
yeradded a word of esteem. Captain Roche was
not molested. We arrived in Colts, that evening,
where we halted for. the night. A man of the
city gor access to toe. Cork is the place of my
nativity ; I have friends there: would that every
man could say the same where he is. best {.flown
I discovered that it was intended to offer violence
to Captain Roche; I prevented it. I look him itt
softly to Dtiblin. On our way we called at the
camp• at Ardtiuman, where the IVexford
lay. All the Officers requested. of Captain Roche
to tell Lord Camden the services 1 rendered them;
and -the thanks they owed me, IVe arrived in
Dublin, and saw Lord Chichester, who liberated
me from arrest, and wrote to Mr. Cooke that 1..
%vas not to be molested again. I returned home,
and in the beginning of September I went to the
Assizes of Cork, for the purpose of defending my
tenants ttgainst the coospiracy before mentioned.
Lsent them all to their hornes,'and prosecuted the
witnasses, who were both transported for p.:rjury, to
Botany Boy.
now hoped to enjoy with my family that peace
which innocence has always a right to expect. I
was cruelly deceived. Au •unsigned,,nutworn-to
paper was remit up to the Grand Jury, on the 17th
day of the Assizes, when two of the. Judges had
• left the county ; and a bill of indictment wets
found against ate for high treason. Ur thi,
• paper I was Lin ested'anii.flung into prison,
in a dungeon nine feet square, filthy beyond de-
scription, I lay rotting tor seven mouths, never
having felt the influence of the sun, nor been
breathed on by the air during the whole time ; at
the cud of which 1 wascouveyed from this dune
;;eon to the Court, to go through a ". tile',"
upon charges of every species of ,treftson
,and
rebellion. 'lwo witnesses were In ought up
under a strong tui'.itaty guerd. They. were
sworn. What did they depose ? That they knew
nothing of ate; that one of these pryers was write
ten without the knorwledge-of the wiloesses ; that
'lien it was read to hint, he di &dared it tohe
aini, refused .1.9 eetharr to it ; t hat he was ofiCri
3001.. aleanr to swear to it, 'end threatened to he
instantly shot it he persisted in his refusal, and he
did persist. The other witness swore, that what
was called his infonnatiou was all eititten doiva
without consaltiug ; that when he refused •to
sign it, lie was threatened to be hanged ; and that
atelength he nuts prevailed on to,put his name to it,
on his receiving an assurance that i ne%er was to
appear, andh het it was only a neat ter of lot to Lwas
acquitted- lusidiitty.- •A!Lthe people,' aq the
ntili-
tary, eepaesed their ;joy ; the Jodge ttemhled; he
was seen stretching out leis imptoriug cirrus from
the bet.',ui to hie, in the dock, amongst rnhhers and
morderers ; be was heard to cry to me for mi.rcy
to protect him ; turd I did protect : 'not a, hair
of his head was touched. On any being released,
1 01,not return even to my house ; I did tint evert
take one day's repose.' .No ; toy beloved brother

t
o•rk f

was aprisoner a t fame ; be is one year-a:title-et
'Chan sal.; we weetacared and educatrai to et lrec ;
'never one day ar nioht apart far 18. years. The
'thought at him banished every othac . idea from my
'mind,: I act off to him that very 'Main, and arriv-
ed in London in four days, as quickly as I could
travel. I wrote to the Duke of Portland for per-
mission to be adtaiteed to my brother ; I received
his answer at five O'clock next morning, by four
s Messengers, with a warrant to arrest me; and
from tnybed was I taken to the house of Mr.
'Sylemten., and that evening, was I taken off for
Ireland. We landed about 10 miles from Dublin, at
'night ; I saved Mr.• Sylvester and the Bow-street
constable, my companion, from a watrry grave.,
and conducted them safe to Dublin, where we ar-
rived at 3 o'clock in the morning. I flow, for the
'first time since I left Londou, lay down, and had
lost been in my.bed more than three hours, when
Mr. Sylvester awaked me, to tell the that another
Cane's messenger bad that moment arrived from.
the Duke at Portland, to take me back instantly to
tgordon. This was about seven o'clock in the
morning: shout twelve, Mr. Sylvester informed
uce, that Mr. Cooke 'desired to see me at the
'Castle. Mark else.' instability of fortnue.—eße-
O'Ciaisnoi brought by a Coustabley to
have tree :liberty of being admitted to the
presence of Mr Ed word Cooke 1 4 did see
him ; the ititeeview was not of tong duration ;
the conversation was not of many words ; hut it
-
is important. .1 asked him the meaning of these
proceedings; what post-haste treason I had. -com-
mitted in the fair daya that I tvavelled from C-
to London, above 400 miles ? Hear his ;ins wet
" We ds. trot pretend to have any charge against
" you but we /MOW 'out power, and suspect
" your inclination ; had my advice been taken,
• " you should not have been brought to trial in
" Covk. -My opinion was-, that you should have
been kept in confinement tinder the suspen-
" stria' •of the habeas Corpus Act ; aati it
" now appears I was right." Well, that of-,
ternoon, about two o'clock, I was obliged to
set off back again towards London, where we ar-
rived on the fourth. 'naming, having been forced
to perform journies of nearly 1200 miles, and
across the Irish sea three times, in thirteen days
and nights; .daring the whole of which time I
• never was permitted-to take off my clothes, nor to
lay (tonal for. more than seven hours ! I was kept
in caste►-Sv at the house of Mr. Sylvester till my
brother's -acquittal at Maidstone, when we were
both taker to Dublin, where we wets: lodged
in the same prison room, on the 2tl of June,
1798. Its July 'a • Special Commission was
opened in Dublin for the trial of all those
against whom any elsatgee, bad been exhibited ;
amongst whom neither my brother nor 1 were.
Three had been executed. Mr. Byine, a relation
of the Marchioness of Buckingham, Wils condemn-
ed, and was to be executed on tha 24th of July.
Ott Sunday, the 22d, some negociation was set on
foot, in a way never yet ascertained, between the
Government and some of the State prisoners in
Tho,lin, of which it appears that 'wittier my
brother nor I had any intimation till Tuesday,
when Mr. Dobbs and the Sheriff of Dublin enter-
ed out apartment, and showed us a paper, pur-
porting to he an acquiescence, on the isn't of
-seventy-three of the prisoners, -to give ins
formation of any arms, ammunition, and plans
of warfare; and to emigrate on condition of a
general amnesty ; and of pardon for Mr. Byrne,
1010 was to die that day ; and for Mr. 0: Bond,
-who was at that moment on his trial, if he should
lie condemned. My brother and I declined entering
into any agreement. Mr. Bryne was ordered- for
instant execution, which instantly took place ;
Mr. Band was to die 011 the Friday.- We heard
no mare of the paper till Thursday evening late ;
when the same Mr. Dobbs, accompanied by Mr.
Samnel Nelson, one of the prisoners from another
of the prisons,- came to that where my brother
and I lay. All the prisoners were called together;
Mr. Dobbs produced a letter he had just received
from Cooke, stating, " that if my brother and I
" would enter into a treaty with the Govern-
" went, by which we should engage to give
a' every information in 'our power to all mat-
" tens relating to the rebellion, and-partieolarly
" our relations with foreign States, there, should
" be a general amnesty ; Mr. Bond should he par-
.' doped, nod we should be permitted to emigrate
" to any country, not at war with England ; but
" that if we persisted in our refusal, military
" commissions should be issued in the north, for
" the trial of the prisoners there, the Courts should
proceed. in Dublin, and the yeomanry slu re-
" main on active duty?" We both refused. We
said, If there any charges- against us, proceed upon
them. Why proceed against others, because we
will not enter into any negociation ? We went to
our own room, whither Mr. Dobbs presently came.
He represented to us the dreadful scenes of slaugh-
ter and devastation that would follow close upon
our declaration. It appears that any brother was
influenced by these Considerations ; and, to, save
an unarmed people, he consented to sacrifice
himself; but I heard these proposals and threats
with a very different ear. My answer was, that
I set at defiance all their machinations ; that I was
ready to meet any charge that - Could be brought
against me; but that I never would enter into any
agreement with the Castle of Dublin during my
life/Nothing now was left unattempted to induce
me by vet y fair promises, or to intimidate me by
the most alarming threats, to sign this agreement.
All were unavailing. At length Mr.Marsden came,
as if secretly and as a friend, to let me know what,
by chance, he had heard at the Castle. That it
,a as determined to seize my estate, it I did not com-
p!y, . My answer was, that I was prepared against
every thing ;' that I was absolute, never to•com-
ply. In consequence of which, orders were dis-
patched to the officir commanding at Bandon,
o send detachments of horse and 'foot to take
possession of my house, which they. did, 'to the
nntount Of bet ween two and three hundred men;
they expelled four of my infant children, and
711 V servants ; the officers broke open my cellars,
and drank all my wine ; they ordered the men to
kill my sheep and oxen, on which the whole.
party subsisted; they converted my iron gates
jet° shoes for their horses ; they made bring of
‘vindows,' doors, and frames of the house and
offices ; horned all my farming utensils, destroyed
my gardens and the wall trees, the hot-house,
treen-house, and all the plants; turned all their

/Itorses not into young plantations, wli;ela were
all ruined ; stole every tiring moveable ; and com-
mitted every species of devastation fur eight
or nine weeks that they remained there; for
eight or nine weeks that they remained there
for 'which I never received one peony as remunera-
tion) from that day to this. After this visitation,
it was again demanded of me to sign the paper.
My answer was always the same. Still was I
kept a prisoner; and when those who bad entered
into the agreement were sent to Scotland, I
was forced, by Justice Atkinson :and a company
of Buckinghamshire militia, at the very point of
the bayonet, into Coach, conveyed on board a
tender, and conducted to Fort George, in which
niili;ary garrison I was kept for a year and ten
months, where, by the lenient treatment I received,
I lost the use of my limbs, and Was reduced to the
very verge of life; at the end of which time I-Was
brought to London, and let go on the 24th of
• January, 1801, upon a dreadful recognizance to
some immense amount, not to return to treks d;
and to resift,: in such part of lingland-as the Ring
of England should from time to time appoint (and
Middlesex was sauced). during the then war.. I took
a house at Southgate, io:Middlesex, where I re-
sided for half a year ; but haring no land there, I
looked out for a place with land., to occupy my
tulle. I found one to suit -me at Elstree. As I
was a stranger, and as the rent amounted to 5001,
a year, I applled to my old friend anti companion,
Sir Francis Burdett', who immediately became my
security There I lived for one year, when the
treaty of Amiens taking place, I va& desirous of
returning to. my own counts y, and applied to Sir
Richard Ford, the Magistrate, before whom I
acknowled the recognizance, to get it Up, let vain.
Atter many fruitless efforts, he at length inlOrtlietl'
me, that it was drtermineiftterer to give it tip,
as tong as I retained the power of thin in the South
of Ireland. 1 j•pdged it better to pall with Con
nor-Mlle than he shut out from my county.
got a been,e t., go to Ireland, and, on the Ist of
May, 1803, I le, a lease for ever of the place of my
earliest days, IViimenpoil, I got up my recog-
nizance immediately. I purchased, for linty.
thousand -pounds, from Lord Wellesley *, the
castle and estate of •Datigan, within a few miles
of Dublin, where 1 have resided -with my family
ever sihce, coming over occasionally to visit Sir
F. Burden and a sew ffiher friends in England,
Where, though I !tile estates, I have never been
known, &teeny or indirectly, to -interfere with
any concerns of the country : I'never attended a ,
public meeting or a piinlic dinner ; thougtri 'lave
many friends, I seldom associate %villa any one but
Sir Francis Burdett and his family. My fortune
is ample ; and neither I nor any one of my family
ever are one alorsel that was not produced frum our
own estates.- IVe oever receive(' any of the peo-
ple's money in the shape of pensions and places;
nor was any man's meal or comforts ever distil-
-Dished by one of us. Surely, then, 1 must be tt
most aisioyat traitor ! In fine, many, very many,
of Inc sit Ireland love me; the militia was
attaci,cd to me. I s ukuendered on the. solemn
faith of a Proeiamation, which faith, towards tire,
was broken ; I protected Captain Roche ; I de-
tended t ;Be Judge; I saved ..11t. Sylvestertand theE
liow-street constable. There is no kind of place
,hat has not been my prison ; toy own house,
Camps, guard-houses, taverns and hotels, castles,
wherries, packet-bOatsonessengers' houses,courr-
linttses, bridewells, state prisons (as Ohl are
called), tenders, garrisons, 'whet:l; stud as a pri-
saner,- have I been travelled about from nay own
house in the South, to Canicktergus, he. the
North of Ireland ;.It-urn the western extremity of
Wales, to Maidstone, nearly dog ehstern extremi-
ty of England t from Dublin to Fort St. George,
in Scotland, within forty miles (if Julio o.(jitit's
[Mist', to London. lii mail- coaches, hackney-
Coaches, post-c,aitiages, and carts ; on foot and
on horseback : and all becanse (tor I know of
no other cause) that, ten years be ore the French
Revolution, I saw the ahsoluie necessity of a Re-
form in the Continua: in Ireland, which was ac-
kuraw:edgen atiemards by the factions of Eng-
land anti Ireland ; and btcanse I would not con-
sent to a Legislative Union, hid, I regarded as
equally ruinous to both pat is of the kingdom.
On the whole, then, let the people of England,
now that they are in possession of their sober senses,
decide between my accuses and me, whether the
laws were infringed by MB, who have gone
through every ordeal; who have always courted
investigation and inquiry , who for years never
ceased to demand trial ; or by them, who sough:.
the protection of a Bill of Indemnity, passed by
au assembly of which they themselves made a part.

*This fact is inaccurately stated. Mr. O'Connor could
not have purchased the castle and estate of .-Datigan from
Lord Wellesley, because Lord W. who was then injudia,
had sold the castle and gruatieds of Datigansereral years be-
fore to Colonel Burro Wes; principally. we believe, to pay his
father's debts. Nor could Mr.O'Connor have purchased what
is properly termed the estate of Datigen, inasmuch as that
estate is still in the Marquis Wellesley's posseFsion ; and has,
very recently, if we are not mistaken, been advertised fur
sale his Lordship.

NAST OF BEGGAR 3.-01) StitUrdliy morning a
Gentleman, who is an overseer of one of the

parishes in the city, brought a child before the
LORD MAYOR, whom be had found going to Gen.

tlenten's houses asking alms, and also begging in
the street. The boy, though dressed in .rags,
was remarkably pretty. He was asked how old
he was, be replied, " 1 am five." Being asked his
name, be said, "I am Joey Valley being fur-
ther interrogated, he gave the following answers :
His father lived at Smith's-gardens, -Hackney-
road, Shoreditch. He had no mother ; a woman
came to see his father sometimes. He had six
sisters and three brothers : they went .out beg-
ging, and so did he; and if he did not take money
home every night, his father used to beat him
and send him out very early next morning. Sonic
of his sisters bad run away : they all took money
and victuals home to their lather, who was-a hay-
maker, but he had nothing to do. He (the boy)
sothetimes got a shilling a day, besides what he
spent, and sometimes even more. ,The LORD
MAYOR ordered the child to be taken care of till
the father could be found. His Lordship observed,
that it was a most shocking thing that children
should be bred up to thieving, as no doubt they
were, by the fellow whom they were instructed
to call lather. The overseer took the boy to the
workhouse.