The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-04 00:00:00

At Mr. Southgate's sale of Autographs, which
terminated a few days ago, were sold several letters
of Pope, Johnson, Addison, Gray, Hill, Dr. Young,
&c. partpe,of
the
larg
large collection made by Richard
son,
son, and for which an eminent publisher some years
ago gave a descendant of his 1,0001. These letters
were all unpublished, and some of them fetched very
high prices. The letter of Charles I. to Ormond,
which, as stated in the Times of Yesterday, brought
71. 10s., is as follows. The declarations of that
Prince on the subject of the Roman Catholics of
Ireland deserve attention :
" Cardiff, July 81, 1645.
" Ormond--It bath pleased God by many suc.
cessive misfortunes, to reduce my affaires of late
from a verry prosperous condition to so low an eb as
to be a, perfect tryall of all men's integrities to me ;
and you being a person whom I consider as most
entyrly and generously resolved to stand and fall
with your King, I doe principally rely upon you for
your utermost assistance in my present hazards. I
have comanded Digby to acquaint you at large
with all particulars of my condition, what I have to
hope, trust to, or feare. Wherein you will fynde
that if my expectations of reliefe out of hind, be
not in sonic good measure and speedilye answered,
I am lvkely to be reduced to great extremity.
" I hope one of those expresses I sent you since
my misfortune by the battaile of Naseby, ar come to
you, and ani therfore confident that you ar in a good
forwardness for the sending over to me a consider-
able supply of men, artillery, and amunition. All
that I have to add is, that the necessity of your
speedy performing them is made much more
pressynge by new disasters, so that I absolutely
corn ad you (what hazard soever that kingdoms can
come by it), personally to bring me all the forses of
what sort soever you can draw from thence, and
leave the Government there (duringe your absence)
in the fittest hands that you shall judge best to dis-
charge it ; for I may not want you heere to comand,
those forces which will be brought from thence, and
such as from hence shall be joyned to those.
"But
.you must not understand this as a permis-
sion for you to grant to the Irish (in case they will
not otherwais have a peace) any thing more in mat-
ter of religion than what 1 have allowed alreddy„
except only in some convenient parishes where the
much greater number ar Papists. I give you power
to permitt them to have some places which they
may use as chappells for their devotions if there be
no other impediment for obtaining a peace; bat I
will rather cause to suffer all extremities than ever
to abandon my religion and particularly ether to
English or Irish rebells. To which effect I have
commanded Dighy to wryt to their agents that were
employed hither : giving yon power to cause deliver
and suppresse this letter as yon shall judge best foe
my service.

" To conclude, if the Irish shall so unworthily
take advantage of my weake condition as to presse
me to that which I cannot grant with a safe consci-
ence and without it to reject a peace, 1 comand you
if you can to procure a farther cessation; if not to
make what divisions you can among them and ra-
ther leave it to the chance of a warr between them
and these forces which you have not power to draw
to my assistance than to give my consent to any such
allowance of Popery as must evidently brynge de-
struction to that profession which by the grace of
God I shall now maintaine through all extremities.
" I know, Ormond, that I impose a very hard
taske upon you but if God prosper me you will be
a happy and glorious subject; if otherwais von will
perishe nobly and generouslywith him and 'for hint
who is your constant reall and faithful friend,
" CHARLES, R.
" For the Marquis of Ormond."
A memorandum on the back of the letter, in the
handwriting of Ormond, notes the day on which
letter was received, and by whose banils it came.

DEATH OF GENERAL IRVING.---Died, at
two o'clock on the morning of Thursday last, at his house
in Fisher-street, in this city, General Sir P. E. IRVING'',
Bart. This officer was appointed Lieutenant in the 47th
foot, the 15th of June, 1764 ; Captain, the 29th of
October, 1768 ; Major, the 31st of March, 1775 ; Lieut.-
Colonel in the Army, 17th of November, 1780; Lieut.-
Colonel in the 47th foot, 3d of August, 1781 ; Colonel
the Arms', 18th of November, 1791 ; Major-General, the
3d of October, 1794 ; Lieut.-General, the Ist of January,
1801 ; Colonel of the 6th Veteran Battalion, the 25th of
December, 1802 ; and General, the Ist of January, 1812.
Ile served with the 47th regiment in America : was in the
battles of Lexington and Bunker's Hill, and was at Boston
during the blockade, and until the evacuation, when he ac-
companied the 47th to raise the siege of Quebec. lie was
at the affair of Trois Rivierea, June 1776, and pursued tlre.
rebels to Crown Point and Ticonderoga; he served with
General Buseov.ax's army till the convention, when he
was taken prisoner and detained three years ; in 1781 he
returned to England. In 1790, he embarked Abe the.
Bahama Islands, where he remained till 1795, when he
joined Sir J.VAITGHAr':: army in the West Indies, and on
that cfficer's death, the 21st of June, 1 795, the chief emu,
mand of the forces in the West Indies devolved on him.
In September Major-General LFiCIt took the chief com-
mand, and General, then Major-General, litVl5C: went to
take the command of St. Vincent's. On the od of
October following. he attacked the enemy in their works at
the Vigie, and after an obstinate resistance during the
whole day, they • Were driven from their posts.—ln
December of the same year he returned to England, and
has since lived a retired fife.—Carlisle Jcurnal.
On Thursday the 17th tilt. there was :t very
heavy fall of snow on Staiumore, accompanied by a strong
wind from the east. The Glasgow mail left Mr. FRYER'S
inn, at Brough, about midnight, with six excellent horses,
and had not proceeded further than Shape Stones Pasture,
litte more than three miles, when it was discovered that
the horses had got off the road. The coachman left his
seat to endeavour to set the leaders right, but soon lost his
way.. The guard then took one of the lamps to look foe'
the coachman, but got so far out of the track, that when
the driver cast up he had to go in search of the guard.—
There were five passengers, among whom were Lordb NA-
PIER and Captain GRAHAM, of the Royal Navy. Capt..
G. said be had been out in many a storm, but a storm on
inti;e:ll'tilliat a horse and
Stainmore surpassed them all.—Durhana Advertiser.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—Last week, as
some men in the employ of Mr. tonta TILLER., of Eliug,
Lila r
were excavating for the purpose of levellingaspiiiaecree,oifindif
at the front of the residence of B. PEPPER, Esq,;.
place, Eling, they discovered the skeleton of a horse, and a
human skull and bones, in a mouldering state, particularly
when exposed to the air. They were all found together
which bad been made
about four feet below the surface,
lower by about two feet some years since. The earth
where these remains were found, was of a ifterent hurt
rt,leviterst(iiiirsotuurnidmidng it, which u•as ;
whereby it i+
buried LEN ,
human body must have bee" - tTNtner, and
probably at a very distant Ye"' ' -art TILLER in, pre_.
Will verily the fact.
—Rant!: Advertiser.
tahnidress appeared, on
sent at the time of this
Ririch paased through the Post Office
of Stirling, within the last day or two :—" The woman
wino is going to kol.) a stoneware shop—Keeps presently.
lodgers—o„ br.s.three sons, anti WILLIAM has very sore
foot, being cot with a hatchet ;
.tthe is on the road ditwt
east of the new pier about 200 yards—leading from C.,
Pier on tit. north side of the street, town t f Kincar-
difroverya,
the The
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dine. /trig/ Weekly Chronicle.
An admirable instance of presence of mind was
exhibited by the herdsman, near Hollvpark, whose house
Was attacked a few nights since by an armed party. They
handed him a hook to swear, which he adroitly slipped
into his pocket; favoured by the darkness, and returned
them, unperceived, a different book. This fortunate ruse
will, it is confidently believed, lead to the detection of these
midnight ruffians.—Limerick Chronicle.
SINGULAR NOCTURNAL FISHING.-- A
young woman, who resides on the banks of the Carron,
near to Carron Works, was astonished, while standing, a
few nights ago, at her father's door, to hear a heavy
plunging noise in the river. Fearful lest it had proceeded
from a human being in distress, she immediately procured
t light, and courageously hastened to the spot, to render
assistance. Instead, however, of meeting with any thing
so disastrous, she was not a little surprised to find that the
noise proceeded from the house cat, which, with all the
skill of an otter, was in deadly conflict with a fine salmon
grilse. • Having rendered Puss prompt assistance, she had
the satisfaction of carrying home a very fine fish, weighing
four pounds,—Stirling Advertiser.