The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-28 00:00:00

R.entains freeproren rental '
3 3-1,1,t),

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Which valued and 'converter! at 27 years
purchase, is :9,319 S 3 9-1211+s:-
Estimated reittal of Mansion-house and
()dices, 691. Ws.- which, cdrivertetl•at
12 years' pill-chase,
Feu Duty of 11. Is. 7d: 3-12ths, which,
valucd_at 9.0 years', purchast., 1 12 I
Estimated valueOf wood on the premises 1,200 0 0

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834 0 0

Total proven value and upset price
, of the subjects. under sale ~./i.t1,375 4 3 9-12ths.
A considerable part of the piicr will uc left in the bands of
the irl:Aaser, upon-security of tbe'pi'operty.-
The Lao.ls hold partly of the Crown and partly of subject
sup Ho. s. The Land-Tax has been redeemed, and the teinds,
-ilk so ra, as the late Proprietor had- not an heritable right to
them, have been valued, and are exhausted by the stipend
payable to the Minister of St, Milian's..
The Articles of stoup are in the hauds of Mr. Manners, De-
putt—eiirk• of Session,,, office (i(; Thti Title-deeds
and Plans of the Lands, and Copies of the Articles of !loop,
may be seen on Applying to Michael Linning- and Mathew
N. Macdonald, -cleilts to th.e.Signi:,4 Nu, ,c 20,. Hill-street; or
to Mr. Littlelolin, Writer, Stirling.
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BEST SUPERfINE BEAVER HATS,

TOE frequent complaints !wide by Gentlemen,
in the above article not being obtaim:d of a good qua-
lity, at a -flauleiate itciee, notwithstanding the very great re-•
dm:lion which has taken ptsee it alosiist an the articles used,
in the' manufacturing of - Hats, ,•bas. induced (;LO (I.'
FRANK!), of Wellington 41,055 e., Corner of Releross-street,
Bar!Ocan.. ttr acquaint' the. Politic lie :is 'selling the VERY
BEST JA4Tt-11' SVI'ERFIN E. BEAVER HA F at the very
r,lbeed priCe of only F. Warrants them soper:-or to
thisse.selling at other hista,es at eis.—And Isis IMPROVED
PATEN I' iVAT Eft-PROOF SILK HAT) on Bt, AVER
BODIES, atiosay les. They afe liOtt .and ple.stsant wear. and
haer a handsomer appearance than the finest beaver. and will
wear two t kens ; will never fuse their shape hr spot with the
rain, and die a in,sch superior Hat to those offered by other
honsrs at ::!Cs.
- The great sale and repute of these watcliless Hats baying
cawed base ionsations to be offered by several only ineipled
Retailers of Hiiis, ankholnels are not Patent, the Public should
be particular as to the above address, as there is a house in
Beech-sts'ert, corner of Beech-lane, saute name and trade,—
t.;febit.cau be

FoR SUN.

Mr. EniTf,l,--i huil,e.oiAt some. O,IIC of your
umerous Ucadcrs , will (nvour 'you with a satis-

at:tory HOS kVer to the fo!lowing Queries

1. Since the quarlern loaf and holf.quortern are
oydered to be insie act-ordiug _lO a detcrinin'ect
weight, in order to secure the buyer, from any
fraud on the vender's part, why are-there opt also
two spabordinate divisions, equally regulated,
,quarter quartet!), and half:quarter guar-
tern, instemr of the small bread which bakers are
allowed to sell by the name of three-penny loaves
and two-penny loaves, and by which those of:the
poor classes wh-o buy small loaves (and cannot
afford large ones).aie regularly and enormously
(left aildtql in point of quantity ?

2. Why dc/ persons, professing vencrasion for
[he Pttlt.ct !ARGENT, acting in the flame 4,01 Olt
I)eb.df of the Vead of
,the. Chnich in Ehgtand, our
truly piojis Mok•.ar.ch, tr.avei from 1;1 ight C7;71:
Sundup, (those days being appointed by
he Church to be days of et,t) ?

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3. Why, were four men sentenced to-death *,
not long since, foe setting fire to a hay-rick in
England, and only one ina-ti (ont of a.bundi.cd or
more) condemned, fo'r setting fire to a house, in
which a whole family was deliberately consumed
hv the flames, in Ireland 2.
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4. Why was not TuoRNToN, who was iikplitted
of the murder of Max? Asnyvap, tried more than
pro forma for a rape, since his own deposition was
evidence of his having possessed her person,
and the surgeon, in his evidence, having'oeelio'ed
that site was a virgin till the inorning of the
ninnies, antl that. the first intercourse held with
her prison bad been 'obtained by violence
QI.4.IESTOR.

* Query—Were those men all executed?

O'CONNOR'S NARRATIVE..

It is nearly proverbial that the English in gene-
in the hottest unsuspecting sincerity of their
hearts, are tentmkable fth. their eredoloos facility
but surely this chivalrous wigbt, for adveutorous
he has shewh hiniself to he in the extreme, must

think the Genius of Guilihility lids indeed esia-
blished her favourite residence in this hind, or he

ennld not stipposelhat such a tissue of Jnendatity
as 11t has airenipted to impose upon us, could
meet ,with an atom of credit. Bytore we proceed

loT,Maik farther upon any particular part of the
precious .production brio!c us, we Shall obvrve
eenerally, that nominal designation which this
pwriotic Gentkman thi•AS pr,pec to assnine, is
cotnpara ivcly of a very recent date;• we allude to
Illy twine ul "O'CONNott.— not 1111111 some
time atter, :he .....rt.,nc!, itoil his
brother, the self-con, iek'd exiIe,ARTUUK, adopted
thiS literal surname. Psevious to tiatt terribly
eventful epot noshes and designations were
Rocutt and.ARTIJUR 01CONNett, EAVS. i e. with
the secant) vowel of the surname, E, instead of o,
and purposely, to &sting, isit them from the nu-
merous Irish Catholic families of .(IC,tNNoa r. so
was the name of their father, .11oGEtt;CoNNett, of
Connersville, Esti and his brother', WILLIAM,•ot
Li.“nore Castle,-sptit. The vernacular prefix of
.had no existence with them_ 8i0,..w heti the
Demon of revolutionary ambition seized the soul
of AUTHOR—when the exercise of saptetne Direc-
torial power was contemplated as'eventnaily with-
itv his grasp, „the Sact ifire of name was among the
least made on that occasion. Facts are stubborn
things, and are generally the premises of all de-
ilnction, inference, and conclusion.: The auda-
cious assertion, that he gave the Marquis WEL-
LRSLEy forty thousand pounds for the Castle and
Estate of Dangan, is evidently taisiti:d by the .ex-
istence of more than one notorious tact. In the
first place, the Marquis ‘VELLESLEY was inindia,
as Governor-Generaf, at the :lure this partial sale
-4 his Irish property was made ; and •I he Castle,
-or rather Mansion of Dangan, with its demesne,
exits colt) to Mr. 'BO RRoWES. As to the Dattgan
--state, it was; together with .several tither estates,
Ot the Nohie Marquis, in Ireland,, advertised but
a few weeks' since ity• this Paper,. for sale. So
much for the assertion generally ec the now.. Mr.
R.O'CONNOR. There is, however, another branch
'of this assertion, to the full as -quettiou,:ble as
those which are so instantaneonsly refuted. 'tie
says he gave 40,0001. fOr the pro!lerty in guest ion.
Now, We sh,}uld he very glad to k-owhow and
where this Gentleman got the 40 OtiD!. which.lte
says be so appropriated ? This is a problem►
whieb, we believe, the .Gentleman in question
will find rather difficult to solve, 'unless, indeed;
;lie Well-stocked purse of his accommothting and
ardent friend Sir FaANct.4 BURDETT he -adverict)
to. The Baronet was ever the god of BOGER's
idolatry ; the latter, such as as it is, has a fluent
pen, and he produced an infinit y of ephemeral
stuff (hiring the• attempting system of liiberniall
Regeneration and. Revolution. Irf one of these
effusions, wherein the various virtues of the -Ba-
ronet were con,emplated, he thus, .exelaims,7.--
i' ItUIRDF.TT ot Fort/Nark ! the land that gave thee
birth shall be ever dear to the heart of O'CoN-
Noe !" We shall conclude our remarks for the
present, by observing. that,frolls what' this lien-
dental' has thought proper- to give the public in
the case before Its, it evidently appears, almost at
the Very first glance, especially when the point of
ve'racil f is fOr a ttioment considered, whin Ile tee
of credit can be afforded to one .of the pre-
, cious assertions which he put forth during the
po iod 'of his recent incarceration; viz. that he re-
fused the °fro. of an EARLDOM, which was.,nottle
to him by Lord CitiCtIESTER, while Secretary to
tie Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, daring the Vice-
roy of the M arplis Cass VE&.—(lllorniqg P.> t.)
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PROVINcIAL

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N'tre extract Acvontit of a LaNV
Case from 71e Weekly Gazette of the 230, • inst.'
a' flablin rtsv.ec;able for its loyal
and. goo al. q9)(l.kiet. \le are the

Inure inOtlet.qi; ho‘yever, to suhalit .this case to
Iteaders, bee Luse it relates to a Gentleman
who. has long clktiogniOted Or a re,ohitei
firut, and per'severing, support of our happy E•sta..,
blisimejasin:Charch and Stott'. The Go; I.Anirt

tie, JotiN GIFFAtto, Esq. 4)1 the • (ii 1
Dublin, .whose (Teo and manly cltar4cier is bckl.
in.bigh te,,,eet by all who hoo4 hint, and wlia
si.tiferet4.grievons ea. iamlties in ifit:'loss of Iris owti
offspring during the die'adflit excesse, of Irish Re-
Tne geneio,i,!spjilt of forhem-artee..r.hicli..
the tviS.cijkit;, Iteport eosplays, is -e'xactly hist
tilt from U. charact,..•
inArked. by, ritriotism, le,th ;:tl,l
heroic, 11 t , iti I,pholdiog inicrests
of, the British E,11141e
Itr..CoRDER,'S COURT, Alto. 19. ''•-•
The Colo .t sat ...this. day, „ptaii sdlit:l6l.t'conct
adjutirinnen.t, fur the, trial.of l'ruversers :out oil
baii..-There was an attendance of Aldermen lin-

xvitii the L►ml May.o , waiiug a
which has excited, lov several ►?►untits.back,

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1119,c1i public s.xpeetation, that of JOUN GIFFARD,
lisq". against Mr. IlimottAs, Proprietor of The.
Dahlia Chronicle, for a Libel.
Mr. BE NET, for the Traverser, opened the
bit Mess, by stating the subject matter of an affi.
thivit to postpone the trial; on account of the .ab-
settee of an indispensable witness. He said, that
the traverser had been frequently in.attendance,
and ready for trial, upon previous days appointed,
when the matter. had been on (very occasion of
this sort p*istponed on tire part of the prosecutor;
that this was the first time which the traverser had
occasion, or inclination, to protract a f ull enquiry
into his conduct, in a transaction la which 'it
would appear, that by intention, the only princi-
ple which cdnstitutes guilt, he was perfectly

nocent.
• The Learned RECORDF,R in reply to some legal
defiuitions relied t you by Mr. Bennet, iu cases
of libel, said, that where the
.matter in s.ucti
charges are tound too well Krotitu'i6l, that the
Court, as t. ell as the Jury, are entitled to judge
the tacts—and that from the Le:irued Counsel's

preliminaty observations touching the matter he
was willing to tender by appointment, lie saw no
reason why the trial should hg• postponed.; the
affidavit was then tendered and read. It relay:
to the absence of a Mr, Y'Ncil, who was stated
to have sailed a few days shire for England, and
that he was a most necssaty tv Ii out
rvitost testimony the Traverser conceived he could
mg -obtain, jastiCe. The place of O'Neil's resi..
deuce in this,city having been omitted iii the affift
davit, was considered by the Cowl, who
after an exertion of Teat on the part of.:*.lrb'
Bennet, the only comisa who appeared for the
Traverser, ordered the trial to go on. Mr. Ben-
net rejoined, and appealed to the candour of the.
Court, Ott another affidavit,- which should be pre-
pared it necessary. That- the Traverser's Coun-
sel, particularly his leaning one; Mr. O'Connell.
‘vas on Circuit ; that they had iith them all the
briefs and documents necessary for the exculpa-
tion of their client ; that he had no brief nor ail
Material NvhateVer to conduct t.l:e TraVer,:el.s de-
fence; that lie was but an unfortcuate substitute
for the Gentletnen who had all necessary prepara.
lions for this
.event ; that the Circuit croup.! be
-ended in a very few dayS, anti he hoped 00 incon.,
venieuee could ,result to the prosemor from the
delay ; that on a pi evious occasion alluded to,
when the Traverser Iratl.ireen ready for trial, and
entttlen to Traverse in Prox, the. prosecutor hail
,new bills of indictments substituted for the former';
that the Traverei'sCounscl,.it could not be pre-
sitould be ready on the instant to go into
trial on new grounds, and yet ‘ecle tO
abide the events, while ill, y. were entitled us bey
tore observed, to Traverse in Prox.
.Lilere Mr. Gitfard 'Atwell rectified a tiivikd
mistake in Counsel's statement, w;tli which he in-
stantly acquiesced:3 .
'lbis matter was rcduped to affidavit, and rciid
by the_Town Clerk,. asji,u the former instance, t,t3
he, Coutt. .
1. lie REcottnni hi reply observer.), that nothing
new -struck him in thi, riffidovit, to alter the, opj...
nionhe bad deliberately formed, except
empt, in the idea that Counsel not be pep..
pared to plead_at 511011 notice, 111. new bills of
iti-
tiietuteut:He recollected that part, and was con-.
fident, that if the ,Itaversees Cotr!sel were pre-
pared on the original indictment?, they could tint
by any ingenuity plead ignorance of the matter,
on which the new.bills.wcre found; thei deviation
was very (6601, and by no melo.; bearing on any
substuntial- polut ; on flit! ;Junin's. advanced to
him he would not postpone a et iminal trial, and it
could not be expected he would deviate trout a
rule eecognized Ity all the Courts in Matter tutinere
courtesy. It the Tr,iverser's intepared. Counsel.
..were ahSent), he had the goon tort i'ne of a roost
zealons and able substitute for them, and dared
to say,• he would not lo,e by any ete,ifinco detect
or. inconvenience in that point, anti Could not
postpone the trial.
Mr. BLti NET, in his endeavours to postpone the
haviotestated, that fiveother Lawyers,
to-
gtthct with their briefs, pteparLo for tuts
were, now in Cotk—the Recorder obserted, that
in ...Qr. Bennet:6 hands, the Traverser cadd not
sustain injury from their absence; and. Mr. Ben-
net having looked to Mr. Gifford, as if for his
onseot to the postponement,, that Gentleman
aid, he teas much better pleased to have, Me;
kietwet against. hint titan the other five; this oc.

f 1 “M n t.tt anti nivc,rsar tanivrs vvnicli seem-
"tug to dist.o.e..se i3ennet, Giffard said,
meant wir'ret he -Said as a compliment to Mr.
ifiennet's'ihild, polite, and gentlemanlike Mr-inner,
"iehleir would be more likely to effect its purpose
with trim, than all the brawling and bUllying of
the tar.
IIENNP.t. appealed to the candour of the
Tiosecutor himself, reiterating his former argil-
"Fierits ; his own incetnpeterree, acting without
t'structions, and the probable opportunity that
'are .(ir-titleitrao would have in a very few days of
ample satisfaction, should the evidence on which
he so coOlidently relied support him. lie was,
hots-ever, instructed by the Traverser to throw
himself- on the mercy of the prosecutor ; to make
bins the most ple apology ;to state by affida-
vit, that he t-,i'as not Editor of the Paperin Ties-
tiri:s longer than February last ; that he never
Bahr tire obnoxious matter till it appeared in
pant ; never entertained any enmity against Mr.
Giifard ; that of course by some inadvertence, not
erdinecedeoted, the matter was printed without
iris directions ; he never wrote f6r the Palter ;
vats a very humble Man, and not callable of writ-
, itig in any such. departMent ; would et‘press his
Contrit‘on in any manner required of him, and
trusted, that an appeal of this natnre would have
that effect upon the Court, and, indeed, ouS the
prosecutor, which it was natural to expect.
Mr. Gtrraun rose and ohservcd, that respect-
intt.the individnal who becatne the object of this
prosecution, he never hearri of his ek,stence pre-
.vil,lftt to this transattiou ; that when occasion
.1)1.onglit• his name ter his ears, frotn the very sound
he thought literature- the last thing on earth that
cohld he attached to it ; and it is now stated, that
tn:serrible as the style of the Chronicle writing is,
Ire is incapable of it ; but he felt it his duty to
at ail himself Of the priitection of taus cthich lie
hittiSelf Viblated, evirtn he rebognied a train
of virulen'ae and mali;:nity against him, which he
felt conscitufs helve:et provoked by any act of his
life. There was ri'et acKrrilous epithet which vial-
gariy could suggest, or rancorous enmity devise,
wltich had not been wantonly applied to him ;
and now, When the person at the Bar feels him-
self like a rat which I have hunted into a corner,
and is hich, finding DO hole through which to et-
cape, like that amiable creature, prostrates. itself
the dust, hoping to pass unnoticed. flow dif-
ferent is the prisoner's present pretences of con-
trition and humility, from his Indents cal:minks,
%elicit he told the mad multitude, that he was
};lad of an occasion to Sent his slander against
The, as I was an enemy to their country and their
itligion—was not this an incitement to assassina-
tion ? anti yet, bad as it was, it was miltiocss to
bis•other calumnies. -The matter lie would leave
to the Court, and avoid ioterposing one way or
the oltcr ; but, if he made concessions, he felt he
should oulY be exciting future attacks of a cha-
racter similar to the former war whoop, when a
road multitude sere stimulated to assassinate hint
by iovettives, under which he tlttot have fallen,
Lad he not some resolution auil coergies of mind
foreign from the cowatdice which had been £0 ma
li,gnatitly attributed to him.