The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-05 00:00:00

tfiE 'COSPiaAa'..

The tont) MAYou wwas On Friday not a tittle
surprised at a nevf.tirctunstance %Odell occurred
in the coarse of a private examinatioU, held at

Mr. Newman's house in the Old Bailey, upon the
subject of the 'Conspiracy.
„.
• When the two Ilarrys' were confronted with,'
the three Irishmen, Quin, Donnelly, and I.2.ear
don, the three latter refitsed to make :my state
ment of what took place between them and
the conspirators,. Such a refusal naturally created
great astonlihment and -confusion, the Irish
interpreter was called, in order that his Lord-
ship might be put in possession of the cause
of their silence, when they. were solicited to
disclose all they knew upon oath. At length
it was ascertained that they had b,•en :sumo not
to reveal a word of what they wete directed to ,do
upon the day they were set to mutt at the pieces
of metal. It was in vain that they were assured.
of the invalidity of the oath. They told the in-
terpreter that it was blink and white against them,
and they never Won't' Say a word about the men
who employed them, except they received absolu-
tion from the Priest.
The elder Barry here interfered, and-,said, that
when the three Itishmeo- were brought into the
Mom where they were apprehended, one of his
companions, named Power, produced a ';Oman
Catholic Prayer-Book, and adMinistered on oath.
to each of them,-by which they were pledged to
keep secret the Cit cumstance of their employment,
and every thing connected with it. Ile also said,
that they said that they sat down to work with,
out appearing to have the slightest knowledge of
any thing criminal being attached to Ahem la.
bours—they began to rilb. away with as much ef-
fort, bat as little apprehension, as if they had been
at their usual occupation of paving. Power
obliged them 'to put their mark to a piece of pa.
per, which;•he said, was-their affidavit before the
Virgin Mary.. As soon Ka the ceremony of i.he oath
was over, Barry and his son went for some colfee,
and, at the three poor fellows had frequently com-
plained of hunger and thirst, brought than two
twopenny loavts and live quarts of colfee, which
they disposed of in a very short time.
Barry's son corroborated most of this statement,,
basing been 'gest nt when • the oath was admini-
stered, and observed the activity with which the
Irishmen set to work when they were told that
their bellies should be filled.
The Lola') MAvon ordered the attendance of
the Roman Catholic Priest on a future clay. :His
Lordship told the dicer Irishmen that 'they shotihil
be very soon .relelised•from the bolts with which
they were at present hound. Mr. Newman, some
time since, excltanged their heavy 'convict bolts
for those that ore 'comparatively cords. .That
(knifeman informed the Lord Mayor that he had
received Many letters containing.inelosures to de-
fray the expenses of the prosecution against the
Conspirators, and directioes thatthe:overplus of
each share should be given to the three Irishmen.
llA'rTav-CiAttociv.,--Nut •a post reaches totvtt
withont bringing letters from the. cuitviets at,
NVoidWich,Sheeriteas, Portsmouth, &c, emitain-
ing charges against the fellows now iii custody,
Cur ebuspiraey, and giving the particulars of fresh
plots. Some of these lettersname various per-
sons not yet in custody, as connected with
Vdrighan.—Limhtick, Head; and other Officers,
are in consequence matting every effort to appre-
hend them.. We hope they• will be successful,
and, that these vigilant Officers will be (hay se-
conded. The letters from theconeicts have,been‘
laidikiefore the Magistrates; but it. would be nu-
pi/Ifee to disclose the contents of most of, them.
This eatitiott-oot applying' to the following, it is
sohioined as A SpeCillWil
To Mr. aohn.Limhrielt, Hatton-m(10 Ofl4:e, Lothloti.
Sheerness, Jttly)ik, I horn tal•eti tie libel ty of
seildnig this letter to you; 1 llopr:You I'olll he any ways of
at my Sal iitibig; but really we ni,t so ghtl to bear of
your taking Vaii4hisai fur he has tacit the instigtitur tsf dearly
forty wen bete, and ow; bag have, been entrAipi;il and swore
false to. A • for myself, 1 own lan) guilty of what I ant stow
infirm log hat a t'Cithht y'ou can 'remember, for which
that seioia,irel received test poallatt, the Holborn job I mean,
and of wi.ieh I wivi.entirely ttmoccut of, and bad it not been
for,that, 1 ybottld not have had more than six months. 'We
render you anti Mr. Relat tiranhs, for Your .tinwearied
'diligence in unravellii4 this horrible plot. 1 mean when
gain my liberty to- drop ail concern with these.-1 remain
your's, &p,. -WILLIAM HERBERT.
Ott board th'ebiseorery Hulk- •

Sstiroat•trio..!--,A. melancholy example of the per. I
nicioni consequences. of %waggling occurred in
the neighbourhood of Dundee, on the morning of
Saturday sennight.,--William Dick, the tenant
of, a small farm in the parish of Bluirgoa'rie, had
prepared two bolts. of tnalr, and converted there
into whisky ; one half of which he had disposed
of :at Blairgowrie, and attempted to bring the
other 'to 'Dundee, Ciimpany with, two of his
m •
more practised aplatntances, employed in the
saute traffic. 'A party of Custom-house boatmen,
went'ont 'on the thipar road, to the number of
nine, armed with bludgeons, cutlasses, and load-
ed pistols.' Four of them ! took their station,at
the gate leading to 'Logic farm, and the other five
concealed themselves inside the southusost door
of Logic policies, about two 'hundred yards nearer
lir) Dundee; Mont three o'clock in the morning,
the smithyl;l6s, monnte'd on horseback, approached
the gate of -Logic farm'; the four boatmen crossed
the road to. seize the whisky ; 'but the smugglers,
suspecting their intention, gave their horses the'
rein, 'and proceeded towards Dundee at full speed.
The party posted nearer Dundee, warned by the,.
noise of the horses" feet ;and the hallooing of their
compautons, prepared to intercept them The
smugglers, on' discovering the second party, seent-4
e'r I inclined toreirade their stept.;• hut seeing the
others also approach, a oil being hethmed' in out.
both sid6s, two of' them adopted the, desperate:
resolut ion of proceeding to Dundee ut all hazards.,
'f:he first whO passed fired at, hut escaped
nohurt,
,ailliotigh- his .bOrse was wounded; aurt
titer, 'Who had! no Whisky, escaped entirely ; but
Dick was nor so fortunate ; several shots were.
fired, one of Widch wontitiett his horse in tho.chest,,
another in' the hind thigh, .and a third Nvoitnded
himself (it is- feared mortally) at the small of the.,
back. DiCk'inuntelikttely fell. The lad who had no
'whisky was afterwards Seiieti• Pitkethley, ,who,
itppeak 10U-4,e-fired ttie-fatalothot, ikirt custody ;
and precognition of all the circumstauces has been
taken,—(Dttudee Paper.) ,

110 Nit Ita

tSEX ASSIZES.--citiLyisrott63. Fatting, AMo.9.

CIUM. CON.

COWLAND DACWE.

Mr.Setjeant Oitsidw stated, that tr,iis..tirAS ate
action for criminal conversation, by a respectable
tradt saran 'Of this to*n,, against Major Dacre, of
the Militia. The plaintiff was married to his wile
in the year 1864. Slib was the daughter of a far=
-Ther, but ot great personal beanti,r. They lived'
happily together until the year 1811, When -her
.affecrions were • seduced by the defendant ; and
front that period she becatbe altered in her con-
duct towards her husband, until the year 1814,
when slit/ finally eloped from him.. lie desired the
Jury to consider, that if .aay,attentpt was made
by the. other side to attack her character after
that period, whatever her state of profligacy
might be, it was to be
,allributed to the con-
duct of the defendant, who fits) led her front vii
toe into - the devious path of
,vice—he was an-
swerable for all her subsequent misconduct.—
With respect to the facts, they lay in a very
narrow compass. Mr. Co,wland had opened a
silversmith and, jeweller's shop in Chelmsford.;
the Major was his IMlger, and hail been► so
,at
several times ; but, in addition to his business
as a je'keller',. Mr. Cowland was also a surveyor,
land in that chat-atter had frequent occasion to be
absent from home, In September] Sll he went
into: Sussex about Some business, andwhile he
was absont Major D. suddenly appeared at the
house, and took possession of his old lodgings.
to the morning, the maid going up 'stairs totind
his bed- room door open, and the bed earthy i go-
ing thence to her nii'sites'a bed-rnotty, she found
the Major in bed with. Mrs'. ; the girl, how-
ever, never• told her master until after the year
1814, when Mrs. C. eloped.' IVIIht, was the mo-
tive of her secrecy he should leave his Learned
Friends to inquire.' "Phis was the case, and for
this he demanded of the Jury sober damages, such
as the plaintiff was .cot;tled to receive, and the
Major ought to pay.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cowland \vas present at the mar-
-riage. of the and his wile at Idledon,'
itr
Cando itl4eshire;
.she was, actptainted• with them
tip to 1811 ; they lived cornfOriably togetl;6-; they
visited at her, horse about I'3 Months alter their
marriage.. Mr. Cowhand toll her that toe bad
found letters in le r boX, but' not that he had found
the picture of a Gentleman she:had heard st)ine7.
thing of a sketch, but could not' say what ; the
letters came from more than one persnn.
!Nth Cook lived servant with MrS:Cowland in
1811. Major Dacre lodged in the lioti•,e t‘vo or
three different times, while his ieginant't was' in
the ,barrarks ; with Mrs. C. in .Septeniher
181 l ; her in aster was pone a jtooney to Sussext ;
IVlajor 0, was not the hottle,when her. Master
went away, but be came
.unexpectedly and slept
one night. Inthe morning she voent tilt stoirs.
Hood saw Major D.'s bed room 'door open, a9ti.
Cowlantl's door open; they both orneol itoto
the pussagel- asAte passed the door she saw Major
D.'s heti turned down and no one in it. ,lre,ivent
forward to her ntistreis,'s bed roont; site knocked
at the door, and as the door. stpod opto she saw'
Major D. in bed. with her. Mistress.. Site took no
notice to her Mistress until she came tip a second
time. As outi its. she .go.t :Oown, her Mistress..
rang the bell. Shit met Major 1). going into his.
.ownroom-,--titeavent to her Mistress's, room, who
.appeared much .frightened, I,t was Sunday, the
2d of September, 181,1.,
Soltn-Burrongks,..scrsant.to Major D. in 1811,
proved the hand,writiog of Major D.
.SOFnetimes,
when the Major was out Jute, Mrs. C. sat uP with,
the servant...
The letter, proved to.he the Major'S writing,
'was then rend,' in .substance as follow*
woo, ..---, gives many ihanlis for a kind hotter
"Mich lie haul received, and should, have Nand Oka-
sure in onsweving.it sooner ; but 'the btisiness: was still'un•
settled. which earned hint. to ltristrol. Pardon his neglect of
the letter, hat he fruited soon to see her , . tier gay
turn of life would he touch gratified in Landon, and he bep
ged address to meet her there.o He envied his:
little rousieal friend, and he bettered that
,he was the only
one favoureol.witto a tete-a-tete since his absence."
The letter then went on to some fUrther tom-
plimeptA,, awd expressed a desire tor some more
rural walks near Chelmsford, and was -signed
" ALI.", • ,
This being the whole ease on the part of the
plaintiff, Mr. GURNEY, For the defendant, ad.:
dressed the Jury in ratitigation of damages, and
urged that the plaintiff had neglected his wife by
receivinglOffiders ti-,Oloard in his house, and had
exposed hey to temptation, and 'contended it was
a case for.notninal damages. The Jury fourrdier
the damages One Farthing.