The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-17 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 15.--The business in the
British Plantation Sugar market this week amounts
to about 900 hhds ; the demand was met freely by
the holders at a reduction of ls. per cwt. from last
week's prices. Nothing done in East India or
Foreign Sugar. About 150 punchs. Molasses have
been taken at 295. for Berbice, and 30s. per cwt. for
Demerara. In Coffee the sales have been trifling,
consisting only of a few casks to the trade at former
rates. Two hundred bags fair Barbadoes Ginger
have been sold by public auction at 455. 6d. to 495.
per cwt. ; and by private treaty a lot of 150 bags
East ,India Black Pepper at nd. per lb. In Rum
the sales are limited and prices steady.
We have had a steady demand for .Cotton
throughout the whole of the week ; the sales (of
which 5000 hags American have been on specula-
tion, and .'soo,bags for export) amount to 14,500
bags, consisting of 6100 Bowed at 51d. to 7d.,
'chiefly at 50. to sid. for middling to fair; 1140
Orleans at 51d.• to 81, chiefly at 6i-d. to 7d. for
' middling fair to good fair; 3640 Mobile and Ala-
bama at 51d. to 6id.; 210 Sea Island at 12d. to
20d.; 4O Stained ditto at 61-d. to 10d.; 600 Per-
nambuco at Sid. to 9d. ; 800 Maranham at 71d. to
8-acli; 230 Bahia at Id. to Bd.; 1230 Egyptian at
71‘to M., chiefly at lid. ; i3O Demerara at 71d. to
714..; 30 Tortola at 51d. to 6id.; 30 Carthagena at
4id.; 330 Surat at 4d. to 4td.; 120 Bengal at 4d.
to 41d.
The arrivals are 2097 bags; 100 Demerara and
100 Vine Barbadoes are declared for auction on the
21st instant.
For Tobacco there has been a partial demand for
Ireland, and some small parcels have been disposed
of at steady prices ; the manufacturers continue to
buy sparingly. The Corn Market has been dull,
and prices generally have declined a little. For
Wheat in bond there is some inquiry, but the holders
not being disposed to sell without an advance, very
little has been done.-Flour suitable for export is
growing scarce. About 30 casks old American
Clover seed have been sold at 40s. per cwt.
Imported into Liverpool, • from the Bth to the 14th
December, 1827, inclusive, by 2 vessels from De-
merara, 1 St. Doniingo,'3 Quebec, 1 Montreal, 1
New York, 1 Philadelphia, 1 Maranham, 1 Cha.
rente, 1 Sicily, and 1 Ireland :-
Demerara Sugar 638 hhds. 17 tees. ; Molasses
128 casks ; Rum 301 punchs. 115 hhds.; Brandy-
-80 casks; Coffee' 8 tees.; Montreal Ashes 691
brls.: United States' Cotton 429 bales ;
ditto, 1,660 ditto; Ireland ditto 8 ditto; American
Tar 808 brls. ; Turpentine 1,471 ditto ; American
Flax seed 721 tees. 25 bags ; Quercitron Bark 16
casks; Olive Oil 31 ditto; Shumac 520 bags;
Brimstone 100 tons; Nicaragua Wood 30 ditto;
Mahogany 759 logs ; Cochineal 18 serons ; Argol
Dust 39 casks; Cow and Ox hides No. 250.
'Nothing ,was done in Turpentine during the early
part of the week, owing to no fresh imports being
landed; yesterday 1300 barrels were offered by
auction, the quality about threVourths soft, the
whole was taken at 2s. 9d. for shipment to another
port; the trade here have since given 11s. 3d. per
cwt. for '470 barrels, scarcely so good in quality,
thereby establishing an advance of full 6d. per cwt.
The stock of this article at the close of the present
year will be found to be much smaller than at the
same period of any year since 1823, when the prices
ruled from 12s. to 14s. 3d. per cwt. ; there is,
therefore, some prospect of prices still improving.-
The imports
of American Tar continuing pretty con-
hsideiltlle, the price has further declined; 620 barrels
offered yesterday by auction have hem sold at' 1375:
9d. per barrel. In Stockholm nothing done ; Arch-
angel brings 15s. 6d. in small parcels.
Ashes still continue in good request, full 900
brls. having again changed hands, consisting of 520
brls. Montreal Pot at 265. a 275. for old, and 295.
6d. aSOs. 6d. for new; 150 brls. New York Pot,
brand 1826, at 295. 6d. a 295. 9d.; 80 brls. New
York Pearl, brand 1823, at 30s. and 150 brls. old
Montreal Pearl, at 30s. a 30s. 6d. with a few of
the-late import at 31s. 6d. per cwt. For rough
Brimstone there is more inquiry, and about 180
tons have been disposed of at .5/. 12s. 6d. a Si. 15s.
in quantity, and 61. a 61. 6s. for small parcels.
More inquiry has appeared for Quercitron Bark,
but little fine Philadelphia remains in the market ;
25 hhds. have been sold at 15s. 3d. and 20 hhds.
New York, 11s. 6d. per cwt. The business
in Dyewoods has been confined to 50 tons Cam-
peaelty Logwood at 71. 10s. a 71. 12s. 6d. and 15
tons Jamaica at 61.55. per ton, with 65 tons Cuba
Fustic, from the quay, at 91. 10s., 27 tons Spanish,
at Si. 2s. 6d., and 30 tons ditto, at 61. a 61. 10s. per
ton. In Nicaragua Wood, Barwood, and Cam-
wood, nothing done. 22 serons Caracca Indigo
were .offered yesterday by auction, the whole sold
from ss. Sd. to 7s. Bd. being a further decline of
about 6d. per lb. In East India no sales. 100
double bales of Turkey Madder Roots have sold at
425. There appears to be less inquiry for this ar-
ticle. The sales of Madders have been trifling.-
Sicily Shumac has become dull of sale; the busi-
ness of the week is only 100 bags at 10s. 3d. per
cwt.

-
On Thursday 2,000 bags Saltpetre were offered
by auction, of which about 300 bags Were sold at 28s.
a 295. and• 100 bags at 30s. per cwt. the former cur-
rency of the market being fully supported. A few
casks fine Venetian Cream of Tartar have been sold at
725. In. Argo' nothing done this week. Fine
picked T'akey Valonia is in good demand ; 130
tons lipve 'brought 161. 17s. 6d. to 171., and 30 tons
ratl,r-ordinary 16/. per ton. Cochineal is taken in
single packages at 12s. for silver, and 13s. for black.
Some inquiry has appeared for Lemon Juice, and
40 pipes concentrated have been sold at lid. per
degree. he only sale of Clover Seed is a parcel of
40 casks old American red at 40s. per cwt.; in Flak
Seed nothing done. Six barrels ord►nary American
Bees' Was.sold at 91. 10s. per cwt., fine is held for
10/. ss. to 101.10 s.
The transactions in Olive,Oil are not extensive,
the sales being confined to the consumptive demand;
about 12 tuns Gallipoli at 401., and five tuns Ma-
laga at 36/., is the only business done. An import
of about 160 tuns Newfoundland Cod Oil has been
received, of which 60 tuns have been sold at 19/.
10s. to 20?. per tun ; Seal is steady. In Seed Oils
but little doing. Palm Oil is more inquired for, and
about 200 tuns have been sold at 241. 10s. to 25/.
per tun. Oil of Turpentine cannot now be bought
under 54/. per tun. The only business done in
Hides is 884 salted New York Ox and Cow at sd.
to 5d., 870 dry salted Brazil at 7-ad., part damaged,
and 150 salted Barbadoes at 71d. per lb. In Ca-
rolina Rice no sales ; about 950 bags East India
have been sold from 13s. to 13s. 6d., and 350 bags
it 155. 9d. per cwt. Bonded American Flour, for
export, is inquired for, and about 800 barrels sold at
21s. 6d. to 225. 6d. per brl. Hemp remains steady.
The sales of Tallow have been considerable, princi-
pally at 395. 6d., but 40s. is now obtained for Yel-
low Candle.

WORM DAWS, framework-knit-
ter, of Bulwell, has Vought to us a written statement, the
substance of which is, that a few weeks ago a child of his,
only thirteen months old, Voided 260 round worms, mea-
suring fpgalsifx to ten inches long ! The child had exhi-
bited .a veiny ,meagre appearance, notwithstanding it ate and
drank to excess, and tile administering- of a medicine
bought in Nottingham market-place, produced the effect
above stated, since which the child has improved astonish-
, ingly. —Nottingham Review.

Mr. BENNETT, King's Counsel, stated the case
for the plaintiff. The plaintiff was man in a rank
of life comparatively humble, but he was not on that
account less welcome to the temple of justice. He
lived in Drumker, a small village in Leitrim, where
he kept an inn. His family consisted of a wife, a
son named Robert, and two daughters. The eldest,
Anne, was the subject of this action. She was
about 20 years of age. The defendant was a Roman
Catholic Clergyman, and, with respect to that gen-
tleman, be (Mr. Bennett) had no instructions, nor
if he had would he follow them, to say one disres-
pectful word. It was not his practice, and he hoped
it never would, to say any thing in a Court of Jus-
tice disrespectful to any one, or tending to agitate
the feelings or distract the minds of the people of
this country. No, God forbid The plaintiff's
house was in the parish of Innismagrath, of which
the defendant had beeli, and still was, the priest.—
He came there in February, 1825, and there being
no residence for him, took up his abode in the plain-
tiff's inn, where he continued six weeks until he got
a house,of his own. During that time he became
intimate with a family, which intimacy continued
after he left them. In September, 1826, the plain-
tiff was thrown into prison at the suit of a creditor.
It never entered into the plaintiff's mind that Mr.
Maguire, who was so intimate with the family, so
high in character, rank, and station, would entertain
any criminal intention towards his daughter. But such
he (Mr. Bennett) felt it his painful duty now to
declare was the case, "While 'the father was in pri-
son, her seduction was accomplished ; he need not
tell them how, as the young woman would be pro-
duced to state the facts herself. It was necessary
for them to know, that the family of the plaintiff was
Protestant; and that no marriage between a Pro-
testant and Catholic in this country was legal, unless
performed by a' Protestant clergyman. It might be
further necessary for him to mention, that the ap-
proaches of Mr. Maguire were honourable. The
Learned 'Gentleman then proceeded to state the ,
facts as they subsequently appeared from the
-testimony or the witnesses. The Learned Gen-
tleman read a letter from the Rev. Mr. Maguire,
dated in Dublin, in answer to one from Jane, the
second daughter. of the defendant, who accused
him of participancy in her sister's flight from home,
in which he asserted in the most solemn manner
his innocence. Other parts of this letter, Mr. Ben-
nett contended, contained corroboration of the de-
fendant's guilt. But in addition to his letters, he
had pFrsons to produce who would attest the truth
of the charge against the defendant. On the 14th
of July, 1827, he returned to his parish ; at that
time the family had determined to obtain legal redress
for the injury done than, and from that moment the
ruin of the father commenced. Mr. Maguire, in the
affidavit made on his part, himself admitted that this
poor man could not get a single Catholic to dig out
his potatoes.
The Rev. Mr. Maguire (who sat near his Counsel)
exclaimed, " No, no."
'Mr. O'CoNNELL—No, Mr. Bennett ; he stated
that the plaintiff's crop was dug out by Orangemen.
Mr. BENNE::: continued—lt was no matter. The
most cruel courses were taken to injure and harass
him. The defendant had pleaded in two ways—
first, a general denial; then that the plaintiff was an
insolvent. Such a plea as the latter, in an action of
this sort, he had never known before. What was
the real meaning of this plea ? That the poor man's
daughter might be the object of seduction un-
punished ? Did any innocent man ever resort to
such a defence ? The plaintiff was a poor man—he
may be an insolvent ; but, good God ! could they
believe that a man would attempt to urge such a
plea in a case of this sort in any Court of Justice ?
Innocence would never resort to such a subterfuge.
With the Jury now remained the question of da-
mages. He had full confidence that they wouldm-
vestigate the case with fairness between the parties.
He trusted they would not give one farthing more
to the plaintiff because the defendant was the Rev.
Thomas Maguire; and that, on the same account,
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verdict
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the evidence.
Ann Magarahan was the first witness called. Her
thw
appearance was not very prepossessing for a person
in her rank ; she was superbly dressed. She seem-
ed peffectly at her case while giving her evidence.
She was sworn and examined by Mr. Jackson. She
stated that she was the daughter of the plaintiff, and
described his residence. She knew the defendant,
who came to her father's house about three years
ago, and resided there about six weeks, during which
time he had been kindly treated. He visited after-
wards, and was on terms of close intimacy. In No-
vember, 1826, her father was thrown into prison;
an intimacy of a peculiar nature took place between
her and the defendant after he had performed the
marriage ceremony; she. did not recollect the pre-
cise time, but believe it was in September, 1826.
The ceremony was performed in her father's house ;
there. was not a third person present ; her father
breenw:isnae dwsahar est,
was in the
.house at the time ; the particular inter-
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became pregnant and left her father's house, fearing
could not say he knew her intention to go to Eng-
land. She went by the coach to Dublin, and went
from. thence to Liverpool in a steam-boat. She ar-
rived in Manchester early in April; she went to
a lodging provided by a former female servant of
her father's, named Catherine Magarahan ; she re-
mained at her. new lodgings about three weeks, during
which nothing particular occurred except writing a
letter to the defendant. She was delivered of a still born
infant in Manchester. She was attended in her con-
finement. by Dr. Holloway and three women. She
received 10/. 7s. 6d. from the defendant previous to
her departure for England. Had no other nunleb
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nor did she rift the letter she
wrote Mr. Mar it :cheater after her
confinement, and was at home in a fortnight after.
She did not see the defendant during her absence ;
never was in Scotland, nor wrote a letter as from
that country, Has seen the defendant write.—(AL
letter was handed to her, which sbe stated was in
his hand-writing; it was dated May 4, 1827.)
She h a Protestant, and believes her father was
always one, Sbe saw the defendant four or five
times after her return, at his own house; on two of
those occasions her sister was present. Re'Ceived
letters from him after her arrival; they were delivered
by Catherine M'lnweeny. At one of these inter-
views, the defendant offered to give her 3001. if she
would declare, that now, for the first time, she was
at liberty since her return, and be said that more
wauld be made up for her, if she consented to come
into Court, throw herself upon the mercy of the
Judge, and declare that was a fabrication. Her
sister was present on this occasion. All intercourse
ceased between them on the morning of his depar-
ture for Dublin. In the last month, or the month
before, she acted in no particular capacity ;' she was
in the habit of attending the bar.
Cross-examined by Mr. O'Cosnsm---Did you
ever deny what you have sworn to this day ?r-I
might have denied it.
Did you ever take a false oath ?—I do not re- t
collect.
Did you never take an oath that all this business
was a conspiracy against Mr. Maguire ?—No.
Do you distinctly say, you never offered to swear
that this was a diabolical conspiracy against Mr.
Maguire ?—I never offered to swear, but I said I
would swear. (Great laughter.)
In answer to further interrogatories, she said she
slept with Miss Dillon, who lived near her father's,
for a fortnight, when gone six months with child,
and yet that lady never suspected she was in the
family way. The bed- they slept in was very nar-
row, and she and Miss Dillon laced each other
every morning.
Mr. O'CONNELL—We had a talk just now as to
what you offered to swear, or simply agreed to
swear. Did you ever say that your family were of-
fered 6001. for prosecuting the present suit ?—I
never did.
You never said or wrote any thing to the purport,
that your family were offered 600/:'to prosecute this
affair ?—Never.
Here a letter was produced, which the witness
admitted to be in her hand-writing. It contained a
declaration that the 6001. was to effect, amongst
other purposes, the extinction of " the Jesuit
priest."
Who gave you that beautiful Leghorn bOnnet ?
Mr. Maguire. (Laughter.)
But that is a fashionable and excellent gown.—l
hope it is the colour you admire ? (The colour was
purple.)
Mr. O'CoNNErz—I thank this pert and profligate
witness for this answer : it gives the Court and Jury
an insight into the whole conspiracy, its origin, and

motives.
Mr. O'CONNELL--Where have you lived since
you came to Dublin ?
Mr. BENNETT objected to the question. There
had bean, a few minutes previously to this, a shout
in the hall, to which Mr. Bennett referred as a proof
of the danger of answering the question, pointing to
the consequences which might happen to persons in
whose society she had been in town.
Mr. O'CONNELL—My Lord, this is delusive, or
foolish. I will show how much the opposite party
are influenced by delicacy or fear in the present in-
stance. (To the witness.) Did not your brother
go to the chapel door of Mr. Maguire to serve his
latitat, and did he not know that the Bishop was in
the chapel at the time ?—He did.
Mr. O'CoNNELL—So much for the apprehensions
under which these good people labour.
She was further cross-examined by Mr. O'CON-
NELL, and admitted that in Manchester she went by
the name of Armstrong, that of the gentleman who
had given her his wife's gown.
Mr. O'CONNELL then read the letter alluded to,
and allowed it to be written by her. It was ad-
dressed to the defendant. In it she speaks of the
conspiracy against him : of her having sworn, and
being still ready to swear, before a magistrate, of
his innocence, and of the sum of 6001. having been
offered to her family to go on with the prosecution.
By a Juror.—Did you think that the marriage of
Mr. Maguire with you was a legal one, and that be-
nefit could accrue to you from it ?—He told me it
was legal, and I believed him.
Jane Magarahan was examined by Mr. KEATING.
The principal points in her testimony were, that a
particular conversation respecting this business oc-
curred
between the witness, her sister, and the de-
fendant, at his house : she stated to him that she had
been persuaded by his victim to come there,when he
stopped her mouth by saying that her sister was
his wife, and that, in the eyes of Heaven, she should
be considered so as long as she had life. Her sister.
then told the defendant that she did not believe it ;
on which he said he would perform the ceremony
again. He rent on his knees, took a book in his
hand, and solemnly protested that she was his wife.
Her sister desired him to perform the ceremony in
presence of a Protestant clergyman. His reply was,
" that if he did so, he would be laughed at.
Here a person from one of the side passages stated
to the Court, that an officer commanding a mili-
tary party was in waiting, to receive his orders from
the Sheriff. This officer applied to the Court in
order to obtain, the directions to be observed by the
military.
Baron SMITH expressed his anxious desire that no
unnecessary measure should be adopted, and that no
idle calculation of danger should, cause the inter-
ference of the soldiery.
Catherine Magarahan was the next. witness—She
deposed to the fact of the birth of the dead child, at
Manchester.
She was cross-examind by Mr. SHIEL, but nothing
of consequence, or at all bearing on the case at issue,
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Philip Dixon Hardy deposed to the handwriting
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of the defendant in three letters shown to him.
Pope and Maguire had not taken
was not, he said, an action brought for a redress of
a wrong received, it was a political action, and the
wo:lsrt.
—one that would never have been brought forward
to pollute a court of justice if thed. etime.
purposes,This
sacrifice to the living God.
not a question of mere damages—Ft was one invol-
isicaucessionTbheitsw,ne,agn
ving the sacred character of a priest of the Most
High God, who had sworn at the altar to chastity
and a pure life—a priest commissioned to offer up
Against such a man
was this:action brought, and the -- who swears it
says he intended she should be his wife while he
was to continue to act as a priest. No damages
could be expected from his client; all he had was
his parish, and if a verdict were found against him,
what Bishop would leave him in that parish for one
hour ? The action was, then, manifestly not
brought with a view to damages. His client would
never have been at the bar of justice defending
himself against such an action, were it not that he
as the advocate of the religious opinion. a of the
He was goaded into that
people of this country.
controversy. He
orH erahthaedr wthaes
hardihood to come for-
; he did so that it might be seen
cacomnterofvo
for-
ward in this great city, and publicly dared " the
s;rits," as they call therrivlls. _ The learned
blame of
having put into the I
p .ettdings the plea of the
aielsel_. a tine
gentleman took to
plaintiff's
! Hated, not With hi but with
that the action or, m,
discomfited faction, who,writhing under the disgrace
' of defeat, defaming
• ' and b
wished to lessen its ignominy by
insolvency
blackening their victor. He had recorded the
' , • yrs insolvency to show that
[ paint! the temple of jug-
. had been profaned, thatthe false i tics and idolatrous
worship of the demon of bigotry had been set up in
that temple, and that the victim of the saerifi" was
to be Mr. Maguire, while the Orangeraeo' and the
plaintiff and his relations, were to ho the priestly