The Sun.
London, England, 1818-12-30 00:00:00

cusTom s LIST.

Extered Inwards, Dec. 29.—Christina, Klok, Dordt ; Per•
severence, Roberts, Antwerp; Proselyte, Barton, St. Vin-
cent's; Aurora, Hatch, Seville ; Aid, Leslie, Charante ; Su-
sanna, Means, Malaga; Providence, James, Genoa ; Mary,
Bell, Trieste ; Triton, Marshall, Quebec.
Entered Outwards, Dee. Richardson ,Jarnaictt ;
Ocean, Holmes, do.; Oalies, Alderson, Madeira ; Barbadoes
Planter, Redman, do.; Messcngar, Pace, St. Thomas's ; Mid-
dlesex, Adams, New York; Unity, Williamson, Bilbot
Emulous, Powell, Antigua.
Cleared Oltwards, Dec. 39.--Glory, Scott, Cadiz ; Zephyr,
Cox, Honduras; boddingtons, Parent, Bermuda ; Fanny,
Gilkison, St. Vincent's ; Melantho, Parrett, Bahia;Etuil4
de Matin, Le Ray, Rotten.

Attempt at Highway Robbery : or, the Tables
completely turned .—About half-past four o'clock
this morning, as Mr. Bertram, a respectable
butcher at \Velton, was proceeding. on horseback
to this town, on his way to IledonfortniOit
market, when he had got a little on this side
of the Anlatbv turnpike-bar, he was acco'ied
by two stiff-looking men in short jackets
on foot, who atter asking him a few trifling
questions, seized the brittle of iii horse,
and one of them put a bundle dawn on the
ground, and then struck Mr. B o•tram on •he side
with a bludgeon, at the same time tkuta,niug
his money. Mr. Bartram finding himself thus
situated, made an inuncliate resistance with
his whip, but was finally thrown upon the ground;
being a powerful man he continued a strong
and deterwiticd opposition to the robbers, and
threatening to shunt them, they thought proper
to draw back a little, when Mr. B seized their
bundle which lay upon the turnpike road, re-
mounted his horse,,and got- safe with it to Mr.
Lyon's inn, in Carr-lane, the melt following him
for some time, threatening his life if be did not
drop the bundle. Mr. B. was co;:siderably agi-
tated when he got to the inn, tool a good deal
hurt in his side by the setae, and the
force of the bludgeon ; but otherwise, we
,re happy to say, not materially hurt. The
bundle, on examination, was found to con-
tain a pair of pistols, one of them loaded, muz-
zled, and the lock tied up ; au. elegant green
plush purse, and a pocket-book ; a gentleman's
drab cloth upper coat with covered buttons
silk and cotton handkerchief onhenumed : and
very considerable sum of money in bills and gold..
The greatest praise is due to Mr. Bartram for, his
courage and activity an this perilous occasion.—
(Hull Packet, Dec. 23 )
Nlrs.Couvrs caused to he distributed to the poor
of Woodliftm Walter, in Essex, on Christmas Eve,
six hundred pounds of good beef, four hundrcd
qoartern loaves, three hundred pitt:nds of sugar,
three hundred on-aces of tea, anti two huncirtai and
wo articles of ‘varta clothing, and one shilling to
every family, to purchase ale to take with their
Christmas dinner. This Lady has also directed two
shikings per week, to be given to 25 of the most
distressed families during the three following

NiOVINCIAL JOURNALS.

(From The Cork. ,4(irCrtizer, of the 24th inst.) /

COUNTY MEETING,

Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, the High She-iff,
,Tetnmett Br.iwne, Esq. appeared .in the County
Court House, having called a Meeting of the No-
bility, Clergy, and Freeholders of the County,
pursuance of a Requisition directed to blip, signed
by many most respectable Gentlemen, to meet at
'hit hour, in order to frame- an Address of Condo.
it•nce to the -Prince Regent, on the melancholy
death of the Queen. It appearing, however, that
by mistake the advertisement calling the Meeting,
in some of the papers, stated the hour for as-
'ietubling to be two o'clock instead_ of twelve, as
'was intended, it was stlggtsted, that it would he

prudent to arljourti the Court to two o'clock ; the
High Sherikimmediaely complied, and the Meet•
ing adjourned accordingly. At two o'clock the
Court was again opened, the High Sheriff pre-
siding. Several Gentlemen took occasion, prepa-
ratory to the business of the day' being entered
upon, to complain that the notice or advertise-
inent calling tile Meeting had not been made suf-
ficiently public, ina,muCh as it %VHS only published
in three out ot the four Newspapers or this City,
and they required to know why the Advertisement
did not appear in the other Newspaper also.—
The High Sheriff in the' most courteous manner
obser:ed, that the advertisement had been inserted
in the Newspapers in which it was usual to pub-
)i,ll flatters ot the kind for the County.—The
charges for these inset7ions mere to be borne by
the County. and he; the High Sheriff, understood
that the Papers in which the advertisement in

question appeared were those 'approved of by the
G!•and Jori,es.• For his octet part he gave no parti-
• cuhir ditections on the subject, but the advertise-
me,tst wa‘ to in the usual way, and he con-
ceived the twitter had
,got sufficient and very ge-
neral publicity. His' great anxiety was that it
should. Atter a gteat deal of further conversa-
tion on this subject, Mr. John Bennett tuoved an
pdjoornment of the Meeting, contending, from the
thinness of it, that any Address adopted then

could not be fairly considered as emanating-from
the County at large. This step was considered by
several as bighly necessary, but after considerable
tilieussiou Mr. Bennett consented to withdraw
his motion. After which Lord Carbery rose to
Move that an Address at Condolence be presented
by the County to his Royal Highness the Prince.
Pegent, and that a Committee he appointed to
prepare it. His Lordship observed, that there
could not eXist a second opinion on the propriety
of the step they were about to adopt, and he could
not anticipate a single objection to it. lie would,.
therefore., "content himself with proposing, that
en Address be presented, and a Committee should
_ be named for its preparation. The following

Noblemen and Gentlemen were then Twin ted
es the Commit te,, • viz.:—Lord "Cat bery, Lord
•liineshorotigh, Colonel Hodder, Thonas G.
Fre:ich, Bramish, Daniel. Con nor, Savage
Ftilich, William Leader, Heyward St. Leger,
S Barry, and. Her.bert,Baldwin, Esqrs.—
The. Committee immediately retired, and returned
• in aboot tioee crafters of an hour, with "tire Ad-
dress, wi,ich Lord Carhery read to the Meeting.
We need nut say that this Address was in every
respt.:ct suited to the occasion: which gave rise to
- it, and that it particularly avoided glancing at any
thing political in the lite ofher late,Midesty, at
the same time that it spoke' in very animated terms
of the virttres. of the and of the model of
pori,y and excellence slje ever shewed the
Eng+sh nation,and which made the British Court,
tinting her long lite, the seat of morality and vir-.
- toe. „Tr.,,t as this Address was about to be put,
Mr. John. Boyle rase, and atter a'few observa-
tiozis proposed au Address which he had prepared
an Amendment to that which •.had been ap-.
proved by the Committee. His objection to the
latter was simply, that it fell short of expressing
(tic sympathy which the country felt for the suf-
ferings aid ingnish of the Prince Regent ; nor
did it, as be alleged, describe our own.sympa-
thies on Ors tarelancholy occasion. These topics
his Address fully embraced, and therefore it was
that he urged- it-. Mr. Mahon seconded this Ad-
dress • • .

Mr. Beamitih said that this latter Address was
rot drawn up in the .usual way that Amendments
were generally- put. It -was altogether 'meant
is a substitutiOn for that prepared .by the Com-
mittee,- *awl it would. not be acting well by that
body to.sayi-that the Athlress they bad agreed
upon was not suitable, and that it should be re-
. jtetud. 'snbatitted that the Address brought
in by' the Committee ought to be put and
adoted. • .
Lord Casbery, 'Mr. Savage French, and several
other Alentlemen were of the same opinion;
whilst•Nir. Bennett, Mr. Boyle, and some whets;
insisted that the Amendment should he put and
disposed of in .the first -instance„ and that after
- that the original 'Address should 'he put. This,
they contended, was the usual course adopted in.
and out of: Paaiament on all 'public occasions.'--
T he High .Sheriff repeatedly expressed his anxious
wish to be guided by what was usually done at
public- meetings in similar cases, with which, he
said, he was not much acnitaiated, Mod as there
seerned such a diversity of opinion in the Meet-
lug, be really did not know to which feeling he
ought to accede. The Court was now occupied for
nearly an hour in arguing and considering not
only this hitt •several Other topics that were.'in-
. traduced to the Meeting. It• was submitted that
no man who was not a Freeholder of 'the County
ought to.take any part in the proceedings of the
day anti it was complained that the proposer and
• seconder of the second Address were nut Free-
holders. The correctness of the latter observa—
tion was very stoutly denied, and it was urged by
several that not only persons having freeholds
in the County, but even Citizens of Cork might
take a part iu the proceedings. The High She-
riff repeatedly expressed a hope 'that those who
supported each Address would agree amongst
themselves on the manner in which they should
Ire put: but there being no.likelibood of this, the

High Sheriff, about four O'clSck addresser) tbell
Court., and said, that as there did not appear a
possibility of the parties coming to an agreement.
on the subject, and as it. was then getting late,
and also as at the early part of the dayit ha-d been
mentioned that sufficient publicity had not been.
givt.ti of the calling the Meeting, he thought the
best thing he conic! do e,,a to adintan the Meet-
ing althgetber, and call a new Meeting of the
Cooßty, aml he would take care that every thing
sboidd he done to givellic matter the utmost
possible pnblicity.—This proposition was received
wiili general satisfaction, and the Meeting ad-
journed.