The Sun.
London, England, 1820-03-02 00:00:00

FA cl-TION A 131. F. PARTIES.

The Earl of Derby gave a grand dinner yesterday to the
Directors of tlit Ancient NI slc ;Awl severa4 distinguiiheti per-

sonages, at his house in GL os.venor-square.
Lord and Lady Holland gave an elegant entertainment
yestrn day to Viscount and Viscountess Granville and a dis-
tinguilicd party, at Holland House.
• . FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS.

The Marchioness of Sal;sliury and Lord Cranborn hare le
:own, for their seat, Hatfield, Herts.

The Dowager Marchioness of Devonshire and the 141 dies
ill are arrived at their house in Hanover square, from their

sc:it, ()Tilersley Court, ,Worcestershire.

The Earl of Westmeath has left town, for his scat, Treland
Lord Robert Spencer left Isis house in Arlington-street yes•
:erday, for his seat in Sussex.

Mr. and Lady Caroline Lamb left Meillourne House yes•
:erday, for Brocket Hall.,

George tlyng, Esq. arrived yesterday at his house in Si
James's-square, fluor his seat-, Wrotliarn Park.

THE ORATORIO.--It is creditable to public
taste, that amidst all its vicissitudes it is still at-
tentive to this grand spec-ies of amusement. 'flee
seleytions last night at Drury-lane Theatre were
judicious and ikroperly vat ed. The Mount (f Olires
constituted the first part. The se-vond part coin-
, orf._•nced wilt the overture to Zavberfloie, and
selections from the opera and some tit die airs
were adapted to English words. GRAwN's Te
Deum introduced the third part, which was al-
together iniicellarreons.• The iirstrurnetrral pieces
were peculiarly corre?Yt, animvcil, arid grand, and
die vocal dt•parrnie • was well supported by
AMBROGETTI, Miss CAREW, Miss TRitE,
Miss CUBITT, and. Br..L.Locit 1. Several air's were
encored. The house was well A tteMl,:d, and the
applainie universal.

A GREAT PERFORMANCE.--A young farmer,
near Farnham, undertook, on Monday, to go on
foot 100 miles in 24 hours, for a cv,:ger of 20
guineas only. His ground was ma branch of fire
miles our of the Andover road. lie did '25 miles
in three hours and a quarter before he halted ;
and time 50 miles was done in ten hours and a halt,
when the-petlesttiiiu ate heartily and started again,
having 13 hoots to do the other 50 miles in. lie
did the next 25 miles in three hours and fifty mi•
owes, and had more than t.vo hours to rim the las,
mile in, .when he fell a little lame in the knee
which increased, but he won by four minutes.
Daring Attempt at Robbery and !Murder.—About
eight o'clock on Mooday evening, as Mt,
Slevensott, baker, of Gorlestone, and Mr.
Joseph Draper, of Belton, were passing througi,
Efoiron in a cart, the latter observed two titer
standing under a hedge ; one rushed forward to
seize the horse's, bridle, but missing his aim,
tell on the shat, when Mr. Diaper gave him a
sevare blow with a stick, and he tell back. Mr.
-then told Mr. Stevenson to lean forward, as
he saw a pistol in the ruffian's hand. Mr. S. did
.so immediately, at. the same moment his hat
was shot off his head, and they drove on.. About
a trotter of an hour after, a Gentleman vitkra
up- the hat, and on examining it, found a ball had
passed through time rim of be back par; of it.—
(Il4ry Post, illarcit, 1)

bard

Snit, NEWs.

of whiter ; crew anti pas!eogels saved.

London.

son to 1:411 SPENCI3R

" 11. M. S. Owen Glendower, Rio Janeiro, Dec. 22.

" Sir Triona,,,s HARDY sailed with the-Vengeur
and Hyperion about a fortnight since. lie how-
ever, left a brig with orders for us, rabid] orders
are to wait for the packet from England, (expect-
ed in January,) and then to proceed with alt
possible despatch to Monte Video, where the
squadron is.

" This ship, for the Youngsters, is the best in
the service. They do no duty in the day 'line et
all, no circumstance Lying allowed to take :I:cm
vrotn their hooks ; and we have a very clever man
for a Chaplain. Every Sunday the Captain has
chore!, on board, and alter church the Youngsters
have to L'arn the Collect for the day, when
all assemble in theTaptain's cabin, and he toads
to them two hours. • Captain Spencer is a rtmtit
pleasant, gentlemaAly officer .bas hen
enough to establish a reading room on the to ,-n.
nyck, which is open to all his Officers from niot.
the morning until four in the atiernoon; and I
assure you his library is of the most superior

rifer.

" You can fancy nothing more grand and sob-
lime than the appearance of this country,when you
make it in some 'places. Mountains, with thvir
peaks toweling above the clouds, on one side
crin►pletely perpendicular, peths►ps to the height
of several thousand feet ; then. again the beautiful
valiies crowded with luxurian► fruit trees, hardly
capable of sustaining their load of fruit. Of course,
every thing one can crave is verycheap, I►ine apples
pa~ticularly; we have theta brought alongside at
three-pence each, much larger than you can buy
them in England for a guinea. Precious stones
are very abundant, and remarkably cheap; but
we are as likely to get a piece of glass ;is a gent,
for the sellers ate treat knaves. The heat is vtaty
great ; but when we consider the immense alti-
tude of the 4tin, it is to be expected to day it
was 89:1 degrees."

St/It' LAUNCH.--Thi.J day, the Hawke, a new
third-rate, tvill be launched limn the dock-yard
at Woclwich. Every preparation has -been made
by Commissioner Crylvingham for the reception
of a numerous assemblage of persons, and several
spacious booths erected on each side of the ship,
or covered way, from 'whence the ship wi!l enter
die water, one of which is for the receFion of
the Board of Admiralty, and another for the Com-
missioners .ot the I•l4vy. The Hawke is conj-
l'ered as a very beawiruf ship, and has been some
time in building. The following are .the dimen-
sions, &c.

Length of glut (leek
Keel fin• tonnage
Hitt rcnie hreailt h
Depth of the hold
obe tanked on the (;un•iteck
Upper ditto • 2B 1 8 eiirrotiailes.
)9 12•poutitkts.
. (10 33 carronades.
) 6 18 ditto.
2 32-pounders.

Quarter ditto

Forecastle

Total . : .

76

Burden 1,738 tons.—To cal ry 590 men.

The figure-bea() is a representation, larger than hfe, of the
gallan't Admiral whose. /idllle it is to commemorate, in his
foll 0,,;/,,rm, in the act of drawing his sword from its scab-

The ftiner ,1 Of the innttleted Smitliers tAes
place this otternoon. lie procession will art our,
on toot, iron( his house, No. 2, Cartel -st reel,
13roatiway,Westniincer, between 3 and 4 o'clork.
Toe pelt will be borne by six of hi, brother offi-
ce,rs, who were present with 11,M at the cireNditti
in Cato•sti,et, 3nd most of the principi
A olice othcers will follow the corpse, Irfriiinz their
stares of office tied witti crape,—(3/orning Paper.)

COWER, AIIARCI4 1:—Arrived the Lord *Veiling:.
ton, Harris, from Batavia for Lc nylon, with loss

of sails, 16 tno Iths7 passage out and home ;
sailed from the Cape the Ist Dec. His Majesty's
bhip Menai was at the Cape.
LYMINGTON.; MARCH Thomas and

Elizabeth, May, from Plymouth for Portsmouth;
i'eith passengers and luggage, tan on shore nest
Hurst Castle, early this morning, and is now full

PCIOLE, MARCH Flirt, Warne, of Ly-
mington, from Eyemouth for Bristol, has been
on shore in Stndlaud Day, bilged, and full of wa-
ter; she has however, been brought in Itere, and
her cargo of herrings landed.

PORTSMOUTH. f'IARCH I.—Siiled the Eiroest,
lieatson, for Rotterdam, and Harvey, Miller, fur

DEAL, MARCH t.—Came down from the Rivet
the Canning, l'attet.son, and Lady Melville,
Stewart, for St. Helena, Bombay and China.--;
Arrived the Favourite sloop of war from Ports-
mouth ; Cornelia, Ilarseotein, from Batavia for
Amsterdam. The Cornelis has hyst her rudder,
having been on shore off Polkstone.
Fire o'Clock.—The outward-bound Eisr
men remain—moat of the others have saifed.

• HARWICH, Mnuctt I.—Sailed the Princess
Charlotte packet for Holland, and E4rl Leicester
ditto for Cuxhaven, both with mails.
IF'+..a►'swTFJ, Fitt. 28.—Arrived the Maria.,
Brown, from Banff for Bristol, leaky. Sailed the
Mansura, Dennis, for Bristol.

GU-WAY, MARCH 26.—The brig Provident
Success, Kendal, of Maryport, from St. Johik's
for Liverpool, was driven into Malbay Bay will)
loss of Judder, and in want of provisions.

The following is a further extrict from the

Letter from an
.thlieer on board the Owen Glen.
dower, commanded by the lion. Captain SPE NCCR,

IRELAND

The following Letter. has been circnkted in

It Liduci

" FAIR PLAY,"

ADDRESSED To THE
Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT, &c.

" If ignorance is Bliss,
"fis folly to be Wise."—GRAY.

SIR-4n the, detail of Parliament 3ry proceed-
ings as reported in The Courier of Thursday 1)e-
-cember, 234, a drclaratinn tu the purport follow-
ing, is attributtd to yon, " That the present
tranquillity of Irel.nd is owing to the axtrtidns
of the Catholic Clergy,'" and this at a moment
%%hen there does not appear to havt.t been all
qu,stion before the House, caling in the most
frinote. way for any sorb testimony, or the slight-
est animadversion thrown out respecting thal
class of the Community, to place them in need
of " tole

ANs,!niing therefore, that the `sentiments thus
given 'as yours were actually and bona flue de-
liveicti by you, 1 feel it nrcessary to offer a few
brief •remarks upon the subject; and I 0.01 do
act r,specifully and dispassionatcly, respe'cttllll3 '.
because your private virtues, you; excellence of-
heart., aud nrhanity pf manners, have _cast a halo
of respectability arnoild you, which no consit'
lion of your pc,litical errors can dissipate; and.
dispassionately, front my knowledge, that the
small stilt voice of reason may witt its way to a
calm and refh•c•ing mind like yaws—which would
be found proof against the lightning of reproach,
accompanied by all the thundet of ileclanhilinn.
That Ireland has beets in the enjoyment of a
state of unwonted tranquillity for some tiorr, past
(and which ..tises still higher from a conwarison
with the situation of" Great Btitain during the
s”me period)-is a fact I atn by no means inclined
to dispute, is. is much too gratilyingto-my- mind,
not to bebailed with the feeble cheer of my full ac-
quiescence, but as to the means by which she has
attained this enviable eminence, our opinions are
rather at variance. You Sir, ate ;wide to attri•
bute it—gravely—emt:hatically—oilicially—to the
exertir,ns of the Catholic (I presume you Inman
the Roman .Catholic) Clergy, and from your
leaving tin,mew toned every other class and de-
scriptiou of his Majesty's subjects, there is lair
ground. for supposing that to them solely and
exclusively belongs this mighty work of peace and
met ey ;, this grand, consummation —of national
felicity.

Let us- for a moment bar the door upon com-
mon sense and exuetience, and indulge in the
hypothesis of such being. thefact—let its admit
that 'he Popish Clergy of Ireland, have played
this God-like 'p.,tt, to the fullest extent you have
been prevailed upon to believe, and have blessed
then 'native land with unwonted peace and trail-
qttilliiy low have thty effected thisgtondobject,
and what has been the nature _ot the operation
which has, been crowned will such pre-eminent
success ? They are not Magistrates, so that it
could tint be by airy zeal or activity -in enforcing
the Id tl'S of the land. They, are men of peace : it
could not be by lending the aid •of the arm of
flesh.. to thO,e of their fellow.subjects,civil or mi-
litary, employed under
.the civil power. It could
(191 be by impiriitig such tirr,:ly information to
that civil power as would enable it to baffle the
designs of the disaffected, &c. for there is
scarcely any point on which they ate more tena-
cious than they are of their character fur the
most profound secrecy in. any matters confided to
them, either in confession, or otherwise.

We read in the Roman Histm y, of the army of
Constantine being once in _Et situation .ot great
distress and imminent danger of perishing for
lack of water, until miraculously ,relieved by the
prayers 'of a Christian legion 'belonging to it.
Have the objects of your eulogy bent in suppli-
'cation Witte the Giver of all good, and have their
prayers been efficacious ? Has a refreshing dew of
Loyalty .beets graciously pOured upon hearts ere
while obdurate in disaffection, and dovelike peace
descended into the abodes of rapine and assassi-
nation ?—HaVe they from the Pulpit, and eke-
where amid their flocks, witi voice "mighty in
operation," preached obedience tothe laws for the
laws sake ; and has their energetic eloquencetar-
ried the light of conviction home to the hearts
and the livcs of their figditors?
_ _

On this last head of enquiry I shall be exult-
ingly replied to in the affirmative.
I have real pleasure in admitting that in two
or three instances which have conic within-the
range of my own knowledge and observation,
such has been their conduct and such its copse-
Tiences, acid I am willing to believe that the pre-
sent day may not be without the recurrence of
similar instances. Bat unfortunately for the sta-
bility of this position upon the present 'occasion,
we have been lei fully into the secret. The enig-
ma is solved to oar hands, and our high blown
conjectures break under us. The public prints of
the ,pest Of Ireland have given the matter to the
world, by detailing ail the terrors of anathemas,
fulminated front the altar, end describing all the
maucenvres of excommunication, with the same
disgaisiing attention to minuteness witti which
the account at an execution or .41 boxing match
is served up for the palate of John Bull : a full
description is given us of the instantaneous effi-
cacy of this terrible and potent engine, and there
is no reason to doubt the fact.

Now, then, let us cone to a reckoning : you,
Sir, are pleased to assert that Ireland owes her
trariquillity to the Itoraish priesthood ; the means
resorted to by that body are, as we see, anathema
arid excommunication, and is it indeed come to
this ? Is Ireland at this time of day really 'indebt
ed for her tranquillity to superstitious terrors, to
the debasement of her children; to the mental
thraldom of human intellect ; to the niggling
mystery of bell, book, and candle, which the
verdicts of two Juries have pronounced to be ille-
gal? Tell it not in' (lath ! where now are all
those erudite oties, who have so often and so'
boldly asserted that the Son of prtestcratt was
set, and the reign of priest, influence at an end.
there not one of them to step forward con-
sistently as well as patriotically to take away this
foul reproach from their calumniated countrymen
And does Mr. Grant mean in sober seriousness in
euiogise this state of things, and the contrivers of
it what a paradox does this involve us; in

what a chain of sot/Tall are our senses bonndl ! !
Let me, present two portraits to view and call the
world ',title exhibition—" Look upon this picture
and atom) this"—here we behold Mr. Grant lead-
iog the- V toot Christian liberality. In the Bible
Society, he Paints iretgloging colours the neces-
sity of diffused kftoavledge ,and gospel posi!y.
truths divine come mended from his tongue."
He
,calls Upon his delighted anditots to unite in
the great and enlightening work, to assist in
hurstiog thsnse fetters of igootance and delusion
in. which so many of their christiao countrymen
-have too long groaned. " Let us break their
hoods in smiler, and cast away. their cords from
us," Esr the spear of Ithuriel,,and :the fiends
of darkness start withered from his touch. Now
let us nun our eyes to the tYher.picture. We be-
hold the game Mr. Grant, alter et idem, gravely
and officially, in his place in the Senate, honour._
ing, his uncalled for approbation, the forgers
of those very
,shackles which he so zeakittsl-y
in-
culcates the necessity of .bursting, and the eon-
' trieits of that night which he is so ar-:tent to en
li4h'eu, and voading thett on (if indeed any
/Indus were waning) to a clo.,ev, tivetting of the
chain Hutt a deeper-thiekcning 'of the darkness,
hay transferring to those very chains and datlstse.,s,
to holy frttul, to bigotry and to ignoraoce, the
Chaplet which should In the meet! of willing obe-
dience and conscientioxis loyralty.
Conitnent oil this a otild he a waste of time as
well as an insult to reason. Werel a Roman
Ca,holie layman, I 'confess I should deprecate 'lie
•
tulogittm you. are pleased to bestow ur,on toy
Clergy, inasmuch as it unat he at my elipence,
,for if the peace of the country is to be attriboted
thus exclusively to the ROmiah Clergy, the Coo=
clusi4;tl eppears to me to be self-eviiitlo, that to
floeki, to the Rotnish laity, are as solely and
exclusively to be attributed all the infractions of
that tranquillity that have disgraced our laud, an-
tecedent to this halcyon petiod„
I will not ask the invidious question, why those
persons, to whom (whatever may be their mode,
of tvotkine) you have officially atttihnted 'the
peace of Ireland, have taken the field 'at' so late a
pctiod of her History and at such a watteiug
tricot of their. own post er, at we tnay (-redid. the
Sages of Emancipation above alluded to) the
el,venth hour of their influence ? Why they !rave
reserved far their Country's het;efit the lees aad
diets of their authority ? My object is unt by any
Tenn,- to decry.any merit which -your microscopic
eve may have discovrted in their-condtiet,. doting
Ilt . few months you 113‘e been the Official \Vat ch-
,man of the State, it
_is to for, _others, at least
equally as deserving of notice, their portion of the
laurel of yotir approbation. Has this delightful
vision of priestly exertions knit noon your optics
with such dazzling splendour as to pl.4ce.all other
objects in shade ? Ilaee Von, Jhe Secretary of
State, yet to learn that of lite Millions of Itish-
men, (till two•are beyond the-pale of that CI ludo,
and conseqriently beyithd•the dicta of her Clergy ?
That in the great Protestant
.Province of Ulster,
it has not been found necessary to resort to these
eenciments, for the security of the Good sod fir
defeating the machinations of the Bad, which 'have
endeared your, predecessor to the heart of every
real him' of Ireland—it has not I say been found
oecesstoy to calf forthe operation of those Laws
in that great Province, with the exception of one
remote corner where it was of late deemed
"expedient to give their aid to the Revenue—Are
our Magistrates wholly undeserving of any men-
tion ? Ate 'our yeomanry that " loyal—effieirot—
cheap and Constitattimial'For cc—are they as dust
in the hal.ittee ? Be as Ithetal of your praise as yon
like, hot 1-t justice keep pace With your liberality;
" Get mon(y, said the tbrif:y citizen to hieson,
honestly if pig can, but get monay."—" Let •Ire-
land be trauquil---by the Belton of the law; if
possible, but let her be tranquil," call we behold
without regret the respected name of Mr. Grant
subsc.rihed to this piece Of political thtift 1 Yet'
what other conclusion can we draw from the evi-
dence before us ? I find it extremely difficult to
persuade myself that you would purchase the mo-
mentaty`traoquillitY of Ireland at the expence of
her mental darkness; that for one day of peace
you would compound with years of ignorance.—
would hip in the bud the germ of improvetnent,
and wrecks almost within sight of harbour, the
bask of intelleettal knowlea!ge. Nor can I 'agree
with many thinking men here, in consideritig your
motive for the declaratiou which forms the Subject
of this letter, -to have been a- kind of attempted
smoothing the way, for the Catholic question : it
iS a trick too paltry A'S' well as palpable, a matieta.
ere too contemptible for a mind like yours cal-
culated for' a lead‘r you will never stoop to be-
Come a pioneer. , •

lit brief, Sir, you have been, Pike many an ho-
nest man , beside, deceived anti misinformed :
" Quicquid voltiMui facile credimus,"
Goodness of heart ►has disposed you to credu-
lity, and yon have been imposed upon accordingly.
Let me brief!!, inform you to wbat, Ireland is [tal-
ly indebted for What tranquillity she et joys.

She owes it to the slow and ',Hen( but proves-
;ive march of intellectual improvement which the
objects of your praise are working heaven and
earth to check, but in vain. She owes much of
it to the tlianner in which her staple manufacture
is carried on, not in close end crowded factories,
but in that individual manner by which every Ma-
nufacturer has the resource of his bit of laud in
the hour of commercial rvverses. She owes it to
the exertions and example of such of her gentry
as have sense, virtue, and patriotism enough still
to cling to their native land. She owes it to iter
Clergy, her Magistrates, her Yeomanry ; and
through the medium of those salutary and wise
enactments which be has bequeathed to her, she
owes it to Robert Peel.

I have the honour to be, Sir, with the sincerest
respect for your virtues,

Your most obedient Servant,
Ballybay, Jan. 3. LM. MARTIN BLUEBELL.

[From The Hibernian Journal, of the 28th ult.)
;:THE RIBBONMEN.
" Naturam expellas (urea licet usque recurrit."
The nocturnal campaigns of these gentry still
go on with increasing audacity, A circumstance,
however, ha 4 just come to our knowledge, which
throLss a new and additional light upon the designs
of the banditti. During last week, the houfe.
of Air. reisse, of Ruxborough, a tew miles from

Luughtea; was • beset by a number of them,
Who were gallantly repulsed by the inmates. At no
great distance tram the mansion is a small village
called Kiicreest, where there happ; n to reside se-
veral Prot( slaty families ; •thither the Ribhoomen
bent their course, and-proceeded. to 'their usual
work of swearing in the defenceless inhabit an s.
But what was the oath they administered to these
poor Protestants Not to join the Ribbon Asso-
ciation, but to go, on the ensuing Sunday to Mass'
with their families on pain of being sacrificed to the
.fury of these bigolted ruffians. This is no hearsay
detail. Mr. Persse, a.Gcntleman of "large estate
and great respectability, is lamself the bearer of
the news, and is at this moment in Dubr n, and
has made Chia communication to the Government,
and also to many of his acquaintances: We will
not trust ourselves with-comment upon this fact
at present, hut we will treasure it up for the mo-
ment when demands are reiterated, and claims en-
forced, upon the strong ground that the acerbities
-of POpery are at an end—that she has lost her sting
and ,brown off her bigotry. We will leave it, in
'the mean `tinge, to the serious consideration- of
every Atiolting Protetan:', nod in a more especial.
tri.nitt•r, at this time, to ti:e- freeholders of that
per•sta,,ioo ; above all we recomoieod its notice to
t tie prople.of England We look forward
_,to, the
Indeoendent P.esv of theft COMillyt'rhAillk the, fact,
atfti Phrittg it before their readers in its' proper
shine awl true ‘Ve are sorty to, observe
'kind -of millstone weight, as it • were, hung
round the neck any of our most respected co-
.teroporaries•wttb respect to subjects of this,nature.
If touched unon tit all, they seem to itead as
• ItOoly•on approachir,e thein,•.and with as much
cawion, as ass ,ltpectant tiepre..v.;iiiprtnichts the
futiannelleo. toes of a goo, y - We are not
so squeanii-,ti ti,e vital interests of out coun-
try are tit stake. • With TRUTH for our beacon,
we boldly pyisk•vere in the course of loyal.y,
and firm Hitachuitnt to the C011561,16°1-1 ,sve have,
cl.,,lked out for outsell:vs, and list very •-ffort to
counttyonen', 'and liten then] on their
gust d. -against ' the increasing clangers which
'l threaten them. •

(From the Dublin Correspondent, Feb: 2-8.)
RII3I3ONMEN, OUTRAGES, &c. - •

Just as we were going 'to press, information
rcached us; that the Ribbomnen made their ap-
pearance in our county. Last night 'Cher visited
Tutionglimme, and robbed three houses of arms.
(Ennis Chronicle ) • •
Flidity night, four farm-houses in the neigh-
boot hood of Roxborongh, in the Liberties of
Limerick, were.. broken into, and the owner of
one of them inhumanly flogged, and threatened
with destruction it he uid not* leave. the
_place.
A pursuit being set. up ,by the country people,
three of the perpetrators were apprehended, and.
lodged in gaol. .
Some villas. on Sunday se'nnight, set fire to
the house of Edmond Wade, at Elmville, county
of Tipperary, with an intent to destroy his fatuity.
The armed party of ruffians who burned Mr.
Ryan's dwelling CourthrOwn, in the county of
Limerick,•hroke into J Rennettes house on the
same night, and tonic a fowling- piece, "powder-
horn, and shot-bag. They afterwards' proceeded
to the house of J. Nt,ster, of Courtbrown, fired
two shots through,his windowi, entered the house,
and searched for a towling-piece of his son's,
which was tent the day before to repair ; swore
the son as tb the trnth of his gun being.out, anti
then made him give them what powder and shot
he had. -

The house of Philip Brett, of Laffan's-folly, in
the Barony of Kilnamauagh, in the county of
Tipperary, was•entered by an armed banditti, two
of whoth were disguised, one with a hare skin -on
.his face, with holes cut in it to admit him to see
through, the other blackened. They presented
pitqols at Brett, who was at supper with his
fatuity, and desired him to deliver his gun to them ;
the poor man was going to obey them-, when they
ordered him to sit down, and matte his wife go
into the room with one of them, while the other
kept the pistol presented at Brett's bead. The
woman handed the gnu to the fellow, with which
they instantly (leper' ed, firing a shot by way of
triumph as they fat 'the house. There isrevery
,reason to hope that these 'Offenders will be brought
to justice, as the, Police of that Barony are making
strict search for them.