The Sun. — 1823-01-09 (London, England)

THE TIMES.] The public is amused at seeing the old vagabond, Cobbett, writhe and howl under pur chastisement. They will long recollect the *comparison of the bear that sunk the boat : we are now teaching the hear' to dance (in the same way that those animals are usually taught a practice so alien to their nature), by placing the monster on hot clamps of iron, and making him skip with agony, while we, his instructors, fiddle to him.— Our first approach to him to-day, however,shall be serious. Familiarized as we are to this worthless man's, monstrous falsehoods, we could really hardly believe our own eyes when we read, in his publicaiion of last night, the inconceivable assertion that he was the author of the articles which appeared in this Journal in support of the injured Queen,—" which, he says, he gave to us " in an indirect way ; for we should otherwiee " have rejected them, and used our influence to " tear her Majesty in pieces." Besides giving the lie, as we now do in the most solemn manner, to every tittle of this unparalleled falsehood, we shall go further, and express our firm belief, that the only ,man capable of falsely claiming those articles as his own,—the real author of every one of which is now seated in the room where this, of which he also is the author, is written,--is that man, if he deserves the name, who had the heart to force his own child (his lion so often mentioned in his writings)—to force him, we say, almost weeping, into the witness box to commit perjury I a black-hearted, moody, perfidious soul-murdering villain. • Take that, ruffian ! and if thou bast one particle of a father's feeling still lingering in thy guilty bosom, haVe at least one sleepless night, and we forgive thee: perhaps thy son may do the same!. With respect to the real author of those articles, he has no wish toclaim any reputation from thew ; his only desire being to do good : but he could not submit, to the conscious shame of having his productions, written under the strongest conviction in sincerity and truth, fathered by such a creature as Gobbet t.  ROBBERY OF THE BELFAST MAtr..----We yesterday published a paragraph respecting this daring robbery. The Dublin Freeman's Journal of Monday last, gives the following additional particulars :—" The robbers (about fifteen in number) surrounded the coach, and took the fire arms, consisting of three double barrelled short guns, three double-barrelled brass blunderbusses, and four pistols ; they broke open the lockers, and took the mail bag for Drogheda, and several other parcels : there was a sum of 10,000/. in whole bank notes in a part of the coach which fortunately escaped their search. The knowledge of this sum (which was for the Belfast Bank) being in the coach, it is thought occasioned the attack. The robbers were two hours and a half in arranging their plans before the art ival of the coach. The went round to the neighbouring cottages,and aftershutting up every person in their place, and sending them in from their out-houses, they left an armed sentinel at the doors to prevent their coming out. The occasion of their getting possession of the Drogheda mail bag was owing to the guard having it uppermost, in order to hand out to the Post-office when passing through. There were four inside and three outside passengers, all of whom were searched and robbed of their watches and money ; they also took the contents of their trunks. There were five watches and about 100/. taken from the  passengers, but they had no great booty in the Drogheda bag. The guard, Lewis Byrne, was removed to Drogheda, and lies dangerously Hi. There were soveral shots through the body of the  coach, but happily neither the coachman nor tin pasiengers received the least injury. The coact afterwards proceeded on to Belfast."