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his private esteem for that officer;-and that in one fed for their relief. It is with no little satisfactio" of Bainbridge's letters after the destruction of the that your memorialists have perceived their governJava, (see page 411,) that amiable officer said-ment has felt the force of these important truths, "The Java was excedingly well fought and bravely and has taken some measures for the protection of defended-Poor Lambert, whose death I sincerely our infant manufactures.

regret, was a distinguished gallant officer and a It is, however, with much regret, that your meworthy man.”—Ouce more.-Who has forgotten, the morialists have perceived, that the interest of the humane, generous and excellent Byron, and his manufacturers of iron has not received that degree. treatment to the gallant capt. Southcomb, and his of attention and support which its vast importance two wounded tars? His eulogy is recorded by in a national point of view would seem to suggest. Stewart; and the editor of the Weekly Register Need we go into detail to prove its importance? declared that his manly behavior would have been The ship builder and the agriculturist-the manrequited a thousand fold, should the fortune of war facturers of wool and cotton-in short, every art, have thrown him into our hands, (page 413.)--But trade, and manufacture, would be paralized, and it is useless to multiply examples, where a solitary the national defence compromitted and endangered, case would be sufficient. "Fiat justitia" is an were a supply of that essential article wanting. We invaluable maxim, and is well interpreted in the know that it may be answered that we can be suppli trite saying, "Give the Devil his due."....Let me ed by foreigners. But, we would ask, is it either safe close, by distinctiy disclaiming any wish to charge or honorable, to depend upon others for the supply of upon com. Porter inconsistency, after the explana- an article absolutely necessary to our independence, tions given by him-I am convinced his intentions our prosperity, and happiness? A supply too which were pure, however ambiguous his manner of ex will be sure to cease at the very moment it is most pression, or unjust the consequences which might needed. Your memorialists believe that the manube inferred from it. Ilis name is already brilliant facturers of iron are at present in a very depres in history; and Britain herself will long remember sed state, owing to the great influx of foreign iron, the defeat which she sustained in the very moment and the reduced price at which it is sold. They of her triumph over him.

Manufactures of Iron.

MEMORIAL TO CON⚫RESS.

H.

believe, that unless timely aid is afforded, this important branch of our national industry must sink into total ruin. And they believe, that the loss ef a large proportion of the immense capital employed therein must inevitably follow, with the diverThe annexed petition (says the New York Ga- sion of the remainder to other objects, and the conzette of the 24th ult.) was received from a commit- sequent dispersion of the numerous workmen em. tee of Merchants of Philadelphia, and published in ployed in the business, will be a national calamity the Evening Post of Tuesday, with a notice that it which will be severely felt-more especially if the would be left at the Tontine Coffee House yester-nation should unhappily be engaged in a foreign day, for the signatures of our citizens; but, in con-war. sequence of a publication that appeared in the Post The great length of time which it would require of Wednesday, signed "P. S. I. Old Sable," the petition will be withheld for a few days, to give those persons, who may be called on for their signatures, an opportunity of judging of the proprie ty of signing it.

To the honorable Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled.

The memorial of the subscribers, citizens of the United States, respectively represents

to re-establish those expensive works, and to bring them to the state of perfection they are now in, and to form and initiate new workmen, forms, in the opinion of your memorialists, a very strong reason for preventing their destruction.

Many of your memorialists being engaged as ar tists in the use of iron have no hesitation in stating, that the superior quality of the American iron, and the facility of procuring it of suitable sizes for particular purposes, renders it an article of primary importance in their business, and that the want of a sufficient supply of American iron would be an injury of the most serious nature.

That your memorialists believe it to be a truth, confirmed by reason and experience, that a nation can be independent, only in the proportion that she possesses and makes use of the means of pro- Your memorialists respectfully request, that ducing those things within herself which are es- your hor.orable bodies will take the premises into sential to the subsistence of her people, and the your serious consideration, and that you will lay protection of the state. That most of the govern- such a duty upon the importation of pig iron, ments of Europe, convinced of the truth of the castings, and bar iron, as will afford a reasonable above proposition, have afforded to the active in- protection to manufactures, and such as will com dustry of their citizens such aid against foreign port with the true interests of the United States. competition as eircumstances appeared to require; And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever and the consequences have been that those coun- pray.

American Manufactures.

FROM THE UNITED STATES GAZETTE.

tries have increased in trade and manufactures-in wealth and independence. If in those older countries of Europe the protection of the government was found necessary to secure the artist and the manufacturer against foreign competition, it is reasona- Notwithstanding the great sacrifices that have ble to suppose, that, in this young and rising ration, been, and are still suffered on the sales of imported such protection must be peculiarly necessary. In manufactures, we observe a powerful effort making Europe arts and manufactures have been long pro- to maintain the permanent competition already gressing, and have attained to a degree of perfec- founded in the United States in various articles of tion, which, connected with cheapness of labor, indispensable consumption. Societies for the proand the excellence of their machinery, must enable motion of domestic manufactures are organized in them to undersell our own productions in our own many of our towns and in alnost all our capital cimarket, and thus break down our rising manufac- ties-They are actively engaged in preparing t› tories, unless the arm of our government is extend-submit to the consideration of the next congress

their claim upon the national protection. At the Pyrometer. When the kiln is cold the ware with. Bame time individuals are striving to effect this drawn, and each piece separately immersed in the permanency of competition by the invention and intended glaze. This is prepared principally of adoption of labor-saving machinery, and an improve-oxide of lead and powdered fint-and all colours ment of their several fabrics. By the experience are imparted to it by the addition of metalic oxof the late contest with Great Britain we were ides-of zinc for straw yellow, of cobalt for blue, of taught our necessary wants of foreign manufac-iron for red, of chromate for green (this is prepartures. By this lesson many persons stimulated by ed from the Baltimore chromate of iron) the coma desire somewhat connected with patriotic views ponent parts of the glaze are diffused in a suffici of national independence, have retired from mer-ency of water to render the whole of the consistencantile pursuits, and applied their ingenuity and cy of cream-the ware in being dipped therein ab. pecuniary means to mechanical arts--amongst this sorbs a portion, leaving the solid parts on its sur. class of our worthy citizens there are some who face.

have already conferred a benefit on the nation, inas- A second firing in another kiln under a heat of much as they have unfolded to us a portion of our about 10 degrees, Wedgwood-causes the glaze to minerological wealth, and have extended the know-pass into a state of perfect vitrifaction. The orna.. ledge of our domestic resources. mental painting is performed with variously colour

We have in our possession, several pieces of ed glasses, ground to an impalpable powder and earthenware, made at the factory of Mr. David G. mixed with essential oils-these are melted on the Seixas near this city-if we had not obtained proof ware in an enamel kiln, by a heat at which the of its domestic origin we should, not have hesitat-glaze softens.

ed to believe it, from its general appearance, to be of Thus is the hitherto opinion that we must re. transatlantic production. In this belief we should main dependent on Europeans for white crockery, have been chiefly guided by the knowledge that because of the supposed deficiency of suitable ma many attempts have proved unsuccessful, to imiterials and talent to imitate theirs, proved erronetate the Liverpool white crockery. We should ous, by the present application of native materials have been biassed by the popular opinions that the wrought by the enterprise and industry of a native

United States could not furnish suitable materials Or if the materials could be had that we were ig norant of the art of compounding them. But the result of the research and exertions of Mr. Seixas, the proprietor of the pottery alluded to, at once sets aside the erroneous prejudice of these opinions. We are informed from an authentic source, and it gives us satisfaction to promulgate, that every material which he makes use of is derived from our own soil, and exists in such abundance that they may be said to be inexhaustible-and furthermore, that no foreigner has ever had any concern, or superintendence or employ in his manufactory.

As this is the only white ware pottery in the United States we have obtained permission to lay before the public some particulars relating to the materials, and manipulation.

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Explosion or (more properly) yielding of the boil er in the steam boat on the Delaware.

The principal of the materials are clay and flint. The former is of a grayish blue colour, and contains This occurred on the 16th inst. October, in paspyrites or sulphur and iron chemically combined, sing from Bordentown to Philadelphia. The enthe presence of which impairs the colour of the gineer discovered it at Bristol, twenty miles from ware. They are separated by an economical and the city, and it was with difficulty that he kept the expeditious process, an art not practised or known boat in motion. The passengers however did not in the European potteries. The clay is copiously discover it at all, but only observed that the boat diffused in water and passed through fine lawn had lost its speed. It proved that a sheet had been sieves to detach the larger particles of sand, &c. brittle and cracked in the binding in constructing The fint is of a grayish black colour. It is ex the boiler, and that being the weakest part, had posed to a strong heat, and is suddenly plunged opened a small aperture by the equal pressure of into cold water. By frequent repetition of calci. the steam, so as to let out the power; the water or nation and refrigeration, whiteness and friability en-steam, extinguishing or checking in some degree sue. It is then ground to powder finer than super the fire, reducing the power of the engine and fine flour, so perfectly impalpable that it will re-speed of the boat. This is one of the many instances main many hours suspended in water, it is then confirming the declarations of the inventor heretosubjected to a purification to extract the small por fore published, viz. "That he has discovered the tion of oxide of iron it usually contains. form and mode of constructing his boilers, that

It is then mixed by measure with the purified lithey cannot be exploded to any dangerous degree quid clay-both of a fixed specific gravity, and the by the elastic power of steam; but can only be made mixture poured into vats, the solids in time sub-to yield to the irresistible and equal pressure, a side the water is run off-the residuum further small aperture in the weakest part, from which the exposed to the solar heat, until the remaining wa-stream of water issuing will not scald at the dister has evaporated to suit it for forming into the tance of three or four feet. It being a most cus required vessels.-This is performed on wheels of rious fact, demonstrable and as certained by achorizontal and vertical movements-handles and tual experiment, and demonstrated by the officers spouts, &c. are subsequently affixed-the vessels of the mint of the United States, viz. That the are perfectly dried, and placed in cylindrical pots, greater pressure and hotter the water in the these are placed in columns in an oven or kiln, and boiler, the less will be its heat, at the distance of - exposed to a heat of 8 degrees of Wedgwood's two or three feet issuing from an aperture of half

an inch diameter; because the elastic power of the beat confined in the water explodes and dispenses the steam, the instant it issues, to a mist so thin that mixing with the air the heat is reduced below a scalding degree, at two or three feet distance.] But when it issues inside the furnace, it checks and extinguishes the fire, stopping all danger." The boiler was repaired the next day, and the boat has resumed her daily tacks. This happened with the boat Etna with a high pressure steam engine, and it tends to prove it to be the safest steam boat on the waters, and that its boiler cannot be exploded

Export of Cotton, &c.

annuity of 4000 dollars-Shawanoes 2000 dollars-and Senecas 500 dollars; together with the sum of 3,300 dollars for fifteen years. To be divided be tween the Pottowatomies, Chippewas and Ottawas. The following estimate, though probably not entirely correct, will afford some idea of the extent of the tract of country purchased.

The whole tract, including the Indian reservations, and the unceded land west of St. Mary's river, contains by a rough calculation acres, 3,862,420 Within this tract the Indian reservations

jure,

12 miles square at Upper Sandusky, acres, 92,160 10 miles square at Wappakonata 64,000 For the following exhibit of the exports of cotton 7 miles square at bewistown, from Savannah, from 1st October, 1816, to 30th 5 miles square at Hog creek, September, 1817, to Great Britain, France, Hol-7 miles square at Fort Seneca, land, other ports in Europe, and coastwise, we The tract west of St. Mary's (sup are indebted to a circular letter from the house posed) about 300 square miles of Johnson and Hills, of that city.

Great Britain-Sea Island, 9191; Upland, 54,533 France-Sea Island, 447; Upland 9161. Holland Sea Island, 53; Upland 2757. Other ports in Europe-Sea Island 44; Upland, 4585. Coastwise Sea Island and Upland, 53,861. Total Sea Island, 6731; Upland 106,997. Grand total, 116,728 bales.

Very little Upland cotton, of crop of 1816, remains in the country. It is difficult to ascertain with any precision what will be the extent of the present crop, but from the best information we can obtain would estimate the Uplands grown in this state at 100,000 bls.

And there may be received at Augusta from S. Carolina

10,000

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There may remain over of last crop The quantity sent here for sale from South Carolina depends much on the prices at Savannah and Charleston, supposing it as high at the latter as the former place, we may receive only

Rice-There was shipped of the last

crop

We estimate the present crop at
Tobacco-Shipments for the year

ending 30th Sept.

The present crop will probably a

1,500

8,000

16,435 trs.
20,000

31,360

16,000

$4,360

192,000

-42.5,880

And there remains, to which the Indian ti-
tle is extinguished,

To this may be added the tract within this
state lying north of the river Miami of
the Lakes, and east of a meredian drawn
north from Fort Defiance, ceded by the
treaty of Detroit in 1807, say

3,435,540

840,800

Making, of unoccupied lands in the state of
Ohio, to which the Indian title has been
extinguished, an aggregate of acres 4,276,340

Law Intelligence.

EROM THE SOUTHERN PATRIOT.

The following case arising out of the late navigation act of the United States, has been decided by Judge DRAYTON, in the court of admiralty. The United States of America,

VS.

Brig Mary, and 35 hogsheads of rum, 2 bar-
rels of oranges, and 4 barrels of limes.

This case arose out of the late navigation act of the United States; and libels were filed by the district attorney, against the vessel and cargo, as having arrived in the port of Charleston, on the 5th of October, 1817, from Jamaica, in the West Indies, the said brig not being then a vessel of the United States, nor a foreign vessel truly and wholly be4,224 hhds. longing to the citizens or subjects of any country, of which the said goods are the growth, production or manufacture; or, from which, such goods can only be, or most usually are, first shipped for transFrom South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana, from portation; and which had not then adopted a reguthe 1st of October 1816, to the 1st of October 1817. lation similar to the regulation mentioned in the Sea-Island cotton. Upland do. Rice. Tobacco. Sugar.first section of the act of congress of the said UnitCharleston 15,523 87,414 50,406 3,545 none ed States approved the 1st March 1817, and enti Savannah 9,731 106,726 15,792 4,310 nonetled "An act Concerning the Navigation of the Unit N. Orleans 67,200 18,000 18,000 ed States," contrary to the true intent and meaning, and against the form of the statute in such case

mount to

Total

EXPORTS

6,000

25,254 261,340 66,198 25,855 18,000 made and provided. By reason whereof, the said

Indian Lands.

FROM THE CHILLICOTHE SUPPORTER

In our last paper we mentioned that a treaty had been held with the Indians, by which their claims to certain lands within this state had been extinguished;—we can now state some of the particulars relating to this purchase. The treaty concluded by gen. D. M'Arthur of this vicinity and governor Cass of the Michigan territory, allows the Wyandots an

brig or vessel, her tackle, apparel and furniture, and the said goods, wares and merchandize, have become forfeited, &c.

Parker, district attorney, suggested to the court that since the libels had been filed, it was ascertain ed the Mary was a British vessel, and the cargo was the produce of a British island or colony in the West Indies:-That the term country, used in the first section of the act, embracing every part of the British territories, however widely separated, which are subject to the same supreme executive, and ic

gislative authority; therefore, the act being compli- ciprocity, which it is from the British European ed with, no forfeiture had accrued. Whence, he territories, with the United States; for, by the reve moved the court, to dismiss the libels; and to cer-nue laws of the United States, 10 per cent. is requir tify a probable cause of seizure.

It is therefore ordered, that both vessel and cargo be restored, on payment of costs. October 13.

Mr. O'Connor's Narrative.

ed on the amount of goods imported from the BriJohn Drayton, district judge.-This is the first case, tish West Indies, together with alien tonnage du which has occurred before me, under the late navi- ties of $2 per ton, and of 50 cents light money, more gation act of the United States.* The British brig than is required from British vessels coming from Mary and cargo have been seized by the collector; British European ports; and the goods so imported and they are severally libelled in this court, on the are under the restriction of not being allowed to be supposition, that the said navigation act had been re-shipped for drawback. infringed. Doubts had arisen, as to the construc- As then, the brig Mary has entered this port of tion of the term country, used in the first section of the United States, under the provisions of the late the said act, "Of which the goods are the growth pro-navigation act; and as both the vessel and cargo "duction, or manufacture; or, from which, such goods, are British property, and the latter is the growth, "oares, or merchandize, can only be, or most usually produce, and manufacture of Jamaica, a British is"are, first shipped for transportation." It was suppos- land in the West Indies, there is no cause for fir ed, this vessel coming from the British West Indies, ther arrestation: Although there has been a proba. must be also owned in the British West Indies; and ble and reasonable cause of seizure. that the law might have required her to have been owned, at the very British island, from whence the cargo had been shipped. Upon a fair construction, however, of the late navigation act, and of the con vention done at London in 1815, between the United States of America and his Britannic majesty, for regulating the commerce between the territories of the United States and of his Britannic majesty, I From a desire to make the people of England acan of opinion, the term country would most appro- quainted with Ireland, of which they know worse priately be considered, as alluding to all the terri than nothing, receiving, as they do, all their ac tories of his Britannic majesty, as relating to ship-counts through the medium of a description of ping: So that the ships and vessels of one portion persons in the constant habit of calumniating that of his Britannic majesty's dominions or territories, people; and from a wish to give the people of Eng. may carry the goods of the growth, production, or land the means of forming a judgment between manufacture of another portion of his said majes- the government of Ireland [during the residence ty's dominions or territories. Hence, British vessels there of lords Camden and Cornwallis] and me; it bringing British cargoes, of the growth, production, cannot, especially at this moment, be thought obor manufacture, of the British islands or colonies in trusive in me to lay before a just but prejudiced the West Indies, into the ports of the United States, public, a faithful narrative of those facts which took are within the meaning and intention of the naviga-place in my particular case, commencing on the tion act of the United States. To decide otherwise, 27th of December, 1796, and ending on the 8th of would be construing a state paper, and an act May, 1803; a space of nearly seven years; during the springing out of it, by a rule that would lead to end- whole of which time a continued fire of perseculess embarrassments between the two nations, in tion was kept up at me. their commercial relations; and might tend to frustrate the very ends, for which both the commercial convention, and the navigation act of the United States, have been framed.

FROM THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY.

Connorville, the former place of my residence, is situated about 14 miles from Bantry-bay, where a French fleet made its appearance on the 23d of December, 1796. To oppose a landing of the troops It is true, that by the latter part of the second on board this fleet, about 5000 of the Irish militia article of the said convention, each party remains had advanced, and occupied the villages about me. in the complete possession of its rights, as respects For the manner in which my tenants, my friends any intercourse with his Britannic majesty's posses- and myself, treated these men, I refer to the panesions in the West Indies, and on the continent of North gyrics in the house of parliament in England and America. And until those rights be farther legis- Ireland, at the time. We cheered them in their dislated upon by the congrees of the United States, tress; we administered to their wants, of which they there can be no forfeiture under the present act of had no ordinary share. On the 27th of December, navigation of a British vessel, importing a British about nine o'clock at night, such a hideous night corgo, of the growth, production, or manufacture of my remembrance cannot parallel, I was informed, a British island in the West Indies. In passing the that my porters' lodges were full of soldiers, in quest late navigation act, congress determined how far ofquarters. I went to them. They were in a sad plight. they would then proceed, in acting upon their found them to be two companies of the Wexford mirights, as to the commercial intercourse of the litia, with seven or eight officers. Day or night, rough United States with the British West Indies:-and or smooth,my countrymen were welcome to me. I had although that body has the power of enforcing our then a large house, well stored. I was in the midst national rights, and of encreasing the restrictions of plenty; full of happiness; I brought all the men in the premises; yet, as they have not done so, the to my house. My mind has no register of the time act can only prevail, so far, as its provisions have they remained with me, nor what I did for them. My contemplated. tenants were very good to those with them. friends (that was the whole country, far and wide) opened their doors to the native army; let them want for nothing; and even when the terror of invasion had subsided, my tenants and myself presented the poor fellows with the billet-money to which we were entitled, to buy them shoes and stockings. I did my utmost to make the situation of the officers as comfortable as possible; and this I will say, that

It is not, however, to be inferred, that because such restrictions have not been enacted in the navigation act, the British trade from the British West India islands, is upon the same footing of re

Laws of United States, vol. 13, page 213.
Laws of United States, vol. 13, page 157.
Laws of United States, vol. 13, page 159.

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My

I received from all more thanks than were due, and from the manner of my living, particularly from experienced their gratitude far exceeding the obli- damp, I left home, and came to England on the 27th gation. I learned afterwards, that these officers of April, where I remained till the middle of June, (strangers heretofore to me) had been directed by when I received advice from home, that several of some agitators to my house, in the expectation of my tenants, and others of the poor people to the my not admitting them, which was the opinion also amount of 51, had been flung into prison; and that of all the officers in that army. I dare say, such of two unappy men had been induced to swear against them as live at this day will acknowledge, that they them. The same packet also contained a proclamareceived a more hearty welcome at Connorville, tion that had been issued by lord Camden, on the than at the house of the most "loyal” man in Ireland; 17th of May before, inviting every person to come Uhat is, the man that has the largest pension, or in and surrender, and give security for the peace, most lucrative sinecure, or post, in the kingdom on an assurance of being no further questioned. Very Whilst this division of the army was in their can- happy at the opportunity this proclamation affordtonments, in my neighborhood, when the men lost ed me, to develope the conspiracy against the peotheir muskets, bayonets, and ammunition, which fre-ple in prison, and to aid them in their defence, I quently happened, they came to me; I had the things returned to Ireland, surrendered myself at Mallow, restored to them. The soldiers became attached to lord Kinsale and sir James Cotton, on the faith of to me. Long, indeed always before these events, 1 the proclamation; and performed the terms requirhad been an object of great jealousy and hatred; Ied of me, which was to give bail to be of the peace had ever been in the habit of committing a crying for seven years; of all which I apprised lord Camsin in Ireland. I had borne myself so to all the peo- den and his secretary, Mr. Pelham, now lord Chiple, that they were greatly attached to me. I had chester, the 18th of June. From Mailow I went appointed arbitrators in every parish, throughout home, on the 5th of July; and on the 14th was aran immense district, who decided all controversies; rested by brigadier-general Eyre Coote, at his camp, the occupation of the pettyfogging lawyer was near-whither he had invited me. Before he detained me, ly gone; I curbed the vice of drunkenness; I pre-he looked, for greater certainty, into his orderly vented riots; I did all the good I could. It will not, book, and there found, as he said, an order, dated therefore, surprise any person, in the least conver- the 1st of July, to arrest me. On his having done sant with the character or complexion of the ruling factions in Ireland, that I was an abomination to them; and when to these vices, in their eyes, the thanks of the poor soldiers were superadded, my crimes were not to be endured, and I became an object of suspicion and distrust.

so, he was at a loss what to do with me, and attend. ed me to Bandon; where I was to remain till he should hear from Dublin. On the third day of my stay in Banton, I received a letter from Mr. Pelham, dated in Dublin, the same day I was arrrested at the camp near Bandon, 180 miles from town, saying, In this state of things (the French force having that lord Camden wished much to see me at Dublin; long left the coast,) a young man from my neigh- and that, if I would comply, I might depend upon borhood had gone, in the begining of March, to see my person being perfectly safe from arrest; and that some friends at Bantry, where he was arrested for I should be permitted to return home immediately. administering the oath of union. On being question- This letter I communicated to Mr. Cooke, who said, ed, he acknowledged that he had received it from that as government did not know of my arrest at my steward, a lad not more than 18 years of age who the time Mr. Pelham wrote, he could not let me was also arrested, and conveyed to the prison of go till he received an answer from Dublin to his Cork, where every means were used to extort con-letter, apprising the government of my being in fessions from them, to implicate me. They declar-custody. In a few days he received his orders, ed, however, that I was the last person to whom which were to send a military officer to attend me they would disclose any thing of the kind. Their and captain Roche and I set out for Dublin. The honesty and persistance in truth were called trea- captai、 had a sword, and he had on his sash and son to their country, and attachment to me; and a gorget. There is a high hill between Bandon and council was called together in Dublin, at which it Cork; we alighted from our carriage; it is a place was determined, that I was very dangerous and a of rendezvous; some 20 or 30 carriers were assembled warrant was issued to arrest me on suspicion the here; they had not seen me since my return from act of habeas corpus being at the time suspended. England. Captain Roche first saw his danger; and The secret, however, was not well kept. I disco- his sword could not defend him; his sash and gorvered the plot. I lay down in my house the night get could not protect him. I perceived the workon which I knew that an attempt was to be made ings of his mind; a look of kindness from ine to him to seize on me by a large detachment of horse (at-would save his life; I supcradded a word of esteem. tended by lords, esquires, and generals, and the Captain Roche was not molested. We arrived in staff,) and before they had reached half a mile from Cork that evening, where we haulted for the night. their quarters, I was (at a distance of 12 miles) ap- A man of the city got access to me. Cork is the prised of their having set out. They made their place of my nativity; I have friends there: would search for me, and a considerable depot of arms, that every man could say the same where he is which they were informed were secreted in the best known' I discovered it was intended to offer lofts and cellars of my house; neither were there, violence to captain Roche; I prevented it. I tookc and they marched back. The next day I wrote to him in safety to Dublin. On our way we called at the judge, who was then holding the assize at Cork, the camp at Arpfinnan, where the Wexford militia saying, that "if he would give me assurance of a tri-lay. All the officers requested of captain Roche to al then, of any thing that could be alleged against tell lord Camden the services I rendered them, and me, I would go to him; otherwise that I would not the thanks they owed me. We arrived at Dublin surrender." and saw lord Chichester, who liberated me from ar

As he was not authorized to give me the assur-rest, and wrote to Mr. Cooke that I was not to be ance I demanded, and as I preferred the liberty molested again. I returned home, and in the beginof the common air, and the use of my own limbs, to ing of September I went to the assize of Cork, for unlimited imprisonment, I stood out till the latter the purpose of defending my tenants against the end of April, when finding my health somewhat hurt conspiracy before mentioned. I sent them all to

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