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jfrfciti ahrestj and tliAt. I Vr.ouiJ he permitted to return home immedi- | arely. This letter I communicated j tb Mr. Coote, who saui, that as ( government did not knew of my arrest at the tifne Mr. Pelham v\ rote, he could not let me go till he re ceived an answer .from Dublin to his letter, apprising the government of my bein;* in custody . In a few "tlays he received his orders, which were to send a military officer to attend me ; and captain Roche and 1 set out for Dublin. Thi Captain | had a swurd, ami he had on his sabh and gorget.. There is a high hill between ?Bandon and Cork; we ^alighted from ourfcarriage j ic is a, place of rendezvous ; some 20 or 1 30 carriages were assembled here; , ? they had not seen me since my re turn from England. Cape. Roche first saw his danger ; his sword could not defend him ; his snsh and gorget could not protccc him. I perceived the vvorkingsof his mind a look of kindness from me to him would save his life ; I superadded a ivord of esteem. Captain Roche was not molested. We arrive^ in Cork that evening, where we halt ed fon. the nieht. A man of the city- got access to me. Cork is the place of my nativity ; I have friends there ; would that every man could $ay the same where he is best known ! I discovered that it waj intended to offer violence to captain Roche * I prevented it. I took him in safety to Dublin. On our way we called at the camp at Arpfinnan^ where the Wexford militia lay. All the officers requested of captian Roche to tell Lord Camden the services I rendered them, and the thanks they owed me. We arrived in Dublin* and saw Lord Chichester, who li terate me from arrest, and wrote ... to Mtv Cooke thax I was not to be 1 rtiolcfcted ag^in. I returned home, and in the beginning of September j I went to the a&Mze* of Cork, for j the purpose of defending my ten- ! ants against the conspiracy before ( mention. I sent them all to their | L homes, and prosecuted the witness- j es, ?.vhro were both transported, for ! perjury to Botany Bay. 1 now hoped lo with my family that peace which innocence has a) way* * j Mfjbl 16 expect. 1 \v?i? cruelly deceived. An uiitigmxl, tinawom-to paper was sent j lor the grand jirry oji thelTth day of theatstBe*, when two of the judges had left the county ; and a bill of indictmcnt was found against me !<>?? high treason. On ibis paper I was arrested and ? 1 15 into prison* where* in a dungeon nine feet '*?quere, filthy beyond" description. I lay rotting tor seven months,/ never havi^ fait tin; influence of the siw>, nor bven breathed on ,by the a?r, during the whole time ; at the end of which I was convey ed from the dungeon to the court, to go rhr&ugh a 41 trial," upon charges of every Species of treason mid rebellion. Two witnesses were brought up under a strong military guard. They wire .sworn.? What dit!*ihey'dtf|>o?e ? TIhU they knew noting of lb ?? me ; What one of these p v pers was written without the- Knowledge of xht witnesses ; that wl?en it was read' to bit*, be decl<tt*d it' to be false* and re fused to awcur to it ; that he was offered 300/. k year to awrar to it, and threatened to be Instantly s;? t if he persisted in his ttefusal, and he did persist. 1 he other t w' * M 9 witness swore* that what w*s callcd his infot motion waa aU written down without consulting him ; that when he refused tfc si{*n it, he Was threatened to be h angel ; and that, at length* he was prrsathd on to l#it his imme to.it* on hia receiving a:> as ttfrance thai it never was to appear, ami that it waa'otaly a matter of form. I was *C<|Wied instantly. * AH the people, all %ht iftiliUuf, expressed their y>y ; the trembled | Iks was seen stretchft\? his impiormg arms Horn the bcnch to it??i in the dock, amongst tobbeis and Hammerers ; Ht Wat heard!* cry to me fi# mercy to protect hem ;<and 1 did protect him : noSa hair of hts Head w<t* touched. OiT^my t?- n? *v%fclptd. j \ not oven take one day** np>>**. No, my belovtrd , bro Uer wasa pmon*r at Maidstone ; he is:ouc year youngtr thin I am ; we w? t reared and educated Whether ; never ?>n* day or ni^ht opait for 18 >*?*? The ?.hoi^l.t^ol hurt \j ,n:sHJ evt. ry ether irji ? from n>y m! ; I set oH t? > him that ?-'> uight, audainv'eU in Loi.don-m lour dJ^s, as <??uckly as I cwtd t'HVcl. 1 wro'e lo ihc duke of Portland fo* \n.i to be admitted io :ny bio'her , I icceived Ins answer ai live o'cj^ck n-'X* morning, by four kind's nu tsengcrs, wun a warrant tu an est uic , ni.d fioui my bed I was tjken io the house uf Mi, Syivesier, and that evening 1 <>*as iakeu?oFT for Irelaud. W e 1 mded about ten tones bom D iUin at nig I it ; i :?4- ved Mr. Sylvester and ihe bow street constable inv companion, honi u watery ^r*>e, and conducted them sale to Dublin, where wc arrived at Unee o'clock in the morning. 1 now for the first time since 1 left London, lay down, and had not been in my bed more than three hou? s, when Mr. Sylvester awaked me, that an I ? ! other liing's messenger had thai moment arrived from the duke of Portland, to lake I me back instantly to London, i his was about 7 o'clock m the morning ; about 12, 1 Mr. SyUesier informed me, that Mr. Ci<oke desired to sec meal the cuslle. Mark I the instability oMortune. behold O'Connor brought by ax rou stable, to have the liberty of being admitted in the pie?ence of Mr. hdward Cooke ! 1 did see him the inter view was not of long duration ; the con versation was not of many words, but it is important. 1 abked him the meaning of j|hese proceedings ; what post-haste trea son 1 had committed in the lour days that | I travelled from Cork to Lotion, above 4?^ miles. Hear his answer: ? We do j not u pretend to have any charge against you ; but we know your power, and sus jxct your inclination ; had my advice been taken, you should not have been brought to trial in Cork* My opinion was, that you should have been kept in confinement under the suspension of the Habeas Cor pus Act ; n nd it now appears I wa* right," Well, that afternoon, about 2 o'clock, T was obliged to set off back again towards London, where *ve arrived on the fourth morning, having )>een forced to perform jnufltics of nearly 12<r*0, miles, and cross the Irish sea three times in thirteen d*ya nights ; during the whole of which time I never was permitted to tuke oS' my clothes, nor to h<y down for more than i seven hours ! I was kept in cusrtotty at the ! house of Mr. Sylvester, till my brother's acquhal at Maidstone,* when we were b<?th - takvn to Dublin, w here we vrere lodged in the snme room, on ihe 2d of June 1798. fn July, a special commission was opeiud in Dublirt for the trial of all those against whom any charges had betfn exhibited ; \ arwongat ivhom. mrither my brother nor. I were. Three hud been executed/ M**. Byrne, a relation of the Marchioness of Duckingham, was condemned, and wav to be executed on 24;hof.July? On Sunday f the 23d, some negociation was set on foot, in away never yet* ascertained, between the goveimnit and some of the state pri soner? in Dob* 1:1, of wh'ch, it ap^>cat t> that neither my blroih^r nor I hail any inti mation till Tuesday, whtu Mr. Dobtys and the Sheriff ot* Dublin entered our apart Tfitnt, and sbowtd u* a if*Pcrv pun>ortrng to he an acquiescence, on vhr putt of se venty three of tlic prisoners to give iiw (orimifioi- of any arms, ammunition, ami plans of warfare ; and ?o emigrate on cc n dition of a (>eiwal amnesty ; arid of paf don for Mr. l!yrne, Vho *as to ?he that day ; and for Mr. (Oliver Hond, who ^'as Bt that moment on his trial, if he shr#*>ld be condemned. JVSy brother and I declin ed entering into any agreement. Mt. liyme w.ih ordered for instaete excculnui. wliiph instantly took plar.r ; Mr. Bond was to die on Fii ?* v. We heard no1 more ? f well remcnib-r, I never dtui forget, the meeting at M a ids* one between Rmjp*r and Arthur ( iT.miuor, Tlity had hot seen eatfh other for very many months in the interval they had both been imprisoned and iheir liven put in jtaj^irdy. - Undei what ctocumstanees 4'?d. t htry inert ! ! Riv r \rt r Was a state piraoner in custody of u 1 . Kind's Me^sen^r, Arthur wu? in the dock about to be tried- for llifch Treason!"* I stood in the dock on the ri^ht hand of Arthur O'Connor, the Ccurt had not yet taken tlieir seats. I heat J u noise on my right ami saw a di^niBvd and cnmmandi?? looking man ?nier the bar. ?? It is my j brother ''tain Arthur in a voir* almost anf* ft eated hy feeling. Reiser advanced to the dock* Arthur fcraspvd htni hy the hand ; they were not fx t imUed to interchange a word ; the Mr tears rolled doWn their nwn ly rhevks. th^v pressed tn< h oth+rf hands aiuiparu'ii. l/m. 1 L cT i.c p3t>*er 14! evening Lie ; w r?tn ihe Mine Mr. Uobbs, accftnipaiii-.il by Mr. S amue I %*e lactone ol the prison sr> from another of the prisons, came 10 'Jialwhrrr my '.>mther ? irf 1 lay. All rW.~ pilsners were called together ; Mr. L)ov;oi produced a letter he bad just re ceived from Mr. CookeycMting, u that if n?y mother aad I wuu Id enter into a trea ty with the government, by which we sfi"o?iTd engage To give tvery liTfbt ntation in our power to aH matters retaring~t<j The rebellion, and particularly our relations witii y j reign atsitea, there should be a gen eral amnesty ; Mr. Band should be par* doned, ancji wc should l>e permitted to eui igfate lo any tuui- ;y, not at w*r with Eng land ; but it we persisted in our refusal, military commissions should be issued in the north, for the trial of t'?e prisoners there, the courts should /roceed m JJ^bll and the yeomanry should remain on ac :ire duty" YVc both refused* We said,' \f M.tv arc any chariot a :ru in* t us, pro ceed upon them. W hy proceed against otln rs, became we will not enter into any negocigjtiont ? We went to our own rooms, whuher Mr. Dobiis presen'iy came. He i ^presented to us the dreadful scenes of ?laughter and devastation thai would fol low close upemour declaration. It appear? that my brother was influenced by these considerations ; and, to save an unarmed People, he consented to sat riKce himself; but 1 hsard these proposal* and threats with a very different rar. My answer was that I net at defiance all their machitiuHotm ?that I was ready to meet any charge !/. could be brought against fne ; but that 1 Never would enter into any agreement with the castle of Dub in during mv life. Nothing was left unatu nipted to iixlirr.e me by every fair promise,* bf to taUrn*h?.e me by the most alarming throis, to sign this agreement, sill writ u uu~va.il: // g, At length Mr. Marsden came, as if netreily and an a/riend% to let mc know what, by chunct\ he had heard at ttic castle. That it. was determined to tcize tny estate, if 1 did not comply. My answer wa*, that i was prepared agaui>t every thing, that I , -V*iis ah.solnte ncvcr to comply. ? - Inconsequence of which, orders were di* pitched To Ihe ofTicct" commanding at Band on, to send detachments oi ho isl and foot ?o take jmssession of n?y house, which they did, to the amount of between 2 and 300 men ; they expelled f^Kr itj m:j infant ch ildren , and my servants $ the cfli cers broke open mv cellars, and dritlk*fcit my wine ; they ordered the men to kill my sheep and oxen, on which the whole pfcrty subsisted ; they eonVerted'my iron gat*a into shoes for their horstfa ; tlrey made! filing of windows, doors and fran'Vs Af the house and offices ; bfirned all my farming utensils, destroyed my gardens and the wall trees, the hot-house, and aU tb* plants ; turned all their horses out into young plantations, which were ail mined *? Stole every thing moveabhr ; *r?*l commit ted every species ol devastat ion, for eight or nine weeks that ihty renr.iined there, for which I never received one penny as remuneration, from that day to this. Af ter this visitation, it was again retired of me to *igM the fia/irr . My answer was al ways the same. Mill [ k^pt a prisoner ; < and when those whr. had entered into the agreement were sent to Scotland, I was forced, by Justice Atkinson, and a company of KuckingJiamshire militia, at the |*>?nt ol the bayonet into a coarb, conveyed on < board a tender, ? id' conducted to Purl George, in which military Ranison I . Ice ft) t for a ryrnr mml ten where, by iht Cement treatment I received, I lost the use of my lrmh% and was reduced to the very vtr r\rr. of lift? ; af the end of which r lime I w*s brought td London, and let f^o on the 24th ok' January 1801, upjn a dread fill t ecognteanct; to some immense amount, not to return to TreUtml% and to reside in Mich part of England, u% the king of Enj?- ( > land should from time to time appoint, (and Middles^ was named) diving the then war, I . took a house at Soulhgate, in I ? Middlesex, where I resided for half a yeat f i ' but having no land, to occupy my time. ( found one to suit me at KJfttree* Ai I ,*wa? a attangev, ami as the rent amounted to S0<M. a year, I applied to my old friend and companion, 8ir Franc* Ifcirdett, who immediate!)* became my 9tc<irityt There I live for' one year* then the treat? of Aniicna taking pine*, 1 was desirous of re turning to my own country, ami applied to Sir Richard F-orcl, the magistrate, l*fore whom 1 acknowledged the recogniaanec, to j?e\ it up* After many fruit less tfi'orts lie ar length informed me, that it was determined ittrvcr to give i* up, as loug VM'I retained the jfmcr of 'Hiring In /*? A t'.A of tr'-iuij 1 Tl-UtUr |# pail with Connor- viHcjhaa to tx shut-ou1 feu:a. m>^o*mirv. 1 ^ai a ^..?s7>ort* \9 ' IVelynri, ar.d, on ihe \ >t of Mjy, >8t>3, I rlA a l+xiHT* fvrr^<rr% nf ths ;..'ace qf rny fu riimt days. Whereupon, 1 i?<h up mf. rccoRniz.nct: immediate!) . I purchase*?* for tony thousand pounds, froi* J.trd ll'ellrslr y, the castle and estate n| Durt? j?a?i, within a few miles of Dublin, where 1 hire resided w?tn my fa roily ever sinc?? ? coming occasionally to visit Su* Francis Burxiett, and a few other friends in Eng land. where, though I hdvx- I have ne* ? beeo known, 'directly or indirectly! to interfere with any concern* ftf the conn-' try ; I never attended a public meeting ?f a pub.ic dinner; though 1 have *wn* I; ieiula, I seUloui 4?auciate WltAipp{gf oN but S+r Francis Hurdett and >iy fortune is ample; and neither I. not am one < ?f my familr rver ate cine inoiih 1 no! Uroduc d.J'rotn our oiru e.*'i f.trt, We Pt vrr received any of the people s monev in the ih.tpe of pensions and plates : nur w is any nnnS meal or comforts evef dmumsbed bjr one of us. $vn civ, 'thru, I must be a u:\jiC .?:W('Vu/ t ri:ii?r .' \w ftne, many, vtry many of the people of Ireland loved me ; li e militia li as a tiat bed to nic. 1 surrender* d or the solemn fault of u pro clamation, which fu ? I h , towftids pie, wes broken ; 1 protected captain Koch^; 1 uc I ended the judge ; 1 saved Mr. Sylvester, ami The Bow?street ctmstable. T here is n.o kind of place* that has not been my pri son ; my own bouse, camps, guaid- houses taverns and holds castles wherries, pack et-boats, mesnengers* houses, court-houses, bridewells, siateprisons (as they are call ed) tenders, garrisons, paiuces ; and as a prisoner, have 1 travelled about from my own house in the fcouth, to Carriekfer$tfrr, in the north of Irtlrnd ; from the westefn | extremity of Wales to Maidstone, nearly i the * extern e*trlmity of England ; from 1 Dublin to Fc rt St. George in Scotland, within 40 miles of Jno. 0?Grot*s house, to Ivoru on, In mail-coaches, backney-co.,ch. es, post carriages, aftdcurte ; on foot and on horseback ; and :*tl because (for l.knoW of no other cause) that, ten yraisJielhte the hcencb Revolution, 1 saw the absolute 1 necessity ii{**-Iit/ormin-tfrrt^rrmmovnrq/' Jr.'" 1 land, which was acknowledged afterwards I by tl* factions of England aivd Ireland ; act I bccuuse l would hot consent to a Legisla tive 'Union, which I regarded as equally ruinous to both parts of the kingdom* On the whole, then, let tUa * people of England) noru that thsy are in /lajaewnn their ?cber a cnst&y decide l>et\veblf tny Ibcusers and me, SM^nthor the laws were infrmgey by Mtr., who have gone through every ordeal; who always courted Investi gation and enquiry ; who ?ir years never ceased to demand trial ; or by t hem v ho sought the ptoteclioVof a Bill of fndeiftni. ty? pass*H 4?y an d'i^embty of Which they tbemsehrs made ^ pn?t. ? o L L l\ CtE o FOll f/f ? Ca^DKN (lAZETIfi Fkom Trr Portsmouth Okagi**! THE PREV/ilKtt. a The rich man hqi,ft done wrong, and yel h r ~~lfwr aT{rne t h xvltjui ^ ; the / tuor tttmn ii* i?rovgfu\ a net hr mint intrpat afnef* ,v / Is then- a country or action on cafthm which there canbu fotmd ^ua. and dfstribii' tivc justice ? Is there a situation to bo ijti aglnod, wl^i e thd rich and lioorwillffcoefro' equal attention? Wi^jhaiKient or itiodertrsto cy tell us of apUfcc where the litoif arc pat* L urd by tmnotiecd) and j>ooit have >Many Ifrtenii* ? Ha# H *V*&CTOten known- tine*' God spake light from darknc?s> wort AT from chaov that the ri$hfe>of thenon md' Kouii have been oquaily regarded? Cm f we not find one solitary kftance far tbo honor of minion B&turc, inhere wo oan state that the rich and' tho 'poor have beets' considered as belonfcmft to the ntfmcracc of being* ? So not one ! u Ah the proud hate* In. utility, so doth the rich abhor tH* -poor." ,ThO foibtea and c*en the rices of % rich man, if not approved arc toiily pa 1 >i*?d ; the n im* trifling irieguherilfc* of a poor man vto severely censured. 4 r 1 have frequently, in tho village *hetV I live, J>a?t 4y the doora of ftio and tile , poor, the one frred ajmpttn*iei}f eferyday, ? the other, by the aweat of hi# OTW,oljfarf ed a wretched soppott. 1 ceroid on this sub I ject a tale of woe unfold * whose slightest word wtittWI harrmv the afcul." Shall I forbear ? Myiovabf mi), urgtsmc to desia my love of Jrari/*!* forces me to procced. ? VifUwiJimt tny friends, yonder cot. "I rs* . j-iHOinrc^in the n >o<l, at a disiancc. from my otier dwelling, and one would havr, 'tlio't free from the ointrucuvr tread, or the ^ras^in^ power of t'?c To -.viiomi