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Some Selected Reports from The Dublin Journal published by George Faulkner
Saturday, December 1st, 1810
On Sunday the 2d of December, 1810,
At Twelve O'Clock,
A SERMON WILL BE PREACHED,
And A Collection Made At The
CHURCH OF THE UNITED BRETHREN
In Bishop-Street,
Towards the Support of their Missions among the Heathen.
The Collection, after the Evening Sermon, at Seven,
will be applied to the same Purpose.
Benefactions from those who cannot attend, will be thankfully received by Mr.James Jackson, Essex-street; Mr.Joseph Dixon, Mary-street; Mr.Peter Elliot, Parliament-street; Mr.William Osborne, Grafton-street; Mr.Richard Connor, Back-lane; and by the Minister, No.15, Bishop-street.
Proposals
For Publishing By Subscription,
Cumbrian Tales,
By Mrs.Ryves.
The Work will be Printed in One Volume Foolscap Octavo, Price to Subscribers Ten Shillings and Sixpence in Boards, and will be put to Press as soon as sufficient Number of Subscribers shall be obtained.
Subscriptions will be received in London by J.Asperne, Bookseller, Cornhill; John E.Foderingham, Esq. Liverpool; John Giffard, Esq. Dublin; Messrs.Shea and Stack, Cork.
Notice to Bakers.
The Term Grand Jury of the City of Dublin will receive Contracts for supplying the Gaol of Newgate and the City Bridewells with Household or Wheaten Bread, each Loaf to be 3lb. Weight, from the 29th inst. to the last Day of Easter Term next.
Sealed Proposals to be sent to their Secretary, Alex.Montgomery, 14, Frederick-street, North, on or before Ten o'Clock, on Wednesday next; and at Foot of the Contract the Names of two respectable Housekeepers as Security for the due Performance.
Dublin.Saturday, Dec.1.
The Holyhead Mails, and the Che[s]ter Bye-Mail arrived since our last.- We published in our paper on Thursday the Gazette of Saturday which contains a short extract of the last dispatches from Lord Wellington. The enemy seem principally occupied in making reconnoissances on the other side of the Zezere and to the northward of the Tagus. They wished to draw our attention to a party they had sent to reconnoitre Abrantes, whilst they sent another detachment to Villa Velha on the Tagus, for the purpose of getting possession of the bridge at that place; but it had been destroyed, and they retired to Sobrere Formosa, on the road from the Zezere to Sarzedas and Castel Branco. It is probable that the enemy might not have any real intention of crossing the Tagus of Villa Velha even had they found that the bridge had not been destroyed. They may be making demonstrations on the right bank for the purpose of keeping General Fane and the irregular Portuguese force on the left, whilst Drouet advances, not by the route which Massena came, but by Guarda, and the road that leads from Guarda through Sarzedas and Sobrera Formosa to the Zerere. They may also have hopes of drawing a force from Spain by Salveterra, Idanha Nova, and Castel Branco. That Drouet is not marching by Almeida, Viseu, and Coimbra, is clear; for Silviera is not far from Almeida, and has driven in the out-posts of that garrison with his detachment, a part of which consisted of a battalion that had been in Almeida during the siege, and had been represented by Massena as having volunteered into the French service.
His Grace the Lord Lieutenant has been pleased to appoint the Hon.Robert Molesworth, of Beaulieu, near Drogheda, to be a Commissioner of Customs in Ireland.
Yesterday being Saint Andrew's Day, the Tutelar Saint of Scotland, the Flag was hoisted on Bedford Tower, and the day was celebrated with the usual honors.
Through the diligent research of the Constables employed by the Magistrates of Duke-street Division, a valuable gold watch, of which Mr.Sheppard was despoiled a considerable time back at Donnybrook, has been recovered for its owner.
Penny Post Establishment.- Few, is any one of the many improvements which the interests of the kingdom have of late years experienced from the zealous superintendence of the office of Post-Master-General, have the public (and particularly the inhabitants of Dublin and its vicinity) so much to look up to with admiration and confidence, as the lately reformed system of the Penny Post Establishment - nor one which the mercantile and other classes should afford their every possible encouragement, towards securing the objects which the Post-Master-General had in contemplation, in the altering and accomplishing the reform of this very important branch of their establishment.
An instance distinct from the secure mode of transmitting letters by this office, and of the convenience and accommodation afforded by its operations to the inhabitants of this city, it is but necessary to state, that so rapid is the circulation of correspondence by its means, that two persons residing in the most remote parts of the capital from each other, may, between seven in the morning and seven in the evening, transmit four distinct letters, and receive three replies, for the trifling charge of one penny each. A person residing in Summer-hill or Prussia-street, for instance, writes to his friend in Cork-street or Baggot-street, which, if put into the box at seven a.m. will be delivered at 9, and he gets an answer at 12 : he writes again at 10, the letter is delivered at 12, and he gets an answer by half-past 3 ; he writes again at half-past 1, the letter is delivered by 4, and he gets an answer by 7; he writes again at half-past 4, the letter is delivered by 7, and he gets an answer at 9 next morning. We understand that the revenue of this office has increased six-fold since its commencement on the reformed plan. This alone is a strong instance of the advantage and convenience already felt by the public from its operations; and we have no doubt, but it will continue to increase, in proportion as the system becomes generally known.
Captain Morris, of his Majesty's sloop Jalouse, in Scattery Roads, has received orders from Vice-Admiral Thornborough, to convey the vessels that may be ready to sail from the Shannon to the ports in the Channel and Downs by the 10th of the next month. The Admiral hopes every ship bound eastward will be ready by that time, as he informs the Chairman of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce at Limerick (by whom the application was made) that, from the numerous applications for convoy, it will not be in his power to grant another for some time to come.
Monday morning a man was found almost naked in a ditch on Dromcondra-road. The country people coming into the vegetable market, first discovered him. The unfortunate man was nearly dead from the severity of the night; and, as far as we can learn, unable to give any account of himself. We understand he was by trade a Plaisterer, and resided in Temple Court, Mountjoy-square.
On Wednesday night, the 21st instant, Messrs.Laffan and White, Acting Inspectors for the district of Ennis, left that town, accompanied by a party of the military, and proceeded to the neighbourhood of Schariff, where they detected five very extensive private distilleries, and after having destroyed an immense quantity of malt, pot-ale, singlings, and the utensils, returned to that town with the stills, heads, and worms, which they lodged in his Majesty's store; and also two men as prisoners, whom they surprised in one of the distilleries, and who are bound over by them before a Magistrate, to stand their trials at the next assizes for said county. The exertion of these officers in that county already, has had the most happy effects, by inducing a gentleman of respectability to take out license for a still of a large content in the town of Ennis, where there has not been one for many years. We sincerely hope that the Excise Officers throughout Ireland will now exert themselves to put down this baneful and abominable trade, which has so much tended to decrease the revenue of the country, the profits of the fair and honourable trader, and to contaminate the morals of the poor and innocent peasantry.
We have received the following account of a new outrage committed by those deluded men styling themselves Caravats :- The home of Mr.O'Ryan, of Ballycurkeen[?], was attacked on Sunday morning, about ten o'clock. Except Mrs.O'Ryan and one female servant, the remainder of the family were at Mass, and Mr.O'Ryan absent. The hall door being incautiously left open, three men, well armed, entered and proceeded directly to the parlour where Mrs.O'Ryan was, and threatened her with instant death if she made the least noise or resistance, and did not give up what fire-arms were in the house; she told them she did not know where they were, offering them at the same time the keys of the house to search for them, upon which they left the room, breaking open eight drawers, saying they would not lose time in trying to unlock them; they likewise forced open some desks and trunks. Whilst they were thus occupied, Mrs.Ryan went out of the house, and ran up the avenue, calling loudly for assistance, which, when the Caravats heard, they pursued her and forced her back, one of them holding his hand to her mouth to prevent her crying out; - they tore here clothes in forcing her back, swearing they would shoot her, which one of them was about to do, when prevented by another. They then searched the house more closely, when they found a case of pistols and some powder and ball, the rest of the arms having, a few days before, been sent to be repaired, which prevented them from falling into the hands of those ruffians. They went off in different directions; when going, they said they were from the county of Limerick, and that they would return again, as they knew there were more arms in the house.- Waterford Mirror.
On Tuesday last as three Valuators, accompanied by four Police men, were proceeding on some tithe business in the neighbourhood of Ardfinnan, the party was surrounded in the house of one Shee by a mob of upwards of fifteen villains with their faces blackened, and furnished with straw cravats, who murdered Arthur Mullowney, one of the Police men, by shooting him. It appears as if their vengeance was particularly directed against this man, it being upon his information that a fellow named Leamy is now confined in Conmel gaol upon a capital charge for firing at a Police man, at the time that Mr.Clutterbuck narrowly escaped being shot, in attempting to seize Leamy.- A person of the name of John Fennessy has been committed to Clonmel gaol, charged with being present, aiding and abetting at the above murder.
A few days since, two men armed entered an house in Carrick in the noon-day, and presenting a pistol at the head of two women, its only inhabitants, demanded the arms, threatening with the most vehement imprecations to put the women to death, in case of noise or resistance. The consequence is obvious; the only arms in the house, a carbine or firelock, they took off unmolested.
Captain Jekyll arrived in London on Saturday with dispatches from Admiral Drury on the East India station. He was also the bearer of dispatches for the Court of Directors, and came home in the Carrington country ship. It was reported that he had brought an account of the capture of the Isle of France.
The Queen of France's Funeral.
London, Nov.27.
At nine o'clock yesterday morning, the service for the dead began at the Roman Catholic Chapel in Portman-square. The French Princes arrived at ten, the Foreign Ambassadors between eleven and twelve.
The coffin was placed in the middle of the chapel, covered with crimson velvet, and highly ornamented; in an escutcheon were the arms of France and Savoy, and the Crown of France was placed at the head; it was surrounded with 40 lighted tapers. At the head of the coffin stood the Duke d'Avery, as having the charge of the Crown; and near him Pere Elizee, Surgeon to her Majesty; at the foot next to the altar stood the Count de la Chatre, as Commissary of the King of France, and near him the Compte de Nantouillet, as Master of the Ceremonies. On the right on a row of raised seats were the French Princes, Monsieur the Duke D'Angouleme, the Duke de Berry, the Prince de Conde, and the Duke de Bourbon; and below them their respective officers. Mr.De Broval, we suppose, as representing the Duke of Orleans, sat on the left of the Princes. On the left of the coffin, and opposite to the French Princes, was another row of seats for the Foreign Ambassadors. Below them were the great dignitaries of the ancient French military and chivalric orders.
The service was performed by Mr.Dalbignac, Bishop of Angouleme; there were also present Mr.Talleyrand; Archbishop of Rheims, the Bishops of Sisteron, Digne, Nantes, Tarbes, Rhodez, Aire, Usez, Blois, and Montpelier.
The cards of admission for the abbey were simply for the "funeral of the Countess De Lille" and we cannot sufficiently praise the nice sense of propriety which dictated that distinction. From the Chapel to the hearse the coffin was borne by twelve Knights of St.Louis, and the pall supported by four Dames d'Honneur. The procession then began in the following order :
Thirteen men on horseback; a mute with feathers on horseback; a coach and six with the four Dames d'Honneurs - Mesdames la Duchesse de Pienne, la Duchesse de Coigny, la Comtesse de Naronne, and la Comtesse de Mesnard.
Another coach and six, with persons of the household.
Gardes du Corps of foot, headed by one of their Officers.
A mourner on a fully caparisoned horse, carrying on a cushion the Crown of France, covered with black crape.
The hearse drawn by six beautiful horses, and adorned with a profusion of plumes.
In the Chapel, the same ceremonial was observed as at St.Denis, and the cards of admission were for "The Funeral of the Queen of France."
Then followed the French Princes in mourning coaches and six, followed by the principal French Nobility.
After the mourning coaches, came that of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, drawn by six horses, and conducted by his Highness's state coachman, with three footmen and two pages; the coaches of all the Royal Dukes followed, according to their seniority; as also two coaches and six of the Marquis of Buckingham; those of the Marquis of Wellesley, of Mr.Perceval, and all the Ministers : those of the Foreign Ambassadors, and several English Noblemen and Gentlemen.
The Dean of Westminster, at the head of the Chapter, received the body at the entrance of the Church, the avenues and the aisles being guarded and lined by the battalion of Volunteers of St.John and St.Margaret's, commanded by Major Jones.- A requiem was sung by the full Choir, accompanied by the organ; and after the ceremony, the remains of the Princess were deposited in the same vault with those of the Duke of Montpensier, on the south-west side of King Henry VII's Chapel.