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)k io 'tO THE EbjTbU. gun at Henry Helvm, threatening to blow hi, pudding, out, 1 and having forced open the door of the said house, broke rnauv bottle, and vlatet. andcut the heil us Hrnrv FOR tONDOX, THE SHILLELAGH, Jamu Cijiuaix'i, Master, Oorthern Stsr. The following thought, were suceested to me, sroin a Dclvin'i for having alto taken the said Henry prisoner, nd Violently abused him without any leizal authority, fA u' l. 1 iMiiiiij.

iu lugut ana in icrror their livei, the said Nclbit and Lvnii b-inv armed uiih BELFAST 1790. ILL be ready to take In Good, ou. Saturday' ueat, and very elegant pillage in Mr, Piirteri Lecture on Astranp my if you think them worth a place in your paper, they are at your service. The part I allude to wat, where he pointed out the bi- and persecutions which learning and science dad to Iruggle with, in the I4tb, Itth, andfi6th ceoturiei p-j-Jni and bayonets. ciratiDuc on uic vfrw i uuuu.

wm.u 1 ijth of Ecbmaryneac. i he cnnciulion, nearly a lean recollect, wat However erroneout and absurd such opinion Would now appear to be, the time wa, when they were not only believed, but enforced when woe attended him who dared to think sor himself and when science, aa Belfast, January 1796. William Darby, Thoma, Lyom, Adam Dickey, 'v Janie, FergusuO, Samuel Oihsi. --r Franci, M'Oracken, inuoi.niiiniM,, Hugh Montgomery, John Boyle, Edw. M'Cormtck, WillliniT-onrnf.

a ne nowever, reiuted to detain We laid JohnNcfbitt, unleli it wa ascertained to themj that be wa, the very person sworn against but at the fact wa, committed in the county of Down, and the informant, Henry Del' yin, lived at a great distance, thi, could not be done. Another reason given by the bench, for not detaining the prisoner, u', that the warrant wat-dtfective in not stating whether it wat John Nelbitt, seiir. or junr. upon which they called sod hi, father, and swore him to the fact of hi, name being John Nelbitt also. Mr, Hartford then desired, that bail might, at least, be taken for hi, appear, ance at the aluaek, wliicli wa, refused, and the Man wa, accordingly discharged, VV are allured from the most respectable authority tint Lord Gmfnrd actually doing hii utmost to bring the Armagh Magistrate, a proper sense of duty that lie may succed mull be the ardent wish of every friend to suffering humanity.

Last night about eleven o'clock, a yming man 'of th! town wit attacked hit way home from HililWiiujih by four who rushed upon him once, and beat and abused him without the smallest provocation. Orie of them at length called out in the that he was mot the rascal they lay in wait for, when they all ran off. well religionj' wa privileged property. Time, are changed, and 'e are, happily, tar, railed above such Cunuingliaiu Greg, HENRY Agent. ignorance ano uangcr, There are few Mr.

Editor, that I reflect upon with such exquisite pleasure, that dawn of knowledge and of truth which It rapidarearling over the world. NEWGARDBN SEEDS, EARLY PEASE DEANS. The experiment! and explanation given oy lvtr. sorter last night, on the jimpertiet and use, of the Atmosphere, were highly satisfactory. Aa t' fame subject ii to be io-morrow night, with, additional experiment DAVISON AND' MINISS, nave kaceiveo a tAaot raactL or GARDEN SEEDS, EARL PEASE iff BEANS, Air.

Hartlord, the agent for the prosecutor, conducted himself with spirit and ability and in addressing, the took occasion to compliment the governor of the county, for hi, amiable and well directed endeavour, to tranquillile the county, and luhdue the. wicked spirit of bigotry and duTention, which had been too long countenanced and so 11 wouia oca curiou, prramciu in tne icicikx ut naiurc iu trace the cause, and to investigate the hidden by which such edict, are carried on. No doubt, Many of the inscrutable way, unerring ivifJom are, in the moral and political world, at impenetrable a they are in the natural. Yet in both we art permitted to. trace the connexion between cause, ahd their effect! to a surprising extent.

on the chymical ure-nertie, of fixt or facticioul we WHICH they can assure their Friend, re of last Season' Growth aud (he bett Quality 5 memeu ty oaa men, ana perleverez in by the ignorant. anticipate muen niun aim iimu nauou. Europe wa, involved, for ten centuries, In a state of The Liverpool Packet, Captain Griffith, arrived here fRESH HEMP, RAPE' CAN ARf SEEDS, ANDttUkHAM MUSTARD, 'Which they will Sell on very moderate Teriait. Belfast, Jan. ao, A79S.

from Uverpooi oa uciuay ian. Thr CaDtain Cauchey, for London, it ready to TO THE PVBLIG. Supposiitg ihatre thi, my present situation it generally known, and that it it too centrally taken for granted, that a fail first wind she will take in linen, until Saturday. The Harlequin, Shamrock, and' Active, lor London, -n .1 miserable-mental darkness first thing that contributed to dispel the horrid gloom, wa, the mad and execrable Crusade to the Holy Land. When men lived in stupid superstition, asserting that the torrid and fudged aunt were uninhabitable, that to believe in the atUipodc, wa, atheism, and that the Straight of Gibraltar wat the end of the world, the discovery of the marmerV Compali dissipated these idle fantacict into air- When the south of Europe wa exposed to the ravage, of Goth, and Vandaltz charge substantiate! the commission of a crime, particular the Catherine, tor a-ivcrponi, -aim aaju, jur jji mui, main wind-bouril in thii'harbour.

Tli Hone, far London, with other for dtf- tlElP 'GARDEN SEEDS GV. y-' THOMAS M'DONNELL; ly one or lo.ieriout a nature at that tor wnicn 1 am imprisoned I take the liberty of requeiKng th public to wait the event of my trial before they prononce me guilty. The us n't. -I- .1:. ferent oortt, remain wind-bound at Portaferry.

1 II tiTl 1 A t- HAS received from Lomdoh by'the Shillelagh and D'orit, wnen tne proud King, ot tne earth killed tne toe 01 lat Bishop wnen laccratine the bodv wa, relurion and stupid obeisance, loyalty the art of Printing gave a new turn A rAtcat, or NEIT GARDEN SEEDS', EARLY PEASE AND BEANS HEMP AND CARRAfCAY 'SEEDS', V. Which will be Sold oh the lowest term. North-street, Belfast, al, I.796. to tne human intellect wmjang became no crime, ana rational inquirie into what wa right and what wa, wrong what wa true and what wa false, wa put in every man', power and became every man', duty. uiukiiuii uic uiiiuiiuiiai waiiiuuu wi iiuv txiumy, 01 which religion I am, distressed me beyond measure, and I have' alleviated their distresses at far at in me lay 1 nay, I have gone farther, for I wat active in endeavouring to bring those to justice who, I feared, made impawper use, of the Magisterial power with which they were invested the consequence my life and property are threatened, and the latter injured by those deluded people called Orange or Break-o'-Day I am a manufacturer of mustuu and cambrickt, and gave constant, employment to more than 150 among whom there wat atwayt distributed a large amount in value of my and in their hand some ot these, goad, were destroyed, -1, employed one weaver named Charlct Neill, of Dcrrytresnai to hit house those' villain, came, and alter usine the followine, ThC ijru loncgau, jmn ni, jur London, the Lberty, Andrew T-ggart master, for Li-verpool, are Attained here by contrary wind, and bad weather.

0 a Utttr, 'rout Clare, iaiei January t6, $6. I have just witnessed a scene so shocking that I am totally Kicapable of piinting it in proper A man, named CroiTm, came to me a few hour ago and told me, that on Thursdaynight an armed motb Itiled Orange Men, about a loo 11 number, he came to the house of a Bernard Crossin, hi, brother, who live, within one mile of roy isdle, and that four of them broke In the door and enteredY that one stooped to light a candle, at which time, they'ainily being alarmed, the man', sun fired at and wounded him, so that death baa ere tliii sol. nust follow 1 the consequence wat, those four re. or wordi convcvinvr such meanimr. at slid Neils best rc-' yoHN SMmr, is now Landing from on, board the Shillelagh, WHIT BREAD' 1 PORTER, Of a Superior tZuaUty, 3 i IN HHDS.

BARRELS, AND HALF BARRELS? Whiib be vnll dispose of tn reasonable termt. Skippelanei Belfast, Jan. ig, 179. couecu, tney deitroyea tut noule, Doy, come thi, "it the house of Charles Neill, and the house Bernard Coill't tirci), three dragging the other, out they then stripped. the root, aid urea uown cm tne runny icvcrai one ortwo of which took place on a daughter us Crodin, aged from sixteen to eighteen in confer long penou na not eiapico, unce tne oivioe rizo ui king wa.

not disputed I since passive obedience wa wisdom; since living at the wist of another wa duty and since taxation without representation wat no'tyranny. The gloriou revolution of 178S, awakened Europe from these The attempt, to strangle America in the cradle, elevated man to a proud pinnacle and the just and neceflary war against France, hat given birth, growth, and maturity to the Rights 0 Man. Let not the privileged one of the earth, imagine that thi stream will run back, or that it will even stand still. Will the needle lose it virtue of pointing to the pole Will commerce cease Will the art ot printing be forgotten, and all the book in the world cast into the fire I Will men learn to Untbink their thought and unknow their knowledge voles, these thing, can be done, not a shadow of a hope remain for thetn, that darknel, will ever more revisit the enlightened region ot the earth. Not a doubt reniailu, but that the progrtsi of the human mind will go on, knowledge, and liberty, and happinelt, and peace, will tKjiWcstablisliedover all the earth.

OBSEKVATOR. 'v. 1 11 la tQr. King' Advertisement (in our last) of 4 fencing School, the hour of attendance were ommlited: they are from 9 o'clock in the Morning till ti, and from a in the jstcrnoim till five. fair kbntish npit; 8AMUEL.GIBS0A, otienee ot which mot, me next aay cuu ana ne torn me hi, brother wat not expected to live.

I scat fmn I could to the spot, and having seen a sort of contradictory mbi'ie conefcondenee between Mr. Drrry, whom I have web wat in, and we II wreck it to tne ground, for hit, said Ci, having the impudence to subpna Jack Greer to Dublin, to break him of the peace, and we'll wreck said Coill't liouse in Lurgan, for such hit impudence." Thi allusion wat to a complaint preferred against John Greer, of Silverwood, Esq, a Magistrate, for alledged fmproper Conduct at a Justice of the Peace 1 and my laid weaver in farmed me, that a man named Mtzrray, wat one of said mob and at my instance I procured an examination to be lodged against htm by said Neill, in which word convey ing the tormer meaning it sworn to have been so expressed by said mob. After laid examination wa taken, Neill informed me, with a sew of the army, the. roan could IS At present Landing from on board the Shilkligh, Capt. Xhambcra, from loifon, -large Parcel of the pleasure os being well acquainted with, ami a Mr.

Emerson, whom I have had the pleasure of seeing, I thought it right' to be how. I should transmit nutter, which may probably be made public, until I knew the so that single, assertion could not come aeaiat simile assertion 1 beinc concerned to find, I NEWKENTISH HOPS (in which or TBt vrar riT ctptiTr. He hat also Received per the Feanee, A on and Livervool Packet, hum Liverpool, a large Quantity of hell easily betaken and he told me he applied to Mr. Brown am, tlat too many would willingly hide those crime, until ihev would cease, di Alexander', when AMBER ROSIN fin Cash,) low tor a warrant againit him, which he nrougnt ready drawn, and which Mr. Brownlow siirned, but would not give him 1 then waited on Mr.

Brownlow myself, and re All of which will be Sold on modeatt urlnt. DonegaH-strect, Belfast, Jan, 179S. there (rat not a possible for them I therefore repaired to tie wretched cabbin, where I beheld a man lying in a bed, who wat supported by a girl he-shewed We ark obliged to print thit day', publication an blank. wiiH-u iiiaui uc ror quested him to lend -tome or the army men 111 kurgan to have thit man taken, which, tlio' he promised, ne ha, not done 1 and I now understand I am charged on the oath of thi, very Murray, which I can scarcely believe, Mr. ROBERT.

ANDERSON, me a wound in tne oeiiy ne receiver oy a nan inot 1 from a pun i it remain, in hit body, the surgeon who attend, tot being able, find it, though a man of ex HAS B. would have surely committed him on the warrant be so Arrived to GEORGE MARTIN, pef the last Vessel, from Ltvrarooi. Cask, and j. Cale, vf HARDWARE, which wm be sold cheap at hi. Ware house Pine Scale Sugar sinned aeainst him.

I wa, informed an examination wa. White Ginzer. perience in hit profession lie, Crossin, told me the story well ai he wat able i he yet sensible, but it i supposed he cannot long survive. A young man wa, shot about to. be lodged againit me, and so far from Lying my" ut i i ,5 -M i 1 H-y-i -ifS 4 A ua oriagc-jirtei, ENGUSIT CARPET1XG.

Fine East India ditto in Hyson, Green, and Con-vou Teat, hme, which, had I been con'cioui ot any crime, 1 might soon have done, and which I believe would have irivca in the-armrrit not broke, nor did the nan lodge in it I had the eirl' stripped and examined her -wound. Fig aad Raisim, Rosin, Spanish Indigo, 4, Dantxig A and Lead am doubtful whether one ball or two entered one. An additional assortment lust arrived, per the ranee. Black Pepper, Ann. Cant.

Ditlont to ELIZA ami) JAM IIS SHIPBOY wound 011 the thick part of the thigh behind, the more satisfaction to my persecutor! than having me here, I went to Mr. Brownlow and cut a summon, lor the man who could give information of the combination against that I might have, an opportunity of resisting such charge in the first instance but before the time he wa, to appear. Which, with a general Affonmealeu? Allo, a compleat assortment of HOSIERY suited to the Icalun. Intending to quit the Mercer Bufmtli, they will other in the belly the conjecture seemt to be, that she standing in the sign-, and the mot taking effect from the leu uieir cxieoiiveotocK at rcuuccd houseTTN made it, way through but downward, some I I r. 1 r.n GROCERIES, lie will Sell on moderate term, Ionh-Areet, Belfast, if, 1796.

IH111K uiiicrwiic I. I IMC HV IdllCl 111 by twenty tour wa, taken up and tent to jail. Consciou, I wa, then os innocence, convinced malevolent and nialicioli, motive, alone produced the present pro prime of youth to the unmerciful savage of her country. She about the age! memioned.and pretty looking. I'll semi by daylight for a coroner, and have an inquest held, you shall know the result, tW I am far from wijhine it.

and PRESH JOHN GRAHAM tis CO. A RB just receiving from on (ward the thilUlagh, from lecution, 1 am lining in my hope, and do eameitly requclt the public will give me the. lame: place in their esteem I have alway, been favoured with where known, until it be ascertained by the verdict of a jury, that I don't deserve it, and surely, when every day', experience convince, them of the trivolnu, support, at to testimony, those high charge generally have met with, and the infunoui character! generally ht forward to lupport them, they will not deny we the favour 1 ask. BERNARD COILL. Armagh January J.

JL. l-ouooa, r-lnery-ttiree Uhetti, irt FINE AND COMMON CONSOtf, SOUCHONG, CAMPOI, GREEN TEAS. aim a rtrxTuia lorrtv or WHITBRE AD' BEST PORTER IN HMDS. They have also lately received, per the sennet, Margaret, and Catherine, from Dublin, a few Puncheon, remarkably Strong mi Nice Flavoured which they will dif- would rather decline it and prefer a simple statement of. fact, the extract from a letter, should the editor iiof the Star chuse hi, information to he authenticated, I am far, in such a case at this, from denying him my January to.

4 Yesterday an inquest wa held on the body of Mary Crofliu, daughter, ot Bernard Crossin, mentioned in my last, and the verdict was wilsuLmurJrr by person, un known. It appeared the mob consisted os person, stilinz themsclvet jnge or Breakni'-day men who committed the The editor, from motive, of humanity, decline, pub sincere and disinterested quirer aster truth may learn who the author it by a person. al application. JKMAGH BARTER SESSIONS. John tfesbitt wat indicted for an assault' upon Michael M'Clulkey, on the Ijth of October last, but before the sending up of the bill to the grand a motion wa, made by Mr.

Hartford, agent for the prosecutor, who re- presented to the bench, that notwithstanding the examin- poleof on moderate lenni. fleiiall, al, 190. fO TUB EDITOR. NEW ALICANTE BARlLLef. A SMALL PARCEL OF A VERT PRIME ZffALITr, Just Arrived to 1 ALEXANDER ORR.

1 Belfast, Jan. at, 1796. assault, the fact, to be proved were, XE1T AL1C ANTE BARR1LLA. -f, JAMES P1NKERTON, l. TS just landing from on board the Swedish brig Period, da A recc from Alicante, a parcel of y-- BRRILLA, 'f i- Of the best quality that could be procured there, which he will sell on rcasooabse Termt.

A North-street Belfast, Jan. ai, FURNITURE AUCTION. JfAMES BAILIE BROKER, ''APPRAISER AND AOCTIONBRR, WILL sell on Monday next the azth instant, at the -House lately occupied hy Mr. Boyle, Merchant, Cun oingharn't-nw, a variety of elegant and fashionable HOVSHOLD FURNITURE, i early new, being all purchased Within these fowteca month, via, Mohogany Northumberland. Sideboard and other Tablet, Mohogany Secreting and other Detu and Book Case, ditto Bedstead, and Feather Bed, and BeIw Cirpet, and Carpeting.

China and Glas, wim several article, of Xiichen and other Fumitur, too numerdu, to insert. Belfast, Jan. ai, 796. THE BELFAST COTERIE, W'y ange.Room.. (a, usual) -an Tuesday the 6th instant.

a usual. THE HOLTPOOD COTERIE, TS tobe held at Widow Me Friday aad day of January, v- ,1 January 1 1794. WE think oursclvea in gratitude bound to return our Cu cere Thank, ter Captain Wm. Baud of the Brigr Susanna from Philadelphia to Belfast, for. hit kind and -generou, treatment to during a pleasant passage of four -week, having had a perfect trial of the Brig, would re commend her to those who wish to go to Philadelphia to take their passage in her.

FRESH FLOUR, FROM THE ANTRIM MILLS, Far Sale at the Store of H. A. MONTGOMERY, in CalenJar-Jrectr Who vtiU hive a constant Sipply. n. Belfast, Jan.

1796. iorcing into hi, houle, prelenting (ire arm, at him, annex. ing him down and also firing into hi, house, hich fact, constituted a crime of a hiither nature than belonged. to their objection had been made to the magistrate by the prosecutor at the time of giving the in-; formation, but be persisted nevertheless in making the ex amination, returnable to the quarter and they were drawnnp accordingly in the following form, entiraly omit ting the circumstance of shooting. 4 COPTQP EXAMIXATIOX.

County of Th'e examination of Michael 11; M'Clukey, of LIsnamintry, in the county of Armagh, taken before John Greer, Esq. one os ail Mijesty'ijuttkei of the peace for said county. Thi, examinant being duly sworn 'and examined upon oath, faith, that on the eight of Tuesday the Izth day of October inst, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, John Nelbitt. the vounner, of Drnmiror, in said countvi i pnaa. ut, BY inserting the following in your universally admired Paper, you will much vblidge your', aud a irtrud to the public ADONIS.

Impartial observer cannot but see at one glaace the absurdity of either partie-iq the commotion, that disturb thit kingdom, assuming religion for their banner 1 for true religion consult in the scar of God and obedience to hit holy What a degradation to the christian religion, that men professing to be actuated by that divine principle, commit such depredation on their fellow because they do not conform in every particular to their mode of worship, which the prejudice of education, hath confirmed to them a right. No matter what lect or denomination we are called by, if tve act conformably to the divine teaching in the severity of our own heart, for God hath declared -tai all kindretk, and pcupleVwho work righteousnesi, will be accepted of him. Vetsutipose they were wrong, force will never convince, but will rather leVve to harden them in their seeing yuu who -boast of 'being enlightened, commit such For what purpose Vere you endowed with thit superior excellence, huttobe, a shining Jight to them that fit in darkneli. You makeourseIve detested by a Widuct so far different from you profess Whatever your motive may be, all that it likely to accrue, it a civil war with all it, train of calamities, and giving an opportunity, when thu, divided, to the (tyrant, of your freedom to sink you Kill deeper beticath the galling yoke. Thit it the wretch ed alternative yon traW expect.

Be aroused to a just sense of the delirium which ye are possessed with, and which your oppressor, exult to Ice you involved in. Embrace the present moment, unitey be connected, and let all clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice, throw away those animositiei and be strengthened in the if EfT. GARDEN SEEDS, EARLY PEASE AND BEANS, dt. JAMES M'DONNELL, AS lately Imported, by the Dona from London, a Ueneral AJJtrlment ej ereo 1 GARDEN AND FLOWER SEEDS, EARLY JEASE MEANS, HEMP SEED AND CREAM TARTAR. assaulted the examinant in hir-own house, in Lil'naniintry.

1 1 I t. He hat likewise for Sale, Pine and Common Con Patent and Common Shot, gonand Green sea, Fine Scale Sugar, -Pepper, Pig'. Rosin, A.c. tx. Belfast, Jan.

1 796. bond and unity of the one spirit, unanlninut in the cause of libertyHhui would the thaw ot uavery he brakenj and liberty exist over oppreu Moyallon, January 10, 79tV Samuel Simpson, William Finky, William Robinson, ame, O. lackey M'Cu'Jocb, Jamei JHuirgint, William Scott, Robert Taylor, Jime, Henderson, shomaa Hunter, John King, John Haney, Robert Flack, John Hamilton. iiiiciaiu, in ennipanv wuu icvcrai uiiicr rmcia men, oy putting a gun to hi, brealt and demanding examinant to deliver him bil gun, and threatened liim in cale of relusal. 1 Taken, and sworn, and ac -jj kuowledged before me, th Ijth dayof Octnbcrvijot.

J. Examinint acknnwlcdgei to 1 be bound, in lot. 01. od. cog-, -(-; nuance, to prosecute at the next quarterselCom, to beheld" i in and for said hi, MICHAEL M'CLUSKEV, Mark.

The informant Wa, then produced by Mr. Hartford', to prove that the magistrate hard hero fully instructed to the nature of the offence. The bench, however, said they would no presume that the magistrate had acted improper ly, and ordered the bill to go up to the grand jury, who re turned it a true bill, and the txaverser wa, put to hi, trial and acquitted) Mr. Hartford then prod need-a warrant against, the said Jnh'n Nrtbut, chneri iy I horna, vawion Lawrence, Eiq. tor having on the i'h of October last, together with one 1 horna, I.ynii, Snf the parish, of Seago, and a rkfou, mob, surrounded the house of John Deinrf, of Clare, in the piristiof Tnllylifli, in the county of Down, prdenting a HU GRAHAM, Ha received per the Thames Captain Campbell, COOV AND GREEN TEA, Which be mil Jell reafonnhlt if ml.

Belfast, January ai, 1796. DANTZIO VEEI ASHES iinaiNt1 To be fcild 00 reasonable Term NOTICE. If ANTED lMMEBUTELr, A list of the persona found guilty at the General Quarter Session! of the Peace, held at Ballyrnena on the 14th in stant, with the punilhment inllicted upon them by the court. David Stewart and ChariesStewart, "both of Tarnlagh more, in the county of Antrim, convicted of having broke and entered the close of William Neill and treipaucd on hi, land, -fined sixpence each. Daniel Boyd, of Dernloy, having submitted to ah indictment for assaulting Daniel O'lZrain, ardered to be confined in the county Jail sere A the Dweaalt Arm Belfast, Man to aS In XX the capacity of Steward fur the Yard he must be Well WHEREAS Martha Hamia.

otherwise Harinton, Wife, left me Withxut any solKcient reason, thit therefore to caution the public not 10 credit her any thins am my aceoutit, I an, determined not, to pay any debt, tha may contract. Given under my hand thi 14th day of Jn 179. WAAIJtOTOli .1 recommended ror iJobtiet, nonetty, ana a pema aaow lJce tn au aluUtM. .1 Ia-T, .5.