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sentenced to be confined, with se- 
veral of his associates, at Fort 
George, Scotland ; whence he was, 
by the mistaken lenity of govern- 
ment, permitted to transport him- 
self to France, after the signing of the 
treaty of Amiens; but, whether he 
remains there at present, or has 
found his way back into his native 
country, which he has contributed 
to seduce from its allegiance to the 
best of sovereigns, is a matter not 
yet accurately ascertained. He is 
not, however, most probably, in Ire- 
Jand, where, from the very singular 
appearance that his being remar- 
kably short-sighted gives him, it is 
impossible he could venture to go 
about without being immediately re- 
cognized by some of the loyal per- 
sons with whom he was acquainted. 
The youngest son, Robert, was also 
intended for the bar; but, having 
been convicted of an attempt to in- 
troduce the spirit of disaffection into 
the Irish university, in which he was 
a student, he was, with 18 other 
young rebels, publicly expelled in 
the year 1798; since which he has 
been rambling over various parts of 
the continent, when the renewal of 
hostilities revived his hope of being 
able to effect the long wished-for 
object of himself and party—the se- 
paration of Ireland from its con- 
nexion with Great-Britain. This 
induced him to return, and enter 
upon the daring attempt of seizing 
the castle of Dublin, which was for- 
tunately frustrated, and so deser- 
vedly brought him to an ignominious 
death upon the gallows. 
At noon this day, as a pleasure 
boat from Deal was entering the har. 
bour of Ramsgate, apparently un- 
der an easy sail, at highwater, with 
rather a swell in the offing, she was 
by a sudden heel upset in a moment, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
and the company on board (ten in 
number) were precipitated into the 
watery abyss. ‘Two visitors at that 
place, Mr. Innes and Mr. H. Mair, 
were the only persons at the time on 
the extremity of the north pier, who 
witnessed this most distressing scene. 
They instantly hailed some Rams- 
gate boatmen in the harbour, who 
did not delay a moment to push off 
to the relief of their unfortunate fel- 
low-creatures ; five of whom had 
got on the bottom of the boat, but 
only one could keep this perilous 
situation. Mr. Innes and his friend 
threw a rope from the pier-head, 
which was eagerly laid hold of by 
three of the boat’s crew, and, with 
the assistance of two other gentle- 
men, who most providentially ran 
up to them from the further end of 
the pier, they got the rope so fixed 
as, in a few minutes, to bring three 
poor fellows once more upon dry 
ground. The fourth, by extraor- 
dinary efforts, got round to the bath- — 
ing ground, and was saved. ‘The 
boats by this time had remoyed the 
gentleman who was clinging to the 
wreck ; and a lady (Mrs. Dore), 
who was floating with her face 
downward, apparently a_ lifeless 
corpse, was next picked up, and, 
by timely medical assistance, was 
soon restored to life. Mr. Dore 
had floated out so far, that every at- 
tempt to recover him proved fruit- 
less. Mrs. D. whose life was pre- 
served from the circumstance of her 
riding habit keeping her afloat, has, 
in consequence of the distress occa~ 
sioned by the loss of her husband, 
brought forth an untimely birth, 
which, it is thought, will end in her 
death. The following are the unfor- 
tunate sufferers on this melancholy 
occasion: Mr. Deny, a Deal pilot, 
who was chosen by Mr. Pitt to ve 
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