Monthly Chronicle.

Fridav a meeting of the Privy Council was held at the Duke of Portland ' s office , for the purpose of examining the prisoners . The Council consisted of the Lord Chancellor , Duke of Portland , Marquis Cornwallis , Esrls of Chatham and Spencer , Lord Grenville , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr . Dundas , the Attorney and Solicitor General , Mr . Secretary King , Mr . White t / ie Solicitor , and Mr . Ford the Magistrate . The Members met at twelve o'clock , and were occupied till three in the afternoon in investigating the contents of the trunks and papers found in the possession of the prisoners , and examining the oflicers who

took Ihem into custody . They underwent several examinations ; but declining ¦ to answer any questions put to ' them , they were all committed to the Tower , oil Wednesday the -jth of March , except Leary , the servant of O'Connor , who was sent to the House of Correction .

On Thursday the 151 b of March , two of his Majesty ' s Messengers , attended by two Police officers , went 10 the house of Mr . Evans , in Plough-court , Fetterlane , and apprehended Benjamin Binns , the brother of John Binns , already confined in the Tower , and Alexander Galloway , formerly Secretary to the Corresponding Society . They were taken in bed , the officers having burst open the door of the apartment in which they slept . Binns , whose papers were likewise sieized , had only arrived in toivn four days since from Ireland , where he received information of the officers being in search of him , in less than forty-eight hours

after the other prisoners were committed to the Tower . A Mr . Bonham , of Hampstead , and Col . Despard , who was formerlv sniperintendant of his Majesty ' s affairs in the Bav of Honduras , & c . were also apprehended at the same time . A warrant was likewise issued for the apprehension of Mr . Robert Crossneld , of Cursitor-street ; but although a reward of 200 I . has been offered , he has not yet been taken . From the examination of the papers found in the possession of the ahov'e persons , a connection was traced not only with a great number of people iu England , but also with a considerable body iia

IllliLAND . Messengers were in consequence immediatelv dispatched , with directions to apprehend certain persons in that country . The attention of the Magistrates of Dublin was first directed to the Printing-office of The Press , a violent newspaper , of which Mr . O'Connor is the proprietor . The superintendant Magistrate , in searching the place where the above-menlioned paper was printed , ( No . 61 , Abbey-street ) seized a quantity of seditious papers in manuscript , with some bal ) cartridges , which a woman was endeavouring lo convev out of the house while

the magistrate was doing his duty . Some of the workmen of the above newspaper were taken into custody , but afterwards discharged . In the exercise of his ; magisterial duty , Alderman Alexander was engaged from six in the evening unu'l one next morning . Among the persons in the house where The Press was printed , were found Lord Edward Fitzgerald , Counsellor Sampson , and Mr . Swift the elder , whose punishment of imprisonment in the New Gaol , for a lib : ! against certain Fellows of Trinity College some , time ago , had been remitted by Government . None of these gentlemen were detained that nihthaving pledged

themg , selves to be forthcoming in the morning , to answer any charge that might be alledged against them . On the 13 th , one of his Majesty's Messengers , attended by a civil and military power , proceeded to the house of Mr . Oliver Bond , iu Bridge-street , upon an information which had been received by Government , that the Provincial Committee of the United Irishmen of Leinster were 10 assemble there for the purposes of treason . A committee of 14 delegates were found sitting , and immediately taken into custodyand many material paperscontaining proofs of a

, , serious nature , were found upon them . Mr . Bond was not in the room of the meeting , but papers affecting him are said to have been found in his pocket . At the same time , we understand , Dr . M'Nevin was apprehended at his lodgings near the Four Courts ; and Counsellor P . mmeit , in Stephen ' s Green ; John Sweetman , in Francis-street ; Mr . Henry Jackson and son , in Church-street . Coun-