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London, England, 1822-01-31 00:00:00

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peraeaded that io ainely-oine in.taaces eat or every

loopeed with a belief that some danger is threatebed
_NERARE,II*B *meats, and, that jit 'tisk&
is tasselismoly assembling to mist the Miss of
tine laskoriars. Military power is emtlhijiMlol,olll.o.
beirll4t they are acting eyes a,yM
orsirlf-defence. The peasants of the etroutp of•
Cork were tranclail and well-conducted isti,pOess,-
lensboate event at Clonakilty, in which tusks.**
•
excise officer undertook, according So his owe Malmo
•
went of the transaction, tolarrist a man spots • charge.
of illicit dissillatioo, mad to Possamod • party of is-
experienced yeomanry to fire upon • crowd of pep.
pie who were clamorously demanding the prisoner's.
release. The unfortunate prisoner was shot, mod
more accounts than one attribute his death tait
hands of the officer who commanded the detaiM.
meat of the yeomanry. It was almost immediately
after this unhappy affair, into which no inquiry up.
pears as yet to have been instituted, that we find
Lord BANTRY engaged in an affray of his own
seeking with • large body of the peasantry, and is .1
• day or two afterwards Mr. Henan ETRE, free
%sworn, encountered • body of the peasantry,
the same, we presume, as defied Lord BANTA!
from the summits of their hills. The moil coach
was then attacked for the first time for the purpose
of obtaining fire...irons. The state of their military
prrporsOtiens, and the circumstance of their having
bat ore gun in the entire assemblage, prove, as we
think, very sufficiently that their insurrection, as it
is called, was not the result of previous deliberate
arrangement. If • conspiracy hostile to the Govern-
ment had devised the notion of a rebellion against
the State, it is not likely that the conspirators
would have caused their scheme to be so soon dis-
closed by as open appearance in the field or on the
mountains, for the purpose of attacking a Noble-
man and a party of the King's troops, without first
obtaining the very necessary supply of at least a
couple of guns. Lord BANTair is • very active
Magistrate, but it may not be always prudent to
seek an opportunity of displaying energy of ohs.
ratter. His oppeaVance in the pass of the Glen.
near Bantry. with a party of soldiers, was no doubt
viewed by the peasants as so ominous occurrence,
foreboding evil to themselves and their families. A
flame is more easily excited than allayed : but no
state of tranquillity can be viewed with confidence
as permanent, if it be the painful result of mere

military force.
It is Nan the Order of the Council declaring
certain districts in the counties of Dublin and
Meath in a state of disturbance, and 1,4'45441g as
extra force of pol.ce, that we are apprised of the
progress of disaffection into those parts of the king-
dom. We had not previously heard of any sets of
violence committed that bore a character so satins
as to require a remedy so alarming. It is net M►s
presumed, f.om the distance of these pieces No
the present scene of disturbance in the south of
Ireland, that any direct communication is maintain-
ed between the rioters in the respective places, se
that there subsists between them any commusitty of
purpose.

A Flanders Mail has arrived with Papers from
Brussels to the 46► I► inst. They contain accounts
from Constantinople to the 49th December, it which
:time there had been an extraordina►y meeting of the
Divan, but it had broken up without coming IS
any determination respecting the Russian shl.
tam. The report, therefore, that the whiners's, had
been accepted on the 18th, sit confidently asserted
and repeated in some of the papers, upon the
■tledged authority of positive advice. received by
the Levant Company in London, iv totally desti-
tute of foundation.

Rumour appears very busy at the present me•
ment in Penis. To the report. prevalent in that city,
noticed iu our Pieper of yesterday, we now add the
following :—" The Emperor A LIZA te DEA, it is said,
has expressed his high dissatisfaction with the late
change in the C.binet, sod the manner io which it
was effected. A dispatch was received on Friday
by the Russian Ambassador, dated St. Petersburgh.
on the 15ili or the 7th instant, in which his Imperial
Majesty desires it to be intimated to the French
Government, that he views with pain the dismissal of
the Duke of Rictigttgo, and that whamever may
be the consequences to France of the forquetoo_af
a Ministry like the present, lie considers himself
as absolved from all engagements to interfere be.
tween the Bengtson. and the people. The Duke of
Montagu, who, *loiterer may be his defects, is
universally allowed to be of a frank and loyal .cha.
racier, has, it is said, great reason► to complain of
the want of directness, if not of positive insincerity,
on the part of Nomura, who produced the late
change, and may probably have communicated his
treatment and feeling' to his Imperial protector.
This declaration of A LXXANDZII may perhaps have
given rise to the report about changes in the
Cabinet.'•—lf solemn engagements between Sove-
reigns can be thus abruptly disoolved at the pleasure
of our of the parties, they must be of little value.
Whatever dissatisfaction may have been excited in
the mind of the Emperor AtAXA ?IDES by the late
change of Ministry in France, it is not probable that
he would express himself so strongly in interference
in the domestic Airing of a foreign and indepeudeut
State.

Oa Tuesday evening. after the breaking up of
the Cabinet Council. Mr. VIOEIIIII4 the King's
messenger. was sent off with dispatches to Italy.

A special Court of Common Council will be
held this day. to coosider the report of the Com-
mittee of General Pavans, misuse to the dis-
turbance at Knightsbridge ea the 26th of Assist
hist, and the atiuutes of.evideuce thereon.

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