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London, England, 1822-02-02 00:00:00

the mere slaves of their landlords, boosts
sod by the strong ties of local affections; ItistAW
do not receive in return the advantages which serfs
and slaves elsewhere enjoy as the recompense for
their lost freedom. They ire laborious agents for
the profit of others, themselves drawing from the
land they cultivate hardly enough of the plainest
and coarsest food to sustain their wretched exist-
ence; yet should an indifferent harvest occur, or
bad markets blight the hopes which the bounty of
Providence had inspired, the rapacious steward or
agent of the absent Lord does not hesitate to seise
the cattle and wretched furniture of the peasant's
miserable hoed as distress for rent, and sell it by
auction at a moment's notice for less then • fourth
of the value. The man and his family are drive•
from their home, and if io the bitterness of his
heart he should breathe a vow of vengeance against
his oppressor, it might chance to be recollected at
the first moment of general disturbance, like the
present, and• help to swell the torrent of disaf-

fection.
The Special Commission will shortly be opened
io the city of Cork. The gaols of that city unfor.
tenately contain many prisoners who will be made
the subjects of capital indictments. The shooting
of the prisoner BuciCIAT has not yet been investi-
gated, and undoubtedly if it should be suffered to
pass by without inquiry, the peasants of Ireland will
have great cause to complain of the want of epos'
justice. The body was buried without the previous
holding of an inquest, to ascertain the causes of
the death, although it is certain that the Coroners
no the city of Cork had been apprised of. the me.
lancholy occurrence insufficient time for the proper
discharge of their duty. It will belong to the
Grand Jery of the county, assembled et the open.
ing of the Special Commission,-to present this in-
stance of neglect, and the Jades will not fail to
mark the circumstance in a proper manner. It
would, we are convinced, contribute more towards
restoring the tranqnillity of the southern counties
of Ireland if those who killed BUCKLEY were pub.
licly brought to triad for this charge, than if fifiy
of the deinied peasantry were executed by way of
striking a terror into their companions. It will not
be easy to terrify men who venture, almost naked
and without arms, to face the King's troops in the
field; but it would teach them to place • higher
value then they now do upon their lives, if they sew
that they might repose upon the protection of phi
laws, and that they were not. in fact, reduced tot
the necessity which they now universally seem to
feel, of forming illegal associations in defence of
their persons and properties. ,
- I •
After the breaking op of the Cnbipet Commit
"s" ' afternoon a messenger was sesst ea e
to the Kura at Bright**.

Thursday morning. at eleven o'clock, Mr.
K ATE, the King's messenger, arrived in Downing.
itrect with dispatches from St. Peteisburgh. The
ascproger travelled with great speed. He left SO
Petersburgh on the 11th of January.
Yesterday morning Earl BATuunsT left town fool,
Bromley, ►n • Kent, nu a visit to Sir Cu
Lotto. The Noble Earl returned to Louth* its
the evening.
Mr. WILMOT. the Under-Secretory of State for
the Colonial Department, has returned to town
from a visit to Lord GRANVILLE.
Yesterday the Earl of HARROWEY. as Lord
President of the Council, gave his annual dinner
to the Cabinet Ministers. the Great Officers of
State, and the Clerks of the Conned, when the
roll of those Gentlemen, three for each county,
who were nominated in the Court of Exchequer
last Novt'mber, was arranged. previous to their being
pricked for by the KING.
The Lad of LIVERPOOL gives a grand parlia-
mentary dinner on Monday ut Fife House.
. Tl►e Right lion. the Speaker of the House of
Commons ha. issued cards of invitation for his first
public dinner on Sunday, the 10th instant.
The new Crown, wlidi, we understand, is of the
most splendid description. and which is to he worn
by his MAJESTY for the first time on the opening
of the ensuing Parliamentary Session, been de-
posited in the Jewel House ut the Tower.
The decorations of Ins MAJESTY'S state coach are
now completed, by placing on the back parotid of
the body the royal arms. beautifully executed, and
tastefully ornamented with the several Orders of the
Garter, Bath, St. Patrick, trod St. Andrew.
The Ktma has been graciously pleased to ad.
dress a letter, in his own hand-writing, to Sir
HURT HALFOED„ the President of the Royal
College of Physicians. desiring that he and his
successors should consider themselves vie rule rjficii
Physicians Extraordinary to his MAJESTY, and that
in their attendance at Court they should appear
dressed in the costume prescribed for those who
enjoy that honour.
A vessel has arrived at Liverpool from Buenos
Ayres, with letters to the 30th October, ten days
later than the advices previously received from the
same quarter, but they do not contain any political
hews. Order and tranquillity prevailed, and the
Aim of the Government were gradually Oecoming
Thole organised. The markets were glutted wits►
merchandise. which had induced several English
homes established there to send cargoes ►ound Cape
Horn, to Chili and Peru, and th►s circumstance
*ill no doubt add to the dilemma of the many ape-
"dunes who already swarm on all the shores of the
Predle.

A letter from Lisbon, dated January lit, says—.
!Ulnas DE CAIIIIO lately made a cootie's,
,which is supported by all the Americana in the
free its object is to declare the port of Lisbon
',r,tefer Brazil productions, and to repeal all the
•tistom-iiouse regulations which embarrass the
'ride between Portugal and Portuguese America.
b
°tin's! would thus become the general tiorpot
for oar Colomeo.”