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Sot—From the boasts of the Miniaterial Papers,it would
ha natural to miriade that Mr. Sestilary Canning is consi-
dered • prize of rub ineonvidershlelealite. I was, however,
nut ninth surprised at AnAi•g a sort of rptalineatioli to litter
boasts in the course of the Int week. One of these
Minis-
terial scribblers drawled out a sort •f entreaty to the country
gentlemen, to gas° the Right Hon. Gentleman a fair teal be-
fore they joined in the clamour egaiint him, so illiberally,
says this advocate, promoted by the Opposition Juornals.
Rat surely Mr. Canning is not new or isukuowei to the
country. ale is already well ,knoaa by both his words sod
his deeds. 1 know what do; trine. be has pionnktoted, what
measures he has rorpatted ; and we no. see to what an Ad-
miiiiairation he has united himself. Never did man risme
into power op whom the nation in general, and the country
gentlemen iu particular, could, from their previous know-
ledge of "Jim, look with more apprehension or more mistrust.
If there was any thing wanting to excite and redouble the
gisfog. jot-today of the land respecting thin residue of the fol-
lowers of Mr. Pitt, it is the accession 6f that man to the h-
ely:ethers, whom tbcy have tbeattalves as lodgleared, not on
account of his hold or 'manly esposoilima to them, but on
ammo of that spirit of 'fanatic sad ilesention which, even
White he oapporlid their tene►slweaaarey be was ever sow.
ing among them. He wan ever with them against the people,
chile he was at enmity severally with almost all of thetn.
veii those who would persuade the asentry gentletneu not
to dread him, dread him themselves. kis Wendy hinted,
that however he may dislike Parliamentary Reform, he bas
no objection to unwilling like Cabinet Reform, and there is
some probability that he has already bespoke. of the painter
whom he mentioned to his Liverpool (mode, amn,ll cabinet
Lion, of nu very gestic aspect, to be bang neer his seat in
the Privy Council. He has ben admitted among those who
fear him, merely because they and be are nuked in the
greater fear of an injured and impoverished country. But
the nation has, for tbe non part, attained • strong sense of
its situation and its *usiereste. It feels lb at It has suffered
itself to be led into an illibe►al, a diegrarefol, sod a ruinous
system of polities; sad we are minion that it is out of
the power of Mr. Calming to prevent its natant to its main.
rat and coostitatioual principles and objects. The nation
requires, at home, its just represeatalion in Parliament, and
a more equal appropriation of its annual wealth; and,
abroad, a dissolution of all enmesh,. of its Cevennes*
with that knot of despots, who, while they assume, the
title of the Holy Alliance, are actually now roma& in as.•
sitting the Malsootetane to enslave the bran antstruggling
Christie.. of Greece.

With what sae ssssss can we expect Mr. Gamin to be
prepared for the alleviation of the severe distresses of the
farmers and their labourers? Can be contrive to conduct
the machine of Gureensorot at less expense than his un-
happy predecessor? I ant sues he cannot. He is more
is need of the support of patronage than sw,ter Minister was.
Should the least of the springs of thst it tricate and mis-
chievous vehicle miss its accustomed proportion of oil, the
new Secretary will speedily begin to wish himself upon
the. sacred shores of the Ganges. Inaccepting his post.
he has audoubiedly made up his mind to inaimin himself
in it; and be must therefore ester the flame of Commons
well prepared with Majorities, against tbs; intrepidity mid
perseverance of that man, shu has now become as skilful
as be is indefatigable in exposing the corruptions of tare.
His efforts to maintain those majorities, can *sly serve to
supply Mr. Hume with arguoiems against the system; and
the arguments of Mr. Hume are such as Mr. Secretary Cam-
ning lass sot been accustomed to withstand: they consist
of otressmos maw, alai the row drat rabic of iritheaelie.
Thiele is so joking with asisma. and caleslati•as. Ai«
quence mists into shadows when it corms iu contact with
solid numbers. Even bribery itself begins to lose its hold
wises it comes to the plain proof, that the more there is
given the more must be taken away. The landlord has
discovered, that the payment of constant rent by his tenant
is • far better thine; than any thing in the g.ft of a Minister :
and he has also discovered that he caanot have both The
farmer, without the House, is becoming more important to
the landholder, than the Minmer within it. Fur such •
state of public fee liog, the talents of Mr. Secretary Call.
uing are but very thdifferently framed. In the days of
deceit. he was a very distiognished cheraciert he attn.
imbed even his associates sod •niciliarics, fur he forgot the
old adage that sets a certain limit to the violation of honour,
and carried their practices among themselves. Hut the
truth is at length built seen and felt, and Mr. Hume will
nu tenger, I thank, have to complain of want of support.
Ili the present situation of the country, when the igiluw
Witten are pining iu the midst of plenty, and when the
wealth of the laud serves only to enrich those who parti-
cipate in the •liiirmous amount of taxation, the sufferers
ate continually asking themselves and one another, how it
has come to pass that with all the boasted free.
dam of its Con.titution, pays so much dean r for its Govern
ment and its Church, than those rooms-tea of the Continent
that seem to be placed miae immediately under the irre-
sponsible discretion of their ruling? The answer is plain.
The Constitotion of England has given way under the
weight of miniatelial ',unaware. The Whigs, to whom we
owe the Itevoliition of 1688, committed en error, from
which has proceeded the destruction of their own patriotic
labour, sod, ultimately, touch of their own importance in
the State. Having rendered forced Incas mid bemevoleores
illegal and inipo•mble, they teractsal that good by the
admisoine of funded loans with an incorporated baokiiig
company. Thus the evil which they had at fist extermt•
rotted returned in an artful and deceptive disguise: it re
turned divested of that outward and arknimirledged mall:-
idly, against which the experienre of their forefathers had
forages maid out, but replete with tokens! venom. Nu
doubt, while that funded debt was small, live Whigs who
had proposed and negociated it, hoped and intended that
it might aid should be paid off. They did nut sufficieutly
consider the difference between private mut public debt.
A private man may justly contract debt, because he may
increase his gains, or he may sell his property to pay them.
Hut there is nafuraffy no such thing as national or govern-
ment gains; nor was there ever Item such a thing even
arlifiaally, until a G ices omega capital was made out of a
Goveinoteut debt, a circumstanee in itself so opposed in
its very principle to the ttannactions of private late, that it
seems moonislinig how soy men of common souse could have
cootemplated midi a measure. Yet such a scheme did nut
waist supporters. Speculative m. n would net refuse to lend
to the ponerful Goverhasent of • arilling.people; sad at
first these men lent the actual value of the labour sail
produce of the I toil ; but is the debt increased, and its
representative credit supplied and multiplied in paper
mouey the cipital (soil ll* interest) which was drawn from
individuals kin the coff:rs or the Stmt., prices iocreared,
mud wages donintshed in their relative Moth, and the
subs. (pivot lenders of thousands and minim, leut less and
less nal wealth to the State, until at length the debt has be-
come • mete turnstilel amount—for when is the sum of •
thousand milhwts to be found iii poinads stet bug on the face
of the globe ? Yet the interest of Oita impossible and liana.
tarsi sun, most now be annually found w specie, or in the
north of specie in natural produce. This debt, which like
an evil weed took rout—nay, was plaited by the Whigs them
aetve,, by the side of that Constitution a hich the Mime had
just cleared of the sycophantic and creeping weeds about
it, has sajured soil destroyed the best branches of Otis
favourite tree, and shed a baleful 101 l pod them.
selves. We agree with many of those gentlemen who,
during the last Hemlock of Parliament, insisted epos
the necessity of economy in the Goverment exposers •
but we fear that their tabours in favour of economy will be
of little avail, even where they may be partially saccetafat,
as long as the machinery of this debt.capital, this negative-
wealth, is suffered to remain in Its present state. The haul-
ling we know was their owe t they begot li,aod gave it birth,
and christened it by the fic:cifel and roniaatie Ham of Pub.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCTOBER 2.

We have to congratulate our nattv..: city esi
the restoration of that state and dignity by which
the Viceroy of Ireland ought ever to be surrounded;
hut more particularly do we feel gratified to find
that the splendid costume
.and equipages, which
were displayed on Monday, are all the manufactere
of Ireland, thus sliewing an example, which,if ge-
nerally followed, would be attended with the most
eatensive and most sebstantial benefit to the
country.

His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant entertained
a splendid party of Nobility at dinner yesterday
evening, to meet their Graces the Dukes of Devon.
►hire and Leiuster.
The Duke of Devonshire and suite, the Earl and
Constesii of Darulry and suite, Lady E. Btigb. the
lion. James Abercrumby, M. P., Mr. lieectimont
and Charles B►ownlow. Esq. M.P., have arrived at
0' Dienne's Hotel, Sac keel le-street.

The Earls of Clisrlernont, Darnley. Longford,
end Ratllown, the Archbishop of Dublin, the
A tiorsiey-General, the Deau of St. Patrick's. the
Hun. Mr. Hely Hutchinson, the Chief Secretary,
and Mr. 111.ike were arnoti:..;st the guests jostled to
the Plicenit Perk yesterday, to meet the Dukes of
Heti:m*l)lre stud Leinster.

The 31arquis and Marchioness of Downshire and
suite. Lord and Lady Hartland, Lords Northland
and Forbes, Mr. James Daly, M.l'., &c. &c. are
amongst the late arrivals in town from England.
Lord Ardee and the flow Mr. Howard sailed for
Holyhead on Sunday.
On Filthy the Duke of Devonshire, accompanied
by the Earls of Clare and Glenigall, end the Hon.
Mr. Abercromby, tisited Limerick. The noble
party arrived in an open roach and four.
General Sir Benjamin Bloomfield Bart. arrived
its Limerick on Friday from Salisboro', and with
'Mr. Bourne and other Gentlemen of the county of
Tipperary, attended a Mrrting of the Chamber of
Commerce on the subject of the mail coich con-
tract between Limerick and Dublin. IVe arc
extremely sorry that Sir Benjamin has not perfectly
r.covered from Isis late indiapo•ition ; leis visit to
Limerick was principally to consult about his
health with Isis rokssional friend, Dr. Keating.

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
[From Me Lincrie4 News or illuuday.]
On Wednesday ii.ght two horses belonging to
farmers in the neighbovirhood of Annakissy were
Nutshell. in revenge of the owners having assisted
in ilouwing ihe he corn of the Rev. Mr. Bennett.
It appears that thut Gentleman having failed tit
his eioleavoilis to compound wit': his parishioners
for their tithes, W 44 obliged to draw them, and in-
duced several of the farmers to take them to the
church•ynr.; iif his palish church, bit could not
prevail sio,o those persons to bring diem no; fur-
ther. Their loads of hay and various kinds of corn.
were thrown out of the curs promiscuously into the
church-yard; and such was the prevalence of the
system of terror, that not u man could be got to
►tack tir rescue the confused maser. With a view to
bring them to Mallow, a distance of about four
miles from this fin:mil-y-41, and Caere to have the
corn and hay properly secured, Mr. Bennett hired
the horses which were afterwards so barbarously
maimed ; and oil the same night on which this cruel
act was con• t:itted a notice was posted. containing
the tenitie tt.eatt, th4t if any one presumed to
threw that corn, &c. he may bring his coffin with
him !" The turn ice had the desired effect. Mr.
Bennett has been unable to get any assistance in
removing his 'novelly trout the church-yard, and
there it hes.

Th. outrages in that neighbourhood were not
confined to the above-mentioned facts: they were
nunteroua and appalling, ua we learn by a letter
received this day from a Kennesaw' who resides
in the house of the High Sheriff, at Churclitown,
dated on IVoinesday night, which contains the fol.
lowing ;donning expressions :—" Burning every
night quite close to us—it has now the appearance
of Saint Jollies tae--we eau see the fires quite

plain." It is scarcely necessary to remind our
traders of the practice on the night pf the 23if
J lir, the tve of St. John's day, of lighting bon-
fires in every part of the country. It appears that
those ruffians who are thus setting the country in is
ft .me, have been instigated by the suggestions or
persons possessing much more knowledge then
could tie expected from the wretched instruments
employed iii those outrages. The incendiaries being
aware of the vigilance of the Magistracy, the mili-
tary, soil the police, have procured a chemical 104-
paritiol, which being placed in a stack Isf hay or
corn, SOY lire to it in some time after the Prepare"
slim has been deposited. Those wisiereisatts then,
by hemd nit a distance groin the fire, !scope with
impunity. This hue been rendered manifest by on
occurrence which took place cu Tuestl night.—
Sir Hugh Gough, the Officer who co Ws the
military in iltillrvatit and the surrouodt
having received iiiformation of 14. - lineation of
borttitig a haggard on that nigl.l.4bationg • party
of 1.:1,10-rs in anihs,sh, hoping taeby *oily to,
prevent the mischief, but also to seize on !hoer who
intended to commit it. After waiting * considera-
-Ide time, the party, In their inexpressible surprise,
beheld Ilse haggnrsl hum! out into 11 tale,. 11111101 a
the sppearatice of any vent to produce the cutilla-
ration,
EXtract *'!nn a letter just received room a very
re gettable correspond g: at A LORI fesle :
" Last night, in enuitcq err of a previous arrengement,
the detachment of the 391 giment, at Castle Island, emu_
m toiled by Major Catcher, and a detachment of the same
regiment quartered here, commanded by Captain Crony,
scoured the mountain, between this place and Castle Island ;
and, after being not until day-break, Captain Crony's parry
succeeded in bringing in Iwo notorious characters, Denim
Keefe and Maurice Roche, for the attack and burning of the
house of E. Harnett, of Saitdrille, its the county of Kerry, Esq.
last October ; and we Rare just heard that a man of the mama
of Untie' Kr, if., the leader of this patty, has been taken by
the Castle Island party. We have had isformatioc, which I
believe to he true, that delegates were Isere last Tuesday at
the fair of Abbeyfesie from the county of Cork, endeavour.
ing to seduce the people to joie them; and tbeir reception,
DO far as I can learn, was very cold. A parcel of cow., sold
for rent yesterday by General Lock, and which were bought
at the auction by different people, disappeared in the course
of last sight."

[From the Cork Corastibstion of Monday ]

ATTACK ON THE REV. JOHN BAGWELL CREAGH'S

HOUSE, AND SIURDER OF HIS SERVANT.

It is with feelings of horror and indignation that
we annoonce the most daring instance of burglary
and murder which has been perpetrated in the
suburbs of this city fur a length of time, and
one which has spread terror and alarm atnot.g
the inhabitants of a peaceable and populous tbs.
tract. Yesterdarwrssaili, at one o'clock, an armed
band of robbeast dill-it'd the house of the
Rev. J. B. Creak'', Hyde Park, in the north sub-
urbs of this city; and having made a noise which
awoke the butler (a man of excellent character, of
the name of 111•Curmack), lie got up and went out,
when, melancholy to relate, they shot him through
the neck, and lie expired in a few minutes. %V
feel it unnecessary to dwell at any length on the
enormity of the deed, or the desperate daring that
could have devised such an undertaking, as the
stamp of grurr.,l reprobation has been affixed to it
in the feeling and zeal manifested since it became
known by all chines of our fellow citizens fur the
apprehension of the guilty perpetrators of so foul an
outrage,

W;annex the particulars of the Coroner's In-
quest, omitting a few passages for prudential red-
sons :

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Immediately on heariag of the o•trage, the Mayor and
Shelifl., accompanied by Henry Chicly, Cal.
City Coroners, with • number of gentlemen and the High
Constables, repaired to the resideure of Mr. Creagh, to bold
an Inquest on the body, and shortly after the lotion ing re•
spertable Jury nes •worn :
David Howe, jan. I Denis MgCerthy,
Joseph M. O'Ke. ffr, I Themls Twoub),
James Foott, Joseph Abbott,
James Thompson, Robert Shea,
Michael Tudal, William Murphy,
Wade Foott, Jeremiah S. Murphy.

The Coroner briefly addressed the Jury, and called the
first witness, Dr. Sharp, who deposed to the deceased basin,:
come by his death ins consequence of a pistol ball Inesaag
entered the left part of the neck, above the collar ens,
which entered his lungs in an oblique direction, paisime the
basis of the heart, ■ad lodging ■ considerable quaatity of
blood in the stomach ; the wound he deeer:bed as being half
an loch in breadth, and eight inches deep, and that lie must
have received it ins a slanting position.
Charles Daly, a boy, who slept with the deceased, de-
posed to his leaving beard the latch of the door raised, and
his having asked who was there and nu receiving no an-
swer, the other servant, tVilliam M'Corenaek, arose, and sail
he wonld so in know who was there ; that he went wit ins his
shirt, followed by a small dug stitch was i■ the moons with
them; that lie gut frightened and covered himself with the
clothes; that shortly after be heard a loud groan like our
would give that (angled; and that be also arose sod horrid
all the doors in the passage open, and went up the Isar k-
stairs to Mr. John Cresgles room, who he found was up, arid
told him what he beard, and believed William saw some-
thing is the hall and fainted; that Mr. Crest's made loin
dress in Iris youngest brother's clothes, sad as he was mall,
put him through a window to call sashes:lace at the porter's
lodge, which he did ; that he weut to tire lodge and rapped,
and that the lodgeman's sun got up and let him in, haul tie
bielgentan would DUI believe him 'lwo he said that William
was dead; that when the loelgeman saw him is the strange
clothes he believed him, and gut op to call a watchman who
was sear at haed,and the Gentlemen about, to assist.
Mr.Joias Creagh is eldest son of the Rey. J. D. Creech,
who is from borne; and awoke by his mother making new
the room where be ark his brother slept, sail informing hint
that some persons were in the house, as she heard s abut heed;
that he and his brother lan out of bell, Asia the boy, Daly,
came up, and repeated what he stilted in his r videare ;
that be immediately got a light and a kitchen poker, arid
went down the front stairs in the hall, accompaaie d by has
brother, and on reaching the foot, be heard a step groats sod
saw the man servant [rag on his rode ■ad a quantity of
blood gashing out of his mouth, and all the doors opera; lee
then returned he get his mother, sister., and cousta together.
and haying done this, be sent the boy, Daly, out for awl:l-
-ance, bat the boy delaying a considerable time, he gut alarm•
ed, and jumped oat of a window, and went down to g' t as.
sistrince himself; which being obtained, he rel wine d quickly
as possible to the boost, aril found strewed on the lawns
some clothes, bats, boots, See. &e. which the villaius dropped ;
that oa e‘ntiog op to the house he (...aad one of Ike
drawiag•roor whitlows up, aqd the inside ►hatters forced
opera with a small bow bar, and which was foiled on the's.,
slow-frame, sod about two paid. hum the shadily Le sale

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