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London, England, 1820-01-04 00:00:00

THE srAit OF lIIEL.M.D.

We have been favoured with private communica-
tions from various parts of Ireland, particularly
from the county of Roscommon, about the disturb-
ance of which we have heard so much. We are
happy to learn Isom the most respeciahle authority,
that that County in restored to a state of per fret
tratiquillity. Why reify disturbance was exagge-
rated into serious 1 nblic di-orders at a paiiitio!ar
crisis, we shall not now presume to .ay, hitt this we
kl/tl9/, that respectable landholders in that county,
Clergymen of the Established Church; comical-in
as unnecessary the hasty, and we may hay the
ton application which was made to the Irish Go-
vernment to proclaim that county.
The hand of ;wiser is heavy, and should not be
stretched forth unless in cases of great public dan-
ger. %%glen Magistrates call for the interference of
extraordinary power, they often proclaim—ant the
turbulence and disorder of the people, but their
own want of energy and of firmness in the due exer-
cise of their bruited and legal authority. Whether
the Magistrates of Roscommon acted right or
wrong, is a matter now of hale cOnstquence ; but
it is a subject of great gratification to bad a
large district restored to that state of tranquil-
lity which only suffered a momentary interruption.
Indeed the whole state of Ireland, all circumstances
considered, redounds to the honour of Its people,
and to the credit of its Government. We all know
that political disorders are in their nature epidemic
—they spread with a malignant and destructive
influence—opposition °hell exasperates, and seve-
rity does not always subdue them : it is in the
sound understanding, mid in the good feelings of
a people, more than what is culled the energy of
power, that the public tracquillity can ultimately
depend.

Honourably has that tranquillity been preserved
in Ireland during the trying circumstances of the
last year. The people of that country had before
them the very worst example—the Radical Re-
formers of England, led by men of desperate for-
tunes and dishonest views—acting too, under the
grossest delusions, sheaved upon most occasions a
corstempt of established law, and a deplorable ig-
norance of the true princriAes of the Constitution,
whirl) they vainly and imsiudently affected to re-
form. They cast their eyes upon Ireland, as a coun-
try where the spirit of discuittent would be easily
awakened—they made every appeal to the passious
and to the prejudices of the Irish people—they
touched on the subject of their ancient wrongs and
of their present distress—they described with too
much force said truth the shameful bigotry by which
Ireland is injured and &goaded, and they drew
this conclusion, that until the Radicals triumphed
the Cutholics would nut be emancipated.
Public addresses were transmitted to the leading
men in Ireland, whilst emissaries were dispatched
to work on the lower orders. But these measures,
however artful, ended in total discomfiture ; the
leading Catholics dial not listen to the communica-
tions of the Radicals ; whilst the Catholic Clergy, by
their activity and their persuassiuus, preserved the
lower orders of the people from tumult and disorder.
After all these experiments, the people of Ire-
land, though suffering under the severest hardships,
have remained aim a state of uhuost nointerrupteti
tranquillity—a singular and fortunate circurnstunce
in • country which has been so often the scrim of
magisterial severity and or popular resistance. In
tracing the causes of this happy change, we cannot
warn turrately take into account the improved COO.
dition of the people—no stair improvement has, in
fact, taken place. They remain suffering finder
the same hardships which a system of continued
misrule 'nought down upon their unhappy country.
They experience, to its fullest and bitterest extent,
the preasure of excessive taxation. Trude may be
said riot to exist in Ireland, sail the agricultural in-
terests, which receives' air artificial impulse from
the war, are now in a state of decline. Men of
fortune are ashamed to live in Ireland un their own
estates; they prefer the secoird-rate streets at the
west end of the town; they prefer " to dance at-
tendance" in circles where they are only endured,
and to waste, in hope of vain distinction, the
wealth which is squeezed from the hands of •
neglected and impoverished tenantry. They prefer
all this to a life of honour, of affluence, and
authority in their own country, where they
might dispense Pa:savings oround them—where
they might cheer, mid protect, and encourage
their poor tenantry—where they might expend
in elegant pleasures and laudable objects that
wealth which is derived from the soil and from
the sweat of the people, instead of leaving them as
they are, exposed to every wrong. and • prey to
every needy and grinilairg oppressor—where they
might administer, as is their duty, the law of the
laird, instead of leaving them to the person of the
parish, to the argent, Of his deputy, the steward.
In a country thus despoiled of trade—thus de-
serted—a country which, your after year, scuds
away the produce of its industry and its soil to be
squandered by absentees, without ever receiving
the slightest teturst—it is not at all to be wondered
at that the condition of her people remain without
any amelioration. 11'e must, therefore, account
for their present tranquillity by some other means.
To tile Government, which has wisely discouraged
all religious disteutions said all party violence, much
credit is due. line Chief Secretary of Ireland is as

man of the beg dispositions; at the Beet of Govern-
ment lie is always happy in perfor iii it sg gracious
torts in a handsome way—he has Made himself
quainted with the real dispositions of the people,
Nod he infinite. them—he has made himself ac-
quainted with their grievances, and lie feels fur them.
He is 11141 J of large and benevolent views, and be
prefeis governing by conciliation rather than by. per-
16U Mg the beaten track of driving the people-04-
th%; up the North against the Saw h --exciting the
Orangeman against the Cithulic—in fine, follow-
that vicious course which every vulgar politician
has folios ed before him, fot nerd of capacity to
adopt a d 1 &rent mile of government, or fi: 111 l ess
or 'nu-gutty to follow it. !hove it is, that the
country wllttrh was literally in a flame before Mr.
Grant wilted in Ireland, is now in a state of great
composure—the religious animositie► which unfor-
luisately extended under the administration of his
predecessor, are now no longer heard of, and the
people are beginning to think, that though they
in:sy differ in points of religion, they miry &twee
in love for their country and obedience to the
Another and a far greater eau of the tranquil-
lity of Ireland is the belief very generally enter-
tained by the Irish people, that it is in the Mime..
diate cootrusplation of Government to remove
some of the most monstrous of their grievances.
We will not say whether this expectation is well
founded ur not ; but of this we are quite certain,
that the people of Ireland look with anxiety to the
proceeding" of the present Session of Parliament.
Theirs is not the silent submission of slaves—they
are as much alive to their wrong. as any people on
earth, but they bear their sufferings with singular
fortitude. At this moment of public dismay they
have nut pressed their claims—are they therefore
indifferent ? so far from it—au intensely do they
feel, particularly on the great questi of Catholic
Emancipation, that unless that question is consi-
dered during the present Session, the affectious of
Ireland are lost for ever. The shifting. and alio&
flings cr a divided Cabinet will no longer amuse
that ill-treated people ; better throw off the mask
entirely, and tither yield to their fair and constitu-
tional claims, or govern them henceforward, as long
as they can be governed, by the sword.

MODERN EDUCATION.-.A school has recently
been opened in this town for instructing young
ladies and gentlemen in the ■rt of walking, mareh-
nip and moving the body with ease and graceful-
ness; which, as the instructor says, " is of much
unlit), for those young ladies who have contracted
ihat fa►hionable ►toop, denominated the Grecian
bend ! !'"—(Livarpooi Paper.)

A circumstance has been mentioned to us
strongly indicative of the ►tate of our domestic
woollen manufacture, •od of the distressed situa-
tion of shut numerous and valuable dab* of trades-
men called cloiliiers, who attend. or who formerly
attended our Cloth-lialls:—A stand for the expo-
sure of woollemcloth, in the coloured Cloth-hall,
at Leeds, which, within the lust 20 years would
have sold freely fur 161. or 181 was knocked down
last week at the low price of 40 shillings; and
numbers of the.e little freeholds halve fallen into
the hands of the trustees for sire/Tinge, which is s
term u.ed to imply a small anottal demand for
cleaning mid attending to the Hall.—( Leeds Mer-
cury.)

Paisley being exclusively dependant on the cot-
tots- manufactures, the inhabilmits are labouring
under great distress. Unhappily, they have lately
manifested a spirit of tumult sod insubordination.
On Friday be' •ght the Civil Authorities proceed-
rd to seize a violent young Radical of the mane of
Henderson, a cutler, who was suspected to be active
in preparing deadly weapons of different descrip-
tions; and two formidable pikes being found in his
workshop, he was obliged to give sufficient bail be-
fore he was liberated. It appears a person of the
!same of Aeil had been dispatched from the Pan-
try Unions, to u meeting of delegates held lately
at Nottingham, and it was judged proper to exa-
mine him alto the object of lin mission. He was, of
course, taken into custody. While he was con-
veyed 01l for exa 11l itt atom, a crowd assembled, and
stoner and other dangerous missile* were thrown at
the police with desperate violence, and the Pri-
soner was finally rescued; but Neil surrendered
himself. The Civil Authorities having obtained
information of two desperate characters who were
very active in these disgraceful scenes. psoceeded
on Monday last, with the aid of a small p.irty of
military, to take them too custody. When unwed
at the head of Moxwellton-stvret, am iminetase crowd
collected Irt an intsain, and their boldness increos-
log wish their numbers, they appeared determined
to °lomat the seizure of the offenders. When the
party were marching of with the prisoners, they
were insulted with hissing and hooting, and pelted
with stones, and every species of rabble annoyance
was poured upon them. After some trouble the
prisoners were lodged in safety, and the party was
:again sent offto seize some gun-barrels which the
Radical Henderson had lodged in a neighbour's
house. The articles were found, and they and the
owner of the house were taken to the police office.
After undergonig an examination, this perverts and
others were liberated, but the instruments were re-
hinted. In these scenes several piers of glass were
broken; but nothing of a serious nature happened.
—(Carlisle Journal.)
BENJAMIN Suite, the uufartunate mistier, the
circumstances of whose discovery in the cellar of his
father's house we detailed last week, died on Thurs-
day last, in our work-house. The day before his
death, his body became swollen to a great degree,
and there seems no reason to doubt, that the change
in the manner of his treatment, from extreme seventy
to great kiuduess, produced his death. The warmth
and comfort winos lie exparieuced during the week
in which he was 111 the work,tiouse. were so.drfferent
to the rigour* to which his, cuustitutioir had ,beeu
habituated, that they produced the evil they were
meant to avert.—(Lads Mercury.)

DkATH OF THE COUNTESS TALBOT.

This melancholy event is thus announced in the
Dublin Papers of the 30,11 last :
It is with unfeigned regret we have to announce
the death of her Excehelm, the Countess Talbot.
This most virtuous and exemplary Lady died
this miii sting, at two o'clork, after a short ill-
ness. Several bulletins were issued in the course of
the day, and front th-ir nature the public were pre.
pared for the melancholy catastrophe. This event
has placed her consort and ininierous family in the
dkrlre•t ea spread a gloom over tier city
of Dublin. which well. we JOUbt not, be sincerely
and deeily participated by the country.
Der case, from the first, was accompanied with
the most alarming and hopeless symptoms; and no
remission of pans. but that produced by ixharustiosa,
occurred tell the moinerit of death. She saw her
dissolution approach with inn:lies. and resignation,
nod quitted life, offer haring token a calm and sr.
let-6(3[1,0e farewell her f. •ly. Iler disease was an
11413.1sitiation oft lit ',garb:, roiling in mortification.
The Countess Talbot was daughter of Charles
Lambert, E.q. of Paynestown (now Ileaupark). iu
the county of Meath, Null biker to C:ustsvus Lam-
bert, E•q. 011 the pawnrl sick, her Excellency
na► orarly connected with the Earl of COMM, 8111 d
her mother was the honourable M.'s Dutton. of
Sherburne. iu Gloucestershire, sister to James. Lord
Shrebormr.

ller Ladyship was married in 1800, and has left
elesra children. Viscount lsigestrie, the heir-ap-
parent of this Noble (louse. was born on the II th
of July. 1801.
His RxceHaley Lord Talbot was a constant at-
tendant at the bed-side of his Countess, from the
fir►t moment of her illness. We shall not attempt
to describe his Excellency's agony of grief—it is too
sacred for public irborrvetion.