The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-14 00:00:00

STATE OF IRELAND.

We copy the following article from The Debhoe
I renng Post of Saturday last. The facts to wlrch
it ri kr. rue cuiitilis. as illustrating the state of ire-
laud; 4,4 the utwrr►attotas with which the writer
has accompanied them, sr.llapprar just and forcible
to such as are acquainted "nth that country
" A correspondence his tskru place beterrrii the
U,. England, • Catholic Clergyman of Cork,
and now bishop of Carohug, io North America,
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PIZESS.

LON DON,
THURSDAY, DECEMBER U, 1820.

it has been long said of us by foreigners, that
we are a most incomprehensible people, and verily
well might it at the present moment be affirmed of
at least that portion of the nation who have under-
taken to assure their Sovereign that all the rest
of his subjects are a licentious, seditious, and
blasphemous set of fellows—that the country is at
prevent Ull the eve of a dangerous rebellion—hut
that thry, the moral. the loyal, aura the pious, will
perftnin miracles in his defence. These seniiinents
have, as we understand, been repeated sixty times
by certain sung little coteries of the retainers and
followers of the rt tainers of the Ministers ; but
where the parties met to deliberate piton the di,-
gets this* threaten the rountry, by what evidence
they were intl•iciteed in formitig their verdict
against the characters or the nlafs of the illation,
by what authority they were controrti, how their
business was conducted, and hoar they
pen has yet reicured to unfold. The Poet who
&lard, What is there in a name ?" was judicious
in addressing his argument to lovers' ears, for
those who ate not abstracted from worldly affairs
are but tot sensible of the weight and import.
mice that belong to mere names in the ordinary
concerns of life. The words " Loyal Address"
sound well and read well, and for the muss
of mankind whit more is iireess4ry ? Du they
not imply that the persons who propose, and sign,
and applaud such Addresses, are alone blessed with
the gift of loyalty, while they hurl a bitter sarcasm
upon all who despise such mummery, or are not so
fortunate as to be let into the secret, until the (;u-
-setts asumutices that the lithe fur annexing signa-
tures is past? The names of the cities, tawny, vil-
lages, hamlets, oral parishes, honounthly•datin.
guislied in She Coterie as having giv!!z layllijo a

se Loyal Address," appear with fully as much pomp •
and effict mu if every inhabitant thereof bed sane.
tinned the Address with his signatdre. The de-
luded world, in reading Out the ishabitants of
Manchester, or Warrington, or Bristol, or Birming-
ham, or the...ward of Cheap, have severally trans.
milted what are whimsically called " Loyal Ad-
dresses" to iloe Secretary of State for the Home
Department, are not to be supposed to know how
each Address was concocted, how carefully it was
secluded from the vulgar eye, and shewn only to
the select, the sacred few," whose concurrence in
the sentiments contained in it was previously assur-
ed by their patents of office, the services of some
near relatives, or by their own or their friends' hopes
and expectancies. The Courier threatens, abso-
lutely threatens to publish the names of the sixty
Addresses; perhaps it may also gratify us with a
peep at the signatures annexed. We will venture
to affirm, that the publication will not occupy many
of its columns; a thousand or twelve hundrtal names
be compressed into a very small space.

Theiworld, however, as we have already remark-
ed, i not to know but that the several Addresses,
as autiounced in the Gimefle, proceed bored fide
from the initiority of the inhabitants of the pile's
respectively whose names they bear; and when
foreigners look to the numbers of the Addresses,
and see such dreadful denunciations of dangers ex-
pressed in them, they must regard our deplorable
condition with mingled horror and sympathy.—
Nor will their fetliogs be unmixed with wonder at
the profound wis.loin of those who, i❑ the midst of
tranquillity, can descry alarm, and extract from an
enthusiasm of joy the assurance of approaching,
calamity. They will cast their eyes over the whole
extent of the empire, arid observe the deportment
of the people, and in every instance will they find
ft peaceable demeanour, a respectful obedience to
the laws, and a devoted affection towards the Royal
Faintly. Cum; wring 111101 propped with the re-
presentations tout lined in the " Loyal Addresses,"
they must conclude that we are indeed an extraoe-
dinar), people : far at the very moment when all
the exclusively Inval ■re assuring the KING
that the elements of relw!lion ere in activity
around hitt, endangering his auntie and the
safety of his persaii, and while his Majesty's
:atui•ters encourage such declarations, and re-
ceive those who utter them as the only friends
to the KING and the conititution, not one instance
of popular commotion has occurred. not an incident
can he pointed oat which could be misconstrued
by the most depraved 'Fury understanding into an
evidence of the wishes of the people to disturb the
existing institutions; those districts which were
some time since regarded as approaching rapidly to
a state of open insurrection, are now tranquil and
composed; ■ud yet the world is to believe, on the
authority of some blockheads, who are ashamed or
afraid to encoiroter open discussion, that these
symptoms of peace and harmony are all fallacious,
•and that notwttlistanding the peaceable demeanour
of the great body of the people, the aka.,..,e.ere of any
disposition to not, or to oppose the authority and
execution of the laws, and their ready submission
on (-very occasion to the exercise of lawful power,
they ate yet prepared to rise en mane, emit the
throats of these poor trembling '" loyalists," sub-
vert the throne, and effect a revolution !

Itia very easy for those who affect to talk of fu-
ture dangers, and who know that they are address-
iog the ears of willing uuditora, to indulge in some
general declamation, to talk about sedition that they
never witnessed, and about blasphemy that they
never heard, and to prate about the influence of
" it licentious press," which they are as incapable
of estimating as of controlling. Bat we now openly
defy these addressers, their encourageis and abet-
tors, these libellers of their country's fame, to spe-
cify any one act of the people in any one city, til-
lage, or hamlet in the empire, which can fairly be
construed into an indication of a revolutionary in-
tent. If the Ministers or their addressers could
bring themselves to speak the truth, they would
isknogledge that there has been no act of sedition
committed by any portion of the people beyond
condoling with the QuEEN while exposed to the
rigour of ministerial persecution, and congratulat_
tug her MAJESTY upGii her eventual triumph. To
these c r )we should probably add, the inure re-
cent guilt of humbly requesting the KING to (bite
such Ministers front his counsels for ever. If the
Ministers ur their agents call specify any act of
treason or sedition in tiny portion of the people be-
yond what we have now mentioned, we shall consent
to consider the " Loyal Addresses" as necessary,
the frumers of them as wise, trralwritle, and disin-
terested, and the Editors of the Triasury Journals
as honest wad loyal men.

Paris Papers of Friday last arrived yesterday at
our office. Those of Saturday bail arrived pre-
viously. From these we learn that the Conferei;ces
which were comineoced at Troppau sill be itnine.
diately trausferird to Vienna, where the Emperor of
lttissts will continue as the guest of his Imperial
Ally unlit the result shall he known of the diplo.
rustic mission with which the Coact BELI.EGARDE
has heel) intrusted to the Court of Naples. The na-
ture of the propositions or cooditious which this
military diplomatist is authorised to lay before the
Cabinet of Naples still remains unknown ; but
recording to the Constitution of Naples, the pro-
positions, if they relate to public cuuctrus, must be

submitted by the Government to the Parliament of
Naples; so that but little time can elapse Wore we
shall be informed of the result of the deliberations
at the Congress of Truman. We entertain but
little doubt that the character of the propositions is
essentially conciliatory, for the safety of Naples, at
least from the aggressions of Austria, is too nearl)
connected with the general welfare of Europe to be
exposed by the Governments of Great Britain and
France to the merciless ambition of that grasping
Power.

The Duke de DENIES died on Thursday lifters
noon from the effects of the hurts received by lints
from the explosion of gunpowder in his chamber.
An article of intelligence from Turin stiles, that
the Sublime Porte had refused to acknowledge the
dispatches from the Government of the Two Sicilies,
announcing, the political changes which had taken
place at Naples.
The French Five per Cei.to. opened on Thnis-
day at 78 f. 20 c., and closed on the, same day at
77f. 95 c. 41ii Friday they closed at 77 1. 90 c.
Bank Stock closed on Thur,day at 1,420 ; and
on Friday at 1,415 I.

The George Bickerton, of Cork, which arrived
at that port on ‘Vedneaday cc' •glit, in fifty-four
days front Jamaica, has brought further cctifirtna-
tion of the important intelligence recently received
from St. Diorningo.—Oti the 21st of October, off
Cape Tiberoon, St. 1/ontio&m, die fell in with aid
.puke the schootter itti:a, of Salem (Amelicid,
bound to Port-au-Prince, having touched at Aitx-
Cayes but three days before. The Master informed
the George Bickerton that BOYER (the Nlulatto
Chief who hail succeeded PETION) had commenced
hostilities against CHRISTOPHE, whom he engaged
and totally defeated, the troops of the latter being
tit a state of insuboriliatiour having received nei.her
pay nor clothing—that all, to a nm, joined
BOYER, wilt., together with all the forces Sta.
!jotted at Aux-Cayeii, col the other principal
towns under his Government, forming en Bros,
a well-appointed army of forty thousand men, were
in full march towards Cape Henry, whirl), although
• place of considerable strength, was not expected
to make any defence, the garrison, its common with
the rest of the troops, bring disaffected towards
CHRISTOPHE, who, It was reported, destroyed him-
self in a fit of ilespondcm.y."
Three days after the above intelligence was coma
monicated to the George Bickerton (on the 24th
October), she also fell in with and spoke a brig off
Cape St. Nicholas-Mole, St. Domingo, out fotir
days tutu Port-au-Pritice, which confirmed the
above intelligence, and added, that the city of
Cape Henry, garrison, forts, &c. in fact all the
'lapis° possessions, were in the hands of Aorta..
The death of CHRISTOPHE was established beyond
all doubt.

Yesterday V. count SIDIIIOIITtI had en audience
of his M CIESTY,_tit his Palace in l'ellstnell.
There is if rumour in the diplomatic circles of
curious !nails hiving taken plaer at TrOpliatt. in
one of die greet Ministers insulted, or miller
esseulied, Count METTERNICH. The Noble •gves-
sor left Troops', in consequeuee of the Weir, and
is expected tuithwith to quit his witsiusi.—( Even-
ing Paper.)

A letter Irem Vienna states, that Lord STEWART
is about to return immediately to Loudon.
A Spools!' Paper of the with ult. twilit'. a copy
•of the [(lsles letter to the Permanent Deputation
of the Curter, in reply to their request of the 18th
ult. that hit ftIA.IESTY would return to his capital
in order to calm the troubled spirits of his sub-
jects. 11:: mentions as a painful sacrifice his being
compelled to part with hi. confessor and I'4 major-
doruo ; iirotestisig; iu solemn terms, that neither
of these timorous. officers hod ever overslept the
propriety of their station) by interfering in politics.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when time under-mentioned Cap.
tenni were sworn into the commond of their re-
spective ships, viz.—Captain H. SCOTT. Chorka
Grant, for lloinhey and Chios ; aid Captain A.
LINDSAY, Keilie Castle. fur Madras and Chios.
Letters and papers have been received from the
i.land of Tobago of the 24th of October. NVe are
glad to learn that the colony was in • tranquil state ;
but the late riling of the black. had crested so
much alarm, that the Governor and inhabitant. de-
ter iiiii led to adopt mra.ttrev to potent • repetition;
and,. at a general meeting, it was resolved unani-
mously, that the sitreeisi should be patroled for the
preservation of lire, and property. A upliesuoir was
also made to the Governor of Barbadnes fir a rein-
forcement of troops to quell any Insurrection that
might again chew itself. This was the more firers,-
vary, as the blacks, although subdued fur a time,
sheared symptoms of losuburdination. Several
hundred troops had arrived at Tobago from Barba.
previously to the departure of the mimes.
Accounts from the Havanna,' of the middle of
October have reached town. If it be true, as
stated in advices from the Spanish Maio, that the
Island of Cuba will he required to pay a 'monthly
contribution of 100,000 dollar., for the service of
the army under General itluathi.u, from the ten'.
per displayed by the people of that colony, sinte
urn adopt on of the new Constitution in Spoin,,jt
semis that the money will be obtained, if at all,
will, great rtrairuity. It seems that there is • large
party at Ilavaunah in favour of the esnaticipatioti of
South America; and even those inclividua!, who
support the cause of the Royalists' are but little
int:hued to make further pecuniary sacrifices, more
especially as the merchants and traders have. in
Clime measure. hat a 'peat source of emolument in
the Slave Trade, so much cut up by the activity of
the British cruisers on the coast of Africa. A fleet
of Spanish merchantmen, under the convoy of three
frigates and two corvettes, afrivetl at Ilavaurtah on
the 13th of October,

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