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London, England, 1821-12-30 00:00:00

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whose members would sacrifice every thing to their
inclination to rule Despotically—and instead of our
present beneficent Monarch, let us suppose their
Master to be a man who preferred ruling by fear
rather than love—who would rather applaud the
bloody butchery of his subjects, than the concilia-
tion of his people—and to carry on our hypotheses,
let the frank and amiable Lord Sidmonth be suc-
ceeded by a Man of little mind—one, who duo fond
of employing Spies, should be always a dupe to their
artful and interested misrepresentations—one who
would submit to be the abject tool of some tyrannical
blood-thirsty Irishman, who, after having irretriev-
ably injured his own country, should come to a
scat in the Cabinet to render ours a similar service—
if we say, and we have high authority for putting it
hypothetically, such total changes should take place,
might not, according to the newly introduced system,
some patriot opposer of power and violence be incar-
cerated as" a person unknown," and might not jus-
tice hereafter be denied against the tools of a bad
Government, by the then Secretary of State for the
Home Department, declaring that he did not " con-
sider it his duty to deliver up the depositions" by
which his myrmidons might be brought to condign
punishment. These are points worthy of medita-
tion—it is much easier to correct an innovation
when it first is introduced, than to effectually com-
bat when precedent
_may be pleaded in support of
illegality.

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THE MOST A'oble THE MARQUIS OP QUEENS•
BERRY V. THE CARLISLE JOURNAL.--II will be l'O•
collected by our readers that, in March last, the
proprietors of the above journal were tried and con-
victed for a libel upon the character of this noble-
man. Three months' imprisonment in a gaol 300
miles from their families, city, and business, marked
the sense of the Court upon the impropriety of
their behaviour ; and considerable injury to their
property, as well as the temporary load of anxiety
during their absence, were, of course, the conse-
quences. It appears, however, that there aae some
who think this punishment for stating things they
were not permitted to prove was not sutirciently
severe, hut that a continued attack should be made
on their business and means of subsistence by
threats of vengeance to all who took in their paper.
The following letter will explain what we mean.
We copy it without a remark- :
" ANNAN, DEc. a, 1821.
" Gentlemen,—Enclosed you will receive 11. Is. which
I this day received from Mr. —, steward and factor to
Mr.—, of—, in payment of that gentleman's
account to you. Mr. told me he was sorry, as well
as Mr.--, to give up the paper, by stating that the
Marquis of Queensberry came to one day, and
seeing the Carlisle Journal, inquired if they took it in; on
being answered in the affirmative, lie got into a violent
passion, and ti—d either to give it up or lie must
desist shooting on hi, ground. This being promised, he
said lie would send him a London paper, which every per-
sun ought to read; and what was still Letter, without e%.
pence. This lie has performed, by seodiog them a weekly
paper, called the John Dull, ever since; and Mr.
assured: me that lie believed there was a dozen of them
lying at —, at present unopened.

" I am, gentlemen, sours truly,
4, JAS. %V ILLIAMSON.

" Messrs. Jollie, printers, Carikle."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the South
of Ireland, dated Dec. 22, 1821 :—" The distur-
bances in this country seem to be subsiding very
much, and no doubt they will for the present yield
to three. A special commission is non sitting at
Limerick, and eight criminals are under sentence of
death, and four have undergone that punishment,
making 12 in all. This commission is adjourned to
the 6th January, and it is thought there will then
be, at least, thirty more capitally convicted in Lime-
rick. They will afterwards sit in Trace, Ennis, and
Cork, so that you will perceive the vengeanc.! of the
law will be promptly visited upon those wretches •
who were administering a summary law cf their
own to those whom they narked out for vengeance.
In the meantime the house of every gentleman in
the country, who retains his arms, is converted into
a garrison—upon the upper window-stones of each
house are placed heavy rocks to let full upon the
nightly assailants-..-the front and back windows of
the ground floor are also plunked with Leavy timber,
and secured with iron-work. A man before he is
let into a gentleman's house experienees the cau-
tious delays that are wont to prevail in gaols, while
musketry, pistols, and ammunition are at hand to
repel any attack. Every little village in this coun-
try has a party of soldiers, and, in addition, we have
the Peelers. The roads at night are patrolled by
these bodies, and many men have thus been ar-
rested. I think Government has done every thing
to repress these disturbances (except the assembling
of Parliament), and they are certainly subsiding.