The National Register.
London, England, 1821-12-09 00:00:00

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9.

The state of Ireland becomes every day more
alarming, and we fear the coersive measures about
to be adopted will not restore her to tranquillity—
Horse, foot, and artillery may for a moment sup.
press the groan of discontent, but such means will
" scotch the snake. not kill it," and nothing short of
a radical change in the system of oppression under
which the sister kingdom writhes, will make her
people satisfied with their state.
The Union has beggared those who were affluent
—►t has drawn away from their native residences
the Nobility and Gentry, by which the money de-
rived from their estates is squandered, far from those
whose labour furnishes the funds, and that curse of
Ireland, the Middleman, is introduced to add to the
already overpowering distresses--though a Catholic
country, Ireland is obliged to maintain and pay
tithes to a Protestant Clergy, who not chusing to
reside among those whom they charitably consider
but little better than barbarians, employ the tithe.
proctors to collect those dues to which none but a
legal claim can be urged—thus is discontent
constantly engendered by oppression, and while
that is the case you may dragoon them into
temporary submission, but will never have them
truly loyal subjects—one may make a child kiss
the rod with which it is chastised, but its enmity
to the party administering the chastisement, is not
less on account of that constrained apparent sub-
mission.

The only way to regain the real esteem of the
Iribh nation is, to ameliorate their condition—to

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lighten 'their burthens ; to remove some of their
heavy grievances, and to beget by our conduct to
them, a conviction that at all events, we do not feel
towards them more harshly than to any of those
countries, where our power has been established by
recent conquest—they have as yet no reason to feel
this for one of the first stipulations in all such capi-
tulations has always been—" The Religion of the
Country shall be respected" while in Ireland, if
we do not enforce their conformity to it, we do
compel them to support in splendid and distant
laziness the Members of a Religion, they have al-
ways been taught to abhor. We most ardently
hope that these things will occupy the earliest and
most serious attention of the two Houses, as soou

as they shall meet.
Died, at Brighton, on Wednesday last, James
Perry, Esq. for many years the highly-respected
Editor and Proprietor of The Morning Chronicle.
In consequence of a letter which Mr. Hunt ad-
dressed to Mr. Baron Graham„.pardons and remis-
sions of sentences have been sent to six convicts, at
Ilchester gaol, whose cases he stated to the worthy
Judge. Of these, five sere of the number of his
witnesses. The new gaoler, on his entrance on his
office, has evinced a judicious union of vigilance and
humanity which is highly satisfactory. The follow-
ing facts afford u striking proof of the benefit accruing
to the county of Somerset upon the late investiga-
tion:—The amount of the whole rates collected tiff
the whole quarter before Mr. Hunt's "Peep" came
out, was 7,2291. 3s. 541.; the quarter after the
" Peep' was published, it fell to 5,4081. 10s. 6d.;
and on the first quarter after the investigation wat
ended, the amount was reduced to 2,1621. 16s. 10d.
The Marquis of Wellesley is immediately to suc-
ceed Earl Talbot as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and
Mr. Goulburn is to be Chief Secretary, in the
room of Mr. Grant. Ministers are anxious to have
the active support of the Right Hon. Robert Peel
in the House of Commons, and he is to succeed Lord
Sidmouth as Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment. These changes, in which the public
will feel no interest whatever, will be followed by
others, that we expect to be enabled to announce in
a few days.
Aoaic ovro RE. is reported in
,circles of high
information, that ministers have determined so fitr
to meet the proposition of the agriculturists, as to
lay a duty of 20s. per quarter on foreign corn im-
ported, to reduce the rate st which importation is
permitted to 70s. per quarter tier wheat, and to
form a proportional scale for other sorts of grain.—
The price of wheat in this country, supposing such
a law to be made, will amount to the cost of the
grain abroad, the expence of transit and the duty
added together. The average of the two first is
about 375. and, if 20s. tax be imposed, of course the
price will be about 575. with perhaps a sixpence or
shilling per quarter for the merchant's profit. Should
peace continue, however, it is probable that the
price, both in America and an the Continent, would
tall from the acknowledged superabundance of the
supply. Thus, it is conceived, a law imposing such
a duty would only serve to fix the average about
where it now stands.

Our readers will doubtless remember an account,
which we presented them some weeks since, of the
Curate of Buttesford and a young lady, to whom he
was attached, having absented themselves from the
village and retired to a neighbouring wood, where,
in consequence of the opposition of relatives to their
union, they mutually agreed to take poison, by which
the young lady died, hut the gentleman having, in
his agitation, spilled some part of his portion, escaped
that death which he afterwards attempted to attain
by cutting his throat. The inquest on the young
lady returned a verdict of—" Died in a fit of tempo-
rary derangement, caused by taking poison.' Con-
tinued inquiry has disclosed circumstances which
render the young clergyman's account suspected,
and his subsequent elopement has not tended to
allay suspicion. It has been discovered that the
young lady did not, as it was affirmed, procure the
poison from her father's dispensary. It is doubted
if the lover took poison at all, and the appearances on
his neck show that the wounds were such as could
not, at the time of their infliction, have endangered
his life. The poor girl, it has since her death been
discovered, was en famine. The retreat of Mr.
Towne, who withdrew with his mother, has nut
yet been discovered. His relations are persons of
wealth and consideration. The young lady's father,
who is distracted with grief, is a gentleman of pro-
fessional talent and great respectability.
OLD BAILEY SESSlONS.—Yesterday T. Saxelbye,
was indicted for forging the will of late Nlr. Thos.
Rubinson, of Hull, The evidence was of extreme
length, from the numter of witnesses exami,ied,
and when our Reporter left the Court, at a late
hour, the verdict had not been pronounced.—We
shall give the particulars nest week.

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Letters from Constantinople, dates the 25th of
October, repeat, in positive terms, the statement in
the French papers, that Persia has declared war
against Turkey, and add, that advantages had been
gained over the Turks near Bagdad, and also in
the vicinity of Erzerum. No intelligence had ar-
rived there from Petersburgh since the return of
Baron Strogonoff, but all apprehension of A war
with Russia had subsided. The contest with the
Greeks and the Persians was likely, without the
interference of Russia, to find sufficient employ-
ment for the troops of the Porte. An account, said
to be official, has been transmitted from Constanti-
nople, announcing the capture and destruction of a
a fleet of Greek ships by the Turks, in a naval action
off Patras; but this is supposed, and with some co-
lour of probability, to relate to the vessels lying at
anchor in the harbour of Galaxidi —an affair which
has been already narrated, and which bore no sem-
blance to a sea-fight, as most of the ships had been
abandoned by their crews, and the remainder made
little or no resistance.
Letters from Patras of the lst ult. confirm the
fall of Tripollisa, but give a different account of the
manner in which the place was conquered. They
say that the Albanian Turks, who formed its gar-
rison, unfaithful to their trust, had delivered it up
to the Greeks. Whether accurate or not, this ae-
count obtained entire credit at Patras, where they,
in consequence, deemed it prudent to disband and
send away from the place all the Albanian Turks in
the citadel. By this step the garrison of Patras was
so much weakened, that resistance to the Greeks was
no longer contemplated; and they had made pre-
parations to destroy the fortress, which they were
prepared to quit immediately on the approach of the
enemy. All the inhabitants, likewise, held themselves
in readiness to leave Patras at a moment's notice.

THE CARLILES.—On the 3d instant the " So
ciety for the Suppression of Vice" obtained a war-
rant against G. Clarke, Carlile's shopman, for the
sale of a work, containing an alleged libel on the
King and Government, by virtue of which he was
apprehended, and taken before Mr. Justice Bayley,
at his Lordship's chambers, from whence he was
committed to Newg-ate for want of bail. The de-
fendant threatened an action against the Society for
a false arrest. Clarke had scarcely been arrested 1.1
hour before his place was taken by a young gir!,
named Susannah Wright, who continued the sale of
the same work, and an information being lotigal
against her, she was also arrested, and oa Frittay
morning was brought before Judge Best, to put in
bail, The trials of these defendants will come on
during the next Sittings at Guildhall.
A melancholy anti fatql accident happened it
Newton House, the seat of the Earl of Darlingtoi
near Bedal, Yorkshire, during the violent storm ut
last Friday night. Between three and four o'clock
the family were roused from their beds by a dread-
ful crash, and it was found that a stack of chimnies
had fallen on the roof of the room in which Mi.s
Russell, the niece of the Countess, slept. On re-
moving the rubbish she was taken out dead, blt
without any marks of violence. This interesting,
but unfortunate young lady, was in her 20th year.
The house was full of company at the time, but no.)
other person sustained any injury.
The American navy has struck a decitive blow
against the hordes of pirates that infest the seas ~1
the West Indies. Off Cape Antonio, on the 1 ti::,
of October, a small fleet of bucaniers, consisting t.,t
four schooners and one sloop, was descried by the
Untied States' brig Enterprise, in the act of plun-
dering a merchant vessel, and she succeeded in ca,;-
turing the whole of them. The crews were seat
to Charleston tin trial. This vigour, if followed up
must soon lead to their annihilation.

MIDDLESEX SesstoNs.--Yesteniay Mr. Robert-
son. a clerk in the Navy Bill and Accountant
Office, was indicted for defrauding the treasurer of
the Navy Board of 501. Lis. by means as fictitious
Bill of Exchange. A great number of witnesses
were examined for the prosecution, and the jury
found the prisoner guilty, but strongly recomnund-
ed him to mercy, on account of the very excelie:lt
character he received from several gentlemen be-
longing to that department.—Judgment deferred.
In the event of a change in the admiralty, a new
place may be found fos the present secretary, by ap-
pointing him Governor of Croker's Monntains.

SHOOTING EXTRAORDIWART.--Nlr. Y. and by
two s ins tinder ook on Saturiay. 'or a stake of 50 sole-
r lois, to kill 100 head of hares, pheasants, and o r-
Li idLes, over two manors, those of H 1114.1111164:. in B.ACI
and the Willow, the forifirr coot cuing Otte 111(111601i I
acres of land, and the 'anti Rio hundred, Thev weir to
'amine(' the game in set en hours. The (atilt r kill: d, Hsu
lite Willow minor, eleven harts, sits brace of pheasants,
ind three brace of partridges, allot/0111111ot to t‘%enty-iiii,e.
The eldest sun shot seven brace of partruige•, *Oa phr.-
SJOIS, and nine hares, soaking thirty-five; and the in!str
sun killed twelve hares, twelve brace of pheasant., a 11
two brace of birds, atuou gto tinny-eight, snaking iii,
the total one hundred and two.

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