The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-27 00:00:00

THE CAMEO.

A very graceful publication. The priutg,
though not new, are many of them exquisitely
beautiful ; the one in particular illustrative of
Sir Walter Scott and his family it. 4 in the highest
style of rot. The illustrious Baronet's own
prose description of (this print—which we should
observe is from an original by Wilkie—is at-
tached to it; and though it first appeared in
print a year or two since, will bear republishing
from its ease and natural playfulness.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NOTTINGHAM RACES.

Tc EMMY. 0L";:426..:•07A Sweepstukes of 00 sure. cub.
Once round and a distance.

Mr. lleuldstrorth's Crescent... 1
Mr. Yatrs's Blanche 2
Th 4. Macaroni Stakes of 20 guineas ouch.
Mr. lloulikworth's Terror walked over
Sweepstakes of 2.0 guineas each.
Mr. Kent's br. to Ilexgrave
Mr. Burton's Post Captain
The Maiden Plate wits not run when the pest left.

TATTERSALL'S.

Yee'ertlay the attetitleneel was slack, many of the prin-
cipal speculators totalling at Newmarket the blank week
between the 81teoa•1 October end Houghton Mretiogo.
The t.ulhjoitted statement will not show stay changes of im-
p,' onto!. and thn only new ferourite is 4 horse of ph'.
T. called Africanus, tirbose only reemorneuda,-
tint& es a public runner is having been beaten. The pre-
sent odds are

THX DIRMV.
12 to 1 art Mr. W. Clariey's Nett
IS to I apt Lord Bieter'e Bohemian
17 to 1 opt Lord Jersey'. Cobweb colt
18 to I agst Mr. Deardrrwortles Co!wick •
20 to I eget Lord Sligo's Drat de Fee
20 to 1 apt Colonel Caney'. Antiopa colt
to 1 agst Duke of Gram** Pastille, colt
25 to 1 sgst Lord Jersey's Blunder colt
28 to 1 aget Lord Jersey's Filagree colt
40 to 1 apt Mr. Thornbill'e Africanus (taken)
OAKS.

500 to 200 on the fiefraitit Oxygen and Circassian
(taken)
I)OIWASTI4I% at. LIONK.
Zany is backed at 20 to I.
The Newmarket I.li,ughtora Meeting (the laiat of the
season) commences on Monday next, and will occupy the
week. The list closed on Saturday night, and presents u
;lumber of good Stakes and Matches.

Afi the Duke of WELLINGTON was return-
ing from the noose of Lords yesterday afternoon be Was
tullowod bye consider/Ade number of the lowest' rabble,
who hissed and insulted his Grace until be alighted from
his hater, in Dowuing-rtreet.

A great accession is now taking place to the
Hon. Artillery Company, to which hie MAJlttrinr their
Captain-General, hex been pleased to intimate that they
shall be his Doily Guard on alt occasions when he enters
the city. Upon his visit, tsa the 9th of November, they
will attend him in entirely new clothing; the expense of
that of the private. being defrayed by the Court, and that
of the Officers (which is of a superb description) by the
individuals themselves, The corps will wear the regu-
lation raps, and long coats, instead of jackets. The rifle-
nr.n and artillery division will no longer wear dresses of a
different colour to the line; but the appearance of the
whole will be uniform.

Parliatnent having sanctioned an arrangement
by which the military year is henceforward to terminate
with the calendar year, the next hone of half pay, military
allowances, widows' pen.ions, &c. to he made from the
Paymaster-General's Office will be for 98 days, from 2bth
September to Slst December, 1830, instead of At here-
tofore, 91 days t 3 24th December; and in future, the
periods for making the regular quarterly payment. for all
the slid service., will he foam let January to Slat March,
from lst April to 30th June, from let July to 30th
September, and frmn loot o:tober to Slot December in
each year, ineenol oof tine former quarterly payments ter-
minating he 24th March, 94th June, 24th September,
and 24th Decanter,

Sir HENRY HARDINGE, Chia Secretary
of State, O'GORMAN AIANON, and Mr. O'Cmtwat.t.,
sail for England at five o'clock this day, (Saturday,) in
the same vessel, to attend their Parliamentary duttes.—
Dublin Poper.
Ex-8112 M PABKtNs.—At the late Cir..
emit Court held at Doylestown. P. arolylvanis• .1013Y11
PARYINS, formerly Sheriff of London, was convicted of
an assault and battery upnn a constable at Bristol, and fined
twenty dollar., and sentenced to be imprisoned twepty
days.— Trenton (N. J.) Gazette.
rum WATER contemporary
critic remarks of this new work of the celebrated Ainerioun
novelist that "though it hits been before the public ualy
a few days, it is already stamped by universal concurrence,
as the most splendid of his works. The znyateiy of the
story and the HIS and spirit of hie charactorp, have itidted
been seldom equalled anti is no where surpassed."

• -
A meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of
Marylebone, to petition the Kino and the House of Cum
mans ageing the emoted taxes, held on Monday, at
At.r.en's Riding School, in Seymour-place. There therm
About 509 or 600 pereone present. Colonel JoNKs was
in the chair. Both addresses were agreed to, after which
the tureting broke up.
We find that the merchants connected with
the South of Spain still express much discontent at tiat
suspension of the eiinonuniestions with Cilia by wawa of
the Mediterranean steam.packets, though some pains hale
been taken in various quarters to justify the tuee ere.
hardship of the nee, in their view of it.
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rogrinis may place in danger the lives soil property cif
;90,1 sutouts. a mode of communication it abandoned
which affords the quickest mid perhaps the only ite,t,iu
means of learning their situation, and affording them,
consequently, that prompt succour which the , ease may
require. It may easily happen that without such a medium
they may be left wholly unprotected, and exposed to the
most cruel outrages. In the comae of the ordinary cons.
multinational through Spain by the poste, failures an Ia»
ways to be calculated on; and without the hairrtatioa
Wog on the frontier may suspend them altogether, If
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SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Two proclsmationa in last night's Gazette, and a
letter from M. Pitcher, a gentleman of Kent, both
relative to the same deplorable subject, Will give
rise, no doubt, to serious reflections among our
readers. The 'conflagrations which, for some months
past, have taken place In the above-named county,—
anti which, with every appearance of being the work
of incendiaries, bore been almost exclusively di.
rested against agricultural produce and the property
of tersters,-.-have never yet been clearly explained ;
nor do we think that Mr. Piletter's smuggling
theory, however just to a certain extent, affords
Complete elucidation of the cause of these atrocious
proceedings. Why, it has been asked, should tio
county of Kent be disturbed and 'disgraced by such
crimes as this, beyond any other district ? All we
can say is, that Kent has been, and continues to be,
so visited. Mr. Filcher ascribes the heroin of
ferm.produce, farm-buildings, c,e to the contraband
habits and fluctuating eircumstances of tho peasant-
population,of Kent, Who are enriched one day by the
prosperity of the smuggling trade, and the next im-
poverished by its decline. We do not see any. tie•
cessary connexion between a sense ef poverty among
the people, and the destruction of human food, by
which that poverty must (one might presume) be
aggravated. At the same time it must be allowed,
that despair -doetnot, reason accerately,. It is cer-
tainly possible, that if wages throughout Kent be so
low as to create a severe pressure on the 'Trice!.
tural population, and at the same time, if the prices of
farm-produce be so high, as to persuade the poor
that wages have been unduty'llepreelated, the pea-
santry may, under the iufluente of exasperation,
wreak their vengeance on the supposed tyranny of
the farmer, by. burning his ,otacka,andliouses. Bert
it is fearful to think of the possibility of tbese crimes
extending to other counties, and of the state to
which the country will be reduced, if a combination
spirit, for such guilty objects, should actuate its
agricultural and naturally inoffensive people. But
to prevent the evil, let the cause of ft be manfully
inquired into. Crime at all events must be
pressed; but the distress, Which is a main cause of
it, should also be mitigated wherever it can be.
There are rewards offered .by the Treasury for the
detection of the perpetrators of two of these destruc-
tive conflagrations—one at. Borden, near Sitting-
. bourne, 'the other in the neighbourhood of Tun-
bridge,—.Times,

"We have read with inexpressible disgust a State-
»tent in the Irish papers, of a recent transaction
called an arar of honour," between. Sir Henry
Hardinge end Mr. Daniel O'Connell. It began, us
,by the latter indisidual employing the most
offenelVe and outrageous terms of personal insult
Intrearde Sir Henry Hardinge; and, as usual also,
ended by nn absolute denial of justice towards the
injured gentleman, Mr. O'Connell declaring his re-
tiolutiou not to fight. Proceedings of precisely the
same nature have so often already come before the
public„—we mean with regard to Mr. O'Connell,—
that there are few people in society, and certainly
no members of the press, who have not long
Since felt themselves railed upon to pronounce
on opinion upon the moral taste and gentlemanly
feeling exhibited by the personage in question.
A determination against duelling, .under ordinary
circumstances, could reflect no disgrace on Mr.
O'Connell, .nor on any other man professing the
faith of a Christian. On the contrary, it is possible
that the best of men would be the foremost to form
such a determination, and the least ashamed to act
upon it through evil report and good. But there is
I second resolution, perfectly indispenseble towards
explaining and justifying the above non-combatant
system,'.—eit., that of scrupulously and religiously
ebeteining from the display of, manners, or the ut-
teeltSce of language, likely,to wound the 'meow of
Other individuele, and to place them in the predicts-
stunt of receiving insults *Watt they are forced to
put up with, from the :ithown impossibility of
,obs
'flatting fedi** at. the bands or a calumniator 'shoot-
• leg poisoned wawa, end ,cased from top to toe in
Impenetrable is now the value and
amount of Me:: O'Connell's' decision against
ling 2 Is it a pledge of peace and forbearance
towards the rest of society .? If it were, there are
none who could fail to respect and epithet' him.—
But it is no such thing. It is a claim to play the
persecutor, tyrant, and ruffian, with itnpunity,—to
slander every man, however
innocent and honest,---
to hold up every political or private adversary as a
mark for abhorrence, and perhaps assassination, to a
brutal mobs—to inflict at will the grossest injuries
on hits neighbours,---to point his own transient
caprice, whatever it may be,' with the hornet's
ating,--sand, when taken to account for all this
baseness, to deelere that hi* conscience, thus fiber-
tine in crime—his conscience t--is too straight-laced
for penitence, redress, or restitution I Words cannot
paint an extremity of baseness beyond this.--Tintes.
The consequence of allowing an ambitious and
worldly-minded priesthood to obtain too great an
influence in political affairs is seen in the wretched
and deplorable condition of Spain and Portugal. Tu
these countries, so great is the debasement of the
public mind—so abject the spirit of the community
In general—that there seems scarcely any possibility
of the most extravagant abuse of power exhausting
the patience of the people. When, Indeed, it was
the interest of the Clergy to resist foreign invasion,
as iu the case of Buonaparte, who had abolished
the Inquisition, and was known not to be very
friendly to the political ascendancy of the Priests,
they 'kindled a spirit of enthusiastic resistance among
the. people, which led to the most successful results-
Subsequent events have shown that what theta ap-
peered to be the patriotic devotion of the Spaniards
- to their native laud, and to the cause of its inde-

pendenee, was only the manifestation of the bound-
itsupoiver which the Church exercised over the po-
pular WO, and which could with equal facility,
make men the worst of slaves, or convert slaves
into ,the moat resolute of heroes. How else eon we
account for the triumphal march which the Duke of
Angeuieme, with his troops, coming to re-establish
the tyranny of Ferdinand and his "Apostolical"
advisers, was allowed to make from the bunks

of the Bidassoa to the walls of Cadiz ?
the first invasion the French armies were hostile
to the sway of the Priests, and the latter raised
the country against them; in the lest invasion the
French armies came to restore the priests to their
ancient authority, end the Clergy kept down the ex-
pression of public feeling, so that Angoulerne aecorn.
eished, with the greatest ease, what the genius of
Napoleon *as unable to execute—namely, the ewe_
000 OVerIbMW of Spani,4h independence t, Thnhc
has the inordinate ambition 01 the church obtained
the entire mastery aver the mind or the people and
the destinies, of the nation. Still Sp&n has caeca.

sionsfly shown some partial 'symp.ttitns of public
virtue ; but Portugal appears to be incapable of
the,slightest, display of ,energy or manhood. Tin,
clergy to those kingdoms are some of tho richest in
the world; not, indeed, in the gifts and graces of
of. Christianity—of such treasure they are not at
all ambitious'--but in whatever ministers to worldly
pomp and sensual indulgence. It is a fearful thing
to see the • name of the }rarest of all religions so
abused to the purposes of the moat degrading cu-
pidity that can 'diet mankind. Yet. this system,
which in Spain and Portugal obliterates every
virtue, and prostrates the intellect of man in the
dust before the gorgeous shrines of u sanguinary
asperstition, is called Christianity i When we
read of the acts of ferocione folly end sportive
cruelty which formed the pastime of some of the
• itatatta• Emperors in the degenerate days of the
Empire, we are astonished that, under any Nun of
Paganism, human nature should have been so sense.
iess and embruted as to bear with the pranks of those
Imperial Triailliters, who, while env
iting to them-
selres dirloe honours, need mid iuled like incarnate
fends: yet there are rew of those tyrants whom ale
usurps! of' Portugal lots not rivalled ir, his brutal
amusements, and hit still more brutal ambition. But
peoplehis are as passive us a be were not only ittvelitelt
wit the best of all possible titles, but clothed in
the raiment of all the virtues under the sun • What'

is to be &miter ttlet people? Are not they knd
their Sovereign worthysof each other ? Do not
Asa subjects create such tyrants ? There are fre-
qeent appetite Made td the generous sympathies of
Englishmen; both on behalf of the people of Portugal
and Spain; but why squander' sympathy upon those
Stho are unconseions of their own degradation ?
libel more we hear of the grievances which they so
passively put up with, the less we think them de-
ierving of commiseration. Countries, which have
not within themaelvea.the materiel of regeneration,
cannot import it, as they would an article of mer-
chandise, from foreign nations; and Portugal gives
constant proofs that the demoralization of the people
i. at least as great us the tyranny of the King. As
to Spain, though not altogether so hopelessly de-
hased, it is so far sunk in the scale of intellectual ex-
igtenre, that if by any effort now in progress, ii
should recover an honourable place among the na-
tions, the fact will constitute the greatest moral mi-
rade of the present age, distinguished as it is by ex-
traordinary events..—Aforning Herald.
We know not what true eloquence is, if the ad.
dresses delivered by his Majesty lust week to the
company assembled to receive him and her Majesty
at Lewes is not of that description. IVe should
define that quality to consist in' the genuine ion-
Image of the heart and understanding best adapted
to the occasion on which it is uttered. Judging of
King William's address by this rule, we would ask
what could be more suitable to the occasion, or
come "with more tests of genuine sincerity from the
heart, than this off.hand, excelletit speech. It is
true that it contained none of those high-sounding,
well-rounding periods with which practised orators
contrive to say much and to mean little, It is clear
that the King meant all he Said. If we were to
single oui.'any.expression 'calling- for our applause
more than the rest, we should point attention to the
happy after-thought, in whlch his Majesty returned
thanks to the company for their attention to the
Queen, and the well-turned strain of affection in
which he so well marked the public sense, and his
own, of the acknowledged virtues of his Royal
Consort. Such expeditions as these are worth a
hundred State pageants, and must do more than all
the romp, and show, and splendour in the world,
td fix both the King and the Queen where a King
should reign—in the hearts of his subjects.—Morn-
ing Herald.

En the lath numher,pf the .Foreign Quarterly
Review, just published, there is an excellent article
on the Belgian Revolution, evidently by the author
of an article in a former number, which gave so mas-
terly a view of the industry of the Netherlands.
Whenever the population of any country rise en
masse against their Government, we may be sure
that things are not as they ought to be. It is well
observed by the able author of this article, when
alluding to the reproach of turbulence which has so
often beers thrown out against the Belgians, that—
" It is a common plan to consider them as eternally
dis‘ati,fied with their Governors. Their annals, it issaid,
present nothing but armed opposition, dissension, intes-
tine war : that succesaively they have shaken off the do-
nUnition of Spain, Austrit, France, and are again in re-
volt at this moment. This word turbulent is one of the
epitl►ere invented by tyrants to deceive mankind : it has
been adopted, with many similar ones, by hi,torians, who
have, until lately, only written 'in the interest of the great
and powerful. If the meaning of the word turbulent, as
applied to a nation, be analyzed, it can only mean an im-
patience in supporting sotne oppression, which energy re-
sists and apathy sinks under. Let any one run over with
an impartial eye the different revolutions of Belgium, and
weigh the causes which have produced them, and he will
be convinced that they had good reason to complain. Who
can blame them for wishing to escape from the bloody
persecutions of Spain ; to have repelled the feeble and
oppressive domination of Austria ; to have driven out
the tyrannical agents of the Emperor of Franco, dur-
ing the latter years of his reign? Belgium, a country '
of no great extent, but consisting of a brave popu•
lation, has for a long time been handed about from
Power to Power, as 4 kind of make-weight in the
balance. Its fertaity has always rendered it
an objeet.of desire to the surrounding Powera, and just as
it suited their convenience.they have disposed of it, with-
out consulting the subject of the bargain. Because the
Belgiens have not been content to he thus hustled about,
they are called turbulent. The French Government had,
however, succeeded in attaching the affections of the
' people; manners, interests, language, all had become
common : but the (fruits reunis, and the dreadful con-
scription, the two this istrous inventions of Bonaparte, and,
in part, the CaUse of his ruin, alienated the hearts of the
Belgians—it was generally with satisfaction that they
witnessed his fall. It is something to set against the
charge of turbulence, that all the great men who I►ave had
to deal with them, have left a high testimony in their
favour—we may begin with Clew and end with Napo-
leon. The authority of Char:es V. has been strikingly
Isis! down; be Is said to have spoken of them to his son
in terms of eulogy, like the following :—,Moderate its his
prosperity, and equally calm in adversity, without pride,
without ostentation, sober, naturally frank, the Belgian is,
at the same time, prudent and circumspect, patient,to oh.
stinacy, and Mama; iota to un excess; faithful to his re.
ligion, and affectionate to Ilia Chiefs, as long as they re-
spect justice and the laws ; but so soon as his rigl►te are
touched, his patience ceases and he becomes untimeable.
Whenever tyranny has sought to oppress him, he has re-
hided, yielded, and died, but it has always been with a
five spirit.' "
With the manner its which they were saddled with
the enormous debt of Holland, tricked into subjec-
tion to the h,i fundament ale, out-voted in the States-
General, and harassed by tyrannical prosecutions,
the public are now tolerably %veil acquainted. But
the following description of the working Of Belgian
taxation is much more perfect than anything we have
yet seen

," One great evil," says the writer, "in the Belgian
t maim, was the multiplication anti variety of the objects
taxed ; an individual never knew when he had done. Some
were levied in so ty rannicel a manner, that is reading the
explanation of them, the reader may fancy he is perusing
the liLitory of come barbecues enaction of feudal times.
The mouture, for instance, and the OnttOpe, The first was
a tax on meal ; it wits forbidden to grind corn at home,
and it could only be sent to the mill fluting certain hours
of the day ; besides wbielt, the bearer of it was obliged
to provide himself with a passuvent, or • a kind of meal
passport ; and was forbidden to mix different kinds of
grain, except in a certain proportion fixed by law. A
whole army of clerks and collectors, charged with the
duty of preventing fraud, hung about the country like
wolves; them were entitled to a part of all the tern they
caught mixed up, or proceeding to be ground, or ground in
contravention of the law: The abatta9e is a term of a
more simple kind at first view, but equally vexatious and
hose in its execution. In the country, as well as in town,
every ox, cow. heifer, calf, sheep, pig, &e., before it was
killed,. was obliged to be shown to the receiver of taxes in
order to procure a permiisien to- be. killed, and to fix the
hour of slaughter. Tile rural commune", are often more
than a league in extent ;. the peasant was con.equently
hatred, in good or bad weather, to leave 111" work, and to
go sod make a declaration of the kind of animal, of its
Weiglitoind the hour he intended to kill it, And then'
he had not done, Be was not entitled to kill his own
pie ! Ile mist go and secure the services of the ' sworn
butcher,' who mod be present,. Even this was not all.
If the tax-receiver thought that the estimate of the animal,
mule by the owner, was below kit real value, he has the
right of pre-emption—that is to say, of plying without
further ceremony the estimated sum, taking tbe beast, and
gentling the owner about his business.
" These grievances chiefly affeeted the country ; but the
towns had their own vexations. The inliebitants no longer
desired to possess furniture of beauty or value ; they
stopped up their windows, their fire places, and sent away
their servants, not only because all theee objects were hea-
vily taxed, but because they opened the door to the tax-
gatherers, .who were entitled to pay domiciliary visits, in
order to Ascertaitt whether you had made a return of what
you posscesed.
" The municipal taxes---that is to say, those levied
.at
the eutrenees of the towns, and for their profit—had been
also greatly augmented. Nut an egg, not a morsel of but-
ter, or a, loaf of bread, could be *named in a town with,
out paying its W.. Every person, though this was nut
pecolier to Belgium, on entering a town, was liable to be
eisiied by the. clerks stairwell at the gatelk The fault of
all these taxes. was not en much the amount, for that might
he a matter of question, but that they were exceedingly
vexatku!si and, above all, most expensive in their mode of
collection."

..._,...,..... ,
The writer does not attempt to predict the result
of the deliberations of the Congre*s summoned to
meet on the 3d of November, to determine on the
form of Government. Whether a Republic or Con-

atitutional Monarchy be adofitetl, theta are dittdu!..
ties to be overcome. To his concluding spirited Oh-
serVations we cordially subscribe :
" Though the future destinies of Belgium are yet un-
certain, her deliverance out of the hands of Dutch oppres-
sion must be a matter of sincere joy to ell the friends of
freedom. It is the second signal proof, within two shrott
months, of the increasing impotence of tyrants'', and of OK
;rowing strength of the cause of liberty throughout En
rope, That cause, varying only in local circumstances, is
virtually the same in all countries. The struggle is uni-
versally a struggle of principles-.a conflict of ideas—a war
of opinions. The time is at hand, when we shall hear no
snore of treaties among Sovereigns, disposing of natiOns
iike flocks of sheep. In vain bad the treaty of Vienna at-
firmed to the Bourbons the throne of France, and to the
Nassaus that of Belgium, when the people res deed to cast
from them the obnoxious dynasties. In vain do the
tory monarchies of Russia, Au.tria, and Prussia, regard
with fear and trembling these striking events ; they dare
net interfere, however strong may be their wishes. From
foreign molestation the Belgians are secure, and we trust
they will not be disturbed by domestic disunion. They
have already turned their swords into ploughshares; may
freedom and peace be their household gods ! for, as a free
nation, they will henceforth be the national and firm ally
of Great Britsin."—Morning Chronicle.

They who expected that Catholic Emancipation
would give tranquillity to Ireland were shallow poll.
ticians indeed. It has, however, been productive of
great good, inasmuch as it removed the grand im-
pediment in the way of looking the evils of the so-
cial condition of Ireland fairly in the face. Ireland
is not tranquil—and ought not to be tranquil. To
tell the Irish they ought to be quiet, is like telling a
man in whose veins a burning fever rages that he
ought to be cool.. Arthur O'Connor, in his able
and eloquent tract on the state of Ireland, published
itri the early part of 1798, observed truly, that—
" To every civilised country, the wealth gathered by in-
dustry-6ms a fund for the employment of the industrious,
and as the existence of this fund is the great discriminating
mark between civilisation and barbarism, so the state of
this fund is what regulates the condition and character of
every people upon earth. If the Government and Legit..
!atom protect the people in their industry and their na-
tional rights, this lund twill answer the population. It
will grow with a growing population, and population will
he a blessing; industry will flourish, and with it plenty.
honesty, sobriety, cleanliness, and the rest of her delight-
ful companions wilt follow in her train. These are the
effects of good Government ; these are the fruits of liberty;
these are the blessings which. the Almighty showers down
upon the people who have the spirit to assert their rights.
and the courage to maintain them, against Governments
which exist but by the means they have of corrupting,
and against Legislators who live but on the wages they
receive for betraying the people they pretend to represent.
But when the funds for the employment of industry have
been squandered—when the Government and Legislature,
by treason and plunder, have perverted this fund from
answering the population, or from growing so au to an•
swer a growing population, population becomes a curse.
It is the proportion which the fund for
the employment of industry bears to the population, that
stamp, the character of indolence or of industry on every
people on the globe; it hi this proportion which regulates
the happiness or misery of every nation upon earth."
The complaint et as then what it is now, anti what
we fear it is destined to be, till some calamity bring
the remedy, that the people are in a situation in
which it is impossible for them to acquire capital.
The peasantry are without protection. Nothing
can be saved to constitute u fund for the employ-
ment of labour. Potatoes and water, or at most
skimmed milk, remain for the cultivators of the
soil ; all the rest.of•the produce goes to the froges
consumere nets. There is a class of writers who
dwell adnauseon on the benefit of appealing to the
sanction of past ages, and the authority of other,
times. There is one lesson, which the history 'of all
times - teaches—that no nation ever yet made the
slightest advance in improvement till Aristocracy
was overcome by a Monarch, or by u people goaded
to desperatioo. The mode in which the relief has
generally been etTected, has been through the strug-
gle between the !tingle despot and the Aristocracy.
Poland, Sicily, Naples, Ireland, tell us how much
the other countries of Europe owe to the victory of
the sovereigns over the Aristocracy—the first step
in civilization.—Morning Chronicle.

We give, in another column, the particulars of an
intended hostile meeting in Dublin between Sir
Henry Hardinge and Mr, O'Connell. The latter,
as he has always done for some years past, declined
the meeting, as well as disavowed the offensive
expressions repOrted to have been tittered by him ;
but it is not so much to this subject that we are
anxious to direct the attention of our readers,
as to the speech of Mr. O'Connell at a mee -
ing of the parish of St. Audcon on Thursday
lust. The English public has long been accus-
timed to the vulgarities and falsehoods tittered by
Mr. O'Connell and his crew ; but never, to this
day, were our fair countrywomen treated to such a
character as that which it pleased his High Mighti-
ness to give them on that occasion. The whole
drift of his speech was not only to show the prac-
ticability of it separation between Ireland and Eng.
hand; and to excite the spirit of the former against
the people of the latter, but to hold up our fair
countrywomen, not to the derision only, but to the
contempt and execration of mankind. " Are Mey,"
said he, speaking of the people of England, " our
superiors in morality ? Look to the Parliamentary
&turns and evidence given by Clergymen Wore
the Poor Law Conimiitee. lfre are told that,
in the English counties, nineteen women out
of every twenty that come to be »tarried
Were ready to become mothers before the marriage
ceremony was polormed." "1 do nut calumniate
them," adds he; " such is the evidence given by
English Illagistrates, Clergymen, and Governors rif
counties." Women of England, hear this! Such
is the character given of you by the great Liberator
of Ireland I Husbands and brothers, is that man
calculated -to regenerate a nation, who builds his
premises upon falsehood, and to keep up a fading
popularity resorts to the most atrocious calumnies ?
The purity, the modesty, the chastity of English
women, and their fidelity to matrimonial engage-
ments, are proverbial all over the world. No na-
tion can equal them ; all admire and wish to imitate
their virtues—the great Liberator alone dares to
calumniate them ! Is this to be borne ?-111maing
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