The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-15 00:00:00

STATE OF IRE 1,41171).

DCALIN, OCT. iO.--4)ur domestic occurrence'
wear upon the xvhole no unfavourable aspeCt ; itl7
deed if we could except out of the statement some
atrocities that have been too long persisted in in the
county of Kerry, we should have to felicitate the
country upon its calm and prospprous condition. That
exception, however, not only must be made, but also
another, which the frequent outrages committed in
the county of Limerick render imperative.
The incessant violations of the public peace in that
county, and the continued outrages committed against
the persons and properties of individmis, do not ap-
pear to tend to any particular objeCt. They:seem
to be the offspring of a licentious love of evil, which
has let itself loose upon the.community. But in the
county of Kerry the midnight plundering and -murl
ders have a manifest design, according as they ap'
pear upon the Journals of that part of the Kingdom.
The actors in these horrid designs have assumed the
designation which used to denote those who had
Liken up arms openly to oppOse the leVying'of tSrthe;
hey distinguish theMselves by the appellation of.
White Boys ; and their hostility is- direaed•against
those whom dealings in tythes have rendered.Ohnoxi-
OM. We speak solely upon the authority of the
Kerry-Prints, the -last of whi(th.that we have receiv-
ed (Chute's I estern Herolc.o,.tutiDtiorp the 'murder
of a Mr. Murphy, who is said to have large.posses-
sions in tythes.

The poor and miserable of every country 'seldom
enter into the subtleties or refinements of them-ticat
distress. Tangible grievances they Understand, and
when those press beyond a certain point, the re-
sentments of the people proclaim their excess. Oar
peasants do really suffer—that cannot be denied.-
more than in a well-adjusted condition of society the!
would be required to bear ; but if a question of re'
needy ever arrive, it should not be left in the hands rf
those, who being themselves the authors (think-
ingly or unthinkingly) of many of the heaviest bur-
diens that rouse the peasant's- groan, ought not to
obtain more credit for their sympathy than for their
candour, when they attempt to charge upon another
class of persons all the miseries of the country. • -
The late declaration against tythes had the sanc-
tion of many honest names, no doubt ; but every
thinking man, who well understood the singular
Constitution of our Society, and who knew the gra-
vity and caution which should precede the recom-
mendation of remedies for public evils, saw with
some apprehension the course that had been taken
to clamour away. the whole Tythe System as the,
spring and source of general distress. It is very true,
that if the Rack-rent Landlords thought that in en'
deavouring to exempt themselves from the odium
of oppression, and to cast it all upon a body of men
not perhaps half paid their legal dues, the peasantry'
should take a part against tythes, they would have
desisted at once. But the invariable result of such
public proceedings is, that when sentiments and
principles becomepromul gated, they sink into eierY
mind ; they light upon the brain of ignorance thei,
descend upon and are compounded in the reveries of
nonsense and folly. • The man of education alts and
thinks becoming an enlightened mind ; but the.
peasants poor, illiterate, and oppressed, thinks am'
feels as, it -is natural he should; and when he tinci'
a respeaable portion of the gentry. of the coutt";"
pointing out as it were
-the Catne:pljais_pckmarty,
denouncing it, his passions.-Win not allow hital„.t
hold a truce with the suppoSed adversary to his bar
piness, and he will not wait for.the mild and cir".
cuitous remedy of the law, but become his own re"
dresser.

It is well for the public that the subje6 of ts'thes'
or rather that the condition of the peasantry, fornil
now an anxious subject
,of consideration with the.
covernment. •It will throw away all pretext
intermeddling of ragged so &In'
:pus and delicate, an affair; and it ohght to $11g"
gest to those who might incautiously ai4d most
nocently have excited sensations in the peasantry
which they did 'riot foresee, to exert theinselvel;'
with double zeal in suppressinc, such painful conso—
quences of misapprehension at-'id mistake.—A
lid Paper.

SWP NEII4.

GRAVESEND, OCTOBER 13.

- Passed by—the Ann, Ricketts, and the Wilberforce.
kinson, frotn Gotrenhurgh. min*
Sailed—the Favourite, Virger, for Rio laneiro •
Aitken, for Grenada ; and the Georgiana, Smith,
mew.

(ER .
On the zd inst. in Fitzloy-street, the Lady of
YloWat, Esq. of Potter's ear, of a llaue,hter.
On Monday 'last, at Kelly, Scotland, the Lads 01 tht
Hon. 'Alajor Ramsay, of a Son.
On Tuesday, in Gloucester-street, Portman-square, tilt
Lady of the Rev. Alexander Cotton, of a Son. -