The Sun.
London, England, 1822-02-12 00:00:00

Til LVNDO-N JOUR,NAL.:;.

EXtEACTS ntom D I.L.Y. :11:1'6ILNING- PAPERS.

Feb,-tcary 12, 1822.

- [MOANING Po§-T.l
The Bills for renewing the Insurrection Ac,t
and suspending. the lia.beas Corpus in Ireland,
received, the Royal Assent yesterday, by Com.
mission (both Bills having been read a third time
t and passed by the. Lords :while strangers were
excluded on. Saturday night).--The operation-of
these measures will of course immediately corn-
mente ; and we have only to hope that they will
be applied as the necessities of the case may fe-
lonire, not as the passions of individuals may.
dictate. They:are of,high trust and tremendous
power ;H—well . used, they must suppress with
little ckklicuicy, and in a,- short period, the out-
rageS and disturbances which we all lament ; but
exercised without:discretion, or with partiality,
they. wonl&e,xasperate in.stead of atsuagioc ; and
whatever-temporary calm they might prodUce, it
would be that' of caution, not of
,peace-. a
-putting off of vengeance, not. that it should
die away in inactivity, 'but that it might ac-',
cuniulate till it should grow 'resistless. The Irish
Government become thus strong, all now de-
pends onits.firinness, wisdom, and moderation.
But Whatever be the result, let us not hear a re.;.
newal of these measures proposed, unless the.
.cause of the distresses that drive the, starving po-
pulation of Ireland to„acts of outrage and-insu-
bordination shall have previously been thoroughly
investigated, and proper remedies shall have.
been applied. Let us have-no more force to
coerce, until we shall have given food to the fa.'-
mished,' and investigated the causes of their.
.wretchedness and distress. If insubordination-
afterwards continue, vritich we are convinced -it.
would not, the AdMinistration would find no
difficulty in obtaining a renewal of these fearful
powers, -which for a season place the whole of
Ireland 'beyond the pale: of' the. Constitution.

[MORNING HERALD.]

The Irish Insurrection Act and -Habeas Corpus
Suspension-Act, those two missionaries of peace
to Ireland, are probably, by this time,- set out
for- their destination. With sincere sympathy
for the most wretched population of the south of
Ireland, and a sense of relentleSs and enor-
mous:powers to which they are subject by these
two Statutes—particularly the former, we have
no intention to join in the vain deelamation'about
Liberty," and. ": Constitution " Which has
been raised.
_against them. If suspicions could
possibly falrupon'''personsenjoying the comforts,
or even common security., of "social' 'life-=as in
political insurrections—an arbitrary use may be
made of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus.—
But in this case, the objects of the law are in such
a state that imprisonment must be to them. a
change of condition 'desirable and salutary:—
They are removed from the peril of being shot in
the fields or mountains, or cut down by the
Sabres of the police--:. or, on the other hand,' frotn.
,the commission of desperate outrages tipon life
and property. The ItisnrrectionAct is certainly
a dreadful engine ; it gives power absolute to
persons, who, from momentary feelings and ha-
bitual notions, are likely to make a shocking tfse
of it. kat desperate evils require desperate re-
medies ; and we know that sometimes in the in-
ferior animal kingdom—if we may borrow this
term from the naturalists—one noxious race is
allowed to indulge its envenomed antipathies
and savage instincts upon another of a more dad.,
gerons.and'extensively destructive nature.

[MORNING CIIRONICLR.]
Private letters, dated Madrid, 28th and 29th
ult., and received by the mail of yesterday, state,
tut in all -probability a new Administration
would not be formed till after the present Cortes
had closed their Sittings, which will be early in
next March, as it was thought the King intended
to choose his Ministers front among Members,
now having seats in the House, in which capacity
they are pre'lented from acting, by an express
'-article of the Spanish Constitution, till their time
'is ended. It is, however, not known with any
certainty who will be the persons chosen, 'al-
though several are talked of, and indeed, in some
circles, it was rumoured that the Chevalier
D'Onis, now ambassador in this country, was
likely to be recalled, and made Prime Minister.
—The .same letters mention, that the -Cortes
continued seriously and sincerely occupied in de-
liberating on the affairs of South America, and a
disposition prevailed to acknowledge the inde-
pendence of that country on liberal terms. Some
difficulties, however, existed in consequence of
the want of communications, of union among
some of the provinces belonging ,to the free Go.
vernments in South Arriericai.and the imperfect
state in which their wkshes. were known ; owing
to which, it was thought
_that the•plan recom-
mended by the Committee would be adopted,_as
a preliminary measure, thought
.nnrilbers were of
opinion that theaffafr would never bewellisetiled,
cr the contending parties brought toa .perfect
understanding with each other, .unless it was
through the aid and interference of some foreign
power entitled to .the confidence of, both,—
The only persons, it is said, ,warmly
posed . to .the recognition _of .!lie, independence
of South America;, are . the Catalonian menu
facturers and the old Cadiz monopolists;„bnt,, it
is added, a large portiOOpf the, Spanish ;,c9rnmn.;
nity consider:the.tfltramp.rin,eprovinces as a hty-, .
den And a .Continual source of.ctisttareemeut and,
besides feeling the injUSlice_with.Which they have!
beeh treated, and'the impossibility of governing
theta at such a distance) are cofitinced that it is