The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-12 00:00:00

.5-.PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The forced loan to which the Spanish Government
have had recourse is evidently a strong measure, and
the most urgent necessity can alone justify it. But,
in the critical situation in which Spain now is, the men
,who are at the helm of publfic affairs, and responsible
for the public safety, 11111::st know better than any per-
sons in this country t.'tie amount of the danger, and tlye
best means of mee:cing it. It is not an ordinary, mea-
sure, nor is it adapted to ordinary times ; but we
ought not to be too rigorous in our demands for the
observance, of what is strictly in accordance with legal
forms at. a time when the dissolution of all law is to be
apprehended. It was obviously impossible to continue
th..e administration of affairs without obtaining money.
Under the present circumstances of the country the
Government could not have recourse to a foreign loan
except upon ruinous terms. The public taxes could
not be calculated upon, their collection in such a dis-
organized state of society being out of the question.
What course remained ? Clearly nothing but that
which the Minister adopted, When our Tory
Contemporaries talk of ‘4 robbery" in such a
case, they mason much in the same fashion as
would a highwayman if he complained of a traveller
for expending part of his property to purchase protec-
tion for the remainder. We dare say, had Gomez
found some of the towns which he pillaged on his pre-
datory excursion into Galicia protected by a well-paid
army,: he would have loudly complained of the " roh-
liery of a forced contribution, for the purpose of de-
fence. If you ask one of these honest reasoners the
common sense question, where are funds to be found to
terminate the war?—his answer, though not, perhaps,
in direct terms, is, our object is not to terminate the
war, or, if it be terminated, let it be in favour of Don
Carlos. And it is because this consummation is likely
to be averted by measures of the Government, that we
hear the complaint of " robbery." May we ask, did
any of those persons who condemn the decree of Ca-
latrava hear of a " forced loan" having been levied by
Don Carlos ? Let it be borne in mind that the mo-
ney to be raised to meet the present exigencies of the
country is to be repaid by instalments at stated inter-
vals. One great advantage, beside the supply of pre-
sent necessity, which we anticipate from the measure of
the Spanish Government, is the very extensive and
powerful interest it creates in support of the Queen's
cause. When the security of property becomes so
bound up with the existence of a Government, we have
the best guarantee for the stability of both.—Morning
Chronicle.

" We must be your equals," said Mr. Sheil, ad-
dressing Englishmen, and speaking of the Irish in the
mass. We answered, " God, of his infinite mercy,
grant you may be." We endeavoured to show Mr.
Sheil, that whatever Parliament might enact, the ex-
citable character of the Irish, and the inflammable
harangues of agitators, must, wbile the latter continue,
ever prevent the Irish peasantry from rising much
above the condition of savages. Do we blame the
peasantry—do we level our reproaches at them ?No
—the peasantry are 'merely the agents; the agitators
are the principals : the peasantry inhumanly shed inno-
cent blood, but the O'Connells and the General Asso-
ciationists urge them to the commission of the horrid
crimes they perpetrate, and which they have carried
to so fearful an extent as to render Ireland famous for
cruel and cold-blooded assassination throughout the
whole civilised world. Hunger and nakedness--pri-
vations the most unendurable—lend their aid to this
frightful demoralization, and therefore it is that O'Con-
nell opposes the introduction of Poor Laws into Ire-
land, while the Whigs, why or wherefore we shudder
to think, back him in his opposition to that simple
measure of mere humanity. "Justice to Ireland" is the
cry of the Agitators and of the Ministerial Swiss ; yet
'the poor are suffered to perish like beasts of the field,
and those who raise the cry of justice turn a deaf ear
to the groans of the starving population. " They are
your equals," exclaim the whole gang of impostors,
while, in the same breath, they deny to these equals
the commonest offices of charity, and give us narra-
tives of atrocities committed by them which the whole
of the rest of the world cannot match ! In this con-
dition of social degradation do Whig perfidy and
greediness of pelf and pride of place tend to keep Ire-
land. Talk of admitting the Irish to a participation
in our political privileges Why are they refused the
more essential and substantial, benefits of food and
raiment ? We will tell the reader: Meat and clothing
are costly articles. Political vapourings are as cheap
as the dust that is trampled under foot, and not less
fleeting and unsubstantial than the wind that scatters
it where it listeth. The Whigs parade the sufferings
of Ireland as the street-beggar exhibits a diseased
child—not that the child may be healed, but that the
beggar may make a profit by it. And since how
long a time is it, we beg our readers to recollect
that. the Whigs and their underlings have raised
this cuckoo try of equality of civil rights to Ire-
.. land? They passed a Coercion Bill for Ireland. Was
that a measure fitted for the population of Great Bri-
tain ? We think not : and we cannot for the life of
us persuade ourselves that Lord Mulgrave, clever as
he may be in pantomime tricks, can possibly have so
transformed and metamorphosed the Irish, that the
Whigs may safely, after the lapse of only a year or
two, legislate for coerced Ireland in the same manner
in which they legislate for Britain. Moreover, put-
ting the Coercion Bill out of the queFAion, all the
M
Whig measures for Ireland, and especially the Irish
Municipal Bill, have proceeded on the assumption,
Irish with the powers
that it is impossible to trust the
and the privileges that have 'been extended to the in-
habitants of Great Britaiee, This cry of " equay,"
therefore, is, if possible, more absurd even thanlit
the
cry of " justice' is insulting to the Irish. W are
told by a Ministerial print, that it is an eternal dis-
grace to the Irish Protestants to exact tithes from
" the miserable Catholic cultivators of the ground in
Ireland." Now those " Catholic cultivators," how-
ever pressed, are not half as miserable as this writer,
unless the misfortune of poverty he heavier than the
sins of fraud and falsehood. Why do the " miserable
Catholic cultivators " pay tithes ? Why, in conse:
quence of the sordid and selfish proceedings of the
masters of this fraudulent and dishonest writer. The
House of Lords actually -passed a Bill to relieve the
" miserable Catholic cultil''ators" from the payment of
tithes ; but the base Whio-s—this man's Masters—
refused to a
robber accept it,
because it contained no clause
of y and spolip.tion for their own aggrandize-
ment I The " mareh of intellect" may, perhaps, not-
withstanding our belief to the contrary, be takina
vast steps, but assuredly the
" boots °f
brass. The
accounts from Ireland have led
::ilutaese reflections.
The King's speech spoke of tea ty in that coun-
try ; and the Lord-Lieutenant) liiakina
mrinla thep ebxhorta-
rooTess of
the country, has invariably is,,,t in
Lion of Dick, the butcher of Ashord to Jack' Cade
lirea open the
" If we. mean to thrive; and do good,
gaols and set the. priso•aers free." Still his Excellency
and the Ministers I.lave failed to justify the flatteriilg
but false phrases -which were devoted to Ireland in the
Ministerial sr,-,e,..!ch from the throne. Look at the
" General Association." It is as unsightly a sore as
ever festered slowly in a body politic. Look, too, at
the accounts from the provinces. Take the state of
Tipperary. What do the papers of that county tell
us? Why 30 prisoners were lodged in the
gaol of this town on Saturday last, being the contri,
bution of tlie county for one week ; 234 have been
committed, since the ristlt of July last, being little more
than fiv'e weeks ; the
aaol d re are at present near 400 in the
, an it is very ffenerally believed there must be
a eommission issr.e'd to clear the prison out, or it will be
incapable of containing its wretched tenants. This is a
frightful anti appalling-state of things •it makes one's
b •
heart sick, to think of the deplorable depth of human
crime and recklessness in which the people are sunk.
We'rte the returns we have giiven those of the entire
country, they would he shocking to reflect upon ; but
tO find all this tremendous amount of persons, accused
of the most serious crimes, in one county, is worse
And let it also be/borne in mind,
than horrifying.
that with the exception of the northern counties, there
are few that do not contribute their quota of culprits to
1 the state of the country;' and though Tipperary stands
prominently forward in the annals of iniquity, she has
admirable adjuncts in her surrounding neighbours."
Consider, also, how much more early than the ag44..