The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-26 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.)

The Dublin Papers have ceased for some time
to speak of any serious outrages committed in the
south of Ireland by the banditti. We seldom
read of nocturnal visits in search of arms, and in
such few cases as still occasionally present them-
selves to our notice, we find these visits unaccom-
panied by violence or wanton injury either to
property or persons. The attack upon the corps
of yeomanry in the county of Kerry, which we
mentioned yesterday, had no connection whatever
with the systematic outrages that have disgraced
the neighbouring county of Limerick; but with
respect to this event, the very worst feature in the
transaction was the conduct of the commanding
officer, in deliberately shooting his unfortunate
prisoner. We believe that this officer, whoever
he was, conceived that he was justified by law in
taking away the life of this poor man. Admitting
for a moment that his opinion upon this point
were incontestably correct, the tranquil indiffe-
rence with which he seems to haw reduced his
legal impressions to practice offers nothing to be
either envied or commended. But the legality
of the proceeding is very questionable, and if the
circumstance had happened in any other part of
the empire, this yeomanry Captain might have
found, to his cust that he had involved ithaserf

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The south of Ireland is again disgraced. Vy the•
same description of shocking outrages whicl pre-
vailed before the late sitting of the SPecial•Com-
mission, end w hich was momentarily checkeintr
the execution of some of the wretched cultitits...
These shocking examples of lawless barbaritsr
and crime are as injurious to the British, lam
and Government, in the eyes of Europe, it they,
are afflicting to humanity. I3ut yet, in this•age
of projectors, speculators, and theorists of every
class and kind, no practical Or feasible remedy
has been adopted—or, as far as we know, thought
of, by the Administration, or any of its salaried.
or volunteer advisers. Public examples of the se-
verest punishment of the law are necessary. They.
are, on every view, absolutely • indispensable,
where crimes so outrageous are committed—even
though the lowett state of human wretchedness
be the principal cause ; but whilst the dreadful
reprisal of the law is operating to repress the
progress of. crime, some attemlOt should• be' made
to remove or alleviate the primary source of evil
and suffering. Crimes of this kind, without some-
thing preventive, but multiply under the sword
or Justice, like the heads of the hydra under the
decapitating prowess of Hercules. the political
doctors of the Government of Ireland appear to
practise, and have practised, with an edifying con-
sistency, according to the system of the renowned
Dr.Sangrado—keeping their patients in hot water,
and bloodletting. The mortality in both cases is
pretty much on a par. The doctor, however, had
the misfortune to be sooner discredited. We have
heard much of the auspicious promise .of Lord
\Vellesley's Administration, and still wait with
some curiosity to hear with what measure he in-
tends to make his administrative debut. If his
political be the same as his rhetorical system,
and he begins his Administration as he usually
does his speech, it will be something studied,
striking, and ambitious.—Hitherto he has done
no more than bow to the spectators. From some
of the recent occurrences in Ireland, it is evident
that the local agents of the public authority de-
mand the attention of the Government, as well
as the desperate and guilty plunderers who are
leagued against society. '