The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-21 00:00:00

MORE PIRACY-BRITISH VESSELS.

Extract from the Log-Book of the ship Benson, WILLIAM
ROWE, master, from Glasgow, bound to St. Thomas's.
" Saturday, August 3, 1822.
" At 10 A.M. saw two strange sail to the south-west, steerw
towards us : at 11 A.M. made them out to be men of war : at
half-past 11 the headmost fired a gun, but shewed no colours
that we could discern : at noon hailed us, and ordered us to
send a boat on board a him, which was done at his request.
He hoisted a blue white and flag.—Sunday, August 4, at
one P.M., he sent his boat on board of us, and the boat's crew
said it was his orders to take provisions, cordage, and ship's
cargo, by force of arms, which they did, viz.—ship's stores,
three tierce of beef, three barrels of pork, seven to eight cwt. of
cordage, some cabin stores and butter, in kegs marked ship
' Argo. At two, r. at., the boat returned with five boxes of dry
goods. Previous to their going away a deal of plunder was
made by the boat's crew, of dry goods, stowing them in their
shirts ; after being plundered, part of the packages were re-
turned. He said, when going on board, he would give
us an order for payment of the provisions on Porto Rico,
or Margoretti. In place of payment he hoisted up his boat
and made sail at three, p. en., steering to the southward. At
14, p. en. the pirate still in sight, standing South. The under-
signed are witnesses of the plunder :—Signed, Thos. Anderson,
J.ll. Dewhurst, George Hill, and John Calender, passengers."

All the accounts from Ireland continue to re-
present the state of affairs in that unhappy
country as truly deplorabh'and alarming. Out-
rages, burnings, and assassinations, are the dread-
ful means employed by the peasantry of the
disturbed districts for compelling obedience to
their system for regulating rents and tithes, and
for determining under what arrangements, and
by whom, farms shall be occupied. All the
terrors of the law, aided by the presence and
the active exertions of a large military and civil
force, have failed to put an end to the calamities
with which the country is overwhelmed ; and it
is too obvious that unless some peaceful means of
curing the discontent, and of bettering the con-
dition of the wretched but criminal people can
be devised, Ireland must become either an inve-
terate and rankling sore in the Constitution of
the Empire, or she will be violently and for ever
severed from England. In addition also to the
distress of the peasantry, to their discontents and
their crimes, embarrassment and ruin have over-
taken all persons connected with the cultivation
of the soil, and must finally overwhelm even its '
proprietors. We have now before us a Report
o❑ the State of the Agricultural Interest, which
represents the crisis as having at length arrived,
and the ruin of the farmers to be completed.—
The fair of Ballinasloe, at which sheep were
sold at from eight to fourteen shillings, is stated
to have destroyed the last faint hopes of any
change for the better. In the Dublin market,
the middle price of wheat is about 16s. a
barrel; in the general average of the country
it is scarcely 12s. ; and all other articles
of agricultural produce are proportionally low.
—Under these circumstances, very little, if
any of the rental of the country, can be collected
in the present season ; and a course of ruin and
disorder is about to commence, of which it is im-
possible to forsee the termination. Religious and
political dissension completes the melancholy
catalogue of the ills which afflict Ireland ; and
have given birth to a serious proposition for re-
pealing the Act of Union, and re-establishing her
independent Parliament. That is a proposition
which of course cannot for a moment be enter-
tained by England, or by the majority of the en-
lightened portion of the Irish themselves. The
British Islands must stand or fall together ; and
the remedy for the disorders of one section of
the United Kingdom must not be sought for i❑
its separation from the rest, but rather in more
closely binding them together by the promotion
of their common prosperity and happiness.
Lord AMHERST, the newly-elected Governor-
General of India, of whose appointment we were
the first to apprise the public, was to have been
introduced to the Chairman and Court of Di-
rectors last Wednesday, and to have taken -the
oaths. It is possible that this omission may have
been occasioned by the absence of Mr. WYNN
from town, whose province it is, as a matter of
form, to ratify the appointment, by giving to it
the sanction of his MAJESEY'S Government, but
if the usual ceremonies be not gone through on
the next Court day, we shall begin to suspect a
hitch in a high quarter. We have heard a
whisper on this subject.—(Morning Chronicle.)
SIR ROBERT WILSON.--A contemporary com-
municates the_ following statement, in a letter
from Paris, dated Oct. 16 :—" All that I now
have to inform you of relates to a countryman of
your own. M. BE PEYRONNET, who has acted
during some time past for the 'Minister of the In-
, terior, has given orders to Sir R. WILSON to leave
the French capital in 24 hours, and the French
' territory as quickly as he can travel. Sir
ROBERT was yesterday called to the Police
Office, and informed of this order. He of
course could not resist, and did not argue..
He only begged that he might be allowed
to remain in Paris till Thursday morning,
instead of Wednesday night, as Lady, WILSON
was in such a poor state of health, that travelling
by night might seriously injure her. The Di-
rector of the Police could not comply with the
request, nor in fact grant any indulgence ; but
offered to state the matter to M. de PEYRONNET,
and to send Sir ROBERT his answer. Sir ROBERT
immediately proceeded to Sir C. STUART, and re-
quested him to ask the French Government the
cause of such an extraordinary measure. He
assured the Ambassador upo❑ his honour, that he
neither had said or done any thing while in
Paris, to warrant what he must call such an
insult."

A private letter from Boulogne-sur-Mer says,
" Mr. BOWRING still continues in close confine-
ment, quite en secret. No person has been ad-
mitted to see him since the first day after his
arrival—not even Mr. HAMILTON, the Vice-
Consul. I have not heard of any thing doing in
Paris in consequence of the letters found with
him."

The SPEAKER has, in Saturday's gazette, given
notice that he will order a warrant for a new
writ for the County of Sligo, in consequence of
the death of the Member, C. O'HARA, Esq., to
be issued in fourteen days after the 18th of Oct,
the date of his notice.