The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-09 00:00:00

[MORNING HERALD.]

The State of Ireland, as in the-two preceding
Sessions, still continues to occupy the attention
of Parliament. It formed a leading topic of the
King's Speech at the opening of the Session, and
the debates in both Houses since have had no
other object. The Marquis of Lansdown's mo-
tion, in the Upper House last night, for the pro-
duction of the Viceroy's dispatches from Ireland;
and of all papers connected with the measure in
contemplation to suppress the Catholic Assembly,
brought on an animated discussion of some
length. Lord Lansdown, in the course of
his speech, dwelt on the . past discordant
history of Ireland. He alluded to those .bar-
barons. periods Of bloody contest between
the inhabitants of the Pale and the native
Irish, when the cries of " Crornaboo•,' and
Butlerabloo," were the war-whoops of
both 'factions. These dissonant cries were then
considered so alarming as to call for the inter-
position of the English Government, who resolv-
ed on suppressing them, but permitted the war cry
of " St. George" to be-raised in their stead. In
the same spirit (the Noble Marquis said) the Ca-
tholic Association was now made the bugbear,
,and its extinction resolved with as little cause.
No information whatever (Lord Lansdown added)
was laid before the House to warrant the
Roceeding.; if any existed, it ought to be
produced, and Parliament should not be called
on to legislate in its absence. Lord Liverpool
resisted the motion, and defended the proposed
measure warmly. It did not originate, the
Minister asserted, without strong cause and the
, fullest information.' The Irish Government
called for the-enactment, and it -received the ap-
probation of the Administration here, from the
absolute necessity which they saw sanctioned it.
Never, Lord Liverpool added, were the inflam-
matory proceedings that agitated Ireland less justi-
fiable than at- present, from the general prosperity
of that country, the tenderness with which it
was treated, arid the equal justice administered to
all classes. Ile looked (the Noble Earl added)
ou that Association, and those who countenanced
its proceedings, as the worst enemies of Ireland.
BY them the entire tranquillity of that country
was delayed—those animosities the Government
wished to set at rest for ever, were kept alive,
and the flow of British capital was excluded from
its shores. Lord Holland spoke w.armly:in sup-
port of the motion. The Minister, he said,

was acting unjustly towards Lord Wellesley.
He drew a picture of the state of Ireland,
not from the Viceroy's dispatches, but from his
own mouth. Though Lord Wellesley called
for restraining enactments to one page of
his communications, conciliation was probably
recommenddil in the next. His dispatches, there-
fore, ought to be produced ; and to withhold
them was not acting fairly by Parliament or the
Country. The motion was ultimately lost, on a
division, by a majority of 22. Had the Catholic
Association not met so frequently, and less vitu-
perative declamation marked its sittings, the Go-
vernment brand of proscription would not proba-
bly have marked it, and its peaceful existence
might have been still prolonged.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
An interesting discussion took place last night
in the House of Lords upon Lord Lansdown's
motion for " Copies of all Correspondence which
may have taken place between his Majesty's Go-
vernment and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
relative to the proceedings of the Catholic Asso-
ciation." The Noble Marquis's speech ‘s ill be read
with considerable interest, and not less interest
will be excited by the reply of Lord Liverpool.
Lord Lansdown objected in forcible terms to the
course adopted by his Majesty's Ministers with
respect to Ireland, as being wholly unprecedent-
ed, inasmuch as it called on Parliament to make
legislative enactments, trenching on the liberty
of the subject, without laying before them any
information on the subject; to obtain that infor-
mation was the object of the present motion.—
Lord Liverpool, on the other hand, contended
that Parliament was already in possession of full
information ; information to be found in the acts
and declarations' of the Catholic Association
itself. The Noble Earl said he was prepared to
state, that if the Noble Lord who brought for-
ward the present motion expected any further
information he must be disappointed, as Go-
-vernment possessed no other information on
the subject than that, which was open to every
individual on both sides of the House. The
present motion was therefore unnecessary. He
also complained of the course adopted by the
Noble- Marquis, in bringing forward the present
motion; while only a few hours would elapse be-
fore a measure on the subject .would be brought
forward by the Secretary for Ireland in another
place. Ile declared that the measure about to
be brought forward was a measure strongly re-
commended by the Irish Government and
adopted and approved by. the English. One ar-
gument of the Noble Earl had considerable
weight in it ; he contended that it was impos-
sible such an Association as the Catholic Asso-
ciation could exist in any country without ex-
citing great irritation and feeling in the different
parties ; ,and he put it to their Lordships to say
whether, if the Catholic Association was suf-
fered to exist, the Governmint could, with any
shew of justice, interpose and put down any
other association. The debate was confined to
Lords Lansdown, Holland, Grosvenor, and Caer-
' narvon, who opposed it, and on a division the
motion was negatived by 42 to 20. Mr. Spring
Rice gave notice of a similar motion in the House
of Commons for to-night. As it is NV edn est] ay,
however, the Chances are against making a House;
debate on this evening would interfere with the ar-
rangements of Ministers in other places. Mr.
Serjeant affslow. brought forward his annual
motion for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the
Usury-Laws.—'l'he'kearned Serjeant was more
successful than on his former lttempts ; he ob-
tained leave, and the Bill was brought in, read a
first and ordered to be read a second time on
Monday next when no dotibtit will be strongly
opposed.

[N Ew rimEs.l
Dr. Lushington's motion for -a copy of the
committal of William Quigley and others to the,
Gaol of Londonderry in. the month of November
last, was last night debated at some length.—
The Learned Doctor, as was admitted by Sir
George Hill,.spoke with proper delicacy of the
.committing Magistrates ;• but stil-Fas- his, motion,
from its 'very nature, seemed to imply a reproach
on them, it becarnk necessary to place their con-
duct in its proper light, which the Hon. Baronet
did by a simple statement of facts. The Ma-
gistrates, it appeared, had no discretion in this
commitment. Quigley and his associates were
brought before them, in pursuance of an Irish
Statute; which enacts, that persons present at ille-
gal marriages shall be. compelled to give evi-
dence, or on. refusal shall be committed to'
prison.; and as the individualS summoned at
this. instance did refuse, they were commit-
ted of course. It is a totally different question
how far the law imposing penalties on such
marriages is or is not just and politic ; but it
will be remembered that our own Statutes have
at different tithes imposed very heavy penalties
On Clergymen of the Established Church for ce-
lebrating, and on Lay persons of the same
Churches for contracting irregular marriages.—
We wish all questions of this kind to be candidly
and coolly discussed, apart from all prejudice,
political or religious. The interference of the
Catholic Association in questions of this kind is
principally censurable, because it tends to pro-
mote both faction and religious prejudice.

. The Lord Chancellor has had occasion, both
in his-legislative and judicial character, to throw
out some intimations of his opinion on Joint
Stock Companies, an opinion to which the Public
Will of course look with very great interest. So
far as we can collect it from the different Re-
ports, Parliamentary and Forensic, it appears
to us to have been much misapprehended, and.
that misapprehension enhanced the very evils
against which his Lordship carefully sought to
guard. The panic which took place a few days
back among the Shareholders was founded Upon
a vague. apprehension that the Lord Chpncel-
lor meant to bring in an Act operating gene-
rally against a 11 • the recently established Com-
panies ; whereas probably most of those Com-
panies 'may have useful ends in
view ; and we
may be well assured that it is neither his Lord-
ship's wish nor intention to throw any obstacle in
the way of the developement of national industry
arid enterprise.—The celeh:ated Act of George

I. was directed against such projects as were
themselves public grievances ; but the heavy
penalties which it imposed were of a nature
to defeat the object of the law ; and it
consequently fell into disuse. It is presumable
that Companies directed to useful public pur-
poses will readily obtain the sanction of a Royal
Charter or an Act of Parliament ; but those which
do not require the powers deriveable from such
sources must take care not to act as if they possess-
ed such powers. The Lord Chancellor appears to
have laid it down in the case of Eyre v. Everett
that where Companies could only be legally
formed by Charters or Acts of Parliament, till
they were so formed they could not sell shares
for profit. Where a body not incorporated acts
as a Corporate Body, the Courts of Law cannot
consider the Acts as valid.—(lbid.)

FOR THE SUN.

A CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC

Mi. EDITOR--CAYENNE PEPPER (which is the
pods of the capsicum reduced to a coarse powder)
in this kingdom was formerly only k-nown to bo-
tanists and gentlemen of the medical profession,-
but of late years it has been much used' for
nary purposes, and is one of the principal ingre-
dients in many of our best made dishes., There
are many varieties of capsicurn: Whin ripe,—
some are o a yellow colour, some orange, scarlet,
deep red, and some are of a brownish green ; all
of them possess nearly the same aromatic pungent
acrimonious taste, varying a little in• degree ,and
flavour. The brownish green, with short pods, is
considered as the strongest. Men are of different
opinions respecting their salubrity as food',;. to
me it is clear that the robust and healthy do not
require such stimulants—the- plainer their food,
the more salutary its effects. LUXury• has. so
altered the constitutions of the inhabitants of this
island, that there are very few above the lower or-
ders who can be considered as strong and healthy ;
I therefore the majority do not relish plain:food,but
actually require some stimulant with it, whether it
be black pepper, Cayenne, or strong liquids, the
effect is nearly the same. Cayenne is grateful to.
the taste : if pure, and used in moderate quantities,
I think it may be considered as wholesome to many
constitutions, and to all such as from habit•or
other causes require stimulants to excite a flow
of saliva and gastric juice for digesting- their
food. If impure, it must be injurious to all,
agreeably to its state of impurity. What-we get,j
is chiefly brought from the West Indies, and I.
believe it is sent home in pods, and prepared tif..H
terwards in England. I have not seen,'or been,
able to procure any from druggists that is not
coloured with the red oxide of .lead (red lead)
which mnst render it very --unwholesorne.The
-
deleterious effects of lead on the Initriail_Stomach
are too well known for me to make any comments_
on. It may be thought that the quatitily used
is too small to do any .serious injury ;T but 'it
should be taken into consideration, -that7-sortie
people are in the habit of usitv, cayeilfe 4aily ;
and although the quantity of lead In _each day's
consumption is a mere trifle, if long continued
will it not injure the constitution ?'. Itis my
opinion that more injury is done to mankind by
the long continuance of taking injurious things,
which have no immediate visible ill effect,
,than
by the most baneful poisons ; one• acts insi-
diously, the other is soon detected. 'The red
cayenne, by exposure to air, or from long keep-
ing loses its colour and pungency, which I sup-
pose is their reason for using the oxide of lead to
give it a fresh appearance. If it is necessary to
heighten the colour to make it saleable, I would
recommend their using safflower (cartham.us) in-
stead of lead, or some other innocent colouring
matter ; and all who purchase cayenne pepper,
to have it warranted free from lead or any
mixious. matter. Nearly the same observations
apply to pickles coloured green with copper
or verdigrise. Although its injurious effects
are we'll known, I am certain it is frequently
used by servants and others without the know.'
ledge of the consumers; and a penny,, piece is
often put into the pot to preserve greens from
losing their colour. If it is not the duty of t1:1
College. of Physicians to examine druggists'
shops and oil shops (as they do apothecaries) to
see that they do not mix deleterious ingredients
with articles intended for medicine or food ; I
consider it. as 'their duty individually,. and of
every medical man who is acquainted with any
deceptions practised to the injury of their fellow-
creatures, to inform the public of it. I' am an
old medical practitioner, and I am not much sur-
priSed to see new names used for many disorders
without any apparent good reason. There is a
fashion in writing as well as in dressing, and chic-
tors wishing to be in it seldom ever now, write a
book without using many new cramp terms, which
they copy from the French, ,or produce from
their own fertile imaginations. A. Learned Lec-
turer lately observed to his pupils " that Cullen's
Nosology answered good purposes." Although
I can thus account for the variety of new terms
introduced, I cannot so readily account for the
new disorders that have lately sprung up since I
was a young man ; one of which is denominated
Tic Douloureux. Is it not probable that they
arise from the change constitutions have under-
gone from the rapid
not idadvancementtheabove-mentioned
moefdisisipatio
dis-
order
and
moreluxury
?lik or,ely to be brought on by the quan-
tity of snuff now almost universally taken by
young and old ? The component parts of which
is only known to the manufacturers who make it
for profit, consequently, their principal object is
to please. Whether it does good or harm to the
consumer is with them of a secondary considera-
tion. I have been credibly informed, that it
hsea
;nsdtmo,
arnyaasenioal
injuringt
sr,tito must
togetherh
v
with the great degree of excitement produced on
the glands of the nose, affect the communicating
nerves so as to bring on the Tic Douloureux ?
also, lead in Cayenne pepper, or other such de.
thehPat ae
iyytoicurzltgffeacitidimmisidwdbliec
de-
structive articles may sometimes he the cause of
wit
haagreed,nobwutsofzimnmerolyn
was. chiefly coolined to the old and, infirm. I
cannot help .thinking that this is often the. case,,

and that the affections of the spine, now so preva-
lent with young females, owes its origin to the pre-.
sent tender manner in which they are brought up,
excited by debilitating indulgences. Many have
written on this subject, and very good advice has
been given to parents, guardians, and young peo-
ple, without producing much good effect. It seems
with the later to be their maxim " that it is bet-
ter not to exist, or live in constant pain and
sery, than not be in the fashion," they act in di-
rect contradiction to the dictates of their feelings
and common sense, for why ? because it is the
fashion. In the middle of the day they are warmly
clad, i❑ the evening go almost naked. The effect
of dressing in this manner, with sudden transi-
tions from heated rooms to a cold atmosphere, on
constitutions already predisposed to disease
(often when they ought not to visit at all) natu-
rally bring on obstructions, congestions, &c.
ending in consumption, dorsal debility, palsy, or
some other violent disorder. It is to be hoped
that conductors of families-and of fashions will
bear this in mind, and regulate them agreeablY
to the changes of this climate—to modesty—good
sense, strength of their constitutions and natural
feelings.' Some young people can bear dissipa'
tion and sudden transition with impunity, which
would be death to others. They may practice it
too often—at all events it is setting a bad es'
ample to others who are not so strong as them-
selves. That the lovely fair of this Island may
conduct themselves so as to retain the admiration
they have gained from all the world, and enjoY
better health, is the wish of the writer of this.
PIIILAN'THROPUS•

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Feb. 8.

Foreign Office, Feb. 8.

The King has been pleased to appoint his Grace the Doke
of Northumberland, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the
Gaiter, to be his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary to the King of France, on the occasion of
Most Christian Majesty's Coronation.

The King has also been pleased to appoint the Right 110:
nourable Frederick Lamb to be his Majesty's Envoy Extra
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of 'his C3'
tholic Majesty.

Crown-Office, Feb. 8.
MEMBER returned to serve in the present PARLIAVENT•
Borough of Cambridge..:—The Right Hon. James Gisharo:
commonly called the hi arquis of Graham, in the room of Chas
Cheere, Esq. deceased.

- BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED:,,
J. F. Bennallack, Truro, Cornwall, scrivener, from Feb.
to April 2, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners, London.
BANKRUPTS.
S. P. Eady, Dean-street, Soho-square, demo', td -soften
Feb. 12, 19, and March 22, at eleven, at the. COurt.of Com-
missioners, Attorney, Mr. Sherrill', Salisbury-street, Stiand•
W. B. Williams, Upper Brook-street, Grosvenorsquare•
tailor, Feb. 19, at twelve, 26, at one, and March 22,:
the Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr.:Dignariai Ne
man-street, Oxford-street, London.
J. Wood, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury,, •tti.
Feb. 13, 22 -and'March 22, ht ten; at the Conn cirCOll,lnl"
sioners:, A'tlornies; Messrs. Ilamilton and Ullitlioin'ef: T 3.
stock-row, Covent-garden.
•W. Savage, Fetter-lane, victualler, Feb. 12; 19, and- Marc!'
22, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. 0 AttOrnio'
Messrs: Freeman and Deathcote, Coletnim-street.

DIVIDENDS.
March 2; W. -Coupland and W; Bolton, Liverpool,
chants-111arch 2; J. Fielding, Al ottratn-in-Congdeneale, ensi
shire, corn-dealer—March 8, C. S. Dudley, Gracechurc'h-street;
merchant-31arch 1, R. Saunders, Birmingham, edge-t°.°,e.
maker—March 3, M. Thorpe, Worksop, Nottinghamshi';
maltster—Feb. 15, C. Tattler, Horton-Kirby, Kent, farrner,
March 1, R. Watson, Regent's Canal, City-road, coal-rr.er,
chant-:-March 5, G. Moore, jun., Lower-road, Deptford, tllll
ber-merchant—March 5, J. Pigram, Maidstone, grocer—Mare
5, T. Whiting, Oxford, mercer—March 5, C. Brown, Don;t:
ship-owner-31arch 5, H. Gaiiing, Lower Thames-stre:p
wine-merchant--11Iarch 5, F. Holmes, Vere-street, Oxf°'t,
street, merchant—Feb. 15, C. C. Becher, Lothbury, merchan
CERTIFICATES. 111Allcu I.
J. Metcalfe, Thirsk, Yorkshire linen-draper—T. Smith ara
J. Yates, Heaton-Norris, Lancashire, brass and iron-founder`
.3,
—.I. Welch, Prince's-street, Lambeth, japanner—T. N°'*rif,
Bartholomew-close, coach-master—U. Thompson, Luke-str.eed,
Paul-street, near Finsbury-square, brewer—J. Garton, I;11/
stop-upon,H lighterman.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Harrold and W. Gee, Olney, Buckinghamshire , miller-•. 4
R. Bain and J. Shortridge, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. boot lite'r,
shoe-makers.—E. Leigh and T. Harcourt, Kiddermins
builders.—S. Tipper and A. A. Fry, Tudor-street, wholelo,
stationers.—J. and J. Phillipson, Croydon, corn-dealers. 0,
h. 5105
Austen and W. H. Davis, 1 ork-street, Covent-garden
F. and C. Cook, Luton,'edfordshire, woolstaplers.—j• Nil tit,
and T. Clurkson, Hull, insurance-brokers.—P. & R. serjes';:,
Callington, Cornwall, surgeons. -C. Palmer and J. En°col•
Bow, wheelwrights.—T. Stratum &J. Wells, Fore-street;' °i
:len.-drapers—T: & E. Griffin, Wolverhampton, rope-makers
D. Gen/die and G. Weir, Glasgow-31. C. and T. Jaclr'-
a
as
and R. Shaw, King's.4ynn, Norfolk, merchants; so far
regards 31.!C. Jackson—l. Ilassall &T. Stiff, Bristol, suir:et,
manufacturers—J. Griffith and J. Wikey, Catherine-51/igl'
Strand, artists' colourmen—J. Wilcke and T. Earwaker,
Holborn—R. H. Somerville and A. Cotter, Liverpool, 11°'o•
—G. and W. Kendall, Basinghall-street, Blackwell-hall.,
i
tors—J. Ramsden, J. Rushworth, and W. Haigh, Padlien
Vorkshire,-stone-masons—J. and J. Fuller, and J. Fleti,e 01,
Radcliffe-bridge, Lancashire, grocers-P. Smith and Sc. n
stable,
Liverpool, timber-merchants-_J. Jarvis and J. Ferraby-
Bedfordshire, straw-hat-manufacturers.

At a Court held at the Trinity house, tea
Monday last, Capt. John Woolmore was unanimously elec .41
Deputy Master of that Corporation, in the room of Capt. Jo'
Cotton, deceased.

Mr. Mum:Ey will resume his Lectures on Art,
•tronotny at the English Opera House during the ensuing I-fele ,
Mr. MATHEWS will commence a new Entertainment at
same Theatre the latter end of this month or the beginntilo,
March. Mr.. MATaEws is now studying the entertaillo

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