The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-04 00:00:00

country. How often have the Trish been reproached
by our best writers for their want of union and want
of spirit, in the case of such glaring abuses as the
sa l ling them with a sinecure Church ! Yet now
when they are united, and in a fair way to get rid
of this abuse, they are as far as ever from obtaining
approbation. In the Edinburgh Review for Novem-
ber, 1820, there is an article on Ireland by one of
our most distinguished writers, in which the Irish
are
did. " The Irish character," says the re-
awing
viewer, " contrilm•es something to retard the ly upbraidedssvords
against with
the o
parsons,
arpso pluck- , notll.the
theirpositively
im-
provements of that country. The Irishman has many
gOO
sop(
tqatbi aleli: i:nns
ai
he is lr avewitty, generous, eloquent,
open-hearted; but he is vain, ostenta-
• iotis,ex • ravaoan t, and fond of display—light in counsel
—deficient in perseverance—without skill in private or
public economy—an enjoyer, not an acquirer—one
who despises the slow anti patient virtues—who
o ants the superstructure without the foundation—
the result without the previous operation—the eaic
without the acorn, and the three hundred years of.
expectation. The Irish are irascible—prone to
debt, and to fight, and very impatient of the restraints
of rr
upon thepeople aarien not
oha likely to keep thei •
period to compel the Scotch to pay a double church,
but Sawney took his pen arid ink, and finding what
a sum it amounted to, became furious, and drew his
sword. God forbid the Irishman should do the
em
same! the remedy now would be worse than the
o the Dutch. England strove very hard at one
disease. But if the oppreasions of England bad
been more steadily resisted a 'century ago, Ireland
would not have been the scene of poverty, misery,.
' end distress which it now is." :since 1820 the-
Irish have proved themselves less " light in court-•
sel," less " deficient in perseverance," than may
' perhaps be agreeable to some of her old lecturer--.
There are men among them possessed ortessist• heads
I and stout hearts, and whom- we believe no price
could detach from the cause of their nation. What':
equivalent, for instance, could be given to Di:.
Doyle for the consideration he enjoys? He wiltt
devote his great talents to the liberation of his:
people from the burden of a sinecure church. He
will never rest till the demoralising and unchristian
exhibition is withdrawn, of a church, without a
' flock, which possesses two-elevenths of the land of
Ireland, and one-tenth of the gross produce of the
' remainder. Tome are men in Ireland who have
intr! some of the London
discernment to know when to act and when to re-
ied
' main passive.—/Iforning Chronicle.
d
it the dotfh6otifi August had
at
Tepaay!pd,tievbriirtsiai:srnitb:hetatea:in.
respite
ateictisoieldv)dietrei ntsl
n,n Welch Paper.
the
h, and
been received for Lewis Lewis, one of the Merthyr
positive directions had been given by Mr. Justice
Bosanquet, by whom the prisoners had been tried,
insa,llh7i sapfepl looi ‘nvt-;donfovii.citi,4eo
execution
€Seauttiliorldiaoyflabsatt,
ht.h e
Ourtiay
that the law should take its course on Richard
rLocraeigdwitv willreeollept that last week we endeavoured
to call the particular attention of the Executive de-
partment of the State, in whose hands, after the sen-
tence of the law has been pronounced, are `.the
issues of Ide and deeth" to the oases of those two
unfortenete men, ft is satisfactory to us now to be
enabled to announce that, although so late as Friday
last, no hope appeared for Richard Lewis, and pre-
parations were made for his execution on the next
day, yet in the course of the evening of Friday a
respite was received staying execution for fourteen
days, to give time to inquire more particularly
into the circumstances of his ca.o, there being
strong grounds to suspect that the witnesses who
deposed to his identity have been, as we suggested,
mistaken; and that when the slab was given for
which he was doomed to suffer, he was in a place
which precluded the possibility of his being the
guilty party. Depositions to this effect have, we
understand, been laid before Lord Melbourne, by a
gentleman of great respectability, who was, we
believe, the beater of the petition for mercy for the
two culprits, signed by eleven thousand persons of
Merthyr Tydvil and its neighbourhood. His Lord-
ship felt it his duty, under the circumstances, to
'grant the time requisite to investigate the accuracy
of the statements laid before him, and which, if cor-
rect, make out a complete case of innocence for the
prisoner, As to the other convict Lewis Lewis, it
is true that the Judge did forward a respite for him
to the 6th day of August ; but since that Lord MO-
bourne has granted a respite generally, which usu-
ally precedes the extension at the mercy of the
Crown. This was the wean who saved the life of a
constable ae wo stated last week, by exposing himself
to the Wows aimed at him, by which he received
several bruises. The csatistuble, we are informed,
has since come forward to depose to this fact—and
no doubt is now entertained that his respite will be
followed by a reprieve, if it have not taken place
already. the petitions, so numerously signed, from
Merthyr Tydvil and Cardiff, evince the deep inte-
rest which is taken in the fate o I both those men ;
and every account which we receive from that part
of the country confirms tire opinion which we be-
fore expressed, that the extension of mercy to both
the convicts would go farther towards the effectual
restoration of tranquillity than a hundred executions
—.whereas the taking of more lives, by the extreme
rigour of the law, after so much bloodshed as has al-
ready taken place, might give the angry feel-
ings, which have partially • subsided, a dangerous.
revival. While upon a subject connected with
the exercise of that prerogative of the Crown
which is designed to temper the harshnesse'and
correct the errors of the stern law, we, will
take the opportunity of briefly alluding to the
case of William Jennings, convicted at Chelms-
ford of arson, in having set fire to a barn containing
grain, and who is ordered for execution on Friday.
,
In tins case we merely wish to call the attention of
the Secretary of the Home Department to the evi-
dence on which the verdict of geitty was returned,
end which seems altogether too slight and vague to
warrant such a coeclusion. We entreat only that
execution shouici be agnyed for such a length of times
as is necessary to investigate a case upon which con.
siderate persons who have paid some attention tee
;ha facts have great doubts, There is great reasois
to believe that the servant-girl, who swore to hav-
ing seen hits coming from the direction of the 'nun
on the evening of the tire, has been mistaken. The
case of Twins, who suffered for arson last winter at
Chelmsford, and whose innocence was afterwards
generslly adinittA, is fresh in the recollection of our-
readers. Let not another irreparable error of the
Sort be committed.. If the law is to be acted upon
which says the guilty shall die, let us at least be
convinced that those who die are guilty.—Morning,
"ter act

An Evening Paper, which is understood to be in
the confidence of the Government, undertakes to
lecture Lord Milton for,,his want of ready compliance,
with the mandatory suggestions of Lord Althorp at
the " gathering" of Reformers on Tuesday, Ae_
corditi to the political dictionary of this print,
dete-rtntnation not to flinch front an avowed purpose
is a want of caution, and while it accords to Lord
Milton the merit of being honest and sincere, it
tells him, with a peculiar elegance of phrase, that
this •44,,:/ riot do without More caution than he evinced
.4.4 t the meeting on Tuesday. " The excuse," says
this print (excuse 1), "offered by Lord Milton for
persisting in the course which lie has adopted in
that he desires to have the Reform Bill considered
as anal, and therefore to have it made perfect."--
What a monstrous desire! The Government print is
" really astonished" that a nobleman of acuteness and
strength of mind should make such an observation.
Now Without being at all disposed to become
the general eulogist of Lord Milton, we must say
that so far from seeing anything to astonish us in his.
determination, We think that he has done no mote.
than what was slue to hiasseli as an independent,
Member of Parliament' awl bad he done otherwise-
he won 4 have shewn himself no better than the,.
common herd of hypocrites, who fawned upon. the.
mob for their seats in Parliament, and fawn upon the in the hope of thereby retaining them.