The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-02 00:00:00

tism under which they have so long groaned ?"
What would they then ?" A counnon, but a
very foolish answer," say they, " to the com-
plaint of extraordinary barbarity is, that it is the
result of bad government. If we say the mas-
sacre of Tripolizza is horrible, or the burning
of the Sheas alive in Ireland, or the break-
ing open a prison in Spain to murder a Priest,
or the parallels to all these, and a thousand
other atrocities in the course of the French
Revolution, we are told, with a triumphant air,
that the Governments of all these countries were
bad, and that those bad Governments were the
sole and necessary cause of the vices of their
subjects. The fact is not so, strictly speaking, in
any one case ; but if it were, it would lead to a
very opposite result in practice from that which
it is meant to recommend. The Greeks were a
very corrupt and degenerate race long before the
Turks ever came into Europe. They have cer-
tainly not been improved by their fierce and fa-
natical conquerors ; but if they owed all their
present vices to the Turks, that circumstance
would not render them in the least degree more
capable of rational liberty. It matters little who
made them deceitful, vindictive, fanatical or
ignorant ; if they really are so, they are but ill
fitted to establish for themselves an enlightened
Constitution. Under the auspices of greater and
wiser Powers their condition may, and we trust
will, be greatly meliorated but absolute inde-
pendence, we fear, iu their present state of bar-
barism, they can neither establish nor maintain."

[NEW TIMES.
The Marquis Wellesley has been received as
Lord Lieutenant in Ireland with all that enthu-
siasm which his appointment was so well calcu-
lated to call forth. On his great talents much
reliance is naturally placed, for the adoption of a
policy calculated to tranquillise' and secure that
important country. The Protestants and Ca-
tholics of Dublin rivalled each other in their
testimonies of esteem for the Noble Marquis, and
each seemed to regard the nomination of an Irish-
man to this high office as an augury of most fa-
vourable import to the real good of the country.—
War it appears has been formally declared by
Turkey and Persia, and the fanaticism of the Ja-
nissaries has been shewn in repeated massacres of
unoffending Christians. Even the residence of
the English Ambassador has not been held sacred
by this ungovernable rabble. Every new piece
of intelligence from this quarter seems to prove
but the more distinctly the necessity of a joint
interposition by all the great Powers of Europe,
to compel that obedience to the laws of nature
and nations, which otherwise, we fear, is not to
be expected from the spontaneous inclinations of
the Porte.

[THE TIMES.]
If the Special Commission at Limerick had
done no more than suspend, though but for a
short interval, the course of violence and insub-
ordination, it would still, by that suspension, have
effected a considerable good. There might be
thus afforded room for the public Authorities to
look round them, and a breathing time for the
resident Gentlemen in the southern counties, dur-
ing which they could hardly fail to occupy them-
selves with a consideration of such means of pre-
venting a recurrence of the state of anarchy, or
of providing some alleviation of it, should it un-
fortunately return, as were attainable by a judi-
cious policy on the one hand, and by personal in-
fluence over the wretched country-people on the
other. That such a check has been administered
to the perpetration of crime, seems to be the
opinion of persons in the neighbourhood of Lime-
rick ; but, unhappily, this salutary consequence
is of very confined operation. It extends no
farther than to the west of that county, where
no outrage, they say, has been committed since
the Court began to sit. In other quarters, the at-
tacks upon life and property are neither mitigated in
character, nor diminished in number. At 4 o'clock
on Christmas-day—that day on which the hearts
of men in these Christian countries are wont to
be most powerfully actuated by the combined
impulses of religious and of social sensibility—a
deliberate and malignant murder was perpetrated
on a poor creature of the name of Stock. Two
ruffians dragged him out of his hut, and shot him
through the heart at the entrance of it. The cir-
cumstances in which the unhappy man was placed
were such as to connect this assassination with the
general system of obstructing the course of justice,
which has caused the death of so many other vic-
tims. Stock had himself been implicated in the
confederacy, and was watched by the police, the
object of whose visits was mistaken by the mur-
derers, who suspected him of giving information,
and thus silenced him for ever.—Another mur-
der of a most atrocious kind is related by the
Dublin Evening Post, on the authority of a Cork
Paper, from which the account is taken. A
whole family, of the name of VI. hitestone, five in
number, were burnt alive at Charleville on the
23d ult. (Sunday week). An inquest was about
to be held, and one individual v. a. in cubtudy ;
but no facts, throwing light upon the motives or
agents of this horrible barbarity--equal in nature,
though not in extent of mischief, to the destruc-
tion of the Shea family—have yet transpired.—
Nor is the catalogue of lesser crimes—bad
enough, but trivial in comparison with the above
enormities—exhausted. On the same day, the
c23d ult., the house of a Mr. Wrixon, at Ehnvale
(near Charleville, we believe), was attacked by
an armed banditti. The ruffians, owing to a
fall of rain---unfavourable, no doubt, to the
use of their fire-arms— were compelled to
retire to some distance, while the family re-
mained all night at their post. The details, as
those also of some further acts of violence, are
given in another column. I t will be seen that
the counties both of Cork and Kerry are afflicted
by these visitations. Some idea was entertained
that the men already under sentence, would, in
the hope of mercy being extended to them, make
such appeals to their criminal associates as might
lead to a large surrender of arms; or if this ap-
plication should fail, would inform against num-
I bers not yet within the toils of justice.

Lail, night, owing to indisposition, Miss STE
PIIENS was not able to perform at Covent-G ardei
Theatre, as had been announced.