The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-31 00:00:00

IRELAND.

(From the Linierick Journal.) • '
With concern we have to proclaim the awfur;apd.
astounding fact, that, in the county of Clare, hei-044*
one of the most tranquil and well-affected in Ireland,.ttee&
exists at present neither security for human life nor ,
tection for private property, at any hour either of the day:
or night ! It,is no lees notorious than true, that a brolly,
and deep laid conspiracy has been formed against the prim.
cipal gentry and landholders of that county, who, from
fiar of the assassin, are afraid to walk their d 'smesnew by
day, and whose houses towards evening assume the ap,,
pearance of fortresses in a state of siege. Ttavelling the
high road is equally unsafe, and Many of the country
families have deserted their mansions, and are now come
into town for that refuge and protection which their
native domiciles are unable to afford them. Incendiary
notices have been served upon the proprietors of ground,
to let out and dispose of only at certain prices which the-
secret dictator fixes, under penalty of death for disobe-
dience. This mysterious personage, with the terrific Big_
nature of Terry Alts, issues his mandate, and woe to the.
caitiff who presumes to neglect it. The veriest eastern
tyrant never exercised over his obsequious minions a more
grinding and formidable despotism, than the fe idol, name
of Terry Alts contrives to uphold in the county Clare.
No peasant will dare at his peril to work for the landlo:d
who is denounced by this ruffian legislator, whose vulgar,
bloJdy, and ill-spelt scroll, has more actual sway in the
county than a volume of his Majesty's statutes. But
what is the result of this strange and unnatural state of
society ? Why, intimidation, not general, but universal,
and of a character the moat terrific and appalling ! Befoi e
the noon-day son vast tracts of land are maliciously turned
up with the spade, and thus an irreparable mischief is
done to the property of those who are obnoxious to the
Rockites; walls and gates are levelled to the ground, and
cattle hunted to death at night over hedges, briars, and
fastnesses; the usual boundaries and landmarks are de-
stroyed ; houses attacked, burglaries committed, and a
most extensive seizure of fire-arms effected ! Tnese, how;
ever, are minor offences compared with the murders and
assassinations of the lust six months, for which not one of
the sanguinary authors has been to this day brought to the
bar of justice. The lives of the high in station have been
plotted with as little concern as the animal of the field is
consigned to the knife. But the mysterious influence
which prompts to those atrocities is all powerful just now,
and must it not be crushed with decision and vigour ?
Half measures, it is manifest, will never destroy the mon-
ster.. Every hour the danger is more imminent, the
alarm increases, and the illegal confederacy against life and
property acquires a new and ten-fold strength. The com-
bination is inoculated too with the grand features of the
Whiteboy system, while union is upheld by the abominable
administration of secret oaths on the most extensive scale.
What remedy, then, in this frightful state of disorganita
tion, does the county call for ?—or what restorative have
the gentry, magistrates, and grand jury earnestly de-
manded of Government? It is the wise and salutary
application of a most useful and expedient statute, the In-
surrection Act, which has worked well in other district,
not even so disturbed as Clare is now, and whose ope-
rations arc known to have been attended with the best
success. There may from some interested quarter an ob-
stacle start to the revival of this Act, but no valid plea
can be assigned for witholding its provisions from (Aare at
the present moment.

When his present MAJESTY, as Duke of
CLARENCE, commanded a volunteer corps,
at Bushey, he
addressed to them this truly Spartan speech :—" I will go
with you, and fight with you, wherever our duty calls us,
and will never return without yeu." We doubt not that
the same firmness which distinguished the Duke of CLA-
REpcE, will be- displayed by WILLIAM the FOURTH.•-•••
Briphton Gazette;