The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-16 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENT.

[FROH THE IRISH PAPERS.]
At ten o'clock on the night of Friday, the sth
instant, W. Nam, Esq. Chief Officer of the Police, stationed
at Roscrea, having heard some shots near that town, proceeded
immediately with a party to the quarter whence they were fired.
At the distance of about a mile from Roscrea, he met two men
on one horse ; he challenged, arrested, and searched them. In
the breeches pocket of one, the son of a very reputable man,
was found a manuscript book, written with great cleverness,
emblazoned with various devices, and containing the oath,

pass-word, and a complete system of insurrectionary organi-
zation, the object of which is truly diabolical. It would ap-
pear from this document that a general union and consolidation
of the several systems which have for years back distracted
various parts of Ireland, have been effected. The Prisoner
was forwarded on Saturday to Capt: WILSON, the Magistrate
at Thurles, who awaits the directions of Government relative
to him. For this discovery the public are indebted to the
prompt exertions of Mr. NASH, whose ability and activity
have been conspicuous since his appointment. About a week
before the above occurrence, he succeeded by a well-laid plan,
in apprehending Henry Martin a principal in the cruel murder
of Joseph Hoey, a meritorious constable of Shinrone, in the
King's County, about a year ago, ever since which Martin had
eluded every attempt to arrest him.
The following is a co7)y of this extraordinary document
which is signed by the delegate to Captain Rock:-
1. I do voluntarily swear to keep secret the test of my oath,
which I made before my Committee.*
2. Never to come as evidence against my Committee, or the
man who brought me in, or any of my brother Unitedmen, oft
any account whatever, through spite or malice, or at the per-
suasion of any persons.*
3. Any man who turns out contrary to his oath to be brought
to trial, and, if found guilty, to be either hanged, drowned, or
burned, dead or alive.*
4th. Not to stand by and see my brother Unitedmen struck
or ill used, without assisting him in some manner ; and not to
hear him ridiculed or run upon without letting him know ;
and not to hear any thing concerning United business, or our
brotherly combination, without reporting to your Committee.
sth. To contribute to the support of my brother Unitedmen
when in prison or sickness ; in that case not to have one shil-
ling without dividing it with him, if he wants it, and to know
him to be in the United bonds; and to lodge the money in the
hands of the Treasurer or Committee.*
6th. Not to have carnal knowledge of my brother United-
man's wife, sister, or mother, without lawful permission.*
7th. Not to rob, ,or steal, or keep company with a robber,
and know him to be -one, without liberty of your Committee.*
Bth. To rise out upon all lawful occasions, when called upon,
by getting proper notice, as by letter, or word of mouth, from
the Committee ; and, also, not to commit any act concerning
United business, without liberty ; and, also, to be upright to
all regulations issued out by your Committee.***
9th. To fight knee-deep in Orange blood—the crying of
children, the mourning of women, or the groaning of men, not
to daunt me, for the restoration and continuation of the long
promised liberty to the Catholic Church.
Signed by the Delegate,
Of THE PASS WORDS.

XIN.

The first or general pass word is A.P:M., which signifies
Almighty Powerful Maker, who was the first, and will be the
last: THE GENERAL UNITED TOAST.
May we, poor Erin's far degraded race,
Rise and live to see a peace,
And all our bondage o'er !
May the prevailing• Church of heresy,
Like a lucid star from the firmament,
Fall to rise no more !
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But we, tiVelllllislan.s.--thitill, and wandered o'er and o'er,
Like the radiant Aries in the East, rise to fall no more !
THE FOLLOWING ARE CORRECT EXTRACTS FROM THE

CATECHISM ACCOMPANYING THE OATH.

Q. What are you ? A Christian.—Q. Who made you a
Christian ? St. Peter, the Rock.—Q. How do you prove your-
self a Christian ? By being baptized, and openly professing and
.adhering to the Catholic Church and the sign of the Cross until
death.—Q. What school were you brought up in ? In the school
of St. Patrick.—Q. How are you known to be a Christian ? By
my charity and good works, and love to Gov and my brother.—
Q. What is your Brother All good fellows of the name of
I. A. B.—Q. What is your name ?
My name is told in letters three,
W well I will make known to thee,
And is—l. A. B.

Q. What signifies I. A. B? I and my brother.—Q. Are you
up Yes.—Q. What are you up to ? The Union.—Q. Where
did this united business come from ? This glorious scene came
from France, to enlighten Christian nations.—Q. Were you up
early ? I was.—Q. What did you first see ? Clear air and a
bright star.—Q. Did you meet any one ? I did ; a carman from
the North.—Q. What kind of loading had he ? A load of par-
cels and small primers.—Q. Did he give you one ? He did.—
Q. What to do with ? To teach the alphabet to my younger
brother.—Q. What is the alphabet ? L. E. F. M.—Q. What
is L. E. F. M ? Lord Edward Fitzgerald's memory.—Q. Who
comes there ? A friend.—Q. What friend ? A friend to the
Knight.—Q. What Knight ? The Knight of St. Patrick.—Q.
What do you think of the sun ? I think it will shine as bright
in the year 1823 as it did in the years 1316 and 17, when it shone
without interruption, and before llenry.—Q. What signifies the
three L's ? Love, loyalty, and liberty.---Q. When will the three
L's shine? The three L's will shine
When heresy will decline ;
And Henry's usurping train
Will weep and bewail
That Luther ever began the Reformation ;
But I, A. B. will join,
And in union will combine,
To vanish the heretical legion ;
And A. P.M. well knows
They are the Church's foes,
And will be awaked in the pit Of desolation !

How far do you travel ? As far as the sea. Boast.—What to
do ? To aid the boys from Orleans—to clic down heresy from
shore to shore.—Where is the hardest ground you ever stood
upon ? -Upon the firm rock where I was tested.—When will
we have full moon ? When ,the two ends meet.
for Liberty or Death.
(Here a figure of a pike in the original.)
What is that in your hand ? The rod of correction.—Where
did it grow ? In the wood of Orleans, in France—What do
you call it ? Rue—What does it shew ? Terror and destruc-
tion.—How does it show it ? With fire in one end, and steel in
the other.—How long is it ? Three feet two inches, or the
length of St. Patrick's cross.
(Here a figure of a musket in the original.)
THE CARAVAT TEST.
By AX no. •
Ist. This oath being voluntary, I do swear to be true to my
Captain Caravat.
2d. Not to come as evidence against my Captain, or Caravat,
until death.
3d. To rise out, on all lawful occasions, when called on by
my Captain, or Caravat ; 'and to assist all Caravata ; to cut and
slaughter, or hang and burn, any Caravat who turns out con-
, trary to the Caravat Oath or Constitution.

provide a fund for incipient state disbursiawrtts-ra loan of two
millions sterling has just been contracted for the service of the
Republic, by Mr. Zea (late Vice-President), and now Minister
Plenipotentiary, at Paris. Though the loan has been nego-,
ciated at Paris, it is understood that the greater part of it has
been taken by English Merchants and Bankers. It bears an
interest of 6 per cent. per annum, which will be payable an-
nually on the Ist May, and the Ist November, at the Bank-
ing-house of Messrs. Barclay, Tritton, BeVan, and Co., in
London.

The securities pledged are the following revenues of the Re-
public, viz.:—The Duties of Customs as recently established
by the Congress ; the duty on all Tobacco produced ; and the

Revenues from the mines of metal, and of salt. The bonds
are to be paid off at par, in equal proportions, in twenty
years, commencing in 1830, and ending in 1849, reserving to
the Government the liberty of paying them off earlier at par.
The existing Debentures of the Republic are received in pay-
ment of the loan (hence their rapid rise lately) with the accru-

ing interest ; and discount allowed thereon at the rate of inte-
rest which they bear.
As directly bearing upon the matter under discussion, I
take leave to subjoin the following extract from a Circular just
published :—" The Republic of Colombia consists of that
part of the South American Continent nearest to Europe,
and has ports both in the Atlantic and Pacific. It :com-
prises the State of Venezuela, New Grenada, and Quito. Af-
ter a contest of twelve years, it has succeeded in establishing

its independence, and its ports are now open to all the world.
Its Constitution, establisked by a General Congress from all
the provinces, is, in all leading points, similar to that of the

United States. The President and the Vice-President are
elected for eight years. Its internal resources are unbounded,
and require but a moderate time to organize. The Duties of
Customs are from 15 to 25 per cent. on the Value of the imports.
The Revenue from the Mines is considerable when theyare
in full work, which it is expected they will shortly be ; and the
impost on Tobacco is levied on all that is grown throughout
the country. This country having.now established its Independ-
ence, and having no interests that can bring it in collision with
any other nation, seems likely to enjoy a long course of unin-
terrupted tranquillity." Brief as this extract is, as far as it
goes, it presents an exhilarating pictUre to the mercantile in-
terest of Great Britain. The energy and firmness shewn by
General Bolivar (the President) during 12 years of harassing
conflicts, is a sort of pledge for wisdom and moderation in the
Councils, .now that the country is blessed with the halcyon days
of Peace. In this happy state of things, commerce, and all the
arts essential to a refined state of society, must gradually deve-
lope and flourish. The British Manufacturer will necessafily,
come in for a large share of benefit, by reason of increased de
mand. A wholesome impetus will be given to the Shipping.
Interest; and the General Merchant, it may be fairly pre-
sumed, will find his account as well in an enlarged field for en-
terprize, as in more certain and steady returns, during a state
of permanent tranquillity.
Having thus submitted a short review of the Colombian
State, and its probable affinities with this country—which I
feel persuaded will not be uninteresting to a great portion
of your readers—l beg to make my finale an account of a
grand entertainment given at Paris, by the English party
interested in South American Affairs, to his Fixceliency
Mr. Zea, on the important occasion of concluding the Loan
adverted to in the more early part of this letter. The far-
famed hotel of Robert, one of the first French restaurateurs,
was destined to have the honour of serving up this rich banquet.
The Salon de Minerve, one of the finest rooms in the establish-
ment, was set apart for the purpose. It was fitted up with equal
taste and elegance : the number of Chinese lamps and wax
candles, in fact, created a glare of light almost equal to that of
the meridian sun. At seven o'clock J. D. Powles, Esq. of
London, took the presidential chair : the Vice-President was
_____G;aham, Esq. of London. In compliment to the Colom-
bian Minister, several of the most distinguished individuals of
the French capital were invited and attended. Of the number
.were General the Marquis de la Fayette, General Foy, Mr.
James Laffitte, Mr. Benjamin Constant, M. de Chauvelin,
M. Bignon, M. Etienne, M. Abbey de Pompieres, DI. (asimer
Perrier, M. Manuel, M. Villeveque, and M. d'Argenson, all
of the Chamber If Deputies ; M. L'Abbe de Pradt, M. Alex.
Von Humboldt, 111. Tal'ma M. de Jouv, M. de Lisle, M. An-
dre, NI. Andre fill, M. Odier, M. Arnaud, M. Davilier, and
111. B. St. Vincent. The following English Gentlemen complet-
ed the party :—Mr. E. 11. Campbell (of Newcastle), Mr.
hams, Mr. Rudyerd, Mr. Kent, Mr. Baldwin; Mr. Richardson,
Mr. Brook, Mr. C. Herring and Gen. Cortes (a Spaniard),
making in l thirty-live. Tile following toasts were given from
the Chair in the course of the evening :—" The free and inde-
pendent Republic of Columbia."—" The Ilon. President, Ge-
neral Bolivar."—" The late Honourable Vice-President (Mr.
Zea)."—His Excellency rose and returned thanks. " The
Noble Marquis, General de la Fayette, one of the first foun-
ders of Liberty ioAmerica."—(Great applause).—The Marquis
rose, and in elegant terms made his acknowledgments for the
high honour conferred upon him.—" May all nations be united
in the spirit of Constitutional Liberty."—" Those public writers
who have laboured in the cause of the new Republics of Ameri-
ca, more particularly M. de Pradt." The Abbe rose and expres-
sed his acknowledgments. ". Those Honourable .Members of
the Chamber of Deputies who have shewn themselves the firm
defenders of public Liberty."—" M. Talma, whose pre emi-
nent talents do so much honour to the French stage." Mr. T.
rose, but observed his art taught him to deliver the sentiments
of others rather than his own. He was fully sensible, how-
ever, of the high compliment that had been paid him, and
which, he must say, f.r over-rated his humble merits.—" May
the trade between ColoMbia and the great nations of France
and England flourish without interruption."—" General Cortes
and the Congress of ColoMbia." The General rose and ex-
pressed his grateful sentiments. His Excellency, Mr. Zea,
rose and proposed the health of the Chairman and Mr. Camp-
bell—two individuals who every way deserved the thanks of
the Republic (he also begged to include the Vice-Chair, and
some other spirited Britons who then caught his eye) for the im-
portant services so generously rendered by them during the long
period the Independents had to contend for liberty.—(Very
great applause.--The. Chair, the Vice-Chair, and the other
Gentlemen alluded to, rose : Mr. Powles addressed a few
words of thanks in neat terms, which terminated in a bum-
per of rosy wine, on his part, and on that of 'his Co-asso-
ciates.
This grand dinner, which was in X. Robert's usual style of
superiority, both for viands and wines, took place on the 14th
ult. The Hamburgh Papers of the 26th contain an elaborate
report of it. And to this exotic source it is that the writer ac-
knowledges himself indebted for the somewhat interesting de-
tails just recited.
"Tis true, composing is the nobler part,
But good translation is a use; art." Z. G.
( Newcastle-upon. Tyne, April 12.)

supposed actual state of other countries in the
article of grain, and of the West Indies, in their
depressed sugar markets. With regard to other
countries, the writer has already said that the
high prices of this country have encouraged the
cultivators of others, particularly those of Russia
and Poland, to extend their cultivation- much

beyond its former pitch, and now hen our ports
have been for some time shut against them, neces-

sarily find themselves overstocked, the article de-
Predated, and the prices depressed of course. In

our case, nothing of that kind has or can hare
occurred ; with our increased and increasing po-

pulation, our demand could not have been dimi-
nished ; and with such harvests as we have lately
experienced, and our ports shut against im-
portation, it is utterly impossible that our supply

should have been increhsed ; with regard to our

sugar markets it is perfectly known that certain

of our Colonies, ceded by the Dutch in our last
treaty, such as Demerara, &c. where slaves were
plentiful before the Slave Restriction Acts, and
Cuba in the possession of the Spaniards, where
an active and regular Slave Trade has been con-
stantly carried on, have thrown their produce
into our markets, even to an overflow, and thereby
proportionally depressed prices beyond the
power of immediate remedy. But in our case,
and the article of grain, nothing of that kind has
or can have been lately experienced ; but as
statements have been lately made in Parliament
and strong conclusions drawn from the late re-
turns from Mark-lane, into which a larger quan-
tity of grain has been lately thrown than upon
almost any former occas,ion, the writer will en-
deavour to shew the fallacy of such conclusions,

not by expressing the slightest doubts of the
facts as stated, but accounting for them upon the
plainest and most rational principles. A s nothing
comes more home to the apprehension than illus-
trative instances of example in point, the writer
will state what he knows to be a fact, and leave
the reader to draw his conclusions.' A gentleman
of the writer's intimate acquaintance, whose truth,
indeed whose utter aversion to every thing b0r-
.....

Bering on _deception is perfectly known to all his
friends and acquaintance, is at this moment thus
circumstanced. He stands possessed of two con-
siderable estates, in different parts of the Island,
amounting to several thousand acres, for is iiich
he has been actually bona fide offered, within
these last three years, 209,500/. which offers
were declined as supposed considerably below
their value, as was certainly the case at the then
prices of agricultural produce ; of those he has
had for some time and has at present 2,300 acres
in his own occupation, the remainder let to sup-
posed responsible tenants. The lands in hand
are not unskilfully, or till of late unprofitably
cultivated, not a single acre of them that is not
under growing and profitable timber, or laid
down to meadow, or the best artificial grasses,
and supposed worth from 21. to 31. per acre, but
what is under the plough, and bearing, and further
promising, the largest crops. Il is barns, granaries,
and his rick yards, of which there are considerably
more than 20 on the lands in hand, and of which
two of the first (his barns) are by far the largest
in the county where the estate is situated, are
at this moment quite filled with grain of different
descriptions, to the amount of several thou-
sand pounds. His Bailiff on one estate has
lately informed him that he has as yet brought
none to market on account of the lowness of
prices, which at the last markets did not exceed
for the best wheat ss. or (is. per bushel, and for
the middling and inferior sort, not more than
from 4s. to ss. His Bailiff on the other property
equally reports that he has made no sales, as in
fact no money is to be bad in the county, every
individual buying only from hand to mouth, and
all the middle-men, who were formerly the largest
purchasers, wholly deserting by markets.—
Thus circumstanced in property, and pressed by
mortgages, as his estates are not wholly unin-
cumbered, though not to a fifth, a sixth, or proba-
bly a seventh, of their actual value, by tax-
gatherers, tithe owners, poor rates, labourers,
and every other description of demand, neces.
sarily appendant to the possession of landed pro.
perty, lie has been compelled to order his Bailiffs
to sell at any prices they can obtain, and that
produce which he could not raise at less than
Bs. 9s. or 10s. per bushel, must be sacrificed at
less than a moiety of its substantial value. his
case is the case of hundreds, upon a larger or
or smaller scale, and must become that of every
landholder in the kingdom, if not timely remedi-
ed. What has been done by this gentleman must
be done by almost every cultivator in the king-

he derives from-histenantry. The writer wishes
to .ask, how long such a system can be maintained
without the total ►:estruction of every landed
proprietor and cultivator in the Kingdom ? Will
7, or 8, or 9 millions of individuals, for the num-
ber of those attached to or dependant on the
land are certainly not fewer, consent to 'be dri-
ve►► to the last extremity ? and can they, if they
were inclined, thus circumstanced, continue to
pay their taxes ? if those again fail, what is to
become of the funded interests of the country ?
Can their dividends be paid, or must every class

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of society, landed-, funded, and all, he devoted

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to absolute ruin, simply because a premature
measure in the sudden change of currency hav-
ing been once adopted, Government feels a dis-
inclination to retract ? Nothing, it must be al-
lowed, appeared more specious and plausible
than a return to metallic currency ; it was the

sole, sure, and safe, circulating medium of the
Kingdom previous to the Bank Restriction Acti
but Mr. PITT finding himself. engaged in a war
with nearly all the Powers of Europe, headed,
and indeed arbitrarily governed; by the most
powerful and implacable enemy this nation ever
experienced, and most clearly seeing that all the
precious metals in Europe would not suffice to
meet the demands of such an extended warfare,
was compelled to have recourse to paper cur-
rency, by which he afterwards managed to-ex-
pend more than one hundred millions sterling in
a single year, and has finally loaded us with 'a
debt of SOO millions sterling, a sum in the pre-
cious metals not to be found in all the habitable
Globe, Europe, Asia, Africa, and:America
united:" This has constituted a perfect anomaly-
in all our system, and cannot be treated by or-
dinary means. Low prices and high taxes, the
writer has more than once repeated, are wholly
incompatible ; and if you mean to carry on
your government, and do justice to your cre-
ditors, the same system by which your debt was
created must be persevered in, or all the mis-
chiefs of which we now complain be continued,
and involve the nation in total and irremediable
ruin. There is nothing in this but what must be
obvious to the meanest capacity ; the causes are
perfectly plain, and the remedies proposedap-
plicable and immediate in their, effect. By
the application of the remedies- proposed-,in
the late Committee, it is true that a million or
two particularly devoted to the corn-market
may give it a spur for the moment, but the-re-
lief at best is only temporary, and other classes
of the nation may think it., unjust, and particu-
larly injurious to their interests, that the agricul-
tural alone should be relieved at their expence,
whereas, by reverting to that currency under
which the Nation has prospered for more than
20 years past, not a single individual would have
reasonable cause of complaint, whilst the most
substantial class of it, the agricultural, the grand
basis of all our wealth, would find instant relief.
The small portion of revenue to be sacrified for the
stamps on issuable 'bills becomes a mere drop of
water in the ocean ; and if the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER has, as he says, five millions of
surplus revenue to dispose of, that inconsiderable
sacrifice must be felt as nothing. With regard
to the effectual shutting of the ports against all
importation of grain or other provisions from
abroad, the policy is obvious and incontestible.
It would prove a stimulus to agriculture in all
its branches, by securing a monopoly of the home
market, and, if steadily adhered to, convert
every acre of productive land in the king-
dom into a comparative garden. The sup-
ply would be abundant, sufficient at all
times to guard you against famine on the one
hand, or too great an increase of prices on the
other ; you would be at all times, and under all
circumstances, a self-subsisting, opulent, and
powerful country—not a nation of mere shop-
keepers, as your arch enemy had the insolence
to term you, occasionally dependent on other
countries for actual subsistence, and at all times
fearful of losing a single most trivial market for
your manufactures. Secure a home market for
these and your landed produce, and you may set
the world at defiance ; you may become exporters
instead of importers, and dispose of every article
you can manufacture in the different markets of
the world. Your capital, yOur machinery, and
your industry, will supply every deficiency, and
raise you to more than an equality with every
other country on the globe. Such are the writer's
opinions, formed upon the deepest reflection in
his power• to give to the momentous subject be-
fore him ; he is conscious of his own inability to
place that subject in its best points of view, but
•he has felt himself called upon to do his best ;
and whilst he can hold a pen at all, or express a
sentiment in a plain and ordinary way, he hopes
to stand excused for giving his opinions freely to
the public in such a form as might,be level to all
apprehensions, and only requires a small.degree
of attention on the part of common readers to be
perfectly intelligible. J. S.