The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-07 00:00:00

SUN.

[THE TIMES.]

The outrages detailed in the Dublin Papers of
Alonday last are not so distressing as those of
former dates, either by their atrocity or their
number. But some offences are reported in Mon-
day's Dublin Post, the scene of which appears to
have shifted .farther North. In the County of
Galway, from the 15th to the 23d, several far-
mers' houses in the Barony of Dunmore were
robbed of arms, and the owners were sworn not
to ask more from the labourers than 6/. for con-
acre (an acre of ground, which is described to us
to be in some places manured by the landlord,
but wrought and planted with potatoes 'by the
tenants, who also take the crop.) But the act,
which is, on the face of it, perhaps the most de-
grading to Ireland, appears, not upon the list of
rebel outrages, as reported by the last or any
preceding mail, but in the form of a magisterial
record, a description of their own proceedings,
put forth by a body of no less than nineteen
Justices of the Peace,of the county of Limerick,
assembled at Rathkeale on the 26th ult. These
worthy and spirited Magistrates met for the pur-
pose of calling on the Lord Lieutenant for an
increase of military force, to assist the operation
of the Insurrection Bill. But as this was an act
of palpable mutiny against the Whiteboy Go-
vernment, their worships, willing to take pre-
cedent for their guide, were resolved that there
should be no ostensible ringleaders in the crime;
and actually signed, we blush to tell it, their several
names in the form of a round robin ! Either their
resolutions described the state of the country,
truly, or they did not. In the latter case, we can
imagine that no man would be eager to put his name
at the head of a list of public slanderers ; but if
they were conscious of telling truth, was any-
thing ever so disgraceful heard of, as that among
lt) Gentlemen and Magistrates, every individual
should have been so panic struck, so utterly
prostrate in public spirit, as to shrink from avow-
ing those resolutions, on which he required the
Government to act ? One Magistrate senior to
the rest there must have been. Why is not his
signature in its proper place ? Who was Chair-
man ? and where is his signature ? We should
not grieve to learn by the next mail, that this
whole band of civil heroes were to have their
future services dispensed with.

[NEW TIMES.]
It is astonishing how silent The Times has
suddenly become, on the subject of the Consti-
tutional Association. So long as there was a
hope that the criminals indicted by that Associa-
tion might escape by chicanery, or that the
Juries would be warped by prejudice, so long,
torrents of the most rancorous malignity were
poured on those honourable and meritorious in-
dividuals who stood forward to stay the moral
plague of sedition and blasphemy ; but now that
verdict after verdict fully justifies the prosecutors,
rinhe Times (whether from shame or policy we
will not pretend to determine) abstains from so
much as mentioning the name of the Associa-
tion. We wish we could bestow even this nega-
tive praise on The Morning Chronicle ; but in
that Paper, yesterday morning, there were two
of the most audacious attacks on the administra-
tion of public justice ever perpetrated through
the medium of the Press. Two letters, the one
signed Art Gus, the other J. 8., were filled with
invectives on the Learned Judge, who presided
at the trials of Carlile's shopmen, principally for
his remarks on the misconduct of the defendants'
Counsel. We must say, once for all, that these
daring insults on the Judges ought not to be tole-
rated. They are gross violations of the law of
the land. They are high contempts of the
Court, and their authors ought to be sought out
and visited with the very heaviest penalty of the
law; more especially, if those persons belong (as
we strongly suspect they do) to the legal pro-
fess'on. We most deeply regret that the Judges,
in the strict and conscientious discharge of their
duty to their country, have on two or three late
occasions been forced to reprimand Counsel for
abusing the privilege of the Bar; but it is obvi-
ous that, unless such a power were exercised,
when occasion demands, there would be no safety
to individubl character nor to the public interest.

The Dure of BEDFORD has subscribed 1001. to the erec-
tion of a monument in Dublin to the memory of the late
Mr. GRATTAN. Upwards of 20001. had been subscribed early
last week.

PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6.

Mr. Srrcin, from the Chelsea Hospital, pre-
sented" an Account of unclaimed Army Prize
lToney.--Laid on the table.

Earl BATTIURS'r presented a Petition from
certain Land Owners in Lower Canada, com-
plaining of Agricultural Distress. Laid on the
table.

_His Lordship then presented two other Peti-
tions from Owners and Occupiers of Land in
certain parishes of the Comity of Gloucester,
praying for Agricultural relief, and for protect-
ing duties against the importation of Foreign
Corn.---Laid on the table.

The Exchequer Bills Bill, the transfer in Aids
Sill, the Irish Arms and Gunpowder Importa-
tion, and the Sugar, Snuff, and Tobacco Duties
Bills, were read second time. The Irish Po-
pulation Regulation Bill, and the Irish Seizure
of Arms Indemnity Bill, went respectively through
the Committees-, and the Reports. were received.
—Adjourned.

HOUSE. OF COMMONS.

UNCLAIMED PRIZE MONEY.

SpicEw. laid on the table an Account of the Unclaiined
Prize :Money in the possession of Chelsea Hospital.

WINDOW TAX-IRELAND

Mr. R. SHAW moved for an Account of the Amount of
Window and Hearth 'Tax levied in Ireland for the last seven
veani, with. a special Account of the Amount levied on Dub-
lin during that period, and of the Number of Houses return-
ed insolvent.—Ordered.
BANK OF ENGLAND.

Mr. GRENFELL gave notice that he would to-morrow
move for a Return of all Monies paid to the Bank of Eng-
land,since the year 1793, on account of Loans and Exchequer
'Bills. •

The Hon. Member also moved for Ab&mnts of all Silver
Coin, coined at the Mint since the last regulation, the Amount
issued, and the Amount remaining unissued now in possession
of the Mint; the Quantity of Silver. purchased.by Government
since 4th November, 1820, stating the prices and other condi-
tions annexed to the purchase, as far as concerns the Mint ; and
of the Amount remaining with the Bank to be delivered at
SS. 2d. per ounce.—Ordered.
Mr. GRF;NFELL (as was Understood), said that the
dealings to which these accounts referred had been most bene-
&id to the public.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

.Lord 'EBRINGTON presented a petit on from Tavistock,
signed by 500 persons,. adverting to the distress prevalent in
the country, and requesting attention to the tvthe system, and
the excessive taxation, and attributing the ai:;treses of the
country to the corrupt state of the Representation, and praying
for Reform.—Ordered to be printed.
The Noble Lord also presented a similar Petition from seve-
ral: places in the county of Devon.—Laid on the table.
COLONIAL ACCOUNTS.

Mr. HOME said, that by a reference to a return laid on the
table from the Board for the Audit of Colonial Accounts, last
year, the accounts of many of the riew.Colonies did not appear
to be audited beyond a very distant ppried from the present
time. For instance, the accounts for the Mauritius appeared
to be audited only up to 1816; .Trinidad to 1814, Mr. Hook's
account only to theyear 18I3; and as they involved n question
of ten- millions of money, he thought it necessary for the House
..:to know hdw these matters Were'going on. He therefore mov-
ed that there be laid before the House a return, specifying all
the accounts which had , been audited by- the Colonial Audit
Board since the beginning of 181, particularly for the New
Colonies, Cey;lon, and the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius,
and Trinidad ; also the accounts in the possession of the Board
unaudited, and to what date.

,
Mr: WY NN
,suggested the propriety of giving public notice
for motions for 'returns of this kind The Colonial Secretary
was not then in the House, and he thought the Hon. Member
ne.ve .uune netter to have waited till he was. Not that
11,.! was aware that any objection would be made to-the motion,
but he thought the house ought to know whither the return
was of that nature that it could be made.
'Mr. HUME said the order for such a return was a matter
of course, which did not require any deliberation on the part
of the House. However it might be consistent with the cour-
tesy usually observed on such occasions, he did not think
the Colonial Secretary entitled to that courtesy from his hands.
Mi. WYNN repeated that, without any reference to the de-
gree of courtesy due to this or that person, the House would
expect that notice should be given of such motions as the Hon.
Meiriber's, to give time to ascertain, before it gave the order,
whether the rettrrn could &could not be made out.

Mr. BENNETT said, it was prepo;te7ous to suppose that
in a mere matter of accounts, it was not competent to a Member
to-move for a return.. They had no necessity of the Hun. Gen-
tleman (NIL Wynn) for new lights on the subject.
Mr. LUSHINGTON observed, that iL was certainly com-
petent to an Hon. Member to move for a return, but it was
also competent to the house to dispose of it as they pleased.—
The return required by the Hon. Member rather belonged to
his (Mr. ' Luslangton's) department ; and as he had always
treated that Honourable Member with great civility, he did
not know why he should have dispensed with the usual
courtesy. _

After a few words from Mr. Hume, the return was ordered.
Mr. HUME moved for a return of all persons, Civil and
Military, holding two Commissions, Pensions, Offices, Half-
pay, or otherwise, with their names and dates of appointment.
Ordered.

The Hon. Alember also moved for an Abstract of the Ex-
penditure of the lonian Islands, for the years 1819, 1820, and
1821, with the heads of disbursement.
Mr. LUSH INGTON hoped the Hon. Member would wait
till the head of the. Colonial Department in that House was
present. He felt convinced it would be impossible to get the
accounts made-up to so late a date as 1821.
Mr. HUME said, it was nothing but a continuation of the
order of last year, which had only partially been complied with.
They had voted the supply for 1821, and it .was fit the Ilouse
should know how it had been expended. He was willing that
the motion should be for the latest period to which they could
be made up.
Mr. VirYNN said, that the conduct of the Hon. Member'
tended to introduce a practice most inconvenient for the House,
and if he refused to wait a few minutes, but was determined to
press his motion he (Mr. Wynn) would move the previous
question upon it. •
Mr. HUME consented to wait, rather than put the House to
the trouble of dividing upon the question.