The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-10 00:00:00

(THE TIMES.)

The South of Ireland begins again to furnish a I
fearful catalogue of offences, varying somewhat
in matters of detail and incident, but in general
character wholly, we lament to say, unmitigated.
The law, and property, and their respective mi-
nisters, are, as they have long been, the objects,
of popular vengeance. In the county of
Limerick a horse of a Mr. Enright was cruelly
toughed a few days ago ; and a notice posted
in the neighbourhood, threatening that gentleman
with the loss of his tife if he did not throw up
the situation of agent to Mr. Pawson. A nume.
rows, banditti assembled on the. 24 instant in the
same county, in open day, tut down several acres
of unripe oats, dug pp a quantity of potatoes,
and returned the clay following to draw them
away, laughing ,at the bailiff or " care-taker"
who was in possession of the lands, and abusing
a gentleman who came to remonstrate with
them. This outrage, equally daring and ma-
lignant, was committed upon a 'properV to
which a receiver under the Court otchancery
had been appointed, and on which, by his
orders, a distress ha 4 beet, levied. It signifies
littie that some of the.ruffians were seized by the-
military in the act of carrying , off the spoil, od
that hundreds of their :associates, collected, for
the same purpose, were dispersed. The spirit
is indigenuous among. them, and- the materials
of such proceedings arc spread as widely through-
out that wretched land, as are poverty, barba-
rism, and hatred of real or supposed oppres-
sion. At Claninaurice, in the county of Kerry,l
the house of, one Harnett, a retired soldier, was
broken open by a gang of villains, who, besides
plundering the poor man's
,habitation, brutally
struck his wife. A herdsman in the county of
Tipperary, returning from a fair, where-he had
disposed of some of his master's cattle, was,'
within half a mile of Clonmel, way-laid, wound-
ed, and only saved from death by the fortunate
appearance, of a neighbour. At the same
time the annum are not inactive,' however they
may be unattended by visible results. The police
of the county of Limerick have apprehended five
men near Itathkeale, charged with the ,rnurder
of the post-boy in that neighbourhood some
months ago. Three men were convicted at the
Sessions there of insurrectionary practices, and
tientenced to transportation. Ten others were
likewise found guilty of a daring outrage on Mr.
Nunan ; and a fellow who had the audacity to
appear for the purpose of proving an alibi in

their favour, was himself identified as the ring-
leader of their crimes, and left to stand his trial.
The law is unquestionably as strong in Ireland as
the votes of Parliament can renderit. It is strong
in every quality but that which constitutes the
real force of codes and of governments—the good
will of those among whom they are designed to
act. Towards acquiring this grand auxiliary to,
legislation, it seems clear that we have yet affected
nothing; and society is altogether unhinged where,
as in Ireland, the bulk of the people persuade
themselves that more is to be gained by the risk
of liftC,and by theplonder of property., than by
supporting the authorities which have been esta-
blished for the protection and security of both.

A stranger, who has never witnessed the are
rival of a welkfished whaler, has a treat to come.
gbegin to circulate, than sweethearts and wives
ponctuoefr athvaensslell oinflatlgiin
this description
lesNu soonercTriptot
being in the
insigrbet:
Of all ages, crowd to the piers or the South Lod,
for the purposeof welcoming home a lover or a
hitshand. Interviews between the patties ate
such as 44 ptain unsophisticated nature" dictate*,
the squeeze, the kiSlil/2 and the "what cheer,
mate ?" No etiquette pervades the deck ,of
a whaler ; anti' though the odours prodeeding
front below are something differeut from the
" perfumes of Araby," yet there is a since-
rity of DlTection depicted in the countenances of
those who meet there, that, amply compel).
sates for the want or it. An absence of six
mouths affords sufficient space for the occurrence
eg,new. .01vouts, and therefore the joy manifett-
ed by.the strangers and their friends, when they
once again see'each other in health, is by no
truninS surprising, Soinetintek it unfortunately
happens. (and what state or tank is exempt from
visciesitudes ?) that the dalcineas of the enamour.
ell seamen play them false in the interval which
occurs between leaving port and making, it again ;
but this is of every day's occurrence in high life,
and. therefore does not, nor should it, prevent
the mariner from softening his boisterous nature
by, the allApovverful influence of "sweet woman,"
--(Holt Packet.)
On the morning of Sunday last, two girls,
the one six, anti the' ether three years of age,
went out from their fether's house at Bonnymill„
and having staid too long,,their parents became
alarmed for their. safety. Upon going,. out
Search of them, •they discovered that both }tad
fallen into a dam, Which it is supposed they bait
endeavoured to (.1,0,4,11 means of a rotten plank.
When taken out, theusual means of resuscitation
were employed, hut without effect ; for the vital
spark in both had become extinct. It was truly
painful to bear the screams of the mother when
he saw the hopeless state of her tltildr—
(Stirling Paper.) eu.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

',From the Du n Correspondent.]
THE REFORMATION,--141/L COBBETT, Sze.
PART Vl.]

savings we hope, fairly and satisfactorily an-
swered the brief and summary remark of our Correspondent
Crito, respecting his.alledged superiority of the Jesuits in lite-
rature—we now proceed to notice the claim which another Cor-
respondent, under the signature of Rienzi, makes for the Ro-
;Man Catholics to a peculiar love of civil liberty. The illustration
_ , ,
of the assertion is-rather limited, as our Correspondent doei not
go beyond the conduct of the Roman Catholic Cantons of SWit.:
xerland. We know that there are.enlightened individual of: the
Roman Catholic persuasion, whose minds are as free and ge-,
nitrous, and their spirit as bold and patriotic as any other; and
who, if driven to the necessity of asserting their intellectual li-
berty, would not scruple to do so ; hut we cannot say as much
of the great mass of the people of
.their persuasion, who, from•
'infancy; being. taught to obey, and not to -reason ; to re-
ceive submissively .what they, were instructed .in aothOritit-
their; arid Who consider the Priest above the Magistrate, do
not understand that moral freedotn,,, au ardent love of which; is'
characteristic df their Protestant countrymen. As men arc
Often known „to mistake their passion for courage, so there are
those who .mistake an habitual refractoriness for a love. of
liberty: and:who think, because they are discontented, they
tire therefore patriots, and the only great and honest :souls, iii.
the nation. We Rave seen many of those' noble spirits sink
very low, even at 'their own appraisement, in the market of
political traffic. Our Correspondent in confounding those
things, may have fallen into some perplexity—and though we
would willingly agree with him in sentiment, yet reason and
truth forbid it, especially as he has founded his observations
upon a very inconclusive example. , What we are obliged to
call Catholicism, for the want of a word sufficiently significant
of the ruling principle of theßoman Catholic religion as it ope-
rates upon society, is not the same every where. It is to be
found rn modified conditions in many places, according as•
the state of society existed in various particular countries,
upon the early establishment of Christianity, and according
to the course of events which followed. At Rome, refined,
and voluptuous, and where shOwi and ceremonies were fa-
miliar to the people under their Pagan Government, the
first preachers of the goSpet found it politic to Compromise
somewhat with the ancient manners and customs : and'
meek and humble as the apostolical missionaries of Christ's
religion were,- they - did not hastani its final interest in
the world,
.by an obstinate prohibition of any of those
grand ceremonies being retained. in public worship, which,
perhaps, the people Bever could have been , brought to,
,relinquish. The Catholicism of Roine Was therefore one thing-,
that which obtained a footing in Saxony, and also in•
the:Swiss mountains quite another. Mountaineers are nature's
republicans—free . and fierce, And acknowledging but a smaM
portion of the artificial restraints which the interest of more
citiliiedlife impose; and it is hardly correct to apply to the
influence of their creed, the , moral consequences of their situtlf
tion. In the small Cantons of Underwald, Schwitz, and Uri,
Catholicism had not dictated so much the moral results, as tisk
ainned particular forms; which suited the manners and the moun.!
utneer republicanistn of the inhabitants—and such Catholicistiw
by its religious spectacles and festivals, contributed to occupy a
portion of that vacuity' which the indolence of pastorali
life naturally. tends to create. The individuals, whose
ictittnige and zeal entitle them to be considered as' the fcnindere
Of Helvetic liberty, resided in those Cantons ; and thasat
brave and hardy spirits, who were endeared to their posterity,
rind honoured in the recollections of succeeding generations, as
well as the events which their valour and example had so no le
a share 'in- effhtting, had an inseparable association with
their Catholicism, its, worship, and its ceremonies. There •
were nip cities'for triumphal arches, or other 'splendid monu-
ments of Swiss fidelity and bravery.' The artado not seleet.moun.'
tiin villages for their abode, but the populous scenes of wealth,,
splendour; and ambition: There was ,no Commemorative' ‘piles
raised in .Switzerland, to record the events that were so much.
below ed ; rind it was the little Chapel; the humble house of de.
notion, where the simple councils which led to Swiss freeclonr,
were feld; and which wai-doubly consecrated in the Switiet'ai
eyeyt by liberty as well, as religion, that constituted the
monial of the struggle of his fathers, and of their final triumph. ,
The abuses of the ;MotherChurch were scarcely known amour
people of primeval simplicity and purity—they were too poor
to. gratify the ancient exactions of the Popes; and their Pricstl.,
who were natives and, partook of the manners of their country-
though'notas learned or as ambitious as those of the ad-.
jacent States, were more useful as Pastors,: and retained so
ninth of the .laicaT'cliiiracter, as' to have a share in the con
--
Cents of life, and. their 'portiOn .in the administration of, the:
temporal concerns of their little States. William Tell la
the :immortal'. champion, of Swiss liberty—and the Chapel,
of the . hero could never be divorced from the inveterate.
affection' of 'the mountaineers, with whom- a national' Mil/
ticism had mixed the worship of liberty with that of roll-,
gion. Soleure, Fribourg, and Lucerne were also; as well as
the cantons alluded tOi:retained,in,adliesion to the Ohnrch of:
Rome—principally by, the influence of Spain, the Pope, and
Austria; and,, by • the prevalence of those. antipathies, which
Outlived various sanguinary conflicts, the offspring of raiiont;
civil wars, Protracted; ivith Intervening suipensiOnwirl:!!
the eighteenth century. England and France supEarfC,ti,t.L'!
Protestant Cantons—and such are the inveterate etfeetti
duced by the virulence and antipathy, of religious civil IYarrY't
all the Roman Citholic Cantons were the most ran 1
their animosity to the -French on the, late Iniquitous 4
invasion of Switzerland by their troops, on account of the anT,
elm good underitandhig between.-,the Protestant Cantons and
France. In the Protestant Cantons, with their liberty, aro tet;
belfotind also, the sciences, Merit:tire, good manners, nictistri,
and cleimliness: Switzerland lost , all her foreign influe°°ei
remit - the dissentiOnS niaintained among her people, b the
bigottodintrigneti of Spain and Austria, as wall as the
ttate. But the Protestant: Cantons acquired in tnernanves
onsiderable advantage by the schism--the Protestants, which
the infamous and perfidious tevocation of the edicts of.Nan!e
drove to seek'reetige among 'them, cur'ri'ed with 'theft theirl r-
perty and industry, visistors; which seldom locik for an hey um
Where Protestantism is not ascendant. It was from the Canton
Of Berne, where French was, freely spoken and written, that the
tpirieof the Refontattinn passed Into France, and penetiated
into every part of that,
so
it did not finally este-
blish itself CothttrY faeciurahle to it as France then was,
May be easily
,scroolutted for, It is not; however,. out prestat •
Intsmess to take up the subject ; all we proposed was, to clear
apthe observation of our CUrresPondent, and, as fir is truth
4ind history may avail,: to reduce its generality into a very
limited and most qualified assertion—a task, which we
pie-
lumowe have fairly fulfiled.

, •
Tat WESTMINSTER II kWK.—There is to be
seen on Westminster Abbey every day a noble
hawk, which is known by the neighbouring in-
habitants to h*ve resided there above thirty
years, where he reigns despotic monarch. HiiV
territories are shunned by all the feathered rtice;,
and if by chancel a pigeon or other bird alights
there, he pounces upeit it, and tears it to pieces.
He seldom roams any distance thence, except
when compelled by hunger, which as Oen as lP
Satisfies he returns. His favourite station on Or
Abbey is inureediately over the ducky where tl°
is almost sure to be seen daily. The neighbouti
relate several Stories concerning him too abeivit
to be related, wlich we leave to the curious; it*
inquire into.

lIIRTIIS.
At Liam de Grace, on the 28th ult., the Lady of WiMPI
Davidson, Ls' of a son. sty
On Monday, the filth instant, Mrs. Roby, of 31ansion-N1
St. Mary's Cray, Kent, of a daughter.
On the Bth instant. the Lady of J. E. Ill'Arthor,
Netiion's-terrace, Kennington, of a Con.

MARRIED. • b -
14 it.
On Tuesday, the 7th instant, at I‘ambetli,Churchi
Jones, to 'Starts, second daughter of thelate John ro
Esti.,Ordnanee-storeltieper.
(0,

DIEDs
s. vont.
Suddenly, at the house of hiister-in-law, in Bo"
street; St. 141aryieboae, Joseph Kidd, Esq., of Shackle
aged Ra.
On Ni'ednesday morning, the Bth instant, at nilte,o'cl(4"
Mrs. Coombes, of Sloane..street, in the 700 year of hir_Sala.
On Monday, the fah instant, at the Vicarage, be iti.
perks, the-7th year of his age after a short but On/11;A
bets, Thomas, the second aon of the Key- Jolln "11 'Vim or that Parish.

and Publiahed rot the Pnoratvrong, aid*
Omer, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIIii.

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