The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-09 00:00:00

'Bourck, tends fa- a certain degree Co con-
firm the information previously received here
that 400 men had arrived at Corunna, who had
been made prisoners in Leon. From the neigh-
bourhood of Sarragoza the information received
was likewise very unfavourable for the invaders,
for the Guerilla parties rendered their situation
,extremely hazardous. The garrison of St. Se-
bastian had made a successful attack on the
French forces which had invested that fortress,
and had compelled them to raise the siege with
considerable loss. All the Fredch troops in
Bordeaux had proceeded to join the Army of the
Pyrenees, and constancy alone in the Constitu-
tional Government, amidst the dangers which
surround them, will be sufficient toa secure to
them a glorious triumph over tyranny and that
mental debasement which the fanatics are now
attempting to impose on the human species.

[TB,E TIMES.]
Prom our late reports of the proceedings
iA Parliament, it will be seen that the Irish are
again to taste the
_blessings of the Insurrection
ACt. This, then,the whole amount of re-
medial policy accomplished on behalf of Ireland
during the Session of 1822-3. The Tithe Com-
position Bill, indeed, was an attempt towards
softening down those evils which the other Bill
cannot fail to aggravate. But the conciliatory
undertaking was strangled at the outset, being
left dependent for its execution on the mercy of
.the Clergy, whose abuse of power it had been
destined to restrain, while the coercive measure
came forth, armed at all points and invulnerable,
•received no check nor mutilation in its course, and
has certainly not been so constructed that its execu-
tion will at all depend on the assent of the parties
to be restrained by it. Now, it is mighty well for
his Grace, the Master-General of the Ordnance,
to praise this grinding and despotic act,: which
punishes a whole population for venturing out Of
doors after sun-set, because it is after sun-set,
that outrages, for the most part, are. committed.
But will his Grace not permit us to inquire What
it is that renders an Irish, more than an English
peasant, liable to the suspicion of a criminal pur-
pose for breathing the open air at night ? The
answer, possibly, will be (as Jlidge Torrens, or
'some of hiS associated magistrates, has informed
us), that the bulk of the peasantry are bound by
unlawful oaths to the violation :of. the laws,
and the destruction of property..— Again
we ask, why have the peasantry so .en-
gaged themselves ? Why are they so dis-
affected ? To this the monstrous• aasiver has
lie satisfied witlitlie DO-
been already given,—"
" toriety of the fact : we will not suffer you to
" examine into its causes—such an inquiry would
" take up too much time I.—and might imply
" blame to us, the Ministers I'' The necessary
inference therefoli is, that since the people of.
Ireland have been galled into general disaffection
by one or more conjectural causes, we are to gall
them farther, still,. in hopes of their becoming
more attached to their Government, and more
amenable to the laws. If to rule a nation with
a certain degree of harshness makes them hate
you, there is nothing for it but to double the se-
verity, and you will encounter but half the de-
testation. Such is the fundamental principle of
Irish law-making. It is one which acknowledges
no authority but that of terror—which leads di-
reedy from a system of imperfect liberty to one
of absolute power,-4;hich goes to improve a Jus-
tice of the Peace into an Aga of the Janissaries,
and a Parliament into a Divan.