The Sun.
London, England, 1815-01-13 00:00:00

DENUNCIATION OF TREASON.

On the Gth orDeceinber, we hinted our know-
ledge of treasonable plottings on the Western
Coast of Ireland, and Warned the infamous parties
concerned in these proceedings, to beware ;—for
the eye of justice was upon then. As we find,
that though staggered by this public notice, these
machinations were at first relaxed,' and for a Crne
suspended, they have since been resumed, and arc
now in full activity, . we consider it to be our
indispensible duty. to be more explicit iu our
notice and reprobation of practices, as extraordi-
nary, extensive, and dangerous, as ever disgraced
the British Empire.
Our object is not yet vindictive, for we hope,
even now, to reclaim rather than to draw down
punishment. We shall, therefore, be guarded, in
the first instance, not to point the vengeance of
insulted law against the heads of the Criminals ;
but we shall state so much as will convince them
that they and their works are known, and we trust
that a sense of their danger may restrain them
from pursning their wicked career, even should
they be uninfluenced by a sense of their duty.
AVe affirm that the American Cruizers, our Ene-
mies, with whom the Country was at war, and by
whom our Commerce 'aas suffered so much, have,
for a length of tune, carried on a regular - inter-
course with TWO PORTS on the Coast we have
designated. What use they have made of the in-

formation here obtained the number of their cap-
tures testify. Not only were they made acquaint.
ed with the course of the Irish Trade, but
there were traitors in many places on this
side of the Channel to transmit . the best
intelligence respecting that of England through
time saute medium, and our merchant vessels
have suffered accordingly ; while the schundeels,
spies and traitors, whose information led to
these hisses, went sharers in the emoluments,
and were the loudest in their exclamations against
the British Admiralty for not affording sufficient
protection to the trade at the • very time they
knew that, 'with such correct instructions as them..
selves supplied to the Enemy's ships of war and
privateers, the entire Navy of Great Britain could
not fPrevent thee greatest depredations. It was
they who rendered the exertions of,our Admiralty
unavailing, a-nd it was they who clamoured in
irublie at our disasters, while they rejoiced in
private over their own gains.
The signature of time Treaty of Ghent has nearly
_finished this part of the scene. Of the new Plan
which has succeeded it the are advised, but ean-i
not, at present,• enter into particulars. Suffice it
to say, that there are many British Subjects en-
riched by the captures of British vessels—these.,
,villains think it expedient to proceed to the Coun-
try they have served, and swell the population of
America,—for the honowr of Citizenship, in which
their conduct has so excellently qualified them.
But this is not all--n plan upon .a large
scale has been matured for time encouragement of
Emigration from Ireland to the United Statei.—.
The minds of the ignorant are acted •upon by
every means that treachery and fasehood can in.
vent—th-edisaffected part of time press is zenlotislY
at work—every di.loyal engine is employed, which
can delude the mistaken Population of time sestet'
Island into a persuasion, that an earthly Paradise
'exists on the other side of the Atlantic.
We know not what measures Government have
taken, or may take, to -counteract this tonspiracy.
Something, and something effective, must be done;
for the mischief is great, alit! the evil hideous; Were
it only the Catholick Agitators, thenow idle Board,
time spouters at public meetings, and the ftecret
org-,thizers of CaravatS, .Carders, and other mid-
night Assassins, who desired to enter into nearer
fellowship with kindred spirits. elsewhere—with
the semi-savages of Kentucky, and time scalping
heroes of the United States; we should advibe our
Rulers to provide them food, clothing, ship, and
a premium on exportation ; but we should lament
much for the sake of our country, and more for
the sake of the individuals who might be misled

by those tempters, were any conskterable itum-
ber of the people to 'be deceived into this fatal
experiment. We feel that
!‘ A bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destrny'd can never be supplied:—"'

and we also strongly Ice% that it is generally-much
better to

--------" Bear those 3116 We have
Than fly to others that w•e know nut of.—"

Are these objects of vile deception aware of the
treatment that awaits them were they to desert
their country, and succeed in reaching America
Let the following extracts, which we republish,
inform them• Let them ponder on these truths,
and even the dullest Hind in the Empire will not
only exclaim—' England ! with all thy faults, I
love thee still !" but—" my Country ! with all
thy faults, I know thee to be the best in the
World ; and I will never leave nor forsake thee !"

Extract If a Letter to the Mg.it Honourable C. ABBOTT,
on the Lnprorement o.l* the Coasts and Extension of the
Fisheries V Scotland.

,4 Within these few years I have taken much pains to en-
quire, and I have had the very best o?portunities of ascer-
-taining the unhappy fate of many of those unfortunate people
who hare emigrated either from Scotland, Ireland, or Wales,
to that part of the Globe (America), and even within these
few months I havethad an account of the poverty, wretched-
ness, nat.edness, and misery, of many of those people, which
it is ajmost horrible to describe. Of money there is none to
be obtained; what is carried out is soon expended, and when
their clothes are worn out, they have no means of replacing
them. If they should even obtain employment as labourers,
they can get no wages in money from their employers. If
they obtain land, they can get nothing for its produce. Their
food, a little Indian corn and water, they drag out a miserable
existence, with little chance of ever acquiring the only con-
solation that remains, that of procuring the means of return-
ing to their native land, in which many hundreds of those
deluded people declared to My friend that they would be glad
to accept the most abject employments, or even to beg from
door to door, rather than support the miseries of their situa-
tion in America. The women who had gone out were of all
others the most wretched; nor is there of any sex, or of any
.description, a single individual, who has recently emigrated
to America, that would not think it the most fortunate
emancipation to be landed naked on their native shore."
This is but the- picture-of those who have gone
out, with money in their hands, to purchase lands
in time El Dorado, which had been described to
them as cowing with Milk and honey, instead of
being, as it is, 'overgrown With vegetable rubbish
as old as the creation, the clearance of which
never repaid the person who toiled at that thank-
less labour. This painted Heaven, they have dis-
covered, to their sorrow, to be the toil of thorns
and suffer ings ; and blessed indeed would they
deem themselves to be transported, pennyless and
naked, to the bleakest mountain of the most de-
solate district in Wales or Scotland.
And if this be their fate, what must be the lot
,of those who visit the New World as Redemp-
tioners (as the Irish are now seduced to do).
Their passage is to be paid by future labours after
they are landed in America. The following ad-
vertisements from among hundreds of the same
kind, will show these White Slaves what their pre-
decessors have met with, and what they have to
expect :