The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-25 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

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Extracts from the Morning Papers, June '25

[MORNING CIIR.ONICI,E.I
The moving the second reading of the Irish
Insurrection Act, gave rise last night to a
lengthened discussion. When the celebrated
'Whitfield landed in Ireland, in 1737,' from the
Slave Countries of America, he was struck with
the great superiority of the condition of the
Negroes over that of the Wild Irish. "'As I
rode along (he says in his Journal), and oh-
served the meanness of the poor people's living
in these parts, I. said if my Parishioners at
Georgia complaio to me of hardships, I must tell
them how the Irish live. . . . . As I
stopped to, have my horses shoed, I went into
one of the poor people's cabins, as they call.
them ; but it. may as well be called a stye,
a barn, or a poultry coop. It was about
twenty feet long and twelve broad, the walls built
with turf and mud. In it was a man threshing
corn, two swine feeding, two dogs, several geese,
a man, his wife, three children, and a great fire.
Georgia huts are a palace to it." Such Ireland
was then, such Ireland is now. From Sir William
'Tempts down to Bishop Berkeley, every writer
complained of the scantiness of the population,
" supposing that if there were more inhabitants
there would be less wretchedness ; it now swarms
with inhabitants, but unfortunately the wretched-
ness has more than kept pace with the increase
of numbers. There is no security for person or
property in more than two-thirds of the country;
" The laws," as Mr. John Smith truly observed,
are openly and scandalously violated in most
parts of it, and if a man in the middle or upper
classes of life owes 201. it is almost impossible to
have him arrested, or for his creditor to obtain
justice ;" the Nidence disregards his oath, and
thd. Jury disregard !the evidence. The upper
classes are worse than Egyptian taskmasters, ut-
ft.rly regardless of the peasantry. 'f he peasantry,
again, notwithstanding their fine natural qualities,

are described by one Of the highest authorities,
Mr. OlYrisroll, 418 as ferocious, artful, idle, win-
gninary," ‘' We might exhibit," he says, 46 their
fierce fetuls, and rustic and deadly enmities;
their vengeance appeased with blood only—their
deceitfulness, except only in those compacts
where the laws are to he violated, and crimes are
to be perpetrated."

• [rue tvmcs.]
The Paris. Papers of Sunday lave arrived•--f
We insert the following official articles from the
Monitenr—(See another column of Tim Sufq),---
Which, however, will he found to add, in point
of fact, very little to the intelligence we have
alyPt ,' svetr.llntshal Moncey, it is troe, boasts
• ,
of di. .Aitt.:ol a detached ,columo of Mina's
N
corps., it46:Prench troops-, commanded by
Genera 0.4; and the Spanish rebels under
d'Erolei,sititCtinded on One „of the heights ,in the
Pyrenees. The accounts differ in the number of
prisoners, the Marshal making them 800, and
the d'Erloes 700, The exultation with which
this affair, is announced- shews the immense im-
.,:,,pertance attac:lit: to arty advantage, ho,wever
trifilitt,':', obiiiii. ..'' .r any part of Nlina's forces.
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44.1iimIG rose]
Some of our i * It iiiporarie3 put, on a ludicrous
affectzttion of toiror and ,dismay, because, the
CathOlie Board Of Dublin has thought proper to
change UR luttile, end to, titidertake once more the
charge of instructing the Govertimont of Ire-
land how the tranquillity of that country may be
hest maintained, The active and prominent
members of this Board 'are principally men who
feel their social importance, :or their professional
advancetrient,inniaired or obstructed by the few
remaining diSqualifications with which the law of
the. laud contlinies to murk the professors, of the
Roman' faith. Their sole bond of union, and
06f:witole claim to importance, consists in their
beitfigtatwyers and Politicians legally precluded
feciti(iiiiy further progress in the Law or in the
_State. At the head of this self.constituted authority
is a Barrister of the name ofO'Connel. NVlum
'midi is body as this pretends to represent a nation,
to expound its grievances, and to prescribe-for
its disorders, the ridiculous, it might be thought,
could go no further.: this opinion would, how.
ever, be efroneous, for it is not till bltinderers
at a distance are etitrapped into some serious no-
tice of its liompous nothings, that the true urine
of ridicule 'is attained. Of the agitated and care.
mitons condition of Ireland none can be more
Sensible than ourselves, and we should indeed
rejoice if no questions of greater importance and.
difficulty than those between the Irish Govern.
snot and the Catholic Board grew out of that
condition. Ti' the great mass of the Irish nation
this Board and all its debates and vagaries are
well understood to be what they really
,are—
nothing. The difficulty of governing Ireland
arises front' the peculiar relation in which the
property arid the popnration orthe country stand
to. each other, from the habits and feelings which
thiS-relation tias engendered', and from the appli-
cation to this heterogeneous maSO of laws and in.
3titistions fitted only for a society whose elements
blend and liarmoniv.o with each other. To trait-
tioilNe' Ireland legbdutiou may do inucli ; but it
is to the slow hand of time that we must chiefly
trust. To elevate the condition of her lowest
ranks-, to iniplant feelings of local interest and
attachtnent in the bosoms of her highest classes—
in a word, to,employ the' emphatic lapgunge of
Lord Liverpoolz to bring Irish society under
tke, dominion of -English sentiment, Is the only
certain means by which. she can he rescued frot*
the evils of periodical convulsion. By what
course,*. then, are these de§irable objects to be
accomplished ? Is it by attaching a
.ridiculous,
importance to every knot of busy intriguers, who,
emboldened by the agitations of their country,
may form themselves into 4 Board, and arrogate
a title to influence her destiny ? Is it by exaga)
gerating every local and trivial-Commotion, and.
dtielling upon it as the sure 'precursor of civil
war? Is it byy-those vague and woneaudng de•
.
ciumatioris which, without ,the, semblance di
impliryi assude• that if 4 people be uopro-

'perms and unhappy, the Government rtutst
of necessity, be vicious and corrupt ? Alas!
if these courses could have contributed to
the peace and welfare of a nation, Ireland
must long ago have attained to a splendid
pre-eminence of happiness and prosperity.—
The English Opposition have pursned these
courses with unwearied industry, and with the
naturareffect. But what practicable and expe-
dient measure for the good of Ireland has the
English Opposition at anytime suggested ?
Nothing is more easy than to vent complaints, or
to pour forth declamations, but where is the dis-
tinct measure beneficial to the people of Ireland,
which the English Opposition has suggested
or enforced ? Conscious of the difficulties of
the subject, they have cautiously abstained from
proposing any ; for as to the Catholic question,
convenient and useful as it unquestionably has
been to the makers of speeches and the penners
of paragraphs, it involves nothing interesting to
the great mass of the community in Ireland. If
the Catholic Board were commissioned to frame
their own Bill, and that Bill were to pass both.
Houses unanimously to-morrow, the agitations of ,
Ireland would neither discontinue nor abate.
The Government, oppressed as it also may well
be with the difficulties of the subject, has not
however thus despaired. It has proposed mea-
sures, from which the least sanguine anticipate
some degree of good, whilst it has withheld its
sanction alike from agitation and nugatory in-
quiry, or sweeping and hazardous innovation.

[NEW TIMES.]
Spanish Bonds slightly advanced yesterday,
and closed at 324. The fluctuation in Colom-
bian Bonds was again considerable, and the atten-
tion of the foreign markets was almost engrossed
by these securities. They were at,.the opening
47, and declined so low as 40. After so great a
decline, a reaction was naturally to be expected ;
and towards the close of the market they again
improved, and finally closed at 44i This fall
is of course attributable to the information we
laid before the public on Monday. In commu-
nicating those and other advices on the same
subject, we have been actuated solely by a desire
to present the earliest and most accurate intelli-
gence. There appeared no reason to doubt the
truth of the statement in the Cornwall Chronicle;
and the respectability of the quarter from which
the Paper was forwarded to us, forbade any
suspicion with respect to its being genuine,

By the arrival of the Princess Elizabeth
packet, letters were yesterday received from the
Brasils : she left Rio Janeiro April 10th, Bahia
the 24th, and Pernambuco the 3d ult. Prom the

former place, letters of a more recent date had
been previously received. The packet, 'Upon
arriving at Bahia, was recommended by the
British Anmiral to put to sea immediately, or
the authorities of Brasil would take out the
Brasilian passengers who were on board : she
consequently sailed on the 24th of A pril.—
The letter's from Pernambuco of the 2d ult. state,
that advises had been received from Bahia of one

day later date, viz. the 25th, which communi-
cate the fact, that Lord Cochrane (who had pre-
viously assumed the command of the Brazilian
fleet) had arrived off that port for the purpose
of blockading it. The• Portuguese squadron was
making every exertion to put to sea in a fit state
to meet the enemy ; and Admiral Vanconcellas,
who was to have the command, is well known as
a brave and experienced °timer, having served
for a considerable time under the late Lord

[BRITISH ,PRESS.]
Though the French troops are marching over
the country--have occupied Madrid, and will
probably obtain possession of Seville, we still
look on the cause of liberty in Spain as any thing
but hopeless. Wherever the Spaniards were or-
ganized, and could resist with advantage, they
have done so. They have held every strong
place capable of defence, and the friends and
supporters of the Constitution are still strong in
their hopes of liberty triumphing throughout Spain.
The last Bayonne papers to the lBth present any
thing but a dispiriting picture of the state of things
within the Pyrenees. Morillo is yet arming and
strengthening himself in Gallicia, and from the As-
tulles he is said to have attempted to draw the
French Gen. Bourck into the defiles of Villa Fran-
ca, hut to.have failed. The Empeeinado has 2,000 ,
foot and 300 horse, with which it is said he means
to attack Valladolid. Wpfkmen are busy i►t the
fortifications of Ciudad Rodrigo, and a division
,of 3,000 men was organizing.at Zamora. The
Guerillas are increasing in the,Oeighbourhood of
Madrid. Mina has yet succeeded in every
movement in Catalonia. Twelve thousand
men are under arms in Barcelona, and Bullas-
terns has a considerable force. Seville may, and
probably will fall to the invaders ; but Cadiz
will defy attack. That all Spain is not constitu-
tional we have no doubt. The seeds of super-
stition were sown too thick to have it so; but
the great majos'ity of the towns, and all 'that are
educated or respectable in Spain,'are, with few
exceptions, attached to liberty. Resistance (from
every account that can be relied on) is every day
increasing throughout the country. The French,
during the last w►ar, were more than a year in
Spain before the system was organized, or armed
resistance became general. The Spaniards are
grave, but determined ; they do nothing has-
tily, but, once resolved, they act most parse-
veringly. The pastor who caused Joseph Buona-
parte so much Marin, is said to be in Castile, at
the head of .1,000 troops; and the French at
Burgos, Leon, and other places, are stated to be
in the greatest alarm, and seeking reinforcements
from Madrid. But the French troops in thatcapital
Ore said now not to exceed '2,000 men, and if so,
they can give no assistance, and are scarcely nu.
merous enough for their own safety.

[MORNING HERALD.]
It is understood that the King of Spain will
not go to Cadiz, and that neither his Majesty nor
the Cortes will pass, for the present, beyond the
isle of Leon. The reason assigned for the Go-
verunient not removing to Cadiz is the fear that,
as is usual in the summer season, the yellow fever

will appear in Cadiz as soon as the hot weather
sets in. The strength of the Isla may be in-
ferred from the resistance which it offered to
the French in the last war; after repeated
attacks upon the outworks, and a prolonged
siege, they were obliged to give up the at-
tempt as hopeless. When Bordesoult shall
have arrived before the Isla, then will be the
time for the spirit of the Spaniards to show itself,
if they really be animated with an attachment
to the Constitution. In the- letters from our
Madrid Correspondent, published in The herald
of yesterday, it was justly remarked that the
French are already so widely spread over the
territory of Spain, that the Spaniards might an-
nihilate them by an energetic exertion. Even if

no punishment of this kind be• inflicted upon
them, for their iniquitous infringement on the
rights of nations, still the French will have
much to achieve before they can say they
have abolished the Constitutional regime in
Spain. They will now have to invest the
isle of Leon, which will take, at least, ten
thousand men ; they will have to keep open the
communication, between the Isla, and Seville, be-
tween Seville and Madrid, and between Madrid
and Bayonne—a line of nearly nine hundred
miles in extent. With all the strong places in
the northern provinces still in possession of the
Constitutionalists, what might trot Ballasteros and
Morillo yet effect, if they were welt supplied with
soldiers? Some doubt, indeed,hung over the fide-
lity of Morillo to the Constitution, since the affair
of the 7th of July; but Morillo now finds him-
self in a situation very different from that which
he occupied on the day the Guards attacked
Madrid. Then he had to choose between two
parties in the state, and he was blamed only
because his preference of the Constitutional Party
was tardy. But now he has to choose between

the subjugation and the independence of his
country; between Spaniards and Frenchmen,
and there can be little doubt how a true Spaniard,
as Morillo unquestionably is, has in his heart
decided. It is unfortunate that either he or
Mimi had not been posted in the pass of the
Sierra Morena, where either might have done
good service to his country, instead of wandering
about as they are at present,one on the frontiers,
the other in Gallicia. This error, however,
is to be imputed to that well-meaning, but
inexperienced Ministry, which traced out the
plan of the war. It can be remedied now only
by the sudden rising of a general spirit of resist-
ance amongst the Spaniards of the north, and by
their placing effective troops under the com-
mand of Morillo. Nay, even with desultory
Guerillas, what might not such a leader as
Morillo perform ? - With very slender means,
he won fourteen battles in South America,
and displayed in each of them talents of the
first order.. Envy of those talents, intrigues
and misrepresentations on the part of his ene-
mies, detained baim in Madrid until after the
French had actually entered Spain, when he
ought to have had his army organized and ready
to take the field. Even then the Government

could not furt►isl him
with money to bear his ex-
pences, and he generously furnished' them from
his 'own funds. Of his feelings against the enemy,
therefore', we have no doubt; all that he wants
is active assistance.

PROTEST/
ON THE THIM:),READING OF THE IRISH
GRAND JURY BILL

DISSEN TIENT,— 'lnasmuch as, notwithstanding the entire
approval of the undersigned of the principle of this Bill, for
restraining the profusion of .Grand Juries, and arranging the
future remuneration of the officers therein named for their re-
spective duties ; not by pre.sentments at the mere discretion of
the said Grand Juries, but by annual salaries, arranged agree-
ably to a certain regular , scale, which makes a part of the
enactments of the said Bill; helloes not think this House pos-
sessed of a single tittle of inforthation under which it ought to
feel itself prepared thus to decide upon the fortunes of eight
distinct classes of public functionaries, in 3l different counties,
five different cities, and two different counties of towns, by one
desperate stroke of sweeping legislation.
2tlly, Because the undersigned does not see sufficient or any
grounds on which he could adopt the present altered practice cf
ibis House, compared with the course which it followed during
the last Session, when a Bill, precisely similar to that now un-
der consideration, was not-passed into a law; for the avowed
reason that your 14Ordships. were not possessed of any sort of
information to guide 'your decision in the arrangement of its
numerous and -important details' which was decidedly with-
held, though your Lordships had distinctly applied for such
information, by a specific message to the other House.
idly, Because, in the still Continued absence of every detail, 'and
under the assumed correctness in all concerns relating to money,
of: the other brapch of the Legislature, as a matter almost of
amstitutional necessity, it does not appear to the undersigned
to'ftirnish any fresh argument for the adoption now, and with-
out any inquiry, of the same measure. which was so recently re-
jected; that the salaries of the Clerks of the Crown arc by this
Bill no less than doubled, and without any reason assigned, is
compared with the amount at which they stood in the Bill of the
;last &ssion, in the most important classes, and-greatly increased
in all the rest, every other salary remaining the same; and that,
whilst one public officer thus appears to have become, and so
Atiddefily too, so great a favourite, the proscription and unne-
cessary degredation of the friendless clerk of the peace seemelfb
Moue been nn less an object with the framers of the enactments
which have been under your Lordship's consideration.
Lastly, Because that, after your Lordshipa had yielded to the
necessity of permitting the Clerks of the Peace to be heard by
their Conned before your Committee, as acknowledged to have
freehold interests to defend ; and when they were desirous and
prepared to havesupPortal the allegations of their Counsel by
evidence at your Lort6hips' bar, and
dawn-
ed have proved, beyond
the Po'sibihtY of question, the inadequacy of the salaries awn-
ed by the bill fur the discharge of their various and important
duties, a diktinction was taken, of which the undersigned
cannot affect to speak without great surprise, us if the officer had
a freehold in the obligation to discharge the duties of his office,
but no freehold right to the possession of the emoluments specifi-
cally alai tiled by statute.for +such discharge of duty ; and be
cause such distinction was, notwithstanding, voted to be the
law of the land, the witnesses of the petitioners, who had been
already sworn in the usual manner, to give evidence before your
Lortiehips, dismissed unexamined front your bar, and any ef-
fectual consideration thus withheld, respecting. the injustice of
which they had complained. . DONOLTGIIMORE.

deplorable instance of
death, from the bite of a mad dog, occurred
on Monday :—Harriet Edwards, a girl of ten
years of age, the daughter of an industrious
mechanic hi Granby-place, Lambeth Marsh,
about two inqiubB since, went to a neighbour's

house to work. Whilt; there she was sent
down into the kitchen to clean knives, dm
when a dog tied up there, bit her in the leg.
The wound was dressed at tire time by a medical
person and heated. The dog shortly afterwards
died. A few days back the most alarming symp-
tvoetns,d to dispsit. Thomas'sayedthen Hospital,
tho child was con-
ye and on Monday
night she' expired in the most frightful paroxysms
of hydrophobia.