The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-06 00:00:00

recoil upon their authors, and expose their want of consistency
and principle. The Quotidienne asserts that Valencia had been
occupied by Ultann's corps, and that the first care of that
Chief " was to arrest the Judges of General Elio, who had
concealed themselves in the city, as well as the Chiefs of the
Patriotic Society, and to have them shot." The Journal de Paris
contradicts the report in the most' formal manner, and adds
that so far from Valencia being exposed to any danger, that
place was deemed so secure that the Constitutional General
:Mans° had been able to march towards Catalonia, to unite his
forces with those of Ballesteros and Mina. It is not indeed
likely that Ulmani, who lately experiebced. so severe a repulse
near Valencia, should have been able with defeated troops to
atchieve that which he could not accomplish in the plenitude of
his strength. And stiU less is it probable that if '4'alencia had
fallen, the Judges of the oppressor Elio, or the Chiefs of the
patriotic Society should have been so imprudent as to remain
within the city, to glut the vengeance of the sanguinary soldiers
of the Faith. All the probabilities of the case are therefore
against the occupation of Valencia, which, even if it were real,
would only be a temporary loss on the part of the Constitu-
tionalists.

[BRITISH , retEssd
As the. Irish Inquiry proceeds, light thickens
on the whole business, and the motives and actions of the parties
engaged are becoming distinct and clear. Evidence was given
at the bar of the Commons' House last night, which, if it re-
main uncontradicted, fastens the charge of partiality and corrup-
tion on the Dublin Sheriff Thorpe, most unequivocally. A most
respectable gentleman, Mr. Dillon Macnamara, an attorney,
whogaveltis evidence in thelairest and most car id manner, stat-
ed, that on the day the bills of indictment preferred against the
Orange rioters were ignored by the Grand Jury, Thorpe, the
Sheriff, came into the town-clerk's office, three quarters of an
hour before the Jury came into Court, and said, "'he knew
there would,be no bills," and seemed highly pleased as he said
so. In less than an hour after, the Jury came into Court, with
the bills in their hands, ignored. Another witness who was ex-
amined (a Mr. Tomlinson) heard Thorpe say, at the house of a
Mr. Smith, that they might challenge as many as they pleased
—that he had in his pocket a pannel of sixty persons he could
depend on. This, it must be admitted, was administering jus-
tice most impartially;' its fountains were in this way preserved
most unpolluted and pure. Mr. Plunkett spent his time and
trouble well, where an array' of sixty furious Orangemen were
packed by the leading Sheriff, to decide in the very first in-
stance on so important an occasion between the Crown and the
accused. A third witness; Patrick M'Connell, deposed to his
having been at one Sibthorpe's, a glazier on the Tuesday after
the riot at the theatre ; that there he saw Thorpe, the Sheriff, in
close conversation with William Graham, one of the traversers ;
anti on witness's asking when would the accused he put on their
trial, Thorpe replied, " I have got the Orange pannel in my
oCket." A fourth witness stated his having heard this worthy.
Sheriff declare at the Shakspeare tavern, in Dublin, " that he
wished the Devil had the Marquis IVellesley out of Ireland,"
that lie was "an annoyance, and in their way." All this was
certainly very calm and very becoming language for a high
functionary to use on such an occasion, where a most atrocious
outrage had been perpetrated, and justice was deeply committed
in the result. No wonder that Ireland should be in its present
dreadful state, if this be the way its sheriffs and public officers
conduct themselves.

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