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London, England, 1824-07-23 00:00:00

JAMAICA PAPERS.

BARANQUILLA, MAY 14.—The proceedings
of Congress, in Bogota, have not, as yet, been
marked with any act of public importance, if we
except the law just passed, agreeably to which
all the lands, dedicated to the Saints, (by far
the most valuable in the country, and amounting
to many millions), are taken from the Clergy,
and appropriated to the exclusive use of the
Government, for the prosecution of the war, &c.
This is as it ought to be ; but the system ought
to be followed up ; and it is hoped it will, by
condemning all the properties of Monasteries,
Cloisters, Convents, &c. in favour of the Go-
vernment, and converting their useless inmates
into useful members of society. Upon a late
occasion, when the Archbishop of Merida was
commencing a speech in the Senate, in the fol-
lowing manner : " Our Holy Religion is losing
ground," he was most promptly put down by
nearly a unanimous vote. Of the Holy Alliance
the Executive has received some late advices,
indicating an enterprize on this country. On this
the Congress have debated with closed doors ;
but, whatever may be said or written on it, the
fact is, that neither Spain nor France are desirous
of a war with the United States. What pare the
English Government takes on this occasion is per-
fectly enigmatical. If it is really the friend of this
Republic, it ought to recognize it ; Hits policy dif-
fers in this respect from that of the Holy Alliance,
it ought to recognize it ;--on principles of com-
mercial policy it ought to recognize it. Great
Britain itself (styled a free country) ought to
recognize the Republic of Colombia as.a matter
of course, and illustrative of her own free prin-
ciples of government.
(Extract ofa Letter front Trinidad, dated the 10th inst.)
You will have noticed in the English Papers
the Order in Council for the treatment of the
slaves in Trinidad. This has been published in
the Gazette here (although not officially), and
has caused great dismay and consternation among
all classes of the community. I fear it may be
attended with mischievous effects. I have no
hesitation in saying it gives a deadly blow to the
agricultural prosperity of the island, as none of
the inhabitants in the other colonies (the soil of
some of which is nearly worn out), will now
establish themselves here, and be subject to all
the palm; and penalties enacted by the said
Order. It is really unfortunate that Trinidad
should be made the theatre, for experiments on
all occasions ; but this too clearly proves the
case from Mr. Canning's speech. I send you a
pamphlet published by a Member of the Council
here ; and although it relates to the former pro.
positions of Earl Bathurst for the treatment of
the slaves still you may find it worth perusal.

FOR THE SUN.

IRELAND.

:Mr, EDITOR—Our tropes in Ireland are san-
gUine on die important change likely to originate
in the very necessary and most laborious atten-
tion which the British Senate has devoted to this
vexed and ill-governed Island. We have a Vice-
roy of acknowledged talents, of fair, manly, and
liberal policy, whose powers have been abun-
dantly appreciated on a field of ample space to
try the governmental tact of a veteran' in the art
of a statesman. Unhappily, however, Marquess
WELLESLEY'S splendid talents have not that field
for developement, for nice and consistent deci-
sion of character, in this secluded nook of the
Atlantic, which they lied while he wielded the
sceptre of Asia, the modern Autocrat of which
quarter of the globe it requires little observation
to see is, and must be, for some centuries to
come (it is to be hoped) the Governor-General
of British India.
Doubtless his Lordship will lay before the
Commissioners the large and generic views for
amelioration which his sound judgment and clis.
passionate inquiries must have procured since his
arrival in Ireland.
As to the Catholic question—there can be but
one sound opinion, perhaps, on this once intricate
inquiry ; the annual voice of the Commons
House of Parliament proclaims that common
sense will, at last, be an over-match for the
mean shuffling, and the wriggling lubricity, of
the High Church Party, the Saints, and the aca-
demic Tories of the Senate.
England, Great Britain rather, must give as a
boon, if she waits not to have the donation ex-
torted from her fears, or wrung from her prejudices.
What is this great boon to be bestowed—what
these prejudices to be conciliated ; the latter are
in truth abundantly obvious; the prejudices
which have kept faction alive for the last ten years
on the subject of concession to the Catholics are
interwoven with the earliest and strongest ties of
life ; they must really be extorted from such
great men as Mr. Peel, and all his advisers " et
id genus ovine." The talent of five millions of
Irish Catholics will speak in tongues of thunder,
and no Ministry can silence, no administration
can sit while this grand arcanum of politics re-
mains unexplained.
What do we fear ? what is the value of our
obsolete and forgotten Veto—we give a few fea-
thers to adorn the moth-eaten plume of papacy ;
the modern Bishop of St. Peter's, if not made im-
portant by injudicious opposition, must patch up
his parchment mitre with, the meagre remnant
gratuitously conceded by his whiskered martyrs,
the Austrians and the French. We are asked by
a few briefless lawyers and petulant bankrupts
in fortune, talent, and character, to grant Emenci-
pation ; what meaneth this enfranchisement from
chains, a boon of a few feathers to prop up the
decayed honours of a hierarchy past delivery ; a
few sacrifices, which a rational Statesman would
he the,first to grant unasked, for the purpose of
conciliation to some twenty or thirty Catholic
Gentlemen, , who wish to sit in his Majesty's
Senate, where possibly they may be very useful
in filling. the places of restless democrats, or ex.
pectant patriots: lo God's name let us give a
boon which must be writhed out of us at last
against our inclination. What would Daniel
O'Connel, that Hybrid Demosthenes of Ireland,
be, if he had no injustice to expatiate unto his
despised compatriots ? Have we not the power
still of making the infant legislators inert, by
withholding; the patronage of the Ministry to the
unpledged Sire of Popery in his incipient progress?
What in this free mixed Monarchy can we fear
from 50—from 70 Catholic Members of Parlia-
ment: -,Thectly
.danger is from Catholics, who
have net;OtitkiqUenCe, responsibility, or stake in
the eotuttry,.coutinuing by their insane effusions
to infuriate our Milesiau
Give then, Mr. Canning, the Catholics their
long-asked Emancipation, but shew these blunder.
into sons of faction that they shall wait for what,
had they observed more consistence and respect
in their harangues, they would have had sooner.
You will soon settle the turbid vat of holy water
and all tie unsociable.gownstnen of Capel-street
Association. •
TyTuEshit*N.7-74 subject scarcely less difficult
than the, grand-atumbling.block, Catholic Eman-
cipation.
Trents.--•-The •Tythe Speculation Bill is in
progress ;and from the frequent discussion it will
meet in and out of doors of the House, it must
ultimately be much bettered, .and its merits un-
derstood.
COusisr RATES, for the improvement of Pro-
testant:Churches, ought, assuredly, no longer to
be,levied, on. Catholics who !nap their own places
of worship to keep in order,, and to enlarge, if
they wish their flock to take shelter front the ruin
in this moist Isle of the Atlantic ; for it is a truth
which'a Sunday's ride through, Ireland (Munster)
%vill,evioce t more than half the Catholic con-
hin
sgt ciria(eiligt)Callltt! I:lo).Prisul7l:).ii:'Etl)4olciligito'e'UtlitTiri:)nw:'''l(lii‘sti sf itarhtCoe igarstYltlirdsantanlydon"...
Countylii 'time` of Co
who
reside in
fo Getttlt men, inr
aiusrt:tcicioet., a
~,ste)acrituythodf
piirt •of this county; the Barony of Moshe-11y, ac.
hitif tine., whole •rates or taxes
levied through the entire,county• There are more
Bar()4i's less fovoured that have not been repro.
sewed on n Col k Grand Ju-ry for at least 27 years.
'in one of there nearly• 7001. Irish is anuually
tontriielted for-road-nicking by the poor farmer
and the wretched cotter, who hires his acre of
potatoes, out of which immense contribution not
a seventh part goes to repair the roads on which
the ragged contributors travel to market with
their cont.' Now this most glaring and absurd
ex pi- ditiou must be corrected—let. the field eit.l
gineers be set at work, put upon full pay, say
eight or ten, and, let then) perambulate the
The discovery recently 'announced, as haying island, end submit
.atlttieourirboypotslnetdelchaanndgeswaatnedr
been made for the first time, ofi'oPE's Translation of Homer repairs in en
being written on the backs of letters,- Was told! to the publicnearly thirty seines eggo by :11 r.. . .
._IBII4SEt..I, his Curiosities..
--
t o tits Majesty's Government in Dublin Can.
who if the attme time gave an engraved far,: tle4-let the town' of each he charged with
simile of fore's translation)his' 'half earl retit-for' claret and Trish
Madame CATALANI,-baS generously cotrtributed. blar"7 .may
.hopitinic plain Enos}, nrchite,;.!
geitlus. • The road.mnking of Ireland has
20/. to poor Mrs. ilLastres Subscrjetiou eery. Duchess • . , •
c4l'. been long "a—Saili'diskt-ate to the nation its
NoaTnestisxl:llAND haS'utideit ten guineas to her former 'teal
nation.,

Extract (-if a Letter from Demerara, dated llth inst.
It seems to be a prevailing opinion in this Co-
lony, that the Ministerial experiment, now about
to he tried in Trinidad, will meet with serious
obstructions in practice, and, indeed, that it will
ultimately fail altogether. Our new Governor;
Sir Benjamin d'Urban, already displays great
energy of character, and pleases us by all the
frankness and affability of pia manners. Ile has
set out on a tour in this United Colony, to ascer-
tain, by personal investigation, the real state,
&c. of our Slave population—probably for the
purpose of grounding a Report to Government
On the subject. We entertain some hopes that
the new Slave Code will not be forced upon us,
till after it shall have been seen how it operates
in Trinidad."

jobbing is at this present moment notorious—but
the ignorance of the makers is as manifest; they
actually seem not to know the advantage of taking
a level through a hilly country, as many of the
new roads may attest at this day.
But what should most of all secure the at-
tention of the Irish Commissioners is the change
to be introduced into the habits, manners, and
domestic customs of the poorer part of our
population—the first feature, which looked pro-
minently forward in the portrait of Irish im-
provement, is the total want of sympathy of the
higher orders with the wants, the wishes, the
distress of the wretched and ragged Irish pea-
santry, and
.to this is their full series of evils and
dereliction incidental to a state of society where
honesty of character has no incentive for its
elicitation—positively character in the rural
population of Ireland is at a low ebb, the
thoughtless and ignorant vassal is ignorant of the
.value of honesty, and the importance of reputa-
tion. There is no reward for fair-dealing—their
landlords are in general merciless rack•renters,
and the tenant is almost careless what opinielz
either his landlord or the few remaining gentry
entertain on this subject.
Education gradually introduced, and imparted
to Catholics and Protestants, without Bibles, or
interfering with ceremonials, or proselyting, to
the remotest manner--this must be the work of
time, and the descendants of the present incum'
bents will be two or three degrees advanced its
the scale of civilization, by the infant germine
now committed to the soil for maturation.

PRISONS IN I It ELAND.—A proper interior, COT
rective discipline, and set codes of regulations
should be adopted—the feeding of prisoners
should be taken entirely out of the hands or
either jailor or inspector, and committed to re-
gular purveyors, who, at a price to be reg Oar!
I
decided, like any other contract, military or civil,
should be grouted twice a year.
CHARITIES, and FUNDED ENDOWMENTS, ill
IRELAND, should be new modelled—these me)
be formed, and noble endowments granted, from
the family of absentee Peers, whidh are at this
moment absolute sinecures—large schools en"
dewed, whose very walls* are in ruins.
AGRICULTURE may Le much improved, ana
most useful changes induced in the art, by send-
ing over farmers qualified to instruct by example;
let a few absentee landed proprietors be solicited
by Government to grant districts of their estates
to persons renting the same, for the purpose of
introducing a better system of farming—let
townships or villages of useful, industrious colo-
nists be introduced from Norfolk, from York-
shire, from Airshire, from the Lothians, from
the Carse of Gowry ; and let these valuable
ml-
grators get an interest in their farms, and en-
couragement to remain, and hopes of , enjoying 0.
renewal of their leases—let the nietuts of de•
fence be placed in their hands, after allegiance
to their Sovereign be secured by oath.
You will find these valuable innovators will
impress on the minds of the endemial inhabitant
the use of industry, and the value of honest
dealing. The great defect of Ireland is—the
vast Catholic population have no wants—the
potatoe fills the windy, voice in their intes•
tines, and they look not for the aliment of men
civilized, but are content with filth and farina
inferior to their kindred swine.
This subject is too extensive to be compressed
into the compass of a letter; if your Readers IWI
Ithe inquiry, they may hear more from

ANGLO-IIILESIANVS.

• Vide Middleton, County Cork, a noble endowment by the.
family of Lord Middleton.

AQUATIC EXCURSION AND BALL.

On Tut'stlay tbe'Friends and Subscribers of
the Tower Hamlets Charity School for educating and clothlvg
the children of the poor, assembled together on board the
Venn: steam-packet, for the purpose of aiding the funds of the
above excellent 'Establishment, through the medium of an elt-
cursion to the Nore and Sheerness, and a grand ball in the
evening.
By seven o'clock in the morning, the vessel, which was Sta.
tinned near the Thames Police Office, was crowded with besutYt.
and fashion, and among the company were several persons
distinction, members of the Coronation Fleet, &c. who seem° to take a lively interest in their work of charity.
The fineness of the morning added to the interest of the c011_1;
pany, who were enlivened by a band of music, which continued
playing several delightful airs and tunes during the
(Isl. I`
lieihments were provided on board, and the dance was kept "
with much spirit until the arrival of the vessel in the evening. when it was brilliantly illuminated, and covered with a saVtilr, awning. Various devices with variegated lamps were fixedevery direction, and the letters '4 G. MI. E.' with a crown*
in honour of his Majesty's Coronation, were stationed at
f,,s,t end of the packet, which presented a brilliant appearance. view commanded from London Bridge and the surroundTtt
neighbourhood was extremely interesting, the lustre of the rnination having the appearance of a tiame issuing from T;
water, which attracted the attention of crowds of persons
assembled on the bridge and the banks of the Thames. Country dancing, quadrilles, the waltz, reel, and hornPiPc:,
morn'
were pursued with animation until an earlylhour yesterday
nintgoaournedNeretthtieedfoirredc.tioprhofe Aclorm Brown the the Steward, and Go
,":d
with the entertainment.
We are happy to state that the contributions towards itit
Charity were very handsome.
appeared highly grattn

On Wednesda the 2 BIRTHS.
Esq., of F 21st inst. the lady of Benjamin C°le'
rognaly , ,
Hampstead, of son.
On the 20th. inst., Mrs. R. Obbard, of a son, her sixth edit

RIED.'
On Tuesday, the 13thMAR inst, I
. at St. Marylebone church' ~.11rds
Lewis Alark Constantine to Emila Fraise, only survivinfi
of the late Mr. John Fraise,- each aged 36, after a pletsa courtship of twenty years.

DIED.
ton,
On Tuesday, the 20th inst., Thomas Clarke, Eq.! surgtilv
Lincoln's-inn-fields, in the 40tla year of his age, deserve •
beloved and lamented.
On the 16th inst., at Fursdon, in Devonshire, after a °Jort
illness, aged 26, Charles Fursdon, Esq., eldest son of 61006
Sydenharn Furadon, Esq., of that place;
essi
On the 25th ult., at Jersey, aged
513, to the inexpr bl grief of his afflicted widow and relatives, Lieutenant-Coleao
Spawforth, late of the 2d Ceylon Regiment.
CaOmnbetrwheeri,lsatgiendst7.,;i.‘Villism Old, 'Esq., of Addington-ply'
James
Sunprx DEATTIA.--On Wednesday evening, 115 toe
Simpson, seaman, belonging to this town, was looking at oien
boys gathering bait at the. back of the New East Quay, he die
down, and almost instantly expired—it is supposed owing to
rupture-of a blood-vessel. .11edical Aid was instantly procure
but to no effect. A still more painfully interesting instance
A. the precariousness of human hfe occurred here last week* by
line young woman, who was marrird at Saltcoati on Tt'le,,,
hither' t'i-
H2'lMigilt to it tradesman of this town, on, her way -
same day was taken ill, and, to the great grief of all her frien__;,
expired on Friday. What renders this case the more iMPThoil
sive is, that on Tuesday last, just one week from the day
which she left her home a gay told. happy bride, her regtal were removed thither, front hence for interment.--((us°oort
Ile! old.)

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