The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-01 00:00:00

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.

Several mercantile expresses arrived this morn-
ing from Path, the letters received by which arc dated on Wed-
nesday evening, and they communicate an advance 'in the
French Kentcs of nearly 2 per cent., their price .having on the
morning of that day opened at 77, and closed at 78f. 50c. The
Bonds of the King of NAPLES were also one per cent. dearer,
Spanish were rated at 401 40.
Consols for the settlement in February opened this morning
at 74a g, and remained for some time extremely steady, when
they suddenly fell to 741. This great depression was occasioned
by tho failure of an eminent dealer to an immense extent. He Is
deeply interested with the Contractors in the last two Spanish
loans, by which lie has sustained the loss of a very large property.
ills misfortunes are much regretted by every body, for he was uni-
versally respected as well for his gentlemanly conduct, as tbr the
honourable character which marked all his public transactions.
—The panic produced by this event was very considerable,
but the Consols afterwards revived, and were done at 751 b
occasioned by a rumour that his Mauve Y was resolVed to re.
main neutral in the struggle for Spanish freedom. ►The only
ground for this. report, however, probably was, a declaration,
said to have been made last night to the Spanish Ambassador
by Mr. CATINING....." that no answer could be given to a ques.
tion (which had been put to him respecting the conduct of
England), because his Majesty's Ministers had a feeling that
circumstances might yet occur to prevent France front com-
mencing hostilities," &c. The Closing price of the Consols
was 731,

In foreign securities a good deal of business continues to be
done on speettladon, but, no investments of capital arc made.
The prices of Spanish Bonds arc heady the same 02 yeatetdaY•
Those'or the Czar of Muscovy are two per cent. lower.
On the Baltic walk Tallow has this day risen to Us. 6(1.
There is some demand this day for bonded Wheat, and a few
cargoes have been soul. For home consumption there is not
yet any improvement, but there is an Impression among met.
chants, that should a tear be created in Europe, every &serif',
lion of agricultural prudUce would advance, folttisslcatiervrtY_
would not be considered so secure, and a great deal or capital
would be invested in commerce and latitt—Suger is again Is-
per cwt. dearer,—(Atorning Chtenkto

the AnnY.
Whereas the late Colonel John Prouty, Governor of coves
Casde, bequeathed by will the surn of ten thousand pounds, 3
pa cent. Reduced Bank Annuitiea, to die Secretary at War
111141-thd ,Pikyallitrit46lllo4ll-**r talol4ebi4iii, aa-low. l iter
them in trust, anti the interest, thervot.onatnely, three hundred
pounds per annum, to be by them applied in payment of an.
nuities to fifteen widows of Oaken of the Army, killed or
dying in the service, viz.

'To }'ire Tridowa o Caiitiii:ns at 231. esOb.
PiVeltridows of Lieutenants at 201, each.
Five IVitlowi of Cornets or EttSigtlo At 15/. each.
whose yearly intomes shall not exceed the sum of 301. caclu.
sive of their annual pensions from the Public, with a special
direction that the widows of Officers killed upon service should
upon all occasions have preference, and that regard should also
be had to the cases of such widows as have Most children born
in wedlock.

Notice is hereby given, that. the Secretary at War and the
Paymaster-enteral, will be ready to consider the claims of such
widows, as are eligible under Col. Drouly's said will, to receive
the said annuities according to the foregoing conditions. Rut
in consequence of the preference which, as above stated, is by the
said Will of the late Colonel thouly, directed to be given to the
claims of the widows of Officers killed in the service, and the
limited number of widows to whom pensions can be granted,
no application can at present be entertained from any widow
whose husband was not so killed ; it being conceived that there
will be more eligible applicants from sniong the widows of such
Officers than the Fund will afford the means of providing tor.
If, however, at any future time, there should exist the means
of entertaining applications front widows whose husbands died
while in the Service, not having been killed in action, due
notice thereof will be given.
The. claims are to he addressed to 4i the Secretar at War
WPar.Oflice, yar.Office, London," and to be sent in betbre the 25th Sept.., 11123.
Wet... Office, 3d, Jan. 11123.

STEALING DEAD BODIES.---This Hoye] case wag
tried at Wells on Saturday. The defendants are
five young gentlemen of Bristol. Mr. PALsica,
as Counsel for the prosecution, clearly pointed
out the enormity of the effence. Be hoped that
the Court, that day, would show that the deposi.
tory of the deed should not be violated with im-
punity. Mr. WILLIAMS, as Counsel for the de.
fendants, allowed the illegality of the offence,
and admitted the defendants to be guilty of all
with which they were charged, excepting that of
conspiracy, which he hoped would not be pressed.
(This charge was readily waived by plaintiff.)
Mr. W. then addressed the Jury in mitigation of
punishment, From the novelty of the case the
Court deferred judgment until next Session, with
the intention of consulting the Judges of the
Assize on the subject, and in the mean time the
defendants were bound over in sureties of MM.
each for their appearance to receive judgment,-
Weymouth Gazette.)

Mrs. Susannah Wright will be brought up
from Newgate, before the Judges at Westminster-
hall, on Monday next, in order to receive her
sentence ; she having given notice to Mr. PIM.
CHARD, the Solicitor to the Society for the Sup.
pression of Vice, of her being so far recovered as
to be able to attend for that purpose.
We have been informcd by a "rresPoluleutt
that Bank 'Notes to the amount of 3GOL were
picked up by a poulterer,at Owe corner of Token
lionse.yard, about three o'cloC4 Atiterday after.
boon. 'The matt"s name and itidre4B was lett 4'itit
a Iklarslialman, at the 'Mansion !louse.—(3lurn.
ing Paper.)

Ma. EDITOR-1 shall now resume my remarks
upon the ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S Speech, deli-
vered in the House of Common,,,, on the 22d of
April, on Sir JOHN NEWPORT'S Motion as to the
State of Ireland ; which may, however, extend
beyond the present letter : but In this I shall
confine myself to the Right Hon. Gentleman's
mistakes, or mis-statements, as to the vast pre-
ponderance of the Romanists of ,the lower class
over the Protestants of the same rank ;'or rather,
except in the north, as to the former being the
sole occupiers of the land. The which, coming
(rum itichfilgti authority as the first Law Officer
of the Crawl*, may, if not controverted:have
most mischievous and pernicious effecq in mis-
leading the Legislature, and the British Nation,
so as to induce them to lend a favourable ear to
claims, which they have been falsely assured are
those of the whole population of Ireland.
In that part of his speech in answer to Mr.
Ellis, MI. Plunkett said—" Arguments he (Mr.
Ellis) had adduced not relied on what lie
denominated facts." " The truth was, that the
insurrectionary movements in Ireland were con-
fined entirely to certain districts of the South.
Limerick, Cork, Kerry, and a part of Tipperary,
were itl'a state of disturbance. The entire pepu-•
lotion, speaking of the lower classes of the people
in those districts, were Roman Catholics. The
disturbances were confined to the lower classes :
they did not extend beyond them ; but over-
looking this tact, the Learned Gentleman has
traced the disturbances to a religious feeling—
those who were concerned in them being the dregs
of the people, and all the lower classes professing
the Catholic Faith." And, in the latter part of
his speech, where he touched upon; the tithe
sytem, he added, " in most parts of Ireland, ex-
cept the North, the occupiers of the land were
Catholics." •

The first assertion must have been made in the
pure apiritotchavityssul ilbescality ; andthe second
as a collateral proof ; for if the Right Honourable
Gentleman could establish the position, that the
lower classes of the people in the counties of
Limrick, Cork, Kerry, and Tipperary were ex.
elusively members of the Church of Rome, there
was of course less of reproach to that Church,
when her votaries perpetrated every species of
crime, treason, murder, rape, robbery, and
destruction of property, in the name of religion,
than if there were Protestant Inhabitants of the
same rank, suffering equally from the general
distress, who yet preserved their loyality to their
Sovereign, and were in peace and charity with
their neighbours. But, if the lower classes of
inhabitants in those disturbed districts were ex-
clusively " Catholics," will the Learned Gentle-
man inform us where they found so runny Pro.
testant victims to their cruelty I From which it
is self-evident that there must have been a few
Protestants of the lowest rank : however, I shall
endeavour to prove that, at least as to this County
(Cork), the learned Gentleman has been led into
a very gross mistake by Some of his Veracious
friends.
Cork is by much the most extensive County in
Ireland ; so that, at one period, Government had
it in contemplation to divide it into two Counties.
Its greatest length, from East to West, is about
93 Irish miles ; its' greatest breadth is near 44
Irish miles, and it contains 1,030,581 acres.
Sir William Petty, in his 44 Political Anatomy of
Ireland," estimates it as nearly one-eighth of
the whole Island. In this extensive county
numerous colonies of Protestants had been plant-
ed by difirent members of the noble families of
Boyle, Pereeval, and others. Now, I would ask
the Itight Hon. Gentleman,and doubtless he can
give a satisfactory answer, what has become of
those numerous colonies, and their descendants ?
Have they been extirpated by their Popish
neighbours—or become converts to Popery—or
emigrated—or, contrary to the law of nature,
have they become extinct, while it was only
given to their more holy neighhouris to" increase
and multiply," and that in a miraculous degree ?
My bookseller in the city of Cork has sent me a
work, lately published, Letters by
Sidney," which I recommend to the serious at-
tendon of the Learned Gentleman; as the vo-
huge contains unanswerable reasoning upon this
and other subjects connected with Ireland,
strengthened by irrefragable authoritiet, which
the enlightened minds of modern philosophers
may hold in contempt as obsolete. It, however,
furnishes me with a dUCOMeIIt of recent date,
which I consider of very grill importance in the
present inquiry—an official retort, of the paupers
and beggars of the county, as well its of the
city of Cork, admitted into the Amis. of In.
dustry for a period of three years, ending the
Ist day of June, 18,112,11istinilulatiell the Romish
putters and beggars from the Pmestanti from
which ii appears that the fortner are to theiatter
in no greateriatio timlfour 400110 thOlgh Cprk

is one of those counties, in which it is admitted
that itotnanists of the lower class very consideras
bly preponderate over Protestants of .the same,
rank. When we consider this House of Industry
in the City 'of Cork as the general reftige of tint:
beggars of the County, and probably df. the
joining parts of neighbouring Counties-whisn'ive
consider that the Magistrate's of the County !mitt'
the power, of which they uniformly avail them-
selves, of sending paupers thither,---I thinkihia
one document fully refutes the A ttorney-GetierePti
Assertion--" that the entire population, speaking
of the lower classes, were Roman Catholics."
A tour through, this Province, in the naxt long
vacation, might be conducive to the Right Hop,
Gentleman's health, after the painful and labs,
rious duty 9f prosecuting the Ribbonmen fqr,
having conspired. to subvert the Governotentekte4
to extirpate all the Protestautt; atutafter the
laboriouilluty of pleadtngibe Cause of .4lve "Ca-
tholics" in Parliament at the same tinte,if he shalt
aet out with. amind open te convictins•
certainly receive much eseful information,:, of
which he appears to me to stand greatly In
,need.
Let him, in his .progress, visit .this town, one of
those Colonies have already alluded to, which
had been planted, by the first Earl of „Cork; *IIO
in a letter to Mr, Secretary Cock, ,written- in
April, 1692, gives this account of his progress
44 In my town, there is built e strong bridge over
the river, two large sessionshouses„ two market
houses, with two fair churches, which churches are
so filled every:Sebbath day, with neat orderly
religious people, as it would comfort any good
heart to see the change, and behold such assern
blies ;"—and it will doubtless comfort his Wart
to see our " Churches filled every Sabbath-4y
with neat, orderly, religious people," the des
sceudants of that very Colony planted by„the
Earl of Cork. Let him make his visit on the
next anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, end
he will be gratiOed to- see those ",neat, orderly,
and religious people," go in procession to the
Temple of God., to offer their praise and thanks
for his providential and 'merciful deliverance of
this land.. from Popery, and arbitrary power ;
even though our truly pious, orthodox, learned,
and highly talented Bishop should order the
doors of the Churches to be closed against, tNtn,
as on the last anniversary, when they !era el-
lowed the use of the Methodist Chapel ;—in the
•evening, they will. drink " the pious, glokioui,
and immortal memory of King the
Third ;" even though the Attorney-General, if
he be then Attorney-General, should bring an
ex-pfilcio ieformation in his pocket.
',Ube. Rig* Hon. Gentleman has not informed
us what• proportion the' mireCnlous 'numbers
lately returned to P.arliament as the population
of Ireland, he will vouchsafe to allow to Pro..
testauts; but it must be small indeed, if we
may judge from his liberality to the Rornitaists,
when he stated,' "that the entire., portiae
!aeon of Limerick, Cot k, 'Kerry, and Tipparary,
speeking of the lower classes 'were. .ItOntan
Catholics ;* and that "in most parts 44...frelastd,,
except the north, the occupiers of the' land'were
Catholics." I shall, however, in oppOsition to
his hypothesis, cite two other authorities ; one of
which has never been questioned ; and the-other
ought to have some weight with Papists, end the
advocates of Popery. The first, Sir 'Wm.- Petty,
in Ilia " Political Anatomy," mentions the. Pro-
testants to be to the Romanisls in the •proportion
of three to eight in the year 1672, that is, more
than one-third of the whole population of the
island ; though his descendent, the Marquis of
Lansdown, in the true spirit of modern liberality,
allowed only one-seventh to Protestants and Pro-
testant Dissenters. The second, br. Burke;
Romish Titular Bishop of Ossory, in his work
intitled " Ilibernire Domitticina," mentions art
enumeration of the inhabitants-Of Ireland, made
by the Romish Priests, in the year 1731; at
which period the Itornattists were not 'quite tiro
to one of the Protestants, the former amounting
to 1,309,768, the latter to 700,453.
Mr. Plunkett declared in pretty strong terms,
that the persons concerned in the disturbances,
" were the dregs of the people : they did not
extend beyond them." Will the Right Ho-
nourable Gentlemen say, that Mr. Denis Egan,
an, opulent, farmer, on whose person the ou-
nuscript book, containing the entire system of
Whiteboyism, was found in April 1822, was of
44 the dregs of the people ?" Or that Arthur
O'Leary, the leader of the party that itrooolateti
Mr. Brierton, merely because he was a Protes-
tant, was of " the dregs of the people ?" The
first named person he might not have heard of ;
nor yet of the manuscript hook, as he was at that
time attending his titit,y in Parliament but I
perceive that he will find this document in the
appendix to Sidney's Letters. As to O'Leary,
he rented, a pretty extensive farrn from Mr. Iler-
bert ; and, though without any pretensions to
rank as 'a Gentleman, vas cousin. german to a
Runtish Magistrate of the County of Kerry. I
cold adduce many similar instances but, as
they are connected with other topics, and other
persons, they would lead me into to great length ;
and I shall pospoue them to another opportunity.
Themistakest or finis-statements, of Mr. PlOn-
kett, must have proceeded front ignorance, or
from design : if from the first,- it chews at Once
that he was a pseudo-Statesmen tad that, in
St..' Stephen's chapel, he was more out of his
proper place, the state of Ireland CanalOred, Onto
Mr, out of his, there-104 three other
Mester' in Chancery, so that the ends of Justice
could not have,heen retarded, tehile they might,
in the
.time of rsitudlion, the absence of the
first Law Officer 4tbe .crpoi•
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retamAtinu#l4.

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