The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

A letter from Ireland, which we annex to this
article, will be read with interest, and, if we do
not greatly err, with considerable satisfaction
also. The deferred trials of the Munster circuit,
for anti-tithe meetings and conspiracies, being
eagerly looked forward to on all sides, some
curious occurrences have taken place. At Lime-
rick several prisoners were to be tried, and pro-
tlifious things were expected from Mr. Daniel
0 Connel. Unluckily, the cholera had not

altogether vanished from that city, and it was
therefore altogether too soon for the rival nuis-
ance to appear there. The anti-tithe mania of
the learned gentleman was rebuked and put down
by the anti-cholera. Some annoyance may have
been indicated, and some contempt ; but the
trials were put off, and there was, as our cor-
respondent says, "no outbreak." At Tralee,
however, there was no cholera; the trials there-

fore proceeded) and the Agitator, as counsel for
the prisoners, spouted forth abuse of Lord
Anglesey, &c., during four mortal hours by the
time-piece. What next ? Mr. Woulfe, a Catholic
barrister of great talent, replied to the
Agitator on the part of the Crown, and three
of the O'Connell clients and dupes were
convicted. Twice, then, within a week has
the spell been broken. The Agitator's dread
of cholera has proved too many for his patriotism,
and a jury of honest Kerrymen, from his own
vicinage, proved too many for his rhetoric. He
failed to come to Limerick, where he had been
expected ; and at Tralee, where he did show him-
self, he failed to satisfy a jury from among his
own neighbours, of the plain proposition, that
black is white. The people no longer conceal
their distrust of this idol of the last ten years, and
from the tone of the popular papers of Dublin,
persons on our side of the water suspect that it
begins to be " mighty bad" with the Liberator.
Here follows the extract of the letter referred
to :—" In the deferred Munster Circuit several
tithe cases were likely to come on for trial,—that
is, the trial of parties implicated in the violent
meetings lately held. To the result of these trials
the attention of the public was directed with the
greatest anxiety. The prisoners naturally looked
for and claimed the advocacy of Mr. O'Connell ;
but cholera had not altogether ceased at Li-
merick, and this physical disturbance repelled the
spirit of agitation. -The greatest dissatisfaction
ensued, but as the trials were postponed, no
out-break of discontent on the part of the sub-
agitators occurred. The next trials were fixed
at Tralee, in the very county which Mr. O'Con-
nell represents. Here his adherents knew that
he must appear, and they anticipated that he
must be triumphant. When the cases came on,
every attempt was made for delay. Copies of
indictments, containing 30 counts, were called
for on the part of each traverser. The officers
of the Crown were prepared, and this demand
was instantly complied with. An attempt was
made to postpone by a traverse in prox. This
was defeated. A jury, composed of Protestant
and Catholic was empannelled, a near relative
of Mr. O'Connell being one of the number.
The Crown set aside four persons only, and
those on affidavits, uncontradicted, averring
that the parties had themselves attended anti-
tithe meetings. The cause proceeded. The
witnesses examined were all natives of
the county, and from the vicinage. Mr.
O'Connell made a speech of four hours, in
which he exhausted his powers of eloquence,
and exhibited his powers of abuse against tithes,
Lord Anglesea, Colonel Gossett, and many
other things and persons. The Court adjourned,
The reply on the part of the Crown was by Mr.
Woulfe, a most able and excellent Roman Ca-
tholic advocate. A verdict of " Guilty " has
been returned against three of the traversers, a
fourth being acquitted in consequence of the
weakness of the evidence as applicable to
him. The importance of all this will
occur to you at once. The people have
thus seen that the dread of cholera is somewhat
more effective than all the professed zeal of pa-
triotism ; and that the argument and the autho-
rity of their legal and political oracle may be set
aside by the verdict of a Jury of their own
countrymen."— Times.
The conduct of the Government towards the
West India body has been sufficiently destruc-
tive; it needed not that Lord- Goderich should
add insult to injury in the course pursued with
' respect to the Orders in Council. Certain mo-
difications of them have been ordered from the
Colonial Department, which the colonists first
hear of through the medium of the newspapers
that have published Lord Goderich's despatch
with reference to this subject, and which was
sent out to the island some months since. To
several communications that were made to the
Colonial Secretary his answer was that he could
not promulgate any information with regard to
the course to be adopted as to the Orders in
Council. There is a littleness in this conduct
that one could scarcely have expected from the
present Cabinet, for there could be no motive
for secrecy beyond that of causing further anxi-
ous suspense to an, interest that had been already
deeply injured by. the Whigs. It it is intended
to be asserted that the despatch was a public do-,
cument because it was among the Parliamentary
papers, that is proof of still meaner conduct
on the part of Lord Goderich, because it proves
that he could have no real motive for conceal-
ing the contents of his despatch even for a point
of time ; and he must also know that although
Parliamentary papers are public documents,
technically speaking, they are not accessible to
every one, and many persons interested in the
operation of the Orders in Council, had no
means of seeing those documents. The. fol-
lowing are the modifications we have alluded. to:;
—Permission has been given to the Governors of
the Crown Colonies to admit of the considera-
tion of various points, in the Order in Council
by the Courts, with a view to some modifica-
tion of them, and, in the event of their ap-
proving of the alterations sumsted, that they
should be admitted ; but that in the promulga-
tion of such alterations no reference should be
made to the authorities of such Courts, but that
it should appear to emanate from themselves.
The consideration of the Orders in Council is
not pressed upon the Colonies having regular
Legislatures at present, the reason given for not
pressing the matter further at the moment be-
ing that Parliament has taken up the question.
We repeat, what injury could the public service
have sustained by Lord Goderich exercising
common courtesy towards the West India pro-
prietors by informing them of the course be in-
tended to take ?—Morning Post.
We receive every day additional proofs of the
absolute necessity of the Ballot. Throughout
England, Wales, and Scotland, the efforts of
the Conservatives to coerce the electors are most
scandalous, and indeed the country will not en-
dure them. The landlords have the audacity to
speak of their tenantry as if they had an absolute
right to their votes. We have a striking in-

stance of this in the Welshman (Carmarthen

Journal) of Friday last. The bissenters of
Carmarthen, it seems, have objections to vote

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for the Tory Candidate, Colonel Rice Trevor,
who is the favourite of the Landlords ; and Mr.

Daniel Prytherch, Chairman of Colonel Rice
Trevor's Central Committee, who was the Mayor

of the Tory Corporation of Carmarthen last
year, has the unblushing effrontery to write the

following Letter :
" Committee•room, Carmarthen, Sept. 28, 1832.
" DEAR SlR—The Hon. Colonel Rice Trevor's Central
Committee, having received information from undoubted
authority, that great efforts are makinz by the Dissenting
Ministers throughout this county to influence the tenantry
to vote, in opposition to their landlords, against Colonel
Trevor, which, in several instances, have succeeded, beg

leave earnestly to request you will lose no time in seeing
the tenants on your estates, or, at all events, communi-
cating your sentiments to them through some influential
agent. " I remain, dear Sir, yours obediently,
" DANIEL I'RYTHERCH, Chairman."

A meeting of the Dissenters took place at
Carmarthen on Thursday last, at which it was
resolved—" Not to support any Candidate for
Parliamentary representation who does not pledge
himself to advance and support the utter and itn-
mediate abolition and annihilation of Slavery in

the British Colonies ;" and
" That the Dissenters of the day having been mainly
instrumental in placing the 1-lou,e of Brunswick on the
Throne of these Realms, and feeling as sincere and unqua-
lified sentiments of loyalty as any other body in the Em-
pire, we utterly deny the right of conceding to Incorpora-
tions, power, or influence, to enable them to erect a harrier
to the dissemination of Christianity in any of the British
dependencies ; and therefore we call on the British Go-
vernment to afford our cruse that protection, which in a
constitutional, as well as religious view, it undoubtedly
merits.

" That it is the opinion of this meeting that all religious
bodies ought to be supported by those alone who are at-
tached to them, and not by any involuntary exaction.

" That, wishing to send our Candidates to Parliament
with as little expense to them as possible, we pledge cur-

selves, and recommend all our fellow Dissenters, to come

to the poll at their own personal expense."
This Meeting of Dissenters, it seems, greatly
alarmed the Tories. The Welshman says, " The
violence of the Tories is amusing. Colonel
Trevor had his brigade, the staff of Carmarthen,
under arms all day yesterday, lest the Meeting of
the Dissenters should lead to riots. We would
be glad to know who watched the Gallant Co-
lonel, for we believe he was full as riotously dis-
posed as the respectable individuals he thus at-
tempts to insult." We have no doubt that the
proceedings of this assembly will have great

influence.
" This highly respectalde body (says the IVelshman)
has, notwithstanding the discountenance of the rulers of the
nation, risen to power and importance—it can no longer
he denied that they now infinitely outnumber the ranks
adhering to the Establishment, and they will them-
selves acknowledge the justice of the sentence of
degradation under which they long have lived, if,
in conjunction with the friends of civil and reli-
gious liberty in the Empire, they do not return a great
majority of the Members to the House of Commons...—
The meeting was held in a field at the back of the Ebe-
nezer Chapel, where a stage was erected for the Speakers
by our spirited townsman, W. Phillips, Esq. The assem-

b!y, although composed of little more than delegates from
the various congregations, was immense ; there were up-
wards of a hundred ministers of all denominations present;
and notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather,
the rain having driven hundreds from the field, yet the
multitude that remained was truly imposing." _

A hundred dissenting Ministers present ! This
looks well. The Tories of Carmarthen will find
out their mistake in attempting to bully such a
body. Though we have no doubt as to the
issue, and are quite aware that the Dissenters
know well their own strength, that they are
every where the majority of the electors, yet it
is not necessary that. they should in the mean'
time be persecuted by the landlords. -The ballot
.must be obtained.. If it be withheld, the whole
country will be one scene of confusion.-1---Morn-
ing Chronicle.
The trial of M. Berryer, before the Court of
Assize, at Blois, on a charge of High Treason,
affords a melancholy illustration of the working
of the spy system in France. In every country
infamous employes may be had to trump up
false charges affecting the lives of the most ho-
nourable men who happen to be obnoxious to
the existing Government, if such Government
will only encourage and reward the venal
wretches who lay snares for innocent blood.
The pages of English history, in former times,
record but too many fatal instances of the most
deliberate prostitution of the sacred name of
justice to the purposes of political manoeuvre or
revenge—but since the days that Titus Oates,
Dangerfield, and others, destroyed the lives of
men by their polluted evidence of fabricated plots,
under the voluptuous and sanguinary Charles 11.,
there has nothing happened in this country, per-
haps, so audaciously infamous as the manufac-
tured charge of High Treason against M.
Berryer, one of the distinguished Members of
the Bar, and Deputies of France. Certainly a
baser attempt never was made to immolate an
individual, by perverting the course of justice, in
rude and ignorant ages, and under despotic
reigns, than that which now justly excites the
indignation of enlightened France, and fixes an
indelible stain on her revolutionised Govern-
ment. That a man so unprincipled as Colonel
Tournier, the principal witness against the ac-
cused, might impose upon the Government is
possible ; but it is only possible upon the suppo-
sition of the Government being in a very low
condition in point of sagacity and judgment ;
for never was there presented before a Court of
Justice a more clumsy and incompetent fabricator
of falSehood. But what is to be said of the
arrest .of M. Berryer on the ground that he
made certain admissions in answers given
by him to the Procurcur du Roi on the
4th of June, although it turned out that he had
not been interrogated by that functionary until
the 11th ? 'What is to be said of the disgrace-
ful fact stated by the unimpeached witness M.
Aristide de Granville in the following words:—
: " On the 10th of June the Procureur du Roi
-came to my house, and said to me, ' You are
very intimate with M. Berryer ; he is in a
position which may compromise you ; I am,
therefore, come to ask you to allow the con-
versations which I had with you on the 3d
to be considered to have been held with M.
Berryei ?' " What is to be said of the re-
port of the Procureur du Roi, stating that, in
a long conversation which he had with the pri-
soner; he (the prisoner) told him that Madame
de Berry was about to repair to La Vendee ; on
which report M. Berryer was arrested, although
the Procureur du Roi has since admitted that
he had not seen M. Berryer when he made
the report of the imaginary conversation
between them ? Still more astounding is
the fact of a falsification of a note found
in the cabinet of M. Berryer, for the pur-
pose of connecting him in recent correspond-
ence with the Duchess of Berry. The note be-
, ing signed C. 8., the two .letters were repre-
sented as signifying Caroline Berry ; but the
letter, being dated 1817, would not exactly
suit the purpose of supporting a recent charge of
correspondence—the date was, therefore, altered,
and the alteration made in fresh ink, while the
ink of the letter, as it originally stood, was pale
from the effect of time. Who can wonder that,

when such a tissue of falsehoods were revealed
to the public in the course of a judicial proceed-
ing, the auditory forgot political distinctions,
where the great principles of morality were so
violated—where the sacred name of Justice was
so profaned, and that Constitutionalists and Re-
publicans united in their acclamations at the
triumph of the acquitted Carlist ? The French
people will not fail to connect with this infamous
proceeding the pretended plot of the sth and
6th of June, by which so many lives were sacri-
ficed, and in which the police cut so distin-
guished a figure. The result of these things is
easily anticipated.—Morning Herald.