The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-16 00:00:00

. dwellings of the peaceable inhabitants of the
district. It will be observed, with all the
satisfaction which the contemplation of these pain-
' ful occurrences permits, that the disturbances in
question have entirely originated in local causes ;
and therefore, though the remedy, perhaps, is not
the less difficult, that outrages so disgraceful
and so dangerous are not attributable to the
general proceedings of the Irish Government.
We are sorry to see that some of those who
pretend to be warm advocates of liberty, in
this country, have eagerly seized upon these
commotions in the sister Island, and have
endeavoured to pervert them into matter of
reproach upon his AIAJ ESTY'S
Government, however, it is obvious, could
not interfere in any way with the causes of those
disorders, but by making a direct inroad upon
the private personal rights of the subject. Go-
vernment cannot remove the real or imaginary
grievances of the tenantry of Lord COURTENAY,
but by forcibly compelling his Lordship to re-
move their complaints, and to satisfy them by ac-
ceding to their demands. Do the enemies of
Government, and the sticklers for freedom,
wish the Government to allay the local agi-
tations of the Irish, arising from local causes,
by the direct exercise of arbitrary power .?
All that the Government can do, is to en-
force obedience to the laws, to administer

justice in mercy, and to preserve tranquillity,
by convincing the disturbers of the pub-
lic peace, that, whatever may be their reasons

'or embarking in a course of lawless outrage,
heir perseverance in such a course will not
be suffered with impunity. We will not say
that there should not be a power, vested
somewhere, of redressing the local grievances,
when they really exist, of any portion of the
people. Since the lovers of unbounded freedom
blame the Government for the occurrence of
evils to which the wide latitude of our private
rights gives birth, they ought, in consistency, to
propose, that Government should have the power
of interference and redress. All we would con-
tend for is, that while the Government have
not such a power, they are not answerable for
the private oppressions which the indisputable and
lawful rights of private persons may inflict, and
that they discharge all the duty, in this respect,
which the Constitution has thought fit to com-
mit to them, when they lawfully repress
those who resort to unlawful and violent means
of remedying their own grievances. It is quite
absurd to say, because Government has not the
power entirely to subdue, though it greatly re-
strains, the terrific spirit of Irish commotion, that
therefore " there must be something very wrong
indeed in the administration of the laws."—The
truth is, that the existing laws do not reach the
source of the evil. When some of the manu-
facturing districts of England were recently
disturbed by armed bands of Luddites, nightly
perpetrating the greatest atrocities, and ex-
hibiting scenes fully as disgraceful as those,
which now distinguish the County of Limerick,
no one, not even the Luddites themselves, thought
of blaming the Government for the evils to which

the spirit of Luddism owed its origin. Govern-
ment exercised all the authority and all the

powers which it constitutionally possessed, for

the repression of outrages which it could not
prevent, and over the causes of which it did
not possess any controul.—New powers, by
the enacting of new laws, were conferred upon
the Government, in order that its measures of
repression might be the more effective; and by
the steady exercise of those powers tranquillity
was at length restored. No one, however, ever
dreamt of giving the Government the power of

orevention, by authorizing it to regulate the mat-
ters in dispute between the Luddites and their

employers. Does any one think that Go-
vernment has a right to regulate the mat-
ters in dispute between the Irish peasantry

and their landlords ? If any one does think
so, though he is mistaken as. to matter of
fact, we can understand his reasons for think-

rig that Government is justly blameable
'or the occurrence of the outrages. Do any of

the enemies of the Government think that it
ought to have such a power ? If so, let them
propose ah efficient law for that purpose ; and

et them complain,—not that the laws are

wretchedly administered, but that the existing
laws are impeifect, and wretchedly inadequate to

secure the conybrt, and consequently the content-

molt and tranquillity of the whole people !

The King of SWEDEN, by an Order of the Day,
dated Stockholm, October 1, has appointed the
Crown Prince Grand Master of the Ordnance of
the Artillery.

In their sitting of the 18th of August last, the
Norwegian Diet, with only four dissentient votes,
authorized the K INC.: to open a loan for the King-
dom of Norway, to the amount of 200,000 Nor-
w(.gan specie dollars.