The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The outrageous conduct of the peasants in cer-
tain parts of Ireland, we lament to say, still
continues, though 'the most vigorous efforts have
been made to suppress them. The following ar.
tides are taken from The Dublin Correspondent,
and other Irish Journals, of the 12th instant, a
Paper that is a resolute supporter of the Govern-
ment of the Country :

We regret to learn, from Private Letters, that
the spirit of outrage in the northern part of the
county of Cork continues unabated—that con-
sternation
and dread prevails among the more
respectable classes of the inhabitants, who
have, for the most part, abandoned their
houses. A few nights ago, an armed party
made their way into the house of WILLIAM
WRIXON, Esq., father to the distinguished Gen-
tleman who represents the Borough of Mallow
in Parliament. Eight ruffians, well armed, sur-
rounded Mr. WRIxON's bed,• and, with their
pistols and blunderbusses cocked, and presented
towards his head, they obliged him to take an
oath that he would send a gun to a particular
place at a particular time. Mr. WaixoN,,as a
measure of precaution, had before sent away his
fire-arms to a place of safety. If an honourable
character, disinterested spirit, and the hospitable
and jovial life of a sportsman of the first stamp,
could hope to obtain any grace, Mr. WRIxoN,
of Ballygibbin, might well set up a good claim,
upon those grounds, to be spared from the pre-
vailing outrages ; but the systematic plan of vio-
lence in which the peasantry are embarked, in
many places, is as indiscriminate in its objects,
as it is sanguinary in its practices.' We have
seen' a letter, received in town this morning from
Kildorrery, in the county of Cork, which men-
tions that the greatest alarm prevails there,
and in the immediate vicinity of the place, in
consequence of the outrages which are committed
every night, by numerous parties of the peasantry,
covered with white shirts, who attack every
house where they think they can obtain fire-
arms."

[From the Limerick Chronicle.]

LIMERICK, Nov. 10.—We have authority to
state, that the Lord Lieutenant has appointed
that highly efficient and active Magistrate, Rich-
ard Wilcocks, Esq. to the command of the County
of Limerick EStablishment of Police, in the room
of Major. Stewart. This appointment, at the pre-
sent crisis, must give universal satisfaction, from
the well-known activity and competency of Mr.
Wilcocks. He will arrive at Rathkeale this
day, to enter upon the official duties of his em-
ployment.
Mr. John Grady's house, at Dorringstown, in
this county, was attacked by an armed band of
villains, on Wednesday night, between the hours
of one and two o'clock; after firing several shots
they broke one of the windows, and proceeded
to break the door with a sledge, which they
could not effect ; they then desired him in the
most threatening language to deliver his fire-
arms, which his son, John Grady,. jun. refused ;
they, then applied light to the thatch, which they
brought for the purpose, and soon set it in flames.
Finding the house on fire, Mr. Grady, with his
son, and only one workman, rushed out, and fired
on the ruffians, who ran in all directions. Mr.
Grady, with the assistance of some neighbours,
was able to extinguish the fire, without any very
considerable damage.
On Sunday morning, about two o'clock, an
armed set of depredators attacked the house of
Mr. John Arnold, within a mile of Mitchels-
town, and, after firing a shot into the parlour,
demanded his arms, which, not being imme-
diately complied with, they commenced breaking
the doors and windows, and it was only when
they were in the act of setting fire to his out-
offices, for which purpose they procured a lighted
candle and straw, that he was induced to give
the only fire-arms he had—a gun. They then
entered the house, which they searched closely,
having left no place unopened, and finding
no more arms, they asked Mr. Arnold and his
brother to join their party, stating at the same
time, that two such clever men would be soon
promoted. They then- required some spirits, and
wanted to entice him out on the road, which was
literally covered with men ; but 'which having
declined, they left the house, observing that
" they were on a very serious business which
would soon come to light," and desired the fa-
mily to retire to bed at once.—(Southern Re-
porter, November 10.)

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.— For the last four
months, at intervals, the family of Mr. DICKENS,
ornamental paper-stainer, residing in Skinner's-
street, Somers'-town, have been nightly alarmed
by the back Windows of the house being btoken
with stones thrown by some invisible hand ; and
although the maid servant had been set to watch,
and other plans adopted, to trace from what place
the missiles were thrown, and by whom, nothing
ever transpired to form any conjecture who the
invisible assailant could be. On Tuesday morn-
ing, about six o'clock, the family were still more
alarmed by the timid servant calling out " Murder,
thieves !" &c. On Mr. DICKENS running down
stairs, he found the poor girl in the kitchen, in the
greatest distress, and unable to articulate for some
moments ; at length she stated that on her leav-
ing her bed-room a few minutes past six o'clock,
and going from the kitchen into the wash-house
in the yard, a tall figure, apparently about seven
feet high, with a most horrible countenance,
stared her in the face ; she shrunk back, and ran
into the passage ; the monster followed and
grasped' her by the throat ; she struggled, and
the phantom'clawed her face with his nails, and
then vanished over a high wall, exclaiming in a
hollow sepulchral voice--" D—n you, you are
not the one I want." She ran down stairs into
the kitchen and fainted away, in which situation
This mysterious
cnsternation in
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reports are in
asiffleaisrvaisiafsouctrideatbeyd hceornsmidaestrearb.le
the neighbourhood, and many
circulation.

FOR Tilt SUN.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

MR. EDITOR—As I think it is high time that
the eyes of the country should be opened as to
the real state of things in relation to Turkey,
and that the public should be no longer misled
by the representations of speculators and inte-
rested men, I venture to oiler a few considera-
tions on the subject. In the first place, what the
general view s of Russia with regard toTurkey have
been for the last forty or fifty years are too
well known and too universally admitted, to
need any particular stress being laid upon
them. The sudden death of the Empress CA-
THARINE put an end to that treaty which would
have secured liberty to the Greeks, and would
have raised them to the rank of a free nation ;
the completion wanting only her signature, and
which (if ETON is to be credited) it would have
received in the course of a few hours. The
name of CONSTANTINE was given to the second
son of PAUL, with prospective reference to that
Empire at the head of which he was intended
to be placed :a name calculated to rouse the dor-
mant energies of the Greeks, and to 'remind them
of the ancient glory of their empire. Attended
from his cradle by Greek nurses, taught to lisp
his first accents in the Greek language, his whole
education was made subservient to his future
prospects. The breaking out of the French re-
volution, with all its tremendous consequences,
turned aside for a time the attention of Russia
from this her beloved object; the mighty struggles
she was obliged to make in the course of that
unparalleled contest, occupied her constant at-
tention, and demanded all her resources. Still
did the Greek empire occasionally present itself,
and as often did the interference of other Powers
avert from the Turks that destruction from-
which nothing but political considerations could
have shielded them. When Czerni Georges, the
Servian chieftain, was put to death by the Turks,
the indignation of Russia was such that an im-
mediate march to Constantinople was threatened ;
to this the assent of Austria was given, on the un-
derstanding that no interference with her should
take place as to her views on Italy. A third coun-
try, and at that time a third Power, interposed a
negative; to which the others were obliged, how-
ever reluctantly, to assent. That country, Sir,
was Great Britain, and how far any representa-1
tiens she may make, or negociations she may
enter into upon this subject, may be regarded by
Russia in the present day,l leave to others to de-
termine. The tremendous load of debt which
threatens to overwhelm us, the interest of which
can alone be paid by a pressure of taxation which
fetters all our exertions and paralyses all our in-
dustry, and which drives us to collect so much of
our revenue by systems totally at variance with,
and .repugnant to, the legitimate and acknow-
ledged freedom of our Constitution, will best de-
'cide this question. The ability, the acuteness,
and the penetration, of the men who are to be
found in the Russian cabinet, will not suffer them
to remain in ignorance as to our exact situation ;
negociate they know we can, but make war they
know we cannot ; they know that nothing short
of hostile encroachment or actual invasion would
excite us to encounter the appalling consequences
of war: they know the state of Public Opinion
in this country, they know and can appreciate
its influence on our Government ; they have
fully calculated the opposition which would be
shewn in this country to a, war for the purpose of '
supporting the Crescent against the Cross,
and for the sake of enabling a nation of Asiatic
barbarians to remain encamped for a few years
longer in Europe ; they know that this country
looks forward with impatience for, and will hail
with,rapture, the day, when those beautiful re-
gions may be visited in peace and security, when
new channels shall be opened for her commerce,
new demands created for the ingenuity and in-
dustry of her mechanics, new fields for colonizing
her surplus population, treasures of antiquity and
science thrown open to the research of her en-
terprising travellers, and lastly, when the Plague,
that destroyer of the human race, and that bane
of all free intercourse between man and man,
(then no longer to be fostered by Mahomedan
filth and by Mahomedan superstition) shall cease,
and, together with the cause of its continuance,
be banished out of Europe. But it will be said,
by those who still chuse to disbelieve, the pro-
bability of war between the Turks and Russians,
that Austria would oppose it, and that the
finances of Russia are not in a state to admit of
it. Austria has, at present, what I think may
fairly be termed her hands full ; she may, it is
true, negociate, but beyond that she cannot go ;
in addition to her German territories, where, if
report be true, a spirit of insubordination exists,
which requires a strong arm to keep under, she
has military possession of all the Neapolitan do-
minions, including Sicily ; and is, besides, pre-
paring to execute at a convenient season such
plans of aggrandizement in the Roman States, as
are (I am inclined to believe) but little contem-
plated by the world. But Russia has orga-
nized an army, and a most powerful one : for
courage, strict discipline, and implicit obedience
to orders, the Russians have long been proverbial;
and upon their recent improvement in tactics, in
artillery, in engineering, it would be idle to in-
sist. The probability of Prussia being ready to co-
operate with her, I think I need not attempt to
shew, and should that prove to be the case, what
is to come of negociations ? Will France inter-
fere, and run the hazard of disturbing her pre-
sent tranquillity by incre'asing her military force,
and again risk the danger of exposing herself to
the fearful chance of giving life and vigour to
that Hydra of military despotism from which
she has been so recently emancipated? But it
is a waste of words to talk of negociation ; the
Greeks have drawn the sword, and have thrown
away the scabbard ; Peace is out of the ques-
tion, as to them ; there is no security, there can
be none ; it is a war of extermination, and
such it must continue to be.; from the vengeance
of the Turks all the parchment in Europe could
not save them, though everysCrowned Head

therein were to put his hand and seal to the instry
molt. Were negociations to be entered into,
even by the Grand Signor and the Russian Etn-
peror themselves, still it would be of no avail,
for CONSTANTINE would then supplant the one,
and the bowstring or the sabre would terminate
the other ; it is the NATIONS who are on the point
of war, and not the RULERS only ; the Russians
will no longer tamely look on and suffer their
brethren, professing the same religious creed as
themselves, to be sacrificed in detail without
coming to their help; they are crying aloud for
vengeance on those who have destroyed their
sanctuaries and massacred their priests ; all
Europe rings with the cry of w AR—and 15
this to be stopped by negociations ? ThhigS
are drawing rapidly to a crisis; tremendous will
be the struggle, and most awful the consequence,'
—Let us consider what connexion we ourselves
have with the disputants : the lonian Islands may
be considered as the only point of contact likelY
to involve us,—would we were well rid of them!
A cause of jealousy to other Powers, without
producing advantage to ourselves; a source Of
unceasingex pence to us, and still more so. and of
deeper injury to our Colony of Malta ; an un'
healthy climate; a population entirely uncoil'
nected with us, and whose disaffection towards
us increases more and more every day, and a deer
and rankling wound in the breast of a leading:
member of the Russian Cabinet, from the personal
losses he has sustained in consequence of our oc"
cupation of them. Russian intrigue, has WWI.,
been at work there as well as in other parts 0
Greece ;. it may (with Telation to other Powers)
suit the policy of Russia to profess neutraliti
and affect moderation ; but the day is near at
hand when Russian balls will be flying acros.s.
the Bosphorus, and Russian bayonets driving the
Turks from Constantinople..

IC;NOTT'S•

-*** It is proper to observe thattiteaUtbor
of the foregoing interesting letter is not our old
Correspondent, to whom we have often been it"
debted for valuable articles under the salve
signature.