The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-19 00:00:00

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'the Political Chief of. that 'plaee,.ineaStire -Which
could not be carried into effect• without more
serious • struggles anal consequences than . the
Madrid Papers are willing, to allow.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Report of the Select Committee of the
House of Lords on the Foreign Trade of the
Country, so far as relates to the trade with the East
Indies and China, has been printed. It has been '
for many years a subject of complaint, that a
considerable portion of this trade should be en-
joyed by foreign nations, while the British mer-
chant alone is shut out from it by the charter of
the East India Company. That charter will not
expire until the year 1834; but the Committee
suggest, that even in the interval arrangements
might be made with the Company for procuring
for the British free trader an access to markets en-
tirely new, or the means of fair competition with
the foreign merchant in those which already exist.
The activity of the Americans and French in ex-
tending their commerce in this quarter of the
globe, the latter of whom have been remarkably

successful in some recent attempts to open a com-
mercial iutercourse with Cochin China, furnish
an additional argument for extraordinary exer-
tions in favour of our own commerce. Although
the name of Sir I'. Stamford Raffles is not intro-
duced into this Report, it affords a decided testi-
mony of his knowledge and sagacity in the im-
portance which it attaches to the port of Silica-
pore, an establishment of his creation.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The disturbances In the South of Ireland con-
tinue unchecked, and the Lord Lieutenant has
issued two Proclamations for increasing the
Police establishment in the disturbed districts.—

In the single County of Limerick, in which these
disorders broke out—and that one of the smallest
—there were already, we believe, between 2,000
and 3,000 troops. It is difficult to conceive why
these should not be sufficient to put down
a system of nocturnal depredation within so
limited a compass ; and it is not a little to be re-
gretted, that instead of increasing the military
force, this armed police should be resorted to
after, as we are informed, the demonstration
not only of its inefficacy but of its pernicious ef-
fects, since the passing of the Act of Parliament.
It is the opinion of those most conversant with
the state of Ireland, as far as we have had op-
portunity of knowing, that the employment of
these armed peace preservers exasperates rather
than represses the spirit of disorder. The sol-
dier's discipline—his obedience to his officers—
his humanity—the absence of rancorous antipathy
between him and the peasantry, are strong rea-
sons for employing the military in preference
to a force got up in the spirit of Irish job-
bing—licentious and undisciplined, and likely
to commit acts of wanton barbarity in the
performance of their duty. Some of the
worst crimes of the disturbers are ascribed
to motives of revenge, for some shocking and
sanguinary exercises of power by the police. It
is gratifying that since the last accounts there
are no instances of crimes of marked atrocity.—
But the nocturnal search for arms has extended
to the two neighbouring counties of Cork and
Tipperary.

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** We have not been able to take any Ex-
tract from The Morning Chronicle of this day
worth notice, as its leading -article consists of
nothing bat a continuation of those daily attacks
upon The Courier, that must long since have been
disgusting to readers in general, and disgraceful
to Public Journals, which ought rather to co-
operate in affording amusement, information, and
instruction to mankind.