The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-29 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL
~10i1RNALS.

We 105(.11 with ITIOCI-1 pleasure the follovrine; sr-
tide from THE (Dt:DIAN) CoßttssronDENT„ of the
25th hest., One of the must reapeetable of Proviu-

cial Public Prints, because it does justice to the
conduct of Government towards Ireland, and pays
a due tribilfe of gratitude to Mr. PEEL, to whose
wisdom, firmness, and persevering endeavours
that Country is so much indebted. We can con-
fidently say, that the high merits and essential ser-
vices of that Gentleman have rendered him, as he.
ought to be, a favourite character in that Coup•
try, and eve have no doubt that he, will, ere Jong,
be placed in a wider .sphere of action, and. enabled.
to employ his great talents more extensively for
the general advantage of the Empire

The Speech addressed to the Throne by. the
Speaker of the House of Commons, upon the pro-
roguing of time Parliament, has obtained great fa-
emir with the reflecting part of the public in this
country. It is allowed, on all hands, to be ajust
and honest summary of the difficulties, the La-
bours, and the services of the House of Commons,
during the, whole of the Session and time com-
mon sense and feeling of this part of the United
Kingdom respond, in satisfaction aid approba-
tion, to the attention which has been paid to the
interests of Ireland, as alleged by Mr. Speaker.—
Every fair and candid matt admits, that, consider-
ing the sittgithlrly tempestuous nature of time last
Si7.ssion—the portentous signs of approaching evil;
%Odell cast a glare of revolution and uproar over
the face of affairs, and which, of necessity, made
the getters! safety Matter 'of special anxiety.—yet
the sitnation of Ireland formed a' peculiar and al-
most dist•inct object of Parliamentary care, and
her amelioration, in various ways, a favou-
rite object of Parliamentary zeal. Certain it
is, that. amongst the contonious party in bo'th
Houses--amongst those who are always seek-
ing to bring about as Much embarrassment and
derangement as may bring themselves into office—
the most civions and extravagant notions of Ire-
land and Imer ,interests were sometimes to' be
found—the ,most surprizing ignorance, united .
with the most amazing confidence—the most as-
tonishing exaggeration, hacked by the most whim-
sical and unmeaning violence.--7 Notwithstanding
so many furious romances were set forward ,as
sober political trfuhs and commanding facts, yet,
no injury resulted, nor were the main interests of.
Ireland postponed, inconsequence of the firmness
and caution with w bids the Government watched
over the concerns of this Country, studied their
advancement and promoted their improvement.—
If any' legislation had been (minded upon any
thing which had been alleged by the opponents of
the Administration—if a single step bad been
taken upon authority, so fallacious as to fact, and
so rash as to principle—if any thing had been
done, upon any thing which had been moved in
either House of Parliament by that party—it
would have consumed half a century of indus-
trious wisdom to have repaired, in any satisfac-
tory degree, the terrible confusion and baleful
uproar that must, in the nature of timings. have
followed. Theme is no instance in which the fury
of opposition was pushed to a greater ext,retnity
than in the last Session—none, in which
:more
desperate propositions were hazarded—none, in
which were to be found, amongst the exclusive
pretenders to popular favour, so many bare--taced
examples of useless and burthensome encum-
brances—none, in which the most contemptible
trifles, the roost trivolous incidences, were assum-
ed as so many profound political occurrences—
deep add solemn concerns of the State ;—none, in
which there was such an toter d'sregard. to all pro-
priety in assertipn,--to all moderation in reproach
—so little respect for candour and frankiless—so
little Claim to real otriotism, sound talents, or
genuine wisdom. Time Ministers have. yendered
their general country a service, by being able to
withstand such adversaries—.-by being able to drive
them froin the power of doing much injury, rein-
forced as they were by the phrenzies of time igno-
rant, the schemes. ot the restless and disloyal, and
time 6.e.M.et.7-and
the ttirbtilence of time poor anti ti II I
Ministers have been—able to-render Ireland ser-
viceS,'in many important respects., INeca.ttse they
have not allowed tie enormous .pr,opo-itions
brought in controversy against them to be -atinjit-
ed, aA p-ossessing a single particle of .pemlitiCaltrnth
or wisdom.- e , •

"It•must be conceded, that the Admi-Oistra-
tion have not yielded to the. demands that were
made, for Animal ParlimentS or Universal. Suf;•
frage, and that they haVe not surrendered tha
Constitution to the audacity of experiment._
they have not submitted to the.Wittenagemot of
Spa&lds, nor to the riotous philosophers Who raved
!wind the Maypole at Harold's-Cross—they have
not succumbed to the toasts or caronsals Of the,
jovial Legislators of the Tavern, on this or on
the tither side of the chatind ;—they yet think
the fundamental .I",•.,tys of this Realm ate as vener-•
able, as wise, and as authoratatire, as Orations
delivered under the fumes and repletion of the
(linnet-table; antl its statues, institutions, and
enstnms something better than a Tavern toast.
Of all this they may he accused, and to the charge
they may be compelled to plead guilty; from the
admonitions of contscience—buti though their
crimes of this sort ate glaring, and nuequirocal
in all respects; yet I hey have not lost sight of the
interests of Ireland : as, perhaps, We shall be
able Mote mitooely to explain upon a future op-
portnnity. Aided by the support, and eircootgvil
by, the assistance of Parliament, they have laid,

the ground-mold of an etfcc:ive adminiyorai,oti
of the hov, and a vigoroes and adequate preserve-
. tion of the pehlic peace in, Ireland. They have
stopt the plunderer's outrage, Mild the murderer's
guilt, where plunder acid destructioa had become
the eon-Imm) t-iceidents of the night ; atorthie
peremount service they have uccompliseed, nut
by the indiscriminate infliction of mil t try seve`e
city—not by itivolving in promiscuous ,chastise-
' meat the guilty and the innocent, the peaceable
,and the turbulent ;
.but by the tstablishment of st
total new system—preserving every feature and
principle of constitutional power and authority;
which the despelete and untoward necessity that
called for it, would suffer to be practised. The?
have sri acted, led by the genius. and talent of
`their illustrious colleague at the bend of the Ad-
ntieistracion in this country; and, fidlowing tee
. bright and Tore light thrown upon Ireland, her
civil anomalies,. her turmoils anti disorders, they
have been led toehe adoption of measures, upoll
which every honest man it; the colliery tney cone
grutidate himself on seeing the future genera),
treequillity bottomed, eend fieally esteblished. It
is no small benefit to beat down that systsmatie
out rap, which spread, by,the most bortible ex-
amples, terror throughout a country, and such as
robbed society of almOst all its value. It is no
email service to erect, in oppositiou to the re-
vival of this-evil, a systent, which expands as tee
evil increases; and only assumes an extreme de-
gree of power, wben the evil, of which it is the
constitutional antagonist, has outgrown every
other species of coercion. It is somethinge-some•
thing to call for thanks and for praise, to have
feinted attention, anti directed a patient and pa-
rental superintendante, to all those derange-
ments which followed from the cessation of a.
long war, and the, plans and projects of com-
merce, ‘vhich bad been the effect of its protrac-
tion, and which followed from a scarcity, co-
operating with the sudden disuse of human lae
hour in various branches of general business -to
have worked with indefatigable zeal, united witit
the wisest caution, and the most enlightened cir-
cumspeetion—to have b.easted the stormy cleme
our of the times, full of wild and desperate
schemes—and to have encountered the cut rent cif
unrestrained and impetuous tnrbulence; with cool
mind and firm heart, collected spit It, and mottle'
resolve. We owe it to this temper, which erdu-
-otis 'times so tog-code demand, that, in Ireland,
there %ses no capitulation with the audacity of
factious, clamour. Every thing comilainet# of '
was- nerrowlye jealously seretieesect; -and
where there wa3 a colour for complaint, prOper
remedy • was admiuistered. The (it atid Jere,
Laws, against which: much was objected by all—
while clamour, Avitli its, thousand tteig;iee, pealed
out its roar of invective against theni-nneeasing-
)v were examined into, toot trove met S'oute roe
formation—the public revenue was not seerifieed
to the contrivances of sell-interest,,to the huh..
gry demands of nii7n'Opely, or to the reclarnaiiont
of cold-blooded tliscoureut ; but, in the midst of
the most unremitting importimity that ever at-
tempted to overbear the sobe-i wisdom of Govern-
ment, the Administration--and more especialey
ate distinguished Statesmen who yet, happily to-0
Ireland, is individually chat ged with the affairs tit
this country—stood unmoved—lglus- torts clique
rotundus, a singular instance of patience, 'vigil-
ance, fortitude. and zeal : an honourable example
of the value of constancy under' difficalties ; nit
interesting demonstration of the superiority of
cairn spirits over all others, in the day 01:struggle,
when one. false step might render confusion ire
remediable. The stand which Mr. Peel made
against the combined contrivances, devised anti
employed to induce hint to sacrifice the pnblio
revenue to the public•cfamour attests the charac-
ter of a'Statestuan, of tire truest and the most
valuable stamp.
" It is not intended, in this plade, or upon the
present occasion, to set forth, in detail, the pe-
culiar instariCeS in which the AdtniniStration en-
deavour ed to advance the happiness, the interests;
and the honour of this country. Hereafter we
shall, perhaps, enter minutely into this sueject;
but we cannot help shying, there tas not
been a single note of public complaint sent haul
'lrela,d to •the Legislature---a comelleuce with
which .left• no, einceetainty behind; or any thing
more pave or Serino to be feared, than the
matter which was to be remedied—which the Ali-
•nis'iers heve not, streneously backed and supporter
ed, and, in all iustauM,, with an unfeigned tea
spied for the.opinions and sentiments of the Irish
people.-There is not a department, or -a branch
-of any kind, practically existiug Under the State,
which ,hes not
.been examined into, with the most
detetelined spirit-'-which has not been reformed,
where it reqiCfed reform—which has not been
purged-to the last, of atiy foulness which time and
sloth may leeve engendered -which.) has not lopped
off every undue gain or advantage—and which
has not beetCconSigned to the cntrection the
most austere -economy, and tke most tin sparing;
retrenchafent. It is very foolish, when tee fair
intentions of Pat liatuent rt, this counity, and, the
honest zeal of the Administration in its behalf,
are averred upOn the evidence of powerful facts;
to strike up dirges about berberous ages, that are
gone--and happAy gone, never to return—and
fantastic lamentations over natitioal greUtness that
never existed--e-and to mingle wi,h those hags'- and
dist-nal"reverits, intinu.tions Of eetnew. times, ithea
Ireland is to expect a distinct and st p 'tate cha-
racter, %% bile torterions things are shadowed out,
designed to encOurage the dreams of discontent.
There is folly in tielS, to say the least of it-4
great 'trout -of respect for truth or public har-
mony—a practical disavowal of honesty and can,
dimr—a deceitfol recognition of event's as prebae
ble, which sense and truth feel and know td be
utterly impossible.", •