The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

Mr. Peel; we trust, will take heed against a
snare intended for him by some Brunswickers of
his native place, who are getting up a public din-
net at Manchester, ostensibly as a compliment
to their official townsman, but in reality to make
a tool of him, by connecting the Right Hon.
Gentleman, whether he will or not, with a corps
of` Cumberland Life Guards, which is now, it
wsenr:seb2tiot '
seems, under process of formation in that quar-
ter. The calico-deals-rs do not know, perhaps;,
be
ee
impossiblea are sure th forai
lt
that any participation in a.party business would
even were Mr. Peel no longer Secce.WY °
he ,Ministerhas
to o
of State,
niitethhegoColj.°
encourage by word or look such incendiary Oro-
i
eeedings, the declared
objects of which are to
frighten away argument by clamorous fury, to
perpetuate an odious blot upon the free consti-
tution of England, and to supersede the Legis-
lature, in its noblest functions, by the Jacobin
expedient of arbitrary and irresponsible . clubs.
It is to be hoped, that if mr.
. Peel be iinpor-
tuneu ._
Ilv these agitators to afford them his coun-
tenance, for sa detestable a purpose, he may read
them a lecture tip on the effects of faction,
. by, which they may be rendered less dangerous
to the state, if not more char-:!;able to their suf-
fering fellow-subjects. In Ireland, we rejoice
to say that things are evidently improving. Lord
Anglesea has issued a wise and humane procla-
mation, calling upon the Magistrates of Tippe-
rary to prevent any further assemblages of or-
ganized peasants, and directing, that if the latter
overlook the salutary warning (for in that light
only ought his Excellency's proclamation to be
considered), they shall be dealt with according
to la*, So far from this measure of the Lord
Lieutenant beinr7, likely to produce the least ill-
k umour in the Catholics, the. utmost efforts have
been employed by the Association, and their
agents the priests, to enforce the letter of the
Lord Lieutenant's advice, and effectually to
discontinue the 'ominous meeting of the pea-
santry. One party only seems to scowl with
contempt and disappointment upon this peace-
making proclamation. A foolish and furiour;
paper called the Evening Mail, would prefer
(it need not take much pains to assure us of
that) a direct proclamation of " martial law," to
one of quiet and paternal Counsel. Now mar-
tial law being precisely the best expedient in the
world for exciting civil war, where that blessing
might otherwise be difficult of attainment, we
can, on the principle of the Cumberland clubs,
full well understand their angry rebuke of the

Lord Lieutenant, for resorting to such a merci-
ful and preventive policy. The fact is, that
Lord Anglesey had long ago resolved on this
measure of a warning proclamation, and it is
more his Excellency's own suggestion, than one
imposed upon him by the Cabinet here. The
.
militaiy reinforcements proceeding to IreLnd are
stated in our correspondent's letter this day---As
we had anticipated in our yesterday's leading
iiaigstamea sure Of coet-
article that they would be—more as an efficaci-
ous protection to the Catholics against the
and inoJ
cOci
oar azoleircisiienrtai
jordtsoaetriso,o',-bitivtiognuas
iiiteres
t,
themselves.
The
anxious desire, is, we repeat for the hundredth
time, to achieve their emancipation through
peaceable and lawful means—the Catholics,
we say, will be easily managed. Not so
the Orange, Brunswick, Cumberland, sangui-
nary clubmen. The conduct of these domineer-
ing Jacobins throughout the north of Ireland is
beyond belief and endurance. Blood is in every
syllable they utter ; their single argument is the
sword ; they never think of meeting a body of
Catholics but to slay theM. They menace the
structure of society with utter devastation ; their
existeuce is incompatible with that of any regular
Govermnent, and Lord Anglesea must feel' at
once the indignities with Ni.thich they bespatter
' him, and the awful perils with which they sur-
round and besiege his constitutional authority.
These Lira Voes must be put down--if' by procla-
mation, well : if they despise such gentle wea-
pons, they must be treated to a little of their
own favourite regimen—the musket and. the. gal-
lows. Why, we find in the Dublin Evening
Post reports of meetings in the northern counties,
where—to say nothing of speeches made by
Clergymen worthy of Portuguese inquisitors, or
of butchersthe High Sheriffs, King's Officeu:,
took the chair, and listened eagerly to discourse:,
which preached the broadest high treason ! Will
the Irish Government, or the English, suffer

such crimes to be perpetrated by its own
officers with impunity ? Will au upright Go-
vernment warn the unarmed peasants to dis-
perse, and by its silence encourage the " fero-
cious" Orangemen to meet by thousand-sin coin-
plete equipment,for the field, and headed by his
Anglesey
not itoni ii-)te-
gMajesty'sy's personal representative, the High She-
riff' of each Orange county ? Is this impartiality?
No,
so destitute of moral courage, that it can shrink
from levelling a blow at these disturbers, which
Ile , beyond
the
Government all question;
of and
Lord we
(1
will at the same moment
strike
them
with con-
sternation and inspire confidence
peaceable subjects who seek protection from the
laws.
of 0: their A proclamation against the Cumberland
_ such _eir mem-
meetings, and a disarming f
hers as disgrace the uniform of Irish yeomen,
would-do more for the tranquillity of the king-
dom than an additional body of 20,000 troops.
We repeat, however, that if no inauspicious, ac-
cident should occur to overcast the present.pro._;-
pect, it is more cheerful than . any that preceded
it within these two mouths. The .following is
part, of the speech of the .Bit%, Mr. Horner at
the meeting of the county of .Tyrone :--
" The policy. which: I would propose for your
adoption is the policy of resistance—resistance to
all who would subvert' the constitution as .esta-
blished at the.era of our glorious revolution--resist-
ance, in the first -instance, by a firm, a-manly, an
united expression of Protestant feeling; and if the
enemies of the-constitution should still continue their
machinations ,if they should still continue to defy
the Legislature, if they should continue to %,ioiate
the laws, if they should still continue to seek, by
clamour and by outrage, what d' expe iency and justice
refuse,—then, gentlemen, under the sanction . of .
~, Kin.-
your , on the summons of your Gove • , t 'lnen ,
resistance BY AN APPEAL ' THE
TO SWORD.
(The speaker was here interrupted by burst of
a,,rhe
4pplause Which lasted forseveral
minutes.) i .
Rev. Gentleman then resumed —I am perfectly
tware that it has recently been asserted, that a
power has sprung up within the State which bas
grown to such a monstrous Magnitude, as places it
beyond the controul of the State, and compel ,
[he State to submit to its dictation On the decency
with which the commemoration of the relief of Den y
was chosen as the scene of this declaration, or the
motives which suggested.ithe. shameless avowal, I
diall not at present speak. i This much, however, I_
.vill
say, that if cyery
,rmage which his fears conjti-
-ed up before the eyes of the gentleman who Made
this •deciaraticia had been a sad 'reality, he should
Ihave scorned the pusillanimous acknowledgment. I
will say that he should have perished in the position
he had taken up,--he should have planted his foot
.ipon the walls of the citadel, of which be had do

dared himself the champion, andihave sought and
folind an honourable grave beneath its
ruins.—
(Cheers.)--I warn my Roman Catholic countrymen,
that if they suffer themselves to be stimulated into
insurrection-by the demagogues who are now goad--
ing them to madness, they may brine down upon
themselves a retribution that will be tremendous.--
(Loud cheers.)—l can conceive, Sir, that all that is
recorded of past severities shall be light,
.coetpared
with what then maybe inflicted—I can conceive that
even the, alternative of Connaught may no longer be
kft as a refuge for the fugitives;—(Cheers)—bat
Mat an indignant nation, giving a loose to its resent-
ment, and measuring punishment only by provoca-
tion, may rid the country of them altogether, and
rescue itself frcm the cruel necessity of chastising
them." •
Mr. Horner sat down amidst loud cheering,
waving of orange handkerchiefs, &c. After
order had been in some. degree restored, there
was a cry of one cheer more for Protestant As-
cendancy, which was suitably answered by the
men of Tyrone.—Times.
It appears that a Proclamation has been issued
by the Irish Government against the assemblages
in Tipperary, a measure which will meet with the
approbation of all the well-disposed. In the
present . state of excitement in Ireland, with
Clergymen of the Protestant Church raving about
the extermination of a whole people, and appealing
to the worst passions of the-Protestant populace,
the allowing peasants to assemble in bands, regu-
larly or irregularly organized, is attended with no
small danger. The Catholics in particular, who
have the deepest interest in the preservation of
tranquillity, as, under the law as it is, they- must
succeed in obtaining the object for which they
contend, will throw no obstacles in the way of
the Government at such a eriSis., At the meet-
ings held in the North of Ireland, the Clergy are
the most fierce, we may say ferocious. A speaker
at the county of Donegal meeting, on Thursday
last, revealed the motive for the extraordinary
violence with which Emancipation is opposed
by the. Church. " Would they" (the Catholics),"
he said, " not call for a repeal of those laws
which still make the Protestant religion the
religion of the State, and exert themselves to
have the. revenues of the Church tran.lerred to
their own Clergy? There it is—the revenues
of the Church ! If the Catholics should, after
gaining Emancipation, enter upon the interest-
ing subject of tithes ! Religion by itself would
seldom lead to Much strife. All men, on the
simple condition of leading a pure and unspot-
ted life, may obtain his share of those treasures
which are laid where neither moth nor rust cloth
corrupt, and where thieves do not break through
and steal. But all men cannot have the trea-
sures of this life—all those who have a relish
for tithes, and the produce of church lands,
cannot enjoy -them ; and hence, though there
can be no contest for religion, or that fin. which
religion is instituted, a good place in a better
world, there will never be any want of strife for
the temporalities of religion, and the value of
the tensporalities will be the measure of the fury
of the combatants. A true churchman fights,
not merely to keep what he has, but to entitle
himself to something better. Every man of
them has blood in his mouth every second word.
In a novel just published, of which the theme is
one of daily agitation among us, " The Anglo-
IriSh," the key to what is now taking place in the
conntry is not unhappily given.-
" I am sorry, Mr. Gunning, &nee it happens to
be'partly a religious question, that some slight re-
ligious feelings, either drawn' from my view, or from
the charitable spirit of Christianity, do not seem to
influence the heavy majority you would claim on your

Religious fiddlestick ! Charitable politics, in-
deed ! All very fine for school dreams,• but ridi-
culous when forming any part of the calculations of
.a man of the world. But stop; since yOU have.
brought in the ,Church, there's the most holy. and
apostolic Bench, who, though not exactly with me,
are against you. And how do you licipe.tb dispose of
them ? Have you never chanced to stipPose that one
(tithe first results of Catholic Emancipation in Ireland
would be ,a strong effort, at least to overhaul the
rent-rolls or tithe-rolls of the Establishment?—And
although I have nothing to do with them, are you
valiant enough to hope that the anointed Lords, and
their family connections, the other Lords, who,
taken together, form, and always must form, two-
thirds of the Upper -House, will ever contemplate a.
measure leading, even by possibility, to Church re-
trenchment? This is all as old as the moon's horns
to Me; but you really seem to have to think of it
yet." .
" but, notwithstanding your thundering pro-
pltecies, we arc making way," resumed Gerald.
How ? Your question has passed the Com-
mons. 'Tis loSt again. 'Twill pass again. But let
iralways pass, and go up to the • petticoat Lords,
what will you have gained ? What way made ?
Members of the Cabinet now and then vote for you.
The votes of the same number of dumb men would
count as much. When you make it a Cabinet
(Ideation, I'll speak to you more on that point. But
it.passes.the Commons now, and some Ministers
vote for it, and this did net happen twenty years
ago. Granted. Not an inch of way really made
yet. The true obstacles remain as undiminished as
ever. Is it possible that in these seeming lapses
into liberality, as you call it, you, a senator and a
philosopher,. see much more than the well-calculated
appearances permitted, nay organized, for the pur-
pose of keeping the wild Irish people from playing
the devil, out and out ? Evidences of the march of
initi4,.and so forth, I :know you call them--Stuff!
If a certain finger but wagged, they would,.
few us
they are, vanish like your poetical mists of the morn-
ing. Do tell your dear Irish connexions not to be
Making so many mistakeS."
The Irish, who are not: deficient in shrewd_
'less,' whatever other deficiencies' they may have,
were not so Much the dupes of the Parliamentary
Strategir as many persons supposed. And in
the fulness 'of time, by one skilful demonstra-
tion, they converted a sham war into one of
reality. Like cattle stung by gadflies in sum.-
mer, the . disconcerted Ascendancy men madly
plunge about in all directions. Dukes point
out to the perjury and corruption of their
boroughs, and call out lustily, behold the work
in which the Almighty delights—he who does
not stand up for boroughmongering deserts his
God—be who does not maintain that Dukes and
the creatures of Dukes have a right. to ilium on
tithes and church-lands, deserts his God; he,
in short, who will not be led by the nose by me, •
deserts his God ! This is very impudent, no
doubt, and very insulting to the people, who
are supposed to be in a.state fit to be doped
by it......,iVorning Chronicle.
The.abatonent of a public nuisance is a oub- •
fit: right by. the prescriptive usage of the Com-
mon Law of this country, and consequently
does not require any Act of Parliament to sane-
lion. it. Now there is no more dangerous
nuisance than a house ins populous street in
danger of falling; and if, it be only proved, on
'competent inquiry, that it cannot be allowed to
remain as it is without imutioent peril to human
life, a Magistrate is justified 'in taking such im-
mcdiatc measures as will have. the effect of re-
moving the danger, or, in other words, of abat-
ing the nuisance. The right of ininiediatelyi
destroying a public nuisance is given, although
it may also be abated by the slower and more

formal. process of presentment and indict»zent
at the suit of the King, because there are cases
where the mischief worked by the nuisance
may be consummated before the slow process of
the law could abate it, and therefore the more
summary Mode of removal is allowed. It is laid
doWn in books of authority that 4,,dhy Otte may
pull down or otherwise destroy a common. nui-
sance 3 for, if one whose estate is or may be
prejudiced by a private nuisance actually erected;
as a house hanging ok)er his ground for stopping
his lights, may justify his entering into another 's
aroand and pulling down and destroying such
a nuisance, whether it were erected before or
since he came to the estate, it cannot hitt fol-
low, a fortiori, that any one may lawfully
destroy a common . nuisance.' Now, let us
suppose a. house to be in so ruinous a condi--
tion that the front wall, declining from the
perpendicular, overhangs the public street a
few inches—does it require ,the authority
'of an Act of Parliament to pull such a
holm down ? Certainly not ; the Magistrate
has a right to order it to be taken down imme-
diately, by virtue of the Common Law, pro
salute populi—pi, at least, to have so much of
it taken down as may remove the danger.' If a
.man is justified in going upon the ground of
another to pull down a house or wall that over,
hangs his own estate, how much more is he jus,
tified who pulls down a house that overhangs
the public way ? for the former is only a private
detriment, and the latter is a nuisance to all his
Majesty's subjects. Under the authority of this
principle of law, several of the ruinous houses
in Exeter-street might have been taken down at
once, without the dangerous delay of Any
cuitous proceeding; and the same might and
ought to be done in many other streets in the
metropolis, where we daily see houses with ruin-
ous walls overhanging the pavement, and only
kept up by heavy beams of timber placed against
them. As to the Act of the 14th Geo. 111., cap.
78, which directs a mode of proceeding by pre-
sentment by the Grand Inquest, Annoyance
Jury, &c., and fourteen days' notice with respect
to buildings in a ruinous condition, it only ap-
plies to buildings where the danger, though pro-
bable, is not immediate, and to houses which are
not actually inht2Nted. There is no doubt that
where the danger is immediate, and the house
inhabited, a Magistrate, on satisfactory evidence
of the facts, can and ought to forewarn the in-
habitants of their danger ; and, if they per-
versely choose to remain in such house, he can
compel them to provide for their own safety; and
that by a law anterior to all Acts of Parliament.
—Morning Herald.
It will be seen froM a report in our Paper,.
that the Licensed Victuallers Asylum is.receiv-
ing gradually all the support which could well
have been anticipated. The indefatigable zeal
of the Governors, and of every one connected
with it, have done much fbr it ; but something
still remains to be effected, and we feel assured
that we do not trespass too far on the indulgence
of our readers in recommending to their favour-
able attention the promotion of such a benevo-
lent object. A mere trifle, it appears, would now
effect all that its original projectors contemplated;
and we will not believe for a moment that that
trifle will not be cheerfully contributed.—Morn-
ing Advertiser.