The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-21 00:00:00

SUNDAY PAPERS.

(THE NEWS.
PROJECTED PLAN OF PACIFYING THE IRISH PEOPLE.

The landholders will find the necessity of peopling their
estates with Protestants. This will take time, it is
true; but what great or bmeficial work was ever effected
without time? We believe the Clare election has dune
more for the reformation of Ireland, than any event since
the battle of Aghrim.—Standard.

COUNSEL—NOW, Pat tell us hew this mighty affair
ended.

PAT—Why it all ended in botheration.
CouNsKr.--" Botheration" again ! we have had you
a long while Pat under examination ; and you have used
this Irish term fifty times. NoW tell us Pat what you
mean by botheration ?
PAT-IVIly it is exactly what is taking place between you
anti me, Sir, at this indintical time.—. Report of an Irish

If ever there was an Administration that was com-
pletely bothered by the state of Ireland, it is the
present one. They cannot make an Irish Peer out
of a commoner that is an M.P.; because if they did,
Mr. Shell would follow Mr. O'Connell into the
House ; they dare not dissolve the Parliament, if the
King and his Military Cabinet were to be outvoted;
they cannot reward any Member of the Sister Isle
with a good place, without endangering his seat;
and they are, by recent circumstances, picketted on
the torturing necessity of meeting one of the first
Irish Orators and Lawyers (who is the virtual Re-
presentative of five millions qf people) without an
Orator or a Lawyer to confront. him ; and whether
right or whether wrong, to dispose of the most odious
and invidious case that ever came before the prac-
tical deliberations of Parliament. If they cannot ef-
fect en ouster without an ab origins disqualification
of the candidate,—the same candidate might be re-
turned for the hundredth time; and this guerilla
Warfare of the public mind in Ireland would pro-
bably be continued until there was a virtual disfran-
chisement of Protestants as Members for the whole of
that part of the kingdom. " Think of that, Master
Brook!" The Tory Press is quite in a quandary;
and It now appears no longer a desirable affair to wait
the process of the New Reformation; by the progress
of which,in the existing ratio of conversion —perad ven-
ture no unforeseen obstructions occurred—the king-
dom of Ireland might be redeemed, by the Reformed
Faith, about the year of our Lord, sixteen thousand
and twenty-0;0E. " The Standard," that has anathe-
matised one of the Orange prints for its injudicious
violence, mildly suggests the ousting of the whole
Irish population from the estates of the Protestants,
on the expiration of their takes. This is really one
of the most profound statistical discoveries of our
times; and banishes to an immeasurable distance
the example of the sagacious 7112 CC who met in
Council ; and carried, unanimously, the proposition,
for hanging a bell round the cat's neck, in order that
they might hear when she war coming. The
culty that occurred in forming the executive power
—or in other words, in appointing the patriotic
parties that would undertake to carry the measure
into effect,--threw. a fatal stumbling block the
way of this strait-forward policy of the pigmy
Cabinet. There are, however difficulties in the
way of the measure proposed for displacing the whole
people of a large empire, on account of their religion,
—which did not attach to the legislation of the mice.
The question would arise of, —not only what was.
to be done with the people, but what could be done

without them. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
would have to issue a proclamation to the following
purport : " Ireland to -Wit. Wanted immediately,
Two Millions of Protestant Tenants, to people the
estates of ------, ! None need ap-
ply who are not well versed in the Protestant Epis-
copalian Catechism ; who have not been duly cons
tinned; and who are not sincere members of the
Reformed Church," &c. All this is deemed perfectly
unobjectionalle by the Tory print s—the Catholics ha v-
ing had legal notice to quit. It were absurd to suppose
that a »zillion of Fathers being peaceably ordered to
leave the country of their ancestors, with their starvin*.
and perishing offspring, could ever dream of offering
any obstruction to the course of Law—because Law
is the " petfectien of justice." In other triffing
affairs, they might be desperate; shooting people
on their own hearths, or firing their houses over
their heads, might be common sport in the lower
skies of discontent; but when a lease is expired,
neither gunpowder nor steel can renew "the bond."
May there not however possibly be a dearth of Pro-
testants, to people this new found land of the Re-
formation,—even when munured with the bodies of
the refuse Catholic population ! (for not having the
means of emigrating, the people must benefit the
soil in one way or another). One of the Tory prints
has observed how gradually the substitutionofa
Protestant population would take place, on account
of the different periods of the expiry of the tenures;
the writer does not add, "and how quietly likewise!"
A few days ago, that Reverend print, the St. Jawes's
chronicle, charged sonic Catholic in disguise with
writing the leading articles of one of the Irish Orange
Journals ; but we have seen nothing produced in
Ireland equal to this cold-blooded project for the
literal extermination of a whole people ! We scarcely
can believe it to be anything more than a ruse of
some Catholic wag, who was seeking to keep up the
spirit of the time ; and who was afraid that the ani-
mus which the Tory Cabinet had excited should
subside. If we must take it as a part and parcel of
any deliberate views which the present Ministers or
their creatures have entertained, then should we say
that the sooner the notable plan is made intelligible to
the Irish people, the better. Merciful God ! that it
should ever be in the heart of a bigotry, engendered in
the name (J. the Christian Religion, to project the ex-
tirpation of some millions of a Christian people,
.be-
cause they differed in opinion from their fellow chris-
fiat's ; and that the propounders of this deed were
the pretended advocates of a Reformed Faith ! A
project for " warning of" the soil a whole Nation !
Admirable ! A process of legal ejectment against a
million of tenants! A pretty good job for the laws
yers ! flow comfortably the stew Protestants (if you
could find the necessary number) would feel in their
beds ! Time was, that a single change in the tenant
of a district brought the sword, the fowling-piece, or
the fire-brand to a man's bedside at midnight; and
if a single and solitary instance of oppression roused
a poor man's neighbours from their natural rest to
revenge the wrongs of an individual—what must we
picture to ourselves in the event of thousands on
thousands being abandoned to want and desperation
in the same district! Where is the Protestant
peasant that were either weak enough or wicked
enough to succeed to the hearths of a people whose
blood were an eternal curse on the soil—if dead;
and whose spirits, if living, were fitted only to carry
universal death and desolation through the land !
No ! if the Irish people must be either banished or
starved off; in detail—or converted to the true faith,
let proclamation be made of the same—as a part
and plan of the " decisive measures" of the new Mi-
litary Cabinet of which so much is bruited abroad.
Let the horrible candour of such a policy boldly
speak its intentions. Some of the latest accounts
from Ireland continue to name the proceedings and
views of the land-owners, whose forty shilling free-
holders exercised their undoubted right of voting for
the man of their choice; it is stated that the land
will be let in large farms to Protestants; and that
the present population will be gradually displaced.
We are loth to give credence to these statements;
because there can be but one result, from the mo-
ment that such a system is sought to be acted
upon , • and that result will cover the land with
mourning. England, though at peace with other na-
tions, is not prepared to brave such a condition of
things; nor can a British Parliament ever ultimately
sanction a Ministry that had the imcromprehensible
hardihood to proceed to the consummation of such
an infamous project. There is danger in the very
naming of such an intention, to the mind of every
man who regards rebellion and revolution with the
horror which they should always excite. Mr.
Sheil related this plan of the back-bone Tory
Cabinet, a few days ago, to a meb of
Munster men, whose sense of wrong most greedily
devoured his discourse, and with an intelligence
that showed how entirely they comprehended the
orator, whose soul-inflaming words they applauded
"to the echo," that did applaud again. Yet the
besotted system goes on ; and if the tools of the
party are to be credited, with a firmness, facility,
and success, unknown since the days of Pitt Let
the Duke of Wellington, before he commits himself
to any " straight-forwardness" and " decision"
against his countrymen, pause for a moment over
their afflictions; and the prospects that are break-
ing on him and on them ! In that moment may
" consideration like an angel come," and save from
fierce destruction both the ruler and the ruled!—
The military road to peace, in Ireland, lies through
" the valley of the shadow of death." Over whose
mutilated bodies the Premier may stumble, in that
perilous hour of action, if it be destined to come,
none shall say. Ages of reproach and of bitter :or-
row can never redeem the errors of one false step,
in this extremity of fortune. But
" Foals rush on, where angels fear to tread."
There is always all Ajax to be found in the elite of
nations ; men who are great " cutters of the Gor-
dian knot;" placing all consequences to the account
of the physique of military force. That England
could and would conquer Ireland, in the event of
another rebellion, were as certain as that such a con-
quest would be the ruin of her. The perishing
Sister Isle would drag her unnatural conqueror into
the same grave.

(BELL'S LIFE IN LeoNnoN.)
We hope the public will excuse us for adverting
only for one moment to a subject personally affect-
ing Guiselves. In our Court of King's Bench in-
telligence will be found a report of an action brought
by an attorney of the name of Fisher against this
Journal, for what hc vatted a libel upon his charac-
ter. Were this one of the ordinary cases to which
newspapers are exposed, from error and inadver-
tence, we should not trespass upon the public with
a single remark; but when we are charged with
libelling the character of a private individual, it is
incumbent upon us to repel the imputation ; and we
do so " more in sorrow than in auger," more in
that folly
so or
t'ar from
cupidity. It
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pity than in indignation against the " unfortunate
wiglit" who has so expensively exposed himself to
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mean-
ing to vilify any private individual, we meant to
hold up to execration and scorn the profligate indi
viduals who had pandered to the depraved appetite
of a certain portion of the public; we wish we could
add, that that portion was not to he found in what
is called fashionable life. This Fisher (a capital
name for a greedy attorney), who is represented by
his Counsel as a tall old man of sixty, and described
in derision, we presume, by Harriette Wilson, as
" a lady-killer," thought proper to take to himself
(why, he best knew) a line in a dialogue, which we
gave to Stockdale and his authoress; and to luring
an action against us, after first tryiag the experiment
of a pecuniary compromise, for libelling what he
called his character. We were of course obliged,
which is, perhaps, one of the unavoidable inflictions
of the law, to go to the expellee of defending our-
selves from this Fisher's attack ; not that we cared a
farthing about his wrath, or his habits, or his cha-
racter, for to us he was an obscure stranger; but
because we did care, to stand before the public, free
from the stain, which a portion of the weekly Prees,
we fear, so justly deserves, of dealing in private.
slander. Our success has been obtained by manly

means. We thought the public would support a
Journal conducted up©n fearless and independent.
principles, and we are grateful for the realization of
our well-founded anticipation. It will be seen from
the Report, that the action of this attorney was ri-
diculous, and that he is (loomed, if he have the
means, to pay the whole expences himself. Mr.
Scarlett complimented us upon bei fig superior to the
vulgar arts by which a spurious publicity is some-
times obtained, and gave us the benefit of his elo-
quence, and, what is of equal value, his personal tes-
timony to shield us from any possibility of being
mixed •up with the vile herd of libellers who
occasionally infest the Public Press. Lord Ten-
terden, who presided, with that dignity which
is so embodied in his character, left the case
fitirly to the JHry, upon the purity of our motives,
and the Jury sustaining the sense and character of
one of our most glorious institutions, and justly feel-
ing the public value of an independent press, pro-
nounced our triumphant refutation of the real libel,
which this Fisher sought to affix upon us. The
time was when Juries were prone to be inflamed
from the Bench, and administer to the base arts of
those who sought a living by quartering themselves
for " damages" upon the public press : recent ver-
dicts, as The Sun (one of the ablest conducted of
our Evening Journals) has well observed, have re-
?loved this imputation from the administration of
justice, and shielded, not crushed, with the panoply
of law those who have deserved well of their coun-
try. A lesson has been read in this recent trial of
?ur's, of which the low-minded will profit, for there
is a species of cunning, which is absorbed entirely i❑
self, that will not fail to catch the hint, that it is
cheaper to dwell in idle obscurity, than poke them-
selves forwird at a dangerous risk, to eat the bread
which other and better men have earned. We are
always ready to relieve distress when a fair claim is
made upon our bounty, but we shall be found to the
last hour of our existence to resist exaction.

(THE srilywx.)

It is very generally reported that the Session
now drawing to a close, will terminate at the same
time the allotted days of the present Parliament.
Our Military Premier is not quite satisfied, it seems
with the sort of victories he has of late been achiev-
ing in the new field to which he has transferred his
soldiership, and has resolved, accordingly, upon re-
modelling his
.legions. This must be a pleasant
piece of intelligence for those Hon. Members who
have been working so hard for sonic time past to
keep the Duke in good humour by their votes. It is
really not a little cruel in his Grace to send them
thus to face their Constituents, after having reduced
them to the state he has done. They -have merited,
from him at least, another reward. Have they not
given themselves up, soul and body, to his service,
ever since he became Commander-in-Chief of the
State, to the utter neglect of every other authority
which it was either their interest or their duty to
have attended to—running like lackeys to swell his
majorities, whether the division-bell was heard at
" witching time of night," or during the drearier
watches of the morning, and systematically shutting
their ears and their understandings to every other
appeal, save the " consummate eloquence" of Mr.
Goulburn, and the crack of Mr. Holmes's whip,
whenever they had to exercise their functions as le-
gislators ? And what was the mighty boon they
asked for all this generous surrender of their time
and their case, their reason and their conscience ?
Nothing more than that they should be permitted to
go on for a few years longer in the same course, and
that this hateful disturber, a dissolution, should not
be sent rudely to break in upon their career of com-
pliance and subservency. Yet, after having thus
been seduced to disregard the claims, and betray
the interests of their Constituents, to their Con-
stituents, it seems, are they to be sent back—and
that by the very man for whose sake they have ex-
posed themselves to all the odium and contempt
which their conduct has brought upon them. It is
thus, however, that pusillanimity and selfishness de-
serve to be, and fortunately, often are, rewarded.
THE JOHN BULL.)

The observations of the Duke of Wellington on
the subject of the West Indies, in the House of
Lords, on Friday, will afford the highest consola-
tion and satisfaction to those who have heretofore
been treated as monsters of iniquity, and persons
proscribed, for the crime of being slave proprietors,
His Grace, in disclaiming any intention of reflecting
upon those who were anxious to improve the state
of the slave population, wished it to be understood
that the Colonial Legislatures were independent,that
Government were aware, when they proposed mea-
sures to the Colonial Legislatures, that the Colonial
Legislatures were fully competent to adopt those
measures, to modify those measures, or reject them
altogether ! Having that power, Government could
not force them, and if the Noble ,Lord (Calthorpe)
wished the government at home to force the Legis-
latures, his Grace would tell him, that the Govern-
ment at home could not do it—we have no more the
power of Governing the Colonies by force than we
have that of governing the mother country by force;
they could only be governed as England was go-
verned, by laws enacted with the sanction of their
own Legislature. The Duke declared that he had
no intention to irritate the Colonists by strong mea-
sures or harsh language, he would prefer encourag-
ing them to do that, which would be alike beneficial
to themselves and agreeable to the country. This
tone is so different from that which the Colonists
have been in the habit of hearing, that (added to. the
pledge given by his Grace, of Enquiry before Legis-
lation) they will no doubt read the Duke's speech
with satisfaction and gratitude. By the Suffolk
Paper we see that Major Moody is re-instated in
his official functions—if this be true, it will afford a
new proof of the triumph of justice over cant and
quackery, •
(THE SFECTATOR.)
INSURANCE SoutETlEs.—The interest excited by
Savings • Banks and Benefit Societies has caused an
inquiry into the constitution of Insurance Societies,
which cannot be very agreeable to some of them.
Of the grounds on which these societies form their
calculations, and how they derive their own gain and
cover the losses of others, the public has always
been content to remain ignorant : it is sufficient for
individuals to know that, by paying a certain sum
annually, another certain sum will accrue to them
-or their families in case of death, or of conflagration.
The relation between these sums has always been a
mystery .to the vulgar. The investigations of a late
Committee of the House of Commons has thrown
light upon the proceedings of some of these institu-
tions. It appear is either that the tables upon which
the oldest and most approved offices calculate their
chances are very much below the real value of lives
at different ages, or that sickness and mortality have
very much decreased in the world since the tables
were formed. The first of these considerations, if
true, is consolatory to our pockets ; the other, to
our hopes of continued existence. The tables which
are most generally adopted, as the groundwork of
cslculation, are the Northampton tables, as they are
called : they were formed by Dr. Price, from bills
of mortality kept in the parish of All Saints, North-
am during the years from 1735 to 1780. Ac-
cording to these tables, the probable duration of a
life already at twenty, is 3343 years. But, accord-
ing to tables formed from reports of the number who
have been assured at the Equitable, the true pro-
bable duration is 41.05. A life at thirty, according
to these tables and the practice of the Equitable, is
2238:87 :yeaacresoirndiligratotiotthie; results from its reports, it,
is 33.97. A life of forty, according to Dr. Price, is
by Mr. Morgan, prove it toi-h ebefacwtse'r worth four
years pub-
lishedu
years and a fraction more. It is very clear that com-
panies whose theory and the results of whose prac-
tice differ so widely, must rapidly accumulate an ims'
mense capital. Just as Societies formed on this
principle, who are the receivers of annuities, gain,
so much must the Government, who is the granter
of annuities, lose:- for the tables which are profit-:
able to the one, must oftcourse be just the contrary'
to the other. Mr. Finlayson has calculated that, by
selling life annuities, " the Sinking Fund will incu

a most enormous loss, which has been for many
years increasing, is even advancing at the rate of
8,0001. every week, and that, during the last three
months, it has exceeded 95,0001." It seems we are
indebted to the Finance Committee for a steppage.of
this drain. Whether sickness and mortality have in
this country generally diminished, admits of some
doubt : that the chances of life in infancy are much
increased by superior methods of treatment, and the
introduction of vaccination, is however certain. The
entire subject is a most interesting one, but in every
step the inquirer is met by a deficiency of data. We
would earnestly - recommend to all superintendents
and managers of large establishments, such as dock-
yards and prisons, to keep accurate registers of the
ages, sickness, and deaths of the individuals and
their families under their care. For general infor-
mation on this most important subject, we recom-
mend the perusal of the articles in the Quarterly
Review, a number or two back, and another in the
last Westminster, taken in conjunction with Dr.
Mitchell's work on Benefit Societies.