The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-11 00:00:00

IRELAND.

EXTRAORDINARY -OuTaAnc.--=About the hour
of twelve o'clock, on.the night of last Tuesday,
a large party of the peasantry, well armed, and
consisting of _more .than two hundred persons,
went to the farm.of Inch,. which is situate be-
tween Ballingarryr and Charleville, and, in a
short time, destroyed a valuable orchard: They
felled one hundred and fourteen apple 'trees,
sixteen ash trees, and one din. tree. But devas-
tation alone was not the object of the banditti,
as they had brought with them about one hun-
dred horses and cars, for-the purpose of remov-
ing the spoil. They partly effected their design,
as .they removed some of the timber from the.
Premises, shouting in triumph, and firing guns,.
RS if in defiance of ,the civil or military powers;
The letter which has communicated this intelli
gence.adds, that there is a report in the neigh.;
bourhood that the peasantry, are de,termined not•
to leave a tree standing in that part-of the- coun-
try.---The farm of Inch is part of the estate .of.
John Mason, Esq.,
,and as information „was
quickly given by his sons to Major Wilcocks., of
the perpetration of the outrage, some hope S-were
entertained that he would be-.able to discover
some of the offenders.—(Thibliii Correspondent,
Dee. 8.)

We are gratified'tci. perbeive that the
,distur.
bances are diminishing in number, and are not
marked with a peculiar degree , of. atrocity for
some time back. There is-.no doubt that a per-
son Who.. acted a sort of leader among those
marauders, has been ,arrested by Robert TwisS,
an active Magistrate of the county of Kerry,
and conveyed to Dublin, where he is expected to
give much, valuable information. He is a person
above the ordinary rank, and has disclosed the
trunes of nearly 300 individuals who were en-
gaged in these . nocturnal disturbances:—:-:(Cork
illercd G/u
.Dec. 7.)
We understand there are now upwards of
twenty-six Regiments of.- Infantry in Ireland,
Which, with the increase they will receive from
the Out-pensioners (two hundred of. these.being
about to be attached to each :regime-lit), •will
make the regular force now :on duty in. this
country amount to twenty thousand men ; a body
of strength fully,.sufficient to remove all appre-
hension from the most timid, and to deprive the
deluded. peasantry Of all hopes of being enabled
to effect their objects by intimidation or violence.
--(ibid.)

[From the Limerick. Chronicle of Thursday.]

On Sunday, about four o'clock in the evening,
the house of Patrick Clift was entered by a ban-
ditti, and a sword taken. The house of Arthur
Neil was•also'entered the same evening, and a
pistol taken from him. Both those persons lived
at kilbreedy, and within a mile of Adare.
There. hag b'een' another meeting of Magis-
trates at Buttevant, Lord Doneraile in the chair,
at Which it was resolved to memorial Govern-
ment to -apply for the revival of the Insurree,
tion Act immediately on the meeting of Parlia-
ment. .

On Monday laSt, Mr. John Leake, High Con-
upprehended Denis Keliher, on the road
to Blennerville, in the county of Kerry, of which
he is a resident, .charged" as one of the accom-
plices in the murder of Major Collis.

'HE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM AND THE
BUCKINGH.t.MSHIRE• CHRONICLE. "

(From-the Buckinghamshire Chronicle.)
AYLESBURY, DEC. B,—We wish to call the
attention of our readers, and particularly of those
amongst: them to-whom the liberty of the press is
a subject -of -interest, to the Protest against the
Resolution: of the Magistrates at the last Bucks
Quarter Session relative to this Paper, which is
given below. 141 these days of uuconstitutioual
proceedings, it is a source of infinite consolation
that the spirit of our forefathers is living still.
Personal and political freedom are the glory of
an English gentleman, and while such a body of
English gentlernewis found to stand forth as the
champions of an unfettered Press, we shall never
fear either for theindependence of a county or
the liberties of a Teople.

_ .
PROTEST.
A resolutiori having been voted by the majority of the Ma-
gistrates assembled at the-late Quarter Sessions for the county
of Bucks, prolibiting7the • insertion of any county advertise-
Merits in the " Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Hertford
-
'hire Chronicle," we, Magistrates and Gentry of that county,
feel it incumbent upon us-to express our deep regret that such
a measure should have been thought necessary, and to protest
against it as, in our opinion,,. unconstitutional, and injurious to
the true interests-Of the community.
We cannot divesLourselves of the conviction, that in the
Choice of those journals which ought to contain the advertise-
tuents relatiVt to the public business of the county, one consid-
eration alone should pretient itself—how best to select those
Papers, the circulation of which, within the county, is likely
to afford the greatest publicity.
We view with concern and alarm the endeavour to visit upon
an Editor the expresAion of-his political opinions, which has
been made by the majority of a bench of Magistrates, assuming,
in effect, the combined functions of prosecutors, judges, and
jurors. This proceeding. appears to us adverse to the first
Principles of English justice, since (besides the anomaly of con-
verting a Court of Quarter Sessions into a body of Censors of
the public press, and thus investing it with functions unknown
to the ancient Constitution of the land, and highly dangerous
to the acknowledged rights and privileges of the subject) these
gentlemen, if hereafter called upon to act as grand jurors upon
a bill of libel affecting matter • previously published in that pa.
per, will have already prejudged the case.
To the Law Officers of the Crown belongs•the prosecution of
libels against the State. 'The.tribunals of the country are open
t° all aggrieved individuals ; and where legal redress has not
been sought, or cannot be obtained, in our opinion the only
justifiable manner of contradicting statements, or answering
arguments, is by proving the falseliood of' one, or exposing the
Weakness of the other. •
We cannot refrain from believing, that in public opinion, all
other courses will be considered rather as savouring of persecu-
ion and of an inability to reply, than as dictated by that digni-
fied impartiality which cught-on all occasions to mark the de-
cisions of an independent Magistracy.
We feel ourselves Moreover called upon, net less by a sense
of justice, than by a coneurrence in the sound constitutional
spirit which has generally' characterized that paper, to promote
105 circulation, so long as,- abstaining from all attack upon pri-
ate character, upholds the same political principles. .
George .Lee." ' Thus. Wm. Coke, M.P.
John Aubrey, M.P. John Kipling.
R. G. Russell, W.P. Nugent, M.P.
T. Digby Aubrey. William Bickford, M.P.
Bedford. • • - • J. S. Baron.
Robert Smith, M.P. William Morris.
Edmund Morris. John Poulett.