The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-28 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

SOITTIIWARK, Nov. 26.—Our trade. continues -dull, except
for real choice Middle Kents, and they being scarce, not many
sales were effected. Weald of Kent Bags and Pockets were
never less in request, and having a large stock of them in our
market, they are decidedly on the decline. Sussex Bags Wa
never remember so little asked for ; Pockets are tolerably sale-
able, at a reduction of from 2s. to 4s. per cwt.—lt is strongly
reported here that the Duty is upwards of £170,000.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROX THE 3IdRNING• PAPERS,
November 28.

. .
' • [bIORNING POST.]
We received yesterday files of Papers frbm New
Pkovidence.to the .4th ult. and from Newfound-
land to the 24th of the same Month.. They
abound with complaints against the rapaciousness
at:d ferocity of the Pirates who infest the Amer--
can seas and board and plunder all nations. indis-
criminately. Oae of them had been taken by a
vessel belonging to a French squadron, which
was actively cruising against those daring bucca,
peers. The Editor of the Nassau Gazette, in his
40:narks upon the piracy committed on the Dutch
ship. Marguerette, says—" We hear by chance of
•'-geveral of these (piracies) some time after they have
,:taken place, and we have been told that in some
instances the masters of vessels, who follow
.certain regular trades, submit to such acts si-
;lently, frbm the fear that those fellows, seeing
themselves reported in newspapers which they
find in the vessels they board at sea, will treat
them- with cruelty and perhaps put them to death,
for making the piracies and the names of the
pi:-ates public. Along the .coast of Cuba, the
Qulf of Florida, and down in the Bay of Mexico,
as far as the mouths of the Mississippi, small
craft, sometimes open boats, rob and plunder
vessels. We understand that the American brig
Cosrnopolita, from Charleston, which was- the
other day wrecked at Florida, had. been pre-
viously robbed on that coast. The General As-
sembly of New Providence was prorogued from
the ISth Sept: to Tuesday the 23d of October.

[HORNING CHRONICLE.]
We are glad to find that our Ultra Contem-
porary begins at length to draw in his horns with
regard to the French Noblesse. He has pene-
tration enough, it appears, to see the ridiculous
figure which the principles lie lately maintained
cut, when exhibited in their proper light.—lt
was but the other day he told -us, that " the
pride of birth. will remain so long as men can
trace their descent from the Duguesclins and the
Bayards of antient, or from the Montcalms and
Suffreins of modern fame. That such distinctions
skiould be wholly taken away is not desirable, if
it were possible, and it is not possible but by
the entire extirpation of a large and estimable
portion of Society ;" and then followed some re-
flections on the unsuitableness of then of family
engaging in trade, and so forth. We were told
too of Dukes descending from the garrets, after
having made short commons for some days, to
afford money for the fare of a fiacre, to convey
them to the Chamber of Peers, to vote against a
particular measure.—The separation of races was
the curse of France before the Revolution, and
with the return of the Bourbons returned also
that plague. This separate race laid claim to
German blood, arid despised the rest of the
Frencls as• Gauls, and like the Noblesse of most
countries of the Continent, were far above any
pursuit of honest industry, hoWever poor and
miserable they. might be. Sir James Stewart,
whoSe feelings had often been hurt by see-
ing poor and ragged creatures of this order
wandering up and down, and " chasing a wretch-
ed hare or partridge," urged the propriety of
granting, as in England, the title of Noble to
one of a family only, and let all the rest be come
moners; that is to say, distinguished by no per-
sonal privileges whatsoever from the lowest class
of the people." This is what common sense dic-
tated.—But the return of the Bourbons gave to
the whole of this race the titles they had before
the Revolution ; and this was followed by the
notable absurdity of making Peers of Dukes
without a penny to support their dignity.

[NEW TIMES]
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rt is not long since The Tunes boasted of its
respect and reverence for the Clergy. This re-
verence was evinced in its Paper of yesterday by
one of the most flagrant insults on the clerical
character that we ever remember to have ►vit-

nessed. A. Reverend Gentleman, it seems, in
the conscientious discharge of his duty last Sun-
, day, had thought fit to caution his flock against
the perusal of irreligious and immoral publica-
tions, and in particular had specified the Poems
of a certain Nobleman, as tending to the pro-
ulotion of vice and infidelity. A senseless Cor-
respondent of The Times denounces this pro-
ceeding as 4C nct in conformity to the principles
of Christianity," and The Times inserts the
Letter under a heading, in capital letters, " Li-
centiousness of the Pulpit" !!! Licentiousness !
Was it ever before heard that a Newspaper,
professing a regard for religion and decency,
dared to arraign a preacher as licentious,
merely because he cautioned the young and in-
experienced against snares the most dangerous to
' their consciences. Is it come to this, that a
teacher of the Gospel of Christ must hold his
peace, in the presence of the scoffer and the in-
fidel, on pain of being stigmatised and held up to
.reproach in the columns of The Times
..:A.incere and pious preacher may well be ex-
pected, at a period like the present, to be earnest
in his warnings against vicious publications—to
'enforce his arguments with warmth—to illustrate
them with examples—to point out distinctly the
rocks on which so many make shipwreck of their
salvation—" Who can• endure," says the admi-
rable Barrow, " that He, whom he appre-
'bends to be his grand Parent, his best Friend
and Benefactor, his, great Patron and Sovereign,
-should in downright terms be defamed or dispa- ,
raged ? Who can patiently bear that, wherein
he placeth his utmost hopes and supreme felicity,
to be expressly .slighted and scorned ?" This
consideration, might justify some severity of re-
proof in the preacher, and he would be so far
from deserving blame on that account, that his
discourse would certainly prove the more benefi-
cial. 4C The severe word of the reproving man,"
says Bishop Taylor, " is wise and healthful"—
and " he is a miserable man whom none dares tell
of his faults so plainly that he may understand his
danger." As to the danger which is to be appre-
hended from the poems in question, we have
tong been convinced that it is truly alarming.—

The talents of the Noble AnthQr_.are great,'
and therefore his works are popular. They seize,
on the imagination of youth, and they captivate
the female sex by their brilliancy and animation ;
hut under the flower lurks a venomous asp ; and

the admirers of the delicious versification un-
awares imbibe the profligaciof the sentimeuts.----;
This is a national evil, well deserving to be de-
nounced, not in a single pulpit, but in the pulpit
of every parish to which these pernicious Poems
have penetrated. The phrase " Licentiousness
of the Pulpit," is manifestly adopted by way of
set-off against the general complaint of " the Li-
centiousness of the Press;" and the argument
meant to be conveyed by it is, that a Clergy-
man, who cautions his parishioners against the
reading of a vicious book, is as deserving of cen-
sure, as a writer who slanders the institutions of
the State, and attempts to bring the King's Per-
son and Government into hatred and contempt.

[THE TI NI ES .1
Now that all is horror and confusion in Ireland,
the Government both there and at home are exer-
cising themselves with uncommon activity in the
restitution of peace. To restore the lives that
have been so fearfully destroyed is beyond their
power. "At one fell swoop," sixteen, if not
seventeen, persons murdered in the night, and by
tire, is an event calculated to awaken the most
torpid attention to the situation of Ireland. For
the further particulars of this shocking transac-
tion we would rather refer to the extracts from
the Irish papers, than repeat the appalling atroci-
ties here. We shall merely state our suspicion
that the story of the child dropping from its
mother's womb may be borrowed from the history
of bloody Queen Mary's time, when such an oc-
currence actually took place in Smithfield (as
may be read in the historian of the day,) and the
living infant was by one of the brutal execu-
tioners cast back into the flames ! Sixteen, also,
or seventeen at the most, and not eighteen,
as at first reported, 'are the number of persons
who perished. Neither does it appear by the
Coroner's Inquest, that any of the unhappy suf-
ferers were shot, or that the murderers stopped
to fire any muskets, or to witness the success of
their desperate enterprise. The state of Ireland
then, being thus distracted and it is not merely
of the district in which the late murderous
conflagration was kindled of which we speak,
for it is evident that disaffection to existing
usages, contempt of the laws, and a disposition
to revolt, exist every where,—it becomes neces-
sary to apply the most prompt means to stop or
to suspend the growing evils. The armed force
of Ireland will no doubt be immediately in-
creased, and military law must take place of
civil process. The present mischief is not one
that can be temporised with; it must be sup-
pressed by force ; and when peace, or at least
stillness, is again restored, all will have been
done which it is in the power of such men as the
present Ministers to do. They have not heads
to regain the affections, to satisfy the reasonable
wishes, and consolidate the tranquillity of Ire-
land as an integral part of the empire. These
desirable objects must wait for their consumma-
tion till happier times arrive, and some more en-
lightened Statesmen appear on the stage.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The want of some system of public instruction
is one cause of the degraded and demoralized
state of Ireland. We alluded yesterday to the
prevalent non-residence of the beneficed Clergy.
One of the worst consequences of this is the want
of Parish Schools, which a liberal and enlight-
ened Clergyman of the Establishment would
render available for the Catholic as well as Pro-
testant part of his parishioners. If he disavowed
and declined the idea of proselytism, facilities of
educating their children would be eagerlyembraced
by the Irish. This fact is stated emphatically at
every Education Meeting, or Bible Society Meet-
ing, in which the condition of the Irish becomes
a subject of considerat'on. But it is clear that,
from the non-residence or neglect of the Irish
Clergy, these schools, which are an essential part
of the duty of a Parish Rector, exist in but too
many instances only in, name. As to the Roman
Catholic Clergy of Ireland, they do Tittle or
nothing towards improving the min& or morals of
the poor; nor, indeed, are they placed in a si-
tuation, or perhaps competent to do more. They
are generally ignorant, unambitious, and harrn!eis
persons, and not without zeal and conscience
in their way. But their means of subsistence
are precarious, depending only upon voluntary
contribution, for which' they are obliged to re-
sort to a system of extortion that makes them
odious, or of compliance and familiarity that de-
bases themselves and those who are commicted
to their spiritual care. It is, we believe, the
Bishop of Killala, Dr. Stock, .a liberal as well as
an accurate observer, who says, that the Catholic
Clergy have but little influence except where they
comply with the humours and indulge the passions
and vices of the people. If it could be so ar-
ranged, it would be doing a great benefit to Ire-
land to support the Catholic priesthood at the
expense of the State. It would remove them
from that dependence on, and familiarity with
the poorer classes, which at present makes them
but too generally remarkable for low habits and
intemperance. Is it to be wondered at, under
all these circumstances, that the Irish should be
uncivilized and disorderly? We will add one
word more upon this topic of education—both
individuals and associations have made most com-
mendable efforts to extend the blessings of educa-
tion among the Irish, and with considerable suc-
cess—but the success would have been still
greater if it were not checked by an imprudent
and indeed unjustifiable zeal for proselyt sal in
religion. Nothing should be more carefully
avoided when the object is to educate the Irish
generally. It creates, very naturally, alarm and
hostility. Our advice to them would be, to con-
fine themselves to barely unscaling the eye, and
leave the rest to the great FOUNTAIN of LIGHT
and TRUTH.

'BRITISH PRESS.I
'
The Irish Papers still contain various accoun„
of the horrid massacre in the county of Tipperar
but all agree in its extent—the destruction Y'
of

sixteen innocent and .unoffending
These accounts supply some defects in the for-
mer reports, . and afford some additional .details
of this barbarous outrage. So determined were
these savages upon the work of destruction,
.that
they fired at some of the neighbours who came; to
.
the place to render assistance. The name of the,
place of this diabolical act is rober, part of the
estate of the Lard of Clare, about four miles from
Fethard. The neighbourhood is thickly inhabited,
and it is observed as a proof of the demoraliza-
-1 tion of the peasantry, that they do not appear to
feel horror at this frightful act, nor that sympa-
thy for the sufferers that might be expected uncle,
such dreadful circumstances. CriMe has now at-
tained a height and extent. in time south of Ireland
rapidly approaching to the total disorganization
of society, and consequently requiring prompt
and efficacious means to restrain it. The Insur-
rection Act having expired, two other plans ap-
pear to be in contemplation—martial law, and a
system of general police. An extraordinary ef-
fort must be made, and made speedily ; but that
will not suffice, for without removing the cause we
must expect a repetition of these frightful scenes.
The cause appears now tolerably clear. These
outrages originated on the Courtenay estate, in
the county of Limerick, in the eviction of the old
tenants, and the introduction of new occupants ;
and a like cause is assigned for the present hor-
rid transaction. In the midst of the general dis-
tress, others, fearing a like fate, have a common
feeling with the perpetrators of these crimes,
and hence, as well as from the dread of revenge,
the guilty actors remain undiscovered. It is
very true that the landlord is• entitled to his
rent, and the clergyman to his tithes, and their
legal claims are not to be set aside by force and
violence ; but if the tenant, unable to satisfy
those claims, be' thrown an outcast upon the
world, he will have recourse to acts of despera-
tion, and society has nothing to expect from him
but a life of crime. Where idleness and extra-
vagance produce this result, he may be left with-
out compassion to his fate ; but where distress
arises from actual necessity, it is the duty of
every landlord to ameliorate the condition of his
tenants as far as he possibly can. This princi-
ple, we have no doubt, has been recognized in
the disturbed district, but if more generally acted
upon it would produce much good.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—On Sunday last, a fe-
male servant, named Eleanor Tritton, who lived
as cook with Mr. J. CURLING, at Ozengell, near
St. Lawrence, in the Isle of Thanet, left her
master's house on a visit to her sister, at Sand-
wich, and was expected to return in the evening
of that day, but the hour of nine having arrived,
and not making her appearance, two of the men-
servants of the house went out to meet her ; and,
in a quarter of an hour afterwards, when near
the direction-post, where the road from Sand-
wich diverges in different directions, they ob-
served a gig or one horse chaise approaching,
in which were a man and a female, and hay-
ing made themselveS known, the woman called
to one by name, earnestly entreating they
would •stop the horse, and; adding,—" for
God's sake take me out ;"" but the man who
drove, instantly whipped the horse, which sat
off at full speed, so as to prevent any attempt
to stop it. One of the persons, however, pur-
sued the chaise on foot into the direct road lead-
ing to Ramsgate,- and followed it in that direc-
tion till he perceived that the driver, having
pas'ed Nether Court, had turned out of the
turnpike-road-into a lane on the right leading to
Yegwell, and accordingly crossed the fields, the
mere readily -to- intercept it; but being unsuc-
cessful, he still continued the pursuit into Rams-
gate,. where .-by. the light of the lamps he first
observed that the female was missing, and the
man who drove directing his course through
Rarrugate into the road leading to Margate,
a 1 further trace of the chaise was lost ; and

it being now ten o'clock, he gave up the pur-
suit, and returned to his master's house. An
immediate search was in consequence made in
every direction during the night for the female
who was missing, but-without success, till about
five yesterday morning, as a man, named Wood,was
proceeding from the vicinity of Canterbury, with
a cart load of bavins to Ramsgate, he discovered
a female lying lifeless in the road, within a few
rods of the grounds of Nether Court, which upon
farther examination, was found to be the body of
the unfortunate woman with several bruizes in her
fa-,e, as if from the effect of blows. Assistance
be:ng procured the body was carried to the Work-
house at St. Lawrence, where it now awaits the
Coroner's Inquest, which will be held on it this
day. It did not appear, from a purse, containing a
sovereign and some silver, which was found in
h r pocket, that she had been robbed ; and it is
to be lamented that the person who pursued the
chaise, should, in crossing the fields with the
good intention above described, have left the
main road before he reached the spot where the
Lody was found. The deceased was about thirty
years of age, and had lived with Mr. Curling at
Ozengell, upwards of five years, by whom, 'as
well as by his family, she was much respected for
her good, conduct. Since writing the above, we
learn that the man who drove the chaise has
been discovered and committed to St. Augustine's
Gaol, till the result of the inquest shall be known.
—( Kentish Gazette, Nov. 27_),

STRANRAER, Nov. c21.--There have lately come
on shore on the west side of the Mull of Gallo-
-way, a number of bags of GROUND SUMACH ; the
marks and numbers not legible, excepting one,
on which cc 'Woos and Co." can be read. A
ship's pump, and several pieces of a broken ship
have also come on shore, from which it is con-
lectured that a ship has been lost on the coast of
Ireland.
Monday morning the body of a respectable
looking middle aged man was found drowned in
the entrance lock of the Lea cut, Limehouse.• It,
was conveyed' ..to"the bone house to be owned,
and fora Coroner's Inquest.
'Monday evening the Gosport coach was robbed
of a trunk filled with valuables. The Wantaae
coach was robbed on Tuesday night, last week ;
and on Wednesday the luggage was cut from
behind two private carriages. Scarcely a night
passes Without robberies of this kind.