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London, England, 1830-07-17 00:00:00

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LMF.S...- i nere is tol.c phenomenon ni ti.e condmon of ore Irish
which must, we should think, attract the notice, and by coo
.quenee deeply affect the feelings, of all itionane persons in this
country. The fact alluded to is the frequent recurrence of cpiddemic
fever among that unfortunate and much afflicted people. We •übt
whether a satisfactory cause has yet been found to which one can
with confidence attribute the visitations of the plague in eastern
climes, after long intervals of suspension. A particular wind,
a certain temperature, infection from contact with diseased
districts or individuals, have each in turn, or simultaneously,
had the honour assigned to them of generating that tremendous
malady. There is in Ireland • disease more dreadful than
the plague, not produced by wind, or heat, or cold, or
contact—independent of all these natural and irresistible antece-
dents—but arising drirectly from a human want, which want has it.
*elf been in great part caused by human injuries. The disease is fever
—the source of it is hunger. It is worse than plague, because it
does not kill so soon ; and because that other, the parent evil, is
a scourge not incidental to the contingency of plague. Only let
the English reader judge the situation of a people, amongst
whom it is on record that famine rages during every fourth or fifth
year of the last century,—sometimes for two or three years in'
succession—and that the freezing agonies of hunger ripen in-
variably into the burning paroxysms of fever, the hunger and
the fever being alike unmitigated by charity first, and afterwards
by science. The essay of Dr. Corrigan, on the Epidemic Fever
of Ireland, traces with elaborate
,industry the progress and effects
of those fevers, which ravaged the unhappy island during the last
century, that is to say, from 1721 i to 182 d. And the fruit of
his researches is thus abridged :—" I have thus thrown together,
with a concise notice of the most remarkable preceding or accom-
panying circumeances, the principal epidemics of the last hundred
years. It is a maxim in philosophizing, that we must, as far as
possible, assign like causes to like effects and if upon a general
view of all the instance: adduced, we find some one condition in.
variably present to that condition, we give the name of cause. We
give the gave of cause to the object which we believe to be the inva-
riable antecedent of a particular change.' Epidemic fevers are the
like effects ;we must, if possible, assign them like causes. Upon
a general view of these, with the accompanying circumstances, we
find one condition invariably present famine *hat we therefore mark
down as their common cause. Lien a rapid glance over the table,
as I have arranged it, will show, that however all other circum-
stances, as time, season, climate, might have varied, this one con.'
dition, famine, was never absent. No matter how climate altered,
or seasons revolved, how summer or winter rolled on, so sure as
want appeared, so certainly did pestilence follow. The two have
also ever kept pace with one another : as the degree of want, so has
been the extent of fever." Ye landlords of Ireland, listen to these
accusing tracts ; and if the Lord Limericks of a half-starved nation
object to legislative interference for its rescue, because to relieve the
poor Irishman by law would be to rob the rich one, we trust in a
British legislature to reply, that, to rob,—though it were a robbery,
which restitution is not,—but to rob the rich by hundreds is a less
crime than to murder the poor by thousands ; and that the aggra-
vation of famine, by defective laws, is equivalent to Jut act of
murder.

Mits.—A foolish evening paper, whose haberdasher-loyalty
!CMS to have been confounded by our frankness about the late
King, has the impertinence to insinuate that we have been governed
by unworthy motives in our avowed contempt for adulation. %Srill
the wiseacre be so obliging as to mention what son of unworthy
motives he thinks (can he think?) can actuate us in treating the
objects of Court Idolatry with so little deference ? He is a block-
head. If be and others provoke us to say more, we have a great
,leaf more to tell, compared with which what we have said, is not
merely forbearance, but panegyric.

POST.— Though we would fain avoid the subject, we should be
wanting ht our duty did we not denounce to public execration the
atrocioum article which appeared yesterday in a Morning Paper,

HERALD.—The conquest of Algiers is an event alike honoura.
ble to the Councils and the arms of France, which has entered upon
this salutary and important undertaking in that triple armour which
our Poet assigns to him
" Who bath his quarrel just."
The very existence of this and the other piratical States on the
coast of Africa, to say nothing of their long and almost undisturbed
continuance, has been at all times a scandal to civilized govern-
ments, which have not only suffered in the persons of their sub.
jects the grossest cruelties and indignities, but have dis-
graced themselves by purchasing, from time to time, a for-
bearance from these barbarians, which was either observed or vio.
lated as suited their interests, or their fears. To this miserable
and degrading vassalage the Government of Charles X. declared
they would no longer submit ; and should the French persist in
their career till the whole mass of these pirates are swept from
off the sea and the earth, they will have performed the most
essential service to humanity. Long ago what the French are
now effecting ought to have been made one common object by all the
maritime States of Europe. That it has not been so has been owing to
a mean and paltry jealousy of each other, which would even now
step in to detract from the merit of an exploit, which, in fact, is
creditable to the anus of France, although we admit the political
object may be different from the avowed one. We see no more
right that England, Spain, Austria, or itussia have to complain of
the French occupying Algiers, than the latter has to complain of
our possession of Malta, Gibraltar, or the lonian Isles; but when
it is considered who and what it is they displace, we should say
that, be the change what it may, it can scarcely fail to be one of
unmixed good when compared to the abominable den of evil which
it extirpates.

HERALD.—The elections of the Department of the Seine, con.
slating of eight colleges, and returning eight Deputies, have termi-
nated. The first college, which has 1,430, gave 1,253 to General
Matthieu Dumas, the Constitutional candidate, and 196 to Ad-
miral Dupene, the protege 01' the Ministry, and " Hero of Al-
giers." The second college gave to M. Demarcay, Constitu-
tional candidate, 1,029, and to the Government candidate 189.-1
The third college, 1,237 to M. Sulverte, Constitutionalist, and
146 to M. Breton, Alinisterialist. Fourth college, 1,174 to 111.
Claude Corcclles, Constitutional candidate ; and 151 to M. de
Alantort, Government candidate. Fifth college, 913 to M. de
Schonen, and 66 to the opposing candidate. The sixth college,
822 to the Constitutional, and 295 to the Ministerial candidate.
The seventh college, 746 to the Constitutional, and 212 to the
Government. The eighth college, 366 to the liberal candidate (51.
Ch. Dupin) and 166 to M. Leroy ; whilst another ministerial
candidate obtained only one vote. We have entered into
these minute particulars on account of the broad light which
they throw on the state of public feeling at this moment,
and because they decide, at the same time, the wisdom 01 folly
of retaining the present ministry. They also show that the
latter can only count upon the support of every fifth man
amongst the enlightened and opulent classes, on any trying emer-
gency. Yet the rich are, in France, as in every other country, pro-
verbially aristocratic; and only extraordinary circumstances can
counteract this strong tendency. When we, therefore, see the electors
of Paris—the richest inhabitants of that luxurious capiml—reject,
by immense majorities, the ministerial candidates, and return the
most uncom prom ising enemies of the present ministry,we may suppose
the fears with which the conduct of the latter has inspired all consi.
dame men in France. If the rich and enlightened are thus alarmed at
the policy pursued by Al. dePolignac and his colleagaes,we may easily
suppose the feelings with which their proceedings are viewed by the
great body of the nation ; and the pertinacity with which the former
cling to their places, in despite of these signs, is one of the most
protentous circumstances recorded in the history of our times. We
are afraid that, to put down this anomaly, recourse must be
had at last to another anomaly, in the form of foreign; inter-
vention ; and we are only surprised that the great Powers have
not already interposed their advice, to show the French King
the dangers he is preparing for himself and family, in retaining
a Ministry whose existence is clearly looked upon, by at least
nine-tenths of his subjects, as at variance with their dearest
rights and inieresta. Next to this question, the affalts of Algiers
are, at hut for the moment, the chief topic of discussion,l
whilst the practical suggestions on the subject afford a new and 1
striking proof of the disposition which unfortunately prevails at
this moment in France to disregard, not only In her domestic, but
in her foreign, all the principles of a just, moderate, and concilia-
tory policy. Both the Liberal and Royalist journals insist with
equal vehemence on the propriety of retaining permanent posses-
sion of Algiers, even at the risk of a war with England. The
motives of the former are perfectly intelligible, originating
solely, we may say, in a desire to add to the embarassments
and difficulties of the present Government. Bnt the outcry
of the Ministerial papers cannot be accounted for on any ra-
tional principle, and can only be ascribed to that spirit of giddi.
ness and infatuation by which their party are unfortunately
distinguished. A war with England, by requiring so many
sacrifices on the :part of the French nation,—.not to speak of the
sweeping ruin it would bring on its commerce and navy, would
inevitably heighten the present discontents, and probably end in
some frightful catastrophe, in which the Royalism would be the
chief sufferers. We do not pretend tote in the secrets of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, and, if we did, nobody would believe us; but,
we are almost persuaded they will never consent, either formally
or tacitly, to the French retaining possession' of Algiers and Its
territory. If they were permitted to require quiet possession of
that country, their next step would be to occupy Tunis and Tri.
poll ; and having added these to the former, what could prevent
them from extending their conquests further in that direction, and,
at last, subjecting the whole southern coast of the Mediterranean to
their sceptre ? In this case what would become of our Eastern
empire ?

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tamcs credit to: having been the uniform and consistent
vilifier of the Illustrious Departed, and in this respect, indeed, the
in.:rit of consistency which is claimed must be conceded. Yes; during
the greater part of his life he was the object of the malignity
of this writer • his mortal remains were scarcely cold when his me-
mory was loaded with the vilest slanders and abuse that the most
depraved imagination could suggest; and now, not the sanctity of
the tomb can shelter him fora single day against the unsatiated malice
which can gloatwith equal satisfaction over the death-bed or thcgrave.
The unfortunate affair that disturbed the commencement of the late
reign, and which, except for the page of history, ought to be for ever
buried in oblivion, is again dragged forth to suit the purposes of the
Times,which demands, in reference to that subject, " Did we join the
foul-mouthed hue and cry? Did we mingle in the base-minded
throng ? Did we float contentedly along the putrid current ? Did
you not, we ask, act thus? Did you nut watch the course of the
popular current, and, when it was manifest, follow the perturbed
stream ? Did you not, when the good judgment of the people was
for the moment misled, when the mass of the lower orders was,
by the arts of factious, designing hypocrites, brought to a fear-
ful state of excitement, did you not then use every expedient to fan
the flame, and lead to acts of disorder and outrage? You did;
but, thanks to PROVIDENCE, the ruin which you, your supporters
and abettors exerted yourselves to bring upon the State, was averted ;
your efforts were ineffectual ; and any attempts at this time to malign
the character of our late Monarch by recurrence to those scenes, must,
we are convinced, be equally so. The public mind has long since
regained its equilibrium, mull will not again be influenced by arts
employed successfully only in times of faction, to increase the vio.
lence of popular excitation. Another circumstance upon which the
Tunes would insinuate an accusation against the late King is,
that he was " a pompous and secluded Monarch." We can readily
believe that nothing but the actual infliction upon himself of' bodily
sufferings similar to those which were the lot of the lamented
deceased, could lead the callous-hearted slanderer to appreciate the
cause of his seclusion from public view during his latter days. Cor-
poreal pain the slanderer could feel—his heart is insensible. While
the late king was blessed with tolerable health,nomonarch everexisted
who united with the dignity appropriate to his station a greater
degree of affability and gracious condescension towards his sub-
jects ; we feel that to adduce examples of this would be entirely
superfluous. The virtues and the excellence of George IV. as s
Sovereign and as a man, stand on a height too lofty to be reached
by the grovelling and base.mindtd, the would-be destroyer of his
lame. His attempts arc dating enough to call for reprobation,
but they can excite no apprehension. We observe that the vilifier
of the late Sovereign couples his slanders with adulation of his
present Majesty; may he be as successful in the one pursuit as he
has been in the other !