The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-23 00:00:00

MALT TRADE.

Many persons who are extensive , dealers in
malt have had their trade thrown into a state of
most serious dilemma, owing to their having
large quantities of malt in their possession, which
was made prior to the New Act, coming into
operation, and consequently they are without the
'certificates to prove that the duty has .been paid
on such malt, which the Act now requires ; and
they dare not send out any of it, because they
run the risk thereby of incurring a penalty of
2001. on each delivery. Many applications have
been made to the Excise officers and supervisors
for the necessary certificates, and they say that
they have no power to grant them. Thus these
extensive dealers in malt are completely brought
to a stand still in their trade, and many of them
are subjected Co great inconvenience, with the
risk of considerable injury to their credit, because
it prevents them from turning their malt into
money, to meet their current engagements. .

C. MOREAU'S STATISTICAL VIEWS OF
IRELAND.

The following interesting intim-m.6On on the Statistic
of Ireland is extracted from the valuable Tables of Mr.
Usar Moreau, F.R.S. on the past and present State o;
Ireland, just published by Treuttel and Co., and founded
on official documents.

C-
,
Provinces of
'
In
Details. Con- Irela]
Ulster. LeinsterlMunsteri naught.
ly *---• --- I--
Extent in English
square miles 8,375 7,360 9,276 7,191 32,3.
inlic'res Pla"°" 3,14:3,000 2,792,550 • ,377,150 2,630,300 119436
~., No. of counties 9 l 2 6 3
- Baronies 6B 111 68 44 2
h Parishes
$ lBl3 306,445 241,186 269,708 138;349 959,61
?. lB2l 359,801 278,398 306,995 197,408 1112,9
No' of Families in
i ' 1821 390,709 352,320 357,366 211.637 1312,0:
-Males, Do. 968,061 859,798 960,119 553 t
-Fenutles,Do. 1,030,433 897,694 975,193 5 ,948
56,281 345 3341,9(9,
' Occupation--Agri-
culture ............. 328,793 252,608 320,063 236,605 1138,0(
Ditto, Trade, Ala-
nufactuies, &c... 581,127 215,835 115,917 224,1651170,04
All other occupa-
tions ...............
Total occupied 1,056,7 - 641,658 616,059 522,360 2836,31
Total population 1,908,491 1,757,492 1,935,612 1,110,229 6801,82
Representatives- ' : 35 25 12 10
Total No. of Free-
holders viz 76,345 36,751 53,623 43,708 210,43
Do. registlired at
.........._______Xso 1,088 5,371 6,79.5 1,082 15,13
1,724 2,835 5,572 882 11,06
us. 72,737 28,492 41,256 41,744 184,22
Total No. of Con-
stables, viz.
Chief Constables 55 69 53 43 221
Constables
1,491 759 825 3,853
Education, viz.
No. 5ch0015...1824 3,449 3,492 3,559 1,523 11,82.1
--Scholars...lB2l 104,734 114,298 121,295 46,486 394813
-1824 141,2: 158,740 188,206 71,721 560,549
-8y5........1821 69,4. I '75,516 89,225 31,380 265,606
-----1824 80,977 92,130 120,878 44,890, 23%875
....-Gir15.......1821 35,214 38,788 , 40,1)70 " 15,105 129,207
-----....1824 57,21' 62,557 c+1,022 23,97' 207,793
Sex not stated 1824 3, ' 4,053 3,306 2,859 13,881
IRISH LINEN TRADE.
A View of the extraordinary Increase of the Linen Trade
21
of Ireland, in its Exports to all Parts of the World from
1710 to 1823.
Annual Linen. Official Value of the Linen
Average
of the Plain Plain Total
Linen and Yarn. and Yarn. f Official
Exported. Coloured. Coloured. Value.
;77_
____
Yards. Cwt.
.Z. X. X...
1710 to 1719 4981,281 12,194 113,735 112,286 226,022
1720 to 1729 3,82.5,931 J 1,723 191,295 87,238 278,534
1730 to 1739 5,217,95(3 15013 328,151 81,76. 4.13,328
1710 to 1740 7,491,625 20,853 516,655 125,121 641,770
1750 to 1759 12,715,922 26,091 818,771 156,567 975,33)
1760 to 1769 16,087,410 32,392 1,071,828 200,353 1,272,18/ 1770 to 1779 20,310,819 31,752 1,443,4;11 110,51'7 1,633,949
1780 to 1789 5,189,245 32,155 , 1431,999. 1040,34 ~1,11-4031
1790 tc,_4799 ' 744= 10;48f-1'2,730071 122,905 2,853,876
.rdoo to TBO9 38,163,686 12,657 2,556,125 75,943 2 632,069
18101111819 11,857,007 1308 „2,701,95 M 18,588' 2,970,563
1620 to,/$23 11,2/21336" 1 i1;416 ' 2917,497 11,498 2,991,995
11 1 ---26,871 ,1--------1,479,866 .
rno
to
1827,27-......_00,636
20,0108
1,352,m4
I
tlTMeirmagaint
1

We understand the Duke and Duchess of St.
ALBANS have for several days past been on a visit to
Corby Castle, the romantic seat of 11. HOWARD, Esq.,
where, we understand, they still remain.-- Carlisle Journal.
On Thursday last, being the Michaelmas Ses-
sions at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the Right Worshipful BEx_
TABUN SORSBIE, Esq., Mayor of that town, gave (aCcord-
iug to annual custom) a grand entertainment at the
Mansion-house, to the Magistrates who had sat upon the
Bench, the Recorder, Sheriff, Barristers, and Gentlemen
who had served on the Grand and Petit Juries, in all
nearly eighty gentlemen, who spent the evening with great
hilarity and satisfaction.

INSURANCES.—The Magistrates and Town
Couucil here, at a meeting held yesterday, adopted the re-
solution of requesting Mr. GRANT, M.P., for this district
of Burghs, to exert all his influence in obtaining a modi-
fication of the enormous tax on Insurances against fire, whFn
the subject may be brought before Parliament.—Inverness
Courier.

WEYArourtr.--This celebrated and fashion-
able bathing place will shortly have to boast of a marine
esplanade a mile in length. This season it has been at-
tended by more visitors than for many years. • The town
is greatly enlarged and improved, and its celebrity' may be
regarded as fully established. The Sessions were held on
Monday. The phenomenon of the burning hill is become
much more extended. It DOW actively emits sulphureous
smoke in sixteen different parts, and occasionally fire. In
very wet weather the smoke is most sulphureous and in
larger quantities. When the wind is off land the effluvia
is observable three milts at sea.—Hants Chronicle.
I A great number of the Nobility have been
lately to Sheffield visiting the splendid shew rooms of
Messrs. Joseph Rodgers and Sons, cutlers to his Majesty
and the Royal Family. Among others were the Marquis
and Marchioness of Londonderry, Lord Milton and Family,
Earl and Countess Grey, Earl of llarrowby, and the
Honourable Miss Ryder, with many others, " (Inas none
prrescribere longum est."
ANECDOTE.-Cardinal Richelieu one day said
to M. Lort, a celebrated physician, "I am grey-headed,
yet my beard is black. Your head is black, and your beard
grey ; can you account for thes:: appearances, doctor
".Easily," replied de Lort ; " they proceed from exerci,
from labour of the parts. Your Eminence's brains havea
laboured hard, and so have my jaws.—"Frerich RArras,
IVAL STINGERS.—Dr. Arne was once ask-
ed by two vocalists of Covent-garden Theatre, to decide
they had finoisi;ed, the Doctor, addressing the first, said_
which of them sung the best. The day being appointed,
both parties exerted themselves to the utmost, and when
my yo
Ah, ah !" said the other, exultingly, "I
knew I
should win my wager."
." Stop,
Sir, you are the worst singer
sli
shaeyasrdthien
Docto, "I have a word to say to
you before you go—as
for you, Sir, you cannot sing at all,"—Mirror.
A young Attorney lately attempted to quiz a
country Parson, who had a large tobacco box. " Parson,"
said the limb of the law, " your box is large enough to
hold the freedom of a Corporation." " Sir," retorted the
ParAsons,h,o,,ritt
timewill bolicl
passengers in and on
the Despatch coach oAylesbury, were surprised a few
miles from London, by the appearance of the vehicle of Mr.
lgaz
tf io recedom but yours..
Pocock, of Bristol, containing two passengers, drawn along,
the turnpike-rid by the power of artificial kites. The
vehicle was running at the rate of about twelve miles an
hour.

Last week application was made to Sir Richard
Birnie, at 13ow-street, for the assistance of the prin•
cipal officers, to apprehend some of a most desperate
gang of smugglers, who had assailed and wounded
several of the persons engaged in the Preventive
Service on the coast of Dorsetshire.
Captain Jackson, Inspector on that station, and
Lieutenant Sparks, who acts under him, had re-
ceived instructions to seize upon the smugglers, who
it was expected would resist and fight to the last ex-
tremity; and Sir Richard Birnie' immediately
directed Bishop to join on this hazardous,:occasion.
The smugglers had, on the day the conflict took
place, landed 120 tulis of spirits on the beach, when
they heard the report of a pistol (the signal from the
watch of the Preventive Service) amongst the cliffs.
They were, however, too numerous and too well
armed to care about the efforts of so small a number
of opponents as that part of the country could send
against them, and they determined to give the Pre-
ventive Service a complete dose. So systematic is
the smuggling plan now become, that those engaged
in it ridicule the very name .of the Custom-house.—
When the monied man gives notice of his wish to
have a quantity of spirits, the gangs round about are
at once informed of the necessity of
whichth their
aplrvesmenadcee,
and they meet at an appointed place with the
greainstrumentstest
punct
callersuality,a,r,mme:ringNevist,h„ swords, pistols,
and
like flails, and with which they can knock people's
brains out. Those instruments are a new invention
as weapons of attack, and there is no possibility of
ind, guarding against them, on account of their
capacity of flying round the body. The
place where the spirits were landed is called
,202 Ringbourn, and is in the vicinity of St.
ioeo Alban's Ilead, and a troop of the Preventive Ser-
-32 vice speedily attended to!the summons, and attacked
294
,275 the gang. The bloody and determined character of
4099 the latter may be guessed at from the fact that they
1,688
w,02 met those who went to take possession of the
,033 " crop," as smuggled goods are called, with a round
~1.).26 of ball cartridge. There were between 70 and 80 of
:06909 t
1 theve smugglers,sorvice, s 0 and
that the
n moreo
latter
e tl
e o
0 of course
f t e Pr eovveetri.-
n,„ powered. Several were wounded upon both sides,
22,360 2 836315
61,590 528
and it is believed that two of the smugglers were
5
killed upon the spot. During the engagement a
1,110,2296801,827 few of the Preventive Service, who had concealed
12 100
themselves in the cliffs, shipped the tubs in their
431 cutter, and before it was concluded they were on
139 their way to the Custom-house. The swingels
,063 were found upon this occasion to do great execution.
'2'29 Heads and arms were broken with them, and we
,317 understand that all round the coast they are now in
2'25 use, and that those who are placed to protect the
.237
656 coast have given up the idea of performing any ser-
vice to commerce against a system so organized and
,823 terrible as that in which the population • along the
,813
,549 shores unite almost to a man. Some of the Preven-
,6o6 tive Service had taken particular notice of the ring-
-875 leaders of , the gang, and warrants were issued for
207
793 their apprehension. The habitations of smugglers
are generally situate in desolate spots on the sea-
shore, and in fact cannot be mistaken. The prin-
cipal person, whom the neighbourhood called the
Captain of the gang, keeps a public-house called
" The' Ship," near Woolbridge, on the Weymouth.'
road. His name is Lucas; and he keeps the house
for. the accommodation of those engaged in contra-
band matters.
Captain Jackson, his assistant, and Bishop, went
well armed, at two o'clock in the morning, to
Thomas Lucas's house. Bishop knocked at the door
:024 gently, and the smuggler asked in a 'gruff one,
t
_ " Who is there ?" "It
only I, Mr. Lucas,'' re-
one,
plied Bishop, " Mrs. Smith's little girl--I want a
,j 4 s} ,'little drop of brandy for mother, for she is bad in
yd 9. her bowels." " Very Well, my dear," said Lucas,
3
m 6 and opening the door, found himself in the formi-
dable grasp of the police officer. Henry Fooks, of
,50:1
:995 Knowle, near Corfe-Castle, was the next prisoner
they took, and him they also seized without a blow
,866
upon either side. They afterwards apprehended three
other persons, and the five were Drought before ,111 r.
Frampton and other magistrates, at Dorchester,
where they. underwent several examinations. The
three latter were discharged, none of the Preventive
Service being able to identify them as part of the
gang. Lucas and Fooks were tally committed for
trial. I

Three of the Preventive men swore, that Lucas
was the most active amongst the gang, and that
Henry Fooks was the second in impetuosity. The
gang, after having overpowered them, ordered them
to sit down and not to stir until the word of com-
mand should be given.
This gang is as desperate and more numerous
than that which, about two years ago, fought with
the Preventive men, at Bilsington, in 'Kent. Upon
that occasion Bishop and Smith, and the inspector,
apprehended 16 of the most' desperate of the smug-
glers, all of whom pleaded guilty, and were trans-
ported for life. The person who derives the great
profit from the contraband trade, pays to each of the
men employed in carrying the tubs the sum of ss.
for each cargo. The men, who are designated
" fighting men" . are paid 20s. each for the job of
guarding the " crop," which is now daily brought
in without even the affectation of concealment. The
agent, who is called the "spotsman" from one of
his important duties—that of selecting a proper spot
upon which to land the " crop," is the only person
besides the purchaser who knows in what place the
goods are to be deposited.. The phrase " honour
amongst thieves" is unknown amongst smugglers.
If any one of these fellows, who are ready to blow
out a man's brains for 205., by any chance gets a
hint of the place of landing before he is actually led
to the spot, he runs off to the Customs, and barters
with the information. The spotsman sometimes
finds it necessary to drop the tubs into deep water
by lines, to which he attaches a buoy imperceptible
to every eye but his own, and to which sinkers are
also fastened. This operation is called " putting
rnoopcni
riucninutibnhesertacnewel,lieatsth-;
visitsangdr
a Et:pi'
npgslpaociters:na.anud,
Traahciiseosrhdea-
ceitiachiglreltsac:i‘ creeping for max." He;constantly adopts this
tphlaern,whengc
the luggercannot,onae. o
ccountnofocthcaesiwoenas:
when a sufficient number of fighting men -are not
to be had, a watch on the cliff will " flash a
lugger off," (raise up a light as a caution to the
craft), and the spotsman will go 20 or 30 miles round,
and" cellar" his crop immediately before a cutter
heaves alongside. There are but two cutters in
this spacious district. Those are manned by as spi-
rited fellows as any in his Majesty's service, and are
in constant communication with the revenue officers.
The luggers are also provided with picked men.
Those which sail from Folkestone are the finest in
the world: and the Folkestone smugglers are so
expert and celebrated that they will not allow any
other upon the coast to join them. They call all
other seamen foreigners, and they generally, when
they get a heavy crop, sail off with it to a distance
of 200 or 300 miles. The population of Deal is
now in a half starved condition, on account of the
vigilance of the revenue officers ; but the enormous
gangs which flourish elsewhere are not to be put
down, or even checked, except by very numerous
preventive troops.
The spirited inspector to whom we have alluded
is well acquainted with the character of this lawless.
rabble. They are bold and fearless when assembled
together and in liquor, but when they are roosted.
(single) they are stark cowards. By way of variety,
they sometimes steal sheep or rob houses, and they
often go in bands of 20, to assist each other, at it
distance of 20 or 30 miles. The poachers are or-
ganized in the same manner.

WHIMS AND WONDERS.---A new and unique
Entertainment, under the above title, (first produced at
the Haymarket), will shortly be introduced in this city ; in
which dramatic representation is* made subservient to
scientific exhibition. In the present dearth of public
amusements in Dublin, (by the way a strong feature of her
fallen state), such an entertainment will, doubtless, re-
ceive patronage equal to its merits...-.Dub/in Freeman's
Journal.

' We refer our readers to an account of the
Devonshire County Sessions, in another part of
our paper. The Chairman (Mr. Creed) alludes
to the great increase of crime, and to the melan-
choly prospect as to the future which was afforded
in the circumstance of the offenders being nearly
all of early years. He seems to think that-a
practice prevalent in the West of England, of
binding out all the children as apprentices to
farmers, is attended, on the whole, with mis-
chievous results. h The law (he observed), it
was true, surrounded the apprentice' with such
protection as it was in its power to bestow, but
it was only in extreme cases the law could inter-
fere, and those were little acquainted with human
nature who would not be ready to allow that
much harshness and neglect might take place
I ere the law could interpose." Thiv. is one of
the melancholy results of the Poor Laws, which
it is much easier to lament than to point out a '
remedy for. The parent is the best, nay, the
only good guardian of his own child ; but, under
the parish system, which makes every labourer
a pauper, the children belong, as a matter of
course, not to their parents, who are merely in-
struments in the hands of the parish for beget-
mthaseter be
beget-
ting them, but to the Parish. No one can sup-
ply the place of the parent at that important
period of life, when the character is forming ; .
and the absence of all those charities of life 'ex-
perienced under the parental roof, and on the
recollection of which we dwell wiotl struheish fcOoilidd
worst
ell:110/st
csathilioaairiftseitrhaelyldeyarocrstiu,tvefuvmel naidlsishpmoouuslisdtti thedisposition.
n. have
Can we • .
blooded wonder,
system then, thatsbo n
ltdh e
become victims
so
of the late Mary Wollstoncraft,
pests of society? In that interesting frilgment
strangers,pressions sintamtipl
cede
oonnrsea
ofefmhaleerMapabr"raolegri.aildleeorin:helledfryplio7 ''
childhood to maturity, are delineated•with fear-
ful
truth. Speaking of the woman 'by whom she
and a number of other poor children
were nursed,
-
and who was inured to the sight of children
dying in her hands, the
fictitious narrator oh=
serves, ".I never was able to. awake in her the
kind feelings with which nature has endowed
our sex. . . . •- ~ The fowls may creep
for shelter under • the wings of. their mother,
Which are always
ready to cover them ; no one
asked after'me—nO one pressed me against her
-
warm bosom ; I was allowed to pine in neglect,
to cry for cold and hunger till my strength was ex-
hausted, and then fall asleep, without having been.
prepared by the necessary sympathy for sleep, or
awakened with the tender care which every rno_
ther so well knows. The West Indian slave-
nop;rieern,tileikese, thema
3,
be master
guiltyof othfemsenewhreertucl:tdy
before
:',4il.'
interest in , ..lr'
the law can interfere, but be has an • -- ." ''''''''
the future well-being of the youthful''' "' -
which these temporary slave
But the cure for all these evils
pected from the restoration of the negro, -r::,.k,....,
can only be ex- ''l*-W';'‘
owners haYe not. - ' .-7,:t"
poor to their
independence, and the controul over their own
offspring. The child of a Scotch peasant, if ill-
who will seldom be a harsh judge in
the case o
treated by the master whom he serves, can apply
his own son, or unwilling to protect
iin
so long as we treat the poor as brutes, _
tio him,
. parent,
But
f
we must expect the melancholy 1-f...cid+. -- ^