Star.
London, England, 1803-01-25 00:00:00

SPECIAL COMMISSION, CLONMEL, JAN. xx.

Baron GEORGE delivered to the Grand Jury, a I I
charge peculiarly appropriate to the circumilances
under which they were called together After
touching briefly on the general duty of their office
on ordinary occafions, of which, he raid, their oath
itfelf was the belt expofitor, he reminded them that,
at this particular juncture, fomething further was
to be expefled from their conduilt: It was to be
expelled, that as their whole attention was now
direded to one concern, the fupport of the Peace
and good order of the country, they would exhi-
bit an example from which all good men may be
confirmed in their Allegiance, by knowing, that
the ilrengeh and protection of Government were
their fecurity, and that the ill difpofed may fee in
the vigour and firmnefa of a mild Adminiftration,
the certain ruin which mull follow from their mif
conduit. His Lordlhip could not here, be faid,
look to the prefent fituation of the country, with
out recurring to the dangers and alarms that have
paired away, and to the !mirky which has follow-
ed. Happily for the country, its loyalty has been
able to put down all fpirit of rebellion, never, he
trufted, to mile its head again ; and, Rill more
happily, the war, of which the rebellion was a cir-
cumflance, has been doled by a peace, produced
by the achievements of our armies and fleets, that
have quieted the world. The happinefs of this fitu-
ation was encreafed by the bounty of PROVIDIINCr,
fo kind and plenteous, that every man having in-
duftry and grate, partakes his (hare of it—govern-
ed by an Adminiftration, the mildel that ever ex-
ercifed power over a nation, difpenfing the wifeft
laws that the world hai ever known—with the mi-
litary force recalled from foreign fervice, to (up-
port the laws, the peace, and the ht:ppinefs of the
people. In a feafon like this, in which vices and
crimes had fo little expeetation from foreign roc-
cour, and fo many enemies at horns to oppofe their
progrefs, and crufh their weaknefs, it was not to be
wondered at, fence crimes and vices mutt prevail in
fcrne degree, that their latitude was confined to a
portion, and that a (mall one, of the province of
Munger, which became an exception to the reit of
the kingdom, where the advantages of its fituation
were reaped in induftry and peace. For, unhap-
pily for that (mall portion, a difrolutenefs of aloe
rals and corruption of principle had rooted itfelf
in the rebellion, too ftrongly for any fyftem of po-
licy or certainty of advantage, in a moment to put
it down. And this was to he expelled. It was in-
reparable from the grofs ignorance of the peafantry
and populace, that they ooll'efled likewife the
grolrel credulity; a credulity, which in fpite of
experience, makes them lillen with avidity to the
impofitions of any didurber, who has ability to
excite their terrors, or their hopes, and to lead
them, as fuch charafters invariably do. to certain
deftrultion, where the deluded rabble regularly
find themfelves deleted by thole, under whole in-
(ligation they have been ruined. It is their friend.
therefore, as well as the fa lend of the law, and the
peace, and the Government of the land, who will
try and put an early and vigorous check to their
enormities, becaufe though any, or all of their ef-
forts combined, are not ferious, yet their confe-
quences mull be calamitous. They begin on the
poor and the unprotected : let them meet with im-
, punity, they afpire to the detruCtion of thole a lit-
! tle more opulent and powerful—let that Rep pals,
and the Gentry are their ()Ned. If this evil be not
I checked early and eireCtually, where will it end ?
—When his Lordihip alluded to the Gentry, he
animadverted with his cu(tomary itrength and per-
fuafiveners of reafoning on the fapinenefs of thole'
'who fuller themftives to temporize with any enor-
mity committed in the neighbourhood. He exhi-
bited the weaknefs of loch contact, as inviting an
attack upon the perfon who could purfue it : he,
who would fteep quietly in his bed, ought, in times
Ilike there, to prove that Li,: bed was defended,
and flep forth rn fupport of the laws try which he
and his country, and the rarity of both were Wen-
I tiried. Bat this is not to be done by two or three,
much Icfs can it be effected by individual, uncom
ricted existence :—The Gentlemen of the country
to enfirre its peace, 'horrid unite in its cattle, every
man who has erarader or property to value.—
.. As long," faid he, ~ as you fupport ynurfelves
in the maintenance of order, with the arm of a
regolar, mild, and firm Government at your
baLks ; if yc will tile your own ftrength in fuch a
caufc, I know not what }e !rave to fear. To do
' this with effect, review your poiice, and fee that
' every man mound riu fopports the law of the
land. Determ.ne s ourfelv:‘ to let your faces
I I againft every criminal of eve y kinJ, and the pm
I polace round you, and the tenantry under you,
' I evil Lover yne L. ith their bleffiogs fur aviug them
from deltruft...4l."