The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-19 00:00:00

!ion of these kingdoms had not been already completely
subverted, this would have been, as far as Ireland is
concerned, the establishment of a new, but complete
despotima t and, the precedent being established in
Irelands Ala should hinder its extension, in due time,
to Se-dland and &gland ? It matters not to the public,
if:briber this measure has been introduced by mistake,
' or by design. Its effects are precisely the same. It
establishes a regular and complete despotisni. By
sirtne of this Art, any titan in Ireland may be taken
forcibly front his family and home, and immured in an
hospital, under the pretence of preventing the propa-
sgation of an infection, which does not, and cannot
possibly exist. Wherever a fever prevails, each man's
honor may be • ntered, and his property disturbed, ac-
cording to the will and pleasure of the Commissioners
appninsed under this Art : fur his goods and furniture,
if they be :opposed to he susceptible of infection, may
be burned, and he can have no it•dress. These Com-
missioners are selected by the Lord Lieutenant, from
among the members of the newly formed corporations,
or of other bodies previously existing. Their office
commences and ceases at his command. For what-
ever arbitrary acts they may commit, there is no re•
dress. In defence, they have only t./ show the Alit,
and to plead the general issue. In short, it is an ab-
solute power of imprisonment Act, only substituting
the pretence of is/jar/low, for the pretence of sedirios.
" Under such a law, if it could he enforced, all the
inhabitants of the sister kingdom, if sickness should
become universal among them, fruit' the causes which
have been stated, as connected with misrule, would be
effectually prevented f littering their grievances,
lest they should be compelled to quit their homes,
under suspicion of lahonring under a contagious ma-
lady, and immured in a rest-loose. It might be rea-
dily converted, if such was nut its original object, into
a tremendous en:rine of despotism. Infection might
be made synonvinotta with disaffection : and the me-
dical Men who hail, under this Art, obtained perma-
nent estahlishments, might, by all ohs ions transition,
be required to act as spies, informers, and offieers of
pollee •. 'I he suspicion that soinething of this kind
was actually intended, is greatly strengthened by the
consideration, that timer curparAtions were not to
cease, like the Notsvension of the Habeas C.apr.-, or
Abaolute-power-of-insprisot 1111 l oit Act, with the calami•
ties, fur which they were pretended to be the remedy."

'• The very singular law whirls I have Just allidsd
to, and am now going suecinctiy to analyse, was pass-
ed on the 311th of May, 1741 :4, under the title of • An
Act to establish Fes er.loospitals, and to make other
regulations for r. /i4./' of the suiTering poor, and for
pnetnt haglhr itr!•rt 'IIT Jill fevers in Ire•.
land.' It ought rather to have been entitled, ' Ars-
Act to establish a new, a moor • perfect, and to
unheard-of system of despotism in Ireland ; to place
the lives, liberties, and properties of the whole nation
at the mercy of 11inissters ; to organize permanent
corporations throughout even• county, city, anti t•wn
in that kinyol eeeee , as so many roog-whet Is, shall
keep in perpetual arrest the great atheel of public
prosperity; assail tainceettse, its certain rases, the other-
wise inevitable sickness, misery, and tality, occa-
sioned by epidemic slis:•ases, al least
" It is IliTes,aty to rousidrr this !aw, both 301 it po-
litical engine, and in respect to the calamities for which
its regulations poofess to afford a reno•dc. Its dense-
rite in the fo:mer reaped are almost too oh a and
striking too re•luire ; in the latter
respect, my ',orbs bar:• already sullitiently explained
and demonstrated the ileblttletiVe effects of all such
regulations gCnerally : it must therefore be unneces-
sary to insist npon their itijoirions testolo-ory, as applied
to any p articniar ronistry : I may merely observe, that,
in thy• present times, and under the present cirenns-
stainers, their destrue it, consequences, in epidemics
approaching to the degree of pestilence, would be
greater than in former thaws, in the ratio of the in-
creased populations odour principal
•' In Isformer e, idemirs, the municipal of the
kingdom, although their pr.occeolios,:s were iisliorionts
and erronesmA, only enforced the directiu►ma enjoineti
by the Coll. ge of Physirians. lint now, its Ireland,
we have a bo ly corporate, organised. t•..r evcry county,
city, and town, for the express purpose of permanently
enforcing regulations founded upon oloetrines, 'lesson-
strated to be oast only err mots, hut, its 144
pernicious or stestrnetivr. I .1. dl not here stop
to examine any of the base or puerile Attempts, which
Image been Mark, by medical writers, or bo•lir., to ob-
scure my doctrine., respelling epidend disease... Some
of them have, oa account of the very great importance
of the Milkier:, alrea•ly obtained a erecter portion of
my attention thalo floes• merit. Iht!, as 114.11 the cottons
of• Committees of Parliament, whatet co- may he the
motives or intentions of their members individually,
concur towards the saran• end ; and the refuted errors
of the Ifith century, accredited anew, are let loose.
under the sanction of the Legislature, to destroy the
people, the esil 42411111 r% an aspect, under as hich it
would, in a person regarding the subject as I do, he
little short of trees on against both killg to
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Extract of a letter frun► Constantinople, dated the lOtli
of April, IS20:

An affair bas just occurred here which has canoed a
great *ad of noise. Two Albanians, on horneback, rode
briskly up to the door of the ;mid seignior's chamber-
lain, Pankow Bey, anti on the 4 hamberlaitt's looking
out at kis window to know what they wanted, they both
fired their pistols at him. The balls whizzed pant the
liey'n head, forinnately without touching him. The as-
sassins inntantly neampered offered at full gallop by the
road to Adrianople. A well-mounted part• wan in a
few 'ninnies in pursuit of them, and at a village about
sixty utiles olf they came up with one of the fugitives,
whom they seized and brought hack to Constantinople;
the other effected his escape. The Albanian in custody
refused at first to say a word in explanation of the ex-
traordinsrx and daring adventure in which he had been
engaged, but on bring put to the rack, he confessed,
what WAS generally believed to be the cane, that he and
his companion had been hired by the famous Ali Pacha
to murder Paaiuow sky.

" It is certainly a curious system of Covermstent,
which, instead of looks only to effects. • The
modern legislator • .1 this ..tuntry Mould seem to have
reversed the . hi asitios of philosophy—• r'n.asa
;arta, tali. et to the installer 11Cloir us,
keeping their errs ti!.stinately shat against the true
and only are a the et it which they would affect to
remedy, they build hovitals, and institute corpora
tions, to noitigate its qtic:s and to receive its
In the Ifith century, the oligarchs of Venice, dexter-
ously avail' t hemselt es of the Papal doctrine of con-
tagion, in epi.lensi • diseases, establisher) hoards of
health, quarantines, lazarettos, and numerous minor
regulations of plagne police, in alm..-t every town sir
village along the •!tore- of the Ad riatic hat in.: doubt-
less perceived that this n.a.ly and authorised method
of separating, and secluding their slihjects,
at pleasure, would forma 01051 convenient and com-
pendious method of controuling, or, what has been
called, governing them. In the nineteenth century.
the oligarchs of England have, with a happier ad-
dress, availed thentselves of the digress which their
own measures have occasioned, to introduce, by bring-
ing up the non-entity of contagion anew, a similar
machinery for the benefit of the starving pe.ple of
Ireland. Why, if pool in Inland, have they not in-
trainee,' it into Scotland and England, where the
epidemic, which hits been made the pretext for its
adoption, prevails also, althot4„h not in so great a
degree? If it were a g0.,41 measure, would it not be an
injustice not to let Scotland and England share in the
benefit? But in Scotland or England they dared not
yet to make the attempt' By what infatuation, then,
was this law, with r..spect to Ireland, sulered to pass
without objection or comment? Was it difficult to per-
ceive, 0 rather, was it possible to avoid pereeivine,
its real tendency? Why, th•qt, was it not opposed?
Why was a measure of such intpor; Mice passed in a
thin House, and at the roil of when very
few Irish Menth...rs were l'resllit, 1.1. c. Wit- seeing that
the evil, which it prJfessed to alleviate, had already
' existed for nearly two 3 1 aS, and that to have deferred
it so long, if it were at all proper, could not have
born a matter of necess•ty. The fact is, the calamities
of Ireland had prepared it for this last iudignity. In
Scotland and England, where distress hail not vet ar-
rived at its aCIIIIIC, the experiment would have been
premature' Wr shall be told to have conaitlence. But
after what we have stactril none but knaves would
preach, and none hut ideots would listen to sorb doc-
trines. If it should he said that the Committee was
deceived, I reply, that it was their duty, in a matter
of such essential importance to their country, not to
have suffered th•ruslyes to be deluded.

" The Oct, I understand, is, that this is only one of
many machinations on the part of Ali Parha, to take
away the life of the Chamberlain, against whom hr ap•
pears to have r Tired an unextinguishable hatred.
lice history of Pashow hey, for years past, has been
nothing but a narrative of hairbreadth escapes from the
vengeance of his persecutor. At one time, by means of
bribery and intrigue, Ali radio contrived to procure a
sentence of death fr the Porte against him, to escape
which, Paslmow Rev tied into Egypt, fr the Viceroy of
which he received.protectiou.
" While residing at Alexandria, some Albanian mari-
ners called on him, and solicited his advice, as a clout-
; tryman, as to the disposal of some foods which they
said they had just brought into the harbour, and which
they wished hum to go on board their .1m:ill bark to in-
speet. Pashow ball learnt by this time the clanger of
being too confiding ; lie sent a person to snake a private
survey of the Albanian vessel, who reported, that in-
stead of beipg laden with goods, she was all in sailing
trim, ready to start at a moment's notice. Pashow, of
course, declined the friendly invitation of his country-
men, who, finding themselves baulked in their too obvi-
•us design, left time port with all possible expedition.
; The circomstaace routing to the ear of the Viceroy, so
dreugthennel the interest which he haul taken in Pavilion-
Ury, that be applied in his behalf to the Grand Seignior,
lion whom be obtained a revocation of the sentence of
death, and permission to rashow to return to Coogan-
' tinople, where he has since resided.
" The Sultan, I am told, was so incensed at this last
audacious attempt of Ali Pacha's, that he had determined
to I isit him with his utmost displeasure: but he has
since adopted a more cautious, but, perhaps, as severe a
policy. Ile has appointed new governors to a number of
military posts, particularly of the principal passes into
Albania, which have been hitherto allowed to be held
by persons of Ali's appointment. This is supposed to
be a great step towards the ultimate Jownfal of this for-
midable partisan. His agents hare been also sent away
from the rapital, and all the property of Ali's, in their
hands, has been seized."

Mr. Trafford, the late Major of the Manchester Yeo-
manry Cavalry. has resigned his commission, in con-
se ptence, it is said, of his disgust at certain former
proceedings of the corps. It will be recollected that
this tientleman was not present at St. Peter's-field on
the Ifith of August. Captain Ifirley is, pro temper.,
the Commanding- Officer ; but it has been determined
by the members of the respective bodies of Yeomanry
Cdialry in the neighbonehood to unite themselves into
one regiment. of which, it is also determined to Offer
the command (as Colonel, no: as Maior,) to W. Hulton,
of lin ton, Esq. the late Pr. titlent of the Connuittee of
I Magi,tret .s.

Is it, then, a matter of no consequence, that the
whole population of Ireland sh..uld, under pretence
of guarding aarainst the effects of what has been proved
to he a non-entity, be at o:tee placed at the entire di•-
posal of c.•rl.urations, C4llll posed of Archbi-hops, Bi-
shops, Ali others of Parliament, and Justices of the
Peace, having, for the .14 .st part, distinct interests and
feelings from the Lo.ly 0: the prope.c r If tae Coustita-

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