The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-02-09 00:00:00


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The Ultra eaya.—" ItverY person of real Imassoity
must rejoice in the dtcisive measures which Parlia-
ment is tilting to put down the horrible outrages in
Ireland." We should rather conclude, th:tt every hu-
mane mind would revolt at the contemplation of such

unconstitutional. cruel, and ineffectual measures. The
words we have here used faithfully characterile the
Bills. They arc unconetitutional in awardinz punish-
ment without bill found against the accused by a
Drawl Jary, or verdict by &Petty Jury ; and its the sus-
pension'tif the IlaGcaN Corpse Act. They are cruel,
because of the power they give the tools of Govern-
ment to birrass, and eveh destroy, the hiendibf
free-
dom. in virtue of the suspension of the fla&co: Cotpra
Act, ar.d stassequen; indemnity fur every atroeityl
committed under colour of the suspension. And
they will be found ineffectual, inasmuch as .they
do not apply to the removal of the grievalices
of Which the 'lash complain, and of Which they
*ill never cease to complain until removed. There
wait no need for an Insurrection Bill, because the pre-
sent laws are cotopktely surii.ient to put down all the
insurrection which exists; and, if there wire a rile-
sity for such a Bill, there was ,w-gilf. fialr the Sus-
pensiou Bill with indemnity for all crimes committed
under its ranction. The only use of a Suspension
and Indemnity Uill is, to erred the progress of men
who are end savouring to remedy abuses in the !itate
by Constitittional means. As to the practices of the
traitor, it is useless ; because the ordinary law will
hang him, and, if the ordinary law fail, the lusurree-
tion Bill is at hand to dispose of him. All measures
of new and increased severity, have hithe'rto been in-
effeethal in curing the disordeis in Ireland, because
they have only filled graves with the bodies of the
disaffected, and have offered no halm to the wounds of
the living. It is, as if Government were enamoured
of being the executioner of its subjece. and not
their father and protector. Dow, then, cab any
person of real hutisanity" rejoice in the present
measure of Parliatut sit against the ever unfortu-
nate Irish? They will rather reprobate each Inca-
stare, with an unutterable lortlsiog and will ab-
hor such men as the Ultra, who can find it in the
hardness of his heart to defend them For the Par-
iiansent, thatis, the great part of the majority of the
Common', who have voted fur the Bill, we sincerely
oily them. They have, at length. discovered the er-
ror of the policy of Ministers as regards the question
if the Agricultural Distresses. Itilt as to the policy
if Ministers in their Governmeut of Leland, it was
on deeply rooted in ioigeity, tett too olosely inter-
woven with ancient prekttiosettm±pia' foe_ tith

:oustry gentlemen to see thWlsTit. or to anspect ib
•normity. We do not, therefore, despair of the cons-
,ry gentlemen. Through their own sufferings, they
.rill be taught to suspect the universal evil which a
profligate and relentless administration bas inflicted
upon the whole empire ; and circumstances may
call_upon them to revise their present Acts re-
-peeling Ireland. It will not be ton much to
hope that, then, the Statute boots will, speedily
afterwards, be purged of the disgrace of all such
acts. The Ultra, in speaking with great alacrity and
joy of the triumph of his foreign friends, the Ultra-
Administration of France, in getting their sew gag•
ging Bill through the Chamber of Deputies, says—
" We shall be well satisfied, if Lord Livairoot. goes
through the present Session with so powerful a ma-
jority in the House of Commune as M. de VILELLE has
obtained in the Chamber of Deputies." It is pitiable
to see how the hirelings of Ministers continually blue-
der in the means they use to flatter their employers,
whom they wound oftener than they gratify. The
words we have just quoted, betray a lurking fear of ill
days, for Ministers, to come yet, in the House of Com-
mons. The Ultra knows that fear to be well founded ;
and feels, that we shall not see Lord LIVERPOOL
go through the present Session with that
triumph lie would fain make ns believe he an-
ticipated. His Lordship has still to meet the
country gentlemen on that ground,.which is now pm,
timely known to them, and on which, the late county
meetings have accustomed them to fight with success.
We shall be much surpris:d.if his Lordship then Fazio-
tains the Majorities of which the Ultra sp. aks so
fondly and endearingly. It is well worthy of remark,
that all who advocated the present Bills for traenuil-
Ireland, (excepting Ministers sod their drilled
troops,) or who half acquiesced in them, admitted the
nnconstilutional, arbitrary character of those measures.
All arguments in their b .half seemed to be abandon-
ed, but those which might arise from the known abi-
lity and prudence of the present Loan LIRCTIGNANT.
But the grounds of confidence in the Noble Marquess
who governs Ireland, are lost. IVlcen he undertook
the government of that country, we thought, and
all good men were willing to think, that be
might have done so, meaning to shake off
such man as Lord LONDONDERRY, sod to act fur
the real benefit of Ireland, with the powers of the
enlarged mind he possesses. We were the more justified
in this, because the Marquess IVELLzsbae hail been
publicly known to characterise Lord LONDONDERRY
as an incapable statesman ; and we concluded his
Lordship's proud mind would nut stoup to be the tool
of such a would-be statesman. But poverty, and a
love of splendour and self-indulgence, are capable of
overlayiv the greatest virtues, and rendering the
most splendid talents worse than useless.

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HE ' StATMMAN:'

Our repeated observations on the affairs of I: eland
are preyed to have hoe° correct. by the debve of
Thursday and last night. The nsual remedies for pa-
cifying and enriching the people of tb.st °pressed
country are again to be resorted to. The I osurreetioo
Act, and Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, ere
again prescribed as cures. The arming and calling
out of the Yeoman clearly evinced the inclination of the
ruling powers to keep alive the old game which, for
so many years, has destroyed the happiness of the un- ,
fortunate Irish. It was not sufficient to conviace a'
certain corrupt majority, that these m aaaaaa • were
tried, re-tried, and always found to fail ; it was sot
sufficient to convince them, that a specific Act did
exist to riniali Wlsitehoyisin ; it was not sufficient
that the Judges told them, at the last commission in
Limerick, that the existing laws were adequate to pe-
ttish any act of insuhordiatstion or breach of the
peace; nothing short ef,lbe favourite "pima"' of
trinsporting could be listened to by our clever peace-
makers. Even these transporting, would he a change
for the better were they not accompanied by cruelty
and tortures ;. but the suspension of the Habeas Corpus
Act will cry, Slarghter and lei slip the dare nj rear.
The Noble Marquess at the head of theirisla Govern-
ment did not think this step necessary, or surely he
would have intimated as mach in his famous ile•
spectres. But his Majesty's Irish subjects are to b.-
hunted down by the more abject slave-drivers that ever
disgraced the West India Islands. We know well
how the understrappers vend their private malice upon
individuals, and, as an Honourable Member stated, it
will soon be strewn how justice in Ireland will be
bought and sold. The Members on both sides
onerally agreed on the necessity of enquiry into Ike
grievances the people labour odder. Coercion, with-
out enquiry and remedy. will prove as ineffectual as
I ever. Nothing but severity has been adopted since
the ;lotion, and no proper means have been tried to
conciliate the jarring interests of the people. Onr
readers still now tee how correctly we have anticipated
these debates in the House of Commons. The removal
of TITIIIII, the regnlation of livers, and the annihi.

lation of ORA:4OMM, we ha►e often said, are the only
'petrifies for pacifying Ireland, and we now say the
same thing upon Parliamen►ary authority.

The attention of the Goose of Commons was last
night called to the ease of Mr. Hlll7, in consequence
of a petition from his son, complaining of being re:
fosed permission to visit his father ia his confinement
in Helmet'? Gaol. We have reputedly stated the
untimeots we frit at the senteow passed on Mr.
Hunt, and readily communicated the information
we received last week of the unexpected aggravation
be bed experienced in tkeprivatioa of the visits of his
feieemis sod fatality. This rigour, Mr. H. was of °pi-
ston, u we stated, had been occasioned by his
having brought to light the great atrocities
which were formerly committed in the manage-
meet of the Gaol. This, however, Mr. DICK-
INSON, one of the Members for the County of Somer-
set, last night, contradicted. When Mr. H. was first
suit to the gaol. Mr. D. said, there bad been no rules
for it, signed by the Judges, and though tie roles
triads bad been proposed by the Magistrates had been
pretested to several of the Judges on the Circuit, for
two years, if we remember, the signature of none of
them could be obtained till the last General Session.
The rules were then signed by Mr. Baron Olt NAM
and Mr. Justice Bray, and became the prison law,
which the Magistrates in the Quarter Session had no
power to alter. Such is the statement Mr. Dicatxsow
made of the occasion of Mr. HL 'Yes present rigorous
treatment. The Courier, however, could not possibly
conceive that it could happen so incidentally, and there
fore thought proper to ascribe it to a cause which never
bad existence except in the inaligsant mind of the calum-
niator. On Monday evening, aappeared, a paragraph in
one of its columns, asserting that " Mr. HARDY. (the
new Gaoler of Ilchester) had sent to town, complaining
of the conduct of HUNT, anti requesting an order for his
closer confinement." On seeing this falsehood, which,
Mr. HARDT justly observed, effected the double pur-
pose of injuring his character and traducing that of a
prisour, be very promptly addressed a letter to the
Editor complaitsing of the malignant report, and unequi
vocally stating, that since lie has bad the care of this
gaol committed to his charge, he has never had the
I slightest reason to complain of the conduct of Mr.
Hear Or any of his visitors—quite the reverse."

At a Court holden at Fist .. nem' Hall, on Thnrs-
day, the 7th of Feb. 1622, it u as resolved onaninsou-ly,
That this Court do prvseot the Freedom of this Company
to Joseph Hume. Esq. Member of Parliament for the
Boroughs of Montrose, Breehin, Le. for his unwearied
exertions in endeavouring to promote public economy
and retrenchment, n herein he has proved himself a
faithful guardian of the pubiir purse, and the firm
and upright Representative of the People.
The East India Company's ship ti I Harris,
sailed from Madras, on her voyage to China, the iti:h
Augnst. The Farquharson aerie. dat Penang, on her
voyage from Bombay to China, the 2.1 August. The
Marquess of Wellington and Thomas Grenville, 'reit e
at Madras on the sth of Septembi.r, and sailed for
Calcutta, the former on the 2141. the latter as the
22nd of the same month. The Marquess of Camden
pot into Penang on the lath of Angutt, anal proceeded
on her voyage to China on the 2:rth of the Lune
month.

A letter from Santa Cm, Teneritfe. states, that a
small squadron of French ships of war, consisting of the
Aosuen, b 8 guns, toe &penance. 28 eons, the l'u•
rieuX, 18 pas, and the Lem, 6 guns, arrived there from
Brest on the 21st of November last, and sailed on the
4th of December for Itio Jaueiro.