The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-07-09 00:00:00

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gearless derirsg the thres years ending with 1818,
compered with t►e three years ending wilt 1813,
taken tie law was woe in nperstion Even In the
bunny of Innishossen, n;hi►h was so inimiral to the
present sestets. the Peopii h.d been brouell In drink
l'st ligament whisky. Ills Lordship nest vend several

statements to shoti that the nauttser of fines had, dos.
tug oho seine pyritic', gradoolly decreased. Dating
stated these facts, he knew not ou obit (snood this

Bill had been introduced. It wee tree it hid comet*
their Lordships from the Commune: Set thet trestle*

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only thing that could be aid ill Its fawner; ever,
t►in` else was against it. lie knew, intleed, t►e,
book had been written against the Pt isillog le. by t►
err,. e..peciekle person. 'rbst book ►ad bees sop

furled by smother respectable prams, and • its
'row follverd.• Theorising' beak, by the Rev. ler.
Chichester, was certainly a very well writers bask.
bet it was all ea ear side. Beth parties miebe lea
debt is the facts they stated, bat (hry were err?

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coetradictory. H. also knew ibat on the 4th of Fell.
a eery respectable meeting pf Noblemen and Geed..
men connected with Ireland took places' the Thatch.
ed-house Tames, en the subject of this 1141. There
were present et AO adrotiorg 14 Members of their
Lordships' Hoes,. and 32 of Ike Hoes, of Com.
mans. A Noble Friend of his (Lord Limerick, we
believe, was alluded to), who was going past, was
induced Instep in and take a pert in the prozeodines.
—The Noble Lord made a ►e►y eloquent speech
against the 14w. The Chairs.n stilted, that spoil-
cation bad been made to his Majesty's Ministers,
Ile inflow them to favour the object of the Meet-
ing, bet that the answer received was, that Govern.
sent ate no reason to slier the law. It was then
observed, that nothing remained for the Gentlemen
of Ireland to do, bet to unite in en unaeimoss call for
the repeal °Like law. Thos, it appeared that in Fe.
Weary last, Ministers themselves were decidedly in
f of the present law. What had sioce prevailed
en them to alter their opinion, he could not tell.—
pis Noble Friend bad indeed said at that Meeting,
that be trusted that Ministers would be glided by
Abe opinion of those who possessed local information..
Much wets alto said on the severity of the measure,
and it was led that such a lave ...id net be
borne io England. Tn crown all, it was contended,
that it was •ncoastiletio•al. With this opinion be
could not agree. It was evident limit England could
very well bear seas • law, as appeared from the ver-
dicts given yesterday in the Court of King's Bench,
on the riots at the Westminster election. Here was
certainly nothing unconstitutional in assign a dls.
trict responsible for an offence committed within It,
nor wets there any thing more
the revenue than in distress by • landlord for hie
rent. Many had reprobated the law on the ground
that it punished the innocent for the guilty; but this
was soother opinion is which he could not agree.—
Where illegal distillery was carried on to a greet ea.
tent, the landed proprietors could sot be regarded as
innocent in the eye of the law, until they showed
that they had eserted every means in their power to
eatirpate it. liis Lordship recapitulated his argil.
meats as to the beneficial effects of the present law
ere the revenge and the distillery ; insisted on the
opinion given in favour of the fining system, by two
Reports of the !loose of Commons, by the principal
Public Midi's its Ireland, and by Ministers them-
selves so late as the ?6th of February last; and con.
chided by moving that the Bill be committed this
day three months.
The Earl of ABERDEEN was surprised at was
et the statements made by the Noble Lord. Inde-
pendently of the satisfactory results of Mr. Chichi's.
tees enquiry, other circumstances, of • character
equally atrocious as any of those stated in that Gee.
Omen's work, bad come to his knowledge. Thies
bad occurred since the publication t f Mr. Chichee-
ter's book, and rested on the evidence of persons who
bad the best knowledge of the facts, and who were
incept'''e of abusing that knowledge. In one raw, a
poor old man was carried to prison in the county of
Kerry, and it being though. proper to remove him
to the county jail, which was at a considerable dis-
tance, be pleaded his age and inability to move ; but
the inhuman wretches who were charged with the
I emotion of the order, disregarding his rcmonstrances,
dragged him along with them, sad the consequence
was, that in a few mine'', Ole; be reached the jail
he actually expired. In another matinee, a party of
officers came to a she which th►y swished to creel,
1 and called on some men whom they saw in a boat
i near at hind to ferry them over; and on the men's
refusing, they ordered the tiddlers who were ales%
with them to fire into the boat. The soldiers of
coarse obejing the order, and the consequence was,
that one of the men was most severely wounded,
and the lives of the whole endangered. How
Icould any one support a system under which sack
atrocities •a these were not only perpetrated,
bet sanctioned by law ? Ile knew something of
most countries that were subject to •tbilrary Govern.
meats, bat be befitted thst is none of them, not
even in Turkey, would such proceedings be sanction.
ed. Ile believed tho originators of the present mea-
sure were convinced that the Retinue would be ma.
serially benefited by it : but egos if Wit should not
be the cm, he appreh►nded that no financial consi-
aerations could currant the con.inoonee of such en-
constitutional practices. The Noble Lord thought
that the sill of this system, ander which the infinceat
were /washed for t►e guilty, might be avoided by
gluingcsafdoetarrastewhedgeh.ilaragslitirly:litranissihke?leri," The.such
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tines. It was Dot likely that in any errantry, pertic.
12rly In frehrod, one neighbour would be disposed to
give ioformatinu against another. He meat, Wee-