The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-24 00:00:00

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have no desire to hear isulartinite eorrosiops like
those made use of. We suppose the Chronicle thinks
that men like Sir James Mackintosh would form a •
very Rood new Ministry. Now, Sir James Markin-
loth is suspected to sit in Parliament not without
the hearty eooil-will of the Duke of Devonshite. And
does the Chronicle think that Sir James Nlackintouls
would recommend a measure that should take from the
Duke • of Devonshire 'TIE TITHES (IF THE
TWENTY PARISHES which that Duke owns in Ire
land ?—There ; that is the question that we put to the
Chronicle. We, ourselves, if we bail the power, would
adopt such measure. We do not say what sort of corn
pensation, or what degree of compensation, we shall
propose; but such a measure we would hare: for
without it, peace. in Ireland is no snore to be had,
than pleasure is to be had in the Dominions of
Satan. Time was, when the abject state of the people;
the state of ignorance in which they were ; the almost
barbarous state to which they had been reduced; we
meao barbarous in point of political information : time
was when peace might have been kept in Ireland, st
out any such measure as that Gist we are now talking of.
But the very lowest of the Irish are now much too well
informed, to suffer to exist in peace and tranquillity the
present Church system in that country. To make a
whole nation pay tithes to the priests of a religion whirls
nine-tenths of the people hold in abhorrence, is some-
thing so monstrous, that it cannot exist, amongst a peo-
ple who think at all, except by. force. When the CAre„
nice is talking of a change of Ministry doing this or
doing that for Ireland, it should recollect that it was the
Whigs themselves that framed the sun•set and sun-rise
act; that it was the late Mr. Grattan himself that drew
up the bill ; it should recollect that Mr. Grattan then
sat in Parliament for a Borough to which Lord Fitzwil-
liam was by no means a stranger. It should recollect
these things; and then it would not talk so heedlessly
about the benefit of a change of Ministry in the case of
Ireland. It was curious enough, that when the bill was
first brought in to the House of Commons, Mr. Sheridan
rose, and, in one of his noisy speeches, defended, 4s he
called it, the people of Ireland, laying most unmercifully
on upon the proposers of the bill. It was not a little that
would stop Mr. Shericlan's mouth, but Percesal cljd sew
it up close by telling him, that the new Irish Secretary
found it in his oilier, ready drawn up in the hand-writing
of Mr. Graglan. Well, but here is this Marquis of
' Wellesley himself, everlasting calling for a re-
newal of this Act, when it is about to expire. What
can be the cause of this then ? The Marquis is
represented as the misty of the Orangemen, sod
as desirous to bette. the lot of the Catholics. The Ca-
tholics must know this; they most know that the Lord
Lieutenant is on their side; and yet such is the discon-
tent amongst them, and, in short, sncb their conduct,
that the Lord Lieutenant, who is their friend, is com-
pelled to call forthis Act; which you will observe, is an
Act such as never was beard of before in any country
basing the smallest pretensions to any thing like liberty
or law.—What does all this prove, then; why it proves
this, THAT •NO LITTLE CHANGE WILL DO;—
and that no change that has ever yet been proposed
in Parliament,. will have any effect towards the
tranquillizing of Ireland. If we, who are Orange-
men, we really would wish to see what is called
Catholic emancipation take place; for the total int:Wiry
of it, as to pacifying the Catholics, could be seen in a
week. the moment that emancipation was granted,
something farther would be demanded; and it ought to
be demanded, too; fur nine•tentlis of a people never
ought to rest satisfied with paying tithes to a church.
The very foundation of which is a protest against the
faith of that people. These are our reasons for believing
that a change of the Ministry would do no good for Ire-
land. The situation of the present Ministry; its divi-
sions, its bickerings, its follies, its conduct with regard
to Foreign affairs, and especially i's conduct with re-
gard to Ireland, are, to be sure, humiliating enouels to
the country; but it is as well, and even much better, that
these men should go on in the way they are going on,
than that a change of Ministry should take place, with-
out a complete change d the system, and a change of it,
too, in all its parts.

GAME LAWS.

We request the attention of our readers to this la&
ject. They will recollect that the jails are full of
poachers. A new Law about the game is upon the an•
vil. We have seen the hrads of a bill, in print, too, and
handed about the House of Commons, c.nstaining prop°.
sisions even more tyrannical than any we ever heard or
read of before as connected with the gauae. These pro-
positions would, if acted upon, make us all a sot of slaves
at once, except those who are proposed to be qualified, to
sell game. Our houses, our :
\ buildings, our gardeni,
would be liable to continual search, by these game-sell.
ers. Howeset, this is too serious a matter to be handled
in so short a comps' us that which we have here.

Paris papers of Monday evening as well as of Monday'
morning,have been received, with a Telegraphic despatch
dated Tuesday. The following are the contents of the
Telegraphic despatch On the lath our vangeard
carri,d Logrotto, which was defended by :00 men, and
they took a General, 200 men, a standard, arms, and
bageage. Marshal Otulinot is going to Burgos. Ifs
Royal Ilighness will remain some days at Vittoria*
" The Journal dee Petals announces what follows,w
" News from the army of Spain: "—" Vittoria,*
16.—" The further our army advances the better it is
received. The division Obert occupies Logrono,
brigade of the division of Molitor is at Tudels. fie
Marshal Duke de Reggio has orders to take up a
positiet
at likeVifin and Pancorbo. A brigade of the Guards is
to march on Miranda, and General Wallin is to °cum
Barges with the advanced guard ; this last tout so
evacuated on the 14th by the troops of the Cortet,oJ
his Royal Highness the Duke d'Angouleme is expectli
there with the greatest impatience." The followief
from the Monitore :—."lhe Mote of Saturday weir/
announced, and the Journal du Commerce of the MO.
ing clay repeated, on the authority of a pretentledlo
front Brest, dated the 14th instant, that LA tinerriert
gate had been taken by a ship of the line (caiescar)o4
& Spanish frigate, after an engagement which WO