The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1822-04-23

he Spafisb Curie, have recently decreed !
that all Spanish vessels employed in the slave /
irsde are 10 he forfeited aud the olrnsrs, IT, |
fers oa, masters. aud oihcer-, condemaed g.
len years lsbour ou the public works. Al
foreigners entering Spanish ports with slaves !
on board, shall be liable 10 the same pena
ties and al slaves found on board sh ~ b, |
set free. We trust these regulations wall be |
seriously carried into effect.
SITUATION OF IRELAND.
The state Of unhappy Ireland, continues 70
grow more and more deporable. Murders.
robberies, and burnings, become more fire.
quent every week N; and the commission Of
these crimes continue 10 be attended by tn
most sggra ssted circumstances. In the mean
time, the strong arm of The government has
thus far been exeried in vain to repress the
blood chilling oulrages.
The Special Commission at Cork, had jus,
closed their session, and on the last day SEN
TENCE OF DEATH WAS PASSED on
| THITY-FlVE OF THE WHITE BOYS !.
Many were sentenced 10 be transported.
Some Of the worst of the offenders were order
ed Cor an early execution and il was dis
I
not be extended 10 one OF them. unless a
change was effected in the disposition and
conduct of the people, so that tranquility
should be restored. Three of the thirty FIVE,
were recommended 10 mercy by the jury.
From the Dublin Erening Post Of Feb. Z.
STATE OF IRELAND.
The last intelligence from Munster is of a
nature extremely gratifying. Thete have
been no oursges recently committed in L,re
lrick The town was yesterday inundated
with reports 81 a most sinister DECEPTION. and
some alarm was felt. The arrival Of the
Limerick papers last night however ialsi6es
the rurcurs.
The following is one Of the numerous mott
ces whleh have been placarded in the county
Of Limerick
:. We war not against our King nor bis
Government. Had he occasion for our servi
ces. he should find us true TO The last drop oil
our blood. We war not against our fellow
man for his religion-thst is between himself
and his Crestor.--Bui wage eternal war
against Absences, Rsck-renis, aud Tribe
Prociors, Tor they have left Us and our children
houseiess. without home, IN cold, in hunger
and driven us to despalr
Whatever opinion may be formed on the
temper which has producee this notice, o. the
extravaganza of the threat, this must be con-
csled, that the peasantry OF Munster are suf
{, fYhg under he most grie,ous oppression
But there is one point in this notice upor
bich we have frequently before anlmadvert
ed. and upoo which we fear we shall have
. repeafedIv 10 sneak hereaf II is thai con-
cerning Pfoctors-Tilhe Proctors.
= SOUTH AMERICA.
accounts have been received from PernaEl
onco- that several violent European royalist
had been massacred in the Erazils, and that
general opinion prevailed there. that the inhab
itants would soon declare themselves iodepen
, dent OF Portugal. From the present state o
public opinion IN Brazil and Mexico, we expect
nothing else than the entire expulsion ofthe row
allsts from the whole of South America and the
establishment ofgovernments similar to that now
existing in Columbia.
WEST-fNDlES.
Mr.. Wilmoi the British under secretary 81
stale, has denied, in the house OF commons d
statement which appeared in the London
Globe. that Instructions had been sent TO the
West India Islands. that he ports should be
: opened to the direct trade Of the United States
upon the principles oil reciprocity by the
Amp rcan government
CONGRESS