Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-02-12


inc country or that mighty empire could be
destroyed by miserable banditi ?" No, we
viii answer for them, they had no such thought,
nor did they reflect calmly at all. They were
mpel'ed to what they did by desperation on
~ and what could make them desperate but
sense OF intoierable suffering We defend
not these poor, untaught, oppressed and de-
graded beings ; but who can refrain from ask
inS, VIII nothIngbe done for them beyond
Inc resumption offs activity by the Special
commission! 1t ought to he well remem-
pered by the country at arge,that the greater
Pc rtlon of the land in the disturbed districts
was letto the present race of occupiers at a rack
REM, when prices We're 40, if not so, per cent
hiSher than they are at this moment. We
speak on good authority when we assert that
no fall OF rent has taken place in Ireland bear
Ing any proportion even to what has happen
ed mere, muchless 10 what the necessity of
the times would cah for on Irish property.
IAN, then, the landlords of the southern coun.
Ties withhold their attention and their pity
from case like this They have attended
the Commission in great force they lave re-
ceIved high compliments from the So,
iicitor General for the Zeal and boldness with
winch they came forward, and TO be empan-
neiied as jurors in the prosecutors OF their
own unfortunate tenanry How much more
exalted their merit-how much more eloquent
as wen as Just, the eulogum they would invite,
Dy contributing their part, and an eifcctual
part IL might be, towards removing the cause
OF those prosecutions That the Irish rents
VIII reduce themselves ere long is certain
But what accumulated misery is there irst to
De endured-how many more crimes commit
ted-how many more lives forfeited
many more landlords ruined by their own inn
provldent rapacity and eyactiUn Mere pun
lShmpnf lamont IN, l,,-
duced the consequences, which had been
hoped tor by the trainers of the. Special Com
mission The list of outrages is as formula
bic as ever, and another murder has been per-
petrated on poor man of the name of Cu
iInane, whose offence was, that he resisted
an order of the banditt to deliver up his
J arms. rV,;nes
From The Dublin Patriot Of Dec. 1877
Hetdna.-Wc copy the particulars of hume
r0us outragesin the counties of Limerick and
iIpperary. NO blood, however, has been shed
IN their preparation.
The metropolis is in peace still precau-
tons are vigorously and wisely persevered in.
barriers, which can be erected at a mo-
incnt,s notice, and which can eiIectually block
mp street, or highway, in case of emergency
nave been prePared-to-day, several of these
barriers were lodged in the Ordnance De-
partment of the Castle. .-E,
His Majesty's Privy Council are now in AL
most daily delberation. A Council was held
| yesterday.
Yesterday his ExceIlency the Lord Lieut..
mad conferences with the several comman-
dants OF the Yeomanry corps of the metrop-
oils.
1t is cheering 10 find in the present afIlict
ing circumstances of a large portion of the
kingdom, that of the tbirty-two Counties of
Ireland, twenty preserve a state Of the mosi
perfect tranquility. The Counties of the
North redeem the national character and the
industrious, vlrtuUus, and eqlablc habits of
their population, are shields against the spread
OF that moral pes;ience which afiiicts The
South. The counties in repose are, Antrim.
Armagh, Cavan, Donegal, Down, Dublin,
termanah, Kildare, Kings County, Leitrim,
Londonderry, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Mo-
naghan, Queens County, Sligo, Tyrone, Wex-
ford, Wicklow.
| Those partially disturbed are scven-Car-
low, Galway, ;lilkenny, Meath, Roscommon,
Waterford WoStmeath.
INSTRUMENTATION, and crime, disgrace, TO a
VIDE extent, the remaining five Clare, Cork,
Kerry, Limerick and Tpperary.
Ru,n0us state Of the Fdrmers.-We have
heard the most upright aud intelligent of our
Norfolk farmers maintain, that there is not -
patch of land in the country that, i'm the pre-
sent state of affairs can afford shilling for
| rent T.Nor,picb M,rc,,ry
| fricG.-Gazettes from Sierra Leone to the
18th OF October, have come to hand. Much
activity continues to be shown by the British
ships of war on that coast i'm the suppression
of the Slave Trade, though we are compelled
to add that il proves wholly Inadequate To-
the object. About the middle of September
the Portuguese schooner Adelaide, with up
wards of 200 slaves on board, was brought
INTO the harbour, Of Sierra Leone by his Ma
Jesty's ship Pheasant, and condemned as law
Iui prize to the Crowns of Great Britain and
Portugal. The slaves were liberated. An
other Portuguese vessel, called the Couccicao
with 81 slaves on board, was brought in the
24th OF September, prize TO his Maicsty's brig
snapper, Lieut. Knight, commander. The
vessel last named, had returned from cruise
To ieeward, and ;he information given by her
| Commander fully corroborates the statement
formerly made regarding the increase of slave
| vessels on the coast A great number oil
French and Portuguese vessels, fitted fnr
slaves, were found securely riding at anchorn
the different rivers visited by the Snapper
| while their cargOes were collecting in the fac
| tories on shore. In the course of her cruise,
| lhe snapper, ~ proceeding down the coast
and when of Cape Mount chased two
schooners under French colours, that made
every eXeTtIou To- escape; when, from tlIt
vicinity TO the shore, they found that impossi
Bile, they separated, SO that only one could be
boarded. The largest vessel was the object
OF attenilon, and was brought To by the Snap.
per, when she was found 10 he the French
schooner PEtincclle, of Bordeaux fitted GU
at that port for the slave trade her equip
mcnt was Of the most superior description, acc
her cabin superintendent mirrors and scarlc
curtains. The captain earnestly begged o
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