The Sun. — 1822-02-27 (London, England)

POST.] The Irish Papers, which arrived yesterday, we are happy to observe, do not contain any fresh accounts of outrages ; and, as the Government is now in a state of great activity, and the law rigorously administered, hopes may reasonably be entertained that the insurrection of the deluded peasantry will not be of much longer duration. —On the sth day of the Special Commission at Cork, sentence of death was passed on no less than thirty-five miserable wretches, three of whom had been found guilty of murder, and the rest of having violated certain clauses of the White Boy Act. From these awful effects of the ordinary operation of the law (which promise to be productive of the most salutary results), hopes had been entertained that no severer measures would have been deemed necessary to deter the most determined from the continuance of their offences; but this does not appear to be the opinion of those in whose hands is placed the fate of those unhappy people. The Magistrates of The County of Cork have agreed to apply to Government for the extension of the Insurrection Act to the whole of that county, notwithstanding the Marquis of Thomond and Colonel Fitzgerald sought to except some part of it from the operation of that t:irrible measure. A similar application has been made by the Magistrates of the City of Cork, though there does not appear to have been any acts of outrage committed there ; and these examples seem likely to be followed in- the counties of Tipperary and Limerick. No mention is made of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act having been yet carried into execution in. any quarter ; but an attempt appears to have been made by some informer to try an experiment upon the Editor of -a Kilkenny Paper, which however has completely failed, the Magistrates having had no tlitliculty in discovering that the grounds upon which the unprincipled application was made were entirely false.  [MORNING tir.n.u.n.l Mr. Vansittart has at length brought forward his plan for 'doing away the 5 per Cent. Navy Annuities. It was said that he was going to .pay them off—but it is not paying them off to get rid of one species of Annuities to the amount cf-155 millions principal, paying an interest of 7,750,0001. a-year, in order to substitute another .paying 4 per Cent. to the amount of 162,750,000/. subject to an interest of 6,510,000 L thus increasing the principal of the National Debt in the sum of seven millions and three-quarters, and decreasing the annual interest in the sum of one million and a quarter. So far, however, the scheme is all very well, and, as it regards the getting rid of so much as a million and a quarter annual charge, we congratulate the country that its Chancellor of the Exchequer can, in these distressed times, not only devise such a scheme, but propose its being put into execution. The feature we principally dislike in it is the adding so -much as 7-4 million to the 800 millions principal of the Debt. We would much rather, at any time, hear of a reduction of the principal of the debt than of an addition to it : fur we have hitherto remarked that an addition made to the debt has never afterwards been got rid of. The manner in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes to get rid of the 5 per Cent. Navy Annuit:;nts, and instead thereof to make them 4 per Cent. Annuitants, we by no means like. It is upon a principle much too hurried : too little time is given for reflection; and, upon the first blush of the thing, there appears to be not a little  of contrivance in it. A Chancellor of the Exchequer of the most extraordinary country in the world, as it respects money matters, should stueiously avoid even the imputation of contrivance, ‘,hich is another word for trick. Great injustice, in our opinion., is attempted to be practised towards the Five per Cent. Navy Annuitants.  {1711!