The Sun. — London, England, 1829-10-13 00:00:00

lions ?—(Loud cheers.) Waterford made Ireland What she is. You have been objects of emulation to the men of Clare. Will you sink below your selves, and forget the regenerators and freemen of 1826 ? Emancipation has been consummated—tine it has, but there are many emancipations yet behind it. You must make Ireland a free country—is she free because she has begun to be so ? Reforms of all kinds are necessary in this unweeded garden. You want a correction of Parliamentary and Grand Jury abuses; you want a modified system—a self imposed system —a representative system of Poor Laws; you want a regeneration of your administra tions —a curtailment of public expenditure; you want a total revision (God grant it may not be too late!) of the whole financial machinery of both coun tries; you want a purification of church corrup tions -_a retrenchment of church prodigality—an extinction of church despotism.—(Hear, hear.) The Vestry Act calls on you—the magistracy sys tem calls on you—the decayed manufactures—the overbwthened agriculture of Ireland invoke you for red resse•—(Hear hear.)—How are you to redress them,. ? By the voice of Pa r li a m en t. How will Parliament speak for you ? By the voice of the representatives you send thither. Who shall be these representatives? Who is there in this county Who will speak the true desires of the majority of its inhabitants in the plainest, most forcible, unflinching manner ? That man —whoever he may be—that man should be our representative. On one side I see Lord George Beresford advance to solicit your votes. What are his claims ? Of the past I shall Say nothing —it is-past; and this is a great reason for altogether forgetting it. Nations have long memo ries, it is true; but it is a wise policy which could prevent them from dwelling too obstinately on the wrongs and injuries which are departed. Lord George, for an instant, could not think of canvass lag you on his ancient merits. Let us be generous in our success, and wave them. I want a man who will say in Parliament what I say here—who, hang ing on the breath of the people, lives only by their 'will, and for their benefit; who knows them, thinks with them, and will act for them. Will Lord George Beresford consent to the system of Parlia mentary conduct which we have just traced out for our future representative ? If he do, can he give it all the efficiency we would desire ? If not, is he so illogical a reasoner as to think that we should not anxiously look for such an organ, and having found him we should not stretch every nerve to give him the means of being the most beneficial to us ? 'What is bad in gross, is bad in part. You are bound to prevent it even in detail. The church is the great embracing evil of our actual system. Corrected she must be, either by herself or others. Every day she continues uncorrected, she inflicts an injury upon her self and upon the country. Will Lord George con sent to say so in Parliament ? I do believe he has in common with many others, submitted to the stern lessons of an all-eontrouling necessity—and that de fects and stains too glaring to have any advocate, he would gladly see gradually and quietly abolished. But we want more—a decision, which will not wait for inevitable improvements, but which will cont. Me nce--which will not go thus far only, but will go boldly, and at the same time wisely, to all and every i mprovement. Such a man, I trust we shall find, and found, I trust we shall know how to support hint. But come what will—whether our struggle be long or short, difficult or easy, let it be such as may be worthy of us and of our high purposes.— Let no colour of the wretched animosities of the past infect us—let nothing sectarian, nothing of the fury of religious fanaticism disgrace us—no sem blatice of Association politics or passion—no recur rence to extra agitation —no employMent of means, which in the late engagement for our rights Were not only allowable and just, but noble and glorious. The day when they could be used with propriety or advantage has, thank God, now passed away for ever. I would not blend myself with any men or measures which were of another tendency. Catholics and Protestants are no n'lore --they are replaced by Irishmen. Even at this stage of the contest I know many Catholics who will vote for Lord George Beresford—many Protestants, I also trust, will vote vvith us. So much the better; I rejoice at it. It is a proof that the formidable pha lanx is scattering--that the sectarian is becoming citizen. We want no aid iu support of our own free hearts —,we are no mendicants for the patriotism of atrangers—we contend lik e any ot h er British county in the independent exercise of our franchises, for British rights. This struggle will be as great as the last- 'We taught Ireland how to acquire Emancipa tion, we shall now teach her how to use it.—(Mr. Wyse sat down amidst the most deafening shouts of applause.) DOSUNICK RONAYNE, Esq., should not delay the meeting long; he had often heard Mr. Wyse with P.lcasure, and, he confessed, often with greater de light than he did now, when he tells us to forget all those differences and bury all former wrongs and recollections in oblivion ; but when he contemplated they were the same family who would still keep us nuemaneipated—when he contemplated that Lord George Beresford was a representative of one of the most baneful families that ever lorded it over any country, he did not feel disposed to partake so deeply of the waters of Lethe as to obliterate in toto ' all recollections of the past from his memory.— (Hear, hear.) Th e contest that we are at present do about to engage in, is not a religious contest ; we not intend it should be taken as such ; but we 'cannot so soon forget those who so lately libelled the'country and clergy. I have taken some pains (said Mr. Ronsyne) to make out the conciliatory u lnguage use d b y his Lordship at the dinners in the North, but I failed. However, in my search I dis covered what will answer my purpose as well if not better, as it is not the report of heated speech , . I , : lelivere rs w i th their drunken orgies in the North, b ut th e cool calm and deliberat e sentiments of his L ordship, embodied iu the sh a p e o f a pe tition to t he . House of Commons.—(Hear, hear.) I shall Proceed to read it to you, and, as it is divided into charges, I shall commence with charge the Ist i• Th e M ountaineers of Silevegrine, which had been flittlernorially used as a common, did, on the late election, Vot e for Mr. Stuart, and their votes were allowed. 2 l . pass it by to charge the 2d Peasaatr of the • unt Waterford are Roman Catholicse and from y their ignorance and superstition, are liabl e to be made the tools of any of the Roman Catholic Clergy wh o may impose on th e m sinister purposes ! !! be Such is t h e mild, and charitable, and conciliatory thearing of ch arge the 2d. Let us now hear charge 3d 3. M any pin -- of th e peasantry (in consequence of the fore cier! positions) believing that every Roman Catholic a nd a m an is poss esse d o f t h e power of making m i racles ! ! attaching- importance to the blessing or curse of a priests consid er that to be excluded from the rights of the Church deprives them o f sa l vat i on . They d Sad I.lisyfam l ily make a mira c l e ," when t h e y p u t him out of the country; and he will make irael e if he be ever again allowed to resume his une. enviabl e state i n our county.—(Cheers.) tis t Th e R ight Reverend Patrick Kelly, called the °° P of 'Waterford, under who se con t ro l th e Clergy of at u, th di ocese are, an d who himself is a mere despot, being re: a menable to th e S ee of Rome, has taken great inte , w e and a most p rom i nent and active part in the County grea`ctfortl election ; so l ong b ac k as 1825, preac h e d i n th e p ro t Chapel o f W aterford, at a public Mass, in did -en " °Je. H. V. Stuart, and said, that if the people not vot e f or said Stuart, they would he guilty of a blond toe . and th e sa i d Bishop Kelly, from the corn . ne etnent of the election, and during the progress thereof, tied c oded _by exho r t at i ons , admon i t i ons, remonstrances nreats of infliction of ecclesiastical censure, to pro ofo. the success of, said Stuart, and directed the Clergy ° is diocese to use their exertions collectively and indi ''idually for the same purpose. that ' would particularly call your attention to that that th e h oo f of a Beresford may never %%gin oss our county—that our venerabl e a nd re eaPastor is amere despot. If he were guilty wentther cr i me t h an this was, it must afford stil- fie ground s f or hi s re j ect i on.—(llear, hear,)— °r e " f 's petition states, that th e mass was p reac h e d 4, e Mr. V. St uart , i n t h e c i ty o f W ater f or d .— 6. gTeat a li e as ever was told.—(Loud laughter.) These threats were all rendered more potent, in con sequence of the Jubilee being in the year 1825 ! as the denunciations of the Rornish Clergy were rendered snore effective against Lord George, and Stuart being sure of defeat, would have declined, but that then Bishop Kelly assured him he would insure his return. Yes, and we have another Jubilee now. sent over by the Pope, expressly for the benefit of Lord George—(Loud laughter,)—and there is little doubt but the present Jubilee will be as ominous to his Lordship as the last was.—(Laughter.) 6. The Priests at stations, refused to hear the confes sions of those who had promissed to vote for Lord George Beresford ; and, in other instances, freeholders who were finer; and sick, were refused the usual religious ceremo nies; while the wives and children, and relatives of Ro man Catholic freeholders, who had promised to vote for petitioner, and who being sick and apprehensive of death, required the attendance of a priest, were refused, unless they would vote for Mr. Stuart! ! ! ! Is that true ?—(Cries of No, no.) —What then think you of the audacity of the man, who three short years after asserting those matchless false hoods, has the hardihood to come forward to solicit your support to return him to Parliament, to enable him more efficiently to calumniate you. But the question is, will you vote for the man who put that lie on record ?—(Cheers, and cries of no, no, never.) —Will you not rather affix the stamp of your honest reprobation en the calumniator of your laws and religion. The next calumny is, that the Clergy, at stations and chapels, publicly cursed the Free holders who would vote for Lord George Beres ford ; but it is so good, I shall give it all to you :- 7. That in ether instances the Roman Catholic Clergy men threatened to inflict public curses upon all those Ro man Cath.die freeholders who should vote for Lord George Beresford, and some of them have actually at their chapels and at their stations publicly and solemnly cursed individual freeholders by name, who were known to intend to vote or to have actually voted fin the petitioner, and not only have cursed such freeholders themselves, but have cursed their wives, and their children, their cattle and crops, and in like manner have publicly implored the blessing of God and of all his saints upon those who voted for the said Henry Villiers Stuart, and against the petitioner; that some of the said Roman Catholie Clergymen have also threatened individual voters that they would impress a visible and indelible seal or brand upon them and open any Roman Catholic freeholder who should vote for the peti tioner, which would remain upon him visible to his death ! ! that to excite terror in others, and thus to com pel them to vote for Mr. Stuart, they have in some in stances turned the freeholders who had promised to vote er who had actually voted for the petitioner out of their chapels, in the presence of the congregation ; and in other instances, when the parishioners of a particular parish have appeared more firm than ordinary in resisting the at tempts of the Priests to controul their votes, they have suspended the celebration of mass in that parish altogether until, as they alleged, the parishioners were brought to a sense of their disobedience, and agreed to vote against the petitioner anti for said Henry Villiers Stuart. The Clergy are grossly maligned—to them I leave the falsifying of this document and the asser tion of their own innocence. For my part, Ido net possess any of that " sickly sensibility" that would make us forget what we are. I forgive altogether the many wounds deeply inflicted by the Noble Lord and his family on this unfortunate country; hut there arc certain things not to be forgotten. It has been said that Catholic Emancipation has put us on an equality with the other classes of his Majesty's subjects, and that, therefore, we have no right to contend with our old opponents; such, however, is not my opinion. —(Cheers.) —lt is idle to expect that others will do our business for us if we do not work ourselves. As long as we continued in apathy without making any exertion ourselves, so long were we in the back ground, and had we blindly conti• tilted that system of apathy, we would still havebeen unemancipated.—(Hear, hear.) —What claim the Noble Lord had on our representation he knows best himself; I never could discover any extraordinary aptitude for business in my Lord George Beresford. I find, by referring to an English newspaper, that Lord George has been appointed to the Colonelcy of a regiment. It cannot be for his extraordinary heroism in the " tented field" that the Noble Lord has obtained these high martial honours. It is not for his prowess at Salamanca, or his exploits at Ba dajos. If, therefore, the Noble Lord has not ren dered military service, it must be for some other sort of service. What the nature of these services may be, some of you may be able to conjecture.— , (Hear, hear.)—Gentlemen, if ever there was a time in which you were called on to bestir yourselves for-your country, this is the time. This is the time to put the extinguisher on the Grand Jury system, to crush odious and corrupt Corporations, and return such members as Mr. O'Connell, and Mr. Otway Cave.—(Loud cheers.)—Return I say, such men as ' r these to Parliament, and mark the results that will follow. I care little whether the independent Can , didate be Catholic or Protestant, he shall receive my support—any person who shall oppose Lord George Beresford shall receive my warmest support and hearty co-operation.—(Loud and continued cheers.) Mr. O'GORMAN said, if the county of Clare had done much, it had not done so until it was set the example by the county of Waterford.—(Loud cheers.) —The county of Waterford had risen up and shaken off the yoke of the Beresfords—the heaviest and the most oppressive yoke in Ireland.— (Cheers.) —The Beresfords were again seeking to impose that yoke upon this county—but he was sure that the independent interest would never bend their necks, nor suffer that galling and degrading yoke to be forced upon them again. —( Cheers.) — Lord George says that the Catholic question is at an end, and that surely there can be no objection to him any longer. 1 he . Catholic question is certainly at an end (though little thanks to Lord George for that). But is the system of places and pensions at an end ?—is the system of Parliamentary corruption at an end?—is the system of Grand Jury jobbing at an end ?—is the grinding and oppressive system of tithes and church-rates at an end ?—(Hear.)— Of these, and every other similar system, the Beres fords will be the most strenuous supporters, no matter what they may say now to the contrary ; and will the county Waterford aid in continuing such enormous abuses, by sending into Parliament a Member of the Beresford family ?—(No, no,)—Let the county, therefore act strenuously, and the independent inte rest must be gloriously triumphant.—(Cheers.) On the resolution being passed, calling on Mr. Winston Barron to offer himself as a Candidate at the ensuing Election, in the event of Mr. Stuart's declining, Mr. Barron rose, and after the cheers had subsided, addressed the Meeting at considerable length. We shall give his speech in our next. After Mr. Barron had concluded, Mr. Otway Cave, Mr. O'Connell,and several other Gentlemen,ahook hands with him, and warmly congratulated him. Here there was a universal call from all sides for Mr. OTWAY CAVE; upon which the Hon. Member presented himself, and was received with three dis tinct rounds of cheering. When silence was re stored, the Hon. Gentleman proceeded to address the meeting :—Gentlemen, I make you a promise— though it is one which Mr. O'Connell says is sel dom kept by a public man—and that is, that I will not detain you long. You have, Gentlemen, heard enough this day to convince you that when Mr. Barron sits beside me in the House of Commons, as he does here this day, your county will not want for an upright, an honest, and an able representa tive—(Hear, hear) —a representative who will fear. lessly and boldly represent your wants and your wishes in the Imperial Parliament.—(Cheers.)—Al though I am not personally connected with the county of Waterford, yet I will not yield to any man in the most earnest and warmest wishes for the prosperity of Ireland ; and that prosperity can never be attained while ever a Beresford rules the des tinies of your country.—(Loud cries of hear, hear.) With that family, privately or individually, I um altogether unacquainted, and therefore cannot enter tain towards any of its members a personal feeling of any kind. I know them only through the me dium of history, as a family who became possessed of great and almost boundless power in Ireland, and whose power has, in a singular degree, in fluenced the destinies of this country. ( I here the rush in the Court House became so great, and many en deavouring to crowd up round the Bench to hear Mr. Cave, that the Hon. Member was for some time. obliged to discontinue. At length, valor being re. ' stored by the Chairman, Mr. Cave resumed.) — Gentlemen, this short interruption, and the agitation which occasioned it, puts me in mind of the good old times of agitation ; and now that the honest spirit of former times, though in a different manner, and for a different purpose, is to be revived, I . . hope that national spirit and high-minded enthusiasm will not subside, until I see my friend Mr. Winston Barron triumphantly returned as the independent Member for the county of Waterford.—(Loud cheers.)—Of the private virtues of the Beresfords, I know nothing. lam willing to believe them great and estimable, but private character has nothing to do with the present object. We have no right to pry into the secrets of private life—public and political character is all that this meeting has a right to discuss.—( Hear, hear.)--I look into the page of history, and I form my opinion of the Beresfords as do of all other public and historical characters, ac cording as I find them depicted there—and I say that any man who looks into that faithful mirror must turn from it with the conviction that the Beres- fords have been the scourge and the curse of Ireland. (Cheers.)-.-Who was it that procured the recall of one of the best Lord Lieutenants that Ireland ever saw,with the exception of the Marquis of Anglesea ? Who Was it that, in 1795, compelled the King and his Ministers to recall the venerable and virtuous Earl Fitzwilliam ? History tells us, and tells us with accuracy, that it was the Beresfords.—(Hear, hear.) I shall not go into a detail of all the scenes of horror which speedily followed that recall.—(Hear, hear.) The Beresfords are accountable for the last thirty years of misfortune and suffering which has been entailed upon Ireland. The Beresfords may be called the fatal Upas tree of Ireland—a trees whose roots are seated in this county, but whose branches have spread over the island, and under which it has been death for public spirit and public liberty to re pose.—(Loud cheers.)—But I hope that you do not intend to recline any more under the branches of that fatal tree, but that you will tear it up and cast it away from you, root and branch.—(Cheers, and cries of " We will, we will.")—What has Ireland ever got from that baneful faction of which the Be resfords may be considered the head and chiefs ? 'What, I ask, have you always been getting from that faction but slanders and calumnies, such as you have heard read this day. These calumnies do infinite mischief in England—because, although you may know them all to be false here, yet the people of England cannot know that. Who, let me ask, are the party who have been found fomenting every species of disaffection in latter days ? Is it not•the ascendancy faction—that faction who used to tell us that they were the exclusively loyal, who claimed for themselves a monopoly in loyalty as in every thin!, else—but what has been their cry and their watchword of late ? "No King, no Wellington." This is the way in which their exclusive loyalty now displays itself. They are the rebels and we ate the loyalists.—(Hear, hear.)—We must have an end to all petty factions, to all monopolies, and all ascendancies. But this is to be obtained only by dismissing from the representation those who are themselves branches or that ascendancy, and by sending into the House of Commons Members who will really and truly represent the people; who will insist upon the measures which are necessary for the country; who will call for a reform in Parliament, for a modification of the enormous property of the church, for a humane and indispensably necessary fund for the support of the poor, and for all the other measures without which th e United Ki n gdom, and particularly Ireland, must continue in the pre sent distressed condition. There is now a prospect of something good for Ireland. They knew the old proverb which says that " when rogues fall out honest men come by their own." lam far from meaning any personal allusion to any individual in his private character ; but I cannot help saying, that when I see Lord Mountcashel and the dignitaries of the Church falling out with each other, I do think there is a chance of something good far Ireland.— (Cheers and laughter.)—There never was any country which had such an accumulation of abuses to be corrected; but the only chance of your obtain ing this is by selecting representatives of your own choice—representatives who feel a sympathy with our wants, and who will be the faithful guardians of your interests. Such a representative, I feel confi dent, the county of Waterford will return at the ap proaching election. The independent interest of the county have my sincerest wishes for their success. I fear I am trespassing too long on you—(" No, no, goon, go on,")—words cannot express in any way my feelings of gratitude to the Irish; how I love their country—how I hate their oligarchy—will you then allow me to give you the advice of a brother and of a friend ?—(Cheering.)—l tell you,you must remodel the whole representation of Ireland, and that you must begin the good work by ousting the Beresfords from this county. Out with them, men of Water- ford, if you are Catholics, if you are Christians. Out with the men who have proclaimed your religion blasphemous and idolatrous, who have outraged your excellent Clergy, who have slandered your dying Bishop, whose name is connected with every thing that is mournful and disgraceful to your coun try, and is written in blood and tears in every page of Irish history. Recollect the horrors of 1798, the whippings, the torturings, the triangle, and the riding house ; and though last, not least, recollect the per secutions of the disfranchised Forty-shilling Free holders. On my way to this place, this day, I passed through the town of Kilmacthomas. I was shewn what was once a street, but is now a heap of ruins. I saw some wretched beings in misery, rags, and nakedness, and I was told that these men had been dispossessed, and their houses levelled with the ground, because they had voted in opposition to the dictation of the Beresfords at the last election ; because they had had the audacity, the dreadful un pardonable audacity, of voting against their landlord, for their conscience, their country, and their God.— (Hear, hear.)—We are told to forgive and forget, have they forgiven or forgot ?—(Hear, hear.)—Have they rebuilt the cottages for those houseless and helpless creatures whom they have driven forth to starve and die in the highways and hedges of this county ! Gracious Heaven, have they never heard of such a thing as retribution? Let those that remain in Waterford of the disfranchised Forty-shilling Freeholders look well after the Ten-pound Free holders, and keep a strict watch on their proceed ings; let them exhort them to follow their example; let them force them to be honest men. It is best for the Beresfords themselves that they should not be returned for this county till they have shewn that they are really sincere in what they say about re concilement—till they have proved that they have altered altogether their horrible political creed; let them buy a borough elsewhere—there are plenty to be bought in London; and if, after a few years probation, they prove to be good Members of Par liament, let them then appear before you, and can vass your suffrages if they will. Take care, how ever, not to give them absolution before confession. —(Hear, and laughter.)—l declare to you, before God, if you suffer yourselves to be deceived by their present assurances—if you take these wolves for spaniels, because, forsooth, they fawn upon you—if, when you are told that poison is poison, yet still will swallow it for food—l myself shall be ashamed of the sacrifices and exertions I have made in your cause. I shall believe that Catholicity is incom patible with liberty—that your long habits of servi tude have rendered you unfit for freedom, and every one who was once your friend will leave you at the mercy of your enemies—if you have the unutterable baseness to put on the fetters which you have burst. So shall your groans unpitied rend your breasts Unheeded, save of those whose ears do own No sweeter music—so shall you remain Ever in bondage awl in misery, And never know the blessed rights of freedom. (Tremendous cheering.) I am, as I have already told you, a Parliamentary Reformer. I am for frequent occasions of giving in an account of nay stewardship. Short accounts, you know, make long friends, my boys.—(Cheers and laughter.)—l am for voting by ballot, because it is the only practical -plan of snaring the vote of Ole poor 111M1 ;:. , ._;:):!!A intimidation and corruption. 1 um for an c7:tcli , ion of the suffrage, because I think that ii the maymty were represented, their intereqs would then be as well attended to as those of the few are ❑o«•.—(Heap•, hear.)—Do you wish for a good illustration of an unreformed House of Commons ? You will find it, as 1 believe and am informed, in one of your own Gland Jury rooms. It is true I have not had as yet the high honour of sitting as one of your Grand Jury; when I have, I trust at least to learn something of the science of road-making.--(Hear, and laughter.)—Buonaparte himself might learn that of them, except perhaps that he would have found it too expensive. (Loud laughter.)—l say that your Grand Jury much in the same way represents a county, as the Imperial Parliament represents the United Empire. In both the same system prevails—the rich mates interest is attended to, while that of the poor is neglected. Garden-walls and carriage -roads in the one are made for petty aristocracy, at the expence of the public; in the other jobs and sinecures, at the public ex pence, are ordained for the beMefit of the great aris tocracy. In England and in Ireland, if a poor man injures a rich man, the law is instantly at his heels. The injuries of the rich against the poor are often inflicted by the law ; and the reason of this is, that the rich make the law; and this is the history and the origin of our Church and State monopolies and legis lation. It is ofabsolute and paramount importance that the new constituency should show its strength, and I am sure that no Catholic freeholder will have the in• describable baseness to let personal or party feeling prevent him from voting for Mr. Barron, in the event of Mr. Stuart's refusal. Mr. Barron has shown himself as able as he is willing to represent you properly; and, if he were not so, it is impor tant that you should take him rather than a Beres ford—any weapon will do wherewith to beat a Beresford.—(Loud cheers.)—Elect a West Indian slave-holder, or even a Leicester corporator—any thing rather than a scion of your old hereditary oli garchy.—(The foregoing is but an outline of Mr. 0. Cave's speech, and it is impossible to express the enthusiasm with which it was received.) DANIEL O'CONNELL, Esq. M.P., being loudly called for,. came forward, and was received with an enthusiastic burst of applause. The Hon. Member stated, that though his appearance at that meeting was more accidental than by design, it happening to be in his way—yet he felt that even if he had come expressly to attend it, it would be but a small re turn for the obligation which he felt, that he owed to the electors of Waterford. It was the brave men of Waterford that first showed the British Mi nister that the people of Ireland could no longer be trifled with.---(Cheers.)—lt was the county of Wa terford that set the example to Louth, Meath, and the other counties that have since distinguished themselves—it was Waterford that set the example of the glorious triumph that was finally achieved in Clare.—(Hear, hear.)—When he approached this county, he witnessed a scene which might be equalled, but could not he exceeded. He saw the mountains of Glenabeira pouring forth their countless thou sands—he saw the brave men of Dungarvan tri umphing in the cause of independence—here in this very Dungarvan, where on a former occasion, the bloodhounds ran away from us like rats.—( Cheers and laughter.)—What a fine chase we had after them.—(Continued laughter.)—Lord George Be resford asked us to forgive and to forget. We are most willing to forget him; let him retire into that seclusion for which he is so well qualified, and there amuse himself smoking cigars and drinking brandy punch, which is, I understand, the thing at which he most excels.—(Laughter.)—Let Lord George retire with his cigars and his brandy, and we will most cheerfully forget him for ever.—(Hear, hear.)—lt would be a waste of our time to be thinking of him—we have men much better worth thinking of. But if Lord George attempts to in trude himself on our notice, let him not suppose that we will be so weak as either to forget or to forgive him. Does he think that we are so destitute of all the finer feelings of human nature, as to forget the abominable and wicked. tissue of slanders which you have this day heard read by my friend, Mr. Do- ' minick Ronayne. My fellow-countrymen—You c an not—it is not in human nature to forget such deep and lasting injuries. You have all shared in the full measure of these false and scandalous calumnies—the peasantry--the Catholic Gen try—the Catholic Clergy—and he, that vene rable and sanctified Prelate, who is at this mo ment wavering in the balance between time and eternity—he, who is at this moment, I fear, on the verge . of the other world—your reverend and beloved Bishop, who may, perhaps, before the set ting of to-morrow's sun, be in Heaven—who may never live to hear of the feeling which the mention of his name has at this moment excited amongst you.—(Here the strongest sensation pervaded the Meeting. The melancholy prediction was but too fully verified, as the venerable Prelate did not live to hear of the mention of his name.)—The petition of Lord George Beresford possesses one good cha racteristic, viz. that the gross and glaring and Noto rious falsehood of its allegations totally deprives them of all weight or effect ; but this circumstance does not take away from the Malignity that sug gested them. The Jubilee of 1826 proved very fatal to Lord George Beresford, according to his Lordship's own statement—it is most ominously unfortunate that another Jubilee should just happen to come simultaneously with another Waterford election. No doubt Lord George, in his next pe tition, will tell the House that the Pope has joined in the conspiracy against him, and that he arranges his Jubilees exactly so, as that they may meet the Waterford elections.—( Hear, hear.)—This would not be an atom more glaring or more false than the allegations of the late petition. And what has been the conduct of the Beresfords, even since the last election ? Since the bloody and inhuman persecu tions of Nero—since the days of Herod—there has not been any thing equal to the remorseless and relentless persecution carried on by the Beresfords against the unfortunate freeholders of this county.—(Hear, hear, hear.)—They have desolated the streets—they have filled the roads with the unfortunate victims of their revenge—they have turned our unfortunate fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers—young and helpless infants to perish and to die by the highways and hedges.— (Hear, hear.)—Oh ! I have taken care to put their conduct on record, and to furnish thenwith a list of their own victims, and Lord George Beresford with this list in his pocket goes about now to the relations and friends of these victims, asking them to vote for him and to send him into Parliament. The Beresfords thought to procure my assistance to return them to Parliament.—(Cheers.)—What a chance they had of it.—(Loud and repeated cheers.) Those whom God wishes to destroy lie first de prives of reason—so it would appear to be with the Beresfords. They brought down that ghost of 98, who stalked about like a spectre risen from the grave, whose very breath spread pestilence around. They brought down this skeleton to gain the election in 1826. Why they must have been mad. If any Ten-pound Freeholder should think of voting for the Beresfords, let him be surrounded by a circle of the unfortunate victims, the beggars whom the Beresfords have made—let these unfor tunate victims wring their cries into the earsof every Ten-pound Freeholder, and let them conjure the I Ten-pound Freeholders to be the avengers of their miseries and their sufferings. But the Beresfords must be mad. Upon what ground do they expect that the Ten-pound Freeholders would vote for them, any more than the Forty-shilling Freeholders ? —Have they not the same flesh and blood—the same feelings—the same motives—or rather the addition a l motives—furnished by the recent conduct of the Beresfords ? The Beresfords certainly de ! ceive themselves if they dream of regaining their do mination in this county. Mr. Villiers Stuart has committed a great error in giving up the high sta . tion to which he was raised by the county of Waterford. It is to be hoped that he will see his error, and retract it; but if he should not, the • county of 'Waterford is not at it loss for a fit and proper representative. The County kill never be at a loss while it can find within itself such men as my friend Mr. Barron, who has this day proved that he is not only willing, but ably competent to re present the feelings, the want ,, , and the wishes of this independent county.—( Loud cheers.)—He may, perhaps, be able to smoke cigars as well as Lord George Beresford ; but he is also able to do something more—(Hear, bear,)—he is able to tell the House of Commons what the measures; are which Ireland wants, and he has firmness and inde pendence enough to demand those measures from the British Ministry—he is able to expose the accu mulation of abuses under which Ireland labours. There are many parties in Parliament—the Whigs have a party—the Tories have a party—the Borough mongers have a party—the East India monopolists have a party—and there are many other parties; but we are now about to form a new party—and that will be a party of the people.—(Cheers.)—There are already two of us to begin with—Mr. Otway Cave and myself—" two down and one a wanting" —(Cheers and laughter)—but that one will not be long a wanting—we:shall soon be joined by my friend Mr. Barron ; and I am delighted to have had the opportunity of witnessing this day how valuable an acquisition he will be to the party of the people— ( Hear, hear)—and now I feel convinced that no man who has attended this meeting will refuse to vote for Henry Winston Barron.—(The Honourable and Learned Gentleman sat down amid loud and con tinued cheering.) ROBERT LONGAN, Esq. was called to the Chair, and thanks, &c. voted, as stated in resolutions. After which the Meeting broke up, giving three cheers for Old Ireland, when all dispersed in the greatest order and good humour. SECOND EDITION. We have received, by Express, the answer given by Mr. Stuart to the gentlemen appointed to wait on him with the resolution come to at the Dungar van Meeting. The following is Mr. Stuart's reply : Gentlenien,—lt is impossible not to feel the strongest sense of pride and gratification at the distinguished honour conferred upon me by your flattering requisition, but refer ring you to the causes which I have already assigned as the motives for my retirement from the representation of the county, and unable to discover any change of circum stances which should induce me to alter my determination, I must still feel (and I confess it is purely a motive of feeling) that the course I have already adopted is the only one which, with deference to received opinions and respect for my own consistency, lam now at liberty to pursue. I shall conclude by assuring you, Gentlemen, that in what ever situation it may be my fortune hereafter to be placed, my best exertions shall ever be directed to promote, to the utmost of my ability, the welfare of Ireland and the local interests of the county of Waterford. H. VILLIERS STUART. Dromana, Oct. 8, 1829. THE KING'S COURT. (From the Court Circular.) His MAJESTY left the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park shortly before two o'clock yesterday after- noon, attended by the Lord Eteward of the House hold and the Lord and Groom in Waiting, in two carriages and four, and proceeded up the Long-walk, escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards, to the Castle, which the KING entered by the private entrance. Soon after his arrival his MAJESTY held a Court, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Depart ments, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Treasurer of the Household, the Recorder of London, Sir BROOK TAYLOR, Mr. M'LEAN, &C. Mr. M'LEAN was presented to his MAJESTY by the Earl of ABERDEEN, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and delivered his credentials as Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States to this Court. Sir BROOK TAYLOR was presented to the KING by the Earl of ABERDEEN, to take leave on pro ceeding to his mission at Berlin. His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at which it was understood Parliament was further prorogued from the l sth inst. to Thursday, the 10th of Decem ber. Mr. BULLER attended as Clerk of the Council. The Privy Council broke up at four o'clock. The Recorder of London was then introduced into the presence of the KING in Council, and made his report of the convicts capitally convicted at Justice hall, in the Old Bailey, during the last Sessions. The sentence of the law was ordered to take effect on Monday next on Richard Gifford, Richard Chich, and Josiah Nathan, alias Joseph Latham, alias Josiah Jones. The cases of Thomas Walker, William Neuritt, Robert Dennington, William Williams, Thomas Thomas Maynard and Mark Joel, were not reported, but were postponed till the next re port. The other convicts, 16 in number, whose cases were reported, were respited during his Mk. JESTY'S pleasure. The report occupied about two hours. His MAJESTY gave audiences to the LORD CHAN CELLOR, the Duke of WELLINGTON, Earl BATIIURST, and Mr. Secretary PEEL. The Court broke up soon after six o'clock. The Earl of MOUNTCHARLES and Sir ANDREW BARNARD were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. An elegant dejeune was served to the Ministers and other official gentlemen attending the Court on their arrival at the Castle, previous to the Court being held. The KING returned to the Royal Lodge directly after the breaking up of the Court. The Cabinet Ministers left at the same time, on their return to town. DOVER, OCT. 12. Arrived the French steam-packet Due de Bour deaux from Calais, having on board his Excellency the Duke de LAVAL MONTMORENCY, to succeed the Prince POLIGNAC as Ambassador to this country. His Excellency was received by a guard of honour, and was saluted in landing. He left almost imme diately for London, under a similar salute from the Western Heights. His Grace the LORD WARDEN Of the CINQUE PORTS has directed a Court to be held on Thursday next by the Commissioners of Dover harbour, and on the following day a Court of Loadmanage; and has announced his intention of presiding, if possible, at both Courts. THE FORTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT. Copy of a letter addressed to Major Backhouse, of the 47th Regiment : Maidstone, Oct. 8, 1829. SIR —It is impossible for me to express the deep regret I feel in having been imposed on by the re presentation that the 47th Regiment was recruited by convicts from Van Dieman's Land, and that such report should have been circulated through the medium of the Maidstone Journal, which Paper I can truly say, has ever studiously avoided dissemi nating falsehood, or admitting paragraphs tending to wound the feelings of individuals. Your letter, Sir, published in The Sun of yester day, clearly proves the falsehood of the statement, that " the 47th is partly composed of convicts ;" and I again beg leave to repeat my sincere sorrow that such a mis-statement should have appeared, which shall, however, be contradicted in the next number of the Maidstone Journal. To yourself, Sir, and to the Regiment collectively, I humbly offer the best reparation in my power, remaining, Sir, most respectfully, your obedient Servant,' J. V. HALL, Proprietor of the Maidstone Journal. To Major Backhouse, 47th Regiment, Albany Barracks, Isle of Wight. (A true Copy.) THOS. BACKHOUSE, Major of the 47th Regiment. A sea wall of two miles is to be erected on the North-east aide of Trak. Bay. SPORTING INTILLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. RACE COURSE, MONDAY AFTHILNOOII....-FrOtri the number of arrivals since our last, we shall hare n fuller . Meeting than could have been expected from the dull state of the town yesterday; no one would then ,have thought that any thing mere than common was about to take place; things, however, have taken a turn, leaving no doubt that the meeting at least will be a good average one. Lord Sefton, the Duke of Richmond, and Lord Exeter, had dinner parties last night, the effect, as usual, being a thin muster at the rooms ; there were present only seven members, Lord G. Cavendish, Lord Lowther, Lord G. Ben. tinck, Lord H. Bentinek, C. Wilson, Esq., and two others. The following are the returns for this day, with the ex ception of two important matches, which were not decided when our express left the ground Match, 300 soya. h. ft. Set. 41b. each. 11. M. Lord G. Cavendish's c. by Godolphin, received.--Mr. Pettit's Post Obit, by Woful, paid. Match, 200 soya. h. ft. T. Y. C. Mr. Greville's Mohican, Sat. 101 b., received 50 sore.—.. Sir M. Wood's Mummer, 7st. 111 b., paid. Match, 200 sous. h. ft. T. Y. C. Lord Verulam'a f. by Whalebone, and Mr. Rush's f. by Partisan, off by consent. Match, 50 cove. h. ft., and horse for horse, Sot. 71b. each. . . T. Y. C. Mr. Gully's Trample, received—Captain Roes'a Zubcidat paid. Match, BO sovs. D. M. Bst. 41b. each. Duke of Richmond's Scymetar received 30 sove.—Sir M. Wood's Nessus paid. One-third of a subscription of 25 sous. each for 3-yrs, old, colts, Bst. 9lb ; and fillies, Bst. 61b. A. F. bona fide the property of subscribers. Lord Exeter's Green Mantle Walked o'er Mr. Payne's Pauline Duke of Grafton's Caradori Paid Duke of Rutland, Lord Jersey, Lord Tavistosk, and Sir M. Wood, were subscribers, but did not name. Match, 100 sovs., h. ft., T. Y. C., Bst. 71b. rack Mr. Stonehewer's Kildare 1 Lord Ranelagh's Sontag 2 6 and 7to 4 on Kildare. A dose well contested race till about 50 yards from home, when Kildare got a length ahead of the mare, and kept it to the end—rode by Robin son, the filly by Buckle. This is precisely the course for Kildare, who cannot run half so well upon any other. The Garden Stakes of 10 sot's. each. T. M. M. Sir M. Wood's Lusa filly, 3 yrs., 64. 101 b 1 Mr. Sowerby's Coroner, 4 yrs., 7st. Sitlb Mr. Gully's Mameluke, 6 yrs., 9st. 4lb 3 Lord Chesterfield's Zinganee, 4 yrs., 95t. 41b pd Won by six lenitbs. The entries for the Subscription Stakes and the 50 sous. for two-year olds closed this afternoon, at one o'clock, which makes the appointment for to-morrow stand thus :-- Match, 200 sous. and the Whip; lOst. each. B. C. Colonel Wilson's Lamplighter, 6yrs. ;gat Mr. Gully's Mameluke, 5 yrs. Renewal of the Clearwell Stakes of SO lova. each, 20 ft. ; for two•yr. old colts, fist. 51b., and fillies, Sat. Slb. T.Y.C. Lord Wbarncliffe's Sister to Crusader Mr. Sowerby's br. f. by Abjer Lord Sefton's b. f. by Emilius Duke of Grafton'e Paradox, brother to Problem Mr. W. Lumley's b. c. by Moses Mr. Poyntz's ch. f. by Sultan Lord Exeter's ch. f. by Shumla, sister to Varna c. by Sultan Lord Jersey's ch. c. by Sam br. c. by Tramp Mr. Roger's Firman, by Sultan Lapidist, brother to Medallist Mr. Delly's Cetus Mr. Thornhill's c. by Snm f. by Emilius Mr. Roberts's b. f. by aniline Lord Chesterfield's f. by Figaro Colonel Wilson's c. by Emilius Mr. Gully's ch. f. by Tramp Mr. Latour's b. f. by Part;zan Lord Cleveland's Bud, by Teresias Mr. D. Radcliffe's b. f. by Waterloo Lord Egremont's Sister to Lapdog Mr. Stonehewer's The Fairy, by Emilius f. by Bustard Eight other subscribers have paid, and about fourteen or fifteen others are expected to be scratched out. One-third of a subscription of 25 Bova. each ; for 4-yr old colts, Bst. 101 b. ; and fillies, Bst. 71b. D. I. bona fide, &c.. Duke of Rutland's Oppidan Duke of Grafton's Turquoise Lord Tavistock, Lord Exeter, Lord Jersey, Mr. Payne, and Sir M. Wood, are subscribers, but did not name. Fifty sous. for 2-yrs old colts, Bst. 41b. ; and fillies, Sat. 21b. T. Y. C. Lord Jersey's f. by Emilius Mr. Rawlinson's Mrs. Brown, by Spectre Lord Anson's Sister to Sontag Duke of Richmond's Credulity Lord Exeter's f. by Catton Lord Lowther's Verdict, by Nicola Lord Chesterfield's f. by Merlin Duke of Richmond's Arantla Mr. Ang,erstein's c. by Napoleon Arabian Duke of Grafton's Paradox, brother to Problem Mr. Hunter's f. by Gustavus Lord Anson's b. f. by an Arabian , Mr. Batson's Suffolk Punch MONMOUTH RACES. WEDNESDAY, oc;.i.LiiieAionmouthshire Stakes of 20 soya. each, with 20 added. Two miles. Mr. J. Day's Busk, 5 yrs 1 Mr. Sadler's Popinjay, aged 2 Mr. Morgan's Musquito, 4 yrs 3 The County Members' Plate of 50 soya. for all ages. Heats, thrice round. Mr. Peel's Little Boy Blue, 4 yre Mr. Thorne's Forester Lass, aged Mr. J. Day's Nimrod, aged Mr. Vever's Villager, 4 yrs ... dr THURSDAY, OCT. 9.—A Plate of 50 sous. for all ages Heats, twice round. _ _ Mr. C. Day's Zelinda; 4 yrs 1 I Mr. Thorne's Maid of Mansfield, aged Mr. J. Day's Busk, 5 yrs Handicap Plate of 50 sous. given by the Town of Mon mouth. Heats, twice round. Mr. J. Day's Busk, 5 yrs 1 2 1 Mr. C. Day's Zelinda, 4 yrs 4 1 dr Mr. Scott's Omen, 4 yrs Mr. Vever's Villager, 4 yrs Mr. Goddard's Smilax, 4 yrs NORTIIALLERTON RACES. THURSDAY, OCT. 9.—Two-year-old Stakes of 20 so•s. Lord Cleveland's Bud Mr. Shepherd's b. e. by Waxy Pope A Maiden Plate of 50 Bove. Mr. Petre's Cobbler Will 0 1 1 Mr. Hirst's b. c. by Catton 0 2 2 Mr. Harker's Spero 1 0 dr A Physician of Periqueux is said to have re cently discovered that the seed of the lilac (syringa per sica) is an excellent substitute when roasted for coffee. ANOTHER CATTLE-DEALER FAILED.— We regret to say, that during the last two days a general rumour has prevailed of the failure of another extensive cattle-dealer in the south. This, if true, we are afraid will produce serious effects among the dealers i❑ this part of the country. At present, however, we refrain from entering into particulars.—Perthshire Advertiser. ELOPEMENT.—An elopement took place from Waterside-street, Strathaven, on Tuesday last, with a stout Kirkintilloch knight of the shuttle, who had the gallantry to captivate the heart of an old lady who had had seven husbands before, and has sold her last husband's property in order to clothe and deck her cully appro priately, as became him who was joining himself to such a lady, so old, and yet so young in inclination. She is only seventy-eight, and he is not above half that age. They returned upon the coach from Glasgow on Wednesday night, and when taking her in his arms from the coach, he exclaimed, " What a lump of joy hare I got !' How long she may enjoy her eighth husband, is a tale that no ma❑ can tell.—She is ►mirky, ticklish, and happy ; and he a jolly and free companion.— Ghtsgow Free Press. LETITIA MILLS, of Charlton, sister to Mr. MILLS, of Aldborough, on Sunday last maiiie some dump lings, and seeing a cup with flour in it on the shelf put in Its contents. The flour in the cup was mixed with some arsenic, for the purpose of poisoning mice. The conse quences are painful to relate : i❑ spite of all medical aid, she died the same night in the most excruciating agony ; and Mr. HEARN, with whom she lived, partook of the deadly food, and expired on Monday last. We hope this fatal occurrence will operate as a warning to all to keep poison in safer places...-Sujjblk Chronicle..