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is nothing more or less than -the Catholic People, with the Gentry, the Priesthood, and the intellect of the body at their head. Was such an institution (if it can be so called) u crime ? But let us see what it has done and said, for is its doings or in its sayings its - violence must needs consist. Filet, with regard to measures—Mr. O'Cotinell (for to , him the praise of that bold enterprise is du) insh tiat - te ted the Catholic Rent. Will any m an y t we were not justified in applying our own money (tor the money was our own) to our own political ,con eerae ? It is said that we imposed a tax upon the people--No; the people imposeda tax upon them selves : end the gen erous promptitude , or, rather , . the enthusiastic emulation with which they vied in making their humble contributions to the national Treasury, e vinced the profound interest which they felt in the measure to which it is alleged they were indiffereet. And how was the public money .used by the Trustees in whose hands it was vested ? Was it applied for the purposes of turbulence and of riot? Vac it used in instigating the people to insubordina tion ? Were arms and a mmunition purchased, after the manner in which the Orange Rent is applied ? No, Sir ; it was laid out in the protection of the lower orders from tyrannical Magistrates, in bring ing rustic despots to justice, and in saving the bold and undaunted peasantry from the ignoble vengeanee of their proud and infuriate d landlords. The public accounts of the Association are open to everybody's inspection ; a registry is kept of the expenditure of every - groat of the precious fund, and I defy any man to place his finger on a single item in which either corruption or practical sedition can be detected. 'I he next charge. against us is, that We instructed the people to rise, in elective insurrection, against their proprietors, and that we have hurried the Beresfords from Waterford, a Cabinet Minister from Clare, and three Orangemen from Westmeath and Monaghan and Louth. The charge against us is, that we told the peasantry that the franchise in their hands would by its proper exercise; achieve the liberty of Ireland; and I have no doubt, that if we keep down the public passions, and prevent a physical collision, we shall, with that great engine, batter the bulwarks of intoleraece. Let them rail at us as they will, are will show them at the next election ,of what mettle we are made ; we Will fight them, but the hustings shall be the scene of our victory; and (if I may so say) we shall conquer them by dint of peace—and who will tell me that we were not justified in this great and unexampled achievement ? Who will say we violated a single rule of law, or one principle of the Constitution And, next, how did we deal with this omnipotence over the counties of - Ireland ? Whom did we select ? Were they men of no worth, Moral or political, and who reflect discredit upon us? Look here—look at the honestupright representa tive of Louth, who sits at the moment among you, and say if, in putting a man into Parliament who won the reason of all his hearers by the simple perfection of his eloquent common sense, ‘ye have committed any very signal o ff e nce ? Or shall Ibe told, that in electing Mr. O'Connell as a substitute for . Mr. Vesey Fitz gerald, we were guilty of a high misdemeanour against the Constitution.? 4 , , we bear no per sonal to Mr. Fitzgerald, but WO conceived that it was necessary to show his associates in,offiee some evidence - of the deep and Organized determination of the people; and therefore we dismissed hint from, his seat, and we sent him, if not into Parlia ment, at least to its doors, that he might kOock totlly_ there—a man who in hiMself exemplifies, and embodies and presents, in a palpable form, the wrongs which are sustained by his country. But it is insisted that our language has been violent told 41- temperate. Words with us are things ; and in the absence of seditious actions, hasty phrases and over Ardent expressions are laid hold of, and pressed as grounds of ithputation against us. I will not deny that there have been instances in which oar feelings have been allowed to break out in ebullitions of vehemence—l will not deny that, in the heat of passion, our feelings have boiled occasionally over, nod that our language has not been as felicitously ee,asared as it were desirable that it should have been. - But give me leave to ask you whether, when we have been thus betrayed into the use of strenuous diction, and have turned our hearts into woras, whether we had no wrongs to complain of; and if we had, will you, not make allowance for any unhappy - intemperaace of expression ? An Athenian citizen one day entered the study of a celebrated advocate—elle seemed to be calm and un moved. " What is your 'Concern with me ?" said the orator. " I come to employ you as my Coun sel. I was struck in the public way by my enemy, and I seek redress." "I do not believe you," said the Advocate. "Not believe me ! Why, I tell you," cried the client, ".that my enemy met me in the public way, threw me to t h e earth, smote and t r ampled upon me." " Bold, hold," exclaimed De- enosthenes, " your eye is on fire, your lip begins to quiver, you speak like a man who had sustained u wrong." (Loud and continued cheers.) And are we to speak like men who have sustained no wrong ? Do you ask me what the wronF is that we have sus. rained ? Shall I answer you en a soft and well-modu lated intonation, and with a graceful cadence of body, and a gentleness and suavity of aspect—" In good', goad .griglishmen, we are in a disagreeable condition in Ireland. It is rather unpleasant to see Roman Catholics murdered, and their assassins tried and acqoitted by their °ranee confederates.' • We don't quite like the way in which justice is administered, for the Judges are ail Protestant, and the Crown Counsel are all Protestant, and the Jurors are all Protest Ant ; neither do we find it very delectable to see all the important odicee in the State, and ell pieces of emolument and distinction occupied by a small body of men : and, though we have been long used to be treated as inferiors, yet the treatmeot which we expe rience from our Protestant bettere is not the most ami able that can be conceived." Well, if we s-ddressed you thus, what would y ou „y ? I tell you what yoo would EgtYT—what Lord Grenville Mice said (and I,3orke has quoted the passa ge in his_ roetters to Doc tor Laurence) —that the. humble tone of the Catho lics skewe d that theyliad no real grievance to coot who, in de plain of. But have we no real g r i sva „, , . e to comp l a i n of ? I will tell .you whet we have to complain of, and - 1 will tell you as it befits a man, not to use the language mending his liberty, .ought you 'that it .is monstrous, anti o a slave. f .I tell minority should h ave scarc ely endurable, that a small _ a all the power, the infltteoe, the patronage Church, a th e St a te, of the Army, of the Law, n ref the condensed and concentrated in one mass of enormous monopoly. I tell you that it, is a disgrace to your syttent that seven millions of the people should be trampled on by a few hundred thou" — I d l ot i estr t t e s . . and I tell you that they are so trod tien do wt —I you that we are ground to t he earth- by protes_tant ce sses,.and Protestant vegtries, and Protest ant fitile=', and all the multifarious shapes which a baneful As,- vendancy assumes. I tell you that a Catholic in a party ease has no chance before tin Orange Jury ; and if it be detestable in other countries that justice should be sold; it is not the less infamous that our Jar ) , boxes should be the seats of ferocious and hie execrable pas s i on ; and that( would rather ba tried by a varice and rapacity than by faction and intolerance. I tell you that a Catholic in the North of Ireland may be murdered with impunity, and I tell you, that, in _ dependently of all the specific instances of wrong, a genera l system of opprobrium and of oppression pre vails; and that in the ordinary business of life, in the camelee r intercourse of society, every Roman disgr ace d, an d s purned, and Catholic feels himself branded. Away with the allegation , that it is a q uestion of borough s and of :silk gowns, an d of seats for lawyers in the Courts, and for gentl iemen in the House 'of Conimons. It is a question whether common justice shall be done in our public tribunals, whether Orangemen shall mu rder Catholi cs w i t h impunity, whether blood shall lie shed in th e cora tram day without retribution, and the whole - bady of the people shall be trodden down and trampled upon, and 500,00 Q men shall keep their feet upon the -necks .of seven millions?, ; (Lend clie,:rs.) That is the question. Thoais are our WrOngs ; i91(1 let me ask you , whether , wit h such wrongs, nut while .our hearts, are bursting in our bosouis at there en d uran ce, you expect that WS ghouls s p s in sof and mellifluous phrases—and that, instead of heaving upon the rack on which she is stretched, Ireland should breathe her complaints in gentle murmurings, and that her petitions should as soft as her na tional • music, to which every :Spinster in your drawing-rooms lends the enchantment of her dulcet intonations ? No, Sir; the groans ofa people are not to be turned into a. set of Parliamentary Melodies; and in demanding redress, we do but follow the promptings of human nature, by putting before you the full ex tent of Wrong ; and see after what fashion, and with what bearing our Irish antagonists demean them selves, and then consider whether it be very wonder ful that we should break out into the exuberance of indignant expression. Have you, who marvel at what is designated as our violence, ever reflected upon the language which is employed in our regard ? Have you read the s peeches delivered in Orange .oraies, in which the massacre of a whole nation is proposed as a thesis for discus,ion—in which the canons" of aSsassinatiOu are propounded, and the ethics of murder are deliberately laid down ? Do I exaggerate s ? You think, perhaps, that Ido so; but hear my evidence. At a public dinner, "a man ,with a hoary head, and with a hand from which the ocean would not wash " the damned spot," lifted up that hand, clotted as it is with gore, en 1, amidst an as ' sembly of Christians—aye, before the Ministers of religion—declared that torrents of blood must be sites!. (Loud cheers, some here called out " Beres ford ! Beresford !") But why do I talk of him who presided over the tortures of 1798, who stood sen tinel at the triangle, and in all the lust of cruelty wantoned over the tortures •of his victims, and re freshed himself with their groans ? Why should I wonder that, taking a retrospect of his former enjoy ment s, he should at once indulge in the pleasures of me mory and hi those of hope, and derive from his bloody reculleution a sanguinary wish for the renovation of those views of horror, and the re-enactment of that spectacle of blood ? I do not marvel that such men, like empty tigers, who had once been deeply gorged, should, after a it Ts fa=t, ho'?! at the bars of their cage, and long thet tile hecrr , should let them loose to their bloody meal again. But there are ethers far more guilty; and these are the Priests of Orangeiant, who, in the midst of their sacerdotal • revels, have openly avowed that the massacre of the Irish people is a consummation for Which they offer up their devout and enthusiastic orisons. English men, have-you read the speeches of these men, - and, above all, have you read the denunciations of the Rev. Mr. Homer, whO has declared that the alter native of Hell or Connaught should not be left. to seven millions of the Irish people? And who are these men ? Are they the lacerators of 1798 ? Are ' they the men who, placing pitch caps upon the bends of the peasantry, set them on fire, and inventing a' new species of illumination, turned out their vic tim's, with blazing .. heads, before them ? • Oh, no; these are the Ministers of the Gospel; these men are the teachers or a mild, and gentle, nod commiserating religion. The Ministers of Christ ? Oh no!—not of Christ—not of him whose com ing was announced in the hymn 4 of peace, to shep herds abiding in the mountains, and whose last words were an adjuration for mercy, founded on the frailty of mankind•-•-not of Christ, but of Moloch, the sanguinary tiend'who was worshipped in the bar barous idolatry of Pheenicia—who . was fed with human sacrificeS,and nurtured With the blood of in fants, should these detestable sacrilegious priests be the accursed and becoming s ministers.—(Loud . eheers.)—Englishmen, I have told you what is the provocation given to us; and although I do not wish to defend all that has ever been done or uttered be momenta of excitation in our own body, I appeal to your own knowledge of human nature, and I ask whether—however you may blame us for impru dence—you will not be disposed to make allowance for the errors into which, under peculiar provocas tion, we may be unhappily betrayed ? I have, per haps, dwelt too long upon this charge of violence,. acrd yet it is one upon which it is right that the public should be disabused; and therefore I will venture, in speaking upon this head, to press another consi• duration upon you. It is much more reasonable to judge of men by their actions than by their words; and having already pointed out what may be conai dered as the violent measures of the Catholic leaders, let me direct your attention to proceedings of a very different character. Have we not uniformly endeavoured to repress outrage and in surrection in . lreland ? . Has not Mr. O'Connell re coneiled the factious of Tipperary, and done more than justice, after brandishing her drawn sword for years of ineffectual terrorism, could accompli4t ? Did we not, in a recent instance, anticipate the Govern-,' mem, and disperse the immense multitudes who were" gathered in Tipperary ? Look at the last as - siaes-of Ireland, the scaffold was almost unstained with blood. Look at the general habits of the people—drunkennees is a crime against the Associa tion, and the people have become almost miracti lously sober. And yet we are called the instigators of atrocity, the fermenters of outrage, and the pa trons of conflagration. There is, also, a portion of our conduct which', perhaps, ought to be adverted to with some degree of self-reproach, but s.rhich . eer-• tainly clears ut from the charge of. entertaining re volutiontity speculations. In truth we have, when ever the least intimation bus come from the Legis latura-of a disposition to adjust the enestion upon terms, manifested too much alacrity in their ado"), Owl; witness the cession of the forty-shilling free holders, -I mention this topic with a double view ; first, us evidence, at all events, that we are not. very practically intemperate; and, s econdly, in order to_ state that we are aware of the mietake which we made, and that rather than accept of Emancipas tion op such conditions, we deem it less dise" honourable that -the whole Penal Code should be re-enacted again. But, while I thus acknowledge our misconception in that instance, hear, at least, what may be urged in our vindication. The truth is, that we did not know the public virtue of the peasantry of Ireland ; we did not believe that they were possessed of that nobleness of heart, and. that lofty and martyr-like intrepidity, by which they astonished not only the people of this country, but those who bad contributed to produce those qualities amongst them, to ennoble their moral nature, and make them worthy of the privilege which they have thus gloriously employed. But while you condemn us for our erronows appreciation of the people, I pray you at the same time tp tlo us this justice. If they are brave, if they. are determined, if this village I,lacripder r iam--(cheers)—has sprung up in tha midst of hovels, let Inc ask who are the men who have. made the people whet they are ? A few years ago they were driven like domestic swine to the hustings, and now th e y turn like lions upon the hunter—, few years ago they Wer t : ::iris, transferred with the soil of Which they forma part, and now they are the equals of their masters in spirit, arid ;heir superiors in public virtue. How has this change been effected? The Catholic .Association. has accomplished this marvellous alteration in the habitS, of the people, alai revolutionised their eharac repeat it, and maize a vaunt of it. ......outbyde,mtgtogilg.pa‘lettdipoe.umroipnitll:mmatury language, and ter', ii r e — ' : a y e and our seditious pH! , li slits, ii,wo)se spirit the nation, and made-it (pipa bl e of OW e a o • ii .thingsi)ve ever it 4a,-; 4 ccom- P au lilli.€4llo?tia g tr::'.daj f,i 4:a o tt i: r r i d l';l l .le ic r a 4 t l i le e s 4a 7 l . : W t e e 9 l , l i ef f l i tl fy c eua a n tt r i llll l4 :(l * mass of the o w ur as se i a to l, t the Association andf e fearl ess inde fatigableeoasf sl C et ia e t r .e nt e, i x n ie) a ur t t i o i4) n n the great furnace national mind .was heated Intensity,, and th en great .. lal . Prea4' lo N l which in which the whole made susgeptible of. the • Lualialunen, do us j ee . hive been strugh gpon it • la for tire, do justice to Daniel O'C o nnell, and remember that while you irdemn ljinn aSMarries esti mate of the peopte, wa s he whov is . •hich hiss in strumeatal in generating thg noble fe elin g arisen, and in teaching the IriSh peasant wi knowledge of his rights a eerrespe tt ding aenki •rsn t tion to aesert them. I saki t h at - I had conic ove l ti 10 4 to te here to plead the cause of my country, vat that of which others have not informed you. — 'Englishmen, whatever faults the Association may have committed, be surf Qr this ? that they have changed, and, let me so call it, Anglified the genius of the people. The Irish peasant is every day, under our tuition, acquiring yOur own habits • of English independence. Wakefield, the English traveller, gives an instance of the manner in which the lower orders were formerly treated; he says, that at a race course he saw a gentleman, whose horse was acci dentally touched by a peasant, lay open his cheek with his whip ; and on asking the slave how he could bear it ? the slave replied," Sure his Honour is a Justice of Peace."—(Cheers.) -- If st l 'ci o l ks in tihne cident were now to happen, and a gentleman smote a peasant, it might cost him - his life. The bearing, the whole aspect of the people are altered, and a wretch clad in rags, and without etiorigh of earth to cover him if he were dead, and to lie down upon in sleep, looks his landlord in the face, and beholds in him his fellow-man.—Generous, intrepid, and fiue hearted people ! what might ye not be made of, if England would only do ye justice, and raise ye to a level with herself !—Sir, 1 have thus honestly ac knowledged the mistake which we committed; but I have also passed upon you the counterbalancing consideration, ,which you ought not to throw out of the scale, and dismiss from your reward. It was the Catholic Association, I repeat it, that achieved the wonders (for they deserve the name) which were ac complished at the late elections ; and it is most er roneous to imagine that it it; to the priesthood and their intimidations that those events should be re ferred. The Priests did certainly interfere as citi zens, but who imparted that spirit of citizenship to them ? If the lamp of patriotism burned bright upon the altar, it was at the torch which we waved that the fire was lighted up. Nor did the Clergy appeal to the people upon the ground of - religious duty so much as upon that of pollrical right. I speak in the presence of the Member for Louth, and he will tell you that during his election the voice of 'controvery was lost in the shout of patriotisM—and in the cause of Ireland, that of Rome was forgotten. The Priests addressed the people .as Irish Men, and net as Catholics, and - put their title to re dress upon the broad principle of religious li berty throughout the world. We saw Priests indeed at every window and at every corner; but what did they say ?, They cried out " Vote for Ireland ;" and, thank God, their invocation was obeyed. Sir, I avail myself of this opportunity to tell you a little more about the Irish Priesthood than you generally know. In the first place, these Ministers of a slavish religion are advocates-of reform to a man. —(Cheers.)—Maynooth, so far from being a nursery of despotism, is an academy of re publicans. Dr. Doyle has announced that the Irish Priest cOnsults Locke upon Government, and not Bellarmine upon Passive Obedience. A brace of old doctors of Sorbonne, La Hogue and d'Anglade, who are teachers at Maynooth, attempted to put the Democratic Bishop . down ; bat the Irish Clergy laughed these Gallic Professors of servility to scorn. Such is the Irish Priesthood. What is the - Irish People ? You think them PrieSt-ridden. I won't deny that the Priest has influence—why should he not ? How does he obtain it ? . He lives with the people—he consorts.with them—he is their teacher in religion—their Consoler in sorrow--their mild and paternal friend. They depend on him for instruc non, for comfort, for hope; and he depends on them (and it is an honourable reciprocity) for his livelihood. The bread which he breaks is eaten in the remem brance of the poor. A knock is in the: dead of the winter's night at the door of his humble habitation—he is told that one of his parishioners is on the.point of death, and implores his assistance. The storm howls about hint—the Wind and sleet beat against his face —yet he goes forth, hurries to the hovel Of the. ex piring wretch, and taking his station at the bed of pestilential straw, bends to receive the broken whis per in which the heart unloads itself of its guilt, though the lips of the sinner should be tainted with disease, and he should exhale mortality in his breath. (Loud cheers.) Shall I then. soy that such a man has no influence With the people ? God forbid that I should—but it is not front superstition that his in fluence is derived. - It is not from fanaticism, but from deep and thrilling thankfulness ; and as long as there are gratitude or affection in the breast of an Irish peasant, never let an influence derived from such sources ,pass away. Oh I the Parsons are welcome to become their rivals if they please, if offices of charity and of benevolence are to be the instruments of their competition. But do not im agine that the reverence for the sacerdotal character is so profound that where a Priest violates his public duty the people are dispoied to obey him. Take the case of a Priest in the county of Clare, who etts erted... himself for Mr. Fitzgerald. This gentleman was not an agricultural priest, born in the house' of a farmer; but a culinary priest, brought up in the kitchen of Sir Augustine Fitzgerald. • lie became parish priest ; he . called on the people to vote, for. Fitzgerald, and, priest as he was, .his parishioners spurned at his - injunctions, and left his altar with execretiom and .contempt. if it be said that this person does not afford a fair instance, I will • appeal to otherfacts. When the priests endeavoured to repress the Captain Rock confederacies, the people actually threatened them with death. Very recently the clergy implored the peasantry to desist from holding their meetingi in Tipperary, and the peasantry intimated to them that it was not their concern. . The conclusion to which you ought to arrive, from all the facts, is thi's,—that the priest is powerful, in impulse, but ineffectual in resistance; that lie, is an accelerator, but cannot be ii drag--a spur, but not a curb—omnipotent to lead, but im potent to, beat back. When the priest cries " charge r - the people will rush on ;• when the priest eries.,‘ halt !" they will not be staid in their career. (Cheers.) I have thought it right to say thus much with respect to a subject on which so much apprehension prevails.. There rue many other topics on which it were well if you could be disabused; but this is.not . the proper occasion for such expatia tions. It is enough to tell you, that the feelings of the Irish Catholics have been greatly misrepresented in many particulars. It is said, for example, that they are hostile to reform.. That is utterly wale ; hut the Catholic Question is of so engrossing a nature, that it monopolises the Whole mind and all the passions of the people. It is also alleged that the Irish Catholics are enemies to English connexion;a.ud desire a separation. This is a gross and infamous calumny. If England would only give Ireland leave, she would he her devoted and enthusiastic adherent; and I trust that England will perceive, at last, how much her own interest as well as her own honour is con cerned in the great work of conciliation ; and that she will, by becoming the. benefactress. of Ireland, confer a blessing upon herself. What will that great man (for .to deny his greatness were idle) per form towards that country to avhich he owes his victories as well as his birth.? It is strange _that he should leave his policy with respect to Ireland as Matter of tonjecture, and convert emancipation into a problem. Is this a - time for a procrastination of justice—is this the time in which tranquillity should be delayed ? What ! with France in possession of the Morea,,and while the Russian eagle, perched on the towers of Varna, prepares its flight for the spires of Conatantioople—is this the time to infuriate the passions of Ireland, and to drive seven millions of people mad.--( Cheers,) —Oh! shame, shame! Eng land has brooked insult upon insult. She has" borne with contumelies that are enough to stir the bones of Chatham in his grave ; and with Russ i a mocking at her upon-one side, with France deriding and svolThig her on the other—with that Regal varlet, Don. gild voiding his rheum in her face—her only woos lation is to trample upon her unfortunate province , It is in this honourable occupation that her dignity, and her grandeur, and her glory, are to be made mani • fest: .for 01 the proyoeation which she receives sh e retaliates in oar oppression; ror4 for every botia given her by Europe upon the . cheek, 811 n Ireland's neck. (Loud cheers.) And We are "N told, for so oth, th4t seven millions of people are t o he trodden to the earth because certain ui 'mike fierc e an d fi ery , speeches, and Epgli e s ll 4 .g te?'are not to be bullied. Oh, no; they are a prom! people, Proud ! They are bullied by Russia—they are bul lied by France —they are bullied (prop pu4or by V d itu al i but they are not to be Willed by Ireland, `~ ~ (Cheers.) Is not this the part of some domestic tyrant, who, after being insulted , in the public way,. and bearing every opprobrium like abase and worth less coward, returns to his house, and, in order to chew his valour, beats some feeble and unoffeuding dependent, and plays the despot at home ? (Loud cheers.) But what - am I dumg ? Do 1 mean to - tell you that all Englishmen feel and act thus? Oh, my friends (for such I have a rigkt to call you), do not mistake me. do not confound you with the faction that deals tips hardly with my country. I well know that you feel almost as much indignation as I do myself at the manner in which.we ate treated; and I further know that all .the intelligence, all the worth, and all the generosity and lofty-minded ness of England are on our side. The feelings that are manifested in this Assembly are diffused through an immense mass of the population 'of this coun try, and you represent a vast body of your fellow citizens. I should have done--and yet one word— my heart would be heavy with the weight of thank fulness, if I did not tell you a second time how grate ful I ant to you. On behalf of Ireland—of warm, impassioned, devoted, and enthusiastic Ireland — 'from the bottom of my heart, from my heart's core, I thank you. I shall go back to my country, and when I shall hear men speak of the cruel &Shinn in which Ireland was del& with on a recent occasion —I shall exclaim, " Oh, do not think that all Eng lishmen are thus ;" and I shall tell them with what kindness, with what indulgence, with what sympa thy, you acted on account of my country in my re gard. I shall tell them all the eireumstanceA of ho nour and of kindness which were assembled at this meeting; and singling out that incident—which, I confess, does, above all others, awaken,my gratitude and pride—l shall tell them that you, Sir, who are generally accounted the leader of the Dissenters, with half a century of public service upon your head, came here to testify that the body- of which you are the ornament; after their own manumission, did not, as has been falsely insinuated, make the first use of those hands from which the manacles were struck off to rivet the fetters of their former fellows in im prisonment; but that they are ready to life up their own liberated arms in supplication in our behalf. (Mr. Shell sat down amidst lOud and continued cheering and waving of hamMerchiefs, in which the wadies in the gallery joined. The applause was the most enthusiastic we ever heard, and lasted many minutes.) After the applause had subsided, Mr. SHslL•proposed the health of the Chairman. The CHAIRMAN briefly returned ald said that 'after the splendid address thky had be would not delay them; but would proceed N1;411 the business of the evening. He then gave." Mr. A. Dawson, the member for Louth, and the Catho- Tics of Ireland, and may they go on in peace and tranquillity, leaving to Orangemen and Brunswickers the entire monopoly of the persecution and violence." The Hon. Gent., before the toast was put to the meeting, called its attention to the following docu ment (copies of which were circulated through the room), and contrasted the sentiments expressed therein by the " head of the Brunswick family'," with the intolerant principles of those who most falsely . assumed that name as a cloak for their intolerance. )‘• • N, NA. N„ _4. lion, have asctibed the majority to tltr :• ErNis wiekers, when it was clear, at least he thought so, and he had some experience of public meetings, (hear, and a laugh); that out of the 25 or 30,000 persona present, thetruns*ickers did not amount to more thah 8,000 or 10,000. 'He. did not blame the reporters, many of whom he knew and re spected, but it was stran g e that they should have agreed in mis-stating, the f act ; but he supposed that from the position in which they were, they saw only the crowd of Brunswickers (who were all kept to gether), and who might thus have appeared the majority to those who had not an opportunity of looking over the whole meeting. One thing, how ever, was certain, that a few more such triumphs would completely ruin the Brunswick party ; and, indeed, they seemed to feel this, for no attentpt had since been' made to call a similar meeting in any other county. He should like to see his friend. Sir Thomas Lethbridge get up such a meeting in_So rnersetshire. (A laugh) He (Mr. Hunt) hud' iie doubt, that if that happened, he should be able to give a good account of the Hon. Baronet. (A laugh.) He pledged himself that he would defeat him on his own ground. Mr. Hunt, after some further remarks,' was proceeding, but the meeting got impatient, and he sat down. The. CuatttataN next geVe—" Trial by Jury, founded by Catholic Alfred, and applied by the im mortal Fox to the liberty of the press, and thereby to the security of the liberties of the country." 'This toast was drank with loud applause. The CHAIRMAN next gave, after alluding ; in complimentary tone to the " Pleasures of Hope," the health of Mr. Campbell. (Drank with much cheering.) • Mr. CAMPBELL briefly returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN next gave the " Health of Da niel O'Connell and Ireland, not as she is, but its she ought to be." This cour=t was drank with loud and continued cheers, folloWed by loud calls fur Mr. 'Sheil. Mr. SIIEIL again piesented himself, and said, that . after'the length of time in which he had already oc cupied their attention, and after hivAilig pointed out the merits of his friend Mr.' O'Connell, it could not . be expected that he would now enter into any ex : - putiatory encomium on hiM. lie was of all men the most deserving .of his country's thanks, for the spirit whieh hadteen stirred up amongst her people. The epitaph on the tomb of the great Italian poet was considered one of the highest praise, though it consisted of the ,single word " Taski." Long might the day be distant when any epitaph should be necessary for his excellent friehd O'Connell; but when it did come, it would net be necessary to mark Oil his tomb more than the name " Daniel O'Connell;" that would be quite sufficient. — (Loud cheers.) • Xhe Chairman having left the roomier a short time, his health was again drank by the meeting. On his return, he again offered his thanks; and after an eulogy on the great " progress made by the Newspaper Press, in its power of instruction and in- formation, concluded by giving " The liberty of the press." This was drank with applause. After some few remarks . frinu Mr. C.'Pearson, which were not attended'to, or 'iat least were not heard by more than a few near 'The CHAIRMAN,* half-past eleven, accompanied by Mr. Sheil and several other gentlemen, retired froin the room. Mr. Hunt was then called to the Chair;but we did not wait to see the result. • A number of eVellent songs were sung in the course of the evening, by Messrs. Broadhurst, Bel lamy, Webb, &e. ; and Mr. Murphy sung, with much effect, tha following, which, it will be siten, was pro duced for the occasion : SONG FOR .THE DINNER TO MR: SHIM, NO UMBER 3. Tnxn—" 0 the,liswit Beef of Ohi England." 'When Freedom descended the .nations to bless, On Britain she tix'il as a sure resting place, And, glancing around her, vans heard to coa t *, There was no spot on earth like old Ireland, • . • The Emerald gem of tli.e.sca. 'Tis the land of the patriot, tLe fair, and'tbe brave, 'Tie lice to the freemen, but death to the ,lave, Fur no venom'il reptile but there tiuds a grave : It ever was so in old Irelane, Old Ireland the gem of the W.I. But the demon of Discori his standard uprears, In a Bruuswicker's form see the foul fiend appears, And scattering around desolation and tears, Threatens woe and destruction to Ireland, The Emerald gem of the sea. But let Eldon and Kenyan hepuzele their brain, And as placemen lament in right loyal strain ; They may 'say with the song--" I lam-tat me in vain,' For freedom will dawn on old Ireland, Old lieland the gem of the sea. A Stratford may Limner, a Newcastle scrawl, Little go-between Bexley may drivel and drawl, ('Tis some praise in lordlings to scribble at all), But what will this do for old Ireland, The Emerald gem of the sea? A Winchelsea, too, may anise in Lis might, And endeavour to prove that the wrong iS the right, Aud Wells " to the knees" may wax "bloody" in tight, And all to keep down little Ireland, The Emerald gem of the see. Away with such bigots! their efforts are vain, I've said so before, and I say so again The fetters of bondage are bursting iu twain, Which so long have encircled poor Ireland, The Emerald gent of the see. The minds of O'Connell, O'Gorman, and Shell, The pure light of liberty soon shall reveal; It was seen first in Clare ; o'er the 'nation 'twill steal, And shed its bright beams over Ireland, The Emerald gam of the sea: • • Then here's to the Patriot, the friend of his kind, Who now honours our board, and in whom are epin biti'd Wit, eloquence, all that ennoble the mind, And renderii him dear to old Ireland, The Emerald gem of the sea. " PROCLAMATION. " George IV.; by the Grace of God, King of Hanover. " having conte to our knowledge that soma. doubts are' entertained respecting the interpretation and applica tion of the first paragraph of the 16th article of the Act of the German Confederation of the Bth of June, 1815, which is to the'following effect The difference of the Christian religious communities cannot lead to any dif erence in the enj.)7ment of civil and political rights, in the countries composing the Germanic tonfederat:Ja ;' we ate induced to issue the following declaration and or dinanee. . " The several professors of the Christian faith enjoy a perfect equality of civil and political rights in the king dom ; and, in conformity with the said article, the no tion of a predominant and of a merely tolerated church is entirely abolished. " All Christian religious communities bay* a right to the unobstructed and free exercise of their religious wor ship, and every clergyman can require the surpliees, &c., only from the parishioners of his own persuasion. Con sequently, " Those inhabitants who belong to a different Christian persuasion from that of the parish, are to pay the fees, &e. only to the clergyman of their persuasion to whose parish they are positiVelv annexed. Fees can be required by a clergyman of a different persuasion, when 'be has been required to petit= 'an official duty, and has really performed it. " On the other hand, all dues to churches old schools, which Proceed from houses, farina, and other landed pro perty in a pariah, without regard Id the personal qualifi cations of the professor in respect to his religious belief, are still to be paid to those to them by every pos sessor, even if he belong.to a Christian party different from that of the parish. " Hanover, Dec. IS, 1824." Mr. „A. DAWSON' in returning thanks, observed that the Catholics, in supporting the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, acted without any•re ference to what might be its influence on the ques tion of emancipation, but on the broad principle . of religious liberty. Ile went ou to say that the Roman Catholic 4 were to a man friendly to reform, and added, that if the system of voting by ballot were adopted, it would have the best effect on the 40s. freeholders, as it would protect them against the persecution of their landlords. In.conclusion he ob served, that the present meeting afforded a much better specimen of the sense of the people of Eng land than that which was held on Venenden-haath. Mr. Webb was now called upon to sing, and gave the " Sprig of • Shilelah" in admirable style. The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of the " Bishop orNorwich," the venerable prelate, who at all times and under all temptations had proved him self the steady and undeviating, friend of civil and religious liberty. The toast was drank with loud applause. Mr. WILLIAMS nett claimed the attention of the meeting, - and after some slight interruption, pro ceeded to say, that he stood there as an English man to redeem the pledge which he had given some fourteen days ago in the Catholic Association in Dublin, to speak of the Catholics of Ireland as he had found them. He then went on to say, he had mixed amongst them, and he could state that k had found them much more liberal than the Pro testants. He then proceeded to say, that the ilia abilities under which the Catholics laboured by the penal code, were practically felt in all classes. The Protestant noblemen and gentlemen felt themselves, or affected to feel, that they were superior to the Catholics of the same rank, but much of the acer bity which that feeling tended to generate was qua lified -by the polite intercourse which subsisted be tween them. With the Catholic peasantry, how ever, this qualification did not exist ; for their rro testarit felloW-labourer assumed all the airs of a superior without - in any degree mitigating the aspe rity of the assumption by any of the civilities of polished life. Mr. H. HUNT next addressed the Meeting, and was received -with a mixture of applause and disap probation. The cries of " Off, off " (('tough • not from the majority in the room) prevented his being beard fur - a time. The CHAIRMAN begged the Meeting to bear him, and regretted that a few should I::ive the post er to disturb the order of the meeting by opposition to the hearing of any man, Mr. HuNT then proceeded. He said that he had not expected any opposition at that meeting. He had d b b e y e i4 gross'; frie abusedfriend r; Lawless.in some He ee denied,l h ptgaipaciai 09tifvue his t life, publicly ps i u i e eb, iactdityi the or Catholics. the rt outitei privately, meeting, or at any period a l it i l e aT a ty dm th i i t i ; g ed those claims to be founded in justice, but he thought they had little, chance of success until a reform was curried iii . htfli4meat, of which at present he had not much hope. Otie effect of Emancipation would, he thought ; be, that the Irish Catholic aristocracy would be found !Osid,e”)witTbhGlisow a s:es his against reform. (Cries of No is opinion, and he stated it can didly, though it it did not amount in his - opinion to an objection to Pnancipation, lie then referred to - the late meeting at Penenden Heuth, arid expressed his surprise that 04 press should, almost without excep- SONETTO. ON THE OCCASION OF cArF. cEoRGE CANNING' S DEATH, THE ELDEST SON OF THE EIGHT HON. GEO. CANNING. Al Britanno, all Europa, al mondo intero, Di Legal Liberty rah, Canipione llorte invol6, morte the al giusto e al vero Coal guerra diehiara, e al genio impone. Rise it Bigotto, c it itioto fa.to altero , Dal sun Canning . partendo, a d'Albione Alle I.erdite rise coipio Straniero ; Ma d'Atropo it deeio virtude oppoue. E se Morte a eompir rue ree couquiste Del gran Canning it figlio ova easa amide, SinthE l'orbe ama it ver, Clouting esiste. Canning morl, ma suo gra n geuio impera : II dentin() d'Europa two:, decide, L'adorit it saggio, Astrea l'incensa, a spera. C. F. R. We are informed that the Earl of vEN NY did not attend any of the Kent Meetings, authorize or direct his tenants to attend.— Tifs e4l. There is at present a 'Hydrangea in 0 5 0: of G. SA Esq. at Dunowen, which trusolair ( .110 in circumference, 7 feet high, and had on its td• flowers last season.— Cork Constituliom. GAME lii LERDS.—Yesterday a t~ a ' eight partridges alighted in High-street, st. t own , several of which were taken by the j o " . Leeds Ilfercuiy. . ORANGE INSTITUTION o (-I EA tate r i l l TAIN AND IaILLA:4I3.—We ale authorised to communication has been received froM his 1614 gt 6 the Duke of Cuanntar...arro, that he has bt' e ',. pleased to accept the Office of Grand Master Institution. For the notification of thia and ot, connected with the Association, a General 011.19 held in Dublin, on the bth November, oo wh Members of the Grand Lodge dine together."' Evening Mail. • • •11 AbOUt a fortnight ago, the Lond °l3 ,6 contained an account of a young lady having- d,;ir'4ll, her horite, with a poison in the situation o f a /I 800 Kd . SUPPLIED THROUGHOUT THE vent of a performer at the Opera. The pal tietb Kitionom.—To furnish regular Suppli ed o f th e int- sequently trxeil to this town, and on Thursdsln portant and interesting New Publieatioes, British and man came down in pursuit, arid with the w.fill i 4 Y Foreign, is the first object b of the New l'uaLic SOB- Owitx, first tracod them to •a lodging-ltause dt No. 26, Holler -street, CaYendish- row, and from thence to another on the Ca -5 ' 1 46 0 'ilialto'rtdßeTr'to diminish the expense of a Country they were, on Friday morning, discovered. .4, i l ti ta t ltr s rr e e r l ip ° t Na i r o l' i ii ., incurred by the charg e f or carriage, eke. t.nela lady (who is under age) folio 1.1 0 1 . 0 0 0 new Regulations are now for the first time adopted, that husband, and conveyed to London, by titu f b , Subscribers in any part of the Kingdom can receite what- leaving the pent/man, who is a iipac,iard, to, tf t ever quantity of books they may d es i re , and theltutal es- reavomeut as well as be might. He was at nt o'o pease will not exceed that of a T o wn SubscriptiOn.--:.Fur to be very violent, bitt a - hint at the Aliial Jt Catalogues, Terms, 6tc, apply to E. Bum., Li'oktrian' as . &iced him to submhsiou.—.llamplare has the Alien Act to do with su'elopeisetit ?) rol above* TRANSLATION. To England, Europe, and a mourning woad, Sad day was that when Freedom's ehampion . died: 'Gainst truth and right Death their defiant* hurl% And trampled genius with contemptuous pride. Then Bigotry, and unsupported birth, And Foreign despots, made the welkin wide Ring with the echo of their hellish mirth : But sovereign virtue yields not to their hate; And, though thy eon, groat Canning ! to the earth Unwarned was hurried by the hand of Fate,.... Thy soul and truth our cynosure shall be : Dead, thou shalt speak, and , listenin g to that voioe, Europe just r m owe hope ever and rej nice.e_to thee, i ~_ l t ~ , ; THE CUMBERLO-BRUNSWICK• ~ (From the qVretee.)e • b a re The First Cemberio-Brunawicle Meeting which'' to , or to announce after that of Kent, is one suusmonetlif.oo morrow at, Bonitos, in Devonshire ! Magnificeu t vie' , prevalent- is . the force exawple !! ! 'Lord Wiil' and Sir Edward Knatelibull-La Peer of Parliactieafttrace one of the Members for the eentiSW - of moved John -Rogers and William 'Regent; the 1 0 , °„ test and bailiff of fioniton, in Devonshire; to form a. 0 .10 1",„ is asseint vif, for the protection of the Prot es tant :retit,'"7,,,s this Ifuited Kingdom. To be cure, and John Rogers being no great clerks, were Ob l gel t ib get the landlord of the King's Arms Inn, where Whe is to meet, to pen the requisition for them, aPd,"selist made but moderate work of it : but if men ate toy,'" bt signifies writing, reading, er spelling. Cobbett was a soldier as well as the Duke of Wellingtou; i Pro' was Bull-calf in.the play, as well a.; Hotspur su"' Hal ; and John, and William Rogers are eo lP Papislim no lose than Lotd Wind:else* and Sir r; Knatehbull. is But to treat this-subject more serioutly, though 4t he t' l nothiug but truth in the preoeding banier. The etet r io' • Brults%viek Clubs do not take. The feelings of I '":4' are obvious ; and, we may add in this instauee , ! lb of just than obvious. Their partieans . and adhereng 4 .. ft et4; stir e and. therefore, probably,' the scheme' b4° A teeP 4 though we. think there is likewise a fund of - g -01 `,, rulJ in. the people of England, which, in spite °or agitators, indite/a them' to' wish that the sil o! g silent of a question of s 0 'extretnely nature should he left to those whose official I 1" e , after due consideration, to arrange all such questi'„, VVe ('sire no more. We have argued the Catitoliglo,le Coo iu all its details--we have viewed it in every r t iig light, and have not ouly dernouttrated that Boit ought to be dome for the relief and pacification ofg",iptae tholics, hut are new attest convinced that it' is th e Lion of the present Head of the Administration thing. Something, we assert, will be done or eggl it ard The fact is WI clear and certain as any thing that can he ; for were it otherwise, iteotthi not lk hot t 0 ,31 wisher of the Duke of Wellington weal(' have fg e t ) , 11 ' some way or other, so as to have afforded coulid'?, t ee'' the Cumborlo Brunswick espied, and sent Itlini- 0 ,, omits to their clubs.. No Ministerial adhereuts or "' l ee' ante -have appeared there. Nay, though it P,. oo o'' 'insinuated (falsely, we hope) that, however .ope it , the part of the people to Emancipation might be table to Ministers, it would he agreable to a p 004 4 .1 1 001 is above Ministers—to the apex of the State. ,s:s fde +r of those who watch the ebbs and flows of RoYa'• have attempted to pretuote these clubs—they abigl a t them as from a forbidden thing. Hence it Kent Meeting, even after we hare allowed to ig op , force and consequence possible, has resembled bell fired into a woolsack—it hat, communieuted °" E 'jpi r whatever beyond the noise and smoke of its O' eion, it has effected no harm or good whatever. But it being now the intention of the Duke o f ton to grant relief to the Catholics, and to atteiZeill settlement of the grand question of emaneipatioN d J we may be allowed first to supplicate, that the fao'itilel be s favour, or the right, if right it be , may he °II, „VI and free as possible ; and having said thus meets, w e ,; likewise trust, on the other hand,—indeed We pt 0(6, front his Grace's general character ,— that he "'," into no traffe• or bargaining with priests as. to 1 0 will satisfy them. .‘ Porrigis irato puero cum pram, recusat!, " Sume, catelle, negat : si non des, °putt' e gl., • Hon. Sat. it. y• Hii Grate will read this maxim of homely 0 4969 „ . will concede all he can, and then he will leave to whom the boon ic-protfered to refuse or acceeg does not legislate to please'. a party, but to salt. b' The following is the notice alluded to " BRUNSWICK CLUB P e . " We, the undersigned _ Members of the Eft Loyal and Constitutional Society, viewing the trill" 5,1 which have lately taken 'place Ireland•as prelod.,g:43? attempt to destroy the Protestant Church. of thißA'af and impressed t with the necessity of ,the friend' f c lr ' Church at- this time snaking a public declaration °.O principles, anti an avowal of' their determination 00,/ port it, do request you will convene a Seoei°l,.,e/t$ Meeting of the Members of the above Society, t° at their room, at the King's Arms Inn, in 1-10°:;f0,1„1 Wedneeday, the 6th day of 'November next, fer past of taking into consideration tit/ propriety of o f t' a.Brunswick Constitutional Clfsh of the inhabitant' town and neighbourhood. " Heniton, Oct. SO. " To Capt. Basleigh, Honorary Seorettry, EuetA i Devon Loyal and euestitutioual Society. •F•Act e JOHN BOGEB&r° I i W)I.ROGERVIJod " C. FLOOD. " " CHARLES 003P0,,' " V. H P. somEßsri, "PHILIP MuLES " LEWI9 GIDLEY. " GILBERT CONRY, " 11. WRIGHT. " J. G COPLESTO 1 ,, 1, "In , pursuance of the above requisition; ' p 1 convene a Alerting of the Members of the cottlje 'Loyal and Constitutional Society, on Wednesday' of November next, at Twelve o'clock at noun "JAMES . 11ASLE1Gif, Hoe. S`'' ' " Honiton, Oct. 31." FASHIONABLE INTELLIOEN ARRIVALS. ,4‘ , 1" „0 The Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, r - 4 0. from the Duke of Itutland's seat, Cheveley Park, ' d oh ; shire; the Earl and Countess of Cassilis, in Privy-gs r jer r il their seat in . Scotland ; Emily Marchioness of Londo,oe,,, St. James's-square, from her seat, North Cray, K.Hat Honourable John Calcraft, in Whitehall, from '.l ,4l Ycyal r ; Mr: Granby Calcraft,, at ditto ; Lord and bitty ~ Miss Drummond Burrell, in Piccadilly, from Drurol o ) .o ',l Dumblaine, N. 13. ; Due de Richelieu, at Feuton's st.; James's-Street, from • Newmarket ; Major Faucour t :, ily from a tour ; Richard henry Vade, Esq. at his ha' ; Audley-street, from Dingley Park, Northanuptous hisc oe hart and Lady Jeuner, in Che,terfield-street, tro al ,,treo:, Chislehurst, I{,%nt ; Mrs. Rigby, in Upper Grosveno r ro, her seat, Mistley Hall, Essex; Captain and Mrs- t or gent-street, from the Continent ; Iteveroud Thomas Dir c . ;j at Cmik's Hotel, Alheinarle-street, from .Dorset'o'9 ,Teasdale, at Symmons's Hotel (late Jordan's). St. J° ( ,l Cheltenham ; John klphinstaue, Esq. Mrs. , ad Miss Elphinatone, at Marshal Thompson's Hotov, square, from Scotland ; E. Made, Esq. and Miss lit' Edward Jacksoit,faiq. at ditto. CHANGES. tV I 4 Lord and Lady Anson, from their scot, Staughor oo -froy slaire,,for Leicestershire ; the Duke of Manchester, nos lane, for his seat, Kinibolton Castle; Baron and Ilaco for the Continent; Sir Richard Hoare, Barr.; at his s , erc h Y head House, Wilts, from Bath ; Sir Charles Breot e the St. ,Jamos's Hotel, Jerroyn-striet, for Eti,e 3 L e • Esq. for his seat, rusinere Howe. Northamptonsh a _ Mrs. Wedderburn, from Great Stanhope-street, ' fli,r N. R. Toke, Esq. and Mrs. 'rote, from SNlT:mons so. Jordan's), for their seat in Kent ,• J. Lecke, *Esq. 411" ti from Marshal Thompson's Hotel. ARRIVALS AT THE CALEDONIAN HOTEL' , NESS.. The Right Hon. the Earl and Countess of Caitbnoo,,, roily, on their way south ; Mr. Birkett, on his w 3 / e lOf ed Ono . EN : and friend, on their way north ; Geur .. - . Jo, „ and M n iss Tait, on their way south ; Daviibou, loch, and the Hon. Mrs. Davidson and family, south ; the Hon. Mrs. M‘Donald and family, on tiv?!' w e,, - Bays, Eq. on a tour; --- %khan, Esil. on b.r x , Sir John M.ltae, John Wormalti, 161;q. William lain Dilk, MN. on their way south ; Lieutenant our; - Brown, Esq. on a tour. • :"6 b i vrc" -- 4 an C itcd. eil ik c, ,, , k i klock .,, / 44 Cont. Cwt. I hllll Cow t ,t., 1, 2 , i 1 4 ,,Lk ' L At C, .1, 4, ' 4l ii.ucle itocPs o 4 tot ' L nu; B ii r kziliau 13 (' k i t , ' , . Ay 4 turphi. lii t , 4 zi 11 4 ,4 4 19 i 3 4 ~t t o, Ifitl 44.tiinaLt, tkt,') ,..._ u , a l n iS E ! ______ pitlt! A, i la ?‘ a, 1, lotaan :n c .. F. tector Stod bi tto ••Stock v,47 Cent. Doti. 74Yal 4n4 1 ca; 1) 0 1, „. ..).4 nt It, BU 114 •U Fla tic 4 Got Gut ~~ ~_ TUE Vest SHBIL• eivi; it 'A tio. 6 the at e d that b eet , f boors have-d 110, 11 bath e dOUC' Catho or g i e , I )l4ked gra ce dignat qty gl, When tleolp ~'iuu~ sp ec , or best 1 111.1 Mr. devc dev Ow l 11( U 1 e~ al U d~ bay,, locill With lay tl the k Lius. at th, goist they daily eirw, spac a 8 ts ro etl (1 all eli of