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petty juries--thesheriffs--the hailfra, were almost ail Orator went
I would have proved the creed oC the Orangemen to have been one
of rancour, and one that must naturally lead to- deeds of blood.
I would have proved their oe:h to be taken from the 88th Psalm,
and 29d verse—" That thy feet may be dipped in the bleed &thine
enemies; and that the tongue, of thy dogs may be red through the
same." Their Deputy Grand Muter was sot long ago examited
at the bar of the House of Commons. and instead cf replying to
the sifting questions that were then put to him, he sheltered him-
self under his oath. How different is the conduct of the Catholic
Association I we came prepared to lay before the House of Com-
mons every paper and every document connected with ; all our
proceedings should have been as open as day. I need not state the
many instances of Orange barbarity and outrage that have oc-
curred. But one instance I cannot help referring to ; it is that of a
young man, the only son of an aged lather, who was shot to death
at a place called Creevekeenagh, in the county of Armagh ; the
man's name was James Gourley. The young man's sister was
with him at the time; she fled from the murderers—they pursued
her, although a woman and called by an additional name to that
of papist, but which, perhaps, in their estimation was not half so
bad. She escaped, and she saved her life, bat she lost her senses ;
and my informant says, if she is still alive, she is still a maniac.
The Orangemen were headed on that occasion by two sons of the
Rev. Mr. Smith, a Magistrate ; they were• tried for the murder,
and very properly acquitted. But although they made several at.
tempts to check the progress of the murderers, they did not er-
deavour to seize one of them. The murderers were tried, and, as
my informant states, of course acquitted--acquitted, because
the Sheriff, the Jury, and the witnesses were all Orangemen.
If this maniac sister should ever awake from the visions of her dis-
ordered fancy to the horrors of reality, what must be her feeling, ?
But she is still a maniac, and her disordered cries, her heart-rend-
ing prayers, her insane shrieks, are heard by God, and will plead
powerfully against the murderers. There was no murder in the
county of Armagh from the 12th July, 1822, to the 12th of July,
1823. Upon the 12th July, 1823, (on which day there was as
usual an Orange. procession,) a Catholic was shot by a person
named Hamilton, at a place called Crosiolovile, in the pariah of
Dernagoose. The Orangemen marched how to their lodge.room
after the murder, and passed the night in festivity—the blood of
the Catholic fell to the ground unrequited acdunrevenged. It was
said he was killed, but that nobody had dose the deed (a laugh).
There was another murder by the Orangemen, in March, 18'23,
when aritholic, named Patrick Hueco, sea shot dead coming
from the'flir of Uade, without even the peewee of having giveu
offence. The Orange murderer lay under's hedge, and his com-
panion cried one, " There goes old Might*, shoot him." The
murderer wax tried, but of courge he was acquitted. These are
not the ereatisni Cl.' imagination—they are unvarnished facts,
which I should have proved at the bar of the House of Com-
mons, if 1 had been heard; but I was refused a hearing, and
condemned with the eithedltion of a Turkish Csdi. Tne murders
to which I have called The attention of the Meeting were per-
petrated by Orange yebeden, with the King's arms and ammu-
nition in their possession. The King's, did I say? but Oh ! it
was not thus the King would hare treated his Irish subjects. When
he came amongst his Irish people—this people, remarkable for
their wildness, their savageness, their turpitude, for in those terms
were they characterised by the base press of both countries—when
he came amongst them, I repeat, without a soldier, a guard, or a
policeman, they received him with acclamations, with enthusiastic
joy. I am sure this reception has made as impression upon
his Majesty. I was stationed near him often lie was de-
parting from Ireland. About two hundred thousand persons
were assembled to behold his embarkation ; every heart was
ready to pour forth its best blood, in gratitude to the Monarch,
who had bravely and generously thrown himself amongst the
calumniated peasantry of Ireland. This mighty multitude was
bound to the King by the enthusiastic rivets of affection fikich
will ever bind Irishmen to those who confide in their generts:ty.
At that moment I saw est manly tear of sensibility glistening
in the 3lonarc i's eye; I shall carry to my grave the recollec-
tion of that tear; and if the service of that King required it,
I ahouli volunteer to enter that grave within the next hour. My
loyalty has been impeached, but it is true and sincere. It is
in the reign of such a King that a new penal enactment is
made against the Catholics. To Irishmen this will be a grievous
aggravation—that the name of George IT. should be appended,
that he should give his sanction to this abominable measure
of his Ministers. I shall now call the attention of the meeting
to the period when the Catholic Association was formed. It
was a period when the peasantry were oppressed and goaded
into violence. Eleven counties were disturbed; the standing army
was increased to thirty thousand men ; an armed police was este-
blished upon the plan of the French genes-d'armerie, at which the
ancestors of Englishmen would have trembled with indignation.
The Insurrection Act was strictly enforced on any of the poor pea.
sentry who were found indulging in gazing on the moon and stars ;
they actually were driven to madness, and sought transportation
as a refuge—the gaol they considered i necessary transit to
death. At this moment the Catholic Association was formed,
to interpose the shield of the law between the oppression of the
magistrates and the cruelty of the Orangemen. It was the duty of
the Association to interfere, and not the opinion of all the Judges or
of third and fourth rate barristers wafted into Parliament, shall in-
duce me to alter my opinion. It was very well for those third
and fourth rate barristers to min the administration of justice ;
it was like servants praising their masters, which no doubt is
very magnanimous. The Association told the people, who were
too poor to gain admittance, that they should open the portals
of justice to them. We asked them for a farthing a week, or a
penny a month, or a shilling a year, and pesumesad to
justice—to give them a filial affection for the laws by 'MT;
that the laws afforded paternal protection. The Association also
promised to detail the injuries of the Irish, and to appeal to the
Legislature for redress : at this time they esteemed the Legislature
more highly than they could possibly do at present. The Associa-
tion were also to appeal to the universal English people, who were now
indifferent to the cause of the Irish, because they were unacquainted
with their sufferings and their merits. The English people I
am sure would pour petitions on the table of the House of Coat.
mons, complaining of the injustice under which the Catholics are
suffering, if the English knew the baseness and cruelty of the I
Orange faction. The Catholic Association knew that the Irish were
always fond of justice. This attachment was proclaimed so long
ago as the days of Sir John Davies : it was recorded by Lord
Coke. The Association promised that its formation would produce
I tranquilli. Had they not kept their word ? AU wat tranquil
in Ireland: from Cape Clear to the Giants Causeway, from
the Hill of Howth to sir. Martin's wide domains at Cunnemara,
perfect tranquillity was restored and preserved through the agency
of the Catholic Association ; but yet it must be put down—it was
unanimous—lreland was unanimous for the first time, and the
Feels, and the Eldon', and the Liverpools were shocked. The
Catholics were always divided before ; division was accounted I
necessary to the good government of Ireland. Each particular hair
of Lord Eldon's wig stood on end—lard Liverpool was disturbed
from his domestic care—the dignity of Mr. Peel wu affrighted,
and all because the Association was unanimous. Let us hear the
I alleged grounds upon which we are to be put down. The first is
intempetance of speech; the next, the fear that the Catholics would
' seize upon the tithes, interfere with the administration of justice,
and the language of the address to the people, in which the word
"hate" has been introduced. „The potent, wise, and reverend"
Senators have been for four nights employed debating on a Popish
adjective, or I confess myself utterly astonished when I re.
I fleet into what magnitude I have grown. The Meeting will
now suffer me to go through the charges to which I have alluded.
As to iptemperate language, is it the age of school-boys or old
women ? There are old women of both sexes ; but is it the in.
fancy or the dotage of legislation that a penal law should be
founded upon intemperate language? But the law was already
sufficient; it gives an adequate remedy, and when I had the mis-
fortune to speak of that principle which placed the House of Ha-
nover on the throne, and but for which I might now go through
Sardinia, or Savoy seeking for the legitimate monarch of those
islands—when I chanced to mention that principle, that a time
may come when oppression would no longer be endured, but when
resistance would become justifiable--a principle which I am
proud to repeat in the presence of Englishmen. (Hear, hear.) I
Was dragged to trial before a jury. supposed to be Orange—every
man of whom, I rejoice to say, was a Protestant ; but they were
Protestants who respected their oaths and their judgments, and
scouted out of Court this ridiculous charge. The prosecution de.
monstrated that a system of perpetual vigilance was kept up, and
that if I or any other member of the Association said worse, it
would have been noted : if any decent ptetest for other prosecu-
tion. had arisen, it would certainly have bun embraced. There
were spies and informers sitting at the table With the members of
the Associatioe. This was known to every member of it. A
young gentleman of education and respectability called upon
me, and informed me, that he had been offered liberal payment
by the police, if he would go and report the proceeding of the
Association with a view to prosecution, if any thing should fall
from the speakers which admitted of it. This gentleman had
so great a regard for my private friendship, that lie told me he
would forego the advantages derivable front such an employment if I
thought it derogatory, or that it was disagreeable to my private
feelings. I knew that men who were estimable in private life, and
would do honour to any rank or station, had filled the situation of
re porters, and I told this gentleman by all means to accept the em.
ployment, and to demand from his employers an increased remune-
ration ; for that I would get him access to every document which
should be in the possession of the Association, and full time to
copy any he desired. As to the second objection, we can declare,
that Roman Catholics never once entertained the notion of taking
any tithes. I will be ready at once to give up the cause of
, Emancipation, if such a thought has ever found a place amongst
them. The Address to the Catholic people was prepared by me, and
if there is any thing objectionable in it, that may be a good reason
I for suppressing me, but it is a very poor one for suppressing the
Association. But have any of those who have spoken of the ad-
dress with such sickly affectation and maudlin sentiment denied
that its object was peace ? Have any of them dared to deny that
it has attained that object' (Hear, hear.) I addressed the reason,
the feelings, and passions of the people, and conjured them by all
they hoped or feared to abstain from acts of violence. I appealed
also to their strong sense of the wrongs they had suffered : and if I
had omitted to appeal to that vest motive, how should I be
taunted ? It would be said, you are an advocate : if you were sin-
cere in the cause of your client—the peace pf the country--would
you leave the principal witness uncalled, and his testimony without
comment? (Hear, hear.) I did not excite to hatred-1 did nut
justify it ; and yet, was it not legitimate after all to hate the rubber,
the oppressor, and the murderer ? I should have proved that such
were the Orangemen. I hate the robber, not pervnally,—(lad for-
bid that 1 should have any other feeling but perfect and universal
charity towards any man or body of men ; but I hate their pauses.
plea. I will refer to a Book which we alt equally respect to show
that there the term " hate," was DOI used in the ladylike manner
contended for in ;he House of Commons. Its the la uguage of pat.

etry. or rather of rhymes in Hopkins and Sternhold'a translation of
the 245:h Psalm, it was thus used : .
" I much abhor the frisked sort, their deeds I do deapist,
I do not once to them resort thar hurtful things devise.
0 shut riot up toy soul with them, in sin that take.their fril,
Nor put my life among those men that sack touch blood to spill.
For in their hands much mischief is, their lives thertiritil %anon&
And nothing else in their right bandibut bribes see en be found."
Perhaps it was the fray that hatred might be attended to those in
whose right hands bribes were to be found, that made some Hon.
Gentlemen have such an abhorrence of the exprrshion. (Hear.
hear.) In the 139th Psalm, 21st and 22a verses, the Prdmist says.
" Du not I hate them, 0 Lord, that hate thee ; and am not I
grieved with those that rise up against thee ? Yea, I hate them
right sore, even as though they were mine enemies." If even the
language of Inspiration used the expression hatred, what becomes of
the affectation that would condemn its use, not for a purpose of
mischief but of peace ? and whatsovereign contempt do I feel for
those who are horrified at the mention of the word hatred, .and yet
continue to itdulge in practical comity.—men. who tarnish Chris-
tianity by a sickly affectation of sentiment ! I now come to the
question of the Catholic Rent. The Catholic Rent has been con-
demned ; and it is said there are two books kept, a red and a black.
and that those who did not subscribe are put in the black book.
The r.xl book is pretty well known to the members of a certain
llnuae,and I suppose there is something like a black book kept
under the Minister's table, and many an illustrious H'hig name is
to be found in the title page. The statement as to the black book
belonging to the Catholic Association Is a barefaced falsehood-.-an
utter, total, shameless, unsupported falsehood. The men Lem
whose lips this untruth issued ought to go back and brand with
infamy their false informers. There is no real ground for oppres-
sing the Association ; it was sought to he put down, only on poor,
paltry, miserable sophistications like that which I have mentioned.
I ask, have we been guilty of any real crime ? if we had, would
these poor paltry charges have been had recourse to ? We are
charged with having made speeches having p tendency to produce
a breath ef the peace. Nothing else was imputed to me—no breach
of the peace was charged. Upon the pretence of this tendency we
are to be put down. Calumniated itobespierre I how a living
Minister, and many a dead one laughed, when you were charged
with prosecuting under the pretext that parsons wercluspected of
being suspicious ! We are now prosecuted and put down for
haring made speeches having a tendency*. to commit a bieath
of the peace. (A laugh.) There is Ogg additional ground
upon which I feel that the Catholic Association cannot be
shaken. In the entire series of ditftossions, no Man Mulled
the criminal audacity to chartse any nacoilpr. of the Association '
with uttering a single word injurious to the sacred principle of
religious liberty, or refitting on the religious tenets of other accts.
This proved that there was no rancour or ill-will town& our
Protestant fellow subjects ; if there was, it must have floated to the
surface. It showed more; we are charged with courting popu-
larity : —that popularity which arises from serving the people is
consolatory, and is not despised by any man, but one who does not
deserve it. If we were looking for popularity, the absence of any
expression of ill-feeling towards the professors Of other sects, proves
at least that popularity is not to be bought from Irish Catholics
by speaking ill of Protestants. (Cheers.) I have served my coun-
try faithfully twenty-one yeanq but I am confident, that if I ventured
to infringe on this awed principle—if I spoke with disrespect of the
religious feelings of any sect, my twenty-one years service would not
protect me from the just indignation of my countrymen. (Hear,
hear.) This has ever been, this still is, the living principle of
Irishmen—

For happy homes and altars free,
with a readiness to extend the same humane and charitable dispen-
sation to all mankind. (Continued cheers.) This Act of Parlia-
ment, which is now intended to put down the Association, is a yin-
lation of the Constitution, an additional violation of the Treety of
Limerick. My immediate ancestor signed the Treaty of Limerick,
by which it was agreed that the Catholic" should enjoy libtrty of
conscience. I call upon England to ratify this treaty, to realise to
me the treaty made with my ancestor, and for which a valuable con-
sideration was given. This new Act is a violation beyond the letter,
and beyond the spirit of the law. We met in a small number peace-
fully ; it was against the wisdom of our ancestors to permit tu-
multuous assemblies for petitioning; now we can have no corres-
pondence, and thousands, and hundreds of thousands must meet
whenever it shall be found necessary to petition the Legislature.
There was. an Act of Charles the Second, which proliitsits the
meeting of more than twenty persons to petition for the redress of
pretended grievances; but this did not prevent or impede the right
of Petitioning for the repeal of real grievances. This Act was lint
so unconstitutional as that of the present day, which prevents
us from meeting for the repeal of real and serious grievances.
It was falsely said that the Convention Act had been passed in
Ireland, in 1793, to put down the Catholic Committee. !
The Convention Act of 1793, of which so much has been said,
was not passed to put down the Catholic Committee ; it was in.
tended to stop the progress of Jacobinical Conventions. The Ca-
tholica formed no part of its object; they were, at the very moment
of the passing of that Act,employed in endeavouring to soothe and
tranquillize the excited feelings of the people at large, and, true to
their King and their purpose, When the flame did burst forth, and
rebellion stalked through the land, the Catholics lent their assist-
ance to oppose its progress ; and the head of the Catholic Nobility,
my Lord Fingal, met the enemies of the country at the head of his
regiment. (Gear.) That Act (the 311 of (leo. III.) was one
against public meetings calculated to excite riotous proceedings,
and assembling under the pretence of petitioning Parliament. But
there is an especial clause, permitting and authorising the existence
sif meetings for the purpose of petitioning. It is only tits pretence
that is rendered illegal by that enactment. But what has been done
under the pretended sanction of this very statute ? 1 will inform
the Meeting. In the year 1811 the Catholics of Ireland appointep
delegates, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature for the
restitution of their rights, and the removal of the disabilities under
which they laboured. This delegation gave offence to the Law
Authorities of that day. We were brought before die Court of
King's Bench in Ireland. The Court of King's Bench was then
differently constituted from the present t but doubtless it too had
been lauded as a paragon of perfection by Senators who were not
advocates, and advocates who ought not to have been Senators. It
certainly was also praised by the low fry of third and fourth rate
barristers, perhaps as much praised as at present, with only this
difference, that it did not deserve it. Well, we appealed to the
Court. We stated that we had assembled for the purpose, and not
under the pretence, of petitioning. We appealed to the (*.met, I
say—we appealed to the law—we episoded to common sense—we
appealed to the dictionary; but we might have spared ourselves the
trouble : the pious Lord Chief Jusuee Downes decided that we
were—that we had mistaken the use of words—that, in short, pre-
tence and purpose were synonimous terms. This was the mode in
which an Irish Court of King's Bench interpreted the law. I will
advert a little to the then constitution of that Court. Judge
Downes—the pious bible-distributing Judge Downes—has since
retired to the °firm corn digoitate of a Peerage. Judge Day, the
second in command, is a most worthy and respectable individual in
private lite. No man can be more ready to admit it than I ; but he
is not now on the Bench, and I am sincerelyglad of it. Well, there
was Sir George Daly—the third—who had voted himself from a
barrister into a Judge, by voting for the Union. All I shall say of
him is, that he was of opinion purpose was pretence, at least in
common law if not in common sense. The list was ,Mr. Justice
Osborne; he has since gone to his own account before another tri-
bunal, and I shall pass lightly over his grave. My Lord Duke,
the reasoning was with us—the decision was against us;
the Catholic Board was put down, and we were decided to
be absurd blockheads for appealing to common sense. (Loud
cheers and laughter.) But the Ministers of the present day
have gone further than the Administration of 1793—they have pro-
fited by their predecessors mission, and grown wiser on the sug.
gestion of the Court of King's Bench of 1811. In their present
Act against Illegal Associations, they have left no loop-bola—pre-
tence of petitioning and purpose of petitioning are declared equally
unlawful—and what does this caution of theirs prove, say Lord ?
It proves, that in the interpretation of the Act of 1793, we were
right, and the King's Bench wrong; and that that Court in 1811,
instead of expounding and administering the law, took upon Wagf
an set of direct legislation. Now, my Lord Duke, for a single
observation on the present enactment 2—After making every meet-
ing, even in a private house, if we but talk of politics and petiti-
oning, and see one another CtiOn the space of a fortnight, and
discuss the subject again—after making every such meeting with a
man's own friends illegal; nay more, such a meeting at my own
table, among my own family, if we discuss the forbidden subjects,
may be construed halo an illegal association under this Algerine
Act. What is the very next clause? It provides, that any mayor,
magistrate, &C. may disperse such meeting by force; and If he has
reason to believe the existence of such a meeting, he may demand
admisaion into the supposed place of its existence, and if admis-1
sion be refused he is at liberty to enter by force. My Lord, what
species of legislation is this in England? (Hear, hear, hear.) I
repeat it—in England? for let Englishmen know, that though the
law be only made now for Ireland, it affords a precious precedent
for future legislation in England itself. (Loud cheers.) What, I
my Lord Duke, in the City of Dublin—in the very bosom of my
family, returning from Court after a day spent in the discharge of
the fatiguing duties of my profession, with it may be alt the vanity '
of successful exertion in my heart—(pardon me for so speaking of
myself)—if at such a time I should pity my situation, and indulge
in the natural complaints consequent upon seeing third and fourth.
rate barristers, my companions, plated over me, on account of my
religion being Catholic—if I should pour cut my heart to my
family, and we should talk of our political situation and petition.
ing fur redress (and they are the only things we talk of)--if I re-
mind my son, while his heart is burning and bursting with his own
and his country's wrongs, of his duty to his King end his God—
Graciotim Heaven ! is the Orange Magistnue at such a time to
conic, armed with the authiwity of this Act, and rap at my door?
(bond and continued cheering.) Is he, I repeat, to invade the'
sacred privacy of my fondly ? Is site whom I have chosen as the
partner of niy life and fortunes—is my wife—are ni7 daughters to
see the ruffian Orangeman, surrounded by his satellites, and bear-
ing the badge of his office, enter niy habitation, and insult usi
with this Act of Parliament ? Is it in England or Algiers this !
atrocious Act has beets framed? Ant I in Constantinople, or the
free and polished capital of England, that 1 see such a statute put
forth by Orange atrocity ? (Loud cheers.) And what are the con.
(Mimi' under which an Orange Magistrate may avail himself of
this power to insult toy family and outrage my feelings? Is u
necessary there should be any information laid respecting the
alleged illegal meeting? No; he has only to suspect us of an on.
lawful intention. What a mockery is this! my protection is to lie
in an Orange 31agiNtrate's belief! But we sill suppose he has
overstepped his power, ample as it is; what is my redress tor the
injury ? To take my case before a jury composed of Protestants.
perhaps of Orangemen, stumnoned by a Sheriff whose tide-deed
to his office consists in a pledge to give the Orange toast—the
signal of tattion, insult, and discord in Ireland. And these be
they who are at liberty, with this A.; in thet: hands, to stagger :c

my house, outrage the feelings of my wife and daughters, and 1
must bow to the eaeth before them. My Lord Duke, I &mania-
sider existence worth havieg• under such circumntancm(ehears);
but I will endure it will sutler in patience, and preach to shy
family that Christen charity lerrards oqr oppressors which is mit
practised towards us. 1 have told the Meeting in what mitioneriMs
law had pmeectled, and was 11,kelly to pass. It is the offspring el' ~
maudlin affectation and sickly sentiment. We were deemed int •
ou crime, aid this is our reward. The only breach of the pewees
have committed, consists in our attempt to tranouilluie oureenn-
try (laughter), and we are met by an Act of Parliament. I will tell
you for what object we associated. It was not to bindloto Eqdierohl
interests the Catholic peers and men of fortune ; their layaltyJed
newt been for a moirent queetional ; but seeing. or ,thinking win
saw, the presages of a gathering storm in the Ennerreree weeld. •
looking., at political appearenees, we &I think we could pseeriesin •
their ii7lent progress, tranquil as it seemed, the tokens of sto. imo
proaching storm. We made our preparations acconlingly, to eeo
cure the peasantry of Ireland ao the side of Englisb interests, io
the event of a contest--and were our preparations ill-riveted?
Does the experienced navigator prepare his vessel to meet the
rage of the coming tempest but in the moment of tranquillity ?
In this manner we acted—the critical moment had arrived—we saw
it—and asked admission to the temple of the,British Constitution—
offering on our parts to solemnise a sacred contract. and make o •
holy alliance between the English and the Irish people. (Load
cheers.) Is not the consummation of such an alliance what Lug-
land should most desire ? I may have a propensity to become s.
boaster, and 1 confess it is with consideaable pride I point to tho
Catholic State of Maryland tolerating the Protestant—the Catholic
State of Hungary tolerating the. Protestant--and the Oat olio Stool
of Bavaria also tolerating the Protestant—all in the fulleii, frets;
manner, and admitting him to the enjoyment of all State prteileme.
One more grievance, my Lord Duke, end I hate done. Are we
put down by men of talent ? Have we the melancholy satisfactior,
of falling under the unjust sharks of Statesmen possessing a cha-
racter for ability and genius ? Who are our task-roasters ? • The
money-making Eldun—the domestic Livcrpoul—the getithel Pee.—
the sincere Canning ; and the seal is to be put to the Ate: by Goal-
born, whose brother was Cannel unfit for Botany Bar. 0 that
Mere were a vacancy in the Secretaryship, and that he hit/telt
were foewarded to that colony ! (A Lugli.) I shall return to ma
country, my Lord, with another link added to my fetters, and with
only one consolation for my friends--one hope to hold ino to
my children. That consolation cones, in the gracicroa prods-
merlon oti his Majesty to his Ilar.overian subjects. My children',
hope shall. ee in the knowledge' that the great .and generoaa
people of tlngland will not penitent in their apathy towande
Ireland. or continue parties to its oppressinn. I will tell them tat
the public mind of England is awakening to a venne of thelr in-
juries—a days:min has already arisen, that the same sun of justice
will shortly appeai, slid shine equally upon oil : and that soda, Its
influence Catholics and Protestants, combined in mutual affection,
will exhibit the magnificent example of a conntry..noired end,-
equal lawn, and capable of bidding neflanee.to the. reel&
The Learned Gentleman sat down.aniid loud applause.
Mr. O'Hiaxior said, he would ail the attention of the meeting
to one or two cases of injustice in Defend, of which he had profes.
aional knowledge, and in relation to wdielt his name bad been men-
tioned in the House of Commons.
Mr. EIL then addressed the Meeting to the following effect :
"My Lord Duke—l rise under somewhat inauspicious circum-
stances, illy friend, Mr. O'Connell. who has engaged so much of
your attention, and who has so strongly elucidated the misfortune,'
of his country, has exhausted the subject—he hat nearly exhausted
himself, but has not at ail exhausted you. The hour adrconlalics
me to be brief; and, without any preliminary expatiation, I shall a:
once proceed to the landing feature of that important 3:Orion by
which the attention of the people of England is engreorea. What,
me hard Duke, is the Catholic AMociation ? It is a great
incorporation of the Catholic Clergy, the Catholic Nobnity,
the Catholic Gentry, the Cathelic Merchants, and of the Ca-
tholic Bar, who have associated themselves together, in order
to abolish that Aristocracy in Religion which generate; the black-
est animosities, arrests the progress of nations) improvement, in-
verts the natural order of society, deprives wealth of its influence,
rank of its authority, and genius of its honours. In tits promotion
of this object a considerable expenditure became necessary. The
Rent was established, and by the protnptn to with which it was
collected, has refuted the charge that the Roman Catholic pea-
santry are indifferent to the liberties of Ireland. This contribution
was essentially voluntary. The allegation, that the two books wero
kept, including the names of those oho did and who did not sub •
scribe, is a preposterous fabrication ; the simple truth is, that is,
names were recorded, but those of the persons who transmitted the
gross amount of subscriptions from their respective districts
What were the objects to which this money was applicable? it
was applicable to the education of the Catholic poor. Nearly mac
hundred thousand pounds are annually granted for the education
of the Protestant poor; the Chance Schools alone (and they ate
mere numerics of apostacy) receive 190,000/. a year. The Forensic
Theologians, to whom the funds of the Kildare-street Societe are
entrusted, attach conditions precedent to its distribution which to.
wholly incompatible with the genius of the Catholic
Another object of the Rent was, the building of chapels for the
poor. In England, the Protestant is compelled to repair the
Protestant Church ; in Ireland, the Catholic nor mile re-
pairs, but builds the Protestant Church. It is observed by
Ammianus Marcellinus. that Julian, the Apostate. persecuted the
Christians, whom he celled Gallileans (sec are called Papis s). by
excluding them front all oflices of emolument, by depriving then.
of the benefits of education, and which, although a Pagan, Amnia-
anus pronounces to be most unjust, by obliging these to build the
Pagan Temples at their expense. Putting the coitsideration oC tloo
grievance aside, it will be admitted that the Association wore ru
very culpable in desiring to obtain the means of raisin e chapels fc 7
the Catholic poor. I conic to the chief object of the Rent—the at-
tainment of justice for the Irish peasantry. The interference rim
the administration of justice is urged as the chief ground of im-
peachment. Is the administration of justice in Ireland pert ?
The whole question resolves itself into that single point. If it be
not pure, it will not be contended that an effort to correct its abuses,
and shield the Catholic population front the dominion which the
Orange faction exercise in its inferior departments, is deserving of
reprehension. The administration of justice is not pure; and I um-
dertake to prove it—first by a necessary inference from the state of
the law itself ; secondly, by the authority and densest:ions of the
Judges of the hind ; and, thirdly, by clear end indisputable facts.
It will not be denied that religions are as embittering as tuitional
animosities. Upon that principle has the Legislature acted in the
cases of Aliens ? By the 29th of George die Second, in all se-
nors between a Papist and a Protestant, the whole Jury must le
Protestants. In this particular the law has been mitigated--a par-
' tial relaxation has taken place—our chains have been struck oft; but,
as Peter Plymnley observes, our gaol jackets are left on : the 'pint
of the penal code remains behind. In all politicsl cases the whole
Jury are uniformly Protestant, and, as the Isw stands, no Ca-
tholic can be a Judge, an Attorney-Getteral, a Solicitor. Gen-
eral, a Sergeant-at-haw, a King's Counsel, a Chair:ban for the
county of Dublin, a Sheriff; or a Vicar-General. The Protestant
Bishops appoint all the Judges of the Courts where wills are fo be
proved, and where questions of tithe are peculiarly cognisable. Is
not justice in Deland, then, completely Protesteniscd ? Is not
justice stamped with the character of sect ? Does not the law pat:
every man eetrusted with a Ministerial office in the administration
of justice, in mind of the prerogatives of his creed ? It is in the
Corporation of the City of DubEn that this systen, is found to ge-
nerate the worst results. The Corporation appoint the Sheriff.—
the Sheriffi appointtheJurors—and if the Corporation, the Sheriffs.
and the Jurors are Orange, what chance can a Catholic upon los
trial have amongst them ? The constitution of the Dublin Cal-
potation d particular attention. It Is composed of a Boar.l
of Aldermen, and of a common Council, into which Catholics are
not admissible by law. The Catholics are, by the Act passed in
1;113, capable of being free of the city of Dublin, but a bye-law
of the Corporation excludes them. So far is this principle carried.
that every freeman 'wens that ht will not take a Catholic ap-
prentice. Is it then poasible—it it in the nature of things, that the
administration of justice should not be vitiated under circum-
stances such as these ? YOf are not ignorant of the ferocious orgies
in which the Corporator, of Dublin give sent to their constitutioeal
detestation of Popery. I now proceed to the statement of facts, atot
you will observe, that in complaining of the administration of
justice, the Catholic Association complained not merely of the
religious, but of the aristocratic spirit by which hlagintrates
are influenced, and of which their proceedings furnish abut -
dant proof. I shall meetion the examples of this fatal pante -
lily without distinction. In the first place, then, I should be
solicitous to know if the Attorney-General for England conceives
that the !Menai of the Cite of Dublin are perfectly impartial in
their selection of Juries ? What was his defence when he instituta
his ea-officio proceedings? He alleged, that the Jury led been
packed by Sheriff Thorpe. Ile proved it at the bar of the House
of Commons; he justified hitnailf; and now, after the enderice
furnished in that case, and in the succeeding examples which have
been recently a*brded, the Govemmerit puts down the Assoeis-
tion, and leaves the Corporation unavailed. In the ccurse of
that most important investigation, it way stated by ail Attorney,et
the bar of the House of Commons, that he had hinvell_ packed
Juries, witO the assistance of the Sub-Sheriff of the city of DOAN.
In the case of " the King against Kirwan." during Mr. Swindle
Administration, it was proved that the Jury had been tactually
selected at the Castle. A political sympathy existed between Mt.
Saurin and the Corporation, and every abject of that Uinta
Gentleman acts readily accomplished. The meotitio of th s
Officer of the Crown lends me to his celebrated letter. AP At-
tornev-tieneral he tampered with the Chief Justice, and di-
rected him to infuse Ilia own political prejudices into the naiads
of the Grand Jury—to take them into his ehainber, and poem*
their mina's against their feline-citizens. What wringer proof
do you require titan this ? Was it ever denied that the knee was
written ? No, it was not attempted. Mr. Peel, with all
his ctipidity, could not escape from ft. Is not this eannustve.
an irresistible, a daunting tact? I 'hail rot. my Lord. eaten
into any minute enumeration of the instance* in which Orono
Junes have acquitted their confederates in the North. 'rhea
broad assertion may be made with perfoet troto :—The Ca-
tholics have no asms, the Orangemen have—from ten to tweets
Catholics are massacred. The tharigemen are tried al* DOW
• found guilty ; but it a Catholic Is round guilty, how is lie
dealt with ? book at the case of the Priest of Moot. A eta_
thulic Priest adinsaist.red the Sacrament rat hat Church to the
wire of • Protestant, ono smelted him to do se. He en, u„dicta,
for this offence. The wife was tin: allowed to give evidence, Imo
lie was sentoiced to s vest's iiiinanonment by the 31agnireatia.
The Barrister who erronnenly reteeted :he testimony, and wee v •
eclat on to Mr. Plunkett. disapproved of the sentence. 'l'ha pram,
to Lord "%rethink?* credit be it laid, was discharged by the Crows.
But it illustrates the megis«oial stint. A ',At:email In the comity
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coochttied thus—The Roman Catholics of Ireland peti.
to be heard by their Counsel. 'I hey tendered strop g evidence
a told assertion, and against theory they set up fact. The
be of the Dinh people was rejected, and 11r. Ondlonth's
was made the foundation of penal legislation. So far one of
• unheeding objects of our delegation has not been attained. But
• • taunt ogee was entrusted to as. " Go," said oar countrymen,
"rand hil the Catholics of England that we hail the tender which
' &averensde to as of these support. An identity of feeling
Odin out of a 011110annity of wrong. Draw the bonds of a
Nulty Winn us. Tench the English estindins that from
• salininalleidsid co-peration we shall devise a reciprocal strength-
- -dillite a yeat national alliance. Do this ; and you will hose deserved
P nilasterposir country." Then were our instructions; but ou,
eet Duke. and the Nobles of wbum you are Chief, have
- • On nothing to perform. You have anticipated the desires of
Elat
Upon one arrival you called thin great assembly to.
ladies. This convention of generous and exalted men bears a
/MMus attestation to the lofty and magnanimous, and, let me
o4S, hthe wise and prudential sentiment which you enter.
aft towards the people of Ireland. You justly cherish fre-
eness! feeling for those to whorn you sire linked by a wide
brotherhood in wrong, Thin is a tine moral spectacle ; it
is impossible to look upon this great assembly without emo-
tion. 11'hen I cast my eyes around me,—when I survey this
VAIN gathering ot the sinuous, the wise the generous, and the
good when I see the old and immaculate Nobility of England met
foe. so illustrious a purpose—when I see so many men with glo-
rious names arid with unblemished lives about me. I cannot but
lad the auspices of success in the combination of so much in-
spiting
circumstance ; I behold the great object of our aspire-
tons upon the verge of accomplishment ; and I feel about my
bean, that beats at the contemplation of this splendid spectacle,
a proud assurance that I shall live to see the regeneration of my
country, and that Ireland will be at last admitted to a full par.
ticipatlon in the blessings of that constitution which has won 1
the palm of excellence from the united suffrages of mankind.
One of the noblest motives by which men are instigated to great
achievement is, the hope of founding a great family, and of trans-
mitting their honours to their progeny through an enobled perpe-
tuation. Let me put an imaginary case—for the imagination may
sometimes lend its light to reason, and the heart may solve a diffi-
culty by which the mere intellectual power may be embarrassed.
If, when hot in the field of victory, and when all his glory about
him, the great Talbot had been instructed in the fate that
hould befal his posterity; if she, whom the superstition of the
11611 e bad endowed with a preternatural foresight—if the cele.
Alllllllmi.asnasan who checked the tide of English triumph—if
neap of Arc had exclaimed to Talbot—" The time shall come,
-*lnn that country that showers honours upon your name shall
- stamp degradation upon the posterity to whom that name shall be
itted—your children shall be driven from the Senate of their
—the Councils of England shall be closed against them—
.
Is shall be struck upon' their foreheads—the robe of your
shall be trailed in the mire, and the brightness cf your
Csemset shall be tarnished (loud cheers)—would cot the sword have
Mopped from Talbot's hand ? If he had believed in the denun.
ciation. would he not have flung his spear away ? How would his
cheek have burned, if lie had heard that his sons would be laden
with degrading disqualifications, and dishonour should be struck
. cps them I and upon what charge? because no Catholic could
• le nue to England.—" Not true to England," he would have
exclaimed ; •• were they that won Magna Charts Use to England ?
Weli they who proved the tyranny of John and the thunders of
Rome, when those thunders were not without a bolt, false to Eng-
land ? Nl'see theme that opposed the encroachments of the monastic
0 'dem and built the Emotes of mortmain round the liberties of
the people, false to England? Are they who won France for
Engiond--am I (Talbot night have exclaimed), am I. or can the
Dons of Talbot be false to England ?" (Loud and continued cheers.)
We I They cannot be false to England ; their very name is a bond
. ntf their fidelity ; and the time cannot be distant when the prosperity
of the illustrious hero, and of that Howard who was Lord High
Admiral of England when the Spanish Armada was swept from
the sea (he wes a Catholio, snail be restored so the rights of
Britons, and to tbnir places among the hereditary Senators of the
in* That time is not distant, I repeat it—our great object is
luierdss tugs of accomplishment, and our motto henceforth shall
• O.llliN was graven upon ill escutcheon of Talbot " Peet d'ae-
." (Loud and continued cheers.)
WrigilD'Goastax Matron, in seconding a resolution, said that
at that late hour he would not trespass long on the attention of the
Meeting, but he felt that he should not discharge his duty, if lie
did not thus publicly contradict a statement imputed to Mr. Go ut.
burn in the newspapers, relative to the late alteration which had
taken place in the Magistracy of Ireland. That Right lion. Gent.
was reported to have said that every improper person had boen re.
Moved • from the Commission or the Peace. Now he (Mr. Al.) felt
- himself bound to meet that statement with a most unqualified con-
tradiction ; and he boldly asserted that in the late cession, as it was
exiled, of the Magistracy, many gentlemen, perfectly unexception-
atle had been removed, whilst others, possessing no one qualifies.
tiro test entitled them to hold such a situation, had been retained.
Indeed, so exceptionable were some of these, and so glaring their
incompetency, that disgust was generally the feeling engendered,
"whenever the discharge of his duty, as a Magistrate, obliged him
to come in contact with them. Much boast had been made be.
cause some Catholic gentlemen had been entrusted with the com-
mission ; but the fact was, that their numbers were comparatively
few—that they were persons who, from their character and influence
io the country, could not be decently passed over—and perhaps
had been selected, as much to give a show of liberality in certain
quarters as from any other motive. Mr. Alahon then entered at
some length into the itnpolicy and injustice of the measure against
which they had met to petition, and concluded by expressing hie
surprise that such a declaration had been attributed to Mr. Peel,
as that any person subscribing to the Catholic Rent was incom-
petent to serve as a grand or petit juror—if that were the law, not
only would all the Catholic population of Ireland. but a large ma-
iority of the respectable Protestants, be disqualified. (Applause.)
The Duke of Nonnot.x left the Chair, and Lord KILLEEN
was unanimously placed in his stead.
Mr. O'CONNELL proposed the thanks of the Meeting to his
Grace for the uniform zeal which he had ever evinced.
bordSrovaron seconded the motion, which was carried una-
nimously.
His Graft returned thanks, and the Meeting adjourned at half.
past Six o'Clock.

There was a public meeting on Wednesday last, " to
consider the propriety of petitiening Parliament for the
repeal of the assessed taxes;" hut such was the interest
which the subject excited in this flourishing and prosperous
town, that scarcely 20 persons attended. Under these cir-
cumstances, the meeting was adjourned until that day
week.—Brietee Herald.
Ter ARMY.—Detachments of invalids belonging to se-
veral regiments of infantry arrived, on the Roth instant,
on hoard the Numa transport, at Portsmouth, from Malta.
They have received orders, after performing quarantine, to
proceed to Chatham. Detachments belonging to the 9d,
fith, 13th, Slat, 44th, 45th, 48th, 54th, 67th, 68th, 77th,
and 89th, regiments of foot, marched on Saturday morning
from Westminster, for Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
We are informed that a farm of 160 acres, in our imme-
diate neighbourhood, was last week disposed of for
10.000L—Colchester Gazette.
MATCH AT Cassie—We understand that the Edin-
burgh Chess Club Lave won the first game in the match
between England and Scotland. The Scotch game was at
one period of it considered desperate, but it appears that
the English Club, in their eagerness to obtain a victory,
which, with a little caution, might have been easily se-
cured, sacrificed a Rook. Even after this sacrifice they
might have forced a drawn game by giving perpetual check,
but confiding too much in their own resources, or not suf-
ficiently respecting their adversaries, they persisted in
endeavouring to win the game. The men of the North
• displayed as much promptitude in taking advantage of the
rash confidence of their antagonists, as they had already
exhibited of passive courage during the season of adversity,
and they have ultimately won the game. Chess-players
will appreciate the merit which is mine to the perseverance
and skill of the Scotch Club, When it is considered that the
game was successively won and drawn in its nature for the
English Club, and that the Edinburgh players had to con-
tend against a Committee, which is acknowledged to com-
prehend the finest players in this country. A second game
Las been drawn, and a third game is still pending, the
moves lying transmitted, as usual, by a return of post.
Bets of five to two have been lost on the first game, and
beta of three to two, in favour of the English Club, are
still offered on the result of the match.
AWFM. Evers—On Friday the 11th instant, a man
who occupied a few scree of land, and lived in a cottage
built upon it, in a village about five miles from Lincoln,
met the owner of the premises in the street of this city,
opposite to the corn-market hill. The owner had been a
very kind friend to the occupier during the space of eight
or nine years ; but, from some recent dissatisfaction, the
man made use of. the most grossly abusive language to-
wards his landlord; so much so, that one of the by-
standers cri.d shame on him to his face. Among other
proofs of his passion and malignity, he uttered this bitter
imprecation against himself:—" If I do nut do for him
riteaning hi{ friend), or set fire to his house before Lady-
oX. may I drop down dead in my way home!" About
three hours afterwards, at the distance of two miles froin
Lincoln, halal down and eapired!—Lincols Mercury.

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