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Orson The Freeman's Jeer*.l.]
BOSUN, JANUARY 2.
PUBLIC MEETING AT TtARCY'II.
At half-past one o'clock an assemblage of most
respectable Gentlemen met together at D'Arcy's
Tavern, to convider the best steps to be taken on
the outrage at Kilmainhain, on Saturday. Although
no notice had been given of it until yesterday morn-
ing, the very large room of the Tavern was imme-
diately thronged at the appointed .hour, and the
meeting exhibited the appearance of men who were
sensible of the wrongs they had suffered, and who
were determined to use the most strenuous exer-
tions to obtain redress.
HAMILTON ROWAN, Esq. was called to 'the
Chair. and JOHN FINLAY, Esq. requested to
act as Secretary to the Meeting.
Mr. O'Cowtett.t. then rose, he considered it in,.
cninbent on him thus early to address the meeting,
as lie was tine of the persons who had been lustre.
mental in convening it. The Gentlemen who had:
recommended the meeting did not agree as to the
definite steps to be taken on this occasion, buts all
agreed that they would well (Ismer the treatment
*hid/ they had received, and well merited to be
braside.i as the SLATES they were stipposed to he,
did they remain quiescent under the outrage which
oil Saturday last was offered against their rights,
sod persons.—(lUsch cheering.l—lt was u thing
enheard or, that at a meeting convener( by the
High Sheriff of • county, to prepare' a loyal
address to the King, the freeholders should
not be per • dto give expression to sentiments
of loyalty, and fr'rely pronounce their opinion
upon the topics of which that address ought to
be comprised ; and that they should be driven
AT THE POINT OF THE BAYONET from under the
roof of the Court-house. where the meeting was le-
gal, into the open air, where, under the existing
luw, it was illegal to 'tremble. The very law.
which made it so, was enacted by the Blissivtry
whose counsels this county had • 'been called
on to appoove, and constituted a part of the
system of the present Adrnisii.tratiort. This law
was enacted to restrain she free expression of
public 411 .11 in Erigland,...moiler the pretext
of deboininaiing large meetiogs inflammatory
and tumultuous. But no meetings were held under
the open air in Ireland. Ile (Mr. O'Connell) had
attended and spoken at must of those meetings ;
they were all held tinder some roof—tl#ey were
peaceable, mid tint a shadow of excuse could he si-
'edged for extending those laws to Ireland. There
was, however, ass object in extruding them to this
country, the object of preserving the consistency of
the present Miiiistr)'a system. in the government of
Ire hod.— (11~4—Ireland was too upright, too in-
viting for a blow not.to be struck at : like •a man
who at 31 country fair, carrying his held erect
and stately, was knocked down. and, on recovering,
asked " Why lie was knocked down?" was replied
to " that his head was in the way and invited the
hlow.—l Lord hinghter.)—So, too, -thought the
English Minister, and he struck the blow which
invited I • . at unidleiirliog Ireland. " However,
said Mr. O'Connell, .. she is not to" fallen to rise
agsin, she is tint too prostrate to be deterred or di".
enabled fruits making a recuperative ell'ort for her
independence. and the free exercise of the people's
right..—(Nach cheering.)
'rhe brand has entered your souls, and
,You de-
serve to be branded fur ever if you do not exert your
energies to justify yourselves mud vindicate your cha-
racters. The came voice and the oeutiments,which
were spoken at Kiltuaiithaas have thrilled through
every heart in the country, -they-have spoken trum-
pet-tongued the feelings of independence which
beats in every Irish bosom, and I hope they will
he re-echoed through every county in Ireland.—
( Loud opplunse.)—Oh, my frientir, a glorious
opportunity bus burst upon you ; avail yourselves
of it, and prove to the inhabitants of England that
you do not yield to them in love of constitutional
liberty.—(Loral cheering.)—Whatever redriss we
may seek for the grievances which we have suffered,
and patiently endured, let it he sought through the
constitutional rhsuriel.—(.4pplause.)—lt is there-
fore that I move, iu the spirit of the ConstitUtion
under which I live.
" That • Committee of !Mee, persona be appoisled to
take ink) consideration Ike best method of dentaisiline

dress for dirt outrage committed on the freeholders at Kil-
maiesham, un Swords, Mat ; to report to an adjourued
meeting, to be held at D'Arcy's taveru, at two o'clock, on
Thursday."

This motion was seconded by Sir Charles Mor-
el), mild carried unanimously.

The Gerdleareo al
werr—

lord Clunearry

Sir Chao If% Turps
Mr. IV(' II

tted on the Committee

Mr. Firl.y

Mr. %Volilfe
Mr. CUMIN
Mr. Humphreys
Mr. Drw.on
Mr. M•Dunnell
Cagoisio nowtll, and
Mr. Mullru.

Mr. Haui;itus Rowan
Mr. Horne

Dlr. 11

Mr. Hubaud, neocur.

Cxptrtu FOTTAKLL rose, and begged leave to ex-
press his opinion upon the peeress, occasion- fie
yielded to no man in genuine loyalty. He would
be ready to aid the civil power, if occasion required.
Fir, however, thought that the conduct of the
Sheriff might have been accidental, that he was
thrown off his centre, and acted from the
.impulse
of the moment.
Mr. FINLAY was anxious to take the earliest
opportunity of expressing his difference in opi-
nion from his gallant friend who had just st down
respectiog the probable cause of the. recent
outrage at Kilmansham. It could pot be produced
by the operation of accident. The matter was so
enormous and unparalleled, it too much shocked
credulity to suppose how a man, even of minor in-
tellect to the minor capacity of Sir Halliard Steele,
would have stumbled upon et by accident. Viewer;
storm eeeee d with Friends," Magistrates, Lawyers,
Members of Parliament. They head him declare
that lie would diperse by fence that body of Fier-
holders collected there, is their oleo homer by his
special invitation, to express they loyalty to the
King and ioviolable attachment to the Constitution.
Is it possible that all these gentlemen selected for
tlnir several situations of sehatorg rt'ul magistrates,
minting 01 hrr reasons fur their iniehigenee, more
particularly respecting the laws of their 'come-
try, could be ignorant that if thi la.v tabids
die people to meet in the open Mr, and the Gist