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London, England, 1822-11-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

• - ettiVi4X, to 18.
18.
.[Eros the.*** Patriot".
Yesterday lireiday, • 16th inst.) hie Excellency
'mended a Privy Council, which was held st•the
Council Chamber, Dublin Castle, when four Ba.
routes in the ceenty Kildare were (lettered to be in
a state of disturbance, and extraordinary establish-
ments of pollee were ordered to proceed thither
forthwith. These four Baronies are Eastern Ophaley,
Western Ophaley, Connel, and Kt'cutlet). En-
deavours were made, for some time, by muny of the
principal residents of the county, to avert a measure
so fraught with inconvenience and expense; but
continued outrage has at length rendered din:mere-
live upon the Government to pot Mr. Peel's Act
into opera/Aims, ifs being essential to the security of
the lives and properties of the peaceable inhabitants
of Kildare.

On Tueaday (this day), we believe, his Majesty's
Privy Council will assemble at Dublin Castle, when
Lnrd Combermere will be sworn in a Member of
that Right Honourable. BOard, in presence of his
Excellency the Marquis Wellesley.
We have pleasure in stating that the provincial
Journal. received by this day's (Saturday) post
do not communicate any facts. bearing upon the
state of the country, dim unpleasant nature.

On Saturday *several members of the Corporation
which styles itself the Guild of Merchants, assem-
bled at the Hall, Wellington-quay, pursuant to
the followimnotice:—

GUILD OF MERCHANTS.
Hy the Masters cud Wardens
.44 the Guild of Merchant",

Dublin.

Puissant to Reqeititioa, • Post Hall will be Veld at the
Guild Hall, on Welliegtoo quay, This Day, the 18th instant,
•t One &Clock alteinooo, for the purpose of adopting such
measures as will be most likely to ensure the retire of Ro.
Bert Sutter, Eeq. as Representative of said Guild on the
eesnieg Election, which takeeplace °lithe 19th inet.—Dated
Ibis 14th day of November, 1822.
Signed by Order,
T. aed J. ALLEN, Clerks of the Guild.
_ _

The Muter (Alderman Nunn's?), having taken
the Chair, read • requisition requiring him to call
the meeting, and which he asserted was signed by
twenty-one members.
Alderman A•cHEt and Sir A. B. KING, Mr.
STUDDitT, and several Gentlemen, t•alled on the
Master to read the names of the Requisitionist•.
The MASTER---" No; that I won't ; I wouldn't
gratify you. It's such • Requisition as is quite
satisluctury to me."
Alderman ARCHNII moved, that the Requisition
be read, that it might be seen whether the persons
who signed it were really merchants.
The MssTat refused, and, after some alterca-
tion, the motion wus rejected.

At the desire of Alderman NUGINT, Mr. J. B.
Allousy then took the Chair. After which Alder-
man N enure rose and spoke as follows :
%Ve are called together to-day to perform a great
and important duty, that of taking measures to in.
ante the return of. our well-beloved brother Sutter,
the undaunted supportersand champion of Church
and Stare. We insist defeat the conspiracy of a
certain Janus in this City, who are determined to
put us down; aye. and the Government too is put-
ting us down rather than rising us up, and io this
they are supported by time-serving men who readily
change their polities with every change of Govern.
mew. The time is not far distant when the Govern-
ment, when every Protestant will require and be hap-
py to obtain the assistance of such men as the inde-
pendent, the loyal Robert Sutter, of whom L here
stand thesupporter.--(Shouting.huzzaing,clapping,
&c.)—The present Government is sometimes Pro-
testant and sometime* Csiholie.aud we has• amongst
us our bowing mercenary tools to this and every
prior Administration. Men who revered and Bat-
tered alike the Peels and the Grants; men who
with the loyal Protestant will give the "Glorious
Memory," and with the grumbling Catholic exclaim
against illiberality. I have some of those vascil•
latieg gentry in my eye. and I can tell them that,
ere long, their pusillanimous conduct will fall
upon their heads. [Here the Worshipful Alder-
map cast a significant glance towards Sir A. B.
King, and was interrupted by loud and eoutinued
cheers.] We once had a Protestant Board of Al-
dermen, of *bode loyalty we could boast (aye, but
Mr. Peel was here then)—now we have liberal con-
ceders. philanthropic legislators, and disinterested
peace makers, who has endeavoured,. by armed
force, to smother our annual demonstration of
loyalty to the Protestant House of Brunswick ; but
is there ■ man oho does nut bewail the day the
Statue was not dressed ? Ask the inhabitants of
Sulfllk-street. College-green, &c. [Here
Alderman Nugent went into a detail of depredations
eemsoitted, as he said, by the " Popish rabble."]
These ■re quere times, they cannot last long--
there must be a change some way or other. Gentle-
men, I shall now conclude by calling to your
attention the qualifications of Mr. Sutter. He is
the supporter of the iodependence and prosperity
of the city, the champion of Protestant loyalty,
and the enemy of jobber., and as such well entitled
to the support of this Corporation.—The Aldermen
then produced a resolution, pledging the Guild to
support Mr. Sutter at the election on Tuesday next.
Sir A. B. KING rose with regret to oppose the
adoption of any measure for immuring the return of
Mr. Saltier, fur whom lie had a very high respect ;
but he (Sir A. B. King) had taken an mall to act
fur the interest of the Guild, and that engagement
war paramount to every other consideration. It
would, he conceived, be derogatory from the charac-
ter of the Guild, were its representatives to be com-
posed of discarded candidates from junior Guilds.
Were they to make their Hall a place of refuge for
every disappointed aspirant who say be thought in-
eligible to represent the Guild to which he more
properly belongs; it would be an injustice to Gen-
tlemen who last represented them, and who taw ex-
pect their re-election.

Alderman ASCII'S opposed the resolution upon
the same grenade: I know well, paid he, the pur-
poses for which the return of Mr. Sutter is sought
to be carried under the mask of loyalty--
Alderman NUGINT here interrupted Alderman
Archer, and mud, A'n't I a better Protestant than
yon?"
Alderman Amount I don bt that—l have al.
ways showed myself the Advocate of the Protestant
cause, *ad well never see* to say any prayers upon
beads," The worthy Aldevotan CArciser) then pro.

poses, ss an amendment to Alderman Nugent's re.
solution,

Thattiereittima of Mr. Sutter he refetred to Ile 'Union
Committee, and that when the Onion is brought bark he
should be elected the first speaker to the Parliament of Col.
lege-Erten."

This amendment was seconded by Mr. NEsg.
Alderman NcGENt—.. i• there any gentleman
to speak to this? If not, I'll give it to hon."
A Gentleman observed that the amendment was
nonsense.

Another Gentleman replied the whole proceed-
ings of the day were nonsense.
No one having courage to enter the lists,
Alderman NUGENT approached the table and
said, so daring, so ridiculous, and so shameful an
amendment, lie never keen. I'm not surprised at
Alderman Archer wishing this Guild to reject so
Argus like Robert Sutter. He foond bade Sinter
was too great a stumbling block in the way vi
jobbing ; he finds it•necessary to have an appen-
dage in the Commons to the Tremuryehip; aye,
and he also finds he cannot work his touchstone
every where he pleases—he find. some difficulty in
procunng auxiliaries in the Guild of Merchant.
The Junto who oat io Dame-street the other day
Mud they cannot have every thing M they wish ;
their select lists are all rejected ; wild the secret
injimence of Governntent is exercised to keep out
of the Commons a man who dares to be honest
and loyol.—(Shouts and cheers.)—Formerly the
Board of Aldermen returned the whole thirty-
one members from the Guild of Merchants ;
but I broke through that monopoly ; I would no
longer couseot to enslave you, and in the exer.
cise of list freedom I hope you'll all be loyal
and return -poor Suter. (.4 We will, aye, that
we will," resounded through the hall.) The elo-
quent Alderman whis spoke last boasts of his
bring a Protestaot. Was he miserly. our ?—they say
nut. lie irreligiously introduces the mention of
sayiog prayers ou beads. To ridicule any man's
mode of addressing his Maker is not the princi.
ples of a Protestant, nor the spirit of a Christian ;
Ho man should be scoffed.at for following the
dictates of his cousciruce, or the religion of his
forefathers. I'd be asharu'd to acknowledge
ml-
self such a bigot as you are; I am no enemy
to my Catholic countrymen. I'll tell you I
am the supporter of the Protestant Constitution,
and whenever the Parliament will emancipate the
Catholics I shall bow to their decision and second
their intentions,. But the present is not the [tate
for such concessions ; I am no Castle-feather, place.
hunter, nor contractor; I have no views nor in-
terests to forward, hut I sin the friend of honest
independence, like that of Robert Sutter and Daniel
O'Connell—men who boldly, fearlessly, and un-
disguisedly profess their creed nod their principles,
not like some accommodating Corpnratora who now
hear, and are the ready instruments for accom-
plishing the views of every Lord Lieutenant's Secre-
tary—men who have neither the courage nor dispo-
sition to avow publicly what they profess privately
--and as I now support one man here for his spirit
and independerice, you shall see that at the next
General Election I will, en the same principle, vote
for and aid a man who is the declared friend and
able advocate of the Catholics—l mean the son of
the lamented Henry Grattan. Gentlemen chew the
Dame-street Junto that the dishonourable intrigues
which mere practised in the Corporation of Brewers.
will, in the Guild of Merchiuts, be scouted with
indignation.

Aldermen AICHEI denied being one of any
pony or Jest.; he never del.•gsted his honour nor
eountre to any man—be 'As always ready to sup-
port both.'
Aldomann Kum declared, that he came to the
meeting uninfluenced by the Government, nor dad
he believe the Lard Lieutenant or his Secretary,
interested themselies, or interfered directly or indi-
rectly in the present election. Fle believed they
were wholly indifferent as to whether Mr. Satter
ws ix or out.

After ■ long altercation, frequently interrupted
by shouts, hisses, end scurrilous appellations, and
renewed with increased violence, Alderman Archer
withdrew his amendment.

The MASTS& then read the original Resolution.
pladgiug. the Guild to return Mr. Sutter. The
reading ofthe Resolution *es accompanied by huz-
zits, showy, &c. and pursed with a few dissentients.
Mr. SUTTER tlerri came forward and thanked the
meeting—he made the hackmed professions of zeal,
independence. and loyalty.
Mr. SUTTER said he was farmed oai if the Brew-
ers in tousequence of a deputinion of Publicans
having waited on Messrs. Guinness ■nd threatened
to withhold their custom if they voted for him. Mr.
Sutter then sat •down amidst the waving of hats,
loud huzzas, &c.

Mr. Aacesa (son of Alderman Archer, who had
left the room) demanded of Mr. Sutter some expla-
nation of his stack on his (Mr. A.'.) father.--Mr.
Sutter not immediately coming forward, Mr. Archer
said, " Come forward, Mr. Sutter, as a man, and
don't shrink back like a ---." (Order. Order !)
The Mama ►aid he could vestal for Mr. Sub•
ter's Courage.
Mr. SUTTIM explained.
Mr. Pim was called to the Chair. and thank. re-
turned to Alderman Nugent fur his spirited and
dignified conduct.