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DUBLItti rictollek 14.
lIEPtAL OF THE OAIoN.
lliis day air adjourned Quarterly Nlettitig of the
Corporation of Skinners and Glovers oldest City was
held, to reeeiire the Report of the Committee n1)-
pointed to prepare an Address to Lucius CON-
CANNON, Esq. M.P.. relative to hie intruded
motion for • Repeal of the Act of Uoino.
01, the motion of Mr. Wiwi the Report was
brought up and read. It commenced by otlvertirg
to the resolutions which had been at various times
adopted by the Corporation. as declaratory of their
fuel opistion of the unjust principle and ',Hectors,.
owe effects of the Act of Union ; it is stated that the
orpiment. by which that opinion had been chromed
had now received their fullest confirmation from ex.
psnence, and that Ireland every where afforded
convincing evidence of their melancholy truth. It
proceeded to say that the jimmied logos, of co-
ercion producing more exasperated habits of reels.
hence—the failure of revenue and re-ources; the
extinction of trade ; the decay of cities; the des-
titution of artisans; the self-banishment of the
rich; the desolation of the poor; the growth of
crime, famine, and disease—all proved that twenty
years eojoyment of the blessings of the Union, were
the most calamitous and degrading period with
which this country had been ever afflicted. The
Address concluded by alluding to the notice of a
motion fur the repeal of that Act, which the nom
Member had gives' in the last Sessions, and exhort-
ed him to persevere and redeem his pledge, as no.
thing short of such a repeal could afford peraissient
relief to a people whose character it is that they are
poly to he governed by that liberal sod jorlicioui
policy which affords exertion to their generous qua-
lities, and secures the loyalty of the heart.
This Address was carried by acclamation, and it
was resolved that Meurs. WILI.,AM BINJAIIIN sled
JOHN SIDNRY TAYLOR, btethreu of the Guild,
should be deputed to present it to the Honourable
Member in London.

Mr. JoHN SIDNEY TAYLoE said he accepted
the trust with willingness, and was glad that
this great question was at length to be brought
under the review of the Legislature. He could
not, howe►er, omit that opportunity of ex-
pressing a hope that the resolution which they
Guild had just adopted would not be a desultiny
effort or the act of an isolated body, but would
meet with that general stud persevering support
which was worthy • cause of such transcendent
' magnitude. The resolutions of 1810 and 1819
were maintained upon strung grounds; their
validity was acknowledged by the Representatives
of Dublin in their answer to the Address of the
Grand Jury of the County of the City, who at
the former period advanced such sentiments
as thus Guild has always expressed on the sub-
ject of the Union. But there was no result ;
no member then ventured to declare in Perlis-
ment the opinion respecting that question which
he had avowed us the face of his coustitueitts. The
last but most convincing argutueot, that of ex-
perience, might then have been imperfect. It was
now complete. The Act of Union had continued
ever since to fulfil its mission of evil with a rapidity
almost unexampled in the history of cition*, it had
done more to destroy both the irolitical and moral
prospects of this country, than the most roaliginunt
statute which had ever converted low into oppres-
sion. With her political mdependeoce Ireland had
lust her resident proprietors, her productive indus-
tty, her growing manufactures, the coutfoit of her
people, the stability of rational freedom, and the
morel stimulti. to improvement ; she bed been ever
since declining towards that state iu which a nation
exists on the terms of a slave, and with the degra-
dation of a pauper. Her victim were broken, her
energies shaken, and even her hopes almost ex-
hau►ted. Previous to the Act of Union she stood
before the world as the useful and proud ally of
Great Britain, but her history use now only to be
read in the vicissitudes of abject poverty and as.
cage violence, of every mode of coercion and every
fotm of fatality. in short, that Act had never fut.
filled one of the promises of its advocates, while it
had more thau realised the mournful predictions of
its oppoireists. They should come forward in such
manlier as would prove that a compact, which was
founded in injustice and carried by fraud, might
now be dissolved in concurreues with the free stud
solemn consent of both countries. He hoped to
me • great constitutional effort for this purpose
take place throogli all !reined, and conducted its
such • manner so would 'hew it was not wore
earnestly osesmenced Ilan perseveringly and tem-
perately p•rsoed.

It was then revolved, That nor Representatives
Sir R. SHAW, Bart. nal THOMAS ELLIS, El. be
instructed to support Mr. Cortc•umom's unions ;
sod that the Muster, Minaletts, &c. do mut oil then
wish irsid Resolution.