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martial distinction, and in civil life to the benefit
of religious liberty.—/Great applauw.)—SirJoha
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had seen what Catholic soldiery had achieved the
Ifield, and he hod not forgotten their devotion when
the brittle was over.—/Great applause.)
The gallant Officer's health was drunk with
great enthusiasm.
Sir Joan DOYLE row, and was received with
warm plaudits. The gallant officer expressed his
sincere thanks for the honour they had done hon.
As one of the Vice-Presidents of this Society he did
imagine he might have hero called upon, when
their health, were drunk, to say eornething, to pay
his proportion of the common debt ; hut he was
wide unprepared to be called upon in this mouser;
he felt, therefore, under difficulty and einberresi-
ment even greater than leis countrymen were gene-
: rally placed in. when tilt.), were compelled, notwith-
standing their propensity to blunder, to speak on a
amides) without consideration.—(4 laugh.)—There
was another difficulty he had to encounter, hut had
it iit common with every man in the room—it was
tl 4 difficulty of following their illustrious Chairman
in alluding to the sues its of a benevolent Institution,
• difficulty that to him (Sir Julio) was hopelessly in-
surmountable—it was impossible it could be other-
wise so long as inch cultivated talents as the illus-
trious Chairman's were usefully (as they must
always be) employed. mid exercised iu the cause of
charity, with ail efleel to which all yielded the pre-
eminence. The elorpieuce of their illustrious Chair-
man must live so loog as they bad hearts to fet I for
the afflictions of their fellow.creatures—(App/ause)
—it was an eloquence that must be reigreven on their
hearts—it eniafeded from an honest breast, ift.d
must go to lions st hearts—(Great applaase.)—it
was a happy omen for such an Institution as this to
find the Chair of it. animal Meeting filled by the
son of their beloved Sovereign—to ate their Chair
supported by the Representative of the Sovereign
of another State (the Spertish Ambassador), whose
presence precluded the possibility of speaking of him
vs be deserved. File (Sir John) had been for twenty
years one of the Vice-Presidents of the St. Patrick's
Benevolent Institution, which was under the coon-
defiance and protection of his R. H. the Noce
Regent, and of other illustrious Dukes of the same
family, who gave Dot only the value of their high
mamrs, the wriest of their purses to promote the ob-
jects of such Institutions, but what was of still
greater value—ttlist in a country like this had au
influence greater than the law itself—an temple
which spread their benevolent purpose—winch, in
fact, made it thefos/rion for people of high Faulk to
be charitable, and rendered it necessary for them to
attend at the meetings of public Institiotions.—
He hid no meanie of recording the benefit of this
great example set by the members of the Royal
Family—the record was, however, indelible—it was
imprinted upon the tablet of those charities which
were destined to give succour to the &strewed, and
protection to the children of affliction. Softie allu-
sion had been made by the illustrious Chairman to
whet his feteiinge and practice had beets in Isis
military capacity. He dared not trust himself to
descant upon that topic. He would, therefore,
content himself with saying. that when he was
called upon to lead his soldier, into the field of
battle, he found them ready and eager to obey that
cull. It was not happily required of him to ex-
dude the Catholic soldier from the tight, or to ask
him, when he was shout to march to death, what
road to heaven he meant subsequently to take. It
was not happily necessary, in those trying and cri-
tical moments. to catechise the Catholic soldier
before he was permitted to spill his blood in the
service of his cniontry. The soldier fought when he
was called on to fight ; he sealed the test of his
loyalty in the field ; mid by his self-devotion
to his duty and his country, recorded a proof of his
attachment to discipline and his couittry, which no
anathema of a speculative bigot could shake or un-
dervalue with any liberal main.—(Load plaudits./
—The gallant Officer concluded, by expressing
his cordial good wishes fur this Institutiou, and
making some humorous observations un the itisi-
'motion that the English, as well as the Irish, ought
to co-operate with so equal purse, as the poor
children who were the objects of the Cita' ay were
born in this country. 'fhe gallant Officer contended
for the integrity of the scion stock.—(Appleiese.,
The health. of the Vice-Presidents were then
drunk. and the Rev. Dr. Collins returned thanks
iu an eloquent speech.
At eleven o'clock the Royal Duke quitted the
rl Chair, and by the reiterated desire of tins Meeting
Sir John Doyle took his place, and kept up the
festivity of the Meeting until a late hour.