The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-16 00:00:00

SOUTH 431E111C,111 P.ITIZIOTS.

We recently gave 61:particulars of the presenta-
tion e tumid of Colours, by Mrs. Purland, in
Dublin. to the regiment under the command of
WDermatt, being one of those)hat form Gen.
D'Evercus's Legion. A dinner was given in coca-
plinient to the General a few days afterwards, and
after many appropriate toasts had been given, the
health of " Mr..Charks Phillips (of the kith Bar)
dud the Emerald Isle" having &vett rapturuuoly
received, Mr. Phillips ruse and said---

My Lend, and Getukn:ea—: sioccet, thank you : to be re.
nwinbewl when n 1 cOuri:iytiluu ate celebrating the cause of
frcednm and h":,:niulty, I cannot fail to be grateful; to be bo
ri-,lue",1314""1:, when a perbonal and valued friend is We object !of
i-ete. :nation, carries with it a double Natl./action ; and yuu
aill allow rue to bay, that if any thing could enhance the plea-
sure of such feeling., it the consciou.nim that our aborting
can give ju,t offence-to no one. Topics too often have risen up
gniungst us, altvre the best filings were painful') at variance,
.where silence would have been guilt, and utterance was misery.
but surely hear, at length, is an occadun where neither sect nor
party aro opposed ; .where every man in the country, siiay clasp
his hrodwr by the baud, and tee! and boast the eisetrie

To unmanade the -slave, to unsceptre the despot, to erect an
altar on the Inquisition's grave, to raise a peorle to the attitude
of freedom, to found the temples of science and of commerce, to
create a constitntimn beneath whose ample ardi every human
creature, no matter what his sect,'lds Moat, or his clinic, may
stand sublime in the dignity of manhood—these are the glorious
objects of this enterprise and the soul 11:11be be imbruted, and
I the heart musi be ossitictl, wine+ dues not glow with the unto.
blink sympathy. Where is the slave se abject as to drily it ?
Where is the statesman who can rise front the page of Spanish
South America, .and :iffoct to commiserate the tall of Spaui ?
Her tyranny. even (rum its cradle to its dreams, has been the
delible disgrace of Christianity and of Europe e it was born in
fraud. baptized in blood. and reared by rapine; it blasphemed
all that was holy—it cankered all that was happy ; use most
simple habits—the most metal institutions--time 'just endeared
8114' lailtfillSiVe customs escaped not inviolate the accursed in-
vader; the hearth, the throne. the slam Isy confounded in one
common ruin ; and a hen the innocent childreri of the Sun con-
fided for a moment in the Christian's yrotnise. what !--oh
shame to Spain ! oh, horror to Christianity ; ob. eternal .stigma
on die name of Europe; what slid they behold?—the plunder
of their fortunes—the desolation of their homes—the ashes of
their cities--theirchildren !muttered without distinction of sex—
the ministers of their faith expiring amid tortures—die person
of their Inca, their lowed, their sacred. their heroic. Inca, quiver-
ing in death upon a burning furnace; and the must natural
and mot excusable of all idolatries, their consecrated sun-beam,
clouded by the murky smoke of an Inquisition streaming with
human gore, and raised upon the ruins of all that they held holy!
"flie,c were the faits of Spain in South America! This is
the fiery and despotic sway for which an execrable tyrant solicits I
British neutrality I Ireland at least, has given her answer.—An
armed legion of het elsueen yoiith bears it at this hour it. thunder
on the waters. and the sails are swelfng fur their brave compa.
pions. I care nut if his tyranny was ten thousand times more
crafty, snore vigilant, more ferodous than it when a people
will it, their liberation is inevitable—their very intelild.s will be
converted into the instruments of their freedom—they will writ
its character even in the blood of their stripes--they. w.M turn
their chains into the weapons of their eniancipauun.
s If it were possible still more to animate diem, let them only
think on the tyrant they have to combat—that caliph., concrnua-
lion of qualities at once the slam opposite, and the most contempt-
ible—timid and sanguinary-effnnuute and ferocious-impious and
superstitious—now embroidering a petticoat, now imprisoning an
hero-to•day kidding to &Coal of nierey,to-morrow lighting the hell
of inquisitiou—at taints embracing his ministerial pauslar, at mid.
ni;Jit starting.fruni &guilty dream, to fulminate his banishment—
the alternate victim of his fury and his fears—faithful only to infidel
pries:waft, which excites hit terrors and fattens on his crimes,
awl affects to worship the anointed slave as lie troubles enthroned
on the bones of his benctiictors !

Who can sympathise with such a monster P Who can see.
utimovert. a mighty empire writhing in the embraces of this
human Boa? My very heart grows faint within me when
thiok.how many thousands limy gallant eattatrytwen hatefallvn,
to crown hint with that ens:mgt./mot diadem—when I reflect
thut genius wrote, and eloquence spoke. and valour gought, and
fidelity died for , while he was tasting the bitterness of cap-
tivity f. and that his ungrateful re titration has literally withered
his realm into a desert. where the widow and orphan weephis
sway, and the sceptic: waves. not to govern but to crush.
.* Never, my Lord, never, Cleve-It we contemplate tile good
they have to achieve. the evil they have to overoome, or the
wrongs they have to avenge—never did warriors march in a more
sacred contest. Their success may be uncertain, but it is tart
uncertain that every age and clime will bless their memories
his their sword is garlanded-with freedom's flowers, and patnot-
lam gives them an immortal biotin, and piety breathe.* on them
An undying 1..1'4;1-atter. I.ct the tyrant menace, and the hitching
tart —wlicrtver Christianity kneels, or freedom breathes. their
,deals shalt be recorded; and when their honoured dust is
gathered :to its fathers, millions they have redeemed will be their
mourners. and an etuanciputed hemisphere their end tit ing menu-
meat. Got then, soldier of Ireland, (turning to Gene al
D'F-vcreux)- . .

• Go where glory waits thee.'
• N(oirczuma's 'pint,* from his bed of cols, through the mist
of ages. calls to you for vengeance; the patriot Cones, in their
dungeon vaults. invoke your-retribution; the graves of your brave
counzryrsien, trampled by tyrant.), k•lszi; they dial fo: fretaltun,
tee clamor ms for revenge ! '
• Go. ..plant the banner of green on the summit of the *Hes.
May victory guide, and mar, ever follow it! If you should
tnumph• the consummation will be liberty ; and it, such a contest
should- you even perish. it will he as martyrs perish—in the blaze
of your own glory. Yts. you tibtill sink. like the Sun of the
Peruvians. whom you oak to libsiate, amid the worship Of a
peopk, and the tear., of a world ; and you will rise rciiniaLtle,
Nfld.:eta, im;rt

During tii*.s ..peeithe Mr. Phillips was frequently interrupted
by the applause ur the rinamany, indium. he sat down tilt checr•
ing imamate' tur wine tiro?.

• "dr. Phillips here allitdts to thl Ate of 3fonta sums, the
1111141 unfortunate and the nio.t Lerch of the mover,dims of Mexico.
The Spahiarle trepannot him into their power, and stretched
him upon a but of red hot curds! When he Will expiring. lie
turnA to one of his followers ',nue tortures mate 711n1
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Look at your Inca,' Le, no you think I arm- an a
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