The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-26 00:00:00

IRELAND.

We copy from the Dublin Morning Post the following
speech, delivered Icy Mr. O'Connell at a dinner given to
him in t',,e pit of the " Royal Hibernian Arena," on
Thursday, preparatory to his setting out to take hie seat
in the rew Parliament. The Dublin Morning Post
says—" In the back of the boxes we observed a great
number of our fair countrywomen; the top and middle
galleries were crowded beyond excess; and, altogether,
there could not be less than 1,200 persons present." The
health of Danish O'Connell having been given from the
Chair by Mr. Marcus Costelloe, the Barrister
Mr. O'CoNsiant, rose, and, after some observations on
the repeal of the Union, said—Connaught, Munster, and
leinster, were up for the repeal ! All he required was
Ulster to join the cause, and it would eettainly he trium-
phant! ! M. O'Connell next having posed a warm and
well-merited eulogium on Mr. Morgan, of the Newry
Examiner, and Mr. Finlay, of the Northern
proceeded :--In the beginning of this week, you saw
an English soldier, a hireling scribe at the Castle, weit-
ing down the freedom of cur country. I had not be-
fore given my opinion upon that infamous act,-4 had
remained silent until I had counselled the people,
and obtained their pledge to obey the law—to keep
the peeve. Having succeeded in obtaining • that pro-
mise, I know the people would rather die than
violate it. I shall now then speak my mind upon
the act of this English soldier.—(fleur, hear, hear.)--A
arraign that paltry, contemptible little Engtkth whiter,
that had the audacity to put Ma pitiful aud contemptible
name to an atrocious PoligNe proolamation—(Loud
cheers)—and that, toe, in Ireland, my country—in this
green land-,,the land of Brownlow—the country of Grist-
tan, now in his grave—(flear)—the land of Chat-1044100,
and of 70,000 volunteers, the heroes of the inuaimrat period
of 1782.—(Cheers.)—In that conot‘l, it it that a
wretched English scribe—a chiin;ai child of Aniline and of
war, urged on by hit tiltty, pitiful lawyerlinge, put kis
vile name to hit paltry proclamatiou, putting dawn free-
men.-,-((%heers.)—" I would rather he a do+r, and hay the
tooon;'7 than the Irishman who would tensely submit to
so infamous a proelatuatkl I have not opposed it
hitherto, because that would implicate the people, and give
our enemiot, fUnglish Major-General and his limps.
ling Staff, a triumph.—(Hear, hear.)-13ut I will op-
pose it ; and that, too, nut in the way that the paltry
Castle scribe would wish—by faro, So; Ireland is not
in a state for repelling force by force., Too short a period
has elapsed since, .114, comic of contention between Prates.
tans and Catholics WV removed—too little tittle Imo been
given for healing the wou4 of totious eenteutiost, to
allow Ireland to use vhysical *Jive ill the attainment of her
right(, pC t/te nstosolskueut of wrong, Catholics and
VVotvstalltEl ate rant, as yet, sufficiently reconciled to each
cttller. And I know why. %%item is the Catholic that
has kept alive the spirit of discord ? Show me the Ca-
tholic who would refuse to shake his fellow ProtesteJA
by the hand of reconciliation, " and I'll take, forth
sod put a mark upon him."—(hear, oheers.)—Why
theadd not the Protestants u(3;r4ind be actuated by similar
motives? I are ri.,tw,hey are. It is a calumny t; W,;l
Protet,;,h nabitl and creed to say that they me ,ippitiett to
ieceecinutton are' national prosperity,.r (leers. ace
et the progri as of reconcitiat4.4, la no, completed, and
until it is, lrelmilk tikid4pla Woad be too weak iar
the physical 4ree or tier etwuncti. I do not advae;kte the
PisAy of physkcal forest at any tin lOodi tinbid drat
such aatesire should influence Ira liducte I only allude
to the'eirennittanee to e,110,,t tl.at, eyed were physical three
justifiable, liel4o i‘t not; now in a condition to VAMIIIt its
deplAy....,Clieers.).— Well, I obeyed, tha people obeyed '
the proclamation; they slid not s4ibleit to the hews „au_
date of a paltry 11 never •
will submit to t,setti audacity; and 1, here Hinnies, that I
never wilk ce3su to entsul the.s.wiscceants, shall 1, call
;hell(? ibit would he too Olive, hut wit

call them the despicable, base, miserable, p iltry creatures,
with bad heads and worse he wts, who issued that nefarious
proclamation.—(Cheers.)—ln that place where, and at
that period when, reason shall be listened to—l do not mean
I to say that 1 shall he attended to in the rotten borough.
mattering Parliament—but I trust the day is not far dis-
tant when reason shall be heard, and when fine and im-
prisonment shall mark the foul conduct of Secretary Ma-
jor-General Sir Henry Hardinge.—(Cheers.)—lle usurped
the prerogative of the Lord Lieutenant alone, greater, I
admit, than any that the King is invested with, and I have
no hesitation in steting that for this he is indictable by
law.—(Here Mr. Steele entered the house and was re-
ceived with the most entbusia.tie cheering, that lasted fur
several minutes. The warm greeting between him and the
Liberator elicited renewed bursts of ap, Isuse.)—ls there
an Irishman who does not feel his rush back to the
heart—is there an Irishman whose veins du not throb
with indignation--when be recollects that there exists in
this country a law the most infamous and unconstitutional
that ever yet was enacted, and under which a wretched
Castle soldier soribe had the audacity to fulminate his in-
famous proclam rtion against the rights and I,herties of
Ireland?—(Loud cheers )—Sir, it would be a monstrous
libel upon any Irishman to say that he doe* not feel
deeply indignant at this audacious 'enactment.—(Hear,
hear, hear. )—lt makes the will of one man the law.—
Now, simple despotism is precisely the same; so that we
have in Ireland, in the pm sun of an English Lord, a
despot the most complete in Europe. The law which
constitutes this despot is a barbarous act of military
despotism—an outrageous exhibition of martial tyranny
—the force of the cannon, and the bayonet, and
the sabre—dragoons and artillery—horse, Brat, and all,
against reason, ri,;llt, and justice. It is tyranny in it a
blackest, foulest shape. The insolent Englishman who
used it—and in its use infringed the law—may talk of his
prowess—may boast of his duelling proeensities. Oh !
would to God the sacred cause of freedom were between
us in sore as sacred conflict, where the lover of his
country and of Christian charity and peace might appear
with honour. My blood boil* when I see a wretched
English scribe dare, in the tare of !leaven, to trample
down the people of Ireland with his iron heel. And is
this to continue? If I live it cannot be.—(Cheers.) It is
an audacious insult to this country to have framed such an
Act of Parliament. That insult is increased by their send.
jog over here an ignorant, insolent, haughty military scribe
to carry it into execution.---(blear, bear.) We must have
our King, our own Parliament, our Lords and Commons.
A better King we could not have than William the
Fourth—may God bless him !—(Cheers.) The heroes of
1782 decided, when they tortored to !reload her independ-
ence, that this country would be bound only by laws
made by her own King, her own Lords, and her own
House of Commons. That period shall return—lre-
land shall again be free—the Union shall be repeabl.
(Cheers.) Every Corporation in Ireland is doubly bound
and sworn to the question. I have a bundle, some feet
high, of petitions, and resolutions, and pledges, adopted
by the Corporation of Dublin against the fell measure of
the Union. The whole island is thrice sworn to repeal
that iniquitous measure. And are we the sons of perjurers
—4 profligate Beliars of sacred honour? Oh no !
(Cheers.)—Grattan said he rocked the cradle of Irish
liberty, and followed her hearse to the grave. I have
snood by the grave, and I have lived to blow the blast for
h\T resurrection.--(Tremendous cheering. have
spoken thus tediously—(No, no,)—but I have done so be-
cause this is the last time I shall have an opportumty of
addressing an Irish auditory for some months, On Sunday.
after Mass, I leave my li,!lovail Ireland for another land—
when I shall endeavour to benefit my country to the best
of my ability, and wish renewed seal; but with what sue.
csss, in an English Parliament, a little time will show. At
all events, we must persevere in our conatitutionel exer-
tions to restore Ireland to her people, and her people to
Ireland—keeping the peace, violating no law, doing in-
jury to no man, forgetting old feuds, forgiving forinerene-
mica, proffering the hand of friendship to every goad Irish-
man, and labouring in a splendid glorious rivalry with one
another to render raid Ireland what she ought to be--and
what Nature and Nature's God intended she should be.
(1 he lion, Member resumed his seat amid loud and lon-
contiuued cheering.)

(From a Morning Paper.)
SIR HENRY HARDINGE AND MR. O'CONNELL.

'Wiliest One o'clock.
I have this moment learned, on positive authority, that
the Adjutant-General, Colonel d'Aguilar, has waited on
Mr. O'Conn.ll, at his house in Merrion-square, un the part
of Sir Henry Hardinge, to require an explanation or dis-
avowal of the following passages from a speech reported in
the Freeman's Journal this morning, purporting to have
been delivered by Mr. O'Connell at the dinner last
night In that country it is that a wretched English
seribass.s chance child of fortune anti of war-.urged On
by his paltry pitiful lawyerlings...-puts his vile name to his
paltry prudently ion putting down freemen." In answer
to this Mr. O'Connell wrote a memorandum, of which
the following is the substance

Mr. O'Cownta.t. began by disclaiming that he bed a
right to avow or disavow any expressions attributed to hin►
by the newspapers. lie would not triter into any expla-
nation grounded upon the principle' of duaing, which
lie total y repudiated. lie spoke of Sir Henry llardinge.
in Ida public capacity, with the contempt and indignation
which his oouduct, he thought, merited, in connro;ting
violent act of despotism against the liberties of Ka country.

Mr. O'CoNtext.t. then stated, that having gone as far
in the above as he had a right to do in the way of explant.
tion, lie would now, in conaeipence of the courteous mar-
ner of Colonel d'Aguilar's communication, gratuitously,
and for Aim, disavow settle exaggerated expre•siens fn
the report of the Freeman, He eli,l not say English
scribe, but English sotutir4—be did not sty ebtence child
of fortune, but child of fortune. The rest of that sem.
tense he did, to substance, say. Colonel d'Aguilar then
took his leave, and both gentlemen parted on the most
courteous terms,