The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-25 00:00:00

EVEN (;_ j!III ON .

MOVEMENT IN IRELAND.

AGGREGATE MEETING OF THE CITY AND

COUNTY OF DUBLIN.
(Abridged from the Dublin Evening Pest of Thursday.)
A msgnifieent meeting tools place this day in the exten-
sive open ground betweeL Beresford-place and the Custom.
house, for the purpose " of adopting an addiese, expres-
sive of unbounded gratitude to her Majesty for the wise,
firm, cod constitutionsl exercise of her royal prerogative
on a late memorable occasion, and of a determination to
support the .Ministry of her choice—the friends of the
people."
Long before the commencement of the proceedings,
thousands were thronging to the place of meeting, and
when the chair was taken there were, at least, tkent?
thousand persons on the ground. The immense multitude
continued momentarily to increase to such an ext4nt, as to
amount, even before three o'clock, to a: Mast forty
thousand.
At tree o'clock, the Right Hon. L ird CsoNcoaßY took
the chair.
IFS LORDSHIP said that it was Lot the ti,.st time he ap-
peared in that character amongst his fellow-countrymen.
He had hitherto presided over meetings complaining of `.
hardships and great grievances, and seeking in vain for
their redress ; be was, however, there to rejoice with them,
and join in she praises of their amiable, lovely, and vir-
tuous Queen.—( Immense cheering.) When the people
considered the plots and designs that were being planned
against their liberties by the astute and unprincipled leaders
of their enemies—the address and perseverance with which
they pressed their designs, had induced them to endeavour
to entrap their youthful Sovereign, who had always exhi-
bited a strong feeling of love for`lier subjects, and particu-
larly for those of Ireland.—(Cheers.) The Queen had
acted with the utmost spirit and judgment. Although
distant front my friends in England, I would tell
them they have reason- to be rejoiced that the Tories did
not come into power. I would ask them do they remem-
ber Peterloo. The people of England should be at their
post, or they will have another Tory Ministry and a
second Peterloo.—( Hear, hear.) I have to apologise for
detaining you so long; but it is impossible, when I find
myself amongst you, to refrain from giving expression to
my feelings. I wish to tell you how anxiously Igo with
you—how my heart and soul is with you—how I love you,
and wish that your cause and the cause of our country may
be prosperous.—( Loud cheering, which lasted for several
minutes. )
Mr. EVANS then proposed the following resolution ob-
serving—We are now at rived at a most eventful crisis—the
struggle of the next six months may decide the fate of
these countries. We cannot eventually be forced under the
desperate yoke of Toryism, but what scenes of blood may
not occnr in the meantime, unless the people bestir them-
selves in the vindication of their rights.—(Loud cheers.)
" Resolved—That we have seen with the deckst in-
terest the recent struggle of the Tory faction to establish
in their hands a power which should domineer over the
Sovereign and trample on the people, and we have con-
templated with the most enthusiastic admiration and ardent
gratitude, the just and noble spirit of firmness, and of amis.'
ble feeling, with which our beloved and revered Queen
resisted the machinations of party, and triumphed for
herself and the empire over the enemies of both the one
and the other."
Sir THOMAS ESIIONDE, Bart., seconded 'the resolution,.
Mr. ST. GEORGE, High Sheriff of the county Leitrim,
in a very able speech, proposed the next resolution_
That the address now read be adopted, and presotted to
her Majesty in person ; and that we do request that es
many as possible of the Irish Members of both Houses of
Parliament, and of the gentlemen who called, the present
meeting, do attend the presentation of the address."
Mr. J. J. BAGOT then came forward to second the
resolution. As soon as the cheering with which he
was received subsided, he said that be considered it
a very high honour to be permitted to take a
part in a public meeting on such an occasion as the preseet.
He asked them would they suffer that the Royal preroga-
tive—the brightest jewel of their young Queen's diadem--
the right of selecting her private friends and companions, ,
should be snatched from her by an insolent faction ?--
(Loud cries of " No, no.") He knew they would not;
and it was to uphold the Queen in the assertion of her
rights that they were assembled. He, therefore, had, great 1.
pleisure in seconding the resolution proposed by his friend
from Leitrim.

The resolution was then ixissed amid loud cheer
M.
WICK addressed the meeting at mr.ich length
and concludeEd y moving the following adtircs :
" To her Most Gracious Majesty tine Queen.
" We, the inhabitants of the city and co unty of Dublin,
beg leave, at this important crisis of puV,c affairs, humbly
to tender to your Majesty the expressran of our dutiful and
devoted attachment to your Royal. Person and throne, and
of our heartfelt admiration of tint •F,oniptitude and firmness
with which your Majesty has, Upon a recent conspicuous
occasion, asserted the coastitvcional rights of your crown,
and the naturally but equal./..; sacred prerogatives of your
sex.

" In offering to your 7,lajesty the assurance of these our
sentiments, we cannot abstain from adding, that ghat as is
our admiration, it if it be possible, exceeded by our
gratitude.
The speetae}e of a youth,fiul Queen sepaitted from the
advisers in 'Thor.' she confided, and triumphantly repelling,
alone and of )%erself, a sudden and offensive invasion of her
regal and sr cial privileges, is a subject for general and
lasting pra'.se. But in us, your 111jesty's loyal Irish sub-
jects, it a iso excites feelings of the most sincere and pro,
found tb ankfulness, when we reflect upon the consequences
to our country of the just and noble spirit displayed by our
Sovereign throur„heut this memorable transaction, upon the
blessings which it promises to continue, and the disasters
which it has averted.

" We, accordingly, beg that your Majesty will be graci-
ously pleased to accept our most dutiful and deep!elt
thanks, assured, as we are, that your Majesty, in maintain-
ing your undoubted prerogative as the Queen of these
realms, has rescued Ireland from the domination of a fac-
tion which, in its onexampled attempt upon the rights of
the Crown, has only manifested that same spirit of delmtic
rule of which tiur history supplies too many precedents,
and which would render its restoration to power in this
country the most afflicting of national calamities.
" Wc
but ardent wish that the period may shortly arrive when
your M.ajesty may in person receive the enthusilstic homage
of th': most sincerely loyal portion of your dutiful subjects,
the., brave and generous people of Ireland."
Mr. JOHN Powan seconded time motion, which passed
amidst enthusiastic applause.
Mr. WORTHINGTON moved a resolution calling upon
Ministers to support a Corporate Reform Bill and a
franchise zimilar to that enjoyed by England and Scot-
land. It was seconded by Mr. John Martin, and passed
unanimously.
Mr. BENRY GkATTAN moved a resolution, calling upon
Ministers to stand firmly by the Queen, to abandon
the doctrine of finality, cud adopt the principla of pro-
gressioa in the improvement of our political institutions.
—Passed.
The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr. Cros-
thwaite, Mr. Wolstenholme, Mr. Mdiony, Mr. Curran, and
Mr. O'CONNCLL, who, in the course of hi s speech, said
—" I shall go to England bearing with me the wishes and
intentions of my fellow-countrymen.—( Cheers.) I shall
tell the Ministry that justice has not been done to Ireland
—(Applause)—that I support them because they are now
the supporters of the Queen, to preserve that excellent
young creature front the insults and depravity of the Tory
faction.—( Loud cheers.) And here, mark my words, let
them go to the world on the wings of the public press—l tell
von if the Tories came into power again, she would not sur-
wire six months. No; I emphatically repeat it, before six
months had elapsed her worldly existence would have closed,
and another victim would be added to those Royal person-
ages who have been deprived of life for the same intriguing
purposes.—( Cheers.) To be sure, Peel or Welling-
ton, or ary of the foremost men of that party woutle. not be
capable of committing such a crime ; but I say, and say
truly, the underlings would.__( Hear, hear.) Yes, the un-
derlings would, and in order to satiate their thirst for the
ascension of the Orange Kirtg of Hanover to the throne,
they would victimise the fairest and most excellent monarch
that ever swayed the sceptre of England."
Lord Cloncurry having left the chair, Mr. St. George
was called thereto, and the thanks of the meeting were
passed to his Lordship with the heartiest acclamation.
The meeting separated in the most orderly mariner, after
cheering for the Queen, Mr. O'Connell, Lord Cloncurry,
&c. &c.

The movement in favour of the Queen and -Reform
already extends over the greater part of Ireland.
Numerous are the meetings everywhere almost daily held
to address the Queen, on her zesistance to the late at-
tempted encroachment on her rights, so contrary to usage
and repugnant to her Majcsty's feelings. Among other
places from which grateful addresses have proceede4, is
Rathcormack, where the Tories left the bloodiest trTccs
of their last short official reign. TLc meeting was at-
tended by the Widow Ryan, and by eight of the men who
were wounded in her haggard on that awful day whyp the
order rants in her cars for the slaughter of her son. A
correspondent of our Dublin Contemporary says—" Could
her Majesty but have heard the eloquent prayers for her
health and happiness offered up by this widowed mother
of a slaughtered son, she would have thought them more
than a set-off for all the scurrilous and ribald attacks of the
profligate Tory press."

MEETINGS TO ADDRESS THE QUEEN.-Re-
ports of meetings crowd in upon us with such frequency
and overwhelmium rapidity that we cannot find room to-
day for even a bare enumeration of the places whence
these grateful manifestations of loyalty emanate.