The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-09 00:00:00

open the Courts to the poor as well as the rich, for the
poor wanted law as well as the rich—perhaps muolt more.
It was a saying that the Courts were open to all—they
ought to be ; but, as Horne Tooke said, the London Ta-
vern teas open to a'l as well as the Courts, but what was
the use of that to the poor?—(Loud cheers.)—He wanted
to see open to the poor, Courts of Lew, where they would
not be fleeced, and taxed, and shorn es they now were.
He wanted to see those tolls broken down which blocked
the roads to the Courts of Law. He would say, and say
it boldly, that no Government was a just Government that
did not pay the e. s's of the people obtaining justice. The
Government paid the Judges, the Army, the Navy, and
for collecting the taxes, And for Heaven knew what ; and
he would add, that the Government ought also to pay all
the officers and costs, so that the people might obtain juts.
tics free of expence. He wished to see a very Radical Re-
form in those Courts.—( Hear. )—Air to the lionise of Com-
mons, as it was called, he wanted to see a Radical Reform
there also. What the people wanted, and what he wanted
too, was a " people's House."—(Cheers.)—What they
had now was an instalment of the House of Lords, sitting
in another Chamber. This was the first time, and it teas
a cause of gratitude with him, that he had this opportunity
of speaking—that he could make a public profession of his
principles on the English stage of politics; and all would
admit, he trotted, that his first appearance was charac-
terised by all becoming modesty and diffidence.—(A laugh.)
—When he first appealed to his native county of
Clare for their votes—and where he obtained such ti itnn-
pliant numbers of fearless, unpurches ride votes, in spite
of the frown of landlords and the proffers of money—he
promised the honest, independent, and bold men of Clare
that, if elected, he would still take every opportunity to
obtain a people's House of Parliament. And he made the
like promise to the women of Clare.—(A laugh.)—He
was now in a country where the women were famed for
their beauty and angelic loveliness, and who deserved all
the admiration we could bestow on them. But they were
not more lovely, nor more deserving of the admiration of
man than were the women of Clare ; and to them he ha
promised that he would go hack and tell them what efforts
he hail made to promote the cause which he had so near
at heart. He should have the opportunity of telling them
that he had realised his promise—that the opportunity
which presented itself he had not suffered to go by. Ile
would now tell the Meeting what were the objects of his
pursuit. When young—when his blood flowed rapidly
in its course, he railed his voice in the cause of liberty ;
arid now, when he might be said, as far as years were con-
cerned, to be sinking into the " sear and yellow"—when
the blood was receding front the check, his heart beat as
warmly as ever for liberty.—(Cheers.)--Not front feel-
ings of personal ambition—not from mean and mercenary
motives, for the sake of lucre—no, no, so help hint God!
to achieve unadulterated human liberty, to procure
the largest sum of human happiness, and to put au
end to a monstrous oligarchy—(Load cheering)—to
procure a just equality of just laws for all, which could
not be obtained till the oligarchy was destroyed—that oli-
garchy which was the cause of heaping sufferings on mil-
lions who did not deserve to stiffer. Ile vowed that while
he lived he would nut cease his exertions to obtai❑ such
liberty ; and he would urge it by means of peaceable and
rational agitation.—(Continued cheers.)—That had been
his ♦ow in Ireland, and Ireland had triumphed ; he had
joined in the exertions for Ireland, and that country was
As free as they were. He had felt that oppression endured
for centuries was monstrous, and that the interference be-
tween man and his God was blasphemous. He considered
the act criminal.—(Hear.)—He felt too sincerely in his
own person the value of having opinions respected, not to
respect the opinions of men who sincerely differed from
him ; but he always set that man down as a hypocrite who
professed to be sincere in his religious opinions, and yet
maintained that the force of the law was required to pro-
tect those opinions.--(Hear.)—Well, then, he had suc-
ceeded in emancipating his country from that degradation ;
and now—as was the case of Mr. Petre, as regarded the
" St. Leger"—having won one stake, Englishmen beheld
him ready to start for another.—(Load and continued
cheers.)—And what was the prize for which he would
now contend? He would tell them in one word three
times repeated—(A laugh.)—lt was " the Constitution,
the whole Constitution, and nothing but the Constitution."
(Cheers.)—To gain it he would have theta ad( pt mea-
sures similar to those which succeeded in Ireland, the
object being the end of the Oligarchy. Should he ask
them whether the House of Commons represented the
people, why they would laugh at him for putting the ques-
tion, and he should not be able to refrain front laughing
while he was asking the question.—(Cheering.)—Tivo
thousand persona-2,000 persons, be it known—returnsal
a majority of Members in the Commons House of Parlia-
ment, to represent the interests and feelings and rights—
what remained !—of 30,000,000 of people. Oh ! eternal
shame on those who had done thews things ; and; o'l,
more eternal shame on those who bore them—who suffered
such a system to last ! If a man stole a sheep he was
hurried off to the Old Bailey, and justly ; but those who
deprived them of their rights, who thus afflicted millions,
why they could—go home and pray. But the people