The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We this day insert at full length the address of Mr.
O'Connell, of which we yesterday could publish only
an outline. The foul attempts incessantly made by
the Tories to hold up the Irish portion of the Legis-
lature, a, distinguished from the English portion, by
a brand of inferiority, naturally leads Mr. O'Connell
to repel the indignity Dressed to his country. We are
quite satisfied with the spirit and youthful energy of
the Irish in our own day, without wishing to concern
ourselves with the doings of that nation during the
dark ages, " whea Ireland shone a glorious light of
literature and religion—educated the youths of Britain
and of the Continent ;" and, under other circum-
stances, we might object to this part of Mr. O'Con-
nell's address ; but under the provocation of the at-
tempt tidally to lower a people, inferior to none in
the qualities of body or mind, much allowance is to
be made for wounded feelings. Burke, when dwelling
on his services as a justification of his pension, pro•
tested against its being thought that he was dissatisfied
with what he had received. " One language, he ex-
claimed, to a gracious Sovereign, another to an insulting
foe." What the Tories mean by their insults to Ire-
land we really cannot understand. Do they wish to
dissever the ties which connect together the two
islands ? Do they wish to destroy the possibility of
the return of their party to power, by creating an in-
delible impression on the Irish mind that they loathe
and detest the very time of Irishmen, so that the very
idea of a Tory Government would be considered by
that susceptible people as a reign of terror? Whe-
ther under any circumstances it might be possible for
Tories to retain office, with the detestation of them
which their conduct must have called forth in Ireland,
is a question we are not bound to answer ; but this
we will sac, that, with the feeling against them in
Ireland, a Tory Administration would be productive of
unspeakable calamity in that country.
Mr. O'Connell observes :
I wish to show forth, in the presence of the inhabitants
of Eur'ane, who have their eyes fixed and their hopes de-
pendent on the state of British politics, the atrocious and
unspeakable iniquity of that faction in England, which, led
on, alas! by their clergy, clamorously refuse to recognise
our services and virtues, or to admit our title to an equa-
lity of civil rights and privileges.
The struggle of the vile Tory-Conservative faction in
England to continue the reign of partiality and inequality
of rights in Ireland—to re-establish a corrupt and unjust
administration of the laws—to devote once more the Irish
people-to the emaciating cruelty of a malignant and bigot-
ted party, already loaded with crime, and stained with
blood—the struggle which the Tory-Conservative faction
in England, with ten thousand clergymen swelling their
train, and instigating their worst passions, are making to
trample Ireland once again in the dust, and to restore
every iniquity, however sanguinary, every injustice, how-
ever revolting—this struggle is to the last degree disgust-
ing to every man possessing one single particle of integrity
or common honesty.
The English parsons, and lordlinge, and landed proprio-
tors are in immense multitudes banded together, in order
to perpetuate and to aggravate all the sufferings and oppres-
sions of the Irish people. The spirit of national hostility
and Contempt mixes congenially with the paltry malignity
of religious bigotry, and all these foul passions combined
together have acquired in England a strength and a vio-
lence which can be resisted and subdued only by a combi-
nation of all the friends of civil and religious liberty in both
countries, and especially by conducting that combination
with the utmost discretion, prudence and wisdom.
This enumeration of the hostile forces naturally
leads Mr. O'Connell to specify the forces of the com-
bination favourable to Ireland. At the head of the
combination he very properly places the Queen, and
he does justice to the parental virtues of which her
Majesty has had the benefit. He pays also what we
believe to be a well-deserved tribute to the good sense
of the Queen's uncle, the King of Belgium, " the
most popular Monarch on the Continent." - Hs next
ranks her Majesty's Ministers in the same category.
" We never before, "he observes, " saw a Ministry
who were not disposed rather to join our enemies than
to assist us:" Next to the Queen and the Ministry,
are to be placed the Irish nation. "At present the
Irish Protestants, in great and increasing numbers,
have joined in the patriotic cry of justice to Ireland.
We have at present twenty, probably one hundred
Protestants, in the ranks of time friends of Ireland
for one who joined us before emancipation." He
then turns to Scotland, the honest and true Reformers
of which country are with them to a man. " There
are (he secs) amongst that shrewd amid intelligent
people none of those piebald politicians whom I have
so well denominated Tory- Radical." In England
also they have many and many friends amongst intel-
ligent, and just Englishmen, especially in the great
towns and cities. The enmity of the agricultural
electors he attributes to the influence of the clergy.
Mr. O'Connell then enters on the obstacles which
" impede the honest views and just intentions of the
Court and Ministry towards Ireland." One of these
obstacles is the large Tory minority in the House of
Commons. And this leads him to the consideration
of the danger which peculiarly threatens the Irish
members from election committees. "If (he ob-
serves) the Tories of the present Parliament be of the
same stamp with those of the last, it would be
quite vain for any Irish Reeformcr to exoece justice
from a Tory committee. I may be toll that the
committees are sworn, and that they will respect
the sanctity of an oath ; to which my reply is,
that it will be well if Tory committees in future
respect their oaths ; but I have known many instances
in which former Tory committees totally disregarded
that solemn obligation, and worked the greatest ini-
quity, without the slightest qualm of conscience.
Heaven protect us from Tory committees I! I" We
are not sorry that the infatuation of the Tories, in
subscribing to a fund for the fomenting petitions
against Irish returns, has fixed the public attention
betimes on the flagrant injustice about to he attempted
against the representatives of the Sister Island. This
must be met in a proper way. The Reformers would
be ninnies, indeed, to allow the Tories full swing in
their conspiracy against the rights of the electors of
Ireland. Mr. O'Connell, who is a practical man,
comes then to the consideration of what is to be done
by the people of Ireland and their representatives.
11e advise 3 them to rally round the Ministry and
the Queen. Though Ministers will not be able
to achieve all they desire for Ireland, they cannot
be prevented from doing much practical good to it.
They will give impartial judges and assistant-bar-
risters, make the police force really protective,
check and control some of the tyranny of the magis-
tracy, and increase the number and enlarge the juris-
diction of dispassionate and intelligent stipendiary ma-
gistrates. As an inducement to them to support
Ministers, lie draws a picture of what they would have
to expect should the Orange Tory faction be once
again in power. He then explains what justice to
Ireland principally demands. As to time ballot he says
it appears scarcely credible to him that any honest and
conscientious man can be opposed to it. In adverting
to the pouse of Lords he sacs he heartily wishes that
the solution of the question, what is to be done with
the House of Lords ? 'nay be peaceable and blood-

less :
The Lards (he observes) are not despots without rational
motives ; they desire to continue to quarter their younger
sons and connections or. the public, and to share as largely as
possible in the public purse. Would it not, then, be quite
simple to exercise the prerogative in a straightforward way,
by stopping all these resources in the case of every
Lord who sets the Queen's Government and the people's
demands at defiance ? I believe it would not be diffi-
cult to todka a strong impression on the factious majo-
rit? in the Lords by a decided course of this descrip-
tion, 'orbikt the. vacancies thus created would afford
strength aid support to the friends of popular rights. It
is true that the- Whig policy has hitherto been directly the
reverse, and they have suffered from it as they ought to
suffer ; but the Court was then adverse, and the alteration
in the times demands an alteration in political conduct.
'the time is come when the Whiel should act sternly to-
wards their enemies, and firmly by their friends..
We have no hesitation in saying that the publica-
tion of this AddrePs at this time will be productive of
the best results. Its tendency is excellent. A bore all
things, Mr. O'Connell condemns the miserable policy
of reviling the Whigs, because they did not go far
enough in the last Parliament. Shall we get more
from the Tories ? Are the Tories disposed to make
any concessions to reform ?—Morning Chronicle.
Mr. Daniel O'Connell, or, if the Radical Wexford
Independent be right, Lord Erin that is to be, has
1,.i shed ano:her long rigmarole letter to the people

of Ireland, which will be found elsewhere. We have
nei:her time, room, nor inclination to expose the flim-
siness of this fine specimen of blarney to-day ; and
for the present we content ourselves with a single quo-
tation, which is certainly the most important part of
Lord Erin's letter. He says to his beloved White-
bays—
Remember I am a Repealer—remember I tell you it is my
ela.f that justice will never be done to you until you have
once again a Parliament in College Green ; and every fact
that arises proves more and more strongly the utter hope-
lessness of relief from the British Parliament. The strength
of the Tory faction in England is bigotted hatred of Ire.-
land and the hish. The stock in trade of Toryism in Eng-
land is the pride of domination over Ireland. The result
of the recent elecCans in the English counties, and the
garbage of the Press on which the English Tories so
fondly gloat—all, all prove that with the good will of Eng-
land justice wll never be attained for Ireland.
We beg the attention of the Ministers and of their
scribes to this passage. They may tell us that it is
qualified, that Lord Erin is making an " experiment."
No doubt he says so. But, then, he has said twenty
times that he knows the experiment will not succeed,
which is equivalent to a notice to the Whiteboys not
to allow it to succeed. See how our columns are
loaded with accounts of burnings and murders while
Daniel holds this language. There is clearly an un-
derstanding between the master and these 'miscreants.
Yet why, it may be asked, does O'Connell, Lord Erin,
recommend that the " experiment" should be conti-
nued ? For this simple reason—he is humbugging
the " finest pisantry" to as great an extent as he is
humbugging the Whigs. While the experiment lasts,
he has all the patronage of Ireland, and as much of
the English patronage as he pleases. It is true he
can't give himself a place (and what place is worth
the " riot ?")—it is true he can't place or pension the
Maurices, and the Morgans, and the Johns (for that
would damage the " rint") ; but money's worth is
money, and no man can make good that position by evi-
dence " in hard cash" more substantially than O'Con-
nell can. While the " experiment" lasts, therefore,
Daniel's nest is feathered, and he makes it an " experi-
ment," in order that if the Whigs should tire of stoppinL,
his mouth with substantials, or a Conservative Ministry
come in, he may raise once again the cry of the repeal of
the Union. He has sold the Irish people, but only condi-
t:onally. Hitherto he has lived by them. He is too
wise to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs ; and
therefore his reservation as to repeal, which is not
killing but cooping the goose. See, then, the state of
dishonour and disgrace to which the so-called Govern-
ment of this country has reduced us ! Even the bland
Lord Althorp said, that rather than consent to the
repeal of the Union, he would brave the horrors of a
civil war. Yet, civil war, or successful rebellion without
a blow, is that to which O'Connell ultimately looks.
And it is in favour of the nominees of this selfish traitor
that Lord John Rmsell has written a letter in the
Queen's name I Is there a man with one drop of
British blood in his veins, who will hesitate to rise for
the protection of the monarchy, the maintenance of the
integrity of the empire, and the dismissal of the Whig-
Radical Cabinet, which O'Connell the Repealer and
O'Connell the Repealer alone, keeps in office ? Times.
In a second edition of yesterday's Advertiser, we
published a letter from Mr. O'Connell to the people
of Ireland, which, from its deep interest and import-
ance, we re-publish in our columns of this day, ear-
nestly directing to it the attention of such of our
readers as have not already seen it, and requesting
those who have to give it a second perusal Though
addressed especially to the people of Ireland, the
letter teems with matter of most vital import to the
vemle British empire. Nor can the advice which it so
eloquently and impressively inculcates, be too strongly
enforced on the minds of all who are really desirous of
promoting legislative amelioration, of consolidating our
institutions on the basis of truth and justice, and
amalgamating the several divisions of the kingdom into
a more close and enduring union, founded on the equal
distribution of political rights, reciprocity of interests,
and the impartial administration of the laws. Before
proceeding to comment on the several topics of the
letter, we are most anxious that our readers should
make themselves familia': with its contents. The letter
is long, but every line of it is important, and deserves
the most earnest attention. It passes in clear review
the forces which each of the contending parties can
tiling to bear upon the legislation of the State, exposes
the outrages and insults so profusely practised towards
Ireland, powerfully urges the necessity of Reformers
merging all d:fferenees on minor topics, and uniting
heart and hand in support of the Queen and her Mi-
nisters, and finally offers most excellent suggestions as
to the mode in which in England, Scotland, and Ire-
land public opinion may be brought most effectually
to act on the proceedings of Parliament. The docu-
ment is one to which we shall frequently have occasion
to recur, and as for the present we ate unwilling to dis-
tract public attention from it by any remarks of our
our own, we shall content ourselves with reiterating in
this place the following observations, which in pro-
portion to their truth, which is indisputable, abound
with great and joyous promise to the hopes of the
United Kingdom. In reference to the great combina-
tion now existing for the consummation of the gene-
ral liberties, Mr. O'Connell observes : •
At the head of that combination duty as well as respect-
ful inclination bids me place the Queen.
In the first place, she belongs, in the maternal line, to a
family remarkable for good sense. The conduct of her
illustrious mother, during the trying period which has
elapsed since the Princess Victoria became presumptive
heir to the Crown, proves her powerful intellect. The
Duchess of Kent will never get sufficient credit for the tact
and sound discretion with which, whilst she never shrunk
from observing-, unobtrusively, the line of politics adopted
in his lifetime by her lamented husband the Duke of Kent,
she still preserved herself and her daughter perfectly free
from the workings of any party whatsoever, and from the
almost inevitable tendency of Courts to countenance anti-
popular and despotic principles. Her brother, also, the
uncle of the Queen, displayed similar good sense, as well
during the lifetime of the Princess Charlotte as since he
became King of Belgium. He is, I believe, the most popu-
lar monarch on the Continent of' Europe ; and his true
wisdom in refusing to allow a most slanderous press to be
prosecuted by law, and determining that it should be met
only by argument, places him high indeed in the scale of
the few truly wise who have governed the earth. Thus,
therefore, we have a right to expect that the Queen, be-
longing to such a family, will have the natural intellect to
understand that she can have no interest in the oppression
of Ireland, hut that, ou the contrary, good sense will show
her that the highest interests of the prosperity and glory of
her reign require that there should not be a different and a
worse system of laws in Ireland than in other portions of
the British dominions.
In the second place, the education the Queen has received
requires us to believe that she must desire that Ireland
should have equal justice with England and Scotland. She
cannot have any prejudices against her Irish subjects. It
is indeed time that such prejudices were abandoned every
where—'they certainly have at present no existence upon
the throne of these realms.
In the third place, all the acts of the Queen since she at
a fortunate moment ascended the throne, bespeak, trumpet-
tosgued, her conviction that justice—equal justice—should
be done to Ireland. The letter of Lord John Russell to
Lord Mulgrave, the very terms of which, if she did not dic-
tate, she certainly approved, places beyond demonstration
her wise and benevolent intentions towards Ireland.
When I come to suggest the course I should advise, I
beg of the Irish people to recollect those two facts :
First—That never yet uatil the present day was there
one English Sovereign who did not hate or despise, or en•
tertain both sentiments conjointly, towards the Irish peo-
ple. It should not be disguised, and it would be vain to
deny it.
Secondly—That we have at length! Messed he God, a
Sovereign on the-throne free from passions and prejudic,s
affainst u 3, and determined to treat us prec;sely as her Eng-
Li and Seotch subjects are treated. It is all we ask or
desire.—Moe:iliv Advertiser.
Among the " signs of the times" which are calcu-
latedindignattou, as well as the
to Louse the lively
serious alarm, of every sound Protestan!, subject of
our Gracious Sovereign, WC must not omit to mention
the new view of the Irish tithe
question, which has
been received with rapturous applause by all the pa:
rasites of Ministerial proceedings. The Ministry, it
is said, may refrain from embarrassing itself with
that que-tion in Parliament, because if it be left un-
settled for a few years longer, there may be 110
testant Church worth making any differences about•
This sentiment, or argument, or advice, or whatever
it should be called, le I; lied by the Ministerialists as a
thing worthy not onl)
it of consiaeratior) but, of applause I
And what does amount to ? What is this matter
which the friemb Qf the Ministers of a Protestant Go-