The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-25 00:00:00

say the full amount of my demand upon him, was
-nothing better than a swindies.—(Leughter.) I
hope, however, the people will not allow themselves
to be cajoled; but that when they take ten shillings
in the pound, they will do so with a notice that they
will call for another instalment next rar.--
(Cheers and laughter.) Thu cause of Reform will
proceed, but it will not do so by leaving it
merely in the bands of the admiesistration.—(Heao •
I call, then, upon the people of Leland, to join with
me, in petitions for Reform.--(Bear sit-d cheers.)
My own opinion is, that there stroold he universal
suffrage. If I saw one rank 'Of men born with a
superior degree of natural perfections over the rest
of their tellew-beings then I might consent to their
postarrieite,z superior privileges—but I find that we
are all born in the same naked helplessness—we des
ecentl to the grave with the same natural corruption—
as we are all equal in the sight of God, so do I think
'we should be in the sight of the law, and that one
erne should net be gifted with greater political ad-
vantages than another.—(Cheers.)--I do not find
that the rich man is more honest as a politician
than the man in rags; I have found the contrary to I
be the fact.--(Hear.)--I have not found political
honesty become more pure by an increase of
wealth, but I have found more dependence
amongst men of fortune than amongst those
who were not possessed of any; I have found
gisot people quite as ready to take 'tmmy for
doing nothing as the poormun for doing siomething.
It is a principle of the British Constitution that no
man should be wed unless he , consented to the
payment of such a tax, either by himself or his re-
presentative. Such is my Reform, I wish that the
principle should be practically extended to every
man in the community. There is no man so poor
that be duos not pay taxes; there is no men
who does not take a glass of whiskey some-
times, he he ever so poor, nor that his
wife does not sometimes use tea and sugar,
why should not the man then have a vote—he must,
indeed, be very poor, if he does not occasionally feel
the infliction of the Autch. On principle, I urn for
universal suffrage; though I am)! will not exclaim
against a plan of Reform, if it give a consideruble ex-
tension of the right of suffrage, and shorten Pal list-
ments to two or three years' duration, and give the
people that, without which I never shall be
etenteno—vote by ballot.—(Loud cheers.) I call
slepon the people of Ireland to petition generally fur
'lT'arliiisrsentary Reform, and, above all things, to
'call for vote by ballot. On the rote by ballot de-
pends the question whether a man shall vote as he
pleasese—(Hear, hear.) A man cannot now do so
...sits poor tenant, he is in dread of his landlordeeif
in business his vote may lose him his rich customers
--if a person in struggling cireumatances he may he
alfered a bribe, or seduced by the promise of is
place or a situation. We all know that votes can
be got in this way, and can be thus controuled; but
let the ballot-box be placed at the end of the table,
end each man put on a slip of paper the cendidate
be prefers. No one can tell how he has voted—it
is only thus a man can vote as he pleases, and t tone
eider that no one can be an honest reformer who is
ant am advocate for the vote by
hoer.) The good sense of Ireland, however, lies
Windy decided the gondol). The Reform question
has commenced well, end we should recollect that it
begun in the North.--(hear) The North is
'routing itself. Never was any thing more cheer-
ing to me than to hear of the proceedings in Ar-
usgh; but the Belfast meeting was, in my opinion,
trattscendantly splendid. The meeting of Bilfest
tannin but be most cheering to every man who loves
liberty, and is anxious for the diffusion oe happiness
among the human race. I know, too, that the sic-
tine, the honest, and the intelligent George Ensor,
is exerting•himself in the North, and that be is using
his best exertions to combine the people there in
conititutionei struggle for the extension of freedom.
...(Hisr.) There has been a beginning in the South
too in the cause of Reform; the city of Waterford,
With the Mayor at its hoed, has declared its semi-
lairste. 1 have got a letter from One of my, consti-
tuents, and no mats his a greater right to be proud
of his constituents than I have...-(hear.) This
letter informs me that a requisition has been pre-
sented to the High Sheriff of the county, calling for
6 meeting on the subject of Parliamentary Reform;
fifteen Magistrates of the county have signed that
requisition.—(Hear.) The question is prospering,
• but we must assist it. Let us not forget what great
objects are to be attained by it.--(hear.) There
are now two millions two hundred thousand pounds
of the. people's money given away in telltales of
10004 each.—( Hear.) This is a frightful list, and
there are yet hundreds possessed of pensions of
above a thousand pounds each—in England they
*Mount to half a million. In Ireland there are fifty.
eight thousand pounds given away in pensions. I
have read the names of these pensioners over; I
have read them backwards as a sailor boxes his
composes and I cannot discover any reason why any
One amongst them has been pensioned upon the
conntry.—(Dear, bear.) I want to know, why it
is that since the year 1787, Sir Robert Shaw has
been receiving a pension of $OOl. n year ? Why is
it, that a Mr. Robert Ashworth, a man of great
wealth, and living its Merrionssquare, should be
pocketing a pension far a long time ? Why should
such persons be quartered on Ireland as Lord Gil.-
fordomd foreigners, whose names it is difficult to
paitaunce ?—(ileur.) This a horrible system, but
• it is one which can never be broken down until the
great question of Parliamentary Reform be carried.
-.4llear and cheers.) The Irish undertakers, the
men who were principally concerned in carrying the
question of the Union, were, I believe, themselves
- the first to regret it. I will not say that lam glad
• —I cannot declare that lam sorry—for the fste of
- him who took the leading part in the accomplish-
went of the Union,
" Vendidit laic aura patritim
Dominamque potentem impreuit."
He cut the throat of his country—he revenged her
by indicting punishment on himself. I fling nettles
- upon his grave--•I spit upon the spot is here his
ashes are immured—l will not execrate—l will nor
curse him—but his memory shall ever be loaded
with the abhorrence of his countrymen, and, in
future times, when nurses would terrify the children
• • they haze the care of, they will shout in their ears
the name of " Cestleresigh," and the Irish Wants
.will be frightened into rprietude.—(Cheers.)—The
base in pensions, of which the English oligarchy
have long had the advantage, will be put an
and to by Parliamentary ;Reform. I have be-
fore remarked that there never was a more ROr.
did oligarchy than the English—they pension
upon the people their eons, their cousins, and their
cousins' husbands, and their coulees' wives.—
(Hear.) I was astonished at the reason why I
should have beets so short a time in Parliament and
SO completely outlawed as I have been. My love
• for Ireland was one reason—my determination that
her wrongs should be redressed was another; but,
above all things, I was hated, not only for these,
but because I had not beets long in the House of
Commons before I raised my voice against the sor-
did arboncrecy.—(Hear.) I expressed, too, my de-
light at the prospect of the approaching day, when
they should be compelled to disgorge the public
plunder upon whisk they had been so long living—
. when the titled paupers should no longer fatten on
the public—when the public should no longer bel
stretched before them as carrion, that these birds of
prey might feed epee the vitals of a nation. Fur
this I was disliked by both parties I called them rt
sordid aristocracy, and I felt a pleasures in doing so
-for this I was not disliked by the Tories Moue—
think I was - more detested by the 'Whigs,
foe they are really the more sordid of the two, and
you will find that on this account they will use
*my dexterity in retarding the cause of Parlie-
notrdely l,,form;-»( hear.) Raving then no con-
fideneeirt the Administration, I call npon the people
tftf. holitod 1"-s rally reund the COMM) of Parliamentary• RefOrats••• I4t every meeting called to petition for a
Of the- V. 14.0101 4160 petition for the vote by
Let ell \ Ireland unanimously demand it.—
~j':•;,-.;itrir bar.) list it be done irow, Englasel is rocks
in its the sound of the *preaching
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