The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-18 00:00:00

IRELAND.

16.
MR. O'CONNLLL AND THE IRISH MEMBEit4.,-,:rIIC
Pilot to-day publishes a letter, dated from Darrynane Abbey
on Thursday last, addressed to Lord Cloncurry by Mr.
O'Connell. Its object, as. stated by the Hon, and Learned
Gentleman, is to call upon Lori Conteliy, itha particu-
larly
upon those also VOllO s'ighte'd the Leinster Declaration,
to COlllO Forward and consult and arrange what steps
should bo taken to vindicate the representation of the
people of Ireland from the foul pollution of the Spottis-
Woode conspiracy.
Mr. O'Connell proposes "that there should be a meet-
ing. called of the Irish Liberal Peers and members of the
!louse of Commons, to
.assemble in Dublin, on a day to
be named—say, between the 31st of October and the .sth
of November,"
Among the many causes which eonvinee Mr. O'Connell
that it is absolutely necessary Ibr the friends of Ireland to
come forward, to conNne, and give expression to their
sentiments, are, the preitention of " the mischiefs with
which Ireland is menaced by the machinations of that
largo party in England which embodies the worst passionS
of the vulgar rancour of national antipathy with the more
vile and virulent animosities of sectarian hate and bigotry."
" We have, (continues Mr. O'Connell) formidable,
merciless, and unceasingly Active enemies. The English
Tories place their last. hope of power in fomenting English
prejudice and bigotry to the highest paroxysm of maddened
exertion. The same spirit which actuated the English Par-
liament in the days of the Cromwellian war, when the ex-
termination, the total extermination of the Irish race was
resolved upon, and nearly perpetrated—that very spirit
still presides over the Peel-Wellington councils, and ani-
mates the efforts of nine-tenths of their Tory partisans. I
do not hesitate to declare my thorough conviction that
many of the Tory party in England are equally desirous
for the slaughter of the Irish Catholics, as were the more
valiant but equally merciless soldiers of Cromwell—and

that they would desire -to see our exertions for political
liberty smothered in our blood. This is my deliberate con-
viction. Ido not ask you, my Lord, to concur with me
in this sentiment, nor do I require co-operation en this oc-
casion from any body, as a proof of your coincidence
with me in this conviction. The Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man then proceeds to state his reasons for thus believing,
instancing " the conduct of the Protestant clergy in Eng-
land for the last two years ;" the unremitting virulence of
the Tory press ; the not unsuccessful attempt .of the press
and the parsons to disseminate the worst passions in the
English mind, and " the greatest of all remains behind ;
every other motive for exertion sinks into comparative in-
significance when compared with this. It is the open,
avowed, and most profligate conspiracy against all the Li-
beral Irish representatives, which has been concocted in
London, and has extended its branches all over Great Bri-
tain. I have melancholy evidence of its extent from Caith-
ness to Cornwall."

Mr. O'Connell then states those disgraceful facts with
which unhappily we are all familiar, connected with the
petition nuisance—that foul and unprincipled conspiracy of
the Tories to destroy freedom of election. In allusion to
this flagitious scheme, concocted by the Conservatives, Mr.
O'Connell's letter contains the following passage, pregnant
with the simple eloquence of truth :—" I thought that in
the detail of the evils and oppressions which Ireland has
for nearly seven centuries been made to endure at the hands
of England, the resources of malignity and crime had been
exhausted. But I was mistaken ; there is still behind a
demoniacal instrument of vexation and torment not hitherto
used. It is the systematic robbery by the aid of public
subscriptions, and with money collected from numerous con-
tributors, of all those whom the people of Ireland have
chosen to honour, and have deemed the most proper to at-
tend to the protection of their properties, lives, and liberties
in Parliament.

" Robbery it is—plain palpable robbery ; because, no mat-
ter how unfounded a petition may be, he who is petitioned
against must necessarily expend a large sum in his defence.

Robbery, because it is another indication of the con fidence
which the English Tories have in the perjury—we must not,
my Lord, mince the word—in the perjury of Tory Com-
mittees. Alas ! I must candidly confess that such confi-
dence is but too well founded ; if we are to judge of future
Tory Committees from what we have seen of former Com-
mittees, I do not hesitate to say that grosser perjury was
never committed than I hare seen and known to have been
committed by former Tory Committees."
The Hon. and Learned- Gentleman is of opinion, that
the exposure of the Irish Representatives to the petition
process, to " Tory conspiracy and Tory perjury," is referable
to the Union, and cites in support of his opinion the speech
of Lord Ebrington, recently made. Mr. O'Connell de-
clares that—" If the UNION did not exist, this evil at least
could not possibly have existed," and that if the conspiracy
be successfully persevered in, it in itself, as is admitted by
Lord Ebrington, would justify the Repeal.
After awelVing upon t'no subjeot of tine Union, and
calling upon the Duke of Leinster, whom Mr. O'Connell
f L -
o f h
tillns name, rie ;lan& pledged to the Irish nation to come
forward whenever Ireland should labour under a manifest
and grievous infliction from the Union, the Liberator
proposes that there should be a meeting called of the Irish
Liberal Peers and Members of the House of Commons, to
assemble in Dublin next November—before the .sth. Mr.
O'Connell proceeds : _ -
" If that meeting be held I should humbly suggest that
it should adopt these measures :

Ist—An address of allegiance and dutiful respect to her
gracious Majesty the Queen, respectfully claiming from her
the protection which her royal prerogative can bestow on
her faithful people of Ireland.
2dly—Another address to her Majesty, praying specifi-
cally that she may order her Attorney-General for England
to prosecute the members of the Spottiswoode gang for a
dangerous and unconstitutional conspiracy against the
freedom of election and the privileges of the Commons
House of Parliament.

I deem it quite impossible for any constitutional lawyer
to doubt that Spottiswoodc and his gang are guilty of such
a conspiracy.
idly—To form a deputation to wait on Lord Melbourne
on the subject of these addresses, and in particular to as-
certain the proper mode of presenting them to her Majesty.
4thly—To arrange the mode and time of bringing for-
ward in the House of Lords a suitable motion on this
subject.

Tithly—To arrange for the bringing forward in the House
of Commons of a motion for an address by that House to
direct the Attorney-General to institute the prosecution
which I have suggested.
6thly—To arrange a motion in the House of Commons
for a Committee to inquire and report upon the privileges
of the House with respect to election committees in re-
ference to the existing conspiracy.
7thly—To arrange a motion in the House of Commons
or in both houses of. Parliament, for the repeal of the
Grenville Act, and to substitute a mode of trial of election
petitions, free from partiality, less liable to expense, and to
be presided over by a responsible judge.
Bthly—To prepare an address to her Majesty from the
people of Ireland, praying her to continua in office her
present Ministry, as being the first Ministry the people of
Ireland ever found honestly disposed to administer equal
justice to all.
9thly—Having thus testified our confidence in her Ma-
jesty's Ministers, we should, I think, make the fittest ar-
rangement we possibly could, to press upon that Ministry
our conviction of the absolute necessity of enabling the
Reform Bill to work its intended purposes, by extending
and rendering more simple the elective franchise—and, above
all. by giving the electors the protection of the Ballot.
In conclusion, addressing Lord Cloncurry, Mr. O'Con-
nell writes
" Shbuld you not reply, my course, my Lord, will be
, will endeavour to procure as many of the Irish
Members of the House of Commons to assemble as I can
—and, should I fail in that%attempt, I at least will be able
to exclaim—" Libcrari anintain mcanz." I have fairly and
honestly. endeavoured to get rid of one of the strongest
reasons in favour of the Repeal of the Union that could
be adduced.
" But when again driven to the agitation of the Repeat,
I shall have this letter to bear another testimony to the sin-
cerity of my struggle to render that Repeal unnecessary."

Mr. O'Connell is expected to arrive in Dublin on the
30th. He will, therefore, meet the Association on the
31st, instead of the 24th, as originally intended. The
question of a dissolution of that body will then be discussed.
—Pilot.

TitiAL or ORANnEMEN.—In reference to a trial of three
Orangemen, reported in the Sligo Chlmpion, the Pilot
says--" The trial at Ballymoto Petty Sessions of three
Orangemen, named Clarke, for an attack with fire-arms on
some unoffending persons, who were returning, peaceably
and quietly as it appears, from doing the last office of cha-
rity to the remains of a deceased neighbour, is important,
It is remarkable that this is the county which the Tory
journals thought proper to represent as in a disturbed state,
and that since they have made the charge, scarcely one post
arrives from it that docs not bring the details of some new
crime or outrage by individuals of that party. Colonel
Perceval assumes that he is a magistrate of Sligo, even
after the letter of the Lord Chancellor's Secretary upon
that point. The issue of the new commission will, vve
expect, convince him of his mistake, The charges which
were afterwards attempted to be preferred against the
Rev. Mr. Egan are specimens of the truth and importance
of Tory grievances in general."
DEATH OF THE RIGHT REV. DP.. NOLAN.—The Bishop
of Kildare and Leighlin expired at Carlow last Saturday
ovening, at eight o'clock.

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