The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-10 00:00:00

They have ol;,, y shown •to you that that.iaction has hi-
therto de; ;' its power from the people from false represen-
tationse/fe to them, and has basely abused chat power de-
lege
00,i o them for the gond of the sehjects g erterally, and
for tre advancement of the interests and welfare of this pro-
vince, by wielding it solely to further their own t elfish and
corrupt purposes, to the utter neglect of the taue interests:
of their constituents, and in a manner calculated re in-
volve this province in utter ruin. I might her con-
clude ; I cannot, however, allow this opportunity to a ass
by without making one appeal to my fellow countryme 1.
Irishmen ! to you would 1 make this appeal ; beware of
the seductions of these traitors—l know that they are
busy with you—l know that they seek to imbue your
minds by every argument likely to attach your sympa-
thies, however false, with dissatisfaction and discontent ;
they are aware of the excitability of your t empee entee t.—
of your unsuspecting and confiding natures—of yore- werm
and generous impulses ; and they would lead you to be-
lieve that the wrongs our country has suffered, the opprec-
sions under which she has so long Immured, but which r
thank God are progressively, and I sincerely hope. and be-
lieve speedily to be redressed, follow you to this country
and equally oppress you here. They endeavour to pour
the poison of dissatisfaction -end diScontent into your hearts,
and then with the fawning of the sycophant, pretend to
sympathise in your distress, and as if impered by a disin-
terested and generous impulse, they offer to make common.
cause with you to redress your wrong. In a word, they flatter
to ensnare and then betray you ; and what is their object ?
To make tools of you : to use your phesical allergies to
forward them in their selfish, corrupt, treasonous, and mad
Icareer. You will always have the post of honour, you
will be thrown into the' breach, you will bear the brunt of
the battle; while the coward Papinecu ac: 1 his cowardly
myrmidons will lurk behind, and when they fail (as if they
dare make the attempt, will be their inevitable fate,) they
will have at least this satisfaction, that the blood of Irish-
men has been freely spent, and over your dying agonies
they will mock at and deride you as at once their dupes
and their victims. Irishmen, you know, or at least most
of you do, and those who do not will soon discover,
that that faction is jealous of, hate;, yet fears you.
Do you ask for proof? I answer, ‘rho was it, the
mask of hypocrisy being for a moment laid aside, in al-
luding to the tide of emigration—toasonr arrival in this the
country of.-your adoption, upbraided the British Govern-
ment in terms the. most seurri!ous, with pouring on their
beach (as they were pleased to term it) the out.scourings of
their gaols, the scum of their population, the robber, the
assassin, and all those who being tainted with crime dared
not remain at home. Who, I ask ? Papineju and his faction.
Who was it taxed you at your landing on this shore, your
birthright as British subjects ? Who was it va;nly threatened
to prevent your landing,'or drive you back to perish in the
waters of. the St. Lawrence? Papineau and his faction. Were
you not branded in every-hireling print of that faction,
with the corteous appellation of starving paupCrs, adventu-
rers, and foreigners, as if a British subject could be a
foreigner in any region where the flag of his country waves
in the ascendant. Foreigners—forsooth ! ! 'Tis nearly 80
years since that question was discuseed and finally deter-
mined—do you ask me, where ? I answer, on the heights of
Abraham ! And now let Inn for an instant turn your atten-
tion
offered to you by his Majesty's Government, It invites you
to accept of your birthright !ts subjects to make Your rest-
ing piece and your home in this colony, so highly favoured
by Divine Providence, with a healthy and salubrious climete,
a rich, fertile and prolific soil, watered by its noble and far
spreading rivers, and its inland seas. It presses you to ac-
cept of the welcome which its noble forests so gracefully
ware towards you—to possess yourself of that wealth,
comfort and independence which its earth yearns to
unbosom and . yield to your perseverance and indus-
try ; and it guarantees to you the protection of your
property and your lives, and the free and unrestrained
exercise of your civil 'and religious rights. Then.
let not traitors swerve you front your allegiance, let
not the example of one renegade Irishmen influence you.
One who, all other tredes failing, has basely sold himself to
a faction for filthy lucre ; his birthright for a mess of pot-
tage. One, who. has proved himself alike a traitor to his
King, his country, and his God. Then let not traitors, I
say, cheat you of your birtlright, but let them feel that you
have discovered their treachery and treasonable designs,
and that you contemn and despise them. In conclusion, I
will again repeat, that it is with satisthction I have wit-
nesanithe insane appeal of that faction to the people of this
province, as breathed fOrtlein their treasonous resolutions,
because it has afforded to every loyal sal jest an opportunity
at once to record his abhorrence of these measures, his
fidelity to his King, and his devotion to his Government,
and thereby to strengthen the sinews of Ora: Government,
and thus enable it to strangle at its birth this monster, Tree,-
son, anti hurl back upon the beads of the traitors from whom
it catenates, the merited punishment of so base a crime „
then leave them to the withering coutempt and heartless
execrations of every loyal subject, of every honest man.
After the passing of the resolution, the fourth and last
was proposed by the Hon. P. APGIee, as follows :—" That
this meeting is impressed with the conviction that the real
and acknowledged grievances of his Majesty's subjects in
Lower Canada will be fully redressed by his Majesty's Go-
vernment—that the continued connection of Lower C mada
with the Parent State is essentially necessary for the pros-
perity and improvement of the province, and that any at-
tempt to disturb that connection and produce a dismember-
ment of the empire, is directly contra's), to the opinion, as
it is absolutely opposed to the wishes and interests of this
meeting."—Carried with applause.
The thanks of the meeting, with their best wishes for his
safe passage on his approaching visit to Eogland, and for
his happy return to this city, were then voted by acclama-
tion to the' Hon. Chairman, on the motion of Charles Penner,
Esq., of Lachine ; after which, with three times three
cheers for the King and British connection, and three
cheers more for the King and Constitution, the meeting
dissolved.

Colonel Chesney arrived on Tuesday night in Do-
ver-street, Piccadilly, from India, overland. The Colonel
appears in good health cad spirits.
ROCKET COMMUNICATION WITH VESSELS IN
DISTRESS.-011 Thursday, A. G. Carter, Esq., Ordnance
storekeeper of the citadel at Hull, the inventor of a most
valuable and ingenious contrivance for effecting a commu-
nication between 'vessels in distress and the shore, by means
of lines carried out by rockets, exhibited a number of expe,
riments at the North-end of Princes' Pier, with a view to
the establishment of rocket stations on this coast. A few
rockets were fired at the middle of the day, but the princi-
pal number of experiments was tried at nine o'clock in the
evening. The means by which his plan is effected is most
ingenious ; a strong rocket case, of from one to two pounds
weight, is mada of iron, and this is filled with Congreve
flee ; into the centre of the firing Part of this the stick is
screwed into an iron pocket, and the line, a thick and heavy
twine, is attached to a loop at. the end of•the stick. Before
firing, the rocket is placed into a- kind of stand capable of
being raised to any degree of elevation, and with this aim'
is taken at the object intended to be fired at. For the ex-
periments in the preserit instance,- a steamer was moored
about 250 yardssfrom the pier. The wind at the time was
blowing strong across the vessel from the S.W. The first
rocket fell short, the elevation not being sufficiently high at
the time. At the second trial the rocket went beautifully
right over the vessel, dropping the line across her, and car-
rying it out at least four hundred yards. A number of
other trials at various ranzes acre then made by
several gentlemen present, and the line was three or four
tines carried across the vessel, and twice the rocket fell on
the poop, amidst the loud plaudits of hundreds of specta-
tors, who had assembled to witness the experiments. Two
of the rockets without lines attached were then fired in the
direction of the Rock Light, to show the extent of their
range. 01)C of them went an amazing distance, and ap-
peared almost to reach the Light. Indeed their force
must be considerable, for the weight of line they carry out
is about As. Some messenger-rockets for conveying let-
ters were then fired. Terse are of an entirely different de-
scription.
they are much larger, and made of paper likes
the common rocket, but have a compartment in the head
for holding letters or papers. One of thernwas fired to-
wards Woodside, right in the teeth of the wind, and very
nearly reached its destination, going upwards of a mile.
These, however, haVe not the tremendous force of the
iron-'eased rockets. The average number of times which
the rocket lines crossed the vessel, and when the rockets
were directed more by way of 'experiment than with care,
was about three times out of five. As a means of commu-
nication from a vessel in distress to the shore, they must be
invaluabhi, as if the vessel be at all withiu distance, namely,
about 400 yards, the rocket is sure to carry a line ashore,
as all the aim which would be required would be to turn
its head to the shore and give it a good elevation.—Liver-
pool Standard.

A few days since the labourers who are excavating
the cloaca inagnm or common !ewer in High-street, St.
Giles, discovered dust opposite the Church two elm trees,
in a high state of preservation, at a depth of about 15 feet
under the surfaCe of the ground, lying completely across
the part undergoing excavation, and being [wand to each
other, though at a distance.of several yards. - They were
obliged to be sawn throUgh, and the pieces which were re-
moved to the surface were each about nine feet long, and
five in circumference. • These trees are supposed to have
belonged to a forest which once covered this and the sur-
rounding district, and by reference to.the,parish registers
and other books it has been found that they must have lain
in their recent situation upwards of 600 years. On exa-
Mination the exhumed timber was found -to be as sound as
if it bad been felled only a few months. The superin-
eumbent strata were composed of common rubble, clay, and
sand, the whole of which were remarkably dry to the above
depth.