The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-29 00:00:00

REPEAL OF THE UNION.

4DJ 0 URIVED AGGREGATEMEETING.

(From the Dublin Morning Register of Thursday.)
The business of the treat aggreg ite Anti-Union meet-
ing of the citizens of Dublin was resumed yesterday,—
The efowd was equally large, and enthusiastic in its ele-
mnn%tratipn of zeal f r a repal of the Union, as on the
pr,viotoi day. The Chsir was taken about half-past two

o'clock by HENRY GRATTAN, Esq.
Mr. STEELE proposed the fourth resolution, in a speech
of greet humour, eloquence, and force, during which ho
was enthusiastically cheered. .

Mr. COPP' N G Eli seconded the resolution.
Mr. O'DwvER, who was loudly cheered on presenting
himself, said I have been opposed to the agitation of the
question which has excited so much n itional interest. I
have not come here to detail my objections. They are still

strong with me. Candour obliges me to say, besides, that
I am the eeemy Of some of the means adopted to influence
the public mind in its favour.—( Some murmurs.) lam
a friend to the closest ties of Briti.h connecron, and I

aesire to be a participator in the 117gli enjoyments and
protection of British law. It is with heart-felt pain, how-
ever. and as an enemy of the repeal of the Union, that
declare, I regard the recent proceedings of the Govern-
ment as eminently calculated to augment popul. ir excita-
tion, increase national discontent, and prolong, if not per-
petuate, agitation.—(l.oud cheers.)
The resolution was then pu►, and carried unanimously.

Mr•. Mauniee O'Cots.seer, proposed a resolution of
thanks to the 1 al press of Ireland, for its mations in
the cause of liberty and popular right.
Mr. Disteote seconded the motion, which passed unani-
mously.
Mr. LAWLESS supported the motion.
Mr. RONAYNE came forward with a motion on the
subject of Reform. The state of representation in Ire•
land, he observed, was as corrupt as it could well be.
They had in Ireland a number of boroughs, which wets
the property of a f-w individuals, and with which the
people had nothing at all to do. These boroughs, it was
notorious, were bought and sold, and the rights of the
people were thus disposed of to the highest bidden—
(Hear, hear.)—Mr. Ronayne then alluded in strong and
powerful language to the prosecution instituted against
Mr. O'Connell, and mentioned that the Union, which Mr.
O'Connell sought to repeal, was carried by the most abo-
minable means. Mr. Ronayne sat down amid the enthu-
siastic cheers of the entire meeting.
Mr. Cassmtev seconded Mr. Ronayne's motion for
Reform in a most eloquent speech, in the course of which
he called upon the Orangemen of Ireland, at this crisis of
their country's Este, to join with Mr. O'Connell in se, k-
' ing for the regeneration, the happiness, and the indepen-
dence of their native country.
Mr. J. D. MULLEN proposed a vote of thanks to Mr.
O'Connell. Great efforts had been made, and were still
snaking, to run down Mr. O'Connell by a certain party
in Dublin, who called themselves merchants, but who
were not animated by the slightest spirit of independence.
__(Hear, hear.)—O'Connell had merely said, that if a cer-
tain aggression were made r.n the liberty of the subjes t,
instead of having recourse to violence, he would oily use
a moral coercion, by,exciting a demand for. gold instead
of paper. This wag -a thing he said he would do, and
for saying this an outcry was attempted to he made against
him. lie (Mr. M.) now stated, that if any attempt
shook] he made to interfere with popular rights, they
should have gold, they must have gold, and they would
have nothing else.—(Enthusiastic cheers.)
Mr. LAWRENCE FINN seconded the resolution.

Mr. O'CONNELL presented hitneelf amid the most en

thueiastic cheers. He said,—l tell the people of France.
that they neiy boast of a victory, but our victory shall not
be stained by a tear ; the Ildaians may talk of their
triumph, but no one shall sigh over ours ; the Pules
may count it great glory to have slaughtered foreign ge-
nerals—it may he ~lory, hut it is not one we seek after,
for there shall not be one drop of blood to disfigure and
cloud the glory of Ireland. The Hanoverians have set
us an example the other day ; they have continued as
their King, that excellent man King William; hut they
insisted on a free constitution.—(Hear, hear. ) the
people take my advice, the period of 1752, they will find
is about being revived in Ireland.—(Cheers.) Yon may
ask me how I can pledge myself that the Parliament will
he restored to you ? I will tell you how it can be done.
By obeying nay advice, every timid man in Ireland will
be with us—there is not a single art ument to prove to
them that they should continue favourable to the Union—
the united voice of Ireland will be with us. I defy them
not to give the repeal, if I h ive seventeen members to
join me, along with O'Gorman Mahon and O'Connor
Don.—(Loud cheers.) I can tell you that your chair-
man will certainly soon be the representative for the
county of Meath—of this I am sure as I am of my own
existence.—(Cheers.) 1 can count then upon four—let Ire-
land send me sixteen members, and I think I will have
sixty at the next election.—(Hear, bear, and cheers.) Let
rue have twenty such men in Parliament, and I defy them
to prevent a repeal of the Union—(Hear, hear)—let me
we fifty, and it is exceedingly prob Ade that I will have
them, and I can tell you there never vet lived a Minister
who could steadily oppose the wishes of fifty honest mem
who looked for nothing fir themselves, and every thing
for their country. In the course of three months we
would have all the terms of repeal settled upon, and the
Pal Earner) t in College-green again.-- (Cheers. ) —My
course is legitimate—it is constitutional—l tell ytu more
—it is irresistible.--(Hear. )—Therefore do I call upon
the people to attend to niy voice—therefore do I bid them
to obey die law in every respeenno matter what may occur
to me. I have suffered much for the people of Ireland;
but I never went to jail for them yet.—(Loud cries of
" you never shall.")—Listen to me, my friends.—(Cries
of hear.)—lf the sentence of the law, however mistaken,
should have consign d me there, do you know I would to
very happy. I would have my wife and my children
about me, and I should bs only the happier on that ac-
count.—(Hear, Lear.)—They could not take the use of
pen and ink from me, and it is probable that you would
have six letters a week from me, and one on Sunday.—
(Laughter.)—Every culprit holds out to himself the hope
of a long day, and I can tell yen that let them be in ever
so great a hurry, they cannot try me till the month of May
next. Let me tell you too a secret—l am going over on,
Monday evening to take my seat in Pairlismenta—(Loud
cheers. )—Because I now find that by no possible arrange-
ment can I be prevented from taking my seat.—(Hear.)
The reformers charge me with calling for gold. I would
not have condescended to speak on this subject if it had
not been alluded to by Mr. Mullen. Now I did not call
for gold, and lam sorry for it. What I said was this—
that if the Press were attacked 1 would call for gold.—
(Hear, hear.) One great apprehension with the Orange-
men is, that the Catholics should succeed in repealing the
Union, they stick so fitimly Loge her, that they would com-
bine in putting down all other sects. The two first Catho-
lics that entered the House of Common*, in consequence
of the Relief Bill, were the Earl of Surrey and Daniel
O'Connell.—(Laughter.) We were in the House upon
nosey divisions—we were the only two Catholics there,
and notwithstanding the adherexee said to exist between
Catholics, we never voted in the same way on any ques-
tion. How, too, I would ask, have the English gentry
treated me ? I remember being in tl e Duke of Not folk's
house—it is one of the most splendid in London, anti was
that in which George the Third was born. I was addres-
ing him on the beauty of his magnificent suit of rooms ;
for Ile ht iug a in in of very little conversation, I war
obliged to talk to him of something. He seemed to be
pleased that I should speak of the splendour of his house,
and said to me, " Mr. O'Connell, is it not very cruel,,
that a man having such a house, cannot be a commou justice
of peace in his own native land ?" I told bins that I would
get him a dozen justices of the peace in Ireland who would
give him their commissions, houses, furniture and all, for
one of his rooms.—(Laughter.) But, Duke of Norfolk, I
added, Paddy will make you a justice of the peace. Paddy
was before violent; he did not know his friends from his
enemies, or rather, he had no friends; he now knows he
has them, he will be temperate and quiet, and he will make
you a Justice of the Peace.—( Hear and laughter.)-1
kept my ward with him. I not only made him a Justice
of the Peace, but enabled him to take his place as Premier
Peer of Eit gland.—(Heat,. hear.)—Their nobility who
were slaves I made independent legislators—their gentry,
enabled them to be Sheriffs and Members of Parliament,
and how did they requite me ? Theee noblemen anti
gentry had a club which they called the Cisalpina Club
It was proposed by one of them, for the purpose of pro-
moting union between the English and Irish gentry; that
I should become a member of it—l never had any objection
to good-fellowship, and I consented. I was proposed—
they ballotted for me that day fortnight, and do you
know what they (IN ?—they black-beaned me.—(Loud
groans, hisses, and erica of shame.)—l now ask die
Orangeman is he afraid that the Catholics will adhere
firmly together, or that there is any species of freemasonry
amongst them.—(hear, and cheers.)—Such, too, has
been the treatment of some Irish Catholics towards me.
You know that the Proclamation Act will expire next
June—it shall never be renewed. I tell you that O'Gor-
man Mahon and I will alone be able to prevent its renewal.
He and I will make it impossible to pass, for we shall beep
the House adjourning for twelve months together, before
it shall become a law.—(Hear, and cheers.) When it
falls to the ground, we shall be able to form election clubs