The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-30 00:00:00

1)1111T OICTHE PUBLIC JOURNALS

theft Peers did right—haviner one of the stamp in
Lielt House possessed of a smooth and fluent tongue,
a recreant Irishman to foster Lord Isynd-
tiu,sr,st:,s bantling, and it must be conceded
tre'lli` their instrument so acquitted himself as to give
„E1m...n0 cause to repent their choice. True, the pro-
Po aloe which Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey was tutored
t() 8-1 •
Lonna to the hereditary_ wisdom of their Lordships
Was cell
con •
rrani., ed in fraud and malice ; true, it smelt
„ of faction ; true, it evidenced hypocrisy the
st contemptible
, and politico-religious prejudice the
blindest and most grovelling ; but were not these alone
"ffieient reasons why the bastard progeny of the apos-
tatehe de_ mocrat should be fostered by the ci-devant
seral Representative of „Clare ? Without giving the
,I•taeredite credit for any extraordinary sagacity, they
d undoubtedly perceived that the fittest instrument to
against a country's rights is a degenerate son,
fowl,lo deserts his country's cause and associates with her
• Besides, it was iderate to allow Lord Fitzgerald
and
Vesey an opportunity of retorting upon the honest
lie:).1)12 who, shocked at his tergiversation, scouted from
t
hustings Mister Vesey Fitzgerald. When the lust of
place has eaten up the love of country and of liberty
gildte principle is extinguished by the passion for pre
• ferment, we may lament, but should not wonder at,
07 Prostitution of talents to the detriment of a course
eeeei,N)heY which, when the mind was uncorrupted by
_v I association, and before the heart was steeled by
resentment, was pronounced to be the wisest, safest
bi,
e't•" The period is not remote when amongst the
most strenuous and persuasive advocates of Irish rights
Catholic equality ranked Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald.
hence the change exhibited in his speech on Mon-
"ight ? We think we can discover in several oas-
-ges of that speech a lurking spirit of revenge. 'And
,a
whv should this be ? If Clare was lost a coronet
48 fou'od, and the regret that might have been felt at
anb expulsion from the Commons ought surely to have
e" far outweighed by the joy attendant upon an ad-
mission into the sanctuary of hereditary wisdom.
p
a 8541", however, from this minor topic, and
verlooling, also, the plan of Municipal Reform,
o
drinote properly speaking, destruction, propoun-
by the Ex-Chancellor, and detailed by
°4l Fitzgerald, we come to the reasons assigned b
t, y
"e _latter in support of his proposition. And what
are these reasons which it was intended should bar-
er'
tee, and which, if in the present, constitution of the
,P,Per House reasoning be required to influence the
Faiarity, did influence their Lordships to strangle in
Very birth almost, the :Ministerial measure, and to
substitute the Copley scheme ? Ireland is Catholic—
or is oppressed by a Church alien to the great body
the people—she is coerced into discontent—she is
traelaimed be the clergy of a dominant sect who form
t a fragment of a fraction of the people, and by the
illsinterested Tory Barons of the Court of Exchequer
r`
bublin, to be in a state of rebellion against tithes
Viceroy has the authority, at his caprice, to
—Vend the constitution from the Giant's Causeway
to
• lo Cape Clear, and from Howth to Connemara—a
,;!ig, continuous career of Tory oppression and local
tantle has produced its natural effects, popular demora-
ration and disaffection—an insolent and rapacious-fac-
t," have by their unchecked iniquitous procedure exas-
r4ted the public mind and nearly extirpated all respect
ler the laws and the constituted authorities—a cruel 'leg-
," of the interests of the peasantry has led to a frequent
la:urrence of outrage ; and for these sound reasons—
cause, forsooth, oppression has not engendered a
of the laws—because injustice has created dissa-
netion, because the heart, sickened by promises
fjL°Ken and hope long deferred, does not teem with
idliness towards the reckless malefactors who, by
i tl6l' Vices and sway, have succeeded very nearly in
Ntlrilina a rich and fertile soil, where lie the seeds of
Cantles blessings, but where the buds are ever nipped
. r Y,the pestilent breath of intolerant mountebanks, into
(leaert productive only of misery and ruin—because
ef
'and, always until now misgoverned, does not
exhibit the gratifying appearance of England, generally
tr,%l governed, at least in local respects,—the Union is
he--so the House of Lords declare—a piece of
haste pager, a mockery—the empire is but a name—
ela,d Ireland is to continue a pitiful province, subject to
' the calamities that ever have attended upon
moo
oicial isolation I That Lord Fitzgerald and
kiheicY should resist any approach to an effectual
att of the two countries by means of equal
Ell 8/ seems natural enough ; for he, possibly,
lattiertains an hereditary hostility to that legis-
raP fusion, rather than sanction which his late
.17r flung up office ; but that he should be egged on
'tor'" abetted in his pernicious attempt to plant the TOWS
t„ eternal feud, and maybe!) of future separation, be-
ten Great Britain and Ireland, by the majority of
,ele British Peers, would appear marvellous indeed,
1)1 any act of the Tory Peers now excite wonder
th°l)ot their Lordships sec—if they are not really of
horn blind" they must perceive—that Ireland,
tiien`` g Catholic, and having now the protection of
go Acts of 1793 and 1829, cannot any longer be,
te,j,!""ed in conformity with that " imperial line of
11.(Y," which the Times once loudly deprecated
fief ,h the profligate pages of the apcstate are now
ki, with bombastic periods in its favour ? The Le-
itr, 4tUre cannot halt now. The Catholics of Ireland
the the Parliamentary constituency of that country,
eed nave the legal right to seats in the Legislature,
full participation in all the rights, liberties,
stir ai 'munities of Great Britain they must have,
the we
must retrace every step we have taken for
Ne`aht forty-three years, and re-enact the penal
Irish
It will not do at this time of day to say to the
11,0 Catholics, " True. vou are united with ET.
itee'd) hut, you are unfit for the possession of English
u 4.). They will question the truth of the dogma,
to
en4'l` tar/ they are not in a condition to acquire,
im.
tipat , and to use, all the rights and privileges parti-
it heed, in bv their British fellow-subjects ? Should
;61.441'441 in reply, as it has been said by Lord Fitz-
dud echoed by the infamous Times, that Ire-
telie•ls not so prosperous, so contented, so free from
fOrt~tus rancour and sectarian strife as Great Britain
retort 4tely Is, will not the Irishmen quickly and naturally,
Of mk,..--Whence this admitted difference the condition
tug}, countries ? Is it not all the effect of Tory
Te•a(ninistration and Orange. ascendancy ? The
tQltj,€: have destroyed Ireland, and then they punish her
ie thy!. wretchedness. They subvert the constitution
%te country, and substitute the sword for the
I.etPtre, and then, because they have done so, they
Iq / tieir abnegation upon a measure of relief.
till "and there- is an Insurrection Act—the pro-
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/.,°!: the Peel and Goulburn school ; in England
144 •'' no such outrageous law ; therefore, he-
nut fit to have a reform of her municipal
the de'',;.Bueli as the Legislature conceded last year to
'lferen 'Ol4l of the people of England I Philosophic
otie
te---wise conclusion Is it not worthy of the
4e t° t?which such language is addressed ? Now, we
1
like to be informed what the Insurrection Act
llhsoe Co- •
sreion Act has to do with time _Municipal
~rurNl •
13111- It is not pretended—even the audacious
e 4 has
'ere not presumed to assert—that either of these
iet- and unconstitutional enactments were applied
at tll d,d to apply to towns in Ireland. Granted,
1
persecuted peasantry ill Tipperary, Kilkenny,
' the Queen's County, have violated the laws
tta.
44111 Commissionti of nocturnal or noon-day outrage—
e that
Need , the hunted cottier has turned to bay, and
t' 4 • alinSelf upon li:s• ruthless pursuers—and we
lets
the,, inaild sincerely lament the occurrence of such
41Ceseoli the rural districts of Ireland—is that
ihre wby statesmen should insult and injure
`'e "sire town population, and deny to the
ilpt, eitiz• ens of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Water-
st
y, or Belfast, a salutary law similar to
it,„niliehi, Was passed a year ago for the benefit of
e macit 'ants of Liverpool, Bristol, Leeds ? Tory
Lae;
'" advanced this precious reason for not
tl •
1,, ic Irish Corporations, fellows it up by an
st, sou,
vskll,,e,c, lid reason for abolishing—utterly extir-
ke.4tll,
4. at municipal system in which, but twelve
of the Tories discovered the purity of per-
- am'd tl
surest safeguard of the Church and
ill 'tZti hron.
eentldi " It was intended," says Lord
hft by those who concurred with him in
jes.'e Xutev reform, to agree to the proposition
Cor de Lord for abolishing all the exist-
'4l ~Pora •
t"is alter the 18111 qf Januar:9, 1837."
allneuncement the Noble Lord followed