The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-22 00:00:00

TO PRESENT

AN ADDRESS to DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ. M.P.

( Abridged from Me Dublin Freeman's Journal of Wednesday.;
Yesterday a numerous deputation of the variou-
reties of this city, presented an address to Mr. O'Con-
nell, on his return from England. At two o'clock
the deputies assembled at Swan's Assembly-rooms,
on Bachelor's-walk; meantime, the line of quay in
that vicinity presented a spectacle of great popul r
enthusiasm. Shortly after two o'clock the proces
sion began to move on to Mr. O'Connell's residence
in Merrion-square, in the following order :—ln front
s large banner, ground formed of blue silk, with a
black border and a device and inscription. Next
collowad the President; Mr. Marcus Costello,
the Treasurer, Mr. Edward Dwyer, and Mr. Thos.
Reynolds, arm-in-arm. Each of these gentlemen
wore a very broad blue iiband or sash, from which
depended a silver medal of the Order. of Liberators.
Then followed the deputies of each trade in the
order in which they had been ballotted, each deputy
wearing a broad blue silk sash round his neck.
from which depended a medal of Mr. O'Connell,
with the words " Liberator of Ireland" (it we-
satisfactoty to see this kind of badge substituted for
the disgusting mummery of orange and green).
this order the procession advanced to Merrion-
square, accompanied by countless thousands. Its
the meantime that part of the square immediately
t
contiguous to Mr. O'Connell's house had beet.aken possession of by a dense multitude, and
when the deputation arrived the concourse was
vast and multitudinous beyond calculation.
The officers of the Union having entered Mr.
O'Connell's hou‘e, soon appeared on the balcony,
accompanied by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman,
and a deafening shout rent the air. As soon as
silence was obtained, Mr. Marcus Costello having
stated the pride and happiness he felt as President
of the Union of Trades on the occasion, read an
address, of congratulation with a clearness of in-
tonation that made
,him distinctly audible to every
individual in the vast assembly.
Mr. O'CONNELL received the address from Mr.
Costello with expressive gesture and kissed it. lie
then proceeded to address the vast assemblage as
follows :—My countrymen, Ireceive this address with
cordial delight, and it is not the less valued because
I feel that it is undeserved. Indeed, my country-
men I feel that I owe this compliment more to your
kindness than to your soundness of judgment, but
even I would prefer receiving a compliment result-
ing from your affection rather than your judgment,
for loving Ireland and Irishmen as I do, any testi
mony of the affections of Irishmen must ever be
more than dear to me. Indeed your kindness over-
rates the much. I am not from any merits I possess
entitled to those praises, but I have a heart which
pants for any opportunity of deserving thetn.—
(Loud cheers and cries of " You do deserve them,"
amid continued cheering.) You attribute the suc-
cess in the accomplishment of your religious liberties
to my exertions, but it is not to me glory and the
credit of success is owing, it was the spirit, and the
energy, and the exertion of the people of Ireland
that conquered. I was merely as a straw upon the
mighty tide of popular feeling, spewing the direction
of the current, marking its force and ham along
upon its surface until it swept away every barrier
that vainly opposed its progress.—(Loud cheers.)
It was the energies and the exertions of the Irish
people that produced those changes which you attri-
bute to my poor abilities. Our exauiple was not
lost. The nations of Earo,p,o were looking on us,
and they caught up spirit from our example. Think
you would livanee have asserted her liberties.—
would her gallant and her glorious people have risers
up in resistance to the tyranny of eir oppressive
King, but for the example that we taught them in
the Catholic Association 14—(Universal cheering.)
But for the lesson we taught think you would Bel.
glum be made the bloody battle field in which the
oppressor's tyranny was cloven, dawn and a people's,
liberties gloriously asserted ?.--,-(Loud cheers.) But
let us seek an e2citpie nearer home, and more exact
in its sie.itude. But for us would the people of
Voigland be at present engaged in their deep and
mighty struggle for Parliamentary Reform ?
We taught them the example—it was we who aroused
the eetestitutional spirit amongst the people of Eng-
land to demand their rights and liberties. We are
leagued with them in that struggle—it is a great
confederacy
tiofmthuest nsucceed.—(Hear.) There ar,
tiri.. people of the empire, anti
such a cas
at,tempts made to divide us by putting religious
feud in to separate us. The etteies of both at-
tempt to raise a religious cry to separate us. The
fools for their p4A. They ought to know that
the time for these dissensions is past. The raligiou,
question is for ever settled, and we Will never b.
made to quarrel upon that point.—(Loud cheers.)
I have now been twelve months absent from my
professTu and my country, but I was not idle. I
was aiding the Ministers of the best and most patriot
King that England ever saw—a King in whose mind
the love of liberty is not transitory and evanescent--
, a sentiment encouraged this day and abandoned the
next—but is a cherished and a sacred feeling glow-
ing in his breast, and displaying its fervour in his
paternal and sincere anxiety to promote and ensure

lee happieess -and freedom of his afg-ctionate
loyal people.—(Loud cheers.) Yes, indeed, the
people have a real and steady friend in the King,
and may God bless him.—( At this the humeri e
•nultitude uncovered their heads, and the benetlit-
ion generally echoed with a solemn and univer-
'al response of aloe!' ! arm s+ ! The spectecle was
imposing.) I stood in the contest with that King
and for him, and it is in that cause 1 have struggled
since last I sawyou.—(Loud cheer's.) I think lam
justified in asking where are all the loyal men, I
mean the e::clueive loyalists ?—(Loud cheers.)
Where are those men that.have so long vaunted of
their loyalty ? Where are we now to look for the
substantially loyal subjects of the _ King ? Is it
amongst those who struggle to support the Monarch
mend to serve • the country, or is it, amongst the
wretched tail of the jobbing Corporation of Dublin ?
—(Cheers and laughter.) These were the creatures
that so habitually boasted; of -their exclusive and
predominant loyalty. Where is the loyalty now
that was so long the exclusive property of that fee-
•ion that lorded• and trampled over the people.
TheSe'were the exclusive loyalists. Loyalty in their
teeth--they are tebels now.—(Cheers.) Yes, loyalty
in their teeth, they-hive proved themselves rebels
to their King, and have dared to put themselves in
opposition to him and his people, at whose head he
has taken his stand.e-e(Cheers.) Yes, they are rebels
to their King—brand rebel. upon them. Their
y was-that loyalty which gave them the power
of putting their hand into other people's pockets
not having any thing in their own.—(Cheers.)
Having stood by the side of the King and his Mini-
sters, I now return amongst my countrymen.—
(Loud and continued cheers.) That Ministry have
done
.much .for Eagland. They have promised to
Flo 'more fee Ireland. To say the truth, Ireland' has
often had promises in abundance, and all I say he,
r fed having promised to do a great deal far Ireland,
I hope they will keep their word.—(Cheers ) liee
land has sent from 50 to 60 Members to Parliament
who have most faithfully done their duty.—(Lluil
cheers.) For the first time in the annals of Irish
history, Ireland has had a real represetitatiore—
(Laild cheers.) Yes, these Irish Members have
! done their duty well—we have done our duty to
he King of Great Britain, to the people, and the
cautery.—( Loud cheers.) I rho speak my mind
honestly do say, that fur twelve moat he the Ministry
have done nothing fur Ireland To be sure they
stave put some of their enemies, and the enemies of
-he people and the country, into good places. They
have fattened some of their enemies and ours, and
ell the while neglected their friends. But I'll make
a bargain with them—l'll forgive them ail thaa,
pot, and forget it too, if they begin to serve Ireland
:tow.— (Loud cheer.) lam a simple kind of fellow,
--(Loud laughter.) I am, indeed, a simple kind
of fellow ; Ido not want sweet. words and honied

ffornises, but I want practical benefits for Irenioi")
What is it that Ireland wants ?—(A voice in the
crowd cried out lustily " The repeal of the Union!"
—Loud cheers.) Now I boast myself a better
tradesman than he that his called eut in that way
—for he would put the car before the horse.—
(Loud cheers and laughter.) He begins with the
-aid, but I, inure tradesinatilike, begin with the be-
girining.—(Cheers and laughter.) I would go the
proper way to work. I would first struggle to Re-
form the Parliament, and when once we succeed in
obtainieg Parliamentary Reran)), if after that there
ae any stitch left wanting, why, let my countrymen
stamp trailer on my grave.— (Load cheers.) It is
not my game to play the part of paltry Hunt and
the Tories. I'll help the King and his Ministers
with all my energies, to achieve Parliamentary Re-
fen m, because I feel that in doing so I must contri-
bute to the good of the people.—(L7aol cheers.) I
wish you saw the Corporation of Dublin the day
after the Reform passed.—(Laughter.) You never
saw any creatures more like *winged rats escaping
out of a trap to run into the mouths of the doge._
But there will be some diffeteuee after all, fur we
will leave them all they have a right to keep, that is
all that's their own; which to tell the truth is little,
and we'll take what belongs to us, which is a great
Beal.—(Laughter.) It is time that the a)stem
should be put a period to that gave that Corporation
the power to insult the eitiaens of Dubl;w by getting
in a representative by beat of drum, and making a
foul muster of all their forces to overpower the citi-
zens of Dublin its the election of their representative,
and to bring a stranger, I mean no discredit to the
Noble Lord, but he was u stranger, and us such
unfit to represent the second city in the British
empire.—(Loud sheets.) Do you think it no dis-
graceoltfießfinte:titlYtoteSitlree:lgeltlitleedll?t—he
(Ch e
etros.) have
A ryeo uyr,ocui tlyl.
power and the force of' the honest and able repre-
eentatives of the Irish people?—(Cheers.) 1 may
be asked what is my present object—what I want to
get for the present ? I answer and tell you, Par-
liamentary Reform.—(Hear, heat.) Will you join
and aid me iu the obtaining Parliamentary Reform
(Cries of" we will," and cheers.) I want the people
of Ireland to join me in Parliamentary Reform. Do
that, and Parliamentary Reform once obtained you
will see justices done to Ireland.—(Cheere.) It
would be an idle and a vain attempt for his Ma.
jesty's Ministers to attempt to conciliate the party
that are opposed to them—that party who have ever
resisted improvement. They might as well attempt
to coax famished tigers by flinging them crumbs of
bread, as to conciliate that party who are implacably
opposed to them. It is therefore the deity of the
Ministry to be tirm.—(Luud cheers.) The succe,s
of this measure is certain ; we have the Govern-
ment and the people embarked in the same cause,
and that cause never can be shipwrecked.--(Loud
cheers.) You may rely on we that after Parlia-
mentary Reform is obtained, if you have any other
1
stitch to put in, or any injustice to complain of, that
AS I have devoted my entire life to your service, I
never will desert you until I make your country free,
happy, and prosperous.—(Loud cheers.) The lion.
and Learned Gentleman concluded by requesting the
immense multitude to separate in peace and good
order, after giving three cheers fur the Kit: and
Ilefinm. He then retired amid shouts of deafening
1 enthusiasm.

The deputieg of the various trades then passed
:n to Mr. O'Connell's house, where he shook hands
with each individual, and received their hearty col.-
gratulations.

CAPTAIN COOKERS MEMOIRS.—There are,
perhaps, no autobiographical memoirs that take such deep
hold on the mini as those of military writers ; indeed, the
very s h zards and vicissitudes to which soldiers are inces-
santly liable give to their narratives a peculiar zest. The
work by Captain COOKE, of this class, just published, is
not distinguished merely by the quality just alluded to, but
has rarely been surpassed for the strokes of wit and hu-
mour, the arany amusing anecdotes, and the shrewd old-
servations on men and manners which it contains. It de-
serves to find a place, not only un every mess-table, but nra
every library-table throughout the kingdom.

Died on the 27th ult., at Gwinear, Mr.
JOHN FAtst., aged 81. During his Illness he 14rgained
for his outfits with the undertater, whose charge was
IL 125.; Mr. FAut, offered 41. 4s. After much chaffer—
ing the bargain was fat trek at 4/. Bs.

Considerable amusement was on Thursday af-
forded to the inhabitants of Pimlico, in consequeaec of a
gentleman driving throui,h there in his cabriolet, ringing
a bell. Much wonder was excited by this strange tintina-
bulary exhibiion, which it appears arose out of the follow-
ing circumstance .—About a twelvemonth ago the gentle-
man had the misfortune to occasion the death of u little
;id by driving over her at dusk, and ever since that time,
when driving nut in the evening, he makes use of a little
bell to apprise persons crossing the roa.i of his approach.
e„DIE PATRICIAN AT SEA.—A new tale or
naval life written, we are informed, by an officer of high
is on the eve of publication. It is said that evety-
..!haracter, male and female, in the story actual por-
trait of a living individual, and that the incidentsare facts-
['his is us it should be;
is repot
leda te
to 4 u
,iff
it sea, little aid is required of invention ; and j„itii,),ly
the new tale of the deep
action soil'
truth. The scene is chiefly in the Mrditerranean, and de
ecret details of the battle of Naval ins form, a bromine. t
:nature in the plot. The uuvei is to be called ‘• Cavendish.'