The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-21 00:00:00

ARREST OF MR. BARRETT.

Mr. Richard Barrett here asked to see the copy of the
warrant, in order that he might know what was the pre-
cise charge against him.

The copy of the warrant was here handed to Mr. Bar-
rett, which he read aloud, and by the peculiar emphasis
he laid on certain words and passages, excited a great deal
of laughter in the office.
Mr. O'Connell—What is the bail required ? Alderman
DARLEY-Suppose we say 2001., and two securities i❑
1001. each.

Mr. Staunton—I shall be one of the bail for Mr. Bar-
rett, and in such a case as this I do not think that the
amount of bail is of any consequence.
Mr. Steele now advanced to the Magistrates' table, and
said, " O'Connell and Gentlemen who report for the
Press, I request your attention for a moment. I enter
at the same time A'ehemently protesting
against the
i
into this security, and have given bap, constrained by ne-
cessity,hltoutrageous and ridictrYous illegality of the pro-
ceedings. To the Magistrates of this office I owe nothing
but courtesy, but with respect to the authority under which
they act I now wish to express my sentiments. What
wish to have recorded is this—when the acts of this day
shall be published before the world, I here declare that I feel
intermingled indignation, contempt, and abhorrence for
• . • • the • . . . who . . . . Mr.
Steele then retired with O'Connell and his other friends.

ARREST OF MR. REYNOLDS.
Mr. John Reynolds here entered the office, and having
been introduced to the Magistrates, required to see the
copy of the warrant on which he was arrested. Having
read it, he said he protested against its illegality ; but as
he was constrained by necessity to do so, he should give the
necessary hail. When he had done so, he said, " I regret
extremely that this arrest has taken place, because at the
moment it did so, I was making preparations for the meet-
ing at Audeon's parish, which takes place this day, and to
which I am now going."---(Laughter. )
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ARREST OF MR. LAWLESS AND MR. EDWARD

DW YE R.
Mr. Lawless, who at the close of the proceedings had
come into the office to see what was passing, was placed
under arrest, and obliged to give bail. In the course of
the day Mr. Edward Dwyer was also arrested, and having
given the necessary securities was discharged.

POPULAR EXCITEMENT IN DUBLIN.
When Mr. O'Connell was first placed under arrest, and
was walking down from his residence in Merrion-square
t, the Head Police-office, he was, as usual, followed by
hundreds of persons, who were shouting and cheering for
hint—these persons, upon seeing him enter the police-
office, followed by the chief constable, and peace officer
Irwin, immediately suspected that he was under arrest,
and in fifteen minutes after the space in front of the office
was filled by an immense multitude of persons, while
Parliament-street, Dame-street, Cork-hill, and the sur-
rounding streets were rendered impassible by the mass of
men collected in them. To keep off the pressure from
the office, the iron barriers before it were closed up, and
continued thus barricadoed until 'Mr, O'Connell and his
friends left the office. When " the Pacificator" was seen
coming forth he was received with long-continued and en-
thusiastic cheers. He proceeded from the office, first to-
wards Parliament-street, hut finding that it would be im-
possible to make way in that direction, he turned back to-
wards Dame-street, and from the drawing-room window
in Mr. Fitzpatrick's, he addressed the people in his usual
animated and eloquent style of speaking. He concluded
li}'cllit;g on them to obey the law, and peaceably dis-
perse to their homes, promising them that no exertion of
their enemies could prevent a repeal of the Union.
While the discussion was going on in the police-office,
Mr. P. Costelloe was despatched by Mr. O'Connell to re-
tain Mr. Perrin and Mr. Holmes, a duty which that
active agent immediately discharged.

PROCLAMATION LAW—PAROCIIIA L MEETING.
Yesterday a very numerous and respectable meeting of
the inhabitants of St. Audeon'a parish, assembled in the
School-house, Cook-street, to petition the King and both
Houses of Parliament for the repeal of the Act 10th of
Geo. IV., which gives the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland the
power of suppressing meetings assembled for purposes re..
cognized by law. The place of meeting was crowded to
excess, and great numbers were obliged to remain in the
streets.

.TORN ltiiivriouis, Esq., was called to the Chair.
On taking which, he said they had most important busi-
ness to do; they had to petition Parliament for a repeal
of one of the most despotic and unjust Acts ever passed by
a British Parliament.—(Hear, hear.)
Just at this period Mr. O'Connell arrived, accompanied

by Mr. M. O'Connell, Mr. Steele, Mr. Finn. an 1 several
other gentlemen, and was received with enthusiastic cheers.
After quiet was restored throughout the assembly,
Mr. REYNOLDS proceeded. The reign of terror had
commenced.—(Loud cries of hear.)—Attempts were
made to drive the country into rebellion, but they should
he defeated.—( Hear, hear.)—The mischievous prosecu-
tion, should be defeated in the King's Bench, and their
object prevented.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. JOSEPH D. Mu LLEN, in proposing the third reso-
lution, had great 'pleasure in doing so, because, up to
that moment, he had entertained great personal respect for
Lord Anglesea; but he had now acted on as vile a law as
any despotism ever enacted, and he therefore renounced
that respect which he had hitherto felt for him.—(Hear,
and cheers.)—lt was impossible for him to express the
regret which filled the hearts of all honest men at the pro-
ceedings of Government.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
Some very spirited resolutions on the subject of the Act
of ParliamPnt complained of, and its application by the
authorities, were then proposed by respectable parishioners
and passed unanimously.
After the fifth resolution had been put from the Chair,
and agreed to by the meeting,
Mr. O'CONNELL ascended a table placed in front of the
Chair, and was received with loud acclamations. He
said—l have one claim more upon the kindness of my
country—the enemies of Ireland have dared to make a
prisoner of me--a householder of your city—a Member of
the British House of Commons—they have done me the
high honour to send a commo❑ thief-taker into my house,
to arrest me in the sanctuary of my home—in the pre-
sence of the mother of my children.—(Hisses, and cries
of, " Oh, oh !") They have offered me place and honour-
able office—the highest gifts the Crown can make have
been tendered to me, who have been thus insultingly
treated by them, but I spurned them as I spurned
all that might wean me from my country.—(Cheers.)
I tell Lord Anglesea that his advisers shall not disturb

reland.—(Loud cheers.)--And yet it is difficult to pre-
vent the effects of the measures which have been resorted
to.—(Hear, hear.)—l noticed the existence of illegal
secret societies, and yet no person in authority came to
me to learn the authority on which I made the assertion.
(Hear, hear.)—No; but perhaps it was n 6 secret to some
of them—perhaps they know more about it than I did.
(Hear and a laugh.)--Let them tell rue now who it was
that sent two well dressed men, with plenty of money in
their pockets, to disseminate dangerous doctrines among
the people of the county of Louth, with placards to post
on the entrances of places of public worship, and secret
plans of operation to entrap the unwary ; who was it
sent those men, who endeavoured to induce the people to
turn out on the 24th of this month ? To fix the day,
forsooth, on which their measures should be effected.—
(Hear, hear, hear.)—l hope the people will obey
their friends, and preserve the peace.—(Hear, hear.)—
The people of England are kept in ignorance of the condi •
tion of this country, because their rulers know they would
treat their conduct to us with indignation.—(Hear, and
cheers.)—But I hope that fifty or sixty gentlemen will
accompany me to Liverpool in the steam-packet, on Sun-
day week, and on Monday we will hold a meeting, at-
tended by the people of England, when, please God ! they
shall learn how their Irish fellow-subjects are treated.—
( (Tear, and cheers. )—I suppose they think they have
frightened me by their silly conduct.—(Hear, hear.)—No,
my countrymen, the bayonet and the dungeon have no ter-
rors for me.—(Cheers.)—l care not for suffering and
death, if it be in the service of my country.—(Loud
cheers. )__Whether I die upon the scaffold, or in the tran-
quillity of my own home, the last throb of my bosom
shall be for the happiness of Ireland.—(Long continued
cheers.)—Let the people be peaceable now and we will re-
peal the Union, and there is not a man, woman, or child
around ins, who will not see the Parliament again sitting
in College-green.—(Cheers.)—Oh ! what a day that will
be, when I shall preach a charity sermon to my country-
men, hailing them as freemen, and telling them that this
has been the work of peace and good feeling, and Christian
love among Irishmen.—(Cheers.)—What a day will it he
for the tradesmen of Dublin when I tell them that 120
Noblemen, with more than 300 of the most wealthy gen-
try must come and reside in Dublin.—(Cheers.)—And I
tell the Marquis of Anglesea he cannot prevent that day
from coming.—(Cheers and groans.)—Oh, don't groan
for him, he's not worth it. —(Laughter.)—But:as he likes
popularity, let him bespeak a play some day next week,
and I'll bespeak another, and we'll see who will draw the
fullest house.—(Cheers and laughter.)—My friends, my
object is to speak to you of the Act of Parliament, which
allows the Lord Lieutenant to prevent your meetings, and
which is the mest despotic Act ever passed by a British
Parliament.--(Hear.)—Mr. Stanley, our chief Secretary,
opposed the very reading of it ; Lord Brougham, the pre-
sent Lord Chancellor of England, called it the costly price
of emancipation ; and the Marquis of Anglesea alone, and
beyond all, refused the slightest assent to it, and yet these
are the men who are carrying it into effect.—(Hisses and
bear.)—But what is the result of all this? Why, there
are two gentlemen who were amongst the most anxious
to receive him with honour, and I condemned them for it.
—(Haar, hear.)—They now express their abhorrence of
his conduct, and opposition to his measures.—(Hear and
cheers.)—l do not shrink from my share of the responsi-
bility incurred in the efforts of Irishmen for national inde-
pendence.—(Cheers.)—We'll persevere through persecu-
tion, and continue our struggle for liberty despite their
effirts to prevent 119.-(Long-continued cheering. )—Their
proceedings but add to the number of Anti-Unionists.
Alen crowded round me today who have stood aloof from
our struggle. One man came forward and said he would
bail ins in 100,0001., or if twice that amount were re-
quired, that he would qualify for the sum, and would do it
willingly.—(Cheers.)—Why should I not name him ?
(Name.)—lt was my friend, Andrew Ennis, may God
bless hint for it.—(Loud cheers.)—They talk of bringing
capital into the country. It is all delusion.—(Hear,
hear.)—Would not Andrew Ennis employ some of his
immense capital in speculation in Ireland, if the situa-
tion of the country and the empire permitted him to ex-
pect fair remuneration ?—(Hear, hear, hear.)—No, he
could not. The Union has dsstroyed the resources of Lis
country; it has withdrawn from her the Nobles arid Gen-
try, who would have encouraged and employed native in-
dustry, and left her desolate and wretchtd.—(Hear.).....
Why should we continue our intercourse with those who
thwart one efforts for national redross and national inde-
pendence ?—( Hear, hear. )—Why should we deal with those
who oppore a repeal of the Union, or buy from them or
sell to them ?—(Hear, hear, hear.)—l was a decided ene-
my in the Catholic Association to exclusive dealing.—
(Hear, hear.)—lt had then too much of a sectarian cha-
racter, and I was anxious to combine Catholic and
Protestants, alike as Irishmen, for the benefit of Ireland.—
(Cheers.)—l was then against that ; but I'll tell you what
lam for now—l am for exclusive dealing fol. a repeal of
the Union.—(Cheers.)—l know there are men—servile,
time-serving Catholics, and one of them, high as he is
and wealthy, was made a Bank Director through my
means, and men of this description should not be dealt
trith.—( Hear, and cheers. )—What I want it to form an
association for giving up the use of articles paying excise
duties.—(Hear, hear.)—Let it go round. Let there be
no whiskey drunk, and there will be no riots.—(Hear,
hear.)-1 tell you several men came round me to day, who
have not hitherto co• operated with me, and expressed
their disapprobation of the measures of the Govesament.
—(Hear, hear- )—One of these is An Orangeman, or if
not a sworn one, has the principles of Orangeism.—
(Cheers.)—l with such men to come round me, and
merge, iii the name of Irishmen, all feeling for Irelsnd.—
(Cheers.)—Mr. O'Connell concluded amid enthusiastic
applause.

_
Two or three other resolutions and a petition to be pre-
sented to Parliament, by Earl Radnor in the louse of
Lords, and Mr. O'Connell in the House of Commons,
were adopted,

Mr, THOMAS REYNOLDS addressed the meeting in a
powerful speech, and the meeting afterwards separated.
Thousands waited in the streets to hail Mr. O'Connell,
and they crowded round him as he proceedv4 homewards
accompanied by his friends.

This day (Thursday) had been fixed t
LLoyD's for deciding by ballot the long-pewiing question,
Nvhether the members oh the Ccmmitiee shall give their
services gratuitously, 01' continue to be entitled to the
guinea fee, In the result, the extraordinary circumstance
has occurred of an exact equality of votes, s,,ing 223 on
each side. -

THE REV. T, S. NUGIIES'S TRAVELS IN
GREEcE Atin ALEANIA.—The very great success which
has attended the Second Edition of this classical work
does honour to the taste and judgment of the " reading
public," Perhaps the secret of the charm which invests
the book is to be found in the union of lively anecdnie and
learned research which characterizes the pages of My.
liucurs. Nothing seems to have et(cape4 his personai
investigation o❑ the spot ; and, accAmpanied by the works
of the Greek poets and historians, he has put the accuracy
of their descriptions to the test of visiting every celebrated
locality ; tl.e present condition of which he has so minute/7
described, that to the student of Grecian literature a,nd a.n
tiquities, a perusal of Mr. HUGHES'S celebrated volu►nes
►nay, in a great measure, answer till purpose of a journey
to Greece.

GRAND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE
MANSION-HOUSE.

In consequence of the memorable disappointment
isoLguished guests who expe-
riencedat-
tended by all London .on the 9th of November last: the
annual festivites of Guildhall have,l:e.:tiletraengsufaeurryedspiteno
splendid
Lord lenterden, Lord Hill
Mansion-house, awl yesterday the Lord Mayor gave a• en-
at es r t
extensive.a i i i
(the General Commanding-in• Chief ), Lord Nugent,
onne t
h teo
occasion,the
A Civicmo
n gwtßheoerdeyd,
Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, the Duke of 'Valenciennes
)(attached to the French Embassy), and several other
public characters. In the list of high legal functionaries
present we observed, besides, the Lord Chief Justice
of the Court of King's Bench, Mr. Justice James Parke,
Baron Holland, and Mr. Justice Taunton. The party
altogether formed a very numerous and most respect..
able assemblage. The Lady Mayoress drew around her a
brilliant and animated circle, and though the fair votaries
of fashion over whom she presided were denizens of the
East, yet, soot!' to say, they might have appeared to ad •
vantage even in that privileged and prescriptive region
which extends from Whitehall to Connaught-place. About
half-past six o'clock dinner was announced, and as the
company entered the Egyptian Hall, every eye was sti uck
with the splendour of the scene which presented itself.
Nothing was omitted which taste and ingenuity could
devise, in order to give all possible effect to the whole
display. After due justice was done to the banquet,
which by the way, was served up in the very best style,
the usual loyal and patriotic toasts were given from the
Chair.

Lord TENTERDEN then rose, and, in a few expreasions
of emphatic eulogy, proposed the health of the Lord
Mayor, stating, at the same time, the high gratification,
he felt in offering this tribute to tl.e present Chief Magis-
trate of the City of London.
The LORD MATott, while expressing his acknowledg-
ments, said that no obj-ct could be dearer to him than the
good opinion of his fellow-citizens, and he felt the present
compliment peculiarly enhanced as wining through one
of the first legal dignitaries of the land.—(Applause.)—
His Lordship, in conclusion, proposed the health of Lotd
Tenterden; and that Noble and Learned individual briefly-
returned thankq.
The next toast was " Ilia Majesty's Ministers," when
Lord Nugent appeared as their festive representative,
making some observations in support of the policy they
intended to pursue.

On the health of Lord Hill being propokad, that gallant
Officer said be felt himself associated in the most interest-
ing manner with the City of London, for hia ausestor, Sir
Rowland Hill, was the first Protestant that had ever fitted
the Civic Chair, and he himself had had the freedom of
the Corporation conferred upon him in the Mercers' Corn-
pany—that very Company to which his ancestor had he-
longed. —( Applause. )

The LORD MaYon. next called the attention of th.e com-
pany to the health of Sir Thomas Hardy, with .some ap-
propriate remarks on the services he had ren.,iered to the
country.

1-1!e Gallant Admiral said he felt most sensibly this dis-
tinguished mark of approbation. But he and his brother
Officers of the Navy were afraid that their swords might
get rusty for want of employment ; but if the time should
ever come when they should find it necessary to use them
in the service of their country, he was a*sured that they
would bear in mind what had been said by one of the
most eminent and illustrious men that had ever walked the
quarter-deck—namely, that they would only thiuk of their
country, and the enemy hefure them.—(Loud applaus,)
They would never cease to remember that beautiful pas-
sage—hulce et decorum est pro patria mori.--(Chrerc )
Several other toasts followed, and the incidents of the
social board was enlivened by son►e excellent singing by
Mr. Broadhurst and Mr. Fitztvilliam• The former pave
one of his own inimitable ballads, and the latter responded
to Sir Thomas I tardy's address with an effusion truly ad-
Bra: .netri i:gt!,e, ofa ad
o,Britishe fifirst
ar. verse
stitleuth oe
sufficiently
a:pe:lltern
humour its

" One night it blew a hurricane, the sea was mountains rolling,
When Barney Bunting turned his quid, and said to Italy
Bowling,
' A strong nor.wester's blowing, Bill, Oh don't you hear it
roar DOW
Lord help 'em, how I pities all unhappy folks ashore now."
At a few minutes before eleven o'clock the Lord Mayor
and the great majority of the guetotw joined the ladies in
the grand ball-room, where various parties were already
giutdrilling it away with the utmost earnestness, evidently
reckless of the momentsas they passed, an.l determined to
prolong them in mirthful enjoyment, till "grey-eyed," or,
rather, at this season, murky-eyed morn, appeared.