The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-01 00:00:00

GRATrTUDE.

Outline of a Speech made at a late Meeting of
the County of Kelly, by Judge DAY, the highly
respected father of Lady DENNY, residing near
Worcester :

"Mr Sheriff—l rise in obedience to the flattering and too.
partial call of this respectable Meeting, to move a Resolution
or two, expressive of the deep, and I trust, the indelible gra-
titude of this county, for the splendid munificence of Great
Britain in alleviation of the late calamities visited by an aveng-
ing GOD upon the enormous and atrocious transgressions of
this sinful country. This heavenly manna has descended upon
every peasant, and cheered th& humblest cottage in the wil-
derness. The dew of heaven has refreshed our, vales and moun-
tains, anti made the desert smile. It has unfolded new and
nobler qualities in the British character already abundant in
excellence, and practically taught us the incalculable value of
British connexion; and in so doing has accomplished an union
more solid and better cemented than any Act of Parliament
could effect. Is it possible, whilst gratitude continues an in- ,
digenous plant of Irish soil—whilst memory holds a seat in
the breast of honour—to forget the generous hearts that ex-
panded to relieve our wants, or the unparalled benevolence
that stepped between our famishing peasantry and death ?
Who is there amongst us, who does not now feel it his.
proudest boast and glory to be identified with that noble people
—that does not exult in being united with the Queen of Na-
tions ? And under a Monarch the idol of his people! The
first King who ever came amongst us but as a fugitive op-
pressor, or a Conqueror ! who came in the heavenly spirit of
conciliation, " with healing in his wings"—an Irish King,
who, upon treading'lrish ground, spurned the vulgar escort of
Soldiers and Constables, and with the courageous confidence
of a magnanimous Prince, bung himself at once upon the
safest and proudest escort of Kings—the hearts and shoulders
of a warm hearted and rapturous people ! In a word, a King
who, in demonstration of his love of Ireland, has given us—
what God knows we long wantal—a Statesman for our
Viceroy, who devotes himself to your interest. and stakes his
bright Character on the moral and physical amelioration of his
native country, and the fulfilment of his Royal 3lester'e high
commands. Of such a Sovereign, and such a people, let
Ireland, trumpet-tongued, and with one voice, proclaim_
Semper honor non:envie tam laudaque manebunt.—Tha
union is now become indissoluble, bottomed upon reciprocity
of kindly, affectionate, and fraternal feeling, and on unequi-
vocal overt-acts of mutual devotion. We gave them an im-
mortal Captain, who led them to victory and glory ; " in the
imminent deadly breach" we struggled with them side by
side for the palm of honour whilst our elder and wealthier
sister sympathized in the sorrows of her suffering brethren,
and, with a gencresity " as broad and as general as the easing
air," stretched forth her hundred thousand hands to save us.—
Then what is the' return your benefactors require ? only
that you cultivate habits of tranquillity, good order, and: in-
dustry, that you renounce and hunt down those gangs of in-
cendiaries and murderers, who involved last winter your heree
tufore innocent and pre-eminently loyal Cotinty in misery
and shame ; that you revere and sustain the laws as your
surest and best protectors, live in harmony and brotherly fellow,
ship, under the influence and in the practice of religion
and morality, and disclaim those worthless and wicked impos.
ters, who would. .make the shades of religious differences
a ground of alienation amonkst fellow Christians. in a word,
all they require is, that you be true and faithful to your
own interest. Thus from biterness may sweeee be extracted,
and our very misfortunes become lessons of, wisdom, and the
source of future competence, comfort, and happiness."