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in their proceedings; but be approached the task with a
sincere conviction that he would not be able to do justice
to so fruitful a theme. The question was important, not
only to the Jews, but to all Christians—not only
important to Syria, but to every land ; for, alas
where was the land where fanaticism, ignorance,
and superstition, had not at one time raised their
bloody banners? and although they might fancy that
in the 19th century those banners would not again be
raised, unfortunately they were undeceived, and they
persecuted Jews were made to feel the same dangers and
horrors which had taken place in Europe in former cen-
turies, and made to know that fanaticism, ignorance, and
superstition were still allowed to hold sway in some coun-
tries. They had heard the Report read by the Secretary,
it entered into details which were not only shocking to the
feelings but repugnant to every feeling of humanity. The
tone of moderation which pervaded the Report was a proof of
its truth.—( Mr. O'Connell here appeared on the plat-
form, and was received with loud sheering.)—ln express-
ing their detestation of the recent occurrences at Damas-
cus, it was not necessary for them to wait to hear whether
the charges were true or false. He believed them to be
as false as the nature of the men who made them was
cruel and wicked—be was sure that the whole country
would rise with one voice and one accord to stamp the
cruelties, the horrors, which had been indicted at Damas-
cus with their abhorrence. Those cruelties had taken pkee
under a man to whom, as a warrior, he was most willing to
pay his tribute • but it was to be remembered that he was a
man who wished it to be thought that he was the friend
of civilization, and who called upon all Europe to reward
him for it by conferring upon him the hereditary do-
minion of the country in which these cruelties bad taken
place. Ho hoped that what had been done would
prove to him to be the destruction of his hopes.
The oppressor of the Jens of Damascus was a man who
had violated all the rules of civilised countries in order to
realise the dreams of conquest and ambition, he had long
entertained. But who were the people who were subject
to these sufferings ?—( Hear, hear.) They were
a people, who if Christians bad any faith in the
religion they professed, they should believe, were con-
nected with all that was dear and sacred ie relligion—
( Hear, hear)—whum they should believe to be a people
on whose history their faith was founded, and to
whose future restoration, both political and religious, they
should look forward with undoubted confidence. —( Cheers, )
They were a people connected throughout the world with
the progress of commerce and civilization, and with the
extension of the relations between man and man. They
were a people devoted to the pacific pursuits of trade, and
notoriously averse to mixing themselves up with the
political struggles of the countries in which they lived.
They were everywhere the promoters of education and
the supporters in their own persons of that civil and reli-
gious liberty towards others which they claimed in their
own behalf. They were a people who had given the best
proof of the value they set on freedom by their unremitting
endeavours to extend to others without distinction of creed
or caste, that toleration to which they themselves had a
right. The resolution which had been entrusted to
him was one which expressed a deep censure of the
cruelty of which the Jews of Damascus had been the
objects, and it asked for an immediate and
impartial investigation into the calumnies with which they
were charged. Could a more just or a more reasonable
request be made? All that was asked was a full and
free investigation. He hoped, for the credit of civilised
nations, that that investigation would show that those reports
which had reached him of the conduct of the repeesentae
tives of European Powers at Damascus were unfounded.
He hoped the French Consul would be able to clear him-
self in the eyes of the civilised world of the imputation
which bad been cast on him of sanctioning, by his
silent acquiescence at least, the cruelties of
which they had just heard.—(Loud cheers.) He
thought that the charges against the Jews of Damas-
cus carried with them their own refutation, and those
charges were so monstrous that he could not believe them.
—( Hear, hear.) It watt impossible, in his opinion, that if
a people had been guilty not for one year, but
for hundreds of years, not of one murder, but a succession
of murders, such facts could have remained till now un-
known and undiscovered.—(Cheers.) The perpetration
of a single act, such as those with which these parties
were charged would have created a loud cry of indignation
and a call for immediate punishment against the Jewish
people in those lands in which they found a shelter and a
home. The charge was an incredible one, but he felt that
the Jews of Syria and of England had a right to call on
the authors of the calumny to give the means of
meeting it with a complete refutation.—( Hear, bear.)
He would call on them, and on the whole Christian world,
if they had any faith in the precepts of their religion—if
they had any respect for justice, and if they had any grati-
tude towards that Providence which had placed them
in a country free from pusecution —he would call
on them to raise a loud and indignant cry on the subject—
( Cheers.) That cry would be a source of consolation to
those unhappy people in their confinement and their dun-
geons ; It would scare the tyrant on his throne, and it
would be to themselves a subject of gratification
to know that so far as lay in them, they had
endeavoured to prevent the recurrence of abominations
contrary not only to all the precepts of morality and re-
ligion, but destructive of the first and most evident rights
of man.—( Loud cheers.)
The resolution was then read, as folloes :
That this meeting has heard with the deepest emotion
and with the greatesihorror, the recital of the cruelties inflicted
upon the Jews in the East, and hereby expresses its Christian
sympathy for the sufferers, and its earnest hope that an imme-
diate and impartial public investigation will take place so as to
disprove, in the face of the whole world, the atrocious calum-
nies invented anti propagated by their persecutors as a pretext
for the infliction of cruelties almost unknown to the previous
history cf mankind.
JOHN MASTERMAN, Esq., rose to second the resolu-
tion. He felt impressed not only with a desire common
to all Englishmen of putting an end to oppression,
but be also wished to take that opportunity of express-
ing the respect which he entertained for that liberal
and influential portion of the Jewish people, who resided in
this country—( Hear,
hear) —a body who had ever shown
themselves ready to manifest their loyalty to the Sovereigns
of this land, and the kindness of their dispositions in pro
moting every charitable and useful institution. He
could not sit down without congratulating the meeting on
the selection of the individual who was about to embark
for Syria, for the purpose of carrying into effect the
wishes of the friends of the Jewish people.—(Hear.)
No man could be more warthy of the choice than Sir
Moses Montefiore—(Cheers)--and no man was more re-
spected for his virtues in public and in private life.
Sir CHARLES FORTIES came forward to support the next
resolution. He felt that it would not become him to oc-
cupy much of their time, while there were many around
him who cottld much better express the feeling every one
should entertain of the persecution of which the
Jews of Damascus had been the objects. There
was a fact, however, in connexion with the his-
tory of the Jewish people to which he wi.,hed to allude.
The groat part of the Indian army was c imposed of Jows.
—( Cheers.) That was a fact not generally known. One
of the fines. battalions in the service at Bengal was com-
posed almost wholly of Jews and at that place at least half-
a-dczen officers were selected from the Jewish persuasion.
Having said thus much he would conclude by proposing
the following resolution :
That this meeting deems it right thus publicly to declat e
its abhorrence of the use which has been made of torture for the
purpose of extorting confessions from the unhappy persons ac-
cused—its utter disbelief of the confessions thus obtained—and
its earnest hope that this relic of a barbarous age will he from
henceforth abolished ; and that those just pt inciples which have
in European States secured to the accused a fair and impartial
trial may be speedily extended to every nation throughout the
world.
Dr. BowEiNo then came forward to second the resole.
tion, and was received with great cheering. He had
thought that he could riot be accused of impropriety or
intrusion if he seconded the revolution that bad just been
propos, d for the acceptance of the meeting, inasmuch as
it had been his lot to be not unconnected with the lo-
cality where these sad events had taken place,
and to have even personal knowledge of the individual
victims.—( Cheers.) He had received hospitalities in the
convent of which Friar Thornaso was the distinguished ar.d
benevolent friend.—( Cheers.) And he knew what a
strong hold be bad on the affections of the Christian
population, and the excitement that had been created by
the circumstances of his death.--( hear, and cheers.)
He bad also the honour of the personal acquaintance of
many Jews that had suffsred, and he held in his hand at
that moment a document written at Damascus, in which he
endeavoured to represent the importance of the Jewish
population, and in which lie found that there were more
than twenty of them engaged in trade with Eng-
land, having a capital of sixteen or eighteen millions
of piasters. If he could believe that any word of man
would assist this missionary of benevolence and toleration
in his highly honourable and holy mission, great,would be
his delight, for be could not conceal from himself all the
difficulties that surrounded the engagements he had under-
taken to perform himself, that of pleading the cause
of the opprt ssed Jew in the presence of the oppressor, and
in that region of fanaticism, in its worst form.—( Cheers.)
It was a n,ost singular fact, but net more singulae than
true, that in the East, in the Holy Land, at Mecca, Ma_
dina, Damascus, and Jerusalem, places sacred to Chr
anity, were the spot§ of all others where Christianity
was least learned.—(Cheers.) Their friend was going to
tell those who were under the influence of ignorance, that
they had better be wise, and those who were under the
it.fluer cc of superstition, that theysGlinaidettielitntgerhbaed
been done
ni.tc happywspaisrjt , rto whensay the British Consul
letelurmagre he dare not appear in a European dress
flw"oncrit'Dhlto;fiumtrstinsult, and it waa not ten years ago since Chris- '
tians could not appear in the Bazaar there in the costume
of the European nations ; but such, he was happy to say,
was not the case now. If those present wished to know what
was the state of things in the East, let them recollect what
was the state of this country a few centuries age. The
present question was not only embarrassed by political
considerations but by religious ones, and it must not also
be forgotten that the position of the French Government
in Syria was a most curious one; and with respect to the
murder of Thornaso, there was no doubt the charge against
the Jews was a most unfounded one. In order to show how
favourable the Sovereign of Egypt was to the cause of
mercy and justice, he would state what occurred to him-
self some time since. About three years ago, seven-
teen Syrian Christians owed the Sovereign of Egypt up-
wards of ore hundred and thirty thousand pounds, and
not being able to pay, they were condemned to the
galleys. At that time Lord Pi ulhoe, whose passage
through that State left light and beneficence behind it.
was there, and a *Consul, together with himself, e ere applied
o by the Greek Archbishop, who requested them to use

their influence with Mehemet Ali to o'btaidtbeir forgive.;
ness, or some commutation of the sentence. They spoke
to the Pacha of his power, but they told him
it was nobler to be just.—( Loud catering.)
assured him that they did not come to him w plead P31,,s
behalf of those who had done him injury, but to plead for
the tears of the women and children which they had seeu
dropping on their faces when they thought of the destitute
state in which they were left. The Parana walked upend doe is
his palace, and said that they were deceived : that it was ne-
cessary to make an example of those who had injured him
so deeply, but it was obvious that his heart was touched.
They repeated again that they were not pleading for the
guilty, but for the innocent—not for the offending fathers,
but for the innocent wives and children. Three days after
the Pacha had written him a letter stating that the Chris.
tians had been forgiven.—( Cheers.) He mentioned
this in order to give encouragement to their friend who
was about to tread in their footsteps. He would mention
another circumstance in order to show the largeness of the
liberality and spirit of toleration by which Niehernet AU
was actuated. A few years ago at Keng, opposite
to Mecca, the Christians had erected a church.
It was an imprudent step for the Christians
to take, because it stood in the way of the flood of
fanaticism and superstition which was always flowing
towards Mecca and Medina. The church was destroyed
by the Mahommedan pilgrims. The Christians erected the
church a second time, and a second time it was destroyed
by the pilgrims. A third time the church was erected by
the Christians, and a third time it was destroyed by the
Pilgrims. A deputation was sent to Cairo by the themes,
stating that the Christians bad usurped an authority
which they did not possess—that they had no right tit rcct
a Christian church, and were acting contrary to the law.
He referred this deputation to the superior tribunal, and
that tribunal decided that the Christians had no right to
build the church. Nevertheless the Pacha said that, as
the Christians had been led astray, and did not know that
they were violating the law, he would order au acceunt of
the money which they had expended to be made out,
and he would restore it.—( Hear, hear, hear.) (He Dr.
Bowring) afterwards visited the spot, and found that
the money had been received. He mentioned this circum-
stance because there might be no doubt as to the charac-
ter of the Sovereign of Egypt, and it would be well to
represent to hint that his character for toleration,
for liberality, for wisdom, nay, even for prudence,
was involved in this affair.—( Hear, hear.) He
ee,
had received a letter by the last packet from a person of
high authority, stating that when the necessity for making
a complete and full investigation into
-.this raise was made
to the Pacha, he expressed his desire that such inves-
tigation should be made, his determination to throw no
impediment whatever in the Way of such investigation,
and his willingness to submit the case to the investiketion
of any tribunal of the British consul might approve.
—( Cheers.) He hoped that these sufferings of tire Jews
of Damascus might be the means of elevating the position
of the fieb:ew nation throughout the world. Their cha•
ratter it was impossible to elevate higher than it stood,
and he hoped that that justice which was about to be done
to them in the East would be reflected back on the West, •
and that while they advocated the cause of the Jews where
they had so little power, they would take care that jastico
should be done them in these regions, where their power was
so much.—( Loud and continued cheers )
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
S. GURNEY, Esq., then came forward to propose the
next resolution, and was received with loud cheering. He
said he also esteemed it a high honour to be per- •
nsitted to take part in the proceedings on the 'acacia
occasion among the supporters of the great cause of civil
and religious liberty. It was a great privilege of all who
lived in this country and in this city, that when any cause,
having for its object the furtherance of humanity, or the
freeing of the oppressed was brought forward, the
voice of the people was always heard at the
summons. All parties in such a case united in the cause
of humanity. With respect to this particular occasion of
the persecution of the Jews at Damascus, he was rejoiced
that iris respected friend Sir Moses Montefiore was about
to proceed to that region to support his oppressed and
persecuted brethren, and he could not doubt but that his
mission would be fraught with the greatest advantage and
benefit, not merely to the Jews of that groat city, but to
those of all other parts of the globe, and that it weuld tend
to put them in a right position, as civil members of
every country in which they were located.—(Cheers.)
One great advantage would accrue from this meeting—it
would tend to do away with that persecution which
had been used, not only towards Jews, but to•
wards Christians also, by their fellow Christians,
at least so called, for he could not con-
sider any man a real Chi-istian who was a
persecutor. —( Cheers.) Sir Moses Montefiore was about
to leave his native country to proceed to those regions
where the climate was so unpropitious to natives of these
countries. May the prayers of all the inhabiturs of this
great metropolis for his safety be beard. He would
have them. Great cheering.) And may he
return not only with the high satisfaction of having sue.
ceeded in his endeavours, but reaping that inward satisfac-
tion which of all others lie must be desirous of enjoying.
The resolution he was about to propose would, ho was
sure, meet with the unanimous approbation not of the
meeting only, but of the whole metropolis.—( Cheers.)
He begged to propose the following resolution:—
That this meeting expresses its deep regret that, in this
enlightened age, a persecution should have arisen against oar
Jewish brethren, originating in ignorance and inflamed by
bigotry, and it oilers its anxious prayer thrkt, through this dif-
fusion of seem! principles of religion in every country, all men
may be considered as alike entitled to protection, and to the
benefit of jtht laws impartially administered.
JAMES MORISON, ESQ., M. P., seconded the resolution.
Ile also considered it a great privilege to be permitted to
take part in the proceedings of such a meeting as the pro.
sent. lie would not go over the ground which had al-
ready been gone over by those who had preceded him, lees
cause he felt he might weaken the force of what they had said,
hut he considered that the language, whether of the
speakers, or of the 'resolutions themselves, was far too
weak to express the deep detestation which all must feel at
the atrocious proceeding at Damascus. In all that had been
said in reprobation of the conduct pursued towards the
unfortunase Jews at Damrscus he fully concurred. He
hoped that they should hear no more of such proceedings,
but he wanted language to describe the feelings which
every one must entertain when they thought on the tortures
which bad been inflicted on the unhappy Jews at Damascus.
lie respected his fellow-citizens of that persuasion. He -
could not raise their character higher than they now stood
by anything he could say ; but this he would state, from
what lie had seen of them during his life, that a more ho-
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seconded the resolution.
G. LAEPENT, Esq., moved the next resolution. Ho cows
sidered it a great honcur to be selected to move a resolu-
tion on the present occnsion. They had assembled not
inercly fur the sake of their pertecuted brethren, but for the
great principles of civil and religious liberty.—( Cheers. )
lie hoped the voice of England, and the voice of Europe,
weuld put an end to such atrocities, that were a disgrace to
man.—(ll,-ar, 'near.) The resolution he bad to propose
was as tallow::—
That this meeting cannot separee without expressing
its gratdleation that many persons of distinguished rank
and seethe), as well as the Government of this country,
have testified their willingness to uphold and support the
cause of suffering humanity, and it hereby offers its
thanks to the Right Hon. Lord Palmerston for his prompt
imerference, and also to the Right lion. Sir Robert Peel,
and other Members of the Legislature, for the kind into
rust they have taken in this question.
He telt highly gratified at having to propose such a resolu-
tion, as it was one that all must concur in. They had
seen the two great parties of the state, when the cause of
humanity was at stake, united together for the good of the
country.—( Cheers.) They had been told the moment the
question was raised nothing could be more honourable than
the conduct cf the Government speaking tiwough Lord
Palmerston, and they had seen the Government stimulated
through that distinguished leader of tire Conservatives, Sir
R. Peel.—(Cheers.) Such an union would have the
greatest effect in modern Europe ; aad when that dram-
pioe and apostle, Sir Moses Montefiore, went to redeem
his brethren in a distant land, he would go with the whole
weight and influence of England.—( Bear, hear.) All
England was determined to raise its voice against
oppression and against the infamous use of tor-
ture.—( Cheers.) Sir Moses NloateCore was ready
to stay the arm of the oppressor nod the bigot, and to
establi.h the cleirac:er of Asiatic nations for toleration;
and to place England and Europe at the head of those
communities in this world which enforced religious tolera-
tion and civil liberty.—( Hear, hear. )
S4SICEL Jesus CAPPER, Esq , seconded the resolution.
England had ever shown herself ready to come forward to
rescue suffering humanity from the baneful influence •f
cruelty, persecution, and torture. —( Hear.) It was de-
lightful to see when the cause of humanity required
support, that party strife at once gave way, and that public
men like Lord Palmerston and Sir Robert Peel endea-
voured to vie with each other in advocating the good cause.
—( Hear, hear.) 'I here were members of the Legislature
present, and it gave him great ph asurc to see that they
forgot all party differences and applauded him, whoever he
might be, who came forward in support of the cause of
truth and justice.— (Cheers.)
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
The Right lion. Lord BOWDEN said that, concurring ter
he did in all the sentiments that had been expressed with
so much ability and feeling by those
.gmentlemen who
bad addressed the meeting, it was a preacing task to Katie
to propose the resolution which he held in his hand.—
( Cheers.) After all that had been said, nonhing remained
for him to say ; but in the mysterious and inscrutable dis-
pensations of Providence, it was often seen that good
came out of evil, and, therefore, he hoped, and fondly
cherished the hope, which he was sure was also fondly
cherished by all his Christian ferends in that Assembly,
that the Legislature of this country would now sec the
absolute necessity of making a loud disavowal
of their belief in the atrocities a.cribd to
the Jews, and at the same time give them compensation
for tire sufferings which that very Legislature, he woo
grieved to say, in former times had entailed on them.—
( Cheers.) He trusted this would be done without delay,
and that the effect of the interposition would be most bene-
ficial to this large portion of our fellow-countrymen.
The Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST Nov., who was received
with enthusiastic cheers, said that he entirely agreed with
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would extend to that very country where those crimes were
perpetracd. It was a crime of so unjust and atrocious a
character, as could scarcely be paralleked in the
most barbarous ages—(Cries of " bear, hear")--bat
in order that they might have a full impression of the ex-
treme injustice done, net would ask permission to allude
for a fen, moments to the facts of the case, which, per-
haps had not been sufficiently dwelt upon by the preceding
speakers. It was now five months ago that a Latin prioak
being missing from his convent, a great many persona ap.
plied to the french Consul at Demure:la, and the Pacha
had proceeded on the ith of February to the quarters
of the city occupied by t he Jews, alleging it to be their in-