The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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WINDSOR, TIIURSDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert
took their usual walking exercise this morning in the
Slopes and Home Park for nearly two hours.
The Princess Royal was taken for a carriage drive, in
the forenoon, into the Great Park.
Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, Colonel
Wemyss, and Mr. George Edward Anson, rode out on
horseback in the Forest drives and Great Park. _

Her Majesty, attended by the Duchess of Bedford, in a
pony phaeton, left the Castle for a drive in the afternoon.
A second phaeton followed, with the Lady Isabella
Wemyss and the Hon. Miss Vevereux. At the same
time Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, Cc-
lonel Wemyss, Mr. G. E. Anson, and Mr. Rich, left on
horseback. The Royal Party returned to the Castle
soon after five o'clock.
The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, and the Ladies
Eleanore and Constance Paget will have the honour of
dining with her Majesty at the Castle this evening.
This afternoon Mr. Rosa, sen., had the honour of sub-
mitting to her Majesty's inspection two engravings from
miniatures of their Serene Highnesses Adele and Emilie
of Hohenlohe, forming part of a series entitled " Children
of Royal, Noble, and Distinguished Families;" of which
her Majesty was pleased to express her approval.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured
Covent-Garden Theatre with his presence on Wednes-
day evening.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Glou-
cester yesterday at Gloucester House.
Despatches for Sir George Gipps, Governor of New
South Wales, were sent off last evening from the Colonial
Office.

Despatches for the Governor of Barbadees, and for the
Governor of the other West India Colonies, were also
sent off last evening from the Colonial Office.
The marriage of Sir Edwin Pearson with the Honour-
able Alicia Anne Hewitt, eldest daughter of Viscount
Lifford, was solemnised yesterday at St. Mary's Church.
The ceremony was performed by the Hon. and Very Rev.
Robert Maude, Dean of Clogher. The marriage was
quite private, and only a very few of the nearest rela-
tives of the two families attended. Among those present
were Viscount and Viscountess Lifford, Viscount Hawar.
den, Hon. Sir Ashley Maude, Hon. Captain Francis
Maude, Hon. John Hewitt, Mr. and Mrs. Babington, Mr.
and Lady A. Pearson, &c.
Viscount Lifford gave a dejeuner after the ceremony, at
his residence in Montague.square.

IRISH GRIEVANCES.

The substance of the following Letter has 'ap-
peared lately in some of the Irish papers :
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN REGISTER.
Sir,—It wants but a few months of ten years
since you first allowed or rather encouraged me
to lay before your readers some impressions,
formed during a previous residence in Ireland,
which no time can change. Since that period
we have lived to see an increase of hope, a bril-
liant harvest of promises, and a great plenty of
advice, but withal a great scarcity of advan-
tages. We have lived to see O'Connell at the
head of a strong party in England, to see the
principle of Repeal cleared from the artful me-
tonym of " separation," and acknowledged where
such a condescension was least expected, to hear
its reasonableness and loyalty most feebly denied.
Yet this is a moment chosen by some to dispa-
rage the restoration of a native Parliament as a
maggot of O'Connell's to neutralise the effect of
all the " hereditary-bondsmen-letters" that ever
were written, by giving out that Ireland must
do nothing for herself, but merely attend the
good pleasure of the Chartists, or perhaps wait
till Mr. Frost returns from abroad.
I have lived among the Irish, have lifted the
chains they wore and found them heavy, have
tasted the bitter dose set before them. I have
heard the less educated though not less intelli-
i gent among them speak of the time when they
should have the Union back again when they
should have parishes—as if they had not parishes
enough—as if the Union were some great bird
of hope, whose flagging wings had left their
shores, and whose return they had been vainly
expecting ever since. The man who killed the
albatross was held up by the poet as a warning,
to any one who would cut off the hopes of suffer-
ing humanity; the bird had hovered round a
ship during many days of storm and sunshine,
and the sanguine mariners had identified it with
their safety. How strange that Englishmen
should pass a length of time in Ireland, and yet
fail to see that the means of pacification will
never be discovered by an English Parliament,
which on the contrary will assuredly adopt mea-
sures for making the separation final, or the
chain purely military, and the Anglo-orange in-
terest a mere army of occupation. How strange
they should fail to see that almost any form of
legislation would be as dignified for the
.
as it would be unquestionably honour-
Sovere7U
wish. Their sturdy arms would raise
able to the
Pharamond on the shield,
this pure, this
!ie forgotten in an ecstacy of
and all past miseries.
Royalism. of
_great antiquity
The virtues of the Irish are
and almost heroic origin. The 1 '4ncil of Con-
stance in 1414, recognised three empire:the Ro-
man, the Greek, and the Irish ; the la't-t)r so
called because the orbis Britannicus drew is
science and letters from them. This inherent
excellence, fostered by two peculiar advantages
—the same which aggrandized the Greek and
Italian republics, namely, the habit of popular
eloquence and the continual presence of armed
foes—have also generated a degree of pride,
increased by ill-usage and confirmed by the
associations of an insular as well as moun-
tainous territory : the result is a supreme
contelept of " England and the English. Not
long ago a Roman Catholic clergyman in a public
letter professed to know nothing of the law of
England and. very little of the language. The
tenure of land, on which everything else depends,
is totally opposed to English law ; and by the
way, this cannot be too soon forced on the atten-
tion of the Government, and a compromise rati-
fied about the tenant-right which, however de-
nounced as fictitious by the law of the rich, is
still the law of the land, confirmed by a Com-
mittee of Lords recommending that compensa-
tion should be made to persons racked above a
rack-rent, and yet ejected after long possession.
in consequence of such misunderstandings,
Irishmen know or care so little about the state of
opinion here that they have a poor chance of ob-
taining justice 16: themselves, and the most bril-
liant among them 62.nnot take their proper sta-
tion without first renouncing their own country,
as Castlereagh,, Lyndhurst, and 'Wellington,
each more or less have done.
tte On every
an d so
ac-
count this indifference is to be fEtgred,
far Mr. Hume was evidently right ! Your
readers might even require some apology for
mentioning a British worthy as an authority
on any point whatever. The name of Chatham •
stands next to Alfred in national esteem'
—his motto was unanimity. His contempo-
raries, disgusted at the effect of their own absur-
dity, yielded to a dang;:,qous flush of resentment
against America, similar
what is now felt
against Ireland. No doubt
lie had been
suited he would have prevented separation"
Cloncurry,
of the the colonies; but did he, like Lori
pretend to say that " peace was alt America
an
wanted ;" did he advise Washington and .17.-r
lin to abjure their provincial grievances, coli2e
over to England and agitate reform of the Com-
mons' House ? Nothing like it. He exclaimed
with a monarch's voice—l rejoice that America
has resisted—let Discord reign for ever!
Littora littoribus contraria, fluctibus undas.
It is desirable that the Irish should sympathise
a vast deal more with our injuries, but if we de-
spise their own view of their own case, the
consequence will be, not sympathy, but separa-
tion " for ever."
The accession of Chatham to a Ministry of
that day had converted a series of defeats into
some of the most splendid conquests in our his-
tory—all this he ascribed •to unanimity. When
a people is at one with its Government, the good-
will of reasonable men all over the world is se-
cured ; and to the policy of the Queen, so far as
it is liberal to Ireland, may be attributed the vic-
tories of Acre, Ghizni, and China, as well as the
friendship of Soul t and Guizot. The Quarterly
Review of last June contained an article on the
life of Lord Chatham, which shows so many
coincidences in the hostility expressed by
" clever men" to the leading spirit of the time,
that I venture to carry on the parallel and tran-
scribe a few particulars.
Chatham's Parliamentary opposition is called
by the reviewer, " an absolute despotism over
king and kingdom, which from his first appear-
ance no Minister has been able to withstand,"—
the very words so often applied to O'Connell.
Yet all this influence did not prevent the former
froni being the best abused man then in the
world; his bold confidence was most unceremo-
niously, both in prose and verse, described as
"very hard words," and "very great impudence:"
like O'Connell, lie was by ninny considered a
" theatrical personage" and " a great actor." His
long refusal of office was a theme of ridicule among
officials. Even Burke declared, "he has now in
his power to come into the service of his coun-
try ; will he do so, or will he continue talking
justice at"—Loarrynane ? H. Walpole said
" He has now carte blanche, blanehissime." The
cosmetic Chesterfield " thought bim mad," on
which the reviewer observes with great naiveté,
"So unaccountable was his conduct." Yet from
these very refusals, as also in the parallel case, it
was inferred that he was insatiable, simply be-
cause 'unpurchasable : " 4 He was ravenous for the
place of Secretary at War;" and again, " He
had set his heart on various places which—could
never be found!" That there was a resemblance
in Chatham's mental constitution to that of
O'Connell, may be inferred from circumstances :
" The gracious demeanour of the young King,
affected hint to tears." Also, " his marriage
was now less conducive to his public importance
than to his domestic happiness." Both had an
instinctive dread of Hanover, both are reproached
for changes of purpose and of allies. Thus we
are told that Chatham "preserved his popularity
amidst vicissitudes under which any other poli-
tician of the day would have sunk. Again, "The
versatility with which Chatham could vary his
associates .... When we recollect his zeal as a
cornet of horse against Sir R. Walpole, we can-
not wonder at his ill-treatment of his old confe-
derate Glover." And again, "At one time ....
at another he voted for the subsidies, Hano-
verian and all."
In fact, like every one who would fain extract
some gold from the retorts and crucibles 01
public life, he was alternately suspected and be-
trayed. Even so with O'Connell. In vain does
he remonstrate with the individuals who from
his confiding generosity have been at par=
ticular moments . his unconscious instruments
in doing good, without any fitness for that
high except derivatively from him. In
v
with all his broad resplendence
he asks,
of good nature, Why will they . smash them-
selves against me? In mentioning a few se-
ceders, Messrs. O'Gorman Mahon, Sharman
Crawford, Lambert, Macdonnell, Colonel But-
ler, and so down through almost every letter of
the alphabet to the original Raphael, Purcell,
Potter_ then up again to Moore—Anglesea—
Burdett—Grey—in just enumera,,ing these and
omitting others no charge is made but that of not
being perfectly wise! To elbow O'Connell from
the helm, with his integrity and experience of
thirty years' trial, could be justified by nothing
less than absolute wisdom. Rashness drives them
on, needs must, knowing neither sea-marks nor
"soundings; the heaving of the lead is never un-
derstood, the sullen roar of breakers, the wailing
screams of sea-fowl unheard, unheeded, and the
Ship with all its freighting souls is again and
agam,--not sunk—but stranded on an iron bound
coast amidst the huees and risees of the more
barbarouS sort of inhabitants.
Surely, on a future occasion of this kind, the
National Association might do something for.