The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-09 00:00:00

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

The report of the proceedings of-the Catholic
Association in Dublin contains a speech from
Mr. Daniel O'Connell, proposing penny sub-
scriptions to purchase advocates for the cause of
Catholic Emancipation, three or four pounds of
the proceeds of which are, it seems, to be offer-
ed to the Editor of this Paper, to sweeten the
sourness of his supposed Calvinism, and gam his
belief in the miracles of Prince Ilohenlohe
all of which Mr. O'Connell himself has full
faith), and his admiration of the Irish sys-
tem of doing nothing, and leaving every thing
to Providence. Me. Daniel O'Connell has
placed us in an awkward predicament, for
.our future support of the Catholic Cause may
by malevolent persons, be attributed to the hope
of earning this reward, while we assure our
readers we really do not look forward to it.—
Mr. Daniel O'Connell is, We
believe, a very
good sort of man, with a more than ordinary
share of the wrong-headedness which has
sometimes been supposed to belong
to his
countrymen. Fortunately the cause of the
Irish Catholics is one that cannot be injured
by any advocate, and the folly of Mr. Daniel
O'Connell will only excite a smile at his ex-
pence, and a stronger desire in their friends
in this country to free them from a situation
which, among its other evils, throws them
into the arms of a man whose life is ou:! per-
petual blunder. We repeat it, we believe Mr.
O'Connell means well, and the interview we
had with him about two years ago (for we
have not forgotten him, though he does not
recognize our identity, taking us for a recent
importation), and some of his speeches on the
state of the Laws, characterised by more honesty
than usually falls to the share of lawyers, led us
to regret that his honesty would always be coun-
teracted by his want of common sense. A very
small share of prudence would have taught him
that the reputatioti of a fool can never be of ad-
vantage to a public man, and that he who espouses
the most opposite opinions, running from
one extreme to another five or six times in the
course of two or three years, can only obtain
credit for a good heart at the ex pence of a bad
head. We should be sorry to injure him by re-
printing the contradictions in his own speeches
and letters, or to remind the worshipper of
Prince Ilohenlohe, of an accusation brought
publicly against him only two or three years
ago by. his friend Mr. Sheill, of his admira-
tion of Tom Paine's Theology. We trust
that after this little explanation we shall be
better friends than ever, and though. he
should not succeed in effecting emancipation by
his penny subscriptions, any more than another
great man, to whom, we suppose, he furnished
the idea, succeeded in effecting Parliamentary
Reform by similar means, we shall still be always
ready to do justice to his good intentions.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
A Bayonne letter reached us last night. If
credit can be attached to the statements it makes,
insurrection against the tyranny that now outrages
Spain► is organizing fast. All. Galicia, and its
hardy population, are said to be in arms, and the
fortresses in that province beleagured by them. The
letter also asserts that Cadiz had been the scene
of two insurrections, which were only put down
by the French troops. We are much mistaken
in our anticipations, if all Spain, before a few
months pass away, will not be in open resistance,
from one extremity to the other; even tt►e Ser-
viles• will point their daggers against the fo-
reigners, who are scattered in detached parties
within the Pyrenees.

[FROM TILE YiRITISIi AND INDIAN OBSERVER.'
Amongst the information we have received this week, there
is one which we think of considerable importance, and that is,
that the friends of Sir John Malcolm, and the Directors of the

EAST INDIA BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, & DEATHS.
BIRTHS.

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