The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-30 00:00:00

Union: his name et the time of the Union was William
Canynehana Plunket :—" Sir, 1, in the most express terms
deny the competency of Parliament to do this act, I ware
you, do not dare to lay your hand on the constitution. I
tell you that if, circutristanced as you are, you pars this
Act, it will be a mere nullity, and that no man in Ire-
land will be bound to obey it ; I make the assertion
deliberately ; I repeat it, and I call on any man who
hears me to take down my words ; you have not been
e'ected for this purpose; you are appointed to make
laws and not legislatures ; you are appointed to act under
he constitution, and.not to alter it ; you are appointed to
exercise the functions of legislators, and not transfer
them ; and if you do so your act is a dissolution of the
Government, you revive society into its original elements,
And no man iu the land is bound to obey you." Why is
not this prosecuted? It is sold publicly—it is anxiously
looked for, and it has been published again and again.
Where is the Attorney-General that lie does not prosecute
the miscreant offender who slid this? William Convngham
Plunket then proceeds—,, If you transfer you abdicate,
and the great original trust results to the people, from
whom it emanated. Yourselves you may extinguish,
but Parliament you cannot extinguish. It is enthroned
in the hearts of the people—it.is enshrined in the sanc•
tuary of the constitution—it is immortal as the isl end
which it protects. As well might the frantic suicide hope
that the act which destroys his miserable body, should
extinguish his eternal soul. Again I therefore warn you,
do not dare to lay your hand on the con-titiition. It is
above your powers." The attempt which they made suc-
ceeded. They destroyed the body, but the soul survives.
My weak and humble breath has endeavoured to sound the
trumpet of her resurrection. The spirit is beginning to
arouse, the stir of animation is returning, end yet the Whigs
suppose that they will procure you to flit like the harpies
of old, or the vampires of modern days, round the tomb
in which that spirit is now dormant, that you might suck
up &ern the throbbing veins the red life blood as it re-
turned in its flow to circulate through them, and thus stop
it for ever. Now, even now, you may feel the throbbing
of the public heart. The spirit is raised—it appears
glorious and immortal—it is robed in all the kingly
majesty of national independence, and in its train is
preseerity, peace, and blessings to our native land.
't Sir, I thank the administration for this measure-6J
are, without intending it, putting an end to our dissen-
sions—through this black cloud which they have col-
lected over uselsee the light breaking in open this unfor-
tunate country ; they have composed our dissensions. not
by fomenting the embers of a lingering and suedued rebel-
lion—not by hallooing the Protestant against the Catholic,
and the Catholic against the Protestant—not by committing
the North against the Smith—not by ii consistent appeals
to local or to party prejudices. No, but by the avowal of
this atrocious conspiracy against the liberties of Ireland,
they have sub Cued every petty feeling and subordinate
distinction. They have united every rank and description
of men by the pressure of this grand and momentous sub.
jeer, and I tell them that they will see every honest and in-
dependent man in Ireland rally round her constitution, and
merge every other consideration in his opposition to this
ungenerous and odious measure ; for my own part, I wilt
resist it to the last gasp of my existence and with the last drop
of my blood, and when I. feel the hour of my dissolution
approaching, I will, like the father of Hannibal, take my
children to the altar and swear them te eternal hostility
against the invaders of their country's freedom." This
w is certainly spoken like a patron, and which then ready
animated hien. lam but an humble barrister, and yet
as I am I have a true love fur Ireland, arid my feeble ad- I,
voracy she never shall call upon, Hod do so in vain. I
suppose you think that the mien who uttered the language
I have quoted to you were, like felons, dragged to the
bar of public j ustice. They were members of the bar,
and of P rliament. Since then one of them has been
promo ed to the very highest seat on the judicial bench—
anether has kern fur twenty five years the Attorney-Ge-
neral for Ireland, and he ought, during that period, have
et ally dine obtained the place cf Chief Justice. It they
have been elevated, and justly rewarded, shall he who
feebly imitates their limo' ,ge be d- nounced ? Gentlemen,
I feel I Lave exhaust d you ; hut the subject upon which
I have been engaged, has led me fir afield. Mighty con-
sequences dep-nd up ,r 1 this trial. Tee question bete is—
are we to have the right of discussing an Act of Podia-
men: ?—an Act that has put down this great and glorious
nation and conversed her as by fell magic into the paltry
member of an empire, and reduced her to a mere province;
an Act which has taken from us the hest protection for
iiie and liberty, the beet security for property—a dirtnestie
Par ;lament. An act which has loaded us with a debt which
we never contracted ; which takes the incerne out of the
country, and widen sends over your representatives, one
to five to he ravened at, not merely as I was, but as the
advocate for the University, the representative of the Pro-
testant Church was met—with shouts and scoffs. This is
th Act of Petliament, which has itifi toed more of misery
and Mgr tlation upon a people, than any single ukase of
1 the Autoerat of Russia--it is an Act which has blotted
Irel mti out of the map of the world. You are sworn--
yeu ~re bound t•i act according to the dictates of your
conscience ; and now I tell y-u, that you may, by your
verdict, baffle this Woig prosecution, and carry dismay,
and, I believe, burl (lest, uction upon them. You canner,
by your verdict, should it be adverse, destroy the Repeal
turn it into a less legtrima e
stion is dear to the hearts and
totfiT7l::e: yenn
riiepetiil q"iy
Irishmen. youth of Ireland are aa ak,
they have heard of it—they ale rushing every hour Imo
maturity and streng,h ; and they have determined that
Ireland Shall be a nalon, and not a province. This is no
ordinary case ; hoe my country is aly client, and I are
pleading for her, that she may be a nation. I dernend teat
the effairs of my country should he govern. d by Irishmen
—that at, Fr once belanes to Fri-orbit n, Eirelind to E.g.
lishniere that Ireland also be possessed t y Irishmen, bound
by the golden link of she Crown to Englishmen, and per-
petually connected by mutual utility, each having an inue-
pendent local legislature, and composing, by the utility of
the connexion, the best protectein for each other.
Mr. O'Connell sat down amid enthusiastic cheer, and
which, notwithstanding all the exertions of the officers of
the Gout, could not be suppressed for sea, rel minutr s.
Toe Court sat at eleven o'clock, and the Jury having
been called over,
Tire SOLICITOR.-GENERAL rose and said, they had yes-
terday the pleasure ot beariog the statement of the case
on the part of the Crown by his Right Hon. Friend the
Attorney- General, who, he was sorry to say, was then
confined to his bed by a sudden and scare indisp•,sition.
They had ;also herd the dext rous, able, nod elt qu nt
speech made by the Learned Counsel on hr half of the pito.-
lishrr of the I•hel (the writer had not bet n given up), and
from the quantity of matter introduced into this long
and able speech, he should net be surprised if they had
forgotten Richard Barrett, the defendant. '1 hey ha i been
told that the question th-y had to try was nut a questiiin
of crime or of offence, but it was part of a struggle to raise
Irelaild from, e province into a nation ; that it was pint
of a strur:gle to tree his countly—from whet? A baud of
SaZOS m esters. They could not be called upon to ti y any
such gut stion, but the simple question they hair to try
was the question upon the recurit. The question was a
libel upon the United Parliament—tha• was the eines-
tion, as the Learned Judge on the bench would
tell them. The publication had been manfully ad
witted by the Learned Counsel, but lie expected
the author would be avowed. Instead of this, however,
they had merely an avowal teat Dlr. Barlett was the
publisba Why, lie asked, should tt e jury be retied upon
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civil action, instead of a criminal prosecution, he would
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by the discussion of such topics. re the Learned Gen •
tleman animadverted at smile length upon the I ioguage of
the libel, which, he said, derived additional weight and
importance, and was calcula'ed to do greater mischief,
because, it was published in the Pilot newspaper, a piper
conducted with great tab tit, and, he was free to admit, of
immense circule,ian—a paper which was. in tact, in the
halide of every man in the countt y, and read at every chapel
in Ireland, anti by the class of persons likely to be influ-
enced by it.
The CHIEF JUSTICE then proceeded to charge the jury,
and when they retired,
alteration
whichlC C.h, a
bcalledeen t
ihnea,attention ofr
cord
ed Cositlucret
hue,
without the sanction of the Court.
ap nr ‘ac trde.
The Couter ultimately consented to enter the objection
on their tones.
After an absence of about ten minutes, the jury re-
tut ned to their bax with a verdict of Guilty, acconapenied
by a recommendation to mercy.

At an early hour on Thursday morning last,
the wile of a man of the name tit M Gregor, who is in Ye
service of Nlr• Ab ot, of Gateshe<ot, was deliver d of
daughter. on board the Araincaple steamer, while she lay
at ancnor neut. amstatiborough Cisle. The child,
commemoration of the occutrence, or, its reachin4 New-
a sale, w christenid El zalieth Ardincaple Dunstanht,
rough Macgregor.— Tyne Mercury.
So great is the sale of game in some of the
mai,ulactuting towns, that it is thought the breed in those
neighbourh,ods will, in a feW
years, bettiroteri.