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popu'ar body. No—we cou'.d not afford to throw it away,
for it has made some great and beneficial alterations.
The Lords have not gained a victory by it, for the Bill
sanctions the ?Teat and wholesome principle that those who
are placed at .great
head of these important bodies, shall act
not for their own: but for the public interest. But I will
now come to that great question—the reform in the Church
of Ireland ; for it is idle now to say that any government can
go on, or the prosperity of the nation be maintained, with
eight millions of our fellow-subjects in a state of almost un-
paralleled discontent. The Irish have been a discon-
tented people for ages, and I do not wonder at it,
when I regard the many and long-continued causes of
their irritation.—(Hear.) As a matter of justice, the
,appropriation clause was introduced. But it has been
said that this appropriation clause has been brought for-
ward to satisfy the demands of Mr. O'Connell alone. So
little is this fact—tiay, so grossly untrue is it, that that
clause would have been carried without, or in spite of,
the support of that Hon. Gentleman. There are two things
that I deem equally impossible to be accomplished—the
re-establishment of the tithe system in Ireland, and of
Episcopacy in Seotland.—(Cheers.) No tithe- will ever
again be paid in Ireland by the occupier of the land.
We have a standing army, but we cannot submit that it
should be used as a means, producing a periodical loss
of life, for the recovery of property. Having thus given
you my reasons why I support the present Ministry, and
have become of their party, I leave you to judge of the sin-
cerity or the soundness of these reasons.—( Applause.)
The Right Hon. C. FERGUSSON again rose and said—
Gentlemen, I have another topic to introduce to you.
There is now in our company my illustrious friend Prince
Czartoryski, a name which is well known, not only in
Europe, but I may say throughout the world.—(lmmense
applause.) With the rest of his countrymen he was driven
to despair by the oppressions of the Czar. Though his
vast and princely possessions were in the stake, he hesitated
not—he took his lino of duty, and embarked heart and
soul in the revolution, which he fondly hoped would work
out his country's liberty. But, unfortunately, this hope
was not realized.. You all know how this glorious but un-
fortunate struggle terminated. Subsequently his vast pos-
sessions were confiscated, and almost every tie which bound

him in his native land has been rent asunder. I will not
allude farther to a subject which must be so painful to him.
But though he has been exiled, and has lost his- vast estates,
he has preserved, what he values more, his honour.—
(Loud applause.) Let us than drink to his health, and
express our sympathies in his sorrows, in a manner which,
coming from this company of freemen, may resound over
Europe, and reach the throne of the Czar himself. My
opinions on the Polish question are not -changed ; they are
the same in office as out of it ; and I trust that my life will
be prolonged to see that country once more a glorious, an
independent, and a happy nation. " The health of Prince
Czartoryski."—(Great applause.)
Prince CZARTORYSKI rose, and was received with the
most enthusiastic applause. The Prince addressed the
meeting in a very correct style of English, slightly touched
by a foreign accent ; but from the low tone of voice in
which he spoke, we could not catch all that fell from the
honoured exile He said—Gentlemen, in addressing you,
I claim your indulgence for the utter inability which I feel
to return my thanks to you in a language which I am so
little master of—and to express the manner in which my
heart is moved by the affectionate, the kind, and • the flat-
tering way in which my health has been proposed and re-
ceived. I rejoice at the esteem and approbation,conferred
by you on one of the best friends of Poland ; I join you in
honouring him,, and now express the feelings of gratitude
with which he is regarded by all Poles. He has been the
first to call the attention of the British people to the dread-
ful and unmerited suffering of the people of Poland—to
the violation of positive treaties, of all laws of justice, and
to the abandonment of sound policy by the' Governments
of Europe. By his exertions, civilized Europe has be-
come interested in her regeneration. By his means a
sympathy has been created in this country, which is now
great, and is still increasing. The same effect has been
produced in France ; that country has received from Eno,
land and given alternately, the example of opinions and
sentiments the most favourable to Poland, expressed by
the solemn protests of these two Governments. The elo-
quent speech of my friend has been translated into every
language—it has extended over civilized Europe—it has
penetrated into Lithuania, the Ukraine, and every part
of Poland ; it has found its way into the prisons of Rus-
sia, where it has been read again and again with tears of
joy. It has proved a balm to the souls of the oppressed
Poles, which tells them that though they suffer, their
wrongs are not overlooked in Etirope, and thitherward all
their eyes are cast with confidence and hope. After
what you have heard from your representative, and con-
sidering how well you know him, you will not be sur-
prised at the love which my countrymen bear to him, and.,
after him, to you for having repeatedly sent to Parlia-
ment the able defender of freedom and the laws of na-
tions.—(Applause.) I tell you—and it is with pleasure I
speak it of your representative—that the name of Cutlar
Fergusson is inshrined in the heart of every Pole, and
will be associated with feelings of deep gratitude -for ever
in the annals of- my country.—(Loud applause.) , I too,
express my deep thanks to his colleague near me (Lord
Dudley Stuart) who, whenever your representative has
advocated the cause of Poland, has nobly stood forward by
his side. I thank him for his noble, unwearied, and suc-
cessful exertions in obtaining from Government a gene-
rous provision for the unhappy PoleS, whom oppression
has driven from their native country, to seek shelter and
bread on these free and hospitable shores. The Noble
Lord has contributed materially to the protection which

they now enjoy ; he fills one of the foremost places in our
feelings of affection and gratitude, and the name of Lord
Dudley Stuart cannot be separated from that of your re-
preientative. I visited Scotland 40 years ago ; then Po-
land was free and happy : she was presenting to the whole
world the glorious example of consolidating a free and re-
newed'constitution—one which had the joyous approval of
all enlightened men in Europe, and was received with ad-
miration by your own Edmund Burke. But, alas! little
could she then foresee the convulsion which shook all Eu-
rope, and gave my country to the remorseless grasp of her
treacherous neighbours. Now, I visit your country after a
long space, and how different the situation of each of us !
I am amazed at your wealth, your intelligence, and your
happiness. I will only say that while it is to high morality,
intelligence, and love of freedom you owe your greatness,
it is to unrelenting ferocity and persecution that we owe our
wretchedness. But continued persecution and tyranny has
not produced the end looked for—it has not destroyed in
the Poles their detestation of a foreign yoke ; on the con,
trary it has produced a unanimity of indignation against our
oppressors, and with it, a hatred of their tyranny, if possi-
ble, more deadly, and a resolution to resist them, more
determined than ever we possessed before. Even the few
of our countrymen, who were taxed with lukewarm
patriotism, are now as ardent as others in hatred of Russian
rule ; and every Pole yet cherishes the hope, and looks
forward to the day when he shall throw off his chains "and
be restored to his emancipated country.—( Applause.) Yes,
even in the martyred doom, they have persevered in hope.
They have implicit' faith in the justice of Almighty
God, and trust in the ultimate good sense of man-
kind. The Prince then went into details to the effect that
British commercial prosperity could never be enduring
so
long as the restless ambition of Russia remained unchecked,
and the rest of Europe viewed her ambitious projects with
supineness. Britain never could be greater than when all
other countries around her were free, prosperous, and happy ;
and they might learn a lesson of Russian fraud and ambi-
tion from the experience of unhappy Poland. But be hoped
that a just Providence, through means of the sympathies of
the growing enlightenment of Europe, would yet see Poland
restored. Prince Czartoryski sat down amidst tremendous
cheering.
The Right Hon. C. FERGussoN said—We are honoured
by another of these illustrious sufferers for freedom—one of
Neble blood, and who has fought and bled in Poland's
cause. He is yet young, but he occupied a conspicuous
station in the Polish army during the last struggle for inde-
pendence—a struggle though brief, but which for such des-
perate, and devoted courage, has not been surpassed in the
annals of the world.—(Hear, bear.) Your guest bears with
him the marks, of his devotedness to the cause of freedom.
I beg to propose the health of the gallant young Officer at
our board.—" Count Zamoyeski," three times three, and
cheering loud and long-continued.
The COUNT returned thanks in a few words.
CHAIR—" Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P. for Arundel."
The toast was responded to most heartily.
Lord DUDLEY STUART was received with great applause.
He said—lt is now 27 years, when I was still a child, since
I was taken away by my father from the Isle of Bute. But
since I grew up to read the deeds of daring of our gallant.
ancestors—their struggles for independence, and heard of
the high-toned feeling which pervaded my countrymen, my
ho in has burned with a desire to visit my native land. I
have Dow, however, gratified that longing wish of my heart.
I cannot recommend inysiilf bettor to ypnr notice than by
saying that your Representative and I have always been on
one side of the House. Scarcely on one occasion have we
aiffere4, The illustrious stranger here to-day upon your
invitation, baa beg) pleased to make mention of my name as
a friend of Poland ; asp jppye indebted
for this to his own kindness than any merit Of mine.
hvp rgad the history of that gallant but unfortunate coun-
try ; and read it, and seen the horrible fate to
which she has been subjected by a set' of 14F1)404110, 1
should be ashamed of myself if I did not feel a warm
sympathy for her sufferings. Russia brought forward her
lit4F49i of. armed barbarians, but Russia was beaten by the
patriots to 41-i4n4r94 lattlE2—(Loud applause)—and had
it not been for.frussia, t'bellsilW4i4l4l4 i)4Y.P
It is for his eloquent and determined advocacy of the
cause of injured Poland that Cutlar Fergussou has become