The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-08 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The Green Knight, otherwise the Knight of Kerry, Mr. Mau-
rice Fitzgerald, who is also one of the Lords of the Admiralty, has
addressed his former constituents in a strain of mixed reproach and
condonation. He reminds them of his early and constant devotion
to civil and religious liberty, and owns himself still in a puzzle at
having been left in a minority at the election before the last. But
if he knew himself, or could see himself as others see him, it would
be no wonder at all to him ; for the people in Kerry, and in other
places too, look upon him as one of the most notable place-hunters
and political jobbers of the whole 'pseudo-reforming squad. Ho
forgives the former slight, however, in consideration of the hand-
some majority he calculates upon at this election ; and if all his
claims to public support rest upon equal grounds of truth with the
following, it would be no easy matter to find a Knight so singWarly
qualified to represent a country which lies by the wide Atlabtic;—
" The leading Members of the Administration with, which I am
associated, proposed and carried through Parliament the great mea-
sures of Catholic emancipation, and the repeal of qie tests by which
Dissenters were aggrieved; and they now forla a part of an en-
larged Cabinet, pledged to every salutary reform in Church Ind
State!"

Giving those leading worthies al', the credit which belongs to the
forced march of emancipation, ,:;nich was proposed a quarter of a
century before they could b^, cudgelled into it; it is still to be
proved that they proposP.d the repeal of the Test and Corporation
Acts at all. We, Irish, were till now
.under an impression
that Lord John Russell, who certainly is not associated.in
office with Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald, was the anther -of
that act of justice, and that the Members of this Ad—
ministration resisted the good work with all their heart aud
mind, and soul and strength. The good sense of the coun.try
was superior to their narrow and bigotted opposition ; and Lord
John Russell succeeded, in an unreformed House of Con'anons,
against a minority in which, if the reader will turn to
the Votes of
the House on the 26th February, 1828, he will find the following
names
_ _

Sir Robert Ped The leading Member of the Admi-
..
nistration, with which Mr. Maurict%
Fitzgerald in associated.
11. Goulburn Home Secretary of ditto..
J. C. Herries Secretary at War.
Sir E. Knatchbull Paymaster of the Fortes.
Viscount Lowther Treasurer of the Navy.
Lord G. Somerset Commissioner of Woods ;mg Forests.
W. Yates Peel... Lord of the Treasury.
Sir Henry Hardinge...Chief Secretary for Ireland.
Sir G. Cockburn; and
Sir J. Beresford. Lords of the Adm:ralty.
Joseph Planta, and
Sir A. Grant. Commissioners of the India Board,
Lord Eliot Under
Sir J. Beckett-----."J'ary of State.
Jud„‘ie Ai/7,rocate.
Sir E. Owen
Sir G. Clerk, and Gs) "e of the Ordnance.
R.Dawsoncrti 1
lerP ' ..ecretary of the Treasury.
And Mr, aurice r
f Secretary to the Admiralty.
M"
tr that 0
"e t J
itzgeraio, with native modesty, tells his cowl-
and Fart
-
leading Members of this Administration proposed
wire 'rr ed through the repeal of the Tests by which Dissenters
In five or six years to come, we shall have some of their under.
aggrieved 1. " Sic vos non vobis."
strappers extolling them, too, as the authors of the Reform Bill.