The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-13 00:00:00

'that we are ready to defend our Church and our
King with our lives, if necessary.—(Cheers.)
Major ECCLES—Previously to the formation cf
the Dublin Constitutional lettats were ad-
dressed individually to the leading Protestants of the
country, and in no one instance did it occur that any
person to whom the application was made refused
to become a member.—(Cheers.) It has been
deemed frost prudent by our best friends that each
Club should stand upon its own foundation. It is
not therefore intended to form branch Clubs any
where. A Committee will be appointed to make
the necessary arrangements. You will have the
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the Protestants must speak out or be silent for ever.
It is the intention in establishing Brunswick Club,
that every rank io the community should be num-
bered amongst the members. It is not to be con-
fined exclusively to the'Nobility and Gentry of the
country : the poorest Protsystant in the land has as:
good a right to have his feelings.expremed through
the medium of the Brunswick Clubs as the highest
Peer. It is incumbent upon us all to stand forward
and to stand together.—(Cheers, and cries of " We
will, we will !")
J. A. ECCLES, Esq., then rose and said—Sir,
when the Protestant Clergy are called from thlt
sphere in which their sacred vocation naturally
places them, to mingle in one apparently so unsuited
to their character, the times must indeed present a
most appalling-aspect. Urgent must be the call of
duty, awful the crisis of affairs, which warrants a
Clergyman of the Established Church to mix him-
self up with what at the first view may appear to be
more a political than a religious question, but which
on closer observation will be found to be as much a
• religious as a political one.—(Cheers.)—lf the •
country be not now in a state of open rebellion, I
regret to say that we arc on the verge of it.—
(Ilear.)—There is, a great Statesman now
Mr. Peel, whose opinion upon the state of Ireland l
think of equal if not of greater weight than any
man who preceded or is cotemporaneous with him.
That distinguished Statesman said that the great dt -
ficiency in Ireland was a want of public opinion.--
What he wanted he said was an okpression of public
opinion.—(Cheers.)—He is likely, I think, now to
hear a voice responding to his call that will be re-
echoed from one quarter of the empire to the other.
Sir, I am old enough to remember when the prin-
ciples which revolutionized France contaminated the
public mind of Ireland--and when Jacobinism was
making rapid progress towards overthrowing the
whole structure •f scciety in this country. Rebel-
lion was raging through a great portion of the land,
and a toast was then in vogue which is by no means
inapplicable at present. It was " Irishmen united
against United Irishmen." (Loud cheers.) I re•
gret that we are again arrived at a crisis, when, if
we are nut called upon to unite against United
Irishmen, we are called upon to unite against it
much more dangerous faction. (Load cheers.)
T.. M. KING, Esq.—Now or never, Sir, is the
time for Protestants to unite--a long pull, a strong
pull, and a pull altogether. (Loud cheers.) Cha..
it as we will, disguise it as we may, it is quite idle
to deny that some viral experiment is about to be
tried upon the Com,titution. Nothing can avert it
but a general, I may say, a spontaneous expression
of Protestant sentiment.

licusoN, Esq. then rose and spoke as
follows :—Mr. Chairman, we read of Sampson's
having been bound and tied by the Philistines—
how his locks were shorn, and his strength reduced
to that of an ordinary being. We read also of his
locks being allowed to grow, and of his strength re-
turning; and we find him brought in to make sport
for his masters; we find him asking leave to lean
against the two pillars of the house, and that the
use he made of the privilege was to pill the house
about their ears, and crush the persons who permit-
ted him to enter it. (Loud cheers.) Thus it is
with the Roman Catholics. A few years since we
had them beseeching to be allowed to enter within
the gates of the Constitution. What are they de-
manding now as their right ? To be permitted to
lay hold of the two great pillars of the State.—
(Cheers.)—Sir, it requires no great foresight to dis-
cover that if they be so permitted they will act the
part of Sampson..

Mr. Ecci.E.s said, lest any misapprehension should
go abroad, he felt it necessary to state that the Club
was not formed for the purpose of excluding any
man—no matter what his rank, however humble a
man he may be, he WBB eligible to become a mem-
ber of the Club. The only requisites necessary were
character and principle.
Colonel WINGFIELD having left the Chair, and
J. A. EccLEs, .Esq., being called thereto, thank,.
were unanimously voted to Colonel Wingfield, when
the meeting separated.
There were several Magistrates and Clergymen
of the Established Church present; amongst the
former we observed the Hon. Colonel Wingfield,
.1. A. Eccles, J. C. Lees, William St. Clair, Hugh
Eccles, T. M. King, Esqrs., &e. &c. &c.