The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-31 00:00:00

NEW CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.

The Association met on Saturday at the usual hour.
' Mr. O'CONNELL, M.P., rose and said, that it was ab:'
solutely necessary to learn facts regarding the different ly-,
ing societies which infested the country. They circulated'.
the grossest falsehoods about this country in England,with-
out the slightest foundation for them. Now no one would
believe the Rev. Robert Daly, since his letters about the
Carlow business.—(Hear.)—Yet this fellow was now cru-
sading about England, and circulating falsehoods about the
peasantry of Ireland. He was rejoie.A to address one,
more the Chairman of the old Catholic Association.—
(Tremendous cheering.)—They had been put down by th.
abominable Algerine Act, and it was ow,v dead and bu-
ried—(Cheers.)—For five nights it kept out of their
The onrly effectee of
iit u
weekly w meetings
the ugliest set of men he ever met.—(Laughter.)—
What a hardship to be put down by such mumsliug, ill-
looking slaves--for they were slavesindeed.—(Hear, bear.
They had nrde the Algerine Act, and where, he w,nuld
ask, is it now ? He had been taunted for not " driving
okeeng 'as
coach and four through it" the first day; but before six
weeks he drove a coach and six through that infamous mea-
sure.
agitation by increasing the number of their meetings—tor
instead of o
was, that it
e,thineyerti•iaasdedaitmhoe,t
daily meetings since.—(Cheers.)
As this stage of the proceedings a young gentleman in*
terrupted the speaker, and asked, " Why had the Ri-
bandmen arms?" He would not stand by and hear the
Government of the country insulted. He was the son of a
Member of Parliament, and the nephew of a Minister.
Mr. O'CONNELL—WiII the young gentleman have the
kindness to come up to the chair and state whatever be
has to say? If so, I hope gentlemen will make room fur
him and hear him patiently. (Hear.)

The gentleman then advanced near the chair and said.—
My name is Robarts. The Clare election has hoen the
triumph of this Popish Association over ignorance and 611.•
perstition.—(Hear, hear.) Did the Clare men "are vote
against their Priests ? (Cries of " They did.") This
meeting will be scattered before the wind, and the 40s.
freeholders dispersed like chaff. And you, Frond man !
(turning to Mr. O'Connell) will be hurled from your place,
which is alrea ly too high.—(Laughter.) The!e has been
a petition against you from the Corporation of Dublin,
which will blow you all up.—(Roars of laughter.) The
gentleman then displayed an orange riband, and said he bad
no more to say.
Mr. O'CoNNnu.—Young man, stay for a little, and
hear my answer to your questions. You are the son of a
Member of Parliament, and the nephew of a Minister.
Where have you been educated ? The young gentleman,
I am sure, would not tell a deliberate lie, and of course to
his ignorance, and not to his will, must we attribute what
has fallen from him. He is true in one thing. He says,
the issue of " the Clare election is the triumph of Popery
over ignorance and superstition." So it is. (Cheers.)
lv he an Englishman ? If so, his ancestors have been of
the Popish religion. Was it not Catholics got Magna
Charta? Were they not Catholics who established thr
Constitution of England? Is the young gentleman a
Protestant'
Mr. ROBART3—I 11111.

Mr. O'Cont;rl.l.—Tf so, does he know that \ cam..;'
Fitzgerald, a Protestant, voted against the Protestant.
dissenters, while 'I, a Catholic, petitioned four times iii
their favour, and grateful they are for it ; and the
electors of the county of Clare turned out Vesey Fitz-
gerald, and returned me ? (Loud cheering.) There•
is Catholic liberality and love of freedom. (Hear, hear.)
I hope the gentleman will be heard patiently. Ile has
been educated and brought up in prejudice, and is now at
an age when he should be candid :.id ingenuous. I wish
he came here often, and from our own lips could he learn
our principles. Liberty is our principle. For this we
have petitioned fur the Protestant Dissenters, and they
thank us for it. We want it for the Protestants in Spain,
in Portugal, and in France. But Robarts—Oh, the name
smells Jewish.

Mr. ItoBARTs-1 am no Jew; I am a Protestant.

Mr. O'CoNtart.L—Yes, and a member of a rely re -
spectable firm of bankers in London. But with all his
wealth, the young gentleman is still in utter ignoranee
of the real state of things in this country. Let me ask
the young gentleman why the people of this country should
not he attached to their priests? Who is it that, in season:,
of pestilence and famine, visits them in their huts, and ad-
ministers to them both spiritual and corporal fuod?—Tlic
Catholic priest.—(Cheers.)—For this I refer him to the
evidence of Mr. Charles Grant, who, in the House of Com-
mons, stated a fact regarding a Catholic clergyman, that.
went, regardless of his own safety, into the room of con-
tagion, and after giving the rites of the church to a dying
family, took off his skirt, and gave it as a covering—
and then. went home, carrying with him a mortal malady.
—(Cheers)—The people like their priest while he does his
duty ; but the moment he swerves from that, that instant
they abandon him.
Mr. ROBARTS-Why do the priests prevent Catholics
from going to Protestant schools? Mr. Mitchell wrote a
book on the subject, which you can rind at Mr. Tiins's, in
Grafton-street.

Mr. O'CONNELL-I thought so. That is just the place
where such books can be had. But I asked a question, awl
it was answered in the Irish way, by putting another.
now again repeat the question— what has the British Par-
liament ever done for Ireland ?

Mr. RonAriTs—They are every day serving you, and
draining the country.—(Laughter.)
Mr. O'CoxisaLL—Oh, I grant you they are draining
us well in one way, but this very year they absolutely re-
fused a Bill for draining our bogs.—(Hear, hear.)—Now
I will tell the gentleman why we don't send our children to
Protestant schools. Their priests and their parents, of
course, wish to have them educated as Catholics ; and, it
sent to Protestant schools, they would be tampered with,
and probably proselytized. Would the gentleman send his
children to a Catholic school ?

Mr. ROBARTS—I would not.--(Cheers.)
Mr. O'CoNNELL—Very fair ; and why not do to (Abet,'
as you would be dune by? What I say will go abroad,
and what I now say will not be considered egotistic, as it
is already well known. I stand among the beads of my
profession. I have a good fortune, and a rising and in-
creasing family.—(Cries of " God increase them,")—l
have risen by my own exertions, without interest or pa-
tronage, and ashy should I continue a slave ?—(Loud
cheers.)—When the Old Association was created, out of
the 32 counties in Ireland 18 were in open arms, and now
there is not one county disturbed, unless, perhaps, in the
north, where the Catholics are fewer, and the Orangemen
numerous.—(Hear.)—What has brought about this happy
change? Is it the Government of the country? They
never could. It is the work of the oppressed Catholic agi-
tators.--(Cheers.)
Mr. ROBART3.-I am no Orangemen. There is no
doubt but that something must be done for Ireland.—
enrigiafinrdsst., furT Lae Borig.ti sfhreerhaorildi
ea
p,mewnti
will ill
be ndeo7er
avany:.
(Cheers.)—But you must excite the people to arms against
ve
>t,hoeu iKdi
•
and this association put down. You must then get your
wants by arms.
Mr. O'CoNwitr.L.—l sit accidentally between two Pro-
, testant members of the Catholic Association.--(Cheers.)
Mr. ROBARTS. —This is the fir,t time I ever spoke in
public', but as soon as some of the blood of Mr. O'Con-
nell's eloquence is instilled into my veins, I may speak
uftener.---(Cheers.)
31r. O'CoNNELL—The English journals contained ac-
counts of a rebellion in Ireland. Nothing could be mote
farcical than this. They copied from the Evening Mail,
a journal published three times a week, for the purpose of
falsifying facts, and from the Warder, a contemptible
paper, into which all tlae lies of the country were weekly
disembogued. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman con_
cluded by giving notice, that on Saturday next he would
move to have the Finance Committee once more, as fot-
-13e,tt-I,eyv.,ecraalllesduntihseof"niCmoniney,
re tifm Gur handedicesan i."--<Cheers.)a
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, after which
the rent list was read, and the meeting adjourned at seven.
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