The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-22 00:00:00

" The Commandlug Officer, off the Texl, S;r
EDwArtri, PELLEW, has been informed of their in-
tention, and we have nu doubt, if they are serious,
they will be foiled in their attt-mpt."

On. Tuesday last a very numerous body of the
' Freemen and Freeholders of the City of Dublin as.
sembled at the Royal Exchange in that City, con-
formable to a requisition of the Quarter Sessions
Grand Jury, and another requisition (ruin several
Freemen and Freeholdtrs of Dublin, (or the purpose
of taking into consideration the subjea of a repeaj
oldie Legislative Union. Sir JAMES RIDDALL, one
of the Sheriffs, took the Chair, and appointed F.
W. CONWAY, Esq. Secretary to the meeting. The
pressure of the crowd was so great, and the struggle
to get near the Chair so eager, that Sir JAMES was
obliged to address himself earnestly to the people,
exhorting them to preserve order and decorum.—
The requisitions were then read by the Secretary.
After which Mr. HUTTON rose and strongly .con-
deinned the Union, as injurious to Ireland, but at
the same time he professed ha eareest desire of Bri-
tish connexion, and a wish to give the firmest sup-
port to -the Throne of Great Britain. • He concluded
with moving, " That a Committee, consisting of
nine Gentlemen, should be appointed to prepare a
petition to his MAJESTY, and•anoth?r to th..t House
of Commons, for a repeal of the Aa of Union."
• The Committee was then formed, and atter some
discussion, agreed upon a Petition to the followieg
etre& to the House of Commons. The P,Aition
commences with setting forth the strong desire:of.
the Petitioners to preserve British connexion, at,d
their admiration of the principles of the British
Constitution ; it next proceeds to enumerate the be.:
nefits which it was said would result to Ireland
from a Legislative Union, and then eotreats. the
House of Commons to inquire whether the Union
has fulfilled, or is calculated to fulfil, the expecta-
tions of its advoCates. The Petitioners then say,
that a repeal of the Union is necessary, be-
cause a resident Parliament is necessary to pro-
mote the interests of Iceland ; because the
Government of England did not propose the
Union to promote the mutual benefits of the two
Countries, but on account of the trouble and diffi-
culty of managing an independent Parliament ;
because the period at which the Union was propos-
ed was not calculated for calm discussion and fair.
investigation ; and because the means used to effect
it were corrupt and iniquitous ;=—because the Pat-7
hament of Ireland, being delegated to make Laws,
fiat Legislators, could not transfer their Legislative
Authority without the sanaion of their Constituents,
and that a decided majority of the Constitutional
Body was hostile to that measure.
The Petition then sets forth the amount of the
Expenditure and Debt of Leland during seven years
of war previous to the Union, and seven years of
war subsequent to it, and inters, that because the
Expenditure has been greater, and that the Debt
has increased more rapidly since the Claim' than
before it, that measure ought to be repealed.

The Petition then states, that five-sixths of the
Members of the Imperial Parliament hive never
vi-
sited Ireland, and that one-sixth of the Irish Repre-
sentatives are not natives of Ireland ; and that the
promises made by the British Minister, when he
proposed the Union, were forgotten by him, dis-
avowed by his successors, and disregarded by Parlia-
ment.

The Petition concludes with stating, that the dis-
tresses of Ireland have taken their chief rise from
the inattention of Landlords to the welfare and com-
forts of their Tenantry, from the Foreign Expendi-
ture of the Country, caused by its ahsentee•, and its
Foreign National Debt, and from its consequent
want of C.fpital, Trade, and tranquility; that all
these evils have increased by. the Union, and there-
fore the Petitioners pray for a repeal of that mea-
sure.

We are not in peSseSsion of the whole of the pro
ceedings of this Meeting, and therefore do not
know whether this Petition was agreed to or not.
Under these circumstances, it may, perhaps, be pre-
mature to enter into a.discussion of the merits of the
question; but we cannot avoid'observing, that the
groulds set forth in the Petition, if calmly and dis-
passionately considered, are far from warranting an
application for a repeal of the Union. It is true
that the Expenditure and the Debt of Ireland have
greatly increas:Ad within the last ten years; so have
the Expenditure and Ds:bt of Great Britain ;
and it would just be as fair to attribute the
one to the Union as the other. We are engaged
in a war unprecedented in its nature, and we have
no alternative but that of unconditional submission
to a ferocious tyrant, or the most determined re-
sistance. That that resistance can only be made at
an enormous expence, and by the most painful sa-
crifices, must be obvious to every man who will
reason dispassionately. The trade of Ireland has

soffereJ, but sorely no one who louk at the sle.

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of the Conthient, 'and 'contemplates the extraordi-
nary and violent measures which BUONAPARTE
has adopted to ruin the trade of this Em-
pire, will be at a loss to account for a tem-
porary commercial embarrassment. It is noto-
rious that the Trade of Ireland did greatly-in-
crease after the Union, nothing therefore, but party
prejudice could attribute the stagnation under which
it is at present stated, to labour, to that measure.—
With regard. to the inattention of Irish Landlords,
and the drain occasioned by absentees, and a foreign
National Debt, those are evils which would have
existed without a Union, and which did exist before
it. For considerably more than ball a century
the People of Ireland have complained of the per-
petual drain occasioned by absentees. That the fo-
reign National Debt•would have existed to as great,
or perhaps a greater extent, tf the Union had not
taken place, is cbvioas, because Ireland must have
borro ed money it s;!e had remained separate, and
from the want of Capital in Ireland, tie loans must
have been etleated in Ehglmul. Toe Petition states,
that five-iixths of the Nlembers of the Imperial Par-
'lament have never been in Irelind, and that, there- •
fore, the inter..sis of Irelan must •be neglee.ed. It
m'ght with qual !ru,h he said, that ,ti% e-sixths of
the Members of the Itnneual Pa:liarnet;t have'ne,er
been in Scotland, and tiier:fore the interest of Scot
-
kind aut-t be neglected. Such an assertion certainly
could not be made with fairness with respell to
Scotland, and we are convinced it is er:Fally.un-
founded as appled .to Ireland. But then it is sai;i,
that one-sixth of the liish Representatives are not
naiit es of Ireland. This may be true, but the Pe-
titioners should recollect how many Representatives
for places in England are natives of Ireland, and
how many Natives of Ireland sit in the House of
Peers excluSive of those representing the Peerage of
Ireland.

We shall resume this subjeel when we, are. in
possession of the 'whole of the proceedings at this
Meeting.

The following notice), we are concerned to say,
was this morning posted 'up at LLOYD'S
:
The following very distressing information has
just been posted; it rests on the authority of a pri-
vate letter received this morning by a house of the
frst respeaability.
GOTTENBURGII, SEPT. 10.—We have just
learnt, that out of a convoy of 35 sail from Eng-
land, bound to the Baltic, .21 'have been lost, with
all their crews, a few days ago, not Lr frorn
strand."

" N.B. The Gottenburgh list received to-day is of
the same date as the letter above, and makes no
mention of the circumstance."

The French cartel Eliza arrived at Falmouth, on
Wednesday, from Morlaix. She brought over Mr.
RIDGEWAY, the American Consul at Antwerp, who
was the bearer of Dispatches from General ARM-
STRONG to Mr. PINCKNEY. General ARMSTRONG
had left Paris, and was expeaed to embark for
America last Monday. When the cartel sailed,
it was reported at Morlaix that Generals JUNOT,
MACDONALD and BELLIARD had incurred BUONA-
PARTE'S displeasure, and had been recalled from
Spain. Mr. PowELL, Secretary to Mr. PINCKNEY,
sailed from PlymoUth in a Cartel on Saturday, and
landed at Morlaix on Sunday'.

Thursday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Au-
GUSTA and SornlA.,.took and airing in Windsor
Park t.II twelve o'clock. The Royal Party was ac-
companied by Lord WALSINGHAM, Lidy ELY, Gen.
WYN YARD, COTS. TAYLOR and DES*RHOW.

A vessel named the Cora has arrived from Hayti,
and brings letters to the 26th of July. General
RIGALTD4I(I 10 have quelled the insurreCtion at
Jeremie by gentle means, and to have returned from
thence to Port-au-Prince, in order to prepare fig his
attack upon CIIRISTOPHE.

The depredations of the Ladrones appear to have
ceased nearly altogether. They are said to have de-
livered themselves up, and a fleet of 300 sail pro-
ceeding to Chum pee for that purpose was pas•ed by
Ihe Bombay ships Henchman, Cornwallis and lig-
ramgare,,, which had arrived at Bombay from China
previous to the sailing of the ship Charles Grant.
The whole of the reinforcements aheady received
by, or destined for the army of Lord WELLINGTON,
do not amount to more than 12,000 men, and' of
these not more than 4000 are taken front England
and Ireland, the remainder having been ordered from
America, Cadiz,
_and Sicily.
By a letter received from an Officer in India we
understand, a grand Expedition is fitting out, con-
sisting of the 56111, 6gth, 78th, 80th, 84th, 86th,
and part of the 47th Regiments of Foot ; with 3000
Sepoys. They are to rendezvous at the Island of
Madagascar, and when joined by troops from the
Cape, are to proceed against the Isle of France.
A battalion of Marines is ordered :to be lot med
for some new enterprize. The men are now selett-
ing at Portsmouth, and it is supposed that the
command will be given to Major SAVAGE, of the
Marines.

A Company 'of the Bth Royal Veteran Battalion
is under orders to embark, at a moment's' notice,
for Heligoland.
General DISNEY and Capt. MARTIN left London
yesterday morning; for Plymouth, to embark fur
Cadiz to join the army.