The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-28 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Th following'aecount of the Aggregate
.Meeting in Dublin,
. respedling thcllanon, is extracted front a Dublin Paper.'

About eleven o'clock, the 'Several avenues to the
Royal; Exchange,- becawe thickly, populated 'With
patriots, all -hurrying tnwards the fine of liberty,
On the steps of the Exchange there were_ placed
about sixty gentleman of the police, respectthliy
designed as a body-guard to'tho Majesty of 'the
people. This flattering attention was .mirch ap-
plauded by allparties. At half, past eleven, one of
the great doors having been burst open, a States-
'Man of considerable eminence, rushed in, attepded
by a number of Privy Councillors. The dignified
air with which this Gentlemen saluted his cOrn-
patriots. who were lounging gracefully upon a large
deal table, c6nVinced- us that he w.ls, destined tolake
a considerable part in. the approaching political dis-
cussion. We soon learned that this excellent and
ingenious' person was Mr.. F. W. Conway, Who in
order to give more consistency and direttness to
the proceedings 9f the Aggregate Meeting, had for
some time previous condescended to wield the lite-.
•rary energies of the Frqmon's Journal.
. At ten minutes past twel.Ve,' Sir James Thddail,
High Sheriff, accompanied by Mr. Slimy, entered
followed by a
,numerous body of keqtle-
ilen frOm t he Liberties, &c.. who favoured Sir Jaines;
With such loud and repeated peals•of congratulation
that some minutes elapsed 'before order could In
restored-wehleati creatAL At.. length silence.be-
ing obtah:ed, Sir lames assured the Meeting, that if
they were-quiet, they shotill gain their point, but not
otherwise...

Mr. -.1-1U ton now tot.,, and prefaced his speech,
by a declaration of 'total incapacity tp address any
public me'eting; however, his patriotism hid in-
duced hini to meet every disadvat•rage under which
he laboured,'aid lie trustcd th.at the kindness of the
Meeting Would excuse• his defeas. •

Mr: Hutton then recapitulated- the conditioi4 of
the At of Union, not tette of Which pledges-had
been .redeemed. He then branched off into Various'
other considerations, and after displaying; as we
'thought, no small portion of limaginative eletanetice,
c6ncleded by moving,.tltat a petiticin should be.pre
'pared a ed presented to the Imperial Parliament; prey-.
ing, for the reasons therein stated, that the said Par-
liament would iiiinikhately disorganize itself, and
restore an independent Senate to this wretched and
widowed coUntry.,
As soo't as the esual acclamations began to sub-
side, Mr. O'Connell- (a lawyer) vaulted into a chair,
and extended his anus in order to make room' for
.his subseqeent aCtion. ~Thene is something very im-
pressive in Mr. O'Connell's Manner of speakiag. His
cadences bear a striking and affthing resemblance to
those generally uttered by. the evangelical fraternity
who win 'sinners to repentance in the Various: con-
venticies scattered throughout Great Britain. •
Mr. O'Connell cotnineticed his speech, or per-
haps we should say his homily, by paying a brilliant
compliment to Sir James Riddall, for the prompti-
tude and patriotism which he had evinced in con-
vening an Aggr6gate, Meeting. Mr. O'Connell
then took a review of Irish history antecedent to
the year 1800. He noticed the prosperity which
had prevailed ; the firmness and, unanimity of the
people in asserting their rights; the extension. of
. their co amerce, trade and manufa4ures; all which
had been effectually annihilated by the abominable
measure of. Union. Mr. O'Connell then turned
the tapestry, and favoured .the meeting with a very
different view of Irish affairs. He declared that
previous to the Union the land had been desolated
'by discord and divisions ; and that , religious feuds
had impaired every element of national improve-
ment. • These confliCting \statements were satisfac-
• torily reconciled by a burst of applause, which saved
Mk. O'Connell the task of explanation; Mr.
O'Connell then descanted on the turpitude of the
British Government which had effeEtA the. Union.
" Not satisfied said Mr: O'Connell) with depriv-
ing us of our Legislature, of our security and our
•,
freedom, they carried.aw ay our land." 'We thought-
, at first that this was merely a figurative, and :of
course, oratorical expression of Mr. O'Connell; but
we were much gratified to learn from a sebsequent
part et the Gentleman's speech that he really Meant
the material laud and water of which the island
called Ireland was originally composed-. It becomes
ther.etOre a question of fa& Ix hick. we anxiously re- :1
fer to a conclave of geographers.
- Mr. O'Connell then passed a warm encomium on
'the impartiality which had induced Sir, James
dall to declare,.• that " all sides should have a fair
hearing." But Mr. O'Connell's patriotism was.su-
perior even to his liberality ; and we.know how -to
appreciate such 'enthusiasme--" I• should like'said
Mr O'Connell, " to see the colour of the man's
face, I should like etc? set— the beast who could,
come forward in this meeting
.to, assert that the
Union kid not been the destruction of this country.",
This polite and ain.able challenge was, to our great
surprize, not accepted. Mr. O'Connell then poured.
fowl a torrent of knowledge respetting'the interests
of Ireland, in which he took'Occasion to refute the
arithmetic of a person whom he named Dine) nee.
We wet ~orne hal at a loss to ascertain t his aethor.
We twca alarmed at our ignorance. We (omit-
ed our•seonty brains with conjecture's 'coecerning
the- two-legged. animal to 'whom this mysterious
name might; belong. At length we dikovered that
Mr..;OVeutiell hail favoured us with the fashion-
able Purision • pronunciation of D'lvertiois, to
which Sir Francis being added, we recognized our
old friend of literary•and political Celehritye.who had
been thus' obscured by the refinements of Mr.
O'Connell. eln the ensuing part of Mr. O'Connell's
speech, we, were delighted and astonished by—
law ,Wentust- enter into a little preliminary explana-
tion.. The Freeman's Journal had for some time
previous to the. Meeting, announced a brilliant
• speech on the part of Mr. Curran. Tits gentle-
tn,in being otherwise, engaged, could not, unluckily,
• wake his appearance at the. Royal Exchange. • Great
• disappointment must conrquently havebeen sustain-
-ed, had-not Mr—O'Connell obligingly transferred .a
considerable portion of the public speeches of the said