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

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(RECEIVED, Tills MORNING FROM OUR OW COR-
RESPONDENT

ENNIS, FRIDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
I have just now been round the different booths,
and find the numbers as yet polled for the candidates
in the different baronies as follows :--
oVormell. Fitzgerald.
Islands
Corcunroe l2
Ilunratty • " 7 • 0
Moyarta 2O .. l4
Clonderlan 6
Tnila 27
Inchiquin
Ibraean 6

104 51
Thus it will be seen Mr.' O'Connell's-majority 15
hourly increasing; it now exceeds a thousand,, and
those acquainted with the state of the registration of
the county declare it impossible for Mr. Fitzgerald
to pull up, even should all the unpolled freeholders
vote for him.

(From the Limerick Evening Post of• Friday.)
The following is the close of the Third Day's
Poll, ou Thursday, July 3 :
Dor Mr. O'Connell 1,813
Mr. Vey Fitzgerald 837

Majority for Mr. O'Connell 976

The contest goes .on with unabated perseverance
on both sides, and continued success on the part of
Mr. O'Connell. It is, however, imagined that the
majority of this evening will induce Mr. Fitzgerald to
give in,. and that to-morrow will end. this most els,
morous and oratorical election.

The proceedings are conducted with 'excellent.
temper, and there has not been an instance of a
broil worth notice. 'I he townsmen are formed into
a peace guard, and they patrol the streets
night and day -to moderate the spirit of the
freeholders, and preveut them seeking or re-
ceiving cause of quarrels from their opponents.
A gentleman who came into town at the head of
his tenantry was deserted by them, when requested
to do so by a priest, and he. in a rage ordered his
carriage to the Court-house, and there violently de-
claimed against them ; the noise alarmed the High
Sheriff, and he desired the Riot Act to be read,
and the police to be called out; but the Agitators,
who heard the order, waved to the people to dis-'
perse, and when the Riot Act and the police came,
there was only the Hon. Gentleman, with a dozen of_
his own friends near him, for the terrors of the law
to operate on. Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald went out to
meet, to-day, a body of his tenantry, and he ad-
dressed them at great length; but a Priest-who was
a.. hand called •on them not to abandon their religion
and their country, and they. declared for O'Connell.
Another landlord offered his tenants an abatement
of rent if they would leave the town and not vote
for either party.—They did so to the titunber of
three hundred ; but one of the agitators on horseback,
with a green liberator riband about his and a
priest followed them, and induced-.'them to return,
which they did with colours flying, and
_green
boughs waving, and a hapless musician playing the
fife before them, for want of a better band. I heard
a forty-shilling freeholder vote against Mr. O'Con-
nell, but he ground his lips, stamped his feet, and
hesitated several minutes before he could-pronounce
Mr. Fitzgerald's name ! I must go with my hands
tied, he cried at last, and I vote because I cam)
help it for Mr. Fitzgerald.

Mr. O'CoNNEu spoke, amid the usual din..of
acclamations. I offered yesterday a reward of forty
shillings for a lost representative :
Stolen or strayed,

Lost or mislaid.
—But I do not see him here, and I believe that
fifty pounds, the value of his best Orange voter,
would not bring him up this evenina.. ,(Great
cheering and laughing.) There is no chance, per-
haps, of ever seeing him here again. And mark,
that the colleague of Wellington and Peel has not,
in three days, as many polled—God bless the honest
men that have polled for me to-day ! That marks
your opinion of this Cabinet Minister. DoeS Wel-
lington want a lesson of what the opinion of the
Irish nation is of him and hie colleague, Mr. V. Fitz-
gerald ? Does Peel want a lesson to teach him
the execration he is held in by the people he
has calumniated and despised ? Yes; let them
learn that there is more in my elevation, more of
moral dignity, than there is in ail their glory, in
the elevation of one who is placed thus high—the
servant of the finest people on earth.—(Cheers.)—
Wellington has floated on the young blood of
land. (Here a gentleman from the Sheriff appeared
in the gallery with a state of the poll.) You are late
(said Mr. O'Connell); you are like the clergyman
who was sent for to say grace before meat, and come
half an hour after supper. {Laughing.) Yes, 'Wel-
lington has gained his victories by a profuse sacri-
fice of Irish blood. How many a father has lament-
ed his only son ! how many a mother has wept over
the fate of her offspring ! how many a wife has been
left destitute, and how much of Ireland's yotm,,o
blood bas been sacrificed to gain the victories which
accident alone gave him ; yes, it was chance and ac-
cident in all but the moral and the physical force of
British and of Irish bravery. The Conqueror of
Waterioo was dancing at a ball at Brussels almost
in the hour of danger, his troops were placed in a
bad position, but though the cannon was sweeping
their comrades away they would not retreat. Wel-
lington gained the victory; he has. the ho-
nour, the glory, and the profit; but many of
his brave comrades sleep inglorious in the
grave, and those who remain have ti
He charges us with desiring Catholic ascendancy ;
but we seek it not; and, if it shoold exist here,
there is net a Protestant in the whole country who
would exercise himself more than I should to put it
down. I seek for ascendancy to none, but equally
for all. His colleague has been four times elected
for thiscounty ; but now when he joins Wellington
in the Cabinet, when he stains himself with the
turpitude of that connection, the people fly from
him as from an accursed thing.—(Great cheers.)—
Ye are the men that have excluded him, and I am
one of the instruments of flinging from your county'
this colleague of Wellington and Ped.--(CheerS.)
—A man of ninety tottered to .give me his,bless-
ing, which I cherished more than the_vote. he
gave me; and another, in the second century, of
one hundred and seven years of age, and I am cheered
by it. That man gave me his, vote.—(Capital.)—
I am proud of the circumstance, that some Pro-
testant Forty-shilling Freeholders voted for me. I
'had three of them, and Fitzgerald had not one. As
for the paltry Catholics who voted against me, I
will not stain my_ lips nor your ears with their
names ; the wretches who send in a man to Parlia-
ment to swear that their holy religion is impious and
idolatrous.—(Shaine, shame !)--I rejoice that I
polled these forty shilling freeholders, it will 'show.
Ito Wellington and Peel that the Protestants join
their Catholic" neighbours to do their common"
country justice. I am soon to be placed 'on the
ground I most desire. I shall have to-morrow,
under the Sheriff's seal, the right to go
Parlia-
ment and I have that affirmed by the Act.'Ol
and I will go forth and take my stand: ,wider the
Constitution,, and tell Wellington and Peel "keep
me out of the representation of Clare if yott.dare."
I say if you dare, because it..will give me the
right to proclaim that the Act of Union, is violated,
and. by that violation' our connection with Eng-
land .is dissolved. The Treaty of Limerick Was
violated, and they said its an excuse it was
an honorary engagement but the Act of 'Union
is the bond of their own cruel formation, and if
they do not respect it, we will insist on the restora-
tion of the glorious 1782. IVhat care we then for
the C'atholio Question, if it is to be absorbed b...y this
still greater question of national independence.—
(Great cheering, and waving of hats and handker-
chiefs.)—What care we then for the' Catholic.
Question ? ./Pre shall have a national association,
and the genius of 1782 will solution our renewed