The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

There is now no denying, on the pert of the
veriest Orangeman who ever strutted in Cumber-
land-regimentals, that the Catholic' Relief Bill
has done its work, and in a way,. too, that how-
ever it might haVe been anticipated •by the pri- •
vate judgment of sagacious a.. long-sighted.
men, the friends of the Catholics_ did. not think.
it quite decent to proclaim, while their...etre,'
mien would have scouted it as a ehiniera The •
Association--the 'Catholic Association—L•tKe'
grand bugbear of all worthy Orangemen—the.
faggot which set Ireland in a blaze—the scourge
which striped and lacerated that unhappy king-
dom—that accursed Association, cried the
Orangemen, must be put down, or the tenure
by which Ireland was held for the empire
would not be worth a week's purchase. Eman-
cipate the Catholics, replied the friends of re-
ligious liberty, and the Association will die
for want of food, having no natural aliment
but Catholic grievance. 'Well, who was right ?
What has now become of the Association ?.
We say nothing about the law for putting it
down. Of the resolution of the Catholics
themselves, passed instantly after the Re!ief
Bill was carried, we are content to drop all
mention. But let any one real the repot of
a meeting of their finance committee, and see
in what a state of conflict, uproar, and anarchy,.
are the elements and first principles of which
the Association itself was composed ! Now
that the binding power has been withdrawn
from its heterogeneous and hostile particles, by
the removal of that pervading grievance which
alone had cemented the Catholic Association,
and indeed to which alone it was owing that
the Catholics existed at all as a separate or de-
finite body within these islands, the Asseciators,
at peace with the Protestant community, are at
open -war • amongst each other. One of them;
Mr. Francis Wyse, it appears frOm the report
which has been sent to us, had on one occasion
transmitted a letter to Mr. Bric, addressed to
that gentleman at the house of " Counsellor"
O'Connell, (the same personage that has been
lately putting forth a charge of bribery against
this journal.) Mr Wyse added repeatedly, and in
the most solemn manner, that his letter to Mr.
Brie was marked " private" on the cover.
It is admitted on all hands, however, and by
Mr. Daniel O'Connell himself, who only denies
that the letter had any mark of " private' on the
back of it, and he broke open Mr. Wyse's letter
to Mr. Brie,- permitting it to be public read in
the Association, and copies to be taken of if,
for the use of Mr. Fitzhenry, who, if we follow
right the narative of the transaction, must have
been a party libelled in Wise's letter, as lie after
wards brought an action or actions against that
gentleman, and in one of them recovered damages
to the extent of 500/. Wyse having paid or
compounded the damages, comes to the Finance
Committee with a motion (through Mr. Sheil,
who had been his counsel, as O'Connell, bad
been Fitzhenry's), to be indemnified for the costs
of his lawsuits out of the old Catholic fund
(the rent, probably, but that is left unspecified).
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of the thing is the showing up each other—the
Nshuooct:lle‘a'er, is but by-play in the piece ; the marrow
ill-blood—the Billingsgate abuse (for Counsellor
O'Connell complained, or rather boasted, that
Mr. Wyse had placarded him about the streets
of Dublin for' liar, a scoundrel, and a coward")
—this Billingsgate, we say—this distraction of
tpassions
paenot interests—this
e nv,t,ehroe sNtsse—re t
assured mutualb
by the
h eo inveteracyrallg
Orange-
men men would stick together until they had filched
from us Protestants every particle of civil and
religious freedom, are all so many conclusive
evidences that Catholic emancipation has "done
its work," and that as a thing capable of political
mischief by its unity, Irish Catholicism exists
no longer.— Times.
A public meeting of land-owners and others
took place yesterday at the London Tavern, to
receive the report of the Committee appointed
last October to take steps for the repeal or ge-
neral reduction of the malt and beer duties, with
a view to enable the labouring classes to supply
themselves with beer. A very good object cer-
tainly,' and of which we would gladly witness the
accomplishmemt. But before the poor labourers
can supply themselves with beer (liquid food, as
it has been called, instead Of gin, which is liquid
fire), at however cheap a rate, they must have
some money, arising from an increase of wages.
Mr. Curteis, jun. of Sussex, was edited to the
Chair. He regretted the want of co-operation
in the landed aristocracy ; from which we sup-
pose we may infer generally, their adherence to
the Ministry, to whom, no doubt, it would be
very agreeable to repeal the Malt and Beer
Duties, and who, in truth, ought to make a
great effort for that purpose, but to whom it will
probably be a matter of vast perplexity to find a
burrowed the
from
substitute. The resolutions proposed by the
Committee, and adopted by the Meeting, are,
we must confess, not of the most striking kind.
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The Meeting at the London Coffee-house
yesterday, on the subject of the Repeal of the
Malt and Beer Duties, affords matter for re-
flection. We have often alluded to the want of
protection of the property of this country, under
the present Constitution. A very sandi frac-
tional part is enabled to prey on the mass of
property of the community. The Meeting of
yesterday furnishes one illustration of this. The
gentlemen farmers and yeomanry throughout the
country Way be said to be unanimous as to the
necessity of making an exertion to obtain the re-
peal of the Malt and Beer Duties. Indeed, it
is hardly possible to conceive a mode of raising
money more injurious to the health, morals, acid
comfort of the population. But the Aristocracy
take DO interest iho question. As an in-
stance, Mr. Voster, one of the most distinguished
agrieultvists in England, stated, at the Meeting
yesterday, that notwithstanding his wronst exer.
tions, he could oily obtain in BedforLbire the
countenance of the Duke of Bedfcati and another
Magistrate,, to, the object they had in view. In
fact, the aristocracy vac no more for the people
of England, than. they care for the people of
Otaiiene. 'Mien t'aev fall out among them-
, selves, they appeal to the people;who, by
BosToN MAitti-WVe---For several''' throwing ;heir weight ,into the scales of one
waeks, weßays 114(1 occasion •to remark upon the ex- i party, can effect the issue. But when the
tra, Wioary sums of matey laid out at Boston in the pig,: •
question merely ;A,- in what manner can
eha.e c:orn ;it Las been lately most surprisinz ca,,kt the
' the condition of the people be improved—
amazing quantity was still kept up, and •liat the weekly
sales should rather increase tha. ;:isninish ; we have thizlin what manlier can the pressure of any burden
week again to record tremendous sale, excecdins. any Ibe mitigated—then the Aristocracy remain un-
former week this year, and tuany---very many years pre- moved. What is not a )arty
viously. The total amount of corn sold, fronj Nr.
oday to
ques ion v t tem.
ley have no sympathies
S iturday last, according to the Inspector's return, is
fifteen thousand t*7ahundred an i nbiety-four pounds! With the people, and only their existence
--Boston G4zeye. Lb mime rents and taxes cannot be obtained