The Sun.
London, England, 1818-10-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

The 161 lowing Corresimptlence has resultc
from d IJe&ti,;4 of th(', i,,tot6itiitits of No;vq,:hel
i!ie i`jth ►:.st>►ut,, tl►e purpose of
the Right Hon C GRANT'

• P‘iew7, October le, ISI6.
•
Si it,--1 have been directed fo to you the inclosed
Addre,s, tionniinously agre,;(ll., at a Meeting of the Liouse-
holdris of L. is lioroogii, Held
I have the ~onour to he, Sir,
Your must obedient and must Itunibre Servant,
S. REID., Seneschal.

To the Right Hon. Charles Grant,
Dublin (lastic.

Ti THte RIGHT HON. CHARLES GRANT.
• -• s
be expectations of the Irish people have been so
often excited, and so cruelly disappointed, that, disciplined
in the severe school of our exi, Menet., we have been taught
Iv and cautiously to admit hope; but the assurance which
your charaCter glees is so strong, that we scruple not to gra-
tulate our country on the COMIIII,SIOII of her ioterests to your
guardianship. We hail the cement of your Admi-
oistration, as that ofan assfrasice conciliatory rule ; and,
it we may nut, as We glAdly would, regard in it the imme-
diate prelude to that grand Measure of tranquillization, isy
the furtherance of which you have so sigoalized you' self; at
least ia mild ;tad equable spirit Will temper the harilmess
existing disqualifications. If the great majority of our po-
pulatioo are yet to be debarred a full participation ill the
franchises of the Const totiuo, it will be your care that they
shall feel the fostering prottction of a parental Cioveritnient.
In the enjoyment of it, add in the impartiality With which
the laws will be administered, they will find motives fur a pa-
tient endurance of their protracted privations; and they
will be rewarded by the sure, though tardy, progress of be
neficent legislation. Our country will no longer present the
sad spectacle of an alienated people, writhing under the to-
fiictions of a vicious policy; but we shall have exiiihited that
howinring deference to law mid to authority, which di.riities
the character of the English citizen, and which has not (well
permitted to diffuse itself in Ireland. To this characteristic
aspire. Our first wish is to be one people— we trust its
COl3Sllllllllatioll will be your achievement.
Hitherto uncoonected with our country, but by the gener-
ous sympathies of a great mind, your energies hare been given
to the amelioratilm of tier fortunes. You brought to her
service powers worthy of the noble aiin to 'which they were
directed ; arid her willing gratitude records the obligation.
Allied to us now liy new ties and solemn duties, we emit'.
dently anticipate, from the more particular and exclusive ap-
propriation of your talents, the happiest results.
Accept, Sir, this testimony of our esteem, our con6deuee,
and respect.
Signed, by order and in behalf of the Inhabitants of the
Borough of Newry, convened by public advertisement,
on Monday, the 12th of October, 1818.
S. REID, Seneschal.

Dublin Castle, Oct. 17, 1818.
have the honour to inclose my reply to the Address
which you were so good as to transmit to arc; and request
von will be pleased to lay it belure the Inhabitant) oh the
borough of Newry. I have the honour to he,

Sir, your obedient Servant,

CHARI.LS GRANT.

S. Reid, Esq., Senesclial.

To TLI E

INHABITANTS OP TH r BOROUGH OF NEWBY.
Dublin Castle, Oct. 16, 11418.
GENTLioitx,—l feel, with a just sense of obligation, all the
kindness and confidence which the eloquent Address you
have done ine the honour to transmit to me displays ; and
I beg you will he pleased to accept my sincerest acknowledg-
ments for such a testimony of your favourable opinion.
With the warmest wishes that can he entertained tor the
tranquillity of Ireland and the happiness of her people Latest
.cordially sympathise; and it will t,e, nut only my duty,- but
my highest gratiticaticiti, to employ, for the promotion of
those objects, the share of power which is cots usted to me in
the Administration of this country, and whatever abilities
may possess.

Of...those abilities, however, permit rue to avow the con-
sciousness I feel, that your generosity has led you to form far
too sanguine an estimate; but such as they are, they will
be devoted to the public service ; and 1 trust, Gentlemen,
you will thiml, it sufficient for me to offer yost this assurance,
without going into the questions to which you have alluded
—q•iestiow., indeed, th diicusiion of which, however inte-
reating, dues not come within the sphere of the duties belong-
ing to Inv Office.

Of the effects to be produced by my endeavours, you hare
been pleased, in great liberality to me, to indulge in large
anticipations. %Vhil4.. I most ueg to guard myself against
being ►iuderstood to become a party to whatever those anti-
cipatious way invalve of reflection on the past, I willingly re-
cognise in them a delineation of objects, which, I am ►ell
aware, ought ever to he ill my view; and it shall be my anxi-
ous study, as far as my powers may be competent, to primate
amongst all classes of the community the spirit of concilia-
tion, which is. I trust, already progressive, and to maintain
the equal and pure administration of justice. I must further
express my firm persuasion, that such also is the disposition
of those with whom I am more particularly called to act, as
well as of those who dirt et tilt Couiisels of the Empire; and
that, on whatever other points there may be a iliffereoce of
(Tinton, on the principle of conducting the Government
with a conciliatory spirit, and of dispensing the existing
laws with strict impartiality, there is but one uniform sen-
timent.

In a situation arduous iu'itself, as well as new to me, i feel
that I shall stand in need of ntuch indulgence; hut so long as
my intentiou are unimpeached, I shall not despair of it front
a genet 011 S people; and, sensible as I ant, both of my own
deficiencies and of the difficulties of that 3ltnation, I yet see
in it such elevating motives to exertion-, as will add animation
to all the dictates of duty. I have the honour to he,
Gentlemen, your obliged and .hedient Servant,
CHARLES GRANT.