The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-26 00:00:00

taken a very little- part.in public affairs. The truth
is, gentlemen, although I most truly congratulate
you upon the abolition of the cursed code of Penal
Laws affecting the Catholics of this kingdom, yet,
I consider the Relief Bill, in itself, but a clumsy
performance; and as to the accompanying ones, (I
mean the Disfranchisement Bill, and the new in-
vented double-barrelled Algerine Act,)—(Cheers)
—nothing, in my opinion, could be worse; and
therefore it is, that I have been backward in joining
in any public approbation of the present political
state of Ireland. Gentlemen, it seems to have been
a matter of surprise at both sides of the water, that
the Relief Bill was not immediately followed by the
pacification of Ireland. For my part, lam free to
confess, that if it had, it would have very much
surprised me ! Had his Majesty's Ministers, how-
ever, listened to the remonstrances of Mr. O'Con-
nell and the friends who accompanied him to Lon-
don, against the Disfranchisement Bill, then, indeed,
it would have been otherwise—no, they imagined,
(I suppose on consulting with some of our wise and
virtuous Irish senators,) they knew perfectly the
wants of our country, and no doubt, they thought •
they knew the feelings of Mr. O'Connell and his -
Catholic countrymen better then they did them-
selves; consequently, if-it ever was their intention,
to convert into a happy and united people, they •
have now only to deplore their own Legislative sin,
pidity.—(Hear.) Gentlemen, I freely admit, (and •
I again congratulate you on the saute,) that the
portals of the Constitution are thrown open to per-
sons of every religious creed ; but, I do assert, that •
they are virtually closed against those who are op-
posed to the existing abuses as regards both Church
and State. As a Radical Reformer and au Anti-
Unionist they are closed against me, unless indeed
I might, by chance, slip in as a companion of the
Order of Slievardagh Liberators(Lond laughter.).
They are closed against every Catholic who will not ,
cheerfully pay, and that largely, for the extravagant
support of a religion to which he does not belong,—
(Hear.) In fact, they are closed against the Ca-
tholics of Ireland until a complete reform takes
place in the, Protestant Church establishment.--
(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, it is my -opinion, that
Ireland is, at this moment, in the very lowest state
of political degradation ! And why do I say so ?'
Because, as my Lord Rossmore has very fairly in-
sinuated, we have an Aristocracy that have rendered
themselves contemptible, by tamely submitting to
be placed below the level of the poorer portion of
our Commoners—because, our gentry are now more •
divided than ever, but still, all scrambling for the
paltry remains of he loaves and fishes, with which,
as Irishmen, the English Ministers would only trust
them.—(Much cheering.) And, because, I consi-
der that the result of the Disfranchisement Bill will
be the total ruin of the poor classes of the people,.
or, at least, leave them at the mercy of those above
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they are at present entrusted, that the people of.
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reformatiOn in the Commons House of Parliament,
and a restoration to the people of their birth right_.
that is a power, to have a constitutional share in
making those laws by which they are4overned.
Gentlemen, such a supporter you have found in the
person of your worthy and talented guest, Mr.
Cave, and I most sincerely hope, that you miy
turn him as your Representative at the next dee-,
for your county..—(Hear, and loud cheers.)

" The Lord Lieutenant."—( Applause.)
" The Duke of Wellington, who declared he, would
have sacrificed his existence to prevent a civil war in Irc-
land."—(Cheers.)

" The 'Marquis of Anglesea, the hest Lord Lieutenant
Ireland ever had, who, when this country was eejereetetWe.
to hint as disturbed,. rode across ir, unattended, found in,
every man he met a guard, and thus proved, we were thee,
as we are now, calumniated.—(lmmen,e cheering.)
" A full, free, and fair Representation of the people in
Parliament. Daniel O'Connell, Ego-, the Man of
People."—(Loud cheers.) .
Mr. LANIGAN returned thanks for the health of
Mr. O'Connell. He said—While I feel flattered
by the call your have made on me, I must regret
my inability to do justice to Mr. O'Connell—low-
ever, I feel I am addressing those who know what.
he has already achieved for his country, and that ha
is under Heaven the author of her political redempe
tion.—(Cheers.)—That he is still anxious to yin,
ploy the energies of his almost superhuman interieet
.in improving her condition, until she shall take her
station amongst the nations of the earth.--(Loud
cheers.)—Mr. O'Connell has been Coirty years in
the service of Ireland ; yet his faculties are as fresh,
his spirits are as light, and hie heart as gay as wheel.
he commenced ; be has ie him the very best mate-
rials for parliamentary work, and he will have quite,
enough of it to do. His will be the task, with such
Members as our esteemed and valued guest, te, ob-
tain for the people the practice, as well es tile
theory, of equal laws. He will have to unmask the
present machinations of aerenmant of the vilest fac-
tion that was ever warmed into life in the hot-beds_
of intolerance, who after being defeated in their at-
tempts to produce civil war, and thus retard the
liberties of the people, are NOW playing the same
game in order to rob them of its blessings.---(Mircle
cheering.)—He must seek to pay the admi-
nistration of what is called justice. He must en-
deavour, for that purpose, to. remove from between
the people and our upright Judges, the interference
of a certain racial barrier of great altitude, over
which they find it impossible to climb; a barrier
constructed with so much dexterity as seemingly to
act upon that notable principle of the architect of its
elevation of" giving a triumph to neither; party,".
neither to the Crown 11.o>; the accused—but which
has the efTeet of giving a most unseemly and mis-
chievous triumph to that party, who have always
deemed it a merit to practice their unpunished de-
linquencies against the people.--(Cheering.)--Iknow, Sir, that long diaper speeches are not very
acceptable—but I hope it will not be considered
irrelevant 'An speaking to this toast to attempt that
‘vhich Mr. O'Connell would do with so much effect -
if he were present. 'We were excluded front the
meeting here on the 7th, and yet those who shut
us out reported their own speeches in the Evening
Mail of the 9th, that they might go to the world
without any reply. I ought to know something of
this county; I happen to be a .50/. freeholder, yet
I was excluded from that meeting. The magiste-
rial oratory know I would have answered the un-
meaning generalities in which they indulged, by
stating and proving some particulars which would
not have been very palatable to them; they knew
would have analised and exposed the ill-written re-
solutions whielt some gentleman brought with him
in his pocket ready made. My Lord Lendalf pro-
posed them, and was pleased to say the people weie
demoralised, and that there is a war against pro-
perty. His Lordship was in the Irish House of
Commons in 1793,„ when the Elective Franchise
was granted to the Roman Catholics, and there is
no man who used that franchise since for family pur-
poses more than his Lordship; he, like other owners
of land, subdivided it in order to swell his political
influence.—(Hear.)---Under that systemeand' there
being no employment but that of sericulture, the
population increased. The landlords never corn planted of that increase until the forty-shilling fran-
chise came to be wieldeo favour of the liberties
of the people, they thejfbeeame alarmed, and began
to think of thinning thqopulation according to law,
which they had theretofore used in advaecing-their
own political aggrandizement. The Joint Tenantry
Act, the Sub-letting Act, and the Disfranchisement
Bill, were passed, and now because those who
were the forty,shilliog fieeholdere seem to cling
with some teeaeity to the lands which were origin-
elly given as the premium of political feudalism, the
Insurrection Act is proposed in order to provide