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London, England, 1829-01-22 00:00:00

SPIRiT OP THE LONDON JOURNALS,

The correspondence fiom Dublin will be read
with melancholy interest. It presents a brief
but striking outline of the circumstances attend-
ing Lord Anglesea's departure from amongst
a people whose affections are easily gained by
the slightest evidence of a wish to govern them
like rational beings, With steady impartiality and
equity, but which too often have been either
trifled with, or outraged by rulers acting on the
sentiment of nee vietis. Yet, neither the short
administration of Lord Anglesey, nor his abrupt
dismissal from the Government, will be without
its use. Under hub, a further and more de-
cided impulse was given to the power of opinion
throughout Ireland, as contra-distinguished from
actual violence. If the Association has within
a twelvemonth grown stronger and louder, and,
to the enemies of emancipation, more ob-
noxious, and, as an excrescence upon the State,
more anomalous, what ought to be inferred ?
Why, that its power is one of speech, and
writing, and thought, and moral union, su-
perseding those more perilous and destructive
modes of popular exertion, which, when ap-
pealed to formerly by the Irish, as means for
obtaining a redress of their grievances, pro-
ceeded through paths of blood and desola-
tion, to defeat and punishment, their never-
failing result. The Association is formi-
dable, not because it encourages acts of
violence, but because it has earnestly, and
hitherto successfully averted them,—because,
by " speaking daggers" it renders the " use" of •
daggers needless,—because, by resorting to chi-
nour, it has put down conspiracy, and has
thrown away the pike to arm itself with the
elective franchise. These are the instruments
and the characteristics through which the Asso-
ciation has achieved a power so much railed
against by a faction, because it is so effective
with the numerical majority of the people of
Ireland. We admit the magnitude of its in-
fluence, and at the same time its susceptibility
of perversion to evil purposes ; but we do not
see that it has been Eo perverted. We regard it,
as a strong, though unpalatable remedy for a
chronic and desperate disease,—as one the com-
pulsory disuse of which would be followed by
fatal symptoms. It seems to us that the diver-
sion of Irish feeling, therefore, which during the
short course of Lord Anglesea's Government
has been worked, from the ways of midnight
violence to those of manly preparation by day-
light, for a warfare of opinion upon constitu-
tional and moral ground, is for the empire and
for humanity, an incalculable benefit. So the
warm effusion of national feeling consequent
on the unlooked-for demise of the Anglesea,
Administration, must operate as a warning to
the Ministers of the Crown, not to play too
boldly upon the spirit which has been thus heated.
A revulsion must 11 ot be provoked ; a fair and
liberal principle of government must he adopted
by the succeeding chief governor, or his Excel-

lency must prepare to encamp with an army
about him, instead of being surrounded, as
Lord Anglesea has been, by an affectionate and
confiding public. The Duke of Northumberland
was mentioned in this paper some weeks ago as
one to whom report, though very partially circu-
lated, had attached the possibility of his becoming
Lord Anglesea's successor. We did not then
know or even conjecture how much real founda-
tion there was for the rumour which we merely,•
and, we may add, exclusively, referred to as
existing, rather than as ripe for belief; but we
felt it just to acid, that in many respects a
more desiraLle choice could not have sug
gested itself. to his Majesty's Ministers.
Our Irish letter now affirms that his Grace's
sentiments have recently become favourable to
emancipation. If so—and such a change is
not unlikely with an upright, sober, and
dispassionate mind, bestowing its continued
attention o❑ the subject,—the sole cause of
regret or murmur at the appointment of the
Duke of Northumberland is at once removed.
It is likewise but candid to acknowledge, that
in such a case the real feelings of the Duke of
Wellington towards the Catholics are proved to
be conformable with the liberal spirit which
breaks out in tile first passage of the gallant
Duke's letter to Dr. Curtis ; for we may be sure
that there was among the Brunswick noblemen
no lack of candidates for an office which would
have rendered them the immediate agents of an-
nihilation to the Catholic hydra in its den. It;
as we are assured, the Duke of Northumberland

has actually accepted the vacant Government,
his unexceptionable private character—the mo-
deration of his politics—and, as no mean item
in the scale, the magnificent expenditure of a
princely fortune—bid fair to render him a highly
acceptable representative of Royalty to all ranks
of people in Dublin.

" DUBLIN, JAN. 18.
" It is stated here as certain, that a King's Mes-
senger had been sent off to the Duke of Northumber-
land, offering him the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland,
but that his reply had not been received.
" While Dr. Murray, the Catholic Archbishop,
was reading an address to Lord Anglesea, the latter
burst into tears. Nothing• could be better delivered
than the address by Dr. Murray. Lord Anglesee,
in conversation, said, I leave my heart behind.'
" The nomination of Mr. Woulle to the Chair-
manship of Cavan is a most important measure
upon the part of Lord Francis Leveson Gower.
Woulfe had no interest except what he derived from
the admiration of his admirable pamphlet. The
Orangemen arc deeply mortified, because they see
that all the substantial products of loyalty are taken
away from them.

"It is stated here on good authority, that the
Duke of Northumberland is a convert to the Ca-
tholic question.

" DUBLIN, JAN. 19.
" You will receive with this letter, from your
reporter, a rapid account of the circumstances attend-
ing the departure of the Marquis of Anglesea. To
that letter, therefore, you may refer your readers
with confidence. To describe the state of Dublin
this day with any hope of communicating an ade-
quate idea of the sentiments—l would almost say
the passions—which prevail among all ranks, is im-
possible: at least it is beyond my powers.
" The Marquis was manifestly affected at the en-
thusiastic greetings with which he was received.—
Surrounded by his children and by the people, ac-
companied by a long train of gentlemen on horse-
back, many of whom had come from distant parts of
the country for the purpose, and joined by great
numbers of those noblemen and gentlemen who are
assembled for the purpose of attending the great
meeting to-morrow, the scene resembled very nearly,
I am informed by those who remember 1795, the
arture of Earl Fitzwilliam. That nobleman was
sia ;iced to an Orange ascendancy, and his re-
call was followed by a rebellion. I do not appre-
hend any thing of the kind now. There is no union
to be carried, and Ministers apparently can have no
object in involving the empire in confusion and
themselves in disgrace. But though I share this
opinion with many persons of experience, I an: sorry
to say that a sentiment of a very different nature
appears to prevail among the people in general...—
There was infinitely less of party animosity—
of that shocking virulence, which at present
enters into and pervades every thing Irish,
then than there is now. The Orangemen were

at the period referred to confined for the moat t'art
to the north of Ireland, and to a few Int-,!,,,zis among
the corporaters and official persons in Dublin.. They ;
are now spread through every, part of the country,
under the denomination of Bruntwickers, and are
even found in the counties of Galway, Roscommon,
and Mayo. At that period the established clergy
did not take an obtrusive or eeti\'e part in the poli-
tics of the country, thotrO, doubtless, many of
them were active incendiaries. At present the Pro-
teP:tant cler&v,witha few creditable exceptions, have
embarked to a man in the contest, with Dr. Magee,,
the Archbishop of Dublin, at their head. Except
in Ulster, the magistrates at that period preserved
an appearance of decency in their deportment on
the bench. Indeed, the cry was then against French
principles, and not against POpery. At present, in
several counties—even in Kildare, in the immediate
vicinity of this metropolis—scenes of the most lti-
Aecent partiality have been exhibited. I refer you
for example to the conduct of Mr. Pim, a gentleman
who was a Quaker, but is now a Protestant. Mr.
Steele has been deprived of the commission of the
peace for Clare. Ido not quarrel with the motives
which led to this gentleman's removal. But I mot
that a similar principle will be applied:to the Orange
magistracy; but nothing of the kind will effectually
secure the tranquillity of the country. We must
have stipendiary justices, or our standing army must
be trebled.

" The meeting to-morrow promises to be very im-
portant. It is said that the Cumberland faction
will attempt to produce confusion. I doubt, how-
ever, their ability. It is more likely that they will
get up a counter-meeting; and plans with that
view, I understand, are actually in progress by
Mr. Boyton, and other leaders of the frateniity in
the College.
" You will observe that neither the College, nor
the Corporation of Dublin, addressed the Lord Lieu-
tenant. The Lord Mayor, however, was at the
letree this morning.
• " The rumour this day is, that we are to have
the Duke of Northumberland as Lord Lieutenant,
and it is repeated on seemingly good authority.
Aou know the fact to be that he has been applied
to."—Times.

,
i:ee said, in the pamphlet in vestitene. trier
he " was next selected to ;lee Ills diplomatic
talents to ititinc-e me to quit. my house.—
, 'this effort failed ; and . . . .
having assumed a tone of dictation, for which
I did not think that place a proper field,
I compelled him to take his leave. I tiYas
determined he should visit My wife nO
in my house. Sire left My roof the next
day," th 'ale same pamphlet it is said,
1" Did, or did not . . personally tell me,
immediately preceding Lady . . .
departure from my house, hat if 3 would go
abroad for two years' (that is, as he intended it,
to let the d.fee'd of separation be put in force
against me, and that I might be led to abandon
my wife and children), he would answer for it
all would be right; and that there would he no
difficulty in procuring a diplomatic situation for
me, to induce me to go: In the same pam-
phlet, several cutious instances of the exercise of
patronage, hi such a way as to kill two birds with
one stone, as the saying has it, are given ; and,
moreover, we are told in it, " that if . .
has entirely forgotten her rank and sex, she
has to thank nothing so much as the evil
communication with a profligate
(whose power, by the bye, she has overrated),
the tender of whose support 'has made her apos-
tatize from every tie of blood and kindred, from
mother, husband, brother, and sister. Whether
or not these printed statements have any connec-
tion with any matters now agitating the public
mind in Dublin, it is not for us to say. It is
possible that some person has amused himself
with a fiction, under the name. of a certain noble-
man, to mystify the public wit4i respect to ano•
ther nobleman. It is possible that patronage
has not been abused, that the Marquis of An-
glesea never was applied to for a pension to any
widowed wife, and that the man of many titles
was quite indifferent to the whole. We would
willingly believe in the virtue of exalted person-
ages ; and that though there is a temptation
where the public money is going to compass the
obtaining a share of it for favourite ladies, that
temptation has been valiantly resisted. A moral
lesson of this kind would tell as much as the pro-
fession of faith at the founding of King's Col-
lege.—Morning Chronicle.
If it be painful to witness so numerous a por-
tion of our fellow-subjects debarred by the laws
of the country from the enjoyment of its highest
offices and privileges, it is still more painful to
see them wrangling among one another on points,
respecting which not only no final decision,
but even no general understanding, has yet been
come to ; as was the ease yesterday at the
Special Meeting of the British Catholic Asso-
ciation. Such violent disputes as have arisen be-
tween that body and their brethlen in the sister
Isle, do no credit to either ;and not only tend to
weaken the. success of their united efThrts in the
general cause, but to render Loth it and themselves
contemptible in the eyes °fail rational minded men.
We have no wish to read either of the parties a
lecture on the occurrern.e which has now taken
place ; because we feel assured that the advice
which we might give would be thrown away on
the one, and because the temperate, prudent,
ail(' conciliatory conduct of the other, on all
occasions, proves that it is not required. We
cannot, however, close this brief allusion to the
proceedings of yesterday without intimating our
opinion, that it would have been - time
enough for the British and Irish Catholic As-
sociations to have quarrelled about the terms
en which they would accept the great boon
of Emancipation from the British Legis-
lature, when the latter had, by a vote of both
Houses, resolved on granting-it on any condi-
tions ; and that of all the causes which have
contributed to impress the public mind of Eng-
' land with the necessity of opposing the adthis-
sion of Catholics to an equality of rights and
privileges, the violent conduct of the Catholics
themselves is the first and greatest ! In the
mean time, Lord Anglesea, as will be seen by
referring to another part of our paper, has left Ire-
land with the regrets of all in that country who
pray for its prosperity, and we doubt not also, with
a deep feeling of regret on his own part that those
for whose cause he has sacrificed an honour-
able station, are not more worthy of the honour
which he has done them, and. the fervency with
which he has advocated their cause. It would
be some consolation to him were the feeling
farewell address which he delivered previous to
his departure, to produce such an alteration in
their sentiments and conduct as to acquit him in
the eves of his countrymen of imprudence and
rashness ! and if not for their own sake, at least
for his, let us entreat them not to bring in a ver-
dict of guilty against him, when it is so com-
pletely in their power, not only to record an ac-
quittal, but to print a justification in indelible
characters !—Morning Advertiser.

The Dublin Evening Post of Saturday last
says, with reference to a rather delicate subject,
to which we alluded yesterday
“We beg to refer to a speech uttered by Mr.
Barrett, in the Association, on Thursday, in which
the recall of the Noble Marquis is attributed to a
cause which we happen to know has net any exist-
ence in point of fact. We refer more particularly
to this circumstance, because we have seen a similar
allusion in a London Paper, and because some of
our contemporaries believe the statement, on the fell-
thority of the respectable gentleman who made it.
We are quite aware that not only Mr. Barrett, but
the gentleman from whom he ha'i the story, were
thoroughly convinced of its truth. We had heard
it oui-selves, as well us the rratne of the Noble Lady
referred to; but we confess we regarded it as so
monstrous, that we entertained some doubt upon
the subjec;. On inquiry we find that we were
quite justified in our scepticism. The Noble Lady
who has been the object of so much remark hall; a
high, station in the household of the Duchess of Cla-
rence. She is known to be much in 'he contideucc
of her ItoyaLllighness; and it is unnecessary, we
htlieve,to state that the Marquis of An.lesea holds
a high and distinguit,hed place in the friendship, and
even, the affect ions of the Duke. We judge it right
to say thus much, in order to disabuse the public on
a point of some consequetce. There is quite enough
in the circumstances which led to the recall of Lord
Anglesea from the GOvernment of Irelatd to produce
a serious impression on the people of England, with-
out pressing any extraneous considerations into the
affair.

The Standard of last night observes—" The
,31oratng Chronicle had, this day, .a paragraph
upon the subject of Lord Anglesea's recall, so
disgracefully violating the decencies of private
life that we shall not allude to it farther than to
assert, that it is a tissue of falsehood from the
beginning to the end. . . • . . . The
Dublin Evening Post of Saturday supplies
a refutation, which we presume the Morning
Chronicle will feel bound to insert, with a suit-
able confession of the error into which it (the
Chronicle) has been betrayed." We have in-
serted the extract from the Dublin Evening
Post, and we will also inset t an extract relative
to the same subject from the limes of Tuesday :
—" Observing in one of the Association
speeches of Thursday last the proposal to
provide for a lady of rank, lately hinted at
in this Paper, has received a colour not jus-
tified by the circumstances of the case, we think
it right to remark that the objectionable propo-
sition did not originate with the Duke of
Wellington, but came from a still higher
quarter. If the number of the Times which
contains a reference to this transaction be exa-
mined, no allusion will be found in it to the in-
dividual party from whom the application in fa-
vour of her Ladyship proceeded. That the
Duke was cognizant of it is another mat-
ter, and that the correspondence on this subject
was one of the preliminary steps towards and a
precursor of the recall, we have already stated
our opinion ; that it produced the recall, we '
denied." We are not very open to the accusa-
tion of a disposition to violate the decencies of
private life ; and in this particular case, we
-have only alluded to what is no longer a private
matter. So far from wishing to read a moral lesson
to his Grace, we should, in the storms which are The poverty and misery in Spitalfields are dreadful
neetherina in the political horizon, have seen a the extreme. A deputation from the unfortunate
b b
source of hope and consolation in that vigour weavers who are out of employment waited upon the
Lord Mayor two days ago, for the purpose of so-
of mind and body which enables his Grace, in
liciting his Lordship's advice as to the most advisable
addition to the e fat es he undergoes in the su-
iu course of proceeding in this awful extremity : and
perintendence and management of the cornpli- vesterdav, at his Lordship's desire, one of the prin-
caged affairs of this great Empire, to take so cipal officers of the parish called upon him to ac-
active and successful a part in the management quaint him with the actual condition of the poor in
of so many other delicate affairs. There are that extensive and industrious district. He assured
some men of so kind and benignant a disposi- the Lord Mayor that the wretchedness of the un-
tion, that however oppressed with the fatigues of employed mechanics was almost incredible. The
office, they cannot refuse an application train a Parish authorities had been obliged, in order to re-
distressed fair one fur assistance in domestic hove the craving necessities of 2,400 individuals, to
embarrassments. But where the public die made borrow a.sum o.f money upon the approaching assess-
. ment. Some idea might be formed of the condition
a party, by the application for public flioney, of the population of Spitalfields, from a knowledge
is not unnatural that the merit of the objects for of the fact that there were at that moment no fewer
whom the application is made should be dis- than COO looms now vacant. A parish so indigent,
cussed. We have not stepped out of our way and so immensely populous, was quite unable to sup-
to interfere with the private affairs of his Grace ; port such an overwhelming demand upon its re-
but his Grace having been mixed up at a public sources.
Meeting with the pension demanded for a cer-
The LORD Mevon desired the parish-officer to
mention to the rector and the other
authorities of the
fain Lady, in whom his Grace was known to take
parish his wish to see them on Friday next, in order
an interest, we were drawn with the herd to notice
to consult with them upon the most effectual means
the circumstance.We are far from supposing of administering relief. It was mentioned inciden-
that, if his Grace wished an objectionable tally, that apprehensions were entertained that the
psition to be made (and we are far from saying 1 neater part of the trade of Spitalfields would be
that re wished an objectionable proposition to permanently transferred to Macclesfield, and other
be made), he is so raw in tactics as to originate towns where the commodity is to be worked on teems
the proposition himself. 'there is an etiquette reconcileable with the state of the trade. In the
to be observed in ail these matters, and no man
event of such a chi:Ng?, the
,destitute uiditi of
Spitalfields would be incapable of any improvement
or
anl
can object to a little detour for the sake of an eliorati n.
object which he has at heart. This much is ; The course supposed to be likely to he advised for
known, that the Nlarquis of Anglesea refused to their relief is the usual one of a public meeting, and
place the Lady alluded to, though we believe the the proposal of some general measure for encouraging
application was made, scion les riles, by one the Spitalficlds manufixture.
of still higher rank than his Grace, and who had It is probable, also, that the Lord Mayor will apply
a title to make it. If we are not misinformed, to the Corporation foi= a second loan of tiA! Guildhall
the object was at last effected through the inter- for a concert in aid of the funds which the urgent
osition of the sign manual. We must say , necessity of the case requires should at once be at-
p th
however, that we have seen a pamphlet, seem-
tempted
The leto b eraise
adit es, with which the Chief Magistrate
'ugly authorised by a person of high rank, and unciertakeato. aid on all occasions which call for the
published in his name, attributing very strange public -empathy is highly honourable to him, and
doings to another person, in whom the public confirms the exalted oPinien entertained of him by
rcir.:on it his felluw-citizem

THE DISTRESSED INHABITANTS OF

SPITALFIELDS.