The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-18 00:00:00

PREFECTURE OF POLICE.

PARIS, APRIL 13, 1827.—We, the Councillor of
State, Prefect of Police, order as follows :—The
articles, of which the tenor is as follows, of the De-
cree of 23d Prairial, year 12, of the Prefect of La
Seine, 27 Germinal, year 11, will be anew publish-
ed, end posted throughout Paris.
Decree 28th Prairial, yer.r 12.—Art. 21. The
mot convenient mode for the removal of dead
bodies shall be regulated according to the localities
by the Mayors, subject to the approbation of the
Prefects. •
Decree of the Prefect of la Seine of 27th Germi-
nal, year 11 :—Sec. 1, Art. 5. No funereal removal
shall. henceforth take place in the arms, but in car-
riages drawn by horses.

Art. G. A mode of inhumation common to all ahall
be established ; the Commune of Paris will bear the
expellee for the poor.
Sec. 2, Art. 3. From the Ist of next Floreal, the
removal of bodies shall take place in vehicles suitable
for the purpose.

Art. 14. The Prefect shall be invited to regulate
the police of the vehicles, so that they may not be
stopped, nor the procession interrupted or separated.
Art. 20. This mode will be common to every
deceased person from seven years old; as to children
under that age, they may be removed in a litter
carried on the shoulder.

(Signed)

FROCHOT.

NEW CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.

(From the Freeman's Journal of Monday. )
SXTI.7I4.DAY, APRIL. 14.

The important news which had arrived by the packet of
the day attracted a very full meeting.
CHRISTOPHER FITZSIMON, Esq., was called to the Chair.
Mr. Sun air was requested to act as Secretary.
Several letters having been read connected with the busi-
ness of the Association,
Mr. CON WA r said he was going to request the attention
of the Catholic Association to a manifesto of Lord Lorton,
which his Lordship caused to be widely ciroulated among
his tenantry. Ile the more readily called their attention
to this subject, because there were some gentlemen in that
room, and he begged it to be understood that he did not
allude to the Government Reporter, who had sent an incor-
rect statement to the Courier of the observations he had
made on last Saturday. The gentleman who communicated
to the Courier, stated, that he (Mr. Conway) wished to
have a prosecution instituted against the Courier. Now
he distinctly disclaimed any intention of prosecuting the
newspaper; what he said was, that the libeller should be
punished and not the Co :rier. As the statement in the
Courier appeared before they could have had it from the
Dublin Papers, it must have been furnished by their own
reporter ; and he (Mr. Conway) wished that person would
confine himself to facts in future. Mr. Conway then pro-
ceeded to read the manifesto of Lord Lorton, which has al-
ready appeared in the newspapers, and to comment on it.
Mr. OCosrxr.m. said, it would be a base shrinking from
a public duty were he to allow the present meeting to pass
away without throwing out his mind on the present posture
of public affairs; but, in doing this, he did not mean to
wound the feelings of any man ; he would say nothing that
could be calculated to give offence to their opponents: he
wanted no triumph ; he meant not to exult, though there
might be cause for exultation anti joy. He confessed his
heart was light ; he rejoiced that the reign of Eldon was
over, if it only were for a week ; long had he sat, like an
incubus, presiding with his evil genius over the destinies of
the country, impairing the strength of the empire, and
wasting its resources, while he was unable to resolve his
own doubts. Mr. O'Connell then continued to make
strong and pointed animadversions on Lord Eldon, in his
legal cap-.city of Chancellor. In Parliament, continued
the Learned Gentleman, he has stamped the clumsy foot of
:.is legal brutality on the liberties of Ireland ; but thank
heaven, his reign was or, would
er, and he trusted they
hear no more of Lord Chancellor Eldon. His feeling,
however, was not the sante at learning that Mr. Peel had
ceased to be a ;minister ; there was much about Mr. Peel
b.
that was extremely useful, if he had not been hhblindedilliberal principles, and an unwarrantable ambition that
made him stoop and bend himself to men inferior to
him in talents, and whose superior he ought to have
been. Sprung himself from the working classes, Mr.
Peel had none of that aristocratic feeling which held
the people to be nothing;—he had a Just sense of po-
pular rights, and industry, to exert himself for the
People's good. What Sir Samuel Romilly had not been
able to effect in a long life of labour, Dlr. Peel had in a
great measure succeeded in, and if he had not been able tho-
roughly to cleanse the Augean stable of the law, it was
only because the filth had been for so many ages accumu-
lating. But, holding the opinions which Mr. Peel did,
lie (Mr. O'Connell) could not regret that lie had ceased to
be a Cabinet Minister. When he looked to Ireland the
prospect was cheering, and never before was Ireland in a
state that required so much that something should be done
for her. The present state of
the country was frightful—
was appalling—famine and disease raged from one extre-
mity of it to another ; those, who before were only half-
clothed, were now totally naked ; those, who before were
famishing, were now in a state of actual starvation, and

their fields would be one continued charnel-house, if some.
thing was not speedily done to rescue the people from fa-
mine. What was the state of religion? in the name of
religion, the torch of discord was flung abroad ; rancour
and bigotry destroyed the social intercourse of life, and in
the name of the Almighty God people were desired to hate
each other. Even in his own profession bigotry was made
the hand-rope by which the members of it hoped to climb
to preferment ; but he hoped these vultures of his profes-
sion would be disappointed; it would be delightful to go
into the Hall of the four Courts, and to witness their dis-
may ; it would he delightful to hear a man, who had de-
based himself by bigotry, because he was tired of a silk
gown, and wanted to he a Judge, exclaim, " Oh ! that I
had been honest three weeks longer !" Oh ! that this
change may continue, said Mr. O'Connell. Oh ! that
Canning may succeed in forming a virtuous administration !
How would every honest Irishman conduct himself then?
In a perfect oblivion of the past, and an anxious desire to
conciliate for the future.—(Mr. O'Connell sat down amidst
loud cheering.)
While Mr. O'Connell was speaking, Mr. Shiel entered
the room, and was received with the most enthusiastic
cheering. When the former gentlemen had concluded,
Mr. Shiel was loudly called for from all parts of the room.
Mr. Suite rose and said—The dissolution of the Ali-
nistrv, announced within these few hours, has restored us
to that better state of mind, both moral and political, which
the prospect of more happy fortunes is calculated to pro-
duce. Nothing is so pernicious to the public mind—no-
thing generates so many bad passions as the sour and acri •
monious sentiment which arises from sadden and exaspe-
rating disappointment. I am convinced that the far
greater portion of angry feeling which prevails through
Ireland has its origin in the violence of triumph pro-
diced in the Anti-Catholic fiction by the overthrow
which we have sustained, and the galling conscious-
nsss of humiliation which of necessity arises from the
repeated frustration of the people's hopes. Hitherto we
were, perhaps, mistaken in indulging in anything like
strong expectation that something would be done for the
country, lint at length not only a brilliant, but in all
lihood a permanent prospect of amelioration has opened
upon us. The glimpses which we had hitherto gotten,
were caught through clouds that closed again upon us ;
but at last the political horizon has begun to clear, and al-
though the gloomy mass that shut out all prospects of pros-
perity has not as yet been wholly dispersed, yet it has
been in a great measure broken up, and given us an in-
sight into a brighter futurity for Ireland than we could
have reasonably anticipated. The Ministry has been dis-
solved. The Cabinet, which not only governed, but re-
presented Ireland, by affording a faithful image of our
own dissensions, has been sundered. The strange piece
of incoherence, so singularly jumbled together, called a Mi-
nistry, has fallen into fragments, and there is so chance
of their being joined or soldered again together. There is
no principle of cohesion by which they can be united. There
is an end, thank God ! to the administration. Into what
new forms its members will resolve themselves, it is not
very easy to conjecture; but it is reasonable to suppose,
that as the sympathy of feeling and of character existing
between the Anti-Irish party will cement them together,
and that like the fragments of an imperfectly broken reptile,
they will close again, so the fine intellectual attributes, the
ample and philosophical comprehension, and the generous
and exalted tendencies of Mr. Canning will attract to him
the crowd of men who coincide with him in opinion
and in sentiment, and between whom and himself
there exists so noble a congeniality.—(Loud cheers.)—
, How magnificent a task is assigned to this celebrated per-
son, if he have, (as I do believe he has) the great moral
qualities necessary for its accomplishment. It will devolve
on him to do what Pitt and Fox could not achieve—to
liberate the Irish people ; and by conferring tranquillity
upon Ireland and stability upon the empire, to stamp his
name with a sacred immortality. He had already done
much for the acquisition of a lasting renown. If he has
not created the freedom of South America, he has at least
protected its infancy, and matured it into strength, perma-
nence, and vigour. His name will be inscribed in the title
page of the history of the New Werld.—(Loud cheers.)
I trust that he will not abuse the splendid opportunity that
is afforded him of doing incalculable good. He has but
two paths to follow—one leads to glory and to greatness,
and the other to utter igm :ny and degradation. There is no
third or middle course to he pursued. He must either
emancipate us, and build an everlasting reputation on the
basis of national happiness, or by basely tampering for
office, blast all our hopes, and while he consigns Ireland
to wretchedness, consign himself to shame. He will
not, I am sure he will not do 20.--.(1..011(1 cheers.)—
The very antagonises of Emancipation admit, nay insist,
that things cannot continue in the same condition. But
when they are asked, " what is to he done" to cure the
evils whose existence they do not controvert, many of them
are struck dumb, and remain gaping at each other, and
others candidly acknowledge that they are unable to device
a remedy. To the latter class Mr. Peel seems to belong,
for when Mr, Portman, not long ago, enquired of him, what
measure he would substitute ft,: Emancipation, he honestly
stated that he knew of none. Ile rejects Emancipation
like a quack medicine, but leaves Ireland to die. He gives
her over, and will not even go through the form of writing
a prescription. Others are willing enough to prescribe,
but they all differ as to the mode of cure, and remind one
of the Doctors in Ilogarth's picture, who have each other
by the throat, while the patient is at the last gasp. One
prescribes the Bible, another recommends the Insurrection
Act, a third enforces the practicability of converting six
millions of idolators, at the rate of six vagabonds a
week. It is not only in Parliament, but among men in
office out of Parliament, holding indeed inferior situations,
but still persons of respectability and influence, that we hear
these various specifics suggested for our political amelioration.
A Learned Sergeant at Law, who is just hot from Cie
Assises of Tipperary, which I also attended, illustrates the
fable. After detailing to a Clonniel jury the frightful con-
dition of the country, he concluded by stating that a
vigorous administration of the law would be found an effi-
cient cure of the public evils by which they were afflicted.
So that, according to the Learned Sergeant, the only
means of serving Ireland is to thrust the sword of justice
down her throat.—(Cheers.)—'There's nothing like it, in
the Sergeant's estimate. I am not surprised that gentle-
men of my profession should be fond of this instrument, es-
pecially when (if I may venture upon a conceit which still
serves to convey my meaning) the sword of justice te
ahneyadceednlviiitreh augpoolndenmhri.lt.Bllalubuvrenrey, faforrfrioirir:
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Mons, as far as he is concerned as a mere
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has a right to think and act for himself,
e community. 'They
re-
frain from lamenting that be allowed his political feelings
to carry him so far as to induce him to sign an Anti-
Catholic petition, while holding the office of Sec.
' geant, which is, iu Ireland, in immediate proxi-
mity to the Bench. Mr. Edward Pennefather who
holds no office, was well entitled
his lugubrious horror of the religion of
But Mr. Segeant Lefroy togoeb
faittgiti
ea] E•Be
Judges,
ne
stand io a different relation towards 11
of justice. lam very far from saying
preside on the Circuit bench; and Mr. Sergeant Lefroy
actually held the commission in Cork. Mr. lllackbouriie
are liable to be called on in theellnaltlriileenSdceer
was deputed as Special Counsel for the Crown to Clonmel,
and thus appeared as the representative of Government in
the administration
that the opponents of Catholic Emancipate m are therreelves
conscious that the atrocities perpetrated in Ireland are de-
rived from this source. Many of them are truly good and
virtuous me, But the pursuit of power blinds those who
are engaged in it, arid as their very existence as a party de-
pends on their opposition to our claims, their own interests
shuts out all other considerations from their minds.---
But the day will come when, if there be a judge hereafter,
before whom we are all to appear, they will have to answer
for the consequences of the system of discord and misrule
ny which Ireland has been governed. The country is co-
vered with crime. Deeds of the most barbarous and
heart-rending nature are perpetrated in open day.—
Murder walks abroad without disguise or trepidation, and
has grown into familiarity amongst 113. We have begun to
look at its hideousness without horror, and from the per-
petual contemplation of atrocity, have almost ceased to
shrink at its sight. Ido protest my belief, that in parts
of this country, the life of man is held in scarcely more
regard than that animal existence which gives motiou to
the brute. Who then are the men who are guilty of these
enormities? There are two classes of offenders. First, the
wretches who actually dip their hands in the blood of their
fellow-creatures ; and next, the men who have created that
system from which so fatal and so prevalent a disposition
to crime has arisen. Like Pilate, they may wash their
hands of blood, but as they are indirectly concerned in its
effusion, they bear its weight upon their heads—( Cheers. )
1111% O'CONNELL said there ought to he a Meeting on
Monday of the requisitionists, for calling the Aggregate
Meeting, and they should meet every day before that time
to prepare resolutions.—The Melting then adjourned.