The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-13 00:00:00

COUNTY WATERFORD ELECTION.

(Abridged from the Waterford Chronicle.)
On Wednesday last the meeting which was an,
nounced in our preceding publication took place in
Dungarvan. The attendance on the occasion far
exceeded what could have been expected on so short
a notice. The attendance of gentlemen who ar
peared on and near the bench was very numerous--
amongst them we observed Messrs. Galwey, Lon-
an, Power (Churchtown), P. G. Barron, Cave,
AP., O'Connell, M.P., Wyse, O'Donnell (Car..
rick), Theobald Power, T. Hely, F. Kennedy, J.
Kiely, T. Kiely, James Barron, H. W. Barron,
O'Gorman, Foley, Power (Carrick), Philip Barron,
D. Ronayne, James Galwey„ Dennehy, Purcell, P.
Nettet ville Barron, Smith, Stafford, Lanigan, Fitz-
gcrald, &c.
At half-past one o'clock JAMB# BARRON, of
Georgestown, Esq. took the chair.
It was moved by Philip Barron, Esq., Oronded
by Dominick Ronayne, Esq., that Theobald POwer,
Esq. be requested to act as Secretary to the meeting%
A Committee was then appointed for the pur-
pose of drawing, up resolutions.
Here two letters from Mr. Villiers Stuart were
sent
,up, which, on being read as follows, were
handed over to the Committee, who then retired W
the Magistrates' room :

I

Dromana, Oct. 6, IS2/.
Sta,—Having made up my mind as to the core s.
which it will become me to pursue, I think it unnecetti
sary, ned perhaps unadvisable, to attend the meeting of
to-morrow, at Dungarvan, but request you will do me the
favour of submitting to the county my enclosed letter, ad.-
dressed to you as Chairman on the occasion.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
H. VILLIERS STUART:
The Chairman of the Meeting of persons interested
in the County Waterford Election, at Dungarvan.
Dromana, Oct. 6, 1829:
Sra,—Perceiving on my return to Dromana this even-
ing, a notice in the Waterford chronicle of a public,
meeting, relative to the election of a Candidate to succeed
me in the representation of this county, I think it right
not to let the occasion piss without making an explicit'
statement of my sentiments on that subject.—Althougb.
since the settlement of the Catholic Question, I am neither
inclined nor called upon to enter very warmly into the
local politics of the county, yet if upon the vacancy cause,'
by my retirement, it should be the intention of those Gen'
tlemen who supported me at the last election to put in
nomination a Candidate of their own choice, and that there
appeared no essential difference in our general political
views and opinions, to an individual so circumstanced,
have no difficulty in saying, I am prepared to tender 04
support, and I trust the county of Waterford will alive)/
contain within itself a sufficient sense of its own dignirt
and independence to preserve it from a blind subservieng
to the will or dictation of any party or persons, whether
they belong to us, or are wholly unconnected with otse
county. There are times in which strong measures are
not only justifiable, but necessary, for the accomplishment
of a political object. The great end for which Ireland hat
so long struggled, being happily at length attained, We
shall no longer, I hope, weaken our force by intestine
divisions, and a recurrence to religious distinctions, but
endeavour to improve the advantages accruing from the
late measure of conciliation, by discarding all fictious
views, and by uniting in cordially promoting the general
good of the empire at large.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
HENRY VILLIERS STUART.
To the Chairman, &e. &c.
During the absence of the Committee, an indivi'
dual was descried its the meeting who was suspected
of being favourable to the Beresford party, Hie
appearance excited considerable irritation, and he
was assailed from all sides with loud cries of "Pot
him out ! put him out !" and was in the most inv,
minent danger of being instantly "extinguished
but the Chairman rose to interpose, and stated that
no individual, no matter what party he belonged tos
should be molested, and called upon the meeting
observe that decorum arid good conduct, without
which their proceedings would lose much of theireffect•
Mr. O'CONNELL also interposed, and assured the
meeting, that if they would but have a little patience
they should hear the merits of the Beresfords veil
fully and freely canvassed.
The temporary excitation then subsided.
In about fifteen minutes the Committee returned.'
when THOMAS WYSE, Esq. addressed the Chair,
stating that he held in his hand the first resolutice%
in support of which he proceeded. The county el
Waterford, by a late unforeseen occurrence, Irad
suddenly been placed in a new, but, he would not
add, a difficult position. Before the period in which
its constituency might naturally be called on to e%i
ercise afresh their important franchises, they hiS,
been summoned to pronounce on the choice of
Representative in Parliament. Mr. Stuart 10
formally
the hands f intimatedh sco
it'isistitiunetenntist,ioantroufstreCsiognrfieinrgredigl::
him after a struggle unexampled in the Parliarneut"
ary records of this country. 'What may have he::
the considerations which suggested or decided t
step, it was not for him to judge. A public 313
has a title to the fairest construction of his actiOlVs
and in proportion as by his very situation, he is trot:g
especially exposed to the ex-parte judgment of hi°
fellow-citizens, the wise and generous should be pro;
portionably slow in adopting the hasty COn;
elusions of the multitude. But whatever to
have been his motives, sure he was ti.hat
they could only have originated from
same spirit of high-mindedness which had been
i!lic
invariable rule from his first appearance in puu.de
life, of every portion of his public conduct.
could not for a moment believe that with the
uilicent career which his character, and the eitero
which his fellow-countrymen, had opened to Illetir
any little bias of party aggrandizement, any soy
porary disgust at the solicitudes inseparablY,iP
nected with the active duties of public life, couluePore
the slightest degree, contribute to make him loge
from its accomplishment. Mr. Stuart maY joy
been led, by too hasty a calculation, into theobe
pression that the newly modified constituency hagcountry were not adequate to the efforts which to
signalized the existence of their
the occurrences of almost every day, the 01%04
augmentation of the registries, not in this Contieg
only, but in most other of the independent shorn
in Ireland, were proofs sufficient that tbst hat tv
in some degree of its strength though, so
alai CO!
pressed in the display of its energies, the pop u 3,0 it
stituency was by no means extinguished, and orrot
was still fully capable of coping with the stro_Sevo
exertions of the obligarcliy. The spirit of 1826:40
not yet dead ; the Ten-pound Freeholders hadro
entrusted only with the concentred power olat,
Forty-shilling Freeholders. They were the ftirie
predecessoreveriog
the officers of that great civil force which.,!-
th
years back had struck the first efficient blow 10'
emancipation of the country.—(Cheerse„,,eo
Stuart need not doubt of support in 180siot
found more, with every difficulty to conteed.ofever
in 1826, than his most sangine friends conl._,,tto
have antiiiipated. Why then should be despagost
we despair, who have combated for him?
its ere
we did, we can do again, if be will only giveave
opportunity of doing it. Mr. Stuart maY 001
i
signed, but there is no reason why Mr. StuarLiectioP
not propose himself again to our flee. evolie",
Does he doubt our just appreciation of lus,.„0010,1
mentary services ? Does lie think we are nr,,alt
ed with his participation in the late magnift.,cuoreo
mighty victory ? Irish Members in giinert!lior
the House of Commons, are distinguishednis, 040,
inattention—they have curtailed, by persoc, 'of 0.
gence, the advantages, slight as they ell., if, 1,0
Parliamentary representation. Mr. Stuaria
sense, was certainly not Irish. He ws_sfectar
tb
organ of our wishes—a diligent qefore r
our rights. His principles are .000 slvi
public—they neither require a &lora inottrou
eulogy. But should Mr. Stuart, I to eon
_lc
which it may not be in your power the bon%
or to direct, still persist in retiring from upon be
which your partiality would still collie:lc
toll, t.
what is to be done ? What ! Do I 3,0;(1?•
holders, what should be done for Water L..sit to be,
t
have you forgotten, in the short p
Otlt'PaS"
years, the cause and consequences 0 y
you other men than what I once knewlyoua of the

lions ?—(Loud cheers.) Waterford made Ireland
What she is. You have been objects of emulation
to the men of Clare. Will you sink below your-
selves, and forget the regenerators and freemen of
1826 ? Emancipation has been consummated—tine
it has, but there are many emancipations yet behind
it. You must make Ireland a free country—is she
free because she has begun to be so ? Reforms of
all kinds are necessary in this unweeded garden.
You want a correction of Parliamentary and Grand
Jury abuses; you want a modified system—a self-
imposed system—a representative system of Poor
Laws; you want a regeneration of your administra-
tions—a curtailment of public expenditure; you want
a total revision (God grant it may not be too late!)
of the whole financial machinery of both coun-
tries; you want a purification of church corrup-
tions-_a retrenchment of church prodigality—an
extinction of church despotism.—(Hear, hear.)
The Vestry Act calls on you—the magistracy sys-
tem calls on you—the decayed manufactures—the
overbwthened agriculture of Ireland invoke you for
redresse•—(Hear hear.)—How are you to redress
them,. ? By the voice of Parliament. How will
Parliament speak for you ? By the voice of the
representatives you send thither. Who shall be
these representatives? Who is there in this county
Who will speak the true desires of the majority of its
inhabitants in the plainest, most forcible, unflinching
manner ? That man—whoever he may be—that
man should be our representative. On one side I
see Lord George Beresford advance to solicit your
votes. What are his claims ? Of the past I shall
Say nothing—it is-past; and this is a great reason for
altogether forgetting it. Nations have long memo-
ries, it is true; but it is a wise policy which could
prevent them from dwelling too obstinately on the
wrongs and injuries which are departed. Lord
George, for an instant, could not think of canvass-
lag you on his ancient merits. Let us be generous
in our success, and wave them. I want a man who
will say in Parliament what I say here—who, hang-
ing on the breath of the people, lives only by their
'will, and for their benefit; who knows them, thinks
with them, and will act for them. Will Lord
George Beresford consent to the system of Parlia-
mentary conduct which we have just traced out for
our future representative ? If he do, can he give it
all the efficiency we would desire ? If not, is he so
illogical a reasoner as to think that we should not
anxiously look for such an organ, and having found
him we should not stretch every nerve to give him
the means of being the most beneficial to us ? 'What
is bad in gross, is bad in part. You are bound to
prevent it even in detail. The church is the great
embracing evil of our actual system. Corrected she
must be, either by herself or others. Every day she
continues uncorrected, she inflicts an injury upon her-
self and upon the country. Will Lord George con-
sent to say so in Parliament ? I do believe he has
in common with many others, submitted to the stern
lessons of an all-eontrouling necessity—and that de-
fects and stains too glaring to have any advocate, he
would gladly see gradually and quietly abolished.
But we want more—a decision, which will not wait
for inevitable improvements, but which will cont.
Mence--which will not go thus far only, but will go
boldly, and at the same time wisely, to all and every
improvement. Such a man, I trust we shall find,
and found, I trust we shall know how to support
hint. But come what will—whether our struggle
be long or short, difficult or easy, let it be such as
may be worthy of us and of our high purposes.—
Let no colour of the wretched animosities of the
past infect us—let nothing sectarian, nothing of the
fury of religious fanaticism disgrace us—no sem-
blatice of Association politics or passion—no recur-
rence to extra agitation—no employMent of means,
which in the late engagement for our rights
Were not only allowable and just, but noble
and glorious. The day when they could be used
with propriety or advantage has, thank God, now
passed away for ever. I would not blend myself
with any men or measures which were of another
tendency. Catholics and Protestants are no n'lore
--they are replaced by Irishmen. Even at this stage
of the contest I know many Catholics who will vote
for Lord George Beresford—many Protestants, I
also trust, will vote vvith us. So much the better;
I rejoice at it. It is a proof that the formidable pha-
lanx is scattering--that the sectarian is becoming
citizen. We want no aid iu support of our own free
hearts—,we are no mendicants for the patriotism of
atrangers—we contend like any other British county
in the independent exercise of our franchises, for
British rights. This struggle will be as great as the
last- 'We taught Ireland how to acquire Emancipa-
tion, we shall now teach her how to use it.—(Mr.
Wyse sat down amidst the most deafening shouts of
applause.)
DOSUNICK RONAYNE, Esq., should not delay the
meeting long; he had often heard Mr. Wyse with
P.lcasure, and, he confessed, often with greater de-
light than he did now, when he tells us to forget
all those differences and bury all former wrongs and
recollections in oblivion ; but when he contemplated
they were the same family who would still keep us
nuemaneipated—when he contemplated that Lord
George Beresford was a representative of one of
the most baneful families that ever lorded it over
any country, he did not feel disposed to partake so
deeply of the waters of Lethe as to obliterate in toto '
all recollections of the past from his memory.—
(Hear, hear.) The contest that we are at present
do
about to engage in, is not a religious contest ; we
not intend it should be taken as such ; but we
'cannot so soon forget those who so lately libelled
the'country and clergy. I have taken some pains
(said Mr. Ronsyne) to make out the conciliatory
ulnguage used by his Lordship at the dinners in the
North, but I failed. However, in my search I dis-
covered what will answer my purpose as well if not
better, as it is not the report of heated speech-
, .I,:leliverers with their drunken orgies in the North,
but the
cool calm and deliberate sentiments of his
L ordship,
embodied iu the shape of a petition to
the .House of Commons.—(Hear, hear.) I shall
Proceed to read it to you, and, as it is divided into
charges, I shall commence with charge the Ist
i• The Mountaineers of Silevegrine, which had been
flittlernorially used as a common, did, on the late election,
Vote for Mr. Stuart, and their votes were allowed.
2l.pass it by to charge the 2d
Peasaatr of the • unt Waterford are Roman
Catholicse and fromy their ignorance and superstition, are
liable to be made the tools of any of the Roman Catholic
Clergy who
may impose on them sinister purposes ! !!
beSuch is the mild, and charitable, and conciliatory
thearing of charge the 2d. Let us now hear charge
3d
3. Many pin -- of the peasantry (in consequence of the fore-
cier! positions) believing that every Roman Catholic
and aman is possessed of the power of making miracles ! !
attaching- importance to the blessing or curse of a
priests consider that to be excluded from the rights of the
Church deprives them of salvation.
They d
Sad I.lisyfam lily make a miracle," when they put him
out of the country; and he will make
iraele if he be ever again allowed to resume his
une. enviable state in our county.—(Cheers.)
tist The Right Reverend Patrick Kelly, called the
°°P of 'Waterford, under whose control the Clergy of
at u,th diocese are, and who himself is a mere despot, being
re: amenable to the See of Rome, has taken great inte-
, we and a most prominent and active part in the County
grea`ctfortl election ; so long back as 1825, preached in the
prot Chapel of Waterford, at a public Mass, in
did-en" °Je. H. V. Stuart, and said, that if the people
not vote for said Stuart, they would he guilty of a
blond
toe . and the said Bishop Kelly, from the corn-
. neetnent of the election, and during the progress thereof,
tied coded
_by exhortations, admonitions, remonstrances
nreats of infliction of ecclesiastical censure, to pro-
ofo. the success of, said Stuart, and directed the Clergy
°is diocese to use their exertions collectively and indi-
''idually for the same purpose.
that' would particularly call your attention to that
that the hoof of a Beresford may never
%%gin oss our county—that our venerable and re-
eaPastor is amere despot. If he were guilty
wentther crime than this was, it must afford stil-
fie grounds for his rejection.—(llear, hear,)—
°r
e "f's petition states, that the mass was preached
4,e Mr. V. Stuart, in the city of Waterford.—
6.gTeat a lie as ever was told.—(Loud laughter.)
These threats were all rendered more potent, in con-

sequence of the Jubilee being in the year 1825 ! as the
denunciations of the Rornish Clergy were rendered snore
effective against Lord George, and Stuart being sure of
defeat, would have declined, but that then Bishop Kelly
assured him he would insure his return.

Yes, and we have another Jubilee now. sent over
by the Pope, expressly for the benefit of Lord
George—(Loud laughter,)—and there is little
doubt but the present Jubilee will be as ominous to
his Lordship as the last was.—(Laughter.)
6. The Priests at stations, refused to hear the confes-
sions of those who had promissed to vote for Lord George
Beresford ; and, in other instances, freeholders who were
finer; and sick, were refused the usual religious ceremo-
nies; while the wives and children, and relatives of Ro-
man Catholic freeholders, who had promised to vote for
petitioner, and who being sick and apprehensive of death,
required the attendance of a priest, were refused, unless
they would vote for Mr. Stuart! ! ! !
Is that true ?—(Cries of No, no.)—What then
think you of the audacity of the man, who three
short years after asserting those matchless false-
hoods, has the hardihood to come forward to solicit
your support to return him to Parliament, to enable
him more efficiently to calumniate you. But the
question is, will you vote for the man who put that
lie on record ?—(Cheers, and cries of no, no, never.)
—Will you not rather affix the stamp of your
honest reprobation en the calumniator of your laws
and religion. The next calumny is, that the Clergy,
at stations and chapels, publicly cursed the Free-
holders who would vote for Lord George Beres-
ford ; but it is so good, I shall give it all to you :-
7. That in ether instances the Roman Catholic Clergy-
men threatened to inflict public curses upon all those Ro-
man Cath.die freeholders who should vote for Lord George
Beresford, and some of them have actually at their chapels
and at their stations publicly and solemnly cursed individual
freeholders by name, who were known to intend to vote
or to have actually voted fin the petitioner, and not only
have cursed such freeholders themselves, but have cursed
their wives, and their children, their cattle and crops, and
in like manner have publicly implored the blessing of God
and of all his saints upon those who voted for the said
Henry Villiers Stuart, and against the petitioner; that
some of the said Roman Catholie Clergymen have also
threatened individual voters that they would impress a
visible and indelible seal or brand upon them and open any
Roman Catholic freeholder who should vote for the peti-
tioner, which would remain upon him visible to his
death ! ! that to excite terror in others, and thus to com-
pel them to vote for Mr. Stuart, they have in some in-
stances turned the freeholders who had promised to vote er
who had actually voted for the petitioner out of their
chapels, in the presence of the congregation ; and in other
instances, when the parishioners of a particular parish
have appeared more firm than ordinary in resisting the at-
tempts of the Priests to controul their votes, they have
suspended the celebration of mass in that parish altogether
until, as they alleged, the parishioners were brought to a
sense of their disobedience, and agreed to vote against the
petitioner anti for said Henry Villiers Stuart.
The Clergy are grossly maligned—to them I
leave the falsifying of this document and the asser-
tion of their own innocence. For my part, Ido net
possess any of that " sickly sensibility" that would
make us forget what we are. I forgive altogether
the many wounds deeply inflicted by the Noble
Lord and his family on this unfortunate country;
hut there arc certain things not to be forgotten. It
has been said that Catholic Emancipation has put us
on an equality with the other classes of his Majesty's
subjects, and that, therefore, we have no right to
contend with our old opponents; such, however, is
not my opinion.—(Cheers.)—lt is idle to expect
that others will do our business for us if we do not
work ourselves. As long as we continued in apathy
without making any exertion ourselves, so long were
we in the back ground, and had we blindly conti•
tilted that system of apathy, we would still havebeen
unemancipated.—(Hear, hear.)—What claim the
Noble Lord had on our representation he knows
best himself; I never could discover any extraordinary
aptitude for business in my Lord George Beresford.
I find, by referring to an English newspaper, that
Lord George has been appointed to the Colonelcy
of a regiment. It cannot be for his extraordinary
heroism in the " tented field" that the Noble Lord
has obtained these high martial honours. It is not
for his prowess at Salamanca, or his exploits at Ba-
dajos. If, therefore, the Noble Lord has not ren-
dered military service, it must be for some other sort
of service. What the nature of these services may
be, some of you may be able to conjecture.—
, (Hear, hear.)—Gentlemen, if ever there was a
time in which you were called on to bestir yourselves
for-your country, this is the time. This is the time
to put the extinguisher on the Grand Jury system,
to crush odious and corrupt Corporations, and return
such members as Mr. O'Connell, and Mr. Otway
Cave.—(Loud cheers.)—Return I say, such men as
'r these to Parliament, and mark the results that will
follow. I care little whether the independent Can-
, didate be Catholic or Protestant, he shall receive my

support—any person who shall oppose Lord George
Beresford shall receive my warmest support and
hearty co-operation.—(Loud and continued cheers.)
Mr. O'GORMAN said, if the county of Clare had
done much, it had not done so until it was set the
example by the county of Waterford.—(Loud
cheers.)—The county of Waterford had risen up
and shaken off the yoke of the Beresfords—the
heaviest and the most oppressive yoke in Ireland.—
(Cheers.)—The Beresfords were again seeking to
impose that yoke upon this county—but he was
sure that the independent interest would never bend
their necks, nor suffer that galling and degrading
yoke to be forced upon them again.—( Cheers.)—
Lord George says that the Catholic question is at an
end, and that surely there can be no objection to him
any longer. 1 he . Catholic question is certainly at
an end (though little thanks to Lord George for
that). But is the system of places and pensions at
an end ?—is the system of Parliamentary corruption
at an end?—is the system of Grand Jury jobbing
at an end ?—is the grinding and oppressive system
of tithes and church-rates at an end ?—(Hear.)—
Of these, and every other similar system, the Beres-
fords will be the most strenuous supporters, no matter
what they may say now to the contrary ; and will the
county Waterford aid in continuing such enormous
abuses, by sending into Parliament a Member of the
Beresford family ?—(No, no,)—Let the county,
therefore act strenuously, and the independent inte-
rest must be gloriously triumphant.—(Cheers.)
On the resolution being passed, calling on Mr.
Winston Barron to offer himself as a Candidate at
the ensuing Election, in the event of Mr. Stuart's
declining, Mr. Barron rose, and after the cheers had
subsided, addressed the Meeting at considerable
length. We shall give his speech in our next. After
Mr. Barron had concluded, Mr. Otway Cave, Mr.
O'Connell,and several other Gentlemen,ahook hands
with him, and warmly congratulated him.
Here there was a universal call from all sides for
Mr. OTWAY CAVE; upon which the Hon. Member
presented himself, and was received with three dis-
tinct rounds of cheering. When silence was re-
stored, the Hon. Gentleman proceeded to address
the meeting :—Gentlemen, I make you a promise—
though it is one which Mr. O'Connell says is sel-
dom kept by a public man—and that is, that I will
not detain you long. You have, Gentlemen, heard
enough this day to convince you that when Mr.
Barron sits beside me in the House of Commons, as
he does here this day, your county will not want
for an upright, an honest, and an able representa-
tive—(Hear, hear)—a representative who will fear.
lessly and boldly represent your wants and your
wishes in the Imperial Parliament.—(Cheers.)—Al-
though I am not personally connected with the
county of Waterford, yet I will not yield to any
man in the most earnest and warmest wishes for the
prosperity of Ireland ; and that prosperity can never
be attained while ever a Beresford rules the des-
tinies of your country.—(Loud cries of hear, hear.)
With that family, privately or individually, I um
altogether unacquainted, and therefore cannot enter-
tain towards any of its members a personal feeling
of any kind. I know them only through the me-
dium of history, as a family who became possessed
of great and almost boundless power in Ireland,
and whose power has, in a singular degree, in-
fluenced the destinies of this country. ( I here the rush
in the Court House became so great, and many en-
deavouring to crowd up round the Bench to hear
Mr. Cave, that the Hon. Member was for some time.

obliged to discontinue. At length, valor being re. '
stored by the Chairman, Mr. Cave resumed.)—
Gentlemen, this short interruption, and the agitation
which occasioned it, puts me in mind of the good
old times of agitation ; and now that the honest
spirit of former times, though in a different manner,
and for a different purpose, is to be revived, I

. .
hope that national spirit and high-minded enthusiasm
will not subside, until I see my friend Mr. Winston
Barron triumphantly returned as the independent
Member for the county of Waterford.—(Loud
cheers.)—Of the private virtues of the Beresfords, I
know nothing. lam willing to believe them great
and estimable, but private character has nothing to do
with the present object. We have no right to pry
into the secrets of private life—public and political
character is all that this meeting has a right to
discuss.—( Hear, hear.)--I look into the page of
history, and I form my opinion of the Beresfords as
do of all other public and historical characters, ac-
cording as I find them depicted there—and I say
that any man who looks into that faithful mirror
must turn from it with the conviction that the Beres-

fords have been the scourge and the curse of Ireland.
(Cheers.)-.-Who was it that procured the recall of one
of the best Lord Lieutenants that Ireland ever saw,with

the exception of the Marquis of Anglesea ? Who
Was it that, in 1795, compelled the King and his
Ministers to recall the venerable and virtuous Earl

Fitzwilliam ? History tells us, and tells us with
accuracy, that it was the Beresfords.—(Hear, hear.)
I shall not go into a detail of all the scenes of horror
which speedily followed that recall.—(Hear, hear.)
The Beresfords are accountable for the last thirty
years of misfortune and suffering which has been
entailed upon Ireland. The Beresfords may be
called the fatal Upas tree of Ireland—a trees whose
roots are seated in this county, but whose branches
have spread over the island, and under which it has
been death for public spirit and public liberty to re-
pose.—(Loud cheers.)—But I hope that you do not
intend to recline any more under the branches of
that fatal tree, but that you will tear it up and cast
it away from you, root and branch.—(Cheers, and
cries of " We will, we will.")—What has Ireland
ever got from that baneful faction of which the Be-
resfords may be considered the head and chiefs ?
'What, I ask, have you always been getting from that
faction but slanders and calumnies, such as you have
heard read this day. These calumnies do infinite
mischief in England—because, although you may
know them all to be false here, yet the people of
England cannot know that. Who, let me ask, are
the party who have been found fomenting every
species of disaffection in latter days ? Is it not•the
ascendancy faction—that faction who used to tell us
that they were the exclusively loyal, who claimed
for themselves a monopoly in loyalty as in every
thin!, else—but what has been their cry and their
watchword of late ? "No King, no Wellington."
This is the way in which their exclusive loyalty now
displays itself. They are the rebels and we ate
the loyalists.—(Hear, hear.)—We must have an
end to all petty factions, to all monopolies, and all
ascendancies. But this is to be obtained only by
dismissing from the representation those who are

themselves branches or that ascendancy, and by
sending into the House of Commons Members who
will really and truly represent the people; who will
insist upon the measures which are necessary for the
country; who will call for a reform in Parliament,
for a modification of the enormous property of the
church, for a humane and indispensably necessary
fund for the support of the poor, and for all the
other measures without which the United Kingdom,
and particularly Ireland, must continue in the pre-
sent distressed condition. There is now a prospect
of something good for Ireland. They knew the old
proverb which says that " when rogues fall out
honest men come by their own." lam far from
meaning any personal allusion to any individual in
his private character ; but I cannot help saying, that
when I see Lord Mountcashel and the dignitaries of
the Church falling out with each other, I do think
there is a chance of something good far Ireland.—
(Cheers and laughter.)—There never was any

country which had such an accumulation of abuses
to be corrected; but the only chance of your obtain-
ing this is by selecting representatives of your own
choice—representatives who feel a sympathy with
our wants, and who will be the faithful guardians of
your interests. Such a representative, I feel confi-
dent, the county of Waterford will return at the ap-
proaching election. The independent interest of the
county have my sincerest wishes for their success.
I fear I am trespassing too long on you—(" No, no,
goon, go on,")—words cannot express in any way my
feelings of gratitude to the Irish; how I love their
country—how I hate their oligarchy—will you then
allow me to give you the advice of a brother and of
a friend ?—(Cheering.)—l tell you,you must remodel
the whole representation of Ireland, and that you
must begin the good work by ousting the Beresfords
from this county. Out with them, men of Water-

ford, if you are Catholics, if you are Christians. Out
with the men who have proclaimed your religion
blasphemous and idolatrous, who have outraged
your excellent Clergy, who have slandered your
dying Bishop, whose name is connected with every
thing that is mournful and disgraceful to your coun-
try, and is written in blood and tears in every page
of Irish history. Recollect the horrors of 1798, the
whippings, the torturings, the triangle, and the riding-
house ; and though last, not least, recollect the per-
secutions of the disfranchised Forty-shilling Free-
holders. On my way to this place, this day, I
passed through the town of Kilmacthomas. I was
shewn what was once a street, but is now a heap of
ruins. I saw some wretched beings in misery, rags,
and nakedness, and I was told that these men had
been dispossessed, and their houses levelled with the
ground, because they had voted in opposition to the
dictation of the Beresfords at the last election ;
because they had had the audacity, the dreadful un-
pardonable audacity, of voting against their landlord,
for their conscience, their country, and their God.—
(Hear, hear.)—We are told to forgive and forget,
have they forgiven or forgot ?—(Hear, hear.)—Have
they rebuilt the cottages for those houseless and
helpless creatures whom they have driven forth to
starve and die in the highways and hedges of this
county ! Gracious Heaven, have they never heard of
such a thing as retribution? Let those that remain
in Waterford of the disfranchised Forty-shilling
Freeholders look well after the Ten-pound Free-
holders, and keep a strict watch on their proceed-
ings; let them exhort them to follow their example;
let them force them to be honest men. It is best for
the Beresfords themselves that they should not be
returned for this county till they have shewn that
they are really sincere in what they say about re-
concilement—till they have proved that they have
altered altogether their horrible political creed;
let them buy a borough elsewhere—there are plenty
to be bought in London; and if, after a few years
probation, they prove to be good Members of Par-
liament, let them then appear before you, and can-
vass your suffrages if they will. Take care, how-
ever, not to give them absolution before confession.
—(Hear, and laughter.)—l declare to you, before
God, if you suffer yourselves to be deceived by their
present assurances—if you take these wolves for
spaniels, because, forsooth, they fawn upon you—if,
when you are told that poison is poison, yet still will
swallow it for food—l myself shall be ashamed of
the sacrifices and exertions I have made in your
cause. I shall believe that Catholicity is incom-
patible with liberty—that your long habits of servi-
tude have rendered you unfit for freedom, and every
one who was once your friend will leave you at the
mercy of your enemies—if you have the unutterable
baseness to put on the fetters which you have burst.
So shall your groans unpitied rend your breasts
Unheeded, save of those whose ears do own
No sweeter music—so shall you remain
Ever in bondage awl in misery,
And never know the blessed rights of freedom.
(Tremendous cheering.)
I am, as I have already told you, a Parliamentary
Reformer. I am for frequent occasions of giving in
an account of nay stewardship. Short accounts,
you know, make long friends, my boys.—(Cheers
and laughter.)—l am for voting by ballot, because
it is the only practical -plan of snaring the vote of

Ole poor 111M1 ;:.,._;:):!!A intimidation and corruption.
1 um for an c7:tcli,ion of the suffrage, because I

think
that ii the maymty were represented, their
intereqs would then be as well attended to as those

of the few are ❑o«•.—(Heap•, hear.)—Do you wish

for a good illustration of an unreformed House of
Commons ? You will find it, as 1 believe and am

informed, in one of your own Gland Jury rooms.
It is true I have not had as yet the high honour of
sitting as one of your Grand Jury; when I have,
I trust at least to learn something of the science of
road-making.--(Hear, and laughter.)—Buonaparte
himself might learn that of them, except perhaps
that he would have found it too expensive. (Loud
laughter.)—l say that your Grand Jury much in
the same way represents a county, as the Imperial
Parliament represents the United Empire. In both
the same system prevails—the rich mates interest is
attended to, while that of the poor is neglected.
Garden-walls and carriage-roads in the one are made

for petty aristocracy, at the expence of the public;
in the other jobs and sinecures, at the public ex-
pence, are ordained for the beMefit of the great aris-
tocracy. In England and in Ireland, if a poor man
injures a rich man, the law is instantly at his heels.
The injuries of the rich against the poor are often
inflicted by the law ; and the reason of this is, that
the rich make the law; and this is the history and the

origin of our Church and State monopolies and legis-
lation. It is ofabsolute and paramount importance that
the new constituency should show its strength, and I
am sure that no Catholic freeholder will have the in•

describable baseness to let personal or party feeling
prevent him from voting for Mr. Barron, in the
event of Mr. Stuart's refusal. Mr. Barron has
shown himself as able as he is willing to represent
you properly; and, if he were not so, it is impor-
tant that you should take him rather than a Beres-
ford—any weapon will do wherewith to beat a
Beresford.—(Loud cheers.)—Elect a West Indian
slave-holder, or even a Leicester corporator—any
thing rather than a scion of your old hereditary oli-
garchy.—(The foregoing is but an outline of Mr.
0. Cave's speech, and it is impossible to express
the enthusiasm with which it was received.)
DANIEL O'CONNELL, Esq. M.P., being loudly
called for,. came forward, and was received with an
enthusiastic burst of applause. The Hon. Member
stated, that though his appearance at that meeting
was more accidental than by design, it happening to
be in his way—yet he felt that even if he had come
expressly to attend it, it would be but a small re-
turn for the obligation which he felt, that he owed
to the electors of Waterford. It was the brave
men of Waterford that first showed the British Mi-
nister that the people of Ireland could no longer be
trifled with.---(Cheers.)—lt was the county of Wa-
terford that set the example to Louth, Meath, and
the other counties that have since distinguished
themselves—it was Waterford that set the example
of the glorious triumph that was finally achieved in
Clare.—(Hear, hear.)—When he approached this
county, he witnessed a scene which might be equalled,
but could not he exceeded. He saw the mountains
of Glenabeira pouring forth their countless thou-
sands—he saw the brave men of Dungarvan tri-
umphing in the cause of independence—here in this
very Dungarvan, where on a former occasion, the
bloodhounds ran away from us like rats.—( Cheers
and laughter.)—What a fine chase we had after
them.—(Continued laughter.)—Lord George Be-
resford asked us to forgive and to forget. We are
most willing to forget him; let him retire into that
seclusion for which he is so well qualified, and
there amuse himself smoking cigars and drinking
brandy punch, which is, I understand, the thing at
which he most excels.—(Laughter.)—Let Lord
George retire with his cigars and his brandy, and
we will most cheerfully forget him for ever.—(Hear,
hear.)—lt would be a waste of our time to be
thinking of him—we have men much better worth
thinking of. But if Lord George attempts to in-
trude himself on our notice, let him not suppose that
we will be so weak as either to forget or to forgive
him. Does he think that we are so destitute of all

the finer feelings of human nature, as to forget the
abominable and wicked. tissue of slanders which you
have this day heard read by my friend, Mr. Do- '
minick Ronayne. My fellow-countrymen—You
cannot—it is not in human nature to forget such
deep and lasting injuries. You have all shared in
the full measure of these false and scandalous
calumnies—the peasantry--the Catholic Gen-
try—the Catholic Clergy—and he, that vene-
rable and sanctified Prelate, who is at this mo-
ment wavering in the balance between time and
eternity—he, who is at this moment, I fear,
on the verge. of the other world—your reverend and
beloved Bishop, who may, perhaps, before the set-
ting of to-morrow's sun, be in Heaven—who may
never live to hear of the feeling which the mention
of his name has at this moment excited amongst
you.—(Here the strongest sensation pervaded the
Meeting. The melancholy prediction was but too
fully verified, as the venerable Prelate did not live
to hear of the mention of his name.)—The petition
of Lord George Beresford possesses one good cha-
racteristic, viz. that the gross and glaring and Noto-
rious falsehood of its allegations totally deprives
them of all weight or effect ; but this circumstance
does not take away from the Malignity that sug-
gested them. The Jubilee of 1826 proved very
fatal to Lord George Beresford, according to his
Lordship's own statement—it is most ominously
unfortunate that another Jubilee should just happen
to come simultaneously with another Waterford
election. No doubt Lord George, in his next pe-
tition, will tell the House that the Pope has joined
in the conspiracy against him, and that he arranges
his Jubilees exactly so, as that they may meet the
Waterford elections.—( Hear, hear.)—This would
not be an atom more glaring or more false than the
allegations of the late petition. And what has been
the conduct of the Beresfords, even since the last
election ? Since the bloody and inhuman persecu-
tions of Nero—since the days of Herod—there has
not been any thing equal to the remorseless
and relentless persecution carried on by the
Beresfords against the unfortunate freeholders
of this county.—(Hear, hear, hear.)—They
have desolated the streets—they have filled the roads
with the unfortunate victims of their revenge—they
have turned our unfortunate fathers and mothers,
sisters and brothers—young and helpless infants to
perish and to die by the highways and hedges.—
(Hear, hear.)—Oh ! I have taken care to put their
conduct on record, and to furnish thenwith a list
of their own victims, and Lord George Beresford
with this list in his pocket goes about now to the
relations and friends of these victims, asking them
to vote for him and to send him into Parliament.
The Beresfords thought to procure my assistance to
return them to Parliament.—(Cheers.)—What a
chance they had of it.—(Loud and repeated cheers.)
Those whom God wishes to destroy lie first de-
prives of reason—so it would appear to be with the
Beresfords. They brought down that ghost of
98, who stalked about like a spectre risen from
the grave, whose very breath spread pestilence
around. They brought down this skeleton to gain
the election in 1826. Why they must have been
mad. If any Ten-pound Freeholder should think of
voting for the Beresfords, let him be surrounded
by a circle of the unfortunate victims, the beggars
whom the Beresfords have made—let these unfor-
tunate victims wring their cries into the earsof every
Ten-pound Freeholder, and let them conjure the
I Ten-pound Freeholders to be the avengers of their
miseries and their sufferings. But the Beresfords
must be mad. Upon what ground do they expect
that the Ten-pound Freeholders would vote for
them, any more than the Forty-shilling Freeholders ?
—Have they not the same flesh and blood—the
same feelings—the same motives—or rather the
additional motives—furnished by the recent conduct
of the Beresfords ? The Beresfords certainly de-
! ceive themselves if they dream of regaining their do-
mination in this county. Mr. Villiers Stuart has
committed a great error in giving up the high sta-
. tion to which he was raised by the county of
Waterford. It is to be hoped that he will see his
error, and retract it; but if he should not, the
• county of 'Waterford is not at it loss for a fit and

proper representative. The County kill never be
at a loss while it can find within itself such men as
my friend Mr. Barron, who has this day proved that
he is not only willing, but ably competent to re-
present the feelings, the want,,, and the wishes
of this independent county.—( Loud cheers.)—He
may, perhaps, be able to smoke cigars as well as
Lord George Beresford ; but he is also able to do
something more—(Hear, bear,)—he is able to tell
the House of Commons what the measures; are
which Ireland wants, and he has firmness and inde-
pendence
enough to demand those measures from
the British Ministry—he is able to expose the accu-
mulation of abuses under which Ireland labours.
There are many parties in Parliament—the Whigs
have a party—the Tories have a party—the Borough-
mongers have a party—the East India monopolists
have a party—and there are many other parties;
but we are now about to form a new party—and that
will be a party of the people.—(Cheers.)—There
are already two of us to begin with—Mr. Otway
Cave and myself—" two down and one a wanting"
—(Cheers and laughter)—but that one will not be
long a wanting—we:shall soon be joined by my friend
Mr. Barron ; and I am delighted to have had the
opportunity of witnessing this day how valuable an
acquisition he will be to the party of the people—
( Hear, hear)—and now I feel convinced that no man
who has attended this meeting will refuse to vote
for Henry Winston Barron.—(The Honourable and
Learned Gentleman sat down amid loud and con-
tinued cheering.)
ROBERT LONGAN, Esq. was called to the Chair,
and thanks, &c. voted, as stated in resolutions. After
which the Meeting broke up, giving three cheers
for Old Ireland, when all dispersed in the greatest
order and good humour.